The Face of Sol

Hello, and Welcome to The Face of Sol. A timeline of alternate history in a different Solar System. In this timeline, we wish to make the best out of an extensive lore and world inside a brand new Sol System, which formed very differently from our timeline. And now, prepare to enter this world, as you become the new face of Sol. This timeline belongs to the Time Gods.

A Different Formation of Our Solar System
The Solar Nebula collapsed 4.5 billion years BCE, and began to form the Sol System. However, in this timeline, Sol forms slightly larger, and this begins to change the way the Sol System forms. One of them being the fact that our timeline's Mercury never forms. As this continues, Venus (in this timeline named Illium), forms slightly farther from the Sun, bringing it into the Sol System's habitable zone. Theia still crashes with Earth and forms Luna, but the Earth's tectonic plates are very different from our timeline at the time of Earth's formation, while Neptune (in this timeline named Juilo) is smaller than in our timeline. The planet is still a gas giant, just, but it is smaller than in our timeline. As a result of this sort of formation, the history of Sol becomes very different.

Life develops on Venus
Venus at this point in the timeline is closer to the habitable zone. As a result, 1.2 million years following Earth's first appearance of microbes, Venus gets its own opportunity to evolve microbial life. With this in mind, life begins to evolve on Venus, although due to the fact that ice comet collisions are less commonplace, the planet's oceans are smaller than Earth's, but they allow for complex life to develop over time. New creatures and new forms of life develop on Venus, with them reaching an unprecented evolutionary path even the best paleontologists on our timeline could not envision. Venus, due to its closer distance to the Sol star, is also more tropical, compared to Earth, which allows for diverging evolutionary paths on both worlds.

The Von Neumanns
2.8 million years BCE. A time when man was beginning to arise on the Earth. Austrialopithecines are beginning to be hunted down Dinofelis. They are on the verge of becoming extinct. In our timeline, these species evolved to give birth to the Homo genus. In this timeline, that process is greatly accelerated by the arrival of a Von Neumann probe of extraterrestrial origins. These probes began to explore the Earth, and once they detected the dying Austrialopithecines, they decided to accelerate the process of their evolution, and thus, they begin to guide the rest of the Homo genus along desirable paths for their long-extinct masters. When the probes became inactive, humanity's path towards civilization greatly accelerated, but it was not until 12,000 BCE that they began to develop agriculture in the form of Homo Sapiens. This eventually resulted in accelerated human progress that by 2015 CE in our timeline, humanity is already a sort of Type I civilization on the Kardashev Scale.

Sections

 * Timeline
 * Planets
 * Technology
 * Science
 * Politics
 * Religion
 * Species
 * Culture
 * Short Stories