We'll start as early as twenty twenty-three. I'd expect this to be around the time the very first plausible efforts to colonizing the moon could take place. Initial build up is slow, and from about twenty-four to thirty is nothing but prefabs and solar panels. All if this is done by a privately held company, of which name I frankly don't have at the moment, but isn't too important. Somewhere around the time of thirty-two, company one enters a co-op with a heavy industry firm known as Lunar Enterprises, a subsidiary of Shinohara Heavy Industry. With the already present foundation on Luna, The combined might of the American (Company one) and Lunar Enterprises begins work on what would become a proto prefect, while also pioneering space travel to and from Earth and it's native satellite.

Stretch out to Forty-one, and the Prefect is practically complete - a nearly completely underground prefect dome, with the highest point only five meters underneath Luna's surface. A single port like runway leading down below the surface into the dome is it's means of entry and exit, and inside the dome itself is preparation to expand. Once the Dome is complete Lunar Enterprises soon becomes Chinese government property, and a new workforce begins to mobilize to Luna. This Workforce is comprised mainly of undesirables however, those without work due to the ever increasing population on Earth, and the countries convicts. Their work is simple compared to their American counterparts, who by now are mainly automated, and tasked with actually building the next prefect.

 This is for the better though, for two reasons. One, a majority of China's manpower on the moon is woefully under educated and prepared for life on the moon, things like the low gravity, and inherent levels of radiation due to no atmosphere a key factor in them staying underground. Things such as simply walking around on the moon prove to be a task due to it only having one sixth the gravity of Earth, and as such would be months, years maybe until the new settlers master their new environment. With the American machines building new domes, and the Chinese masses mining away at the few resources - mainly ice for fusion. progress is slow, but steady, with the year seventy-one being a marking year for Lunar history.

 By this time, there are now three prefects. Lunar population is a majority Chinese and Russian, with a minute amount of Indians and westerners. There are no rules on Luna, no laws. Luna is a prison plane unofficially. With only a small, authoritative government to oversee the continuation of Luna's development, the only thing that keeps the populous check is the Harsh nature of the Moon and their need to work together to survive it.

Come seventy-six, the fifth and first surface prefect comes into play, Selene. And with it, revolution. spanning six years, Luna undergoes a moderately bloodless coup against it's western authoritative detachment - ending with Luna gaining it's independence with the aid of subverted artificial intelligence of their would be master's design. This would prove to be key later on, as Luna would become the leading center of synthetic rights in human space - never forgetting the advanced computer intellect that gave them their freedom. Luna would see several hardships after, though eventually rising up to become the financial and industrial superpower it is currently.

 Sometime during it's independence however, Luna would fall back into the ranks of what would eventually be known as the SCG - somewhere around the time Mars had been successfully and nearly completely colonized. This most likely occurred due to increasing pressure to join in as Humanity expanded outward, or maybe through necessity - the old wounds of years past finally healing, and a deal being struck as the native Earth satellite falls in with the rest of human controlled space.