Not a single conflict but a pattern: systematic destruction of pre-Upheaval archives across every theater. Libraries burned, data centers wiped, university records looted.
Archives burned in six cities inside eighteen months: university stacks, institutional paper records, server farms in flood-risk basements. Nine years passed before anyone established coordination, because no single analyst had visibility across all six cities. The targets were specific. Raw climate datasets, early gene-forging research, energy records from 1945 to 1985, and the ECHO field-site files.
Ruled · CL-002
2028–2041
Decision recorded 2026-09-04
canon: Start date = 2028
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superseded: Start date = 2032
OpTac Setting & Cities/OT_Expanded_Setting_Guide_2026_v8.docx
superseded: Start date = 2050s
tc2066_deploy/tc2066_wiki.html#key-dates
canon: Start date = 2028
https://terraconflictus.com/upheaval.html