[Kind of a weird question but at the same time, they have people from alternate worlds and stuff so he'll roll with it??]

It's the year 2014. It is fairly common knowledge for me back home, but you aren't the first person here who doesn't recognize it. But the hypergate allowed for near-instantaneous travel between the Moon and Mars, so... if it were not for that discovery, I doubt the Vers Empire would exist as it is today.