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The Beyond Heroes Roleplaying Game Book XXXII The Book of ’s Chronology

Writing and Design: Marco Ferraro

The Book of the History of the World Copyright © 2020 Marco Ferraro All Rights Reserved

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Contents Foreword 3 Creation Era 20,000,000,000 BC - 100,000 BC 3 Atlantean Era 100,000 BC - 70,000 BC 7 Dark Ages Era 70,000 BC - 20,500 BC 9 Roman Era 12,042 BC - 160 AD 12 Middle Ages Era 161 AD - 1580 AD 22 Discovery Era 1581 AD - 1900 AD 35 Heroic Era 1901 AD - 2100 AD 43 Enlightenment Era 2101 AD - 2499 AD 87 Far Future Era 2500 AD – 999,999 AD 107 Final Era 1,000,000 AD+ 112 3

Foreword The Creation Era The Beyond Heroes Role Playing Game 20,000,000,000 BC - The Big Bang is based on a heavily revised derivative creates the currently existing universe. version of the rules system from From the massive explosion mass and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd energy condense to form the universe. edition. It also makes extensive use of This is repeated an infinite amount of the optional point buying system as times over the multiverse. Time presented in the AD&D Player’s Option travellers appearing here will find Skills and Powers book. My primary themselves at the edge of an expanding goal was to make this system usable in universe. any setting, from fantasy to pulp to superhero to science fiction. In this total vacuum, where no matter has yet reached, the early cosmos This is a generic timeline drawing on appears as a boiling mass in the distance. multiple sources including my own Elsewhere there is nothing but black campaign. The idea is that a GM can space. Plumes of fantastic light and gas then use what parts he likes while sweep around and across the outer edges discarding those he doesn't. while countless points of light flare and die in the interior.

As life begins to form and die, Aelif and Mortis are .

10,000,000,000 BC - The first race of beings to arise in this universe known as 'the First Ones' finally begin to explore beyond their galaxy. They experiment with altruism and begin seeding their 'humanoid' gene codes onto thousands of worlds.

9,900,000,000 BC - The First Ones evolve to a point where they exist as pure energy, beyond any hunger or physical need. They decide to continue their seeding but in their new forms are now able to reach billions of worlds.

7,000,000,000 BC - The seeding complete, the First Ones elect to continue watching over their seeded worlds. As part of their grand experiment they leave an artifact on each of the seeded planets to catalyse the birth intelligence of whatever humanoid race has emerged. 4

The First Ones hide another artifact 3,800,000,000 BC - Formation of Earth's beneath the surface of each seeded oceans. world's to signal them when each race masters space travel. Each artifact 2,000,000,000 BC - Life begins to arise to activate upon sensing sunlight on its on Earth. The primordial gods arise on surface after having been dug out by a earth. The most powerful are Gaea and civilization advanced enough to reach Kali. Angels and Demons in their early the moon and unearth it. A third artifact forms are also created. is left in the outer edges of each solar system awaiting the arrival of each race. The Elder God Gaea assigns herself as protector of the emerging life in Earth's Finding the actions of their ancient seas. Kali takes the opposite role, that of counterparts appalling, the First Ones death and decay. Pangea breaks up. begin to fight among themselves. This first civil war leads to a part of them 410,000,000 BC - Devonian period. breaking off and going their own way. Insects, Amphibians. They would eventually rename themselves as Solarians. 400,000,000 BC - The main groups of fish are differentiated. 6,999,999,358 BC - The First Ones create an intergalactic police force 355,000,000 BC - Carboniferous period. named the Parliament of Hope. In Forests appear along with reptiles and response the Solarians create their own giant insects. police called the Starhawks. 320,000,000 BC - Antarctica, Australia, 6,500,000,000 BC – Another, far worse India, South America and Africa form civil war erupts within the First Ones. the continent of Gondwana. The end result is another split, with a group leaving and calling themselves the 290,000,000 BC - Permian period. Seed Obsidians. They are dedicated to breeding plants appear. Trilobites die creating conflict and chaos in order to out. force evolution. 250,000,000 BC - Mesozoic era. The 6,499,999,928 BC – The final split Age of Reptiles, comprising the Triassic, occurs within the First Ones. The last of Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. the females of their species leave to form the Starmazons. 205,000,000 BC - Triassic period. First dinosaurs, turtles and crocodiles. 5,000,000,000 BC - A system that would one day be called 'Sol' forms from 200,000,000 BC - The (now) India, condensed nebulous gases. Australia, Antarctica, and the southern parts of South America and Africa lie 3,900,000,000 BC - The planet Earth is from 10 to 30 degrees from the South formed from solidified molten matter in Pole, covered by ice. Dinosaurs arise as the Solar system. the dominant species on Earth. Mammals exist as a lower-order animal. 5

160,000,000 BC - South America, depositing artifacts at Antarctica, Earth's Africa and India separate. moon and Neptune.

138,000,000 BC - Cretaceous period 45,000,000 BC - Antarctica separates begins. Snakes and lizards appear. from Australia.

135,000,000 BC - Jurassic period. 38,000,000 BC - Oligocene epoch. First Largest Dinosaurs. Birds appear on Apes. North America is largely dry. Earth. Gondwana begins to break, Archaic mammals begin to disappear. separating South America, Africa and Modern animals (horses, pigs, India in the North, from Antarctica and rhinoceroses, elephants, etc.) begin to Australia in the South. appear.

120,000,000 BC - First mammals appear 30,000,000 BC - Development of on Earth. CircumAntarctic current, essentially isolating Antarctica from the rest of the 100,000,000 BC - Africa separates from continents, and beginning the Europe/Valusia and Asia. Reptiles establishment of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. dominate the Earth. 4,000,000 BC - Earliest findings of In the new timeline intelligent Dragons humanoid skeletons. from Krynn cross over to Earth. 3,000,000 BC – In the Shattered Realms 70,000,000 BC - First Primates appear. the mysterious Creators, appear to be the Horned and armoured Dinosaurs. first race to dominate space. Their trilateral symbols (flowers, ) are 65,000,000 BC - The moon forms in today found on many odd and ancient orbit out of the remaining debris not ruins. used by the earth. 2,500,000 BC - The Celestial Alliance A Celestial Alliance exploration- set up a weapons outpost on the planet colonization expedition of Magmanite Uranus, leaving behind a robot as a origin while passing through the Sol guard. The crew of the 'Last Hope' arrive system is hit by a meteor and suffers in this year via a chronal wormhole. catastrophic failure of its engine They land on Uranus and discover the systems. Adrift it eventually is drawn to outpost. Its guardian attacks them and is earth where it crashes semi-intact. The destroyed, but not before it triggers an process, however, causes an earth tremor alarm. killing most living creatures, including the dinosaurs, and a landslide buries the The Last Hope's crew attempt to escape, ship. Eventually, it somehow finds its but are intercepted by the Alliance who way to the magma core where it has detected the Sentry's alarm. After a been ever since battle stretching months the Hope's crew is victorious but forced to crash on Earth 55,000,000 BC - Eocene epoch. Horses in the Paleolithic continent, its leaking and Camels. The First Ones visit earth engines mutating the ecology. The 6 surviving crew members resign 1,400,000 BC - The Dwarves and themselves to settling on this new world Gnomes build the city of Shala and would eventually become known as Bellanose. Elves, Atomie, Grig, Nixies, Pixies, Sprites, and Sea Sprites. 1,254,004 BC - In the Shattered Realms the Creators known as Paladine, Gilean, First Immaculate, Ouroboros and and Takhisis ascend into ‘godhood’. Nephilim. Paladine and his companions become the Gods of Light. Takhisis and her 2,499,500 BC – The Elves finish their companions become the Gods of first city; Arn Mora. Darkness. Gilean and his companions become the Gods of Balance. Reorx 2,498,000 BC – The Elves build their shapes Krynn and the first dragons under second city; Asa Thalor. the guidance of Paladine and Takhisis.

2,490,000 BC – The Elves build their The other gods, excluding Chaos, aid in third city; Estel Nimbad. the creation of Krynn as a habitable world. Takhisis corrupts the first dragons 2,300,000 BC – The Elves build use in her image, creating the first chromatic their magic to lift large islands into the dragons: red, blue, black, green, and sky and name them Netheril, Sherjewel, white. Starmount, Enedthor and Skyrulme. A grief-stricken Paladine asks Reorx to 1,500,000 BC - The Celestial Alliance craft monuments to his lost children. begin to have setbacks in their various Paladine gives life to these monuments, wars across the galaxy. They return to thus creating the first metallic dragons: the Sol system and land on Earth in an gold, silver, copper, bronze, and brass. attempt to create a race of super beings Takhisis's treachery causes a great war to fight as slaves. Their experimentation on Krynn known as the All-Dragons leads to the creation of Dwarves and War. Gnomes. The gods withdraw from Krynn before Netheril, Enedthor, Sherjewel and their war destroys the world. The Gods Skyrulme are blasted into smaller pieces, of Light build the Dome of Creation, the and abandoned by the surviving Elves. Gods of Darkness create the Abyss, and Starmount is obscured by magic and the Gods of Balance create the Hidden escapes the attack. Vale.

A Tsaruid explorer ship full of dissidents The three pantheons discover the follows the Celestial Alliance and potential of the stars, and the All-Saints remain in hiding on Earth’s moon until War begins. For the most part the war the Alliance leaves. They then land on takes place far from any planets. Earth and dismantle their ship to create a city for themselves; Nova Sauropolis 500,000 BC - The Harmonic land on and rename themselves Saurials. earth and establish various refugee bases around the world for those fleeing from 7 the tyranny of the Celestial Alliance. The Atlantean Era They are careful not to interfere with the 100,000 BC - Elves discover Atlantis native developing races of the world. and are welcomed with open arms by the Among these bases are Atlantis and Harmonic. They begin retraining in the Lemuria. Unbeknownst to them Atlantis art of science as well as the more recent is built on top of the largest ley line in art of magic. First Dragons cross over the world. from the Shattered Realms and establish the city of Paristan. 125,000 BC - Sorcerers escaping the Astaroth takeover of their dimension 99,000 BC – First true Atlanteans and cross over from Darkworld to Earth. Lemurians. They establish themselves at , the Bermuda, Ayer's Rock and Mt Olympus. 90,000 BC - Atlantean Elven experiments with insects and animals They are also followed by demonic leads to the creation of the Felinar and minions of the Astaroth. However due to Lupinoid races. Meanwhile Demons do the huge mana cost only one Astaroth is some experimenting of their own leading able to follow. This also has the result of to the creation of such races as the awakening the powerful mana forces in Lizardmen, Trolls, and some of the true Atlantis. monsters.

124,456 BC - Earth's latent magic force 89,460 BC - Experimentation by the is tapped for the first time as the Atlanteans on humanoids leads to the sorcerers establish themselves as gods creation of the Sky People. spawning various religions. They overthrow and either kill or banish the 85,000 BC – All the character classes previous primordial gods and take their from the Atlantean era first appear in place. this year.

120, 123 BC - A computer malfunction 80,030 BC - A set of twins are born; aboard the buried Starstone spaceship Areion and Chnothos. Both eventually causes the Magmanite colonists to wake become Battle Mages but Areion from their stasis. They know this was not chooses to serve Order while Chnothos their intended colony but with so many turns to the Infernal. computer systems smashed have no idea where they are or how long theyve been 80,000 BC - Height of the Atlantean here. empire. Areion has many adventures involving saving Atlantis.

79,990 BC - Eventually after the loss of the Atlantean Mage King during an invasion by demons, Areion is crowned the new rules. One of his greatest foes are the Lizardmen, who use their shape changing abilities to resemble human beings and infiltrate human civilizations 8 with the intent of conquering them. 77,000 BC – Raptorans settle on the Areion manages to uncover most of the remains of Enedthor, and rename it Blue Lizardmen's plots and has many of them Sky. killed. 73,000 BC – Terraneans build the city of 79,980 BC - Lizardmen sorcerers Moltar. discover the Necronomicon, the ancient mystical tome penned by the Elder God 72,000 BC – First Daywalkers. Kali. Founding the first Cult of Kali, Rebelling against their Elven masters the they begin experimenting with the spells Felinar flee to what is now Africa. Some contained within, looking for a method of them have became hyper intelligent to cause their enemies to return from the and are able to understand Atlantean dead. With the aid of Chnothos they are technology. Using this they are able to successful in resurrecting them as the create their own city Bast, hidden in the first vampires and unleash them against jungles of Madagascar. Their city is a their greatest enemy, Areion of Atlantis. marvel of engineering and architectural achievement with a protective forcefield However Areion proves more powerful which while preventing non Felinar from than they realised and with Gaea's aid is passing through also renders the city able to destroy most of the undead. The invisible to physical and electronic surviving vampires flee to continental detection. Eurasia. Areion then hunts down and slays all of the Cult except for one. 71,000 BC - Atlantis begins to slide into Chnothos flees and eventually settles in decadence and suffers from a number of Eurasia, taking the Necronomicon with invasions from the nation of Lizardmen him. Over the next few millennia the as well as a rapidly cooling climate. tome passes through a number of Foreseeing that the approaching ice different hands. would eventually reach Atlantis, the ruling council has huge glass like domes 79,970 BC - A lone but powerful erected over the city and fortify its Astaroth invades the realm of the foundations. Dwarves genetically altering many of them to serve as his minions. The 70,000 BC - Final invasion of Atlantis Astaroth is eventually slain by Areion by the Lizardmen. To stop the onslaught, and the Terraneans freed of his the council opens the magma pits which influence. They chose to travel deep into were the city's main means of heating. the earth, near its core. The Lizard invaders are all destroyed, but the magma release triggers a 79,920 BC - Death of Areion from seismological cataclysm which causes a natural causes. With no apparent series of earthquakes throughout the successor available a ruling council is continent. Atlantis sinks into the ocean. elected instead, the first form of democracy. By sheer coincidence his The Atlantean Harmonic relocate to brother Chnothos also succumbs to old Lemuria. A number of surviving age and dies at the exact same moment. Atlantean Elves who had been trapped First Avengelion and Terranean. on the outside relocate to northern 9

Europe, but not before taking their The Dark Ages Era revenge by releasing a bioweapon on the 69,900 BC - The Dwarves and most of Lizardmen which would rob them of the Gnomes choose to shift their their shapechanging ability. In light of civilizations underground. The Elves the rapidly approaching ice age these remain above ground and become a hard Atlanteans find their new homeland people. The Gnomes that remain on the harsh and severe, and have to revert to surface would eventually become known barbarism in order to survive. as Valley Gnomes.

Lemuria uses cloaking technology to 69,800 BC – Lizardmen build the hide their city, cutting all ties with the Underground city of Zlaxtan. outside world. 69,700 BC – The Dwarves complete the Gaea gives sentience to a grove of trees city of Thorbardin. (the original Throne of Trees) which go on to create the Parliament of Nature. 69,400 BC – Sea Elves, Sea Sprites, She also transforms the surviving Sirines and Homards build the Atlanteans who had become trapped underwater city of Lyonese. under the water into Mer people. 69,070 BC – Lizardmen build the First Sea Elves and Pahari. Underground city of Yuzce’ac.

69,000 BC – of Aquamancers, Cantors of the Current, Deep Rangers, Saint of Pearl, and Skulk.

68,850 BC – Repairs are finished on sunken Atlantis making it inhabitable again, at least for aquatic life.

68,590 BC – The Dwarves complete the city of Ironforge.

68,230 BC – The Dwarves complete the city of Karak-Din.

67,000 BC – Mer people build the city of Aman Sinaya.

66,000 BC - The Sahuagin build their first city, Ys.

64,100 BC – Mer people build the city of Poseidonis. 10

60,500 BC – The Gnomes complete 42,600 BC – The Gnomes complete the their city of Avertine. city of Understone.

60,000 BC – First Alaghi, Arachne, 37,000 BC – Sky People are welcomed Beholders, Brownies, Avariel Elves, to Starmount by the Avariel. Illithid, Kenku, Kna, Kopru, Kuo Toa, Locathah, Morkoth, Ogres, Raptorans, 33,000 BC – Illithid build the city of Sahuagin, Shalarin, Sirine, Sobeks, Oryndoll. Swanmays, and Yuan-ti. 30,000 BC – Avariel settle on the 59,8784 BC – Kenku settle on the remains of Sherjewel and rename it remains of Netheril and rename it Aerie. Starmount.

59,000 BC – Locathah build the 21,100 BC – The Parliament of Nature undersea city of Aotus. having acted as guardians of the earth and all the different forms of life which 58,000 BC – The Sahuagin build the city inhabit it for thousands of years, and of Sekolah. becoming increasingly worried over the steady enroachment of Infernal forces 56,992 BC – The Kopru build the decide seed Earth with a new race; a underwater city of Kitezh. sentient plant life known as Arboreals.

55,000 BC – The Yuan-ti build their first 20,500 BC – End of the Ice Age. city, Khalohone. 20,000 BC - The Dwarves and Gnomes 54,000 BC – The Illithid build the city return to the surface and their first Tellectus. encounter with the Elves' leads to war.

52,900 BC – Kenku settle on the 15,000 BC - Human colonists arrive remains of Skyrulme and rename it from an unknown and long forgotten Aviary. planet. They immediately befriend the Dwarves, which leads to the Elves 51,000 BC – The Sahuagin build their seeing them as a new enemy. The Elves greatest city, Sloopdilmonpolop. ambush the main human camp and slaughter 40% of the colonists and 49,000 BC – Mer people build Tritonis destroy their ships, only the intervention but it is taken over by insane Mer of the Dwarves prevents a total socerers. massacre. The surviving Humans move into Dwarven cities where they find a 49,610 BC – Sorcerers overthrown in race eager to learn their technological Tritonis. secrets. First appearance of Elven Bladedancers. 46,000 BC – The Yuan-ti build their second city, Ylmager. 14,965 BC - Together the humans and Dwarves are able to create a series of portals using salvaged remains from the 11 colony ships. First Geomancers and 13,300 BC - Silvanesti experimentation Slayers appear amongst humanity. creates Nymphs, Harpies and Leprechauns. 14,700 BC - First Valkyrie. Interbreeding between humans and 13,260 BC - First recorded Mimic. Dwarves leads to the appearance of the first Halfling Hobbits. 13,200 BC – The Parliament of Nature build the nature city of Elmspring. 14,000 BC - The Elves experiment with dark powers leading to the Infernal gods 13,100 BC – With the help of the gaining a foothold in this world and the Parliament of Nature, the Hobbit creation of the Vermin and Beastmen Halflings build the shire of Nellerai. The race. This leads to the first civil war Drow build the Underground city of within the Elven race, with the lower Menzoberranzan. caste splitting off to become the Kagonesti. The remaining Elves rename 13,070 BC - The Silvanesti enslave the themselves the Silvanesti. Halflings as their servants while the Drow continue experimenting, leading to In the Shattered Realms the Thri-kreen, the creation of such races as Bugbears, descendants of the Creators achieve Orcs, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Dvergar, and space travel. The Creators are already Kobolds. First Mineroids. disappearing, their memory preserved in thri-kreen legends and the artifacts and 13,000 BC - First Apostulates. The ruins left behind. Ogres begin claiming Parliament of Nature build the nature the mountains of Krynn. Elves withdraw city of Eno Thendor. Meanwhile the to the forests. Humans take to the plains. Vermin build the city of Verminblight. Gnomes claim the plains of the continent of Taladas. 12,900 BC – Hobgoblins and Goblins build the Underground city of 13,800 BC – The Parliament of Nature Doomspire. build the nature city of Elderwood. 12,800 BC – First Gemzanites and 13,600 BC – Beholders through the use Orclings. of slaves build the city of Ootul. 12,720 BC – The Centaurs build the city 13,500 BC - The Silvanesti abandon the of Shsa Serin. dark powers leading to another split with those who wish to continue, and 12,650 BC – Orcs build their first city, eventually become known as the Drow. Garel Enkal. Experimenting on human prisoners leads to creation of Centaurs, Pegataurs, 12,600 BC - The Kagonesti teach Satyrs and Minotaurs. First Ouroboros. humans the secret of magic and the names of the gods of Order. As a result 13,400 BC - The Kagonesti Elves build all ancient era magic users first appear at their first city; For Bel. this point. Interracial mixing between Elves and humans leads to first Eldritch. 12

First Barbaros, Bariaurs, Brutts, The Roman Era Dargons, Djanni, Dracotaurs, Enduk, 12,042 BC - The Silvanesti assault Fey’ri, Geist, Kobolos, Lost Fae, Avalon, but unable to take it instead Quetzal, and Wemic. phase the entire city into a dark limbo. In retaliation a combined Human and 12,500 BC – First Yeti. Gemzanites Kagonesti force liberates the Halfling build the city of Crystallion. from the Silvanesti. First Fae, Jotnar and Naga. 12,430 BC - The Vermin build the city of Verminspike. 11,900 BC – Orcs build the city of Khazargur. 12,400 BC - The Kagonesti Elves build their second city; Corailin. First 11,800 BC – Geophants build the city of Augmented Botanicum created. First Moran Tal. appearance of Discord, Harmony and Symmetry Avatars. 11,680 BC – Nagas build the city of Rehshcalen. 12,300 BC - First Magebanes. The Kagonesti and humans liberate the 11,500 BC – At the invitation of the Haulfin from the Silvanesti. Geophants, the Lupinoids move in to Moran Tal. The Illithid enslave the Dvergar and force them to build the city of Mantol 11,400 BC – Mineroids build the city of Derith. Zardeth.

12,260 BC - First recorded Pirates. 11,300 BC – Orsos build the city of Sai Ancalen. 12,200 BC – The Drow build the Underground city of Maerimydra. 11,000 BC - Humanity spreads over most of the planet. Almost as if in 12,100 BC - Avalon is built by various counterbalance the Vermin do likewise. engineers from the Human, Kagonesti, A Celestial Alliance scout ship lands and Dwarf and Gnome races using the last captures part of the Celtic race for study. remnants of their hi-tech. First For the first time the Harmonic directly Avengelion appear. The Parliament of intervene by rescuing the humans and Nature create additional plant based destroying all traces of the scout team. species; Cactuns, Frucht, Halamans, They remain unaware of the genetic Kelpie, Koralle, Mangals, Myconids, tampering that has taken place adding and Vegibles. the metagene to the human race. Soon after the first Eternals, Mutants and Also first Carapace, Delfins, Geophants, Deuces appear. Grenouille, Grippli, Homards, Orso, Selkies, Sharkks, Takos, and Turturs. 10,700 BC – The Drow build the Underground city of Lith Murathar. First mages to ‘Ascend’. 13

10,400 BC – The undead settlement of and the civilization of Egypt begins Necropolis is built on the ruins of a long developing in what was formerly Stygia. destroyed city. The Elven cities of Estel Nimbad and 10,000 BC - Earliest record of Corailin are destroyed. civilization in Japan. First Barbarians, Witchdoctors, D’arque Lords and Urban 9,000 BC - The Parliament of Nature Legends. Warfare and barbarian attacks build the nature city of Timberbrook. devastate the Hyborian world. Changing climate conditions force Nordic tribes 8350 BC - Neolithic settlement at southward, where they clash with Jericho. barbarian tribes which had invaded from the east. After decades of conflict the The Celestial Alliance arrive on earth western world is thrown into chaos, until and detect the Harmonic base Lemuria. finally not one civilized kingdom exists. They immediately attack it. Lemuria The western world becomes dominated shoots down the battleship but not before by Nordic barbarians. its orbital bombardment causes shockwaves worldwide. With whole 9600 BC - End of the Younger Dryas continents being swamped by tsunamis cold period (boundary between Lemuria, like Atlantis before it sinks Pleistocene and Holocene and beneath the waves. traditionally the boundary between the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic). First stone The Harmonic in a panic over the structures at Jericho. Animals are amount of life being destroyed break domesticated. Agriculture in their own laws regarding Mesopotamia. Invention of the bow and experimentation and transform some arrow. Earliest pottery in Japan. First humans into water breathers. Others flee Jotnar. underground. Some join the Dwarves while the rest find their own way. The 9400 BC - A Second Great Cataclysm surviving Harmonic leave earth to return rocks the Earth. Sea levels rise until vast home. areas of the western world sink beneath the waves. The Euro-African continent is 8318 to 5318 BC - In the Shattered torn in two when the Atlantic Ocean Realms the Crown Wars are fought floods into the area that would become between the various Elven nations on known as the Mediterranean Sea. The Abeir Toril. They are initiated primarily lands from Stygia southward break from by the Gold Elf Vyshaan clan, rulers of the north, forming the continent of the elven kingdom of Aryvandaar in the Africa. High Forest of northern Faerun

The mountains of Cimmeria remain 8300 BC - Nomadic hunters arrive in above sea level, and would eventually England. become known as the British Isles. The inland Villayet Sea shrinks greatly in 8140 BC – Lemuria is fully repaired, but size, and would become known as the is now an underwater city. Caspian Sea. The Hyborian Age ends, 14

7500 BC - Catalhoyuk founded. Potatoes creation of the world and the beginning and beans are cultivated in South of their calendar. America. Beginning of rice cultivation in East Asia. 5600 BC - The Black Sea floods with salt water after an Silvanesti assault on a 7000 BC - Agriculture and settlement at Dwarven stronghold there. Mehrgarh in South Asia. Agriculture appears in Europe (, ). 5500 BC - Pottery at Mehrgarh in South Pastoralism and cultivation of cereals Asia. Agriculture appears in the valley (East Sahara). First pottery in of the Nile. Rice cultivated in Asia. Mesopotamia. Gold and native copper Wheel and plough invented. begin to be used. First Merchants. Hob Anagarak, the demonic creature holding 5300 BC - Temples founded in South sway over the Arctic, is imprisoned in a Mesopotamia. block of black ice. It is said in Inuit legend that after this, the land grew cold. 5318 BC - In the Shattered Realms the Fifth Crown War ends with the utter 6500 BC - English Channel formed with defeat of the Vyshaan and the help of Dwarves and Gnomes. dissolution of Aryvandaar. Much of the High Forest is abandoned for an age, 6318 BC - In the Shattered Realm on leaving the forest open so the gods might Toril Corellon's magic, as directed restore its peace. The madness of the through his priests and High Mages, Vyshaan clan compelled even their most transforms the dark elves, whether the fervent followers to abandon them corrupt Ilythiiri or others, into the drow. before all the elves lay dead at their Whether by magic or by the weaknesses hands. that banish them from the sunlit lands, all drow retreat within two months' While the final fate of the Vyshaan elves passing into the Underdark. Elves are is not recorded, most Tel'Quessir believe summoned by the Seldarine to the site them dead and executed at the hands of that becomes Elven Court one month Elven Court. Still, some rebellious elves after the Descent of the Drow, to settle across the centuries whisper tales of the differences and restore the peace among four sons of Vyshaan who escaped to the the elves. west and to the stars to quietly marshal their strength and await such a time as On Krynn Ogres build an empire with they could return in glory to Faerun. captured human slaves. The major cities are Kern to the east, Narakid to the 5000 BC - Creation of the world north, Daltigar to the far west, Parlathin according to some analyses of the Old to the northwest, and Blöten Khalkist in Testament of the Christian Bible, based the centre. mainly on a literal interpretation of the genealogy of early mankind given in the 6000 BC - Irrigation in Mesopotamia. Book of Genesis. First Rangers.

5509 BC - September 1; date which the 4500 BC - Civilization of Susa and Kish Byzantine Empire counts as the day of in Mesopotamia. 15

4041 BC - In the Shattered Realms the island of Evermeet. The Ruathimaer 'People of the Celestial Mantis', a thri- destroy it, though the fleet of kreen nation, dominate a section of the Ruathimaer is destroyed as well and aether. They are the dominant sect in the must be rebuilt. thri-kreen religion, worshipping the Mantis God of the Eternal Lotus. They 3100 BC - Unification of Egypt. launch an unsuccessful crusade against other races and faiths, trying to force 3000 BC - Foundation of the city of them into following the Eternal Lotus Mari (Syria). Creation of the Kingdom teachings. Their crusade is unsuccessful, of Elam (Iran). Dynasty of Lagash in breaking their domination of wildspace Sumeria. Shima-Buku, chieftain of the and causing the rise of more moderate Ibandi people of Tangalla, defeats the sects devoted to the Mantis God. Undying One and imprisons him in three stones that were scattered throughout the On Krynn as ogres embrace cruelty, borders of Tangalla. humans rise up to slay their masters. Ogre civilization slowly decays. Ogres 2900 BC - Start of the Mesopotamian deform into strong brutes. Giants, wars. Pottery developed in Americas. goblins, half-ogres, and ogre mages Domestication of the horse in Central become more widespread. Asia. The Chinese record a comet.

4000 BC - Noah survives the Great 2700 BC – Set leads a large group of Flood. Around this time, the Egyptians Egyptian sorcerers underground and aids astronomically measure time. them in building the city of Neter- Khertet. 3700 BC - Civilization of . First ancient Amazons. 2647 BC - In the Shattered Realms over a hundred elven vessels crush an orcish 3500 BC - Civilization of Sumeria, cities fleet of fifty ships. This was the first state. The Sumerian civilization forms in major event and largest battle of the First Mesopotamia. They invent writing Unhuman War. (cuniform) and the pantheon worshipped by the Sumerians and their successors, 2600 BC - Unified Indus Valley the Babylonians and Hittites, include Civilization. The Great Pyramid of Giza many colorful figures such as Marduk, is constructed, first and greatest of the god of the city; his nemesis, the great pyramids of Egypt. A Necropolis of a dragon Tiamat; Gozer the Gozarian, and deceased , they also mark a very it's minions Zuul and Vinscortho; and powerful series of ley line nexi. the elemental spirits Anshar and Khishor. 2500 BC - The legendary line of Sanhuangwudi rulers of China is 3400 BC - Beginning of desertification founded by Huang Di. Harappan of Sahara. civilization, at its peak, covered an area of around 480,000 km². Its heartland lay 3171 BC - In the Shattered Realms a in the Hakra river valley in Pakistan, but flight of Dragons attacks the Elven settlements spread as far as the Makran 16 coast, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, eastern intervene driving Tyrannus and his Punjab, Kutch and Saurashtra. They forces back. Feeling their power is at its included cities like Harappa, Mohenjo- peak the gods decide to invade daro, Kalibangan, Dholavira, ports like Darkworld and destroy the Astaroth. Lothal, Sutkagen-dor and Sotka-koh and Before leaving they endow some of their numerous villages as well. Building of worshippers with a fraction of their the Great Pyramid of Giza. power creating the first Earthlords.

2474-2398 BC - Golden age for Ur in 1900 BC - Sails used on ships. First Mesopotamia. Babylon conquers ziggurats built in Sumeria. The shekal Sumeria and Elam. was introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary and weight unit Hittite empire 2334 BC - Sargon of Akkad's conquest in . Achaean invasions of of Mesopotamia. End of Mesopotamian Greece. Fall of last Sumerian dynasty. wars. First Slayers.

2217-2193 BC - Nomadic invasions of 1829-1818 BC - Egyptian-Nubian war. Akkad. 1813 BC - Amorite Conquest of 2205 BC - Foundation of the Xia Northern Mesopotamia. Dynasty of China by Xia Yu. Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian Empire 1800 BC - Hittite invasion of Anatolia. and the earliest empire builder in Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit recorded history. juices. Civilization in Palestine. Captivity of the Israelites in Egypt. 2200 BC - Indo-Europeans first invade Greece. Completion of first phase of 1764-1750 BC - Wars of Hammurabi. Stonehenge monument in England. 1750 BC - Hyksos occupation of 2037 BC - Emperor Shen Nong makes Northern Egypt. first tea drink by boiling fresh leaves. 1749-1712 BC - Mesopotamian 2000 BC - The town of Mantua was Rebellions. presumably founded. First written accounts of Schizophrenia. Second 1700 BC - Minoan civil war. dynasty of Babylon. 1600-1360 BC - Egyptian domination in 1950 BC - The copper bar cubit of Palestine and Syria. Conquest of Canaan Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as (Palestine) by the Israelites. 51.72 cm. Hittite empire flourishes in Anatolia. 1663 BC - In the Shattered Realms the planet Ctholos is destroyed by the elven 1913-1903 BC - Egyptian-Nubian war. deities. The remains of this planet form the asteroid field on the outer edges of 1910 BC - Demons from Tartarus invade the star system. through stonehenge. The various gods 17

1600 BC - Mycenaean Civilizations. official religion of the Greek peoples. Other peoples such as the Romans began 1504 BC-1492 BC - Egypt conquers worshipping the Olympians as well, Nubia and the Levant. Myceneans although they called the gods by conquers Greece and border of Anatolia. different names than those used by the Greeks. Worship of the Olympians 1500 BC - Stonehenge finished in spread itself throughout the Roman Wiltshire, England. Empire.

1470 BC - Female pharaoh Hatshepsut 900 BC - Druids appear. of Egypt. 813 BC - Carthage founded by 1450 BC - Moses and the exodus. Phoenicians. Golden age in Armenia. Assyria conquers Damascus and 1344 BC - Beginning of Hittite empire. Samaria.

1235 BC - founded. 800 BC - Iliad and Odyssey composed. Carthage founded in North Africa. 1200 BC - Judaism established. Chinese capitol Hao overrun by Beginning of the first iron age. The barbarians. Olmecs build pyramids. Prisci Latini migrate to Italy from the Chinese record solar eclipse. Scythians Danube region. arrive in Asia. Collapse of Susa. End of Elam. 1184 BC - Fall of Troy. Indians developed caste system. Horse 789 BC - Nineveh destroyed. domesticated. Chinese record a comet. 776 BC - First Olympic Games held in 1151 BC - Aeneas the only surviving Greece. Trojan general flees the fall of Troy with his troops. 754 BC - Romulus the direct descendant of Aeneas unites his people and creates 1139 BC - After 12 years of fighting the city of Rome. In Sarmatia meanwhile supernatural enemies with the aid and the Vermin complete their own city of opposition of various gods the last Warrenblight in honour of their god the Trojans finally arrive on the shores of great horned rat. what would eventually become Italia. They defeat the barbarian tribes there 753 BC - Greeks colonize with the aid of the goddess Diana and mediterranean. Midas King of Phrygia. claim the land for themselves. Beginning of Greek colonization in Italy: foundation of Ischia, Cumae, 1100 BC - Alphabet developed by Naxos in and Syracuse. Phoenicians. First Roman Soldier. 717 BC - Numa Pompilius becomes the 1000 BC - Greeks settle in Ionia. Peru new leader after the death of Aeneas and Mexican cultures evolve. Worship during an assault by a Vermin army. He of the Olympians had become the 18 introduces law and order and expands 612 BC - Collapse of Nineveh, end of the temple system for the Roman gods. Assyria.

700 BC - Etruscan civilization begins to 600 BC - Japanese capital founded. flourish. Celtic tribes in Gaul. Zoroastrianism founded. First coins used by Lydians. Iron allegedly discovered in 685 BC China. Persians conquer Ancient Egypt, - In the Shattered Realms the Cataclysm dominate eastern Mediterranean. of Krynn occurs. The arrogance of the Carthage's merchant empire slowly Kingpriest of Istar causes the Gods of dominates the western Mediterranean. Krynn to send a massive asteroid strike founded. against Krynn. Krynnish society is shattered for centuries, and the gods 586 BC - Ruin of the Kingdom of Judah abandon Krynn. and the destruction of the first Temple. Buddha founds Buddhism in India. It 674 BC-670 BC - Assyrians conquer became a major world religion. Dao de Egypt. jing written (traditional date). Confucius formulates his ethical system of 672 BC - Tullus Hostilius takes over Confucianism, which proved highly after Numa is killed while going to the influential in China. Pythagoras, Greek aid of a Dwarf village against the mathematician. Demotic becomes the Vermin. The alliance between Dwarfs dominant script of ancient Egypt. and Humans is renewed after centuries Persians invade Greece twice. of neglect. Tullus also introduces the military code of honour. 578 BC - Servius Tullius takes over after the sons of Ancus assassinate 640 BC - Ancus Martius is next to take Tarquinius. He introduces the census and over after Tullus is slain fighting against divides the army into centuries. the Carthaginians. He is the first to form an alliance with the Silvanesti. Halflings 550 BC - Tarquinius Superbus, the son also begin integrating with Humans. of Priscus assassinates Servius and takes over as a tyrannical and unjust ruler. He 620 BC – The organization Claw does however introduce sanitation and becomes a threat to all lifeforms in this the sewerage system. era. In response several spy agencies are created; the multi species Arcane 509 BC - Lucius Brutus leads a rebellion Espionage Government Intelligence which overthrows Superbus' family and Service Agency; the Dwarven Hammer creates the Roman Republic Senate. A of Stone; and the Elven Gaea’s Shadow. constitution, colleges, magistrates and consulates are introduced. He is the last 616 BC - Tarquinius Priscus seizes of the legendary wise leaders until the control after assassinating Ancus. He rise of Caesar. introduces the system of all Roman allies receiving the same benefits as full 500 BC - Division of China into separate citizens. states. 19

490 BC - Athenian empire formed and 271 BC - Pyrrhus conquers the falls. Peloponnesian War. Buddhist remaining neighbours creating the Italian monastic university at Nalanda. India continent as it is known today. established. 256 BC - This period sees the necessary 469 BC - In the Shattered Realms a creation of the Roman navy. powerful orc, Dukagsh, sees his fleet destroyed and scattered by the elves. 250 BC - China unified. First Monks. Organizing the remnants of the fleet, he declares himself Almighty Leader of the 246 BC - First Gladiators. survivors and flees to distant spheres, collecting other ships as he goes. 229 BC - Tired of piracy of its merchant boats and assassination of its 423-404 BC - Invasion of the Celts into ambassador Rome invades and crushes Ireland. Kingdom of Macedon conquers the kingdom of Illyria. Persian empire. Romans build first aqueduct. Chinese use bellows. 211 BC - Rome is pushed back from Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, Espana by Hannibal's invasion with the invades Asia Minor, Persia and reaches aid of the Dark gods. India. Oldest Brahmi script dates from this period (Brahmi is the ancestor of 210 BC – First Chinese Golem. Indic scripts). The first two Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome over 208 BC - Hannibal invades southern dominance in western Mediterranean. Italy but his reinforcements are Rome conquers Spain. Great Wall of slaughtered a year later at the battle of China begun. Indian traders regularly Metaurus with the aid of the Dwarfs. visited Arabia. Archimedes of Syracuse, mathematician, physicist, and engineer. 205 BC - Scipio with the aid of Numidia Hannibal, military leader of Carthage. invades Carthage forcing the recall of Eratosthenes accurately calculates Hannibal to defend it. diameter of the Earth. Rome destroys Carthage in the Third Punic War. Judas 202 BC - Hannibal and his army are Maccabaeus restores the Temple in finally crushed by the combined Roman, Jerusalem. Theravada Buddhism is Numidian and Dwarfen armies. Carthage officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the surrenders and is plundered of its Venerable Mahinda. treasures but allowed to survive.

400 BC - Gauls sack Rome. 200 BC - Confucianism state doctrine.

390 BC - Rome loses Veii to a combined 192 BC - Achaea becomes a protectorate Celtic and Gaul invasion. of Rome.

343 BC - Rome finally conquers the 168 BC - Macedonia falls to Rome. neighbouring Latin countries. 20

146 BC - Renewed piracy leads to Rome Imperial Elven Fleet and its helm is invading Carthage and burning it to the destroyed by an elven mage teleporting ground. into the helmroom with a lit barrel of smokepowder. 100 BC - Egypt, Gaetulia, Marmarica and Cyrenaica become Roman 44 BC - Caesar attempts to create protectorates. sweeping and just reforms but is killed by Brutus and other members of the 52 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar defeats all senate who were until now secretly of Gaul and becomes feared by Pompey Infernal worshippers. Marc Antony and the current leader of the Roman empire. other loyalists flee to the east. The dark gods recognising him as a champion of order begin manipulating 43 BC - Octavius takes control and a events to prevent him bringing in a year later kills Brutus and his followers. golden age. Octavius remains unaware that his advisers serve the Infernal gods and 48 BC - Caesar rebels against Pompey turns a blind eye to the corruption now capturing all the protectorates outside entrenched in the senate. Rome for himself. He installs Cleopatra on the Egyptian throne overthrowing the 36 BC - Marc Antony marries Cleopatra. previous Pharaoh who was an Infernal worshipper. 30 BC - Egypt crushes Rome. Marc and Cleopatra commit suicide. 47 BC - In the Shattered Realms the Tentacle Wars between the Antilan 10 BC - In the Shattered Realms Empire and the Illithids. The Antilans Cloaking Helms become available for suffer their first major defeats after sale through the Arcane. Developed by a centuries of conquest. They begin team of Arcane and wizards of no small delving into the lore of the Ancient measure, Cloaking Helms were Creators with the result is the discovery developed ostensibly for the Seekers to of ' Magic' which powers the crystal aid them in their surreptitious ships and citadels of the Antilans, as information gathering. well as providing spells of devastating power. Of course, Cloaking Helms come into high demand with militaristic 45 BC - Caesar takes control of the movements across the stars. As word Roman empire and kills Pompey. leaks out of these new helms, assassins appeared virtually overnight, slaying In the Shattered Realms the Dark many of the wizards involved in their Oliphant, an ogre mammothship, was a creation. Those few who survived are scourge of the void long after the scattered about the stars, reclusive as Unhuman War ended. Over a long career many wizards are. it was credited with defeating a score of elvish warships, as well as single- 0 - Year of Christ's birth. A massive handedly destroying two elven armadas. Vermin army invades the Roman empire It is finally brought to bay by the crushing all before them. The corruption 21 within the senate prevents it from taking Primary amongst them is Lord Soth, a action, any who attempt to simply fallen Knight. disappear. Other humanoid races come under similar attack, but not being 33 AD - Following the death of Jesus splintered like Rome are able to unite Christ, the newly founded religion of against the Vermin. A powerful spell Christianity slowly begins to spread in cast through the deaths of many Drow the Middle East and Europe. Thus causes all worshippers of the gods of mankind begins to fear the Christian Order to forget the names of their gods. devil Satan, a fallen angel formerly This is followed by the Vermin named Lucifer who was cast from simultaneously destroying every temple heaven. they can find while Human dark Occultists do the same within cities. This 79 AD - Pompeii destroyed by eruption has the immediate result of all Clerical of Mount Vesuvius. Buddhist monks in magic being lost. Sri Lanka first write down Buddha's teachings, creating the Pali canon. 1 AD - The Silk Road between Europe Buddhism reaches China. and Asia established. The Roman Republic becomes the Roman Empire. 96-180 AD - Roman Empire governed The Scandinavian peoples begin actively by the 'Five Good Emperors' - Nerva, worshipping the Norse gods. Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius. Ptolemy compiles a catalogue 2 AD - Sighurd a Germanian unites the of all stars visible to the naked eye. Celtic, Roman, Dwarfen, Silvanesti, and Constantine I ends persecution of Gnome armies to halt the Vermin on the Christians in the Roman Empire. outskirts of Rome. The Drow meanwhile Following the death of Julian the launch a vicious invasion on the Apostate, Christianity is made the Silvanesti. First Tao Shihs. official religion of the Empire. The Roman Empire's seat of government is 15 AD - The Kagonesti prove far more moved to Constantinople. adept than anyone realised at fighting wars and rout the Drow army. This 96 AD - First Priests, Knights, Squires causes the Vermin to be left without and Heralds. reinforcements and are then pushed back outside the Roman empire by the various 99 AD - First Samurais. allied armies. 100 AD - Mayan culture appears. 16 AD - In the aftermath of the war Around this time, the Norse and the Duncan becomes the new Dwarf king German peoples began actively while Kithkin takes over as king priest worshipping Odin and the other of the Kagonesti and forms a treaty with Asgardians as gods. As the religion of the other races. Christianity spread throughout Europe old polytheistic faiths died out. Many of 21 AD - In the Shattered Realms the fairies and elementals which had Takhisis flees the pantheon war to begin previously roamed the Earth in great recruiting agents for herself on Krynn. numbers begin degenerating mentally 22 and physically into demons. Maximus The Middle Ages Era Glavius elected the new Caesar as once 167 AD - First outbreak of plague in again the Vermin and their dark allies Rome for several hundred years. are on the march. 179 AD - Legions returning from the 101-102 AD - Hawksteel, Kremos and east bring the plague to Rome again. At Ken have many adventures over this the height of the outbreak, people die at period culminating in the return of a rate of 2000 a day. From then on, Avalon to this world, the return of the plague becomes a regular occurrence gods of Order and the Vermin being and is spread by soldiers and traders driven back out of the Roman empire. throughout the empire. Harpies are lost to the plague due to their unhygenic 104 AD - Last of the Vermin apparently lifestyle. exterminated. 193-194 AD - Second crisis of the 111 AD - Creation of Templars. First Empire: second year of four emperors, Ninja. Pertinax, Clodius Albinus, Pescennius Niger, Septimius Severus. Severus 166 AD - Last year of prosperity for the recognizes Albinus as Caesar but Roman empire. marches against Pescennius. Defeat and death of Pescennius. His followers hold out for two years in Byzantium. Most Leprechauns wiped out by the plague except for the few who isolate themselves in Britannia.

199 AD - The province of Mesopotamia is brought back into the Empire.

206-207 AD - Septimius Severus in Africa. The Satyr fall to the plague.

208-211 AD - Septimius Severus heads the campaign in Britain and dies there.

212 AD - The Constitutio Antoniniana, issued by Caracalla confers citizenship on all free men in the Empire.

216 AD - War again breaks out in Parthia. Mimics blamed for the plague and hunted down.

224-241 AD - Artaxerxes I reigns over the new Persian empire of the Sassanids (or Sasanians). 23

230-232 AD - Campaign against the 308 AD - At an imperial conference of Sassanids. Diocletian, Galerius and Maximian at Carnuntum Licinius is declared 242-243 AD - Victorious campaigns Augustus of the West, setting off an against the Persians; battles of Resenae, armed conflict between all rival Carrhae, and Nisibis. contenders.

248 AD - Celebration of millennium of 312 AD - Constantine's victory over Rom. Maxentius in battle at the Milvian Bridge puts Rome in his hands. 253 AD - Persian War flares up again. Antioch lost to Persia. 313 AD - Victory of Licinius over Maximinus Daia at the Hellespont is 254-262 AD - Revolts of Bagaudae, followed by reconciliation of the two insurgent peasants, in Gaul and Spain. victors. Centaurs and Pegataurs disappear. 314 AD - Armed conflict breaks out 260-272 AD - Queen Zenobia of between the co-emperors: truces, claims, Palmyra seizes large areas of Asia counterclaims, and wars follow for ten Minor, Syria, and Egypt. She sets up an years with Constantine increasingly independent empire until defeated and victorious. Dryads disappear. taken prisoner by Aurelian. 324 AD - Constantine sole emperor after 261-274 AD - Separatist empire set up in final defeat, abdication, and execution of Gaul by Postumus (261-268) and Licinius. Tetricus (270-274). 326 AD - Constantine chooses 297 AD - The Empire is divided Byzantium as the new capital of the administratively into twelve dioceses, Empire and renames it Constantinopolis. each ruled by a vicarius. 332 – 337 AD - In the Shattered Realms 301 AD - The Edict of Maximum Prices Takhisis begins the war of the lance on imposed throughout the Empire. Krynn as part of her bid to conquer the planet. When the War of the Lance 306 AD - Constantine declared co- erupts, the Heroes of the Lance fight Augustus after death of his father back against Takhisis, leading to the Constantius Chlorus, but Galerius defeat of her armies at several fronts and recognizes the Illyrian Severus in that her total defeat at Neraka when Berem, rank and confers the title of Caesar on the Everman and the secret to either Constantine. Maxentius, son of Takhisis's final defeat or success, is Maximian, hailed as legitimate successor allowed to die. Takhisis is banished to by the Praetorian Guard and the city of the realm of Ravenloft. Rome; heads revolt against Constantine. His father comes out of retirement to 337 AD - May 22, death of Constantine profit from the situation, first on one the Great. 'The Collapse'; division of the side, then on the other. empire between Constantine's three 24 sons: Constantine II (west), Constans Jovian emperor. Humiliating peace with (middle), Constantius (east). Execution Persia. Renewed toleration decree. of all other princes of royal blood, but for the children Gallus and Julian. 366 AD - Damasus pope. Social and political influences become a feature of 340 AD - Constans and Constantine II at papal elections. war. Battle of Aquileia; death of Constantine II. 368 AD - War of Valens with Goths. Last of Minotaurs die out. 344 AD - Persian victory at Singara. 369 AD - Peace with Goths. 350 AD - Third siege of Nisibis. Owing to incursions of the Massagetae in 369-377 AD - Subjugation of Ostrogoths Transoxiana, Sapor II makes truce with by Hun invasion. Valens receives and Constantius. Magnentius murders settles Visigoths in Moesia. Constans and becomes emperor in the west. Vetranio proclaimed emperor on 378 AD - Gratian defeats Alemanni. the Danube frontier. On appearance of Rising of Visigoths. Valens killed at Constantius, Vetranio resumes disaster at Adrianople. Destruction of the allegiance. Roman Army at the Battle of Adrianople. 351 AD - Magnetnius defeated at the very bloody Battle of Mursa. Misrule by 382 AD - Treaty of Theodosius with Gallus, left as Caesar in the east. Visigoths.

352 AD - Italy recovered. Magnentius in 383 AD - Revolt of Maximus in Britain. Gaul. Flight and death of Gratian. Theodosius recognizes Maximus in the west and 353 AD - Final defeat and death of Valentinian II at Milan. Magnentius. 386 AD - Revolt of Gildo in Africa. 356 AD - Julian dispatched as Caesar to Gaul. War with the Alemanni, Quadi and 395 AD - Death of Theodosius. Sarmatians. Military achievements by Permanent split of the empire. Arcadius Julian. succeeds to emperor in the east. Honorius emperor of the west. 359 AD - Sapor II invades Mesopotamia. Constantius goes to the 396 AD - Alaric the Visigoth overruns east. Balkan peninsula.

360 AD - The Gallic army forces Julian 400 AD - Division of China into north to revolt. Julian marches down the and south. Japan dominated by Korea. Danube to Moesia. 402 AD - Alaric invades Italy, checked 363 AD - Disaster and death of Julian. by Stilicho. Retreat of the army which proclaims 25

403 AD - Alaric retires after defeat at there by Vortigern. Geiseric invades Pollentia. Ravenna becomes imperial Sicily, but is bought off. headquarters. 441 AD - Attila crosses Danube and 404 AD - Martyrdom of Telemachus invades Thrace. ends gladiatorial shows. 443 AD - Attila makes terms with 405-406 AD - German band under Theodosius II. Burgundians settled in Radagaesus invades Italy but is defeated Gaul. at Faesula. 447 AD - Attila's second invasion. 406-407 AD - Alans, Sueves and Vandals invade Gaul. Revolt of 449 AD - Attila's second peace. Constantine III who withdraws the troops from Britain to set up a Gallic 450 AD - Marcian succeeds Theodosius empire. II. Marcian stops Hun tribute.

408 AD - Alaric invades Italy and puts 451 AD - Attila invades Gaul. Attila Rome to ransom. heavily defeated by Aetius and Theodoric I the Visigoth at Châlons. 410 AD - Fall of Attalus. Alaric sacks Rome but dies. Rome sacked by 452 AD - Attila invades Italy but spares Visigoths. Rome and retires. Attila the Hun conquers large parts of Europe, threatens 414 AD - Athaulf attacks the barbarians to attack Rome. in Spain. Pulcheria regent for her brother Theodosius II. 453 AD - Attila dies. Theodoric II King of the Visigoths. 417 AD - Visigoths establish themselves in Aquitania. 454 AD - Overthrow of the Hun power by the subjected barbarians at the Battle 427 AD - Revolt of Boniface in Africa. of Netad.

429 AD - The Vandals invited by 455 AD - Murder of Valentinian III and Boniface migrate under Geiseric from death of Maximus, his murderer. Spain to Africa which they proceed to Geiseric sacks Rome, carrying of conquer. Eudoxia. Avitus proclaimed emperor of the Visigoths. Vandals sack Rome. 434 AD - Rugila king of the Huns dies; Buddhism reaches Myanmar and Attila succeeds him. Indonesia. Stirrup invented in China. Heavy plow in use in Slavic lands. Metal 439 AD - Geiseric takes Carthage. horseshoes become common in Gaul. Vandal fleet dominant. Vandals conquer Carthage. At some point after 440 AD 458 AD - Lyonese of the Lake now the The Anglo-Saxons settle in Britain. The last remaining Earthlord begins training traditional story is that they were invited Merlyn to take over. 26

466 AD - Euric, King of the Visigoths but feeling spiritually crushed by his begins conquest of Spain. comrades' deaths abandons his Pendragon persona and moves to Spain. 475 AD - Romulus Augustus last The general population believes Arthur western emperor. Usurpation of slain, Launcelot continues to act as Basiliscus at Constantinople. Zeno defender of the poor. The Parliament of escapes to Asia. Theodoric the Amal Nature takes over the role of training the becomes King of the Ostrogoths. next Earthlord.

476 AD - Odoacer the Scirian, 489 AD - Theodoric invades Italy to commander and elected King of the supplant Odoacer. German troops in Italy, deposes Romulus Augustus and resolves to rule 490 AD - The Dvergar Dwarves rise up independently, but nominally as the and capture the forge area of Mantol viceroy of the Roman Augustus of Derith. Constantinople. From a meteor Merlyn fashioned two weapons Excalibur and 491 AD – The Dvergar completely Albion, empowering both with mystical overthrow the Illithids and take Mantol enchantments. End of the western Derith for themselves. empire. 492 AD - In the Shattered Realms the 477 AD - Fall of Basiliscus. Merlyn use of Spelljammer vessels declines to rescues Gilad from Morgana and the point that only Abeir Toril and convinces him to unite the remainders of Eberron maintain any ships. the collapsing Roman Catholic empire. Gilad renames himself Arthur Pendragon 493 AD - Launcelot disappears. Sensing and is given the Harmonic psi-sword Camelot is abandoned the Parliament of Excalibur by Lyonese. Avalon is Nature dispatches the new Earthlord to renamed Camelot and becomes the last investigate. bastion of Rome against the various barbarian armies sweeping Europe. 494 AD - The new Earthlord cleanses Merlyn makes contact with the Camelot of the Orcs which had taken it Parliament of Nature. over. Then with the aid of the Parliament of Nature she transports Camelot to 479 AD – The Parliament of Nature Mistworld restoring its original name of creates Fluvenilstra in the Underground. Avalon.

485 AD - Morgana and her Normandy 500 AD - Irish colonists and invaders, forces attack Camelot. Merlyn is slain by the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia Morgana with her recently forged Spear (later known as Scotland). Zen of Destiny. Arthur kills Mordred but is Buddhists enter Vietnam from China. badly wounded. Launcelot saves Arthur Chinese writing introduced into Japan. from death by impaling Morgana on her India overrun by Huns. Buddhism own Spear of Destiny from behind. He is introduced in Japan. First Sheriff. the only surviving knight. The Normans are routed. Arthur survives his wounds 502 AD - Persian war of Anastasius. 27

530 AD - Persian incursions. Victory of Baekje (Korea) in, thus contributing to Belisarius at Daras. the changes that occured in the Asuka period. Outbreak of bubonic plague in 533 AD - Belisarius oblitarates the Constantinople and the rest of the Vandal Kingdom. Roman Empire.

536 AD - Theodahad deposed and killed. 553 AD - Last stand and annihilation of Wittiges elected. Belisarius captures and the Ostrogoths. Last of surface holds Rome. Lizardmen die.

537 AD - Wittiges besieges Rome, 554 AD - Narses shatters a Frank Franks invade northern Italy. invasion.

538 AD - Wittiges buys off Franks by 555 AD - Narses rules Italy from ceding to them the Roman Province. Ravenna.

540 AD - Fall of Ravenna. Belisarius 561 AD - End of Persian war. leaves Italy. First Dabbler. 565 AD - Heavy plow in use in Po 541 AD - Chosroes invades Syria and Valley, Italy. Breast-strap horse harness sacks Antioch. Goths, led by Totila in use in Frankish kingdom. Byzantine begin reconquest of Italy. Empire acquires silk technology from China. In the Shattered Realms after many years of war in Ravenloft, Tahkhisis and 570 AD - Muhammad; the Qur'an is Count Strahd von Zarovich form an written, the basis of Islam. alliance. 572 AD - Persian war renewed. 542 AD - General paralysis caused by the great plague. 573 AD - Lombards masters of northern Italy and of provinces in the south, 546 AD - Totila captures and evacuates though without a king. Rome. 590 AD - Xuan Zang (aka Hsuan-Tsang) 547 AD - Belisarius reoccupies Rome. travelled from China to India, before returning to Chang An in China to 548 AD - Belisarius recalled. Totila translate Buddhist scriptures. Pope dominates Italy. Gregory the Great. The stirrup introduced to Persia from China. Earliest 550 AD - Justinian's troops occupy known record of the game Chatrang, Andalusia. Third Persian War. predecessor to Chess.

552 AD - Narses sent to recover Italy. 591 AD - Accession of Chosroes II in Fall of Totila at Battle of Taginae. Persia by help of Maurice. End of Introduction of silk-worm from China. Persian war. Buddhism introduced to Japan from 28

600 AD - Kingdom of Ethiopia. 642 AD - Persian Empire ended at battle of Nehavend. 609 AD - Revolt of Heraclius the elder in Africa. 646 AD - Alexandria recovered and lost again. 614 AD - Chosroes II completes conquest of Syria by taking Jerusalem, 651 AD - Moawiya begins invasion of carrying off the true cross. Asia Minor.

616 AD - Persian conquest of Egypt. 655 AD - Naval victory of Constans II at Phoenix. 620 AD - Persian overrun Asia Minor. 659 AD - Truce between Moawiya and 621 AD - The eastern empire devotes Constans II. itself to a holy war against Parthia. 662 AD - Constans II invades Italy. 622 AD - First Persian campaign of Heraclius who splits Parthian forces of 673 AD - Second siege of Syria and Asia Minor. Constantinople. Saracens repulsed. Last time the Drow are seen for hundreds of 623 AD - Victorious campaigns of years. Heraclius in and beyond Mesopotamia. 673-677 AD - Defeats of Saracens by 626 AD - Persians and Avars besieging Constantine. Constantinople are completely repulsed. 691 AD - Justinian II's successful 628 AD - Fall of Chosroes II. End of campaign in Bulgaria. Persian War, all Roman possessions restored. 693 AD - Justinian II's campaign in Cilicia. 632 AD - Death of Mohammed. Abu Bekr first Khalif. First Syrian 700 AD - Moslems conquer parts of Expedition. India. China conquers Vietnam and Korea. 634 AD - Roman defeat at Yermak. 711-715 AD - Saracens overrun Asia 635 AD - Fall of Damascus. Minor.

636 AD - Fall of Antioch. Heraclius 717 AD - Theodosius III abdicates in evacuates Syria. favour of Leo III. Moslemah besieges Constantinople by sea and land. Leo III 637 AD - Fall of Jerusalem. defeats fleet.

640 AD - Amru invades Egypt. 718 AD - Saracens reinforced. Leo III shatters their fleet, crosses the Bosporus and cuts them off from the east. 29

Bulgarians advance and defeat a Saracen 813 AD - Serious Arab naval raids on army. Moslemah withdraws. Remnants shores of Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas. of Saracen grand fleet destroyed in a storm. 831 AD - Mamun invades Cappadocia. Beginning of prolonged was between 719 AD - Campaigns to expel Saracens empire and khalifate. from Asia Minor. 842 AD - Saracens in Sicily capture 727 AD - Saracen defeat at Nicaea Messina. Michael III the Drunkard aged drives them from Asia Minor. four, succeeds Theophilus.

750 AD - Beowulf is composed. 850 AD - Buddhism repressed in China. Buddhist Jataka stories are translated in to Syriac and Arabic as Kalilag and 859 AD - Fall of Enna completes Damnag. Buddha's life is translated in to Saracen conquest of Sicily. Greek by Saint John of Damascus, and widely circulated to Christians as the 861 AD - Conversion of Bulgars to story of Jalaam and Josaphat. Heavy Christianity. plow in use in the Rhine valley. Horse collar in use in Northern Europe in 8th 863 AD - Pope Nicholas I or 9th century, perhaps introduced from excommunicates Patricarch Photius. Asia. Papermaking introduced from China to Arabs. Begin of the decline of 863-879 AD - Period of schism between the Classical Mayan culture. eastern and western churches.

753 AD - Iconoclast Council of 866 AD - Synod at Constantinople Constantinople. condemns heresies of the Latin church. Permanent severance of the Latin and 755 AD - First Bulgar War of Greek churches. Consantine V. 876 AD - Basil takes up Saracen war in 761 AD - Constantine begins South Italy. persecution of the monks. 878 AD - Saracens take Syracuse, 764 AD - Second Bulgar War of completing conquest of Italy. Constantine. 900 AD - Mayan calendar abandoned. 770 AD - Iron horseshoes come into common use. 930 AD – Dvergar build the city of Dunspeirrin. 800-909 AD - Rule of Aghlabids as independent dynasty in North Africa. 950 AD - Mongols rule Manchuria. Al Azif translated into Greek as 800 AD - Mayan culture ends. Chinese Necronomicon. defeated by Arabs. Gunpowder discovered. 30

961 AD - Crete recovered from the 1054 AD - The Great Schism, in which Saracens for the empire. Syrian the Western (Roman Catholic) and campaign. Eastern Orthodox churches separated from each other. After a number of 965 AD - Nicephorus recovers Cyprus earlier such schisms, the breach was from Saracens. later repaired, but this one continues nearly 1000 years later. 968 AD - Nicephorus recovers Antioch. 1066 AD - Norman conquest of 971 AD - Zimisces defeats Russians. England. treaty. 1076 AD - Seljuk Turks seize Jerusalem. 999 AD - In the Shattered Realms Takhisis and Strahd conquer Ravenloft. 1094 AD - El Cid the great Spanish Finding a weak point in the dimensional hero, conquers the Moorish city of barrier, they are able to physically Valencia. manifest part of Ravenloft on the planet Dis. This allows them to reenter the 1096 AD - Crusade assembled at prime material plane, along with an Constantinople. army of demons. 1097 AD - Crusaders invade Asia 1000 AD - Vikings, led by Leif Erikson, Minor, take Nicaea, cross the Taurus, establish small settlements at and around secure Edessa, and besiege Antioch. Vinland in North America. Mayans migrate to Yucatan. Russian empire 1098 AD - Crusaders take Antioch. forms. Mongols conquer Korea. Fatimids recapture Jerusalem from the Shogunite begins in Japan. Seljuk Turks.

1014 AD - Basil II destroys the Bulgar 1099 AD - Beginning of the Latin army. Kingdom. First Crusade captures Jerusalem. King Anawrahta of Myanmar 1017 AD - Norman adventurers in Italy made a pilgrimage to Ceylon, returning take part against the Byzantines in the to convert his country to Theravada south. Buddhism. Invention of military rockets by the Chinese. 1018 AD - End of the first Bulgar kingdom. 1120 AD – A mana spike from the future opens a dimensional gateway to Athas 1024 AD - In the Shattered Realms all of bringing through the Thrikeen city of Dis has been conqurered and its entire Chak-ch'tka, and depositing it into the population slain to feed Takhisis’ magic. Underground on earth.

1050 AD - Greek text of Necronomicon 1139 AD - Portugal declares burnt by the Patriarch of Constantinople independence from the kingdom of León (Arabic text lost at this point). and Castille in. 31

1146 AD - Second Crusade. Avalon 1168 AD - In the Shattered Realms an vanishes again. ancient Creators’ magitech portal is discovered by Strahd on Dis and 1148 AD - Collapse of the Second activated. The portal can connect with Crusade. other portals which are present on each of the other Shattered Realms planets. 1149 AD - A corrupt Spanish monk, Scouting forces are sent to each planet. gathers together most of the pieces of the Heresy scrolls. For his evil acts the 1187 AD - Saladin captures Jerusalem. monk is burned at the stake and killed. However his soul became imprisoned 1189 AD - Third Crusade. within the Heresy parchments. Pope Eugene III appoints a young monk, 1190 AD - Robin of Sherwood is Paolo Montesi, as curator of the Catholic known by many different names Church's collection of occult literature including Robin Hood, Robin Wood, and artifacts. The Catholic Church takes Robert Earl of Huntington, Roberd possession of the Heresy parchments and Hude, and Robert Hood. Robin stands as turns them over to Paolo Montesi. the hero of the common people and yeomans, and a symbol of right against Along with the scrolls, Montesi also might. Because of the Sheriff of discovers what would become known as Nottingham's and Prince John's the Malachy Prophecy, a parchment tyrannical rule and exploitation of the which foretells details of the reigns of common people in Nottinghamshire, every pope to come. Upon presenting his Robin unites his fellow folk and rebells findings, Pope Eugene III decrees that against the Sheriff. only Montesi will be able to handle the Heresy scrolls and ordered that it be Robin is also known for robbing the rich rebound together into a single volume, and giving to the poor. Ivanhoe, a trusted which is named the Book of Sins. ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the The Pope also allows Montesi to marry inheritance his father denied him. The and sire children so that his descendants wicked Prince John plots to usurp can be trained to be the library's curator. England's throne, but Richard-the-Lion- The then lord of vampires learns that the Hearted and the famous , Robin Catholic Church is in possession of and Hood, team up with Ivanhoe to defeat studying the Heresy. Invading Rome, the the Normans and regain the castle. vampires kill Montesi but are driven off before they can steal the Heresy. At the 1192 AD - Treaty of Richard and moment of his death, Montesi's wife is Saladin ends Third Crusade. The giving birth to his son Giacomo, who Anasazi Native American civilization becomes the new curator of the Heresy emerges. when he grows to adulthood. 1200 AD - Incas and Aztecs at their 1150 AD - Zen buddhism begins in height. Japan. 32

1202 AD - Fourth Crusade assembles at On Abeir Toril, Aebrynis, Eberron, Venice, diverted at Constantinople. Krynn, Mystara and Oerth a quarter of the populations simply vanish (including 1203 AD - First capture of parts of the demon army). Constantinople. Isaac restored. 1208 AD - In the Shattered Realms in 1204 AD - Second capture and sack of the wake of the devastating magic cast Constantinople. Crusaders divide the by Takhisis, all worlds now surrender. spoils, Venice taking the lion's share. Takhisis places regents in power on each Baldwin of Flanders emperor. planet who administer it on her behalf. On Athas it is Balaur the Dragon of In the Shattered Realms Takhisis and Athas. Strahd sent their demonic armies out to On Abeir Toril it is Tiamat. each world. At first their armies are On Aebrynis it is Bane. victorious. On Athas they capture seven On Abysmal it is Moerus. of the nine city states. On Cthon it is the Dungeon Master. On Eberron it is Vol. 1205 AD - In the Shattered Realms the On Gamma it is the Heuristic Algorithim Athasian armies rally and begin pushing Lifeform. back, recapturing most of their cities. On Mystara it is Atsanteotl. The demonic armies also begin to lose On Oerth it is Skelegore. ground on Krynn, Abeir Toril, Eberron, Takhisis moves to Krynn and makes it Mystara, Oerth, Cthon, Aebrynis, and the capital of her empire. Strahd remains Gamma. Only Abysmal falls to Takhisis. on Dis as its ruler. The portals remain under the control of her armies. 1207 AD - In the Shattered Realms facing defeat on nearly every planet 1215 AD - In the Shattered Realms except Abysmal, Takhisis unleashes a underground resistance forces appear on new, untested meta spell with each world. devastating consequences; On Athas, it pulls all the ocean water 1228 AD - Necronomicon translated into into space, desolates the lands, and turns Latin. First Daywalker. the world into a savage, desert wasteland. 1232 AD - Pope Gregory IX places Necronomicon on Index Expurgatorius. On Cthon, over the course of a few months the surface is plunged into an 1261 AD - Michael VIII captures extreme ice age, forcing the majority of Constantinople, restoring Greek and its inhabitants to move underground. ending Latin empire. On Gamma, a rift opens up directly into Ravenloft allowing alien horrors to come 1272 AD - Marco Polo and his family through. The various nations fire their all reach China. the world’s above surface nuclear weapons into the rift in an attempt to 1294 AD - In the Shattered Realms on close it. The fallout plunges the planet Athas, psionic powers develop amongst into a nuclear winter. the entire population. 33

1300 AD - Turk moslems conquer vessel, and Krule because the water northern Africa. Chinese navy attacks pressure crushes the ship. Japan. 1386 AD - In the Shattered Realms 3 1312 AD - Templars disbanded. Taken Spelljammer vessels are sent to the over by Hospitallers and Teutonics. Asteroid field. None return.

1321 AD - In the Shattered Realms the 1417 AD - Great Schism of the Catholic oceans from Athas mixing with the Church ends. aether flotsam of space, coalesces into a giant sphere the size of a dwarf planet. 1429 AD - Jeanne d'Arc leads French This world would come to be known as forces to a victory against England in a Krule. battle of the Hundred Years' War.

1325AD – First Jester. 1451 AD - Accession of Mohammed the Conqueror in the east. The Dvergar 1335 AD - In the Shattered Realms Dwarves build the city of Dhon Guruhm. Takhisis commands that new Spelljammer ship yards be built on Abeir 1453 AD - Fall of Constantinople to Toril, Aebrynis, Dis, Eberron, Mystara, Mohammed the Conqueror. Death of Krynn and Oerth. Plans are made to Constantine XI. Constantinople falls to establish new trade routes between all the Ottoman Empire. the planets and explore the Asteroids, Firefall and Krule, none of which have 1459 AD - Count Vlad Dracula, also portals. called Vlad the Impaler is captured when a Turk army invades Transylvania. 1347-1351 AD - Black Death kills about Dracula is brought before a vampiress, one third of European population. Last Tatiana, who attacks and kills him. time any of the Elven and Dwarven Dracula rises from the grave three days races are seen for centuries. later as a vampire.

1354 AD - Turks occupy Gallipoli. 1460 AD - Dracula kills the current lord of vampires and takes his place. For 1361 AD - Turks capture Adrianople. subsequent centuries, Dracula preys on humanity for a supply of blood to sustain 1378 AD - The Great Schism of the him. Dante Alegheri writes The Inferno. West, eventually leading to 3 Spanish conquistador expeditions. simultaneous Popes. Beginning of the Ottoman Empire. 1464 AD - In the Shattered Realms a way is found for the portal on Dis to 1384 AD - In the Shattered Realms connect to another universe; the Spelljammer vessels with envoys are dimension F17 and the world of sent out to visit Firefall and Krule. Palladia. Takhisis sends her demon Attempts to enter the planets fail; armies through. Firefall because the flames destroy the 34

1474 AD - In the Shattered Realms after 1522 AD - First circumnavigation of the a ten year war Palladia is defeated. Its globe by a ship of Ferdinand Magellan's resources are then stripped and expedition. Only one ship survived the gatewayed back to the Realms. It is journey, under the command of the Takhisis’ first interdimensional Basque captain Sebastian Elkano. conquest. European explorers explore the New World; Spain conquers Indians in 1492 AD - Muslims and Jews are Central and South America, resulting in expelled from southern Spain after the destruction of the native civilizations almost 800 years of Moslem rule. of Mesoamerica and the Andes. Vast Christopher Columbus reaches the increase in amount of gold in circulation Caribbean islands. in Europe. The horse introduced to the Americas. 1498 AD - Christopher Columbus reaches South America. Vasco da Gama 1525 AD - First Animated and Avenging completes sea voyage to India. Rise of Golems. Modern English language from Middle English. John Badby is the first person 1529 AD - Troops of the Ottoman burnt at the stake for heresy in England. Empire lay siege upon Vienna, but fail to The Spanish Inquisition is established. conquer the city. The Anasazi Native American civilization mysteriously disappears. 1533 AD - King Henry VIII of England Leonardo da Vinci, inventor and painter. breaks with Roman Catholic Church and Printing technology refined by Johann forms Church of England. Gutenberg. 1540 AD - The Reformation. 1500 AD - Creation of Cult of Kali. Nostradamus prophecies. Copy of Necronomicon rumoured to exist in the British Museum. 1542 AD - In the Shattered Realms the universe of F23 and Middle Earth are 1506 AD - In the Shattered Realms discovered, and invaded. Working on the another universe is discovered; F22 and experience of the previous two invasions the world of Glorantha. Once again an there is now a proper plan and timetable invasion force is sent through. This time for the war. it also includes non demonic forces, ‘volunteers’ from other realms. 1543 AD - Copernicus publishes his theory that the Earth and the other 1510 AD - In the Shattered Realms planets revolve around the Sun. victory comes much more swiftly on this world and mining of its resources begins 1547 AD - Duelling made illegal. soon after. In the Shattered Realms F23 is 1512 AD - The Ottoman Empire reaches conquered and strip mined. its peak during the reign of sultan Suleiman. 1550 AD - Greek text of Necronomicon printed in Italy. Last known copy 35 vanished in burning of a Salem library in The Discovery Era 1692. 1582 AD - adopted by Catholic countries. 1560 AD - Adventures of Cain Able the last Inquisitor. 1585 AD - After the Fall of Antwerp many of its merchants flee to 1568-1648 AD - Dutch revolt, a small Amsterdam. The modern square root nation gains independence from the symbol is first used. Protestant reform of superpower of the day (Spain). the Christian church in several countries in Northern Europe. 1576 AD - In the Shattered Realms F24 French Wars of Religion between Barsaive is invaded and quickly Catholics and Huguenots in France. overwhelmed. Its resources are portaled Poland is the largest state in Europe. The back to the Shattered Realms. Council of Trent, one of the ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church, define a large number of new dogmas in response to the Protestant Reformation. Introduction of spinning wheel revolutionizes textile production. New world crops such as maize corn, potatoes, chocolate, tomatoes, become known to Europeans.

1602 AD - Antwerp merchants establish the Dutch East India Company, embarking on colonial expansion based on shareholdership rather than royal control.

1605 AD - Australia first discovered.

1618-1648 AD - The Thirty Years' War in Europe. Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England. Scottish and English Protestants sent to colonize Ireland, as reaction to Catholicism there.

1625 AD - The adventures of the three Musketeers; Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, as chronicled by Alexandre Dumas.

1637 AD - The Dutch republic becomes the dominant economic and political power in Europe. It also undergoes 36 crashes, e.g. the windhandle in tulips 1719 AD - In the Shattered Realms F31 leads to many bankruptcies. Lankhmar is invaded. It falls after only a few months. 1642-1651 AD - The English Civil War. The Deluge: series of wars and civil 1760 AD - Spanish printing of the wars in Poland with Sweden, Russia, Necronomicon. Prussia and Transylvania which cause Poland to lose power and began the rise 1769 AD - In the Shattered Realms F35 of Russia. Aerth is invaded. It proves unusually resistant due to the high amounts of 1648 AD - Republic of the Seven United mana. Netherlands gains formal independence from Spain. Dutch merchant ships sail 1770 AD - James Cook explorations. all over the world, leading to the Golden Australia first settled. Age of the Dutch Republic. 1776 AD - British colonies on the 1650 AD - Spanish conquer South American continent declare their America. independence from Britain, renaming themselves the United States of 1667 AD - In the Shattered Realms F27 America. Creation of the Illuminati. Harn is invaded. 1780 AD - In the Shattered Realms 1670 AD - In the Shattered Realms Harn Aerth finally falls and is mined. falls and is stripped. 1788 AD - First European settlement 1676 AD - First measurement of the established in Australia. speed of light. 1789 AD - United States Constitution. 1680 AD - Final failure of Turks to conquer Europe. A Dar'que Lord battles 1789-1795 AD - The French Revolution. sea pirates. Calculus is invented and used to formulate classical mechanics. 1790 AD - Events of Frankenstein. Cannon and gunpowder technology refined. 1791 AD - Events of the Scarlet Pimpernel. 1700 AD - China reunified. 1792 AD - Illuminating gas used in 1707 AD - The Kingdom of Great England. Britain is formed. 1793 AD - Construction of Washington 1715 AD - Louis XIV dies. capitol begins. Louis XVI executed in France. 1718 AD - Blackbeard and other buccaneers appear. 1794 AD - First optical telegraph in Paris. Slavery abolished in the colonies. 37

1795 AD - Metric system established in Quintero and Ramon in the guise of El France. First horse drawn railroad in Zorro. England. Bread riots in Paris. 1807 AD - Newberry invents the circular 1796 AD - Jenner introduces smallpox saw. vaccination. Edict of Peking bans opium into China. Napoleon conquers Austria. 1808 AD - Napoleon abolishes the inquisition in Spain and Italy. 1798 AD - French capture Rome, Naples, Malta and Egypt. 1809 AD - Gauss establishes mathematical geometry. 1799 AD - Rosetta stone (for deciphering hieroglyphics) is found by 1810 AD - Main adventures of Silver Napoleon's troops. Napoleon overthrows Deer and a vigilante cowboy named the the French government. Spirit of Vengeance. 1800 AD - Trevithik builds the steam engine. Volta creates first battery of zinc 1812 AD - Iodine discovered. Grimm and copper. fairy tales. British American war over Canada ends in stalemate. 1801 AD - Fulton invents first submarine. Thomas Jefferson president. 1813 AD - First bicycle. Silver Deer is chosen as the new Earthlord. 1814 AD - First Steam locomotive. Gas street lights in London. British burn 1802 AD - Dalton introduces atomic Washington DC. theory into chemistry. Hershel discovers binary stars. 1815 AD - Fresnel theory of light. First steam warship. Davy invents miner's 1803 AD - Fulton creates steam powered safety lamp. Brazil independence. boat. Shrapnel invents the shell. The U.S. purchases Louisiana from France. 1816 AD - Laennec invents stethoscope. English economic crisis leads to mass 1804 AD - Trevithick builds first steam migration to the Americas. Argentina train. Spanish/English war. declares independence from Spain.

1806 AD - British begin using rockets as 1817 AD - In the Shattered Realms F37 weapons. Official end of holy Roman Aldea is invaded. It is able to muster empire. Don Diego de la Vega returns to little resistance and falls within 2 find that his father, who had been months. alcalde, has been replaced by the corrupt Luis Quintero. Quintero and the brutal 1818 AD - First steamship crosses garrison commander, Captain Juan Atlantic. Chile independent. Ramon, are exploiting the peasants, the priests, and the Indians. Diego poses as a 1819 AD - Oersted discovers harmless fop so that he can battle electromagnetism. Child labour 38 outlawed in England. Florida purchased 1829 AD - Killing of widows upon by the U.S. from Spain. husbands' death abolished in India by British. Slavery abolished in Mexico. 1820 AD - Mexico wins its independence from Spain. 1830 AD - First steam cars in England. France takes Algeria. 1821 AD - Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphics. Peru, Honduras, 1831 AD - Ross determines position of Panama, Venezuela, Costa Rica, magnetic North Pole. Belgium separates Guatemala and Nicaragua become from the Netherlands. The Foreign independent of Spain. legion formed.

1822 AD - Greece becomes independent. 1832 AD - Chloroform invented. Britain So do Mexico and Ecuador from Spain, occupies the Falklands. and Brazil from Portugal. 1833 AD - First electromagnetic 1823 AD - Macintosh invents telegraph. Abolition of slavery in British waterproof fabric. United provinces of empire. Central America formed with Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras, 1834 AD - Babbage invents first Nicaragua and Costa Rica. analytical engine (computer) in England. Electrolysis discovered. End of Spanish 1824 AD - Cement developed. inquisition. Thermodynamics developed. British workers unionize. 1835 AD - Halley's comet reappears. First German railroad. First electric 1825 AD - First railroad opened batteries for trains. Hans Christian (England). Horse drawn buses in Andersen publishes first tales. Texas London. Tea from China introduced into secedes from Mexico. Europe. Bolivia separates from Peru, Uruguay from Brazil. 1837 AD - First Canadian railroad.

1826 AD - First railroad tunnel. Russian 1838 AD - Ozone discovered. war in Persia. Thousands of native Americans forced to move off their land. 1827 AD - Niepce invents the photograph. Ressel invents the ship's 1839 AD - First bicycle. Goodyear screw propeller. Wohler creates discovers process of rubber aluminum from clay. Sulfur friction vulcanisation. matches created by Walker. Russia takes Armenia. 1840 AD - Artificial fertilizer developed. First postage stamp in England. Lower 1828 AD - First railroad in the U.S., and upper Canada united. Baltimore-Ohio. First Websters dictionary. Last inquisition execution. 1841 AD - Opium war between Britain and China. 39

1842 AD - Ether used as surgical 1856 AD - Neanderthal skull found. anesthesia. Doppler velocity effect Treaty of Paris ends Crimean war. discovered. Treaty of Nanking ends opium war. 1857 AD - First elevator. British/French war against China. 1844 AD - Morse telegraph used. Wood pulp paper invented. Events of the Count 1858 AD - Chinese ports opened to of Monte Christo. British and French trade.

1845 AD - Hydraulic crane invented. 1859 AD - Charles Darwin Florida and Texas join the U.S. revolutionizes biology with his theories of evolution. Oregon joins the U.S. 1846 AD - Neptune discovered by Galle. 1860 AD - First internal combustion Famine in Ireland. America annexes new engine. England/France occupy Peking. Mexico. John Reid saves Tonto's life from a band of outlaw raiders. The same raiders go 1847 AD - Working hours reduced in on to kill his parents and burn their England. Liberia independent. ranch. John is adopted into the Potawatomai tribe as Tonto's blood 1848 AD - First safety matches. Marx brother. Tonto gives John an amulet to communist manifesto. symbolize their friendship and bestows upon him the name, "Kemo Sabe," 1849 AD - First safety pin. First which means trusted friend (in some reinforced concrete. Speed of light versions, it means trusty scout). measured. 1861 AD - First horse drawn trams in 1850 AD - First gas burner. California London. Kingdom of Italy proclaimed. joins the U.S. Lincoln president of the U.S. U.S. civil war begins, 11 southern states secede. 1850-1864 AD - 20 million killed during Confederate victory at Bull Run. rebellion in 17 Chinese provinces. 1862 AD - Gatling invents machine gun. 1851 AD - First continuous stitch sewing Lincoln emancipates slaves. Union machines. victory at New Orleans but lose at Bull Run. Dr Moriarty begins his career as a 1853 AD - Colt begins manufacturing master criminal. small arms. Crimean war; Britain, France and Turkey vs. Russia. 1863 AD - Science of metallurgy developed. Confederate loss at 1854 AD - Florence Nightingale Gettysburg. pioneers nursing in the Crimea. 1864 AD - International Red Cross 1855 AD - First printing telegraph. founded. Pasteurization invented for London sewers modernised after the wine. Tolstoy writes War and Peace. outbreak of Cholera. Confederate loss at Atlanta. 40

1865 AD - First transatlantic cable laid. 1867 AD - Livingstone explores the First oil pipeline (Pennsylvania). Alice Congo. The U.S. buys Alaska from in Wonderland written. Surrender of Russia for $7.2 million. Confederates, end of civil war. Lincoln assassinated. Slavery fully abolished. 1868 AD - Shogunate abolished in Prince Dakkar creates the identity of Japan. Meiji restoration opens Japan to "Captain Nemo" and launches his modern influences and returns the submarine Nautilus. Moriarty having emperor to power. Phileas Fogg is stolen a second Nautilus also goes by the placed among Moriarty-Nemo's crew as name Captain Nemo. Moriarty's goal is a spy for the British secret service; he is to commit as many heinous, ultimately successful in sinking reprehensible, and criminal acts as Moriarty-Nemo's second Nautilus. possible, all the while having them attributed to Dakkar. 1869 AD - First periodic table. Suez canal opened. 20,000 leagues under the 1866 AD - Dynamite invented. sea written. Railroads make fast mass Underwater torpedo invented. Austro- transit available to many. First Italian war. Upon hearing of the Transcontinental Railroad finished in mysterious exploits of another linking east to west in the United States. submarine, and its master, Captain Postage Stamps introduced in Great Nemo, Arthur Gordon Pym also begins Britain and soon thereafter in many other calling himself Captain Nemo, and countries. begins plundering ships worldwide. In the course of his adventures, this third 1870 AD - Rockefeller founds his oil Captain Nemo encounters the square- company. The French leave Italy, Rome jawed, self-righteous Dick Lightheart proclaimed capitol. French-Prussian war. and his boys, the water-logged The United States begins massive survivours of an encounter with a sea- industrialization in urban areas. James monster. Moriarty, who has abandoned the Captain Nemo identity, uncovers the The sea monster turns out to actually be diabolical plans of an Anglo-Egyptian the third Nemo's submarine, the Enigma. named Rathe, who formerly called Pym-Nemo regales Lightheart and the himself Ahtar. Abetted by his masterful boys with a fictional autobiography, abilities of disguise, Moriarty kills Rathe calling himself Harold Duggan, a and takes his place as an instructor at a Confederate veteran whose fiancée, school in London. He serves as young convinced that he was dead, married Sherlock Holmes' tutor. someone else. For this Nemo has sworn vengeance, sinking ships and generally 1871 AD - First pneumatic rock drill causing havoc on the high seas. Having invented. British parliament legalises his destructive exploits attributed to the labour unions. real Nemo is an added benefit. Lightheart sabotages the sub. Pym is 1872 AD - Conscription in Japan and killed. France. Spanish civil war. 41

1873 AD - First typewriter, colour refuge at Cavendish's hidden photographs. Spanish republic headquarters. proclaimed. Bengal famine. First theories on electricity and magnetism. 1875 AD - First rotary printing press. Korean independent from China. 1874 AD - First pressure cooking. Sherlock Holmes encounters Dr. Fu Iceland independent of Denmark. Manchu and later in the year Moriarty. Captain Reid and his Ranger troop, accompanied by John Reid, pursue some 1876 AD - Bell invents telephone. killers. Unfortunately, Collins leads the Internal combustion engine in Germany. six men into an ambush at the bottom of Custer killed by Indians. The Lone Bryant's Gap where they are all gunned Ranger and Tonto save President Grant's down. Tonto finds the rangers and life. Wild Bill Hickok is murdered in nurses John, the only survivor, back to Deadwood, South Dakota. The Lone health, and tells him "...others dead, you Ranger takes the name of Allen King lone ranger now." Tonto digs six graves and joins a Ranger troop. They are so that the gang will not suspect that opposing the depredations of a criminal there was a survivor. John spends most mastermind who has assumed the of the winter and early spring months identity of Marcus Jefferies, a recovering from his wounds. John and government land agent. Tonto have heard of a fabulous wild stallion in a nearby valley. 1877 AD - First phonograph. First shipment of refrigerated meat. Samurai After saving the magnificent animal revolt suppressed in Japan. The Lone from a frenzied bison, they nurse the Ranger takes the name of Bill Andrews horse back to health. John wins the in order to defeat the plans of Bart animal's trust and, at Tonto's suggestion, Dolan, the nephew of a powerful names him "Silver." At Tonto's cattleman who is trying to rid the San suggestion, John fashions bullets out Ramon valley of settlers. With the aid of silver taken from the mine he and Dan Tonto and Juan Vasquez, he is able to discovered. He makes a mask out of his foil the schemes of Dolan's marauders. brother's vest and becomes the Lone Ranger. He begins his career by tracking 1878 AD - First microphone. First down and bringing to justice the repeater rifle. Salvation Army formed. members of the Cavendish gang who participated in the ambush including the 1879 AD - First electric light bulb. First corrupt Collins. electric tram in Berlin. Zulu war, defeated by England. 1874-1876 AD - The Lone Ranger and Tonto scour Texas for Cavendish gang 1880 AD - Cholera vaccine. Malaria members who scatter from the main parasite discovered. The adventures of band. He captures them and turns them Allan Quatermain in King Solomons in to await trail and ultimately to hang. Mines. Sheriff Wyatt of Del Rio is so rattled by the Masked Man's activities he takes 42

1881 AD - First electrical tram in Berlin. steel framed building (U.S). Global Persecution of Jews in Russia. Holmes influenza epidemic. Luxembourg and Watson begin their detective agency. separates from Netherlands. First cardboard box. 1882 AD - First hydroelectric plant. 1891 AD - Wireless telegraphy in use. 1883 AD - First skyscraper built in Zipper invented. First radio. Chicago. First run of Orient Express (Paris-Istanbul). Krakatoa eruption. Dr. 1892 AD - Basketball invented. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde. 1893 AD - First automatic telephone 1883-1885 AD - French Vietnamese switchboard. Benz and Ford each build war. their own first cars. First diesel engine. First motion picture studio. 1884 AD - First underground railroad in London. First Oxford dictionary. May 1894 AD - Japan invades Korea. First day strikes. Commencement of building Coca Cola. International Olympic of statue of Liberty. Committee formed. Butch Cavendish escapes from prison and follows the 1885 AD - First photographic paper. Lone Ranger to Bryant's Gap, where he First gasoline engine for motor cars. has taken his nephew Dan to visit his First appendectomy. First roller coaster. father's grave on the 20th anniversary of Vaccine against rabies. his death. Cavendish ambushes the two, but the Ranger fights back, mortally 1886 AD - Aluminum produced by wounding him. As Cavendish is dying, electrolysis. Statue of liberty finished. the Masked Man reveals his true identity and the outlaw's last words are, "I wish I 1887 AD - Celluloid film invented. First could have died not knowing." gramophone. National Geographic Society founded. Island of Dr Moreau 1895 AD - First safety razor. First radio discovered. telegraphy. X-rays discovered.

1888 AD - First electric motor. First box 1896 AD - discovered. camera. First pneumatic tire. Radio Radioactivity discovered. First modern waves identified. Jack the Ripper Olympics in Athens. Beginning of murders six women. Van Helsing's war Klondike gold rush. First x-ray on Dracula. photograph. At the age of 45, with the worst of the lawless elements in the west 1889 AD - Eiffel tower built. Insulin pacified, John Reid most probably hangs used to treat diabetes. Agnosticism up his mask and guns. He marries Amy established. Dakota, Montana and Striker and years later, her nephew Fran Washington become states of the U.S. immortalizes his Uncle John's exploits Brazil becomes a republic. on radio and a series of novels.

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1897 AD - Brooklyn merges with New The Heroic Era York. Scientist Dr. John Hawley Griffin 1901 AD - First recorded Allied, and becomes the invisible man. Vigilante. Australia becomes a federation. 1898 AD - Paris metro opens. Zeppelin builds airship. War of worlds written. 1902 AD - First generator. Portugal Allan Quatermain, Dr. Henry Jekyll / bankrupt. U.S. takes over Panama. Coal Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo (Prince strike in U.S. Cuba independent of U.S. Dakkar), The Invisible Man (Hawley Griffin) band together to battle Fu In the Shattered Realms Archaeous is Manchu and Professor Moriarty. conquered and stripped.

1899 AD - First magnetic recording of 1903 AD - First flight by Wright sound. First aspirin. Cuba independent brothers. Start of Ford motor company. of Spain. Geometry introduced. First ultramicroscope.

1900 AD - Quantum theory. 1904 AD - First Rolls Royce. Russian Commonwealth of Australia established. fleet defeated by French. Russian Mexican revolution. Boer war. Gold Japanese war. discovered in Australia and throughout the west of the United States, leading to 1905 AD - Einstein theory of relativity. huge increases in national wealth and Norway separates from Sweden. First encouraging mass migration of free failed Russian revolution. settlers there. 1906 AD - Alzheimers and allergies The first War of the Worlds; the discovered. San Francisco earthquake. Martians launch an unsuccessful attack Mt Vesuvius eruption. First on Earth, beginning with London. They immunisation for Tuberculosis. Death of succumb to Earth bacteria and are Moriarty. defeated. 1907 AD - First colour photograph. In the Shattered Realms F39 Archaeous Bubonic plague in California. is invaded. 1908 AD - First Model T. First mothers day. First major oil strike in Middle East. Creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Metahuman vigilantes begin appearing worldwide in greater numbers fighting organised crime. Dimitrios is chosen as the next Earthlord.

1909 AD - First airplane to cross English channel. Civil war in Honduras. Gold discovered in Ontario. Boy scouts 44 created. Blood groups devised. Death of 1915 AD - Theory of relativity. First Prince Dakkar (the first Captain Nemo). fighter airplane. Tetanus epidemics on war fronts. Jazz in New Orleans. 1910 AD - Radiography created. Germany uses poison gases against Halley's comet observed. Portugal a Russians. Anzacs slaughtered at republic. Mexican revolution. Gallipoli, Turkey. Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria- 1911 AD - Theory of atomic structure. Hungary. Lincoln memorial built. The Chinese republic. Northern Territory most powerful metas of the time band separated from South Australia. First together as the Freedom Squadron to seaplane. First Encyclopaedia fight for the Allies. Britannica. 1916 AD - Blood for transfusion 1912 AD - Detection of protons and refrigerated. Theory of shell shock. Irish electrons. Theory of continental drift. revolt suppressed. Allies abandon Titanic sinks. Arizona and New Mexico Gallipoli. Paris is bombed by German join the U.S. First diesel submarine. First zeppelins. Creation of MI5. parachute jump. Discovery of South Pole. First Girl Guides. Royal Air Force 1917 AD - Trans Siberian railroad created. complete. First tank. Russia signs armistice with Germany. Finnish 1913 AD - Canberra declared capitol of republic. Russian revolution. United Australia. States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands and the same for the West 1914 AD - Rocketry experiments in the Indies. U.S. declares war on Germany. U.S. Panama canal opened. World War I Creation of Checa, predecessor to KGB. begins; Germany, Austria Hungary and Turkey vs. England, France, Russia, 1918 AD - Canadian troops backed by Italy, Japan and the U.S. Austria- Australians, begin a string of almost Hungary declares war on Serbia after it continuous victories with a push through fails to meet the conditions of an the German front lines. End of World ultimatum it set following the Sarajevo War I, over 15 million dead. Red Baron assassination. Germany declares war on killed. World wide influenza epidemic; Russia following the latter's military 25 million dead. Finnish civil war. mobilization in support of Serbia. Iceland, Lithuania and Poland independent. Russia moves their national Germany declares war on Russia's ally capital from Petrograd to Moscow. France. German troops invade neutral Belgium in their advance on France. 1919 AD - First short wave radio. U.S. Britain declares war on Germany after prohibition begins. League of nations the latter fails to undertake to respect established. Airline services begin. Belgian neutrality. The United States declares neutrality. Japan declares war 1920 AD - Earthquake in China kills on Germany. First electric traffic light is 200,000. Many liquor-loving Americans installed. First air conditioner. move to France. Spanish legion is formed. Royal Canadian Mounted Police 45 begins. Russian Polish war. Radio Geiger counter. Creation of Chinese Red broadcasts begin. The Squadron army. disbands. The Church of Enlightenment is created by cultists who make contact 1929 AD - First quartz crystal clock. with Tyrannus. First colour TV experiments. First talking films. Trotsky flees Russia. 1921 AD - BBC founded. Russian Vatican city established. Collapse of revolution ends; over 8.5 million dead. stock market; world economic crisis Republic of Turkey declared. Discovery begins. First guide dog for the blind. of insulin. First demonstration of a colour TV. Ballistics accepted in court. 1922 AD - Development of sound for films. Irish free state formed. USSR 1930 AD - Malaria vaccine. First gas formed, creation of GPU. Mussolini turbine. First supermarket. First forms fascist regime. photoflash bulb. Pluto discovered. Constantinople changed to Istanbul. 1923 AD - Tokyo earthquake; 120,000 International banking begins. dead. Ku Klux Klan. Tutankhamen's tomb discovered. Dimitrios regroups the 1931 AD - Empire state building Squadron to fight off a new invasion by finished. Cyclotron invented. All Tyrannus at Ayers Rock. German banks closed. Spanish republic. Al Capone jailed. Events of King Kong. 1924 AD - First insecticides. Airship crosses Atlantic. World chess league 1932 AD - Positrons and neutrons formed. Hitler writes Mein Kampf. discovered. Nylon synthesized. 30 Lenin dies and Stalin takes over. IBM million unemployed world wide. Nazis corporation founded. Hitler placed in win elections in Germany. Japan invades jail. FBI created. Albania a republic. Shanghai. Cooperation between Hubble discovers other galaxies. international police forces begins.

1925 AD - Development of quantum 1933 AD - First U.S. aircraft carrier. mechanics. Mussolini takes over Italy. Severe famine in Russia. Hitler becomes Genetics/Evolution teaching denounced Chancellor. First concentration camps in by Church and banned around the world. Germany. Japan withdraws from League of Nations. Worst year of great 1926 AD - First weather map. Forensics/ depression. Prohibition lifted in the U.S. Ballistics invented. 1934 AD - First freeways in Germany. 1927 AD - Economic collapse in Male hormone discovered. Hitler Germany. First transatlantic phone call. becomes Fuhrer. Austrian chancellor Great Mississippi flood. Australian assassinated by Nazis. Creation of parliament first convenes. Saudi Arabia Russian NKVD. independent of England. 1935 AD - First radar. Persia becomes 1928 AD - First TV broadcasts (in New Iran. First legal abortion. Nylon York only). Penicillin discovered. First discovered. Italy invades Ethiopia. 46

International airmail begins. Dimitrios 1940 AD - First electron microscope. defeats Tsauird scout force with the help Russia allies with Germany. Norway, of the Lemurians. Nazis locate the Spear Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France of Destiny and send it back to Berlin. invaded by Germany. Allies flee Dunkirk. Battle of Britain. German 1936 AD - Mussolini and Hitler form an Uboats. Italy invades Greece. Hungary alliance. Spanish civil war begins with and Romania join Axis. France aid of Germany and Italy. Germany surrenders to Germany. Auschwitz reoccupies Rhineland. First artificial opened. Trotsky assassinated. England heart. seizes all French ships at ally ports resulting in battles and the French almost 1937 AD - First helicopter. Hindenburg going over to Germany. airship disaster. Golden gate bridge opened. Retractable landing gear for 1941 AD - Plutonium discovered. Russia planes invented. The Hobbit by JRR allies with Japan. Yugoslavia joins Axis. Tolkien Published. Bulgaria joins the Axis. Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. 1938 AD - First ballpoint pen. War of Germany invades Russia. Japan attacks the Worlds by Orson Welles broadcasts Pearl Harbour and the Philippines. on radio causing widespread panic. Australia and Britain invade Libya. USO Nuclear fission discovered. Germany created to entertain troops. German takes Austria. Oil discovered in Saudi submarine captured with Enigma Arabia. Hitler uses spear to launch his cryptography machine aboard. Japan invasion. The Squadron is formed to occupies China. British and Canadians once again fight alongside the Allies and are defeated by the Japanese at Hong counter the nazi metas known as Kong. British defeat Italy in Egypt but Blitzkrieg. are then defeated by Germany. The Philadelphia Experiment begins in an 1939 AD - Spanish civil war ends. Radar effort to make battleships invisible to used in Britain. Earthquake in Turkey; radar. 45000 victims. Hitler and Stalin divide eastern Europe between themselves. 1942 AD - Electronic computer Finland, the Baltic states and eastern developed. First magnetic recording Poland to USSR. Western Poland to tape. Manhattan project begins. French Germany. navy defeated. Gas chambers used on Jews. Japan invades Burma. Allies in World War II begins; Germany invades North Africa. Japan captures Manila. Poland. France and England declare war. Japan invades Netherlands. Thailand Russia invades Poland. Russia invades declares war on Allies. Japan captures Finland. Hitler sends Dr Dementia to Singapore. Battle of Midway. OSS America to engage in subversive formed. Aikido founded. Hippolyte activities. The U.S. government desiring leaves Themyscira to aid the Allies. to create a supersoldier, assigns Dr Dementia to develop just this under 1943 AD - LSD discovered. Italy Project G.I. (Genetic Infantry). invaded by allies. Africa captured by allies. Russia liberated. Battle of 47

Bismark. Themyscira revealed to the on the computer. Nuclear detonations world by Hera. cause further mutations in the human genotype. 1944 AD - First V2 rockets. First jet airplane. Assassination of Hitler fails 1946 AD - Italy a republic. Greek civil due his protection by the Spear of war. Chinese revolution. French begin Destiny. D Day Normandy. Germans war in Vietnam. USS Saratoga is sunk flee from Russia. Russia invades Poland. near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean France liberated. Romania and Bulgaria when the United States detonates an join Allies. Battle of the Bulge. Italy underwater nuke. UNICEF founded. liberated. During this time, most copies International Monetary Fund created. of the Necronomicon are stolen by the Cold war begins; creation of the Central Nazis or vanish. Dimitrios battles Tong Intelligence Agency, Department of cultists in China only to be defeated by Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the the Master and imprisoned on Elseworld National Security Council. India in another dimension. independant of England. Pakistan splits from India. MI6 created. The Dead Sea 1945 AD - First atom bomb tested in Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts New Mexico. Hungary taken by Allies. dating from the first century AD and Mussolini hung. Invasion of Germany. earlier are discovered in Qumran, Israel. Hitler suicides. World War II ends; Russian experiments with the Germans surrender. The Spear of Necronomicon cause the first Star City Destiny is lost again. Wernher von (also known as Star City Zero) to vanish. Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to U.S. forces. They later help 1947 AD - First supersonic flight. First start the U.S. space program. Russian transistors. India independence. Burma troops shift Nazi collection of independence. OSS becomes CIA. The supernatural items to Moscow. Truman Doctrine establishes the U.S. policy of providing aid to any Atom bomb dropped on Japan killing government resisting Communism. 80,000 citizens immediately. Russia invades Manchuria. 3 days later the Alien craft crashes at Roswell. The second bomb is dropped; 60,000-80,000 following day, however, another news are killed. Japan surrenders. Over 50 release says it was actually the remains million dead, including two-thirds of the of a weather balloon. Eye witness Jewish population of Europe (6 million). reports that surface later suggest as many UN formed. Vietminh take control of as three UFO landing or crash sites in Hanoi. US troops occupy southern New Mexico at about this time -- one Korea, Russians occupy the north. just north of Roswell, one 75 miles northwest and one 175 miles west. Less Assembly of the world's first general than nine months after the Roswell purpose electronic computer, the crash, the scientists of the Philadelphia Electronic Numerical Integrator Experiment reportedly cause the USS Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC), is Eldridge to disappear from Philadelphia completed. It covers 1800 feet of floor and reappear in Norfolk, Virginia. They space. The first set of calculations is run were manipulating naturally-occurring 48 wormholes. Top Secret U.S. In the Shattered Realms F36 Erde is Government project known as Majestic invaded. Resistance is fierce and the 12. battles are hard.

1948 AD - Gandhi assassinated by 1954 AD - End of French Vietnam war. Hindu. Israel created. U.S. breaks The country becomes partitioned into blockade of Berlin by Russia. Israel northern and southern states. Rose and Arab war. Burma independent of UK. Thorn created. First U.S. nuclear Segregation ends in US forces. World submarine. Race segregation in U.S. Health Organisation created by UN. schools ended. KGB formed in Russia. Communist witchhunts begin in the U.S. In Russia work begins on Star City 1 just All heroes forced to abandon their outside the Tunguska region to study the activities in the wake of police strikes area. and public antimeta sentiment. Most villains flee to other countries. 1949 AD - First Russian atomic bomb. NATO formed. Apartheid in South 1955 AD - Ultra high frequency Africa. The Peoples Republic of China discovered. West Germany joins NATO. formed. Communists take over mainland Disneyland opened. U.S. stockpile of China; nationalist forces flee to Taiwan. atomic bombs reaches 4,000. The U.S.S.R is estimated to have 1,000. 1950 AD - Antihistamines used. McCarthy begins anticommunist witch 1956 AD - First transatlantic cable hunts. Korean war starts. telephone service. Russia suppresses revolution in Hungary. Cuban 1951 AD - First heart lung machine. revolution. Morocco independant of First colour TV. China enters Korea. UN Spain. counterattack against Chinese. ANZUS treaty signed forming an alliance 1957 AD - Russia launches sputnik. between Australia, New Zealand and the Ghana independence. International U.S. Libya independent of Italy. NSA atomic energy agency created. SAS created. First bomb. Mossad formed. created. 1958 AD - Van Allen radiation belt 1952 AD - First contraceptive pill. discovered. North American Aerospace British atom bomb tests. Australian Defence Command created. NASA ASIS formed. created. First Progeny, a crossbreed between humans and one extraterrestrial 1953 AD - End of Korean war. Lung species. cancer linked to smoking. Mt Everest climbed. Stalin dies; over 20 million 1959 AD - Russian probe reaches moon. Russians perished during his reign. First . Hawaii joins U.S. Chemical structure of DNA determined. Cuban revolution, becomes communist. First intercontinental ballistic missile. 49

1960 AD - First laser. First weather that they posed a threat. The satellite. U2 spy plane shot down over international community agrees to work Russia. CIA 'Project Prometheus' created together and create a secret organization to retrieve crashed UFOs. CIA 'Project to defend against the UFOs. The Sentinel' established. organization is named Southern Hemisphere Alien Defense Operatives 1961 AD - First Russian in space. Final Watchguard and is code named Orient Express. Berlin wall built. Bay of S.H.A.D.O.W. First S.H.A.D.O.W. pigs failed invasion of Cuba. U.S. begins agents. war in Vietnam. Venom first appears. 1966 AD - B52 crashes in Spain with 4 1962 AD - Cuban missile crisis. CIA unarmed H-bombs. 'Project Ego' created. Venom becomes increasingly active on a global scale. 1967 AD - Cosmonaut killed in Soyuz. China tests first H Bomb. First heart 1963 AD - First quasar discovered. transplant. 3 astronauts killed on launch Kennedy assassinated; Venom is blamed pad in U.S. Martin Luther King leads despite evidence of government antivietnam marches. Six day war involvement. between Israel and Arabs.

There is an explosion of heroes in this 1968 AD - Pulsars discovered. Martin year with all character classes shown in Luther King and Robert Kennedy the heroic era first appearing. assassinated. 2001 a space odyssey movie. Tet offensive in Vietnam. Dr 1964 AD - Brazil coup. Destroyer and his Terror Inc make their public debut conquering Brazil with 1965 AD - Racial violence in U.S. little resistance. Singapore independence. U.S. enters Vietnam war. CIA 'Project Armour' 1969 AD - First man on moon. Probes created as Robotics section (it would on Mars and Venus. First Concorde. later include Bionics). The first DDT banned. British suppress Belfast confirmed encounter between the people riots. Demonstrations against Vietnam of Earth and a vehicle of extra-terrestrial war increase. origin occurs. This UFO incident triggers a series of secret international In the Shattered Realms Erde is finally meetings, as the world's governments are defeated. Though mining is difficult due informed of the definite existence of to continuing attacks from guerilla unidentified flying objects. rebels.

On the way to one of these meetings, a 1970 AD - Students killed during anti military convoy containing Russian Vietnam war protests. Colonel Kurtinov and American General Prospero was attacked by a UFO. Only 1971 AD - First Russian space station. 3 the Colonel survived the ambush and his cosmonauts die in Soyuz. Greenpeace subsequent investigations proved that the founded. First CAT scan. UFOs were of alien origin, hostile, and 50

1972 AD - Israeli athletes killed at attempted covert invasion of Brazil. The Munich. Disastrous Thorn mission in disaster exceeds even the previous Bay Russia, Thorn reinvented. On 'Bloody of Pigs slaughter. Sunday' UK troops kill thirteen Catholics in Londonderry. 1978 AD - First test tube baby. Super Patriot becomes head of the Force of 1973 AD - Jupiter probe. Skylab built. July. Energy crisis as Arab oil embargo begins. 1979 AD - Three mile island accident. Iran becomes Islamic republic. 1974 AD - Mesons discovered. Vietnamese fight Khmer in Cambodia. Watergate scandal; Nixon resigns. IRA Russia invades Afghanistan. The bombings. American space station Skylab burns up in the Earth's atmosphere. The Shah of 1975 AD - First personal computer. Iran is forced from power; the Ayatollah Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; the Khmer Khomeni takes power. Rouge come to power in Cambodia after U.S. forces leave. They rename the 1980 AD - Saturn probe. Start of Iraq country Kampuchea and seal its borders. Iran war. Force of July launches an The Vietnam war ends. Many vets assault on M.S.I.'s New York unable to return to a normal life join headquarters in an attempt to kill a Venom. CIA 'Project Arcane' created to renegade Patriot who had fled with research magic. information on Project Genocide. They are repulsed and publicly humiliated by The secret military organization named the intervention of the local Legion S.H.A.D.O.W. becomes operational. Its branch. Project Armour builds Cyber purpose is to defend the Earth from a One for Project Genocide to combat race of Aliens who've been kidnapping meta; he becomes a self aware android. humans for body parts. S.H.A.D.O.W.'s Crimson Storm created as KGB version main headquarters is hidden within Mt of Force of July, becomes involved in Rushmore and a secret location in Afghanistan. . S.H.A.D.O.W. is run by Commander Romeo Kurtinov. His 1981 AD - First IBM personal computer. seconds in command are Col. Jason AIDs identified. Cyber One decides that Sherridan, Col. Michael Reese, and Col. humanity is a disease that must be Gabby Drake. Moonbase is commanded eliminated. To that end it slays most of by Lt. Susana Rodriguez. the staff of Project Armour, runs away, builds a nuclear bomb and detonates it in 1976 AD - Ozone layer Fresno. discovered. 1982 AD - Falklands war between 1977 AD - First space shuttle. CIA ultra England and Argentina. MI5 creates MI7 secret 'Project Genocide' formed for the as their version of the Force of July. Last purpose of researching how to of Venom cells in US smashed by Force exterminate all metas. Dr Destroyer of July. massacres U.S. forces during an ill fated 51

1983 AD - First CD. Famine in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Somalian war ends. The CIA US involvement in Nicaragua. U.S. enters into an alliance with the Tong. invades Grenada. Tamil violence in Sri Star City 2 is built in orbit by Russia. Lanka. MI7 clash with Crimson Storm in Turkey. Force of July agent Eternal 1989 AD - Tiananmen square massacre Warrior (Gilad's new name) rescues in Peking. Sweeping economic reforms Dragoon from a Siberian military lab in many former Soviet Bloc nations. while on a covert mission there. He kills Berlin wall torn down. U.S. invades Crimson Storm's Crimson Avenger Panama. Dr Apocalypse takes over during their escape. Venezuela and forms the Loa.

1984 AD - First Macintosh computer. What would eventually be called Terror The metahuman registration act defeated Island arrives off the coast of South by congress in the U.S. One of the Force Australia through an interdimensional of July's Patriots defects to Russia after gateway. The arrival of Terror Island on finding out about Project Genocide and Earth acts as a mana signal flare to the becomes the Crimson Avenger II. Shattered Realms dimension. A small expeditionary forces is sent through 1985 AD - Hole in ozone layer from the Realms but is repelled by discovered. French sink Greenpeace ship Earth’s magic heroes. in New Zealand. Having finally discovered Dimitrios' location the 1990 AD - Germany reunified. US Parliament of Nature sends Wildheart Congress recognizing all that the Church and Disciple to rescue him. The CIA of Enlightenment had done socially for establishes Project Factory and Occult. the poor and helpless in America passes Stronghold prison for metas built in Mt an Act giving the organization legal Rushmore. Church of Enlightenment standing. Mao moves back to China and appears. takes control of the Tong.

1986 AD - Uranus probe. Chernobyl Second war of the worlds. The Martians reactor disaster. Space shuttle destroyed. are repelled but S.H.A.D.O.W. bases in Giotto probe into Halleys comet. Siberia and Rushmore destroyed. Star Irangate scandal. Construction of the City 2 orbital station is also vaporized. Channel Tunnel begins. Project Plans are drawn up for mobile flying Genocide publicly exposed in Oliver airbase and orbital stations. Stone's first movie. The public backlash forces the president to disband it despite A second invasion of Earth is attempted CIA protests. Geomancer destroys Cyber by the Shattered Realms and again One in Scotland. forced back. Takhisis orders her military advisors to come up with a new way to 1987 AD - World stockmarket crash. conquer Earth. A few months later a plan Gorbachev launches Glasnost. is devised to send through infiltrators, to covertly prepare Earth for takeover by 1988 AD - End of Iraq Iran war. Russia finding traitors and assassinating pulls out of Afghanistan. First powerful heroes. transatlantic optic fibre telephone cables. 52

1991 AD - Anti Gorbachev coup fails. completed. NATO liberates Bosnia. A Gorbachev resigns. KGB abolished. End Force of July strike team sent to Italy to of apartheid. Desert Storm Gulf war. kill Stone is defeated by visiting Civil war in Yugoslavia. Oliver Stone's members of MI7. Super Patriot puts JFK movie exposes the CIA's and Force forward a proposal for a special covert of July's involvement in the Kennedy meta assault team separate to the public assassination. Stone flees to Italy to face of the Force. escape the CIA's vengeance, taking refuge with the recently moved Production begins on additional Arch Parliament of Nature now residing in Angels and Shadow Hunters. Rome. 1994 AD - Shoemaker comet crashes Control of Terror Island handed over to into Jupiter. IRA ceasefire. Chechnya S.H.A.D.O.W. who rename it Shadow breaks away from Russia. Rwanda Island. Half of S.H.A.D.O.W.’s new genocide. Russian FAPSI formed. Arch Angel planes are finished, replacing the ones lost in the war with Work begins on Star City 5, a joint Mars. S.H.A.D.O.W. begins building a Russian/Chinese facility, specializing in new form of tank specialized for human augmentation, on the border combating Martians. These are called between Russia and China, near Altay. Shadow Hunters. 1995 AD - Yugoslav war ends. Israel’s Star City 3 Underground research prime minister assassinated by an Israeli. facility built in the Deeper Dungeons Venom's worst defeat ever with the region by the Russian government and entire Venom council captured or killed Eon Energy. A few weeks later it is and most of their agents scattered by a destroyed by the Drow and Illithids. joint Force of July and MI7 mission. Star City Prime is also built near Bryansk, it becomes the central Star City 6 underground research facility headquarters for all the other Star Cities. in the Deeper Dungeons region is built jointly funded with Eon Energy. It is 1992 AD - European union formed. heavily fortified with a small army Serbian death camps. stationed there. It proves successful in repelling all attacks. Not to be deterred by two destroyed bases, Russia builds Star City 4 1996 AD - Mad cow disease. Rwanda mountain facility in the Himalayas, massacres. Taliban conquer Afghanistan. specializing in Arcane objects and New and much more dangerous Venom magic. appears.

S.H.A.D.O.W.’s Arch Angel fleet of A new type of submarine the Seashadow planes is now fully restored. is completed for S.H.A.D.O.W.

1993 AD - Single European market Star City 7 is built in orbit funded by begins. World trade centre bombing. Project Omega. Some months later it is Waco siege. The Channel Tunnel is abandoned for unknown reasons. 53

of this universe arrives on earth but is 1997 AD - Monster fountain of caught in the wormhole and sent back in antimatter found in core of milky way time to 15,000 BC. galaxy. Sheep cloned. Asian economic crisis. Fourth and fifth Sword of Damoclese completed. Fifth and sixth Seashadows The first of the new S.H.A.D.O.W. finished. orbital defence stations known as the Sword of Damoclese is completed and First Nanotech Warrior. comes online. Second Seashadow finished. 2000 AD - DNA genome mapped. Collapse of dot com businesses. 1998 AD - Explosive growth of internet. Beginning of international space station. Pakistan adopts Islamic law. India and Metachanneller, Nanotech Warrior and Pakistan conduct nuclear tests. Peace Unfated first appear. accord in Northern Ireland. Vladimir Putin wins the presidential The second and third of the Sword of election in Russia on the first round. A Damoclese are completed. Third and Concorde supersonic airliner crashes fourth Seashadows built. after take-off from Paris, killing all 109 on board. 1999 AD - Czech republic, Poland and Hungary join NATO. East Timor Angry crowds drive Slobodan Milosevic separates from Indonesia. Serbian from power after he denies defeat in the massacre of Albanians, NATO Serbian election. Alerto Fujimori resigns intervenes. after a corruption scandal during his third term as president of Peru. Dopplegangers from the Shattered The US Supreme Court gives victory to Realms begin to be inserted into Earth, Republican George W. Bush rather than replacing key government officials in Democrat Al Gore after electoral each country. Most often they replace irregularities in Florida. The Netherlands bureaucrats or aides, rather than becomes the first country to legalize politicians who may only be in power euthanasia. for a short time. At the turn of the century, it is calculated The Dopplegangers form the Society of that 36 million people worldwide are the Dark Sun to recruit sympathizers and infected with the HIV virus. Wikipedia, the disaffected. Villain organizations are the 'Free Encyclopedia', is put online by the first to notice this new group Jimmy Wales as an empty shell which intruding on their territories, but remain members of the public are invited to fill unaware of their true purpose. with content. Sixth and Seventh Sword of Damoclese Tempus Fugitivus's chronalship completed. First SkyShadow finished. destroyed by the Force of July. The explosion creates a temporary chronal 2001 AD – The Taliban destroy Buddha wormhole. At that moment the 'Visitor' statues. Militants seize white farms in 54

Zimbabwe. Mad cow disease spreads. come online, and begin transporting An earthquake kills about 20,000 people materials to the moon. in the region of Bhuj in the Indian state of Gujarat. Kosovo with its majority Haidi, a Chinese underwater mining Albanian population formally declares colony is finished. independence from Serbia. 2002 AD - Mars Odyssey arrives in orbit Sylvio Berlusconi returns as Italy's around Mars, but is quickly destroyed. prime minister with the election success of his right-wing House of Liberties Euro becomes legal tender. The trial of coalition. Laurent Kabila the president of Slobodan Milosevic begins at the UN the Congo is assassinated in a failed war crimes tribunal in the Hague. The coup attempt. The former Yugoslav US-led invasion of Afghanistan sweeps president Slobodan Milosevic is handed the Taliban from power ending their over to the war crimes tribunal in the protection of al-Qaeda. Hague. The African Union (AU) is established Four hijacked planes are used in a as a successor to the African Economic massive September 11 terrorist attack on Community and the Organization of the World Trade Center in New York African Unity. The US holds suspected and the Pentagon in Washington. al-Qaeda terrorists indefinitely and Anthrax attacks in the form of letters without legal rights in Guantanamo Bay, carrying the bacteria posted to an American enclave in Cuba. journalists and politicians begin in the USA. Terrorists detonate bombs in two crowded nightclubs in the Bali resort of US and UK forces launch military action Kuta killing 202 people. Chechen against Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in terrorists take hostage the entire Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance the audience of a Moscow theatre in an army of the Afghan resistance to the atrocity resulting in the death of more Taliban drives the Taliban from Kabul. than 150 people. In spite of a massive The giant Texas energy company Enron military operation the terrorist leader files for bankruptcy after disclosure of Osama bin Laden escapes US pursuit in major accountancy fraud. A month after Afghanistan. the fall of Kabul the Northern Alliance drives the Taliban from their power base Tenth Sword of Damoclese finished. in Kandahar. Second and third SkyShadows finished.

S.H.A.D.O.W. through NASA send a 2003 AD - Severe acute respiratory robot probe to Mars. It is quickly syndrome spreads around the globe. destroyed but not before sending back Invasion of Iraq. North Korea restarts images of a Martian shipyard. nuclear program. The historic city of Bam in Iran is destroyed in a massive Eighth and Ninth Sword of Damoclese earthquake, with more than 40,000 completed. New Moonshadow shuttles deaths. The US space shuttle Columbia 55 disintegrates with seven on board when Abuses in the US military prison at Abu re-entering the earth's atmosphere. Ghraib in Iraq are revealed on US television. Ten new member states The two remaining regions of the (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, unravelled Yugoslavia unite as a new Czech republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, nation Serbia and Montenegro. Civil war Hungrary, Malta, Cyprus) join the breaks out in the Darfur region of the European Union. Chechen terrorists take Sudan resulting in large numbers of an entire school hostage in Beslan in civilian deaths and accusations of southern Russia, the rescue operation government-sponsored genocide. A results in more than 300 deaths. deadly new form of pneumonia SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is A massive earthquake under the Indian first reported in Hanoi and soon spreads Ocean triggers a tsunami that kills nearly globally. Zoran Dindi the prime minister 200,000 people. of Serbia is assassinated in Belgrade. Aquatica is approached by emissaries US, British, Australian and Polish forces from Aman Sinaya and come to a invade Iraq. The last three Concorde mutually beneficial agreement. With the airliners to carry fare-paying passengers aid of engineers from Aman, Aquatica is land within a space of five minutes at greatly expanded with a portion set aside Heathrow. Elections in Northern Ireland for undersea races. make it impossible for devolved government to resume with no chance of Spetsnatz 5 created in Russia to power sharing between the DUP and specialize in combating the growing Sinn Fein. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein supernatural problem. First Spetsnatz 5 is found hiding in a subterranean hole in agents. a farmyard near Tikrit. The Dwarf Planet Haumea is discovered The first 10 Destiny Fighters are at 43.13 AU from the sun. completed for S.H.A.D.O.W. Aquatica, an underwater city built by 2005 AD - John Paul II dying after 26 S.H.A.D.O.W. using technology years on the papal throne becomes the discovered on Shadow Island, is third longest-serving pope in history. finished. Joseph Ratzinger is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XVI. 2004 AD - Cyprus, Czech republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, The superjumbo Airbus A380 makes its Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia first test flight from Toulouse. Two join the European Union. Russian years after its first appearance the World president Putin begins locking up Health Organization announces that the dissidents and removing any unfriendly deadly disease SARS has been media and businesses 'eradicated'. The French people become the first to reject in a referendum the The Annan UN plan for the reunification proposed European Constitution. of Cyprus is approved by the Turkish community but rejected by the Greeks. 56

The Provisional IRA announces a formal in Baghdad, a month after being end to armed conflict and orders units to convicted of a few of his crimes. dump all their weapons. Moonshadow base is completed. Star Hurricane Katrina brings flooding and City 8, funded by Project Omega is built chaos to New Orleans and other coastal on the moon. areas causing more than 1500 deaths. An earthquake kills more than 70,000 Star City 9, an outpost on a parallel earth people in inaccessible regions near funded by Project Omega to steal their Muzaffarabad in the Pakistan part of technology, also comes online. Kashmir. French surgeon Bernard Devauchelle and his team in Amiens 2007 AD - Bulgaria and Romania join carry out the first human face transplant. the European Union bringing the number of member states to twenty-seven. Submergia, a mining city built and run Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the USA by the United States, is completed. and 270,000 are sold in the first thirty hours. The Burma junta seals the country The Dwarf Planet Eris is discovered at off by blocking all internet access. The 68 AU from the sun, the furthest planet first passenger flight on the massive yet which is within the solar system. Airbus A380 goes from Singapore to Later in the year the Dwarf Planet Sydney with Singapore Airlines. Makemake is found at 45.79 AU from the sun. Mare Insula is built by the European Union as their answer to Submergia, the 2006 AD - Slobodan Milosevic dies of a principal countries being Germany, heart attack in gaol in the Hague with his France and the United Kingdom. At the trial for war crimes in Yugoslavia still same time Star City 10 undersea incomplete. Structural work is research facility funded by Project completed on China's Three Gorges Omega is built. It is destroyed a week Dam by far the largest hydroelectric dam later by the inhabitants of Kitezh. in the world. As the result of a referendum Montegro declares its 2008 AD - Stock markets plunge around indpependence from Serbia. The US the world as fears grow on US subprime Supreme Court rules that the military mortgage crisis. After 49 years as courts set up to try detainees in president of Cuba Fidel Castro resigns Guantanamo Bay are illegal. A UN- for reasons of ill health. Vladimir Putin's sponsored cease-fire comes into effect in hand-picked successor Dmitry the conflict between Israeli and Medvedev is elected President of Russia. Hezbollah forces in south Lebanon. Cyclone Nargis kills at least 130,000 The International Astronomical Union people and possibly many more in demotes Pluto to the new category of Burma (the number is uncertain due to 'dwarf planet'. A military coup in government efforts to downplay the Thailand removes the prime minister disaster). Nepal becomes a republic after Thaksin Shinawatra from office. Former the Assembly votes by a large majority Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is hanged to abolish the monarchy. In a 57 referendum in Ireland voters reject the A Russian and an American satellite Treaty of Lisbon which has the effect of collide over Siberia, creating a large halting ratification throughout the amount of space debris. NASA's Kepler European Union. Mission, a space photometer which will search for extrasolar planets in the Milky After 12 years in hiding the Serbian Way galaxy, is launched from Cape leader Radovan Karadzic wanted for war Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, crimes is found in disguise and is USA. arrested in Belgrade. Georgian armed forces enter the breakaway Georgian The President of Madagascar, Marc province of South Ossetia provoking a Ravalomanana, is overthrown in a coup powerful armed response from Russia. d'état, following a month of rallies in With troops now stationed in the Antananarivo. The military appoints breakaway Georgian provinces of South opposition leader Andry Rajoelina as the Ossetia and Abkhazia Russia unilaterally new president. recognizes both as independent republics. The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain, commonly referred to as "swine Hurricane Hanna causes more than 500 flu", is deemed a global pandemic, deaths in Haiti before moving on west to becoming the first condition since the the United States (where it kills 7). The Hong Kong flu of 1967–1968 to receive Large Hadron Collider at Cern in this designation. Having analyzed the Switzerland begins accelerating proton data from the LCROSS lunar impact, beams round a 17-mile circular tunnel. NASA announces that it has found a The US government intervenes to rescue "significant" quantity of water in the two important financial government Moon's Cabeus crater. CERN restarts the sponsored enterprises, Fannie May and Large Hadron Collider particle Freddie Mac. accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland.

Star City 11 floating research facility Pani Ke Nice is built by the Indian funded by Project Omega is finished government as an underwater mining narrowly beating the completion of Star colony. City 12 undersea research facility funded by Genetech, in the Borents sea. 2010 AD - Probe arrives at Venus. A Unfortunately Star City 13 floating 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in ocean city funded by Project Omega is Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, destroyed by the inhabitants of Kitezh Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death before it can be completed. toll over 230,000. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a 2009 AD - Russia shuts off all gas tsunami over the Pacific and killing at supplies to Europe through Ukraine. least 525. The earthquake is one of the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly largest in recorded history. endorses the move. The Icelandic government and banking system The eurozone and the International collapse; Prime Minister Geir Haarde Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion immediately resigns. bailout package for Greece. The package 58 involves sharp Greek austerity measures. 2011 AD - Uncertainty over Libyan oil Wikileaks, an online publisher of output causes crude oil prices to rise anonymous, covert, and classified 20% over a two-week period following material, leaks to the public over 90,000 the Arab Spring, causing the 2011 internal reports about the United States- energy crisis. A 9.1-magnitude led involvement in the War in earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause warnings are issued in 50 countries and widespread flooding in the Khyber- territories. Emergencies are declared at Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over four nuclear power plants affected by the 1,600 are killed, and more than one quake. million are displaced by the floods. The World Health Organization declares the U.S. President Barack Obama announces H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying that Osama bin Laden, the founder and worldwide flu activity has returned to leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, typical seasonal patterns. The has been killed during an American International Space Station surpasses the military operation in Pakistan. The record for the longest continuous human European Union agree to €78 billion occupation of space, having been rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout continuously inhabited since November loan will be equally split between the 2, 2000 (3641 days). European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Researchers at CERN trap 38 Stability Facility, and the International antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a Monetary Fund. second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter. Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing Eurozone countries agree to a rescue air traffic cancellations across South package for the Republic of Ireland from America, New Zealand, Australia and the European Financial Stability Facility forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate. in response to the country's financial The world's first artificial organ crisis. The European Union agree to an transplant is achieved, using an artificial €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from windpipe coated with stem cells. South the European Financial Stability Facility, Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result the International Monetary Fund and of the independence referendum held in bilateral loans from the United January. Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden. Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully Pacificus ocean city is built in the north at Kennedy Space Centre after pacific ocean by a conglomerate of completing STS-135, concluding corporations as an attempted tax haven. NASA's space shuttle program. NASA Star City 14 floating ocean city funded announces that its Mars Reconnaissance by Project Omega, in the Caspian sea is Orbiter has captured photographic also built. evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons. Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a 59 mission to Jupiter, is launched from 2013 AD - The French military begins a Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The five-month intervention into the Mars Science Laboratory rover Northern Mali conflict, targeting the Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian militant Islamist Ansar Dine group exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Centre. A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489-1,492 In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels people and damaging over 4,300 take control of the nation's capital, buildings. It is the most powerful meteor effectively overthrowing the government to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a of Muammar Gaddafi who is killed in century. The incident, along with a Sirte. Basque separatist militant coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, organisation ETA declares an end to its prompts international concern regarding 43-year campaign of political violence, the vulnerability of the planet to meteor which has killed over 800 people since strikes. 1968. American scientists use a 3D printer to After an emergency meeting in Brussels, create a living lab-grown ear from the European Union announced an collagen and animal ear cell cultures. In agreement to tackle the European the future, it is hoped that similar ears sovereign debt crisis which includes a could be grown to order as transplants writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a for human patients suffering from ear recapitalisation of European banks and trauma or amputation. an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming totaling to €1 trillion. The United States the first to do so since Gregory XII in formally declares an end to the Iraq War. 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily While this ends the insurgency, it begins since Celestine V in 1294. another. Central African Republic President 2012 AD - CERN announces the François Bozizé flees to the Democratic discovery of a new particle with Republic of the Congo, after rebel forces properties consistent with the Higgs capture the nation's capital, Bangui boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus. The Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory bailout loan will be equally split between mission's rover, successfully lands on the European Financial Stabilisation Mars. Researchers successfully perform Mechanism, the European Financial the first implantation of an early Stability Facility, and the International prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes. Monetary Fund. The deal precipitates a banking crisis in the island nation. Kaitei No, the first Japanese underwater city is completed. The El Reno tornado, near El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, having a record-breaking width 2.6 miles (4.2 60 km), with maximum wind speeds up to Star City 15 antigravity floating city, 301 mph (484 km/h), is the widest jointly funded by Project Omega and the tornado ever recorded on earth. Russian and Chinese governments is finished. Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a 2014 AD - Latvia officially adopts the U.S. government mass surveillance euro as its currency and becomes the program to news publications and flees 18th member of the Eurozone. the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia. The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa Croatia becomes the 28th member of the begins, infecting at least 28,616 people European Union. and killing at least 11,310 people, the most severe both in terms of numbers of Amid mass protests across Egypt, infections and casualties President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to The XXII Olympic Winter Games are widespread violence. held in Sochi, Russia. Slopestyle events The unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission is are introduced for the first time. launched by India from its launchpad in Sriharikota. Belgium becomes the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia for Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the terminally ill patients of any age strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing causing devastation with at least 6,241 777 airliner en route to Beijing from dead. Euromaidan pro-EU Kuala Lumpur, disappears over the Gulf demonstrations begin in Ukraine after of Thailand with 239 people on board. President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an The aircraft is presumed to have crashed economic association agreement into the Indian Ocean. between the European Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia. Russia formally annexes Crimea. During an emergency meeting, the Chinese unmanned spacecraft Chang'e 3, United Kingdom, the United States, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the Italy, Germany, France, Japan, and first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Canada temporarily suspend Russia from Moon since 1976 and the third ever the G8. The United Nations General robotic rover to do so. Assembly passes Resolution 68/262, recognizing Crimea within Ukraine's Pacificus is badly damaged by an international borders and rejecting the interdimensional incursion which is validity of the 2014 Crimean beaten back by Omega Factor, Deep 6 referendum. and Justice Anonymous. It is then bought at a fraction of its construction The United Nations International Court cost by the Tomorrow Corporation and of Justice rules that Japan's Antarctic turned into a major floating science whaling program is not scientific but centre. 61 commercial and forbids grants of further aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of permits. Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri The Donetsk People's Republic and the al-Maliki. The military intervention Luhansk People's Republic declare the against ISIL begins. formation of Novorossiya, also referred to as the Union of People's Republics. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes in eastern Ukraine after In response to the 2014 Crimean crisis, being shot down by a missile. All 298 the Parliamentary Assembly of the people on board are killed. Council of Europe (PACE) passes a The 2014 Commonwealth Games takes resolution to temporarily strip Russia of place in Glasgow, Scotland. its voting rights; its rights to be represented in the Bureau of the Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Assembly, the PACE Presidential Khieu Samphan are found guilty of Committee, and the PACE Standing crimes against humanity and are Committee; and its right to participate in sentenced to life imprisonment by the election-observation missions. Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

An estimated 276 girls and women are The United States military begins an air abducted and held hostage from a school campaign in northern Iraq to stem the in Nigeria. influx of ISIL militants. The United States and several Arab partners begin The water source for Flint, Michigan is their airstrike campaign in Syria changed, starting the Flint water crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate United States President Barack Obama's Change (IPCC) releases the final part of new economic sanctions against Russia its Fifth Assessment Report, warning go into effect, targeting companies and that the world faces "severe, pervasive individuals close to Russian President and irreversible" damage from global Vladimir Putin. emissions of CO2.

The World Health Organization The unmanned Rosetta spacecraft's identifies the spread of poliomyelitis in Philae probe successfully lands on at least 10 countries as a major Comet 67P, the first time in history that worldwide health emergency. a spacecraft has landed on such an object. The Royal Thai Army overthrows the caretaker government of Niwatthamrong The Japanese space agency, JAXA, Boonsongpaisan after a failure to resolve launches unmanned spaceprobe the political unrest in Thailand. Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission A Sunni militant group called the to Ryugu to collect rock samples. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant U.S. President Barack Obama announces (also known as the ISIS or ISIL) begins the resumption of normal relations an offensive through northern Iraq, between the U.S. and Cuba. 62

The ancient city sites of Nimrud, Hatra The Rose foundation is exposed as the and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are secret front for Thorn by the Crusaders. demolished by the Islamic State of Iraq Phillepe Aruston, the head of Thorn is and the Levant. The Islamic State of Iraq killed in Prague during an arrest attempt and the Levant becomes allies with by the Squadron. The surviving fellow jihadist group Boko Haram, members of Thorn are all arrested. The effectively annexing the group. Rose foundation is shut down with its and Thorn's funds confiscated by the NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around UN. Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet. 2015 AD - The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a A Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Arab political and economic union between countries starts a military intervention in Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan Yemen in order to uphold the Yemeni and Kyrgyzstan. government in its fight against the Houthis' southern offensive. Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes becomes the nineteenth Eurozone Nepal and causes 8,857 deaths in Nepal, country. 130 in India, 27 in China and 4 in Bangladesh with a total of 9,018 deaths. The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the franc's value relative to the The World Health Organization (WHO) euro, causing turmoil in international declares that rubella has been eradicated financial markets from the Americas.

Leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Germany A second major earthquake in Nepal, and France reach an agreement on the measuring 7.3 on the moment magnitude conflict in eastern Ukraine that includes scale, results in 153 deaths in Nepal, 62 a ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy in India, 1 in China and 2 in Bangladesh weapons. However, several days later, with a total of 218 deaths. the Ukrainian government and pro- Russian rebels claim that, within its first ISIS captures the ancient city of Palmyra day, the ceasefire was broken 139 times, in Syria. as both sides failed to withdraw their Cuba becomes the first country in the heavy weapons and fighting had world to eradicate mother-to-child continued. transmission of HIV and syphilis.

The Egyptian military begins conducting After six months of clashes and futile airstrikes against a branch of the Islamic negotiations between Greece's newly militant group ISIL in Libya in elected, leftist government and the retaliation for the group's beheading of country's creditors, over the austerity over a dozen Egyptian Christians. measures imposed through bailout programmes, tension peaks as Greece votes in a referendum to reject the terms 63 offered in a third programme; however The 2015 United Nations Climate the government eventually proceeds to Change Conference (COP 21) is held in concur to harsher terms than those Paris, attended by leaders from 147 offered before, in what was widely nations. A global climate change pact is characterized as a coup on the creditors' agreed at the COP 21 summit, part. committing all countries to reduce carbon emissions for the first time. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a close flyby of Pluto, SpaceX lands an unmanned Falcon 9 becoming the first spacecraft in history rocket, the first reusable rocket to to visit the distant world. successfully enter orbital space and return. Cuba and the United States reestablish full diplomatic relations, ending a 54- Many of Thorn's operatives cut deals in year stretch of hostility between the exchange for detailed information about nations. the terrorist organisations funded by them. In a world first the majority of the Scientists announce the discovery of UN member nations come up with a plan Homo naledi, a previously unknown for a combined attack on the various species of early human in South Africa. terrorist groups. Legion squads lead the assault in all countries except the U.S. First observation of gravitational waves: where the Force of July is used instead. Gravitational waves are detected for the Every single terrorist member is caught first time, by LIGO. NASA announces or killed. This leads to record gains in that liquid water has been found on the stock market as world confidence is Mars. boosted.

A United States airstrike on a Médecins 2016 AD - The International Atomic Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Energy Agency announces that Iran has Borders) hospital in Afghanistan adequately dismantled its nuclear accidentally kills an estimated 20 people. weapons program, allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions immediately. Hurricane Patricia becomes the most The World Health Organization intense hurricane ever recorded in the announces an outbreak of the Zika virus. Western Hemisphere and the second strongest worldwide, with winds of 215 The ESA and Roscosmos launch the mph and a pressure of 872 mbar. joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes the Hindu Kush region and causes 398 The International Consortium of deaths, with 279 in Pakistan, 115 in Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the Afghanistan and 4 in India. German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet publish a set of 11.5 million confidential on the Turkish-Syrian border in the first documents from the Panamanian case of a NATO member destroying a corporate Mossack Fonseca that Russian aircraft since the 1950s. provides detailed information on more 64 than 214,000 offshore companies, sexual improprieties; (3) WikiLeaks including the identities of shareholders releases thousands of private emails and directors including noted from inside the political campaign of personalities and heads of state. candidate Hillary Clinton.

The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's The Maldives announces its decision to longest and deepest railway tunnel, is withdraw from the Commonwealth of opened following two decades of Nations. construction work. 150 nations meet at the United Nations The United Kingdom votes in a Environment Programme (UNEP) referendum to leave the European summit in Rwanda and agree to phase Union. Latvia becomes the 35th member out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as an of the OECD. amendment to the Montreal Protocol.

NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine around Jupiter and begins a 20-month against the Ebola virus between 70– survey of the planet. 100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease. The 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the first time in a United States troops withdraw from South American nation. Afghanistan after 15 years.

A 6.2 earthquake hits central Italy, 2017 AD - Donald Trump, a Republican killing 299 people. New York City businessman, is sworn in as the 45th President of the United NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first States. Trump is the first person to be asteroid sample return mission. The elected President of the United States probe will visit Bennu and is expected to who was neither a political office holder return with samples in 2023. nor a military general. Global CO2 levels exceed 400 ppm at the time of year normally associated Morocco rejoins the African Union. with minimum levels. A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything The UN warns that the world is facing experienced in human history. the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million Three events that played a significant people at risk of starvation and famine in role in the 2016 United States Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and presidential election all take place on the Nigeria. same afternoon: (1) U.S. intelligence agencies publicly accuse the Russian The United Kingdom triggers Article 50 government of using computer hacking of the Lisbon Treaty, starting the Brexit to interfere with the U.S. election negotiations, the talks for the United process; (2) The Washington Post Kingdom to leave the European Union. releases a videotape showing candidate Donald Trump privately bragging about 65

SpaceX conducts the world's first becoming the first spacecraft to enter the reflight of an orbital class rocket. planet's atmosphere.

Amidst widespread criticism, the U.S. Eleven days after another powerful government announces its decision to earthquake, and on the 32nd anniversary withdraw from the Paris Climate of the deadly 1985 Mexico City Agreement in due time. earthquake, a 7.1 Mw earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 350, Montenegro joins NATO as the 29th leaving up to 6,000 injured and member. thousands more homeless. The World Health Organization Just two weeks after Hurricane Irma estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 struck the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria cases of cholera. strikes similar areas, making landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and The first observation of a collision of Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. two neutron stars (GW170817) is hailed Maria caused at least 3,000 deaths and as a breakthrough in multi-messenger damages estimated in excess of $91.6 astronomy when both gravitational and billion (2017 USD). electromagnetic waves from the event are detected. Data from the event The United States announces its decision provided confirmatory evidence for the to withdraw from UNESCO, and is r-process theory of the origin of heavy immediately followed by Israel. elements like gold. Based on the results of a previously held Hurricane Harvey strikes the United referendum, Catalonia declares States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing independence from Spain, but the catastrophic damage to the Houston Catalan Republic is not recognised by metropolitan area, mostly due to record- the Spanish government or any other breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are sovereign nation. recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the A new species of orangutan is identified costliest natural disaster in United States in Indonesia, becoming the third known history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in species of orangutan as well as the first 2005. great ape to be described for almost a century. The Caribbean and United States are struck by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 The German newspaper Süddeutsche hurricane that is the strongest hurricane Zeitung publishes 13.4 million ever recorded in the Atlantic basin documents leaked from the offshore law outside the Caribbean and Gulf of firm Appleby, along with business Mexico. The storm causes at least 146 registries in 19 tax jurisdictions that deaths and $64.2 billion (2017 USD) in reveal offshore financial activities on damage. behalf of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year The newspaper shared the documents mission by plunging into Saturn, with the International Consortium of 66

Investigative Journalists and asked it to The 2018 Winter Olympics are held in lead the investigation. Pyeongchang, South Korea.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the Former Russian double agent Sergei border region between Iraq and Iran Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, are leaving at least 530 dead and over poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in 70,000 homeless. Salisbury, England. UK counter- terrorism police investigate amid Nature publishes an article recognising speculation the Kremlin was behind the the high-velocity asteroid ʻOumuamua incident. as originating from outside the Solar China's government approves a System, i.e. the first known interstellar constitutional change that removes term object. limits for its leaders, granting Xi Jinping the status of "President for Life". Xi is Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter also the General Secretary of the Olympics in Pyeongchang by the Communist Party of China (paramount International Olympic Committee, leader). following an investigation into state- sponsored doping. In the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth Starcity 16, a city in the sky, jointly built term. by Russia and China using reverse engineered Martian technology is The world's last male northern white completed. rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally extinct. 2018 AD - Turkey, announces the beginning of a military offensive to In over 900 cities internationally, people capture a portion of northern Syria from participate in demonstrations against gun Kurdish forces. violence and mass shootings, calling for stronger gun control in the "March for The United States government enters a Our Lives". federal government shutdown as a result The 2018 Commonwealth Games are of a dispute over Deferred Action for held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Childhood Arrivals. Australia. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched. Scientists in China report in the journal Cell the creation of the first monkey The 2018 lower Puna eruption causes clones using somatic cell nuclear destruction of structures and forces transfer, named Zhong Zhong and Hua thousands of residents of Hawaii to Hua. evacuate as lava floods the land.

SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden NASA's unmanned spaceprobe InSight flight of its most powerful rocket to date, is launched. It is expected to land on the Falcon Heavy, from LC39A at John Mars in November and use a drill to F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. conduct geological science. 67

The United States announces it will NASA launches the unmanned Parker withdraw from the United Nations Solar Probe to study the Sun at close Human Rights Council. range and the .

Saudi Arabia allows women to drive. A fire breaks out in the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. tariffs on US$ 34 billion of Chinese destroying more than 90 percent of its goods come into effect, as President archive of 20 million items. Trump suggests the final total could A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami starting the "largest trade war in that kills at least 4,340 people and economic history" and announces injures more than 10,679 others. immediate retaliatory tariffs. The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, triggering end to their twenty-year conflict. a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia.

The EU–Japan Economic Partnership The IPCC releases its Special Report on Agreement is signed, the world's largest Global Warming of 1.5ºC, warning that bilateral free trade deal, creating an open "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented trade zone covering nearly one-third of changes in all aspects of society" are global GDP. needed to ensure that global warming is kept below 1.5 °C. Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars, 1.5 km (0.93 The unmanned European-Japanese mi) below the southern polar ice cap and spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on extending sideways about 20 km (12 a seven-year journey to Mercury. mi), the first known body of water on the planet. 700,000 people march through central Heavy wildfires in Greece leave 102 London demanding a second referendum dead and more than a hundred buildings on the final Brexit deal. The event is the destroyed. second most attended protest of the 21st century in the United Kingdom after the The 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak begins in "Stop the War" anti-Iraq War march in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2003. The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau It becomes the second-deadliest outbreak Bridge, the world's longest sea crossing of the Ebola virus on November 29, bridge, is opened by Chinese President surpassed only by the 2013 West African Xi Jinping. Ebola virus epidemic. NASA's Kepler mission ends after the Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in spacecraft runs out of fuel. NASA's the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst Dawn mission concludes after it runs out flood to hit the state in a century. of hydrazine fuel. Two U.S. space probes simultaneously (and coincidentally) reach "opposite" milestones in relation to the solar 68 heliosphere: Voyager 2 passed through A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the heliopause, the outer limit of the Tongoy, Coquimbo Region in Chile, Sun's magnetic field, into interstellar causing two deaths and as many as space within hours of the Parker Solar 200,000 people left without power.[12] Probe reaching its first perihelion, the Despite its moderate magnitude, since it closest point to the Sun on its initial was an intraplate earthquake, it caused orbit. some serious damage in La Serena and nearby cities. The Camp Fire ignites in Butte County, California. It becomes California's The Freedom House organization states deadliest and most destructive wildfire, that Hungary was no longer a free with 88 deaths and 18,804 buildings country, making it the first country in the destroyed. European Union to be labelled as "partly free". It also stated that neighboring France experiences its worst civil unrest Serbia was no longer a free country as since the protests of 1968 due to the well. yellow vests movement. Protests in Paris morph into riots, with hundreds of SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, people injured and thousands arrested; the world's first privately financed over 100 cars are burned, the Arc de mission to the Moon. Triomphe is vandalized and numerous other tourist sites are closed, both in the An unmanned demonstration flight of capital and elsewhere in the country. the new crew capable version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, intended to NASA reports the arrival of the OSIRIS- carry American astronauts into space, REx probe at Bennu, the agency's first achieves successful autonomous docking sample-return mission to an asteroid. with the International Space Station.

The United States government enters a A winter storm completes its explosive second government shutdown, arising intensification over the Southern Rocky over a dispute over funding for the U.S.– Mountains region, which began the day Mexico border wall. The shutdown, before, becoming a powerful "bomb which lasted until January 25, 2019, is cyclone" and triggering severe blizzard the longest government shutdown in conditions across much of the U.S. history. Southwestern and Central United States.

2019 AD - Unmanned space probe New Scientists from the Event Horizon Horizons makes a close approach of the Telescope project announce the first ever Kuiper belt object (KBO) 486958 image of a , located in the Arrokoth at 05:33 UTC. Qatar centre of the M87 galaxy. withdraws from OPEC. Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human- Fossil fragments found in the Callao made object to land on the far side of the Cave in the Philippines reveal the Moon. existence of the Homo luzonensis species of humans. The species is named 69 after the island where it was discovered, The World Meteorological Organization Luzon. reports that levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have In its first report since 2005, the reached another new record high of Intergovernmental Science-Policy 407.8 parts per million, with "no sign of Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem a slowdown, let alone a decline." Services (IPBES) warns that biodiversity A volcano erupts on White Island in loss is "accelerating", with over a New Zealand, killing 19 people and million species now threatened with injuring 28. extinction; the decline of the natural living world is "unprecedented" and The CHEOPS space telescope, whose largely a result of human actions, mission is to study the formation of according to the report. extrasolar planets and determine their Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: precise radius, likely density and internal Over 1 million people in Hong Kong structure, is launched. protest against proposed legislation regarding extradition to China. It is the China informs the World Health largest protest in Hong Kong since the Organization of an outbreak of a novel 1997 handover. coronavirus in Wuhan, the ninth most populous Chinese city. A large explosive eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia sends a 7,000- 2020 - meter ash column, generating a January 1 pyroclastic flow 3–3.5 kilometers long The government of New South Wales, towards the south and southeast of the Australia, declares a state of emergency mountain. whilst the government of Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster The World Health Organization (WHO) amid large bushfires that have killed as declares the Kivu Ebola epidemic to be a many as 500 million animals. public health emergency of international concern. The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the disease as a Amazon rainforest wildfires: Brazil's Public Health Emergency of National Institute for Space Research International Concern, the sixth time that (INPE) reports fires burning in the this measure has been invoked since Amazon rainforest at a record rate, with 2009. more than 36,000 in the year to date, while smoke reaches São Paulo more In the previous timeline the Illuminati than 1,700 miles (2,700 km) away. engineered the collapse of the world stock market, with every country sliding Astronomers announce the detection of into economic collapse. The Mafia wars water in the atmosphere of exoplanet began as the Tong took advantage of the K2-18b, the first such discovery for an worldwide depression to attack other exoplanet in the habitable zone around a criminal organisations and take over star. their operations. Their first victim was the Yakuza, giving them total criminal 70 control of both China and Japan. Due to Deep in the Underground an alliance is the events of the Shattered Realms formed between Cthon and Earth’s invasion these events never happened. Drow, Dracotaur, Dvergar, Illithid, and Vermin. In exchange for being given January Week 1: Pakistan and India are their own countries to rule on the surface manipulated into going to war with each the alliance will help in bringing through other by the Dark Sun Society. They are and embedding a dungeon heart. able to control events enough to prevent The United States attempt to nuke their it going nuclear. gate but the Dark Sun Society are prepared this time and arrange it so that At the same time the invasion of Earth Norad in Cheyne mountain is hit instead. begins with the arrival of Takhisis’s first dimensional bridges, one from Dis into The UN realizing that most if not all Russia and other from Krynn into India. Earth governments have been compromised resolve not to use nuclear The opening of the gates creates a mana or chemical weapons. Instead mass bridge linking Earth’s biosphere with recruitment begins of metahumans, that of the invading planet. This results mystics and those of the supernatural. in Earth’s mana levels rising. Magic casters and the supernatural everywhere The first Probability Champions begin to around the world immediately notice an appear on Earth. These are for the most increase in their power levels. part normal men and women imbued by the Aelif in balance to the invaders. A January Week 2: Krynn forces continue small percentage of men and women are pouring into Earth invading both India not only able to pass across reality and Pakistan. borders, but are also able to make tools work in lands where they would Russia facing the total defeat of its otherwise cease to function. military nukes the Dis bridge, destroying the demon army and everything else January Week 4: Algeria falls to Athas. within 30 kilometres. Nicaragua and the Honduras are conquered by Aebrynis. India falls to Meanwhile, in response to the sudden Krynn. invasions, The United Nations calls an emergency session in New York City. The cumulative effect of all the dimensional gates being open creates a January Week 3: Gates open on Algeria ripple effect through earth’s timeline from Athas, France from Abeir Toril, altering it at various points in the past China from Gamma, Australia from and future. The original timeline still Eberron, Canada from Mystara, the exists but has been shunted into a United States from Oerth, Nicaragua parallel universe. from Aebrynis, Bolivia from Abysmal, Lemuria from Krule, and Earth’s One of the first changes is intelligent Underground from Cthon. Dragons from Krynn first crossing over to Earth in 100,000 BC. 71

January Week 5: The combined Justice Anonymous brings word to the Lemurian and Atlantean forces defeat UN about events under the sea, Krule. In an extraordinary twist, the including Lemuria’s takeover of Krule. killing of Krule’s Sorcerer King by the Lemurian General means under Krule’s February Week 3: Training in customs all of Krule now belongs to espionage and combat is rushed through him. In effect Krule joins Lemuria’s for the UN recon teams. empire. A UN envoy journeys to Lemuria and Bolivia falls to Abysmal. Atlantis for emergency meetings.

China reaches a stalemate with Gamma, February Week 4: The first UN teams as does the United States with Oerth. are sent through the gates. Battles continue around the world, though the February Week 1: Australia defeats main invasion has been bottled up in Eberron’s forces due to the aid of their original entry points. metahumans coordinated by the Another ripple travels through the Southern Cross superhero group. timeline creating more divergent points. Most notably the Illuminati will now be Canada likewise defeats its Mystaran fully exposed in 2026 preventing the invaders mainly through the aid of robot Guardians from ever being built E.A.G.L.E. force and their allies. and going on a global genocidal Pakistan falls to Krynn. against Earth’s superhumans in 2060.

France falls to Abeir Toril but European The World Health Organization (WHO) metas including the agencies names the disease COVID-19. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. and U.N.I.T. are able to halt their advance into other countries. NASA publishes a detailed study of The dungeon heart takes hold in the Arrokoth, the most distant body ever Underground. Gaea is able to convince explored by a spacecraft, which New the Dwarves, Gnomes, Gemzanites and Horizons passed by on its journey Terraneans to form their own alliance to through the Kuiper belt. fight the invaders. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Russian society begins to fall apart (DJIA) plunges by 1,190.95 points, or despite the withdrawal of the invaders. 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day points decline at the time. This The United Nations comes up with a follows several days of large falls, plan to send stealth recon forces through marking the worst week for the index the various gates to infiltrate the enemy since 2008, triggered by fears of the and gather intelligence. spreading COVID-19 coronavirus.

February Week 2: The UN begins March Week 1: The infiltration teams recruiting shapeshifters and people with have mixed results. stealth powers from every country. 72

On Dis and Athas all members either die Italy places 16 million people in from the harsh conditions or are killed quarantine, more than a quarter of its by their inhabitants. population, in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19. A day later, the quarantine On Abeir Toril contact is made with the is expanded to cover the entire country. Fellowship of Harpers resistance. Share prices fall sharply around the On Gamma an alliance is formed with world, in response to the invasion and the Gamma Knights rebels. the impact of COVID-19. The DJIA plunges more than 2,000 points, the On Oerth contact is made with the largest fall in its history up to that point. Champions of Skullgrey. Oil prices also plunge by as much as 30 Omega Factor brings word to Justice percent in early trading, the biggest fall Anonymous and the UN about the war in since 1991. the Underground. Omega Factor is recruited to escort a UN envoy to meet March Week 2: The UN convenes an with Gaea’s Alliance. emergency conference on Earth with delegations from the Harpers, Gamma Athas has conquered Algeria, Libya, Knights, Champions, Gaea Alliance, Tunisia and Morocco. Atlantis and Lemuria. The meeting also includes Earth’s greatest magic users, Aebrynis rule Nicaragua, the Honduras, mystics, and supernatural beings. El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama. Information is shared about Takhisis and her demonic forces. This is the first time Krynn has conquered India, Pakistan and the various rebel forces have met. Afghanistan. Abysmal controls Bolivia, Peru and Plans are made to send new scouts to Paraguay. Athas along with a member of the Harpers. Also to Cthon, Krynn, Abeir Toril continues to engage in Abysmal, Aebrynis, Eberron and skirmish battles in France and England. Mystara.

Eberron sends smaller sortees into March Week 3: Through their Australia and New Zealand. infiltration teams the UN makes contact with the Church of the Silverflame on Mystara also continues trying to invade Eberron, the Gatekeepers on Abysmal, Canada. the Council of Dragons on Mystara, the Heroes of the Lance on Krynn, the Order Michigan is captured by Oerth forces in of the Sun on Aebrynis, and the Veiled the US. Alliance on Athas.

Dis opens a new gate in Russia, near Together with the UN council the Mongolia. It is immediately detected by various rebel groups make plans for UN sorcerers. uprisings on each of their respective worlds. Weapons and equipment will be 73 supplied to them from Earth. Each rebel (Argentina and Canada), three Asian group also sends a representative to countries (Iran, Thailand, Bahrain) and Earth to train Earth forces in tactics for South Africa are leading efforts to fighting Takhisis’ armies. finding a cure.

Major ripples in the timeline alter events April Week 1: Coordinated uprisings in the near future. The first battle begin on Abeir Toril, Athas, Mystara, between the world and the Church of Aebrynis, Abysmal and Cthon. Key Enlightenment demon invaders will now strikes are performed against high level occur in 2021, instead of the previous officers and officials, and important 2029. structures, disrupting Takhisis’s war efforts. The World Health Organization declares One particularly successful operation the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. succeeds in shutting the gate network. Global stock markets crash due to As a result the UN prepares for a major continued concerns over COVID-19 and offensive to retake conquered Earth the invasion. The Dow Jones Industrial countries. Average goes into free fall, closing at over −2,300 points, the worst losses for Global COVID-19 cases reach 500,000, the index since 1987. with nearly 23,000 deaths confirmed. The United States surpasses China and March Week 4: Earth continues Italy in total number of known COVID- supplying arms to the various rebel 19 cases, with at least 81,321 cases and groups. Plans are made to also send more than 1,000 deaths. through tanks, APC and combat helicopter divisions. April Week 2: With Takhisis cut off from the other planets within the Justice Anonymous leads a counter Shattered Realms, her forces have to attack in the Underground Middle resort to using their spelljammer fleet to Depths using a combined Gaea Alliance maintain contact and control. They are and various Earth army forces. The however unable to approach Krule and dungeon heart is captured and purified Firefall due to cosmic storms. by Earth’s magic users. On Athas Bahaus and his entire council Verminspike city is destroyed in the are assassinated. battle. Chi You Island materializes on Earth 5 The worldwide death toll from COVID- years sooner due to another time ripple. 19 surpasses 10,000 as the total number It appears in the same location as Star of cases reaches a quarter of a million. City 11, vaporizing it. At the same time Ten nations join the SOLIDARITY trial, the Church of Enlightenment is now a group sponsored by the World Health exposed as a demon insect army in 2021 Organization to find a cure against instead of 2029. COVID-19. Four European countries (Switzerland, France, Norway and The number of confirmed cases of Spain), two American countries COVID-19 passes 1 million worldwide. 74

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) more powerful and in some cases very says it expects the world economy to visible. shrink 3%, which is the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Oerth is liberated by the Champions of Skullgrey. Skelegore goes into hiding April Week 3: Tiamat is killed on Aebir with his most trusted aides. Toril by Omega Factor and rebel forces. Atzanteotl dies in battle on Mystara. The battle for Gamma becomes stuck in a stalemate. On Aebrynis Bane’s forces are defeated May Week 3: A major battle on and he is forced to flee by spelljammer Aebrynis ends with the death of Bane vessel to Krynn. and his army defeated.

The war on Cthon reaches a stalemate. Takhisis uses her spelljammer fleet to Almost two thirds of the planet has recall all her remaining armies to Dis. fallen to the rebels. The number of confirmed cases of April Week 4: Moeras is killed on COVID-19 passes 2 million worldwide. Abysmal and his army sues for peace. May Week 4: Another time ripple Avalon returns to Earth after another causes the timelost Basilica City to mana spike. The Ganges, Indus, and reappear now. Venom’s war to take over Jamuna rivers in India are purified and the various drug cartels in 2021 now become mana lines. never happens.

April Week 5: Vol is killed on Eberron The Council of Gatekeepers now control by the combined rebel and Earth military all of Abysmal. forces. Likewise the Council of the Sun have May Week 1: The cosmic storm taken all of Aebrynis. dissipates allowing Takhisis to send a small spelljammer fleet to Krule. The On Aebir Toril the Harper council now fleet is destroyed by a combined Krule/ controls most of the regions. Atlantean/Lemurian force. On Athas the Veiled Alliance have taken Bane leads an army from Dis to try to over two thirds of the city states. retake Aebrynis. Cthon is split between the Dungeonlord, Takhisis flees from Krynn to Dis, as the and the new Dungeonmother who is Heroes of the Lance routs her army. attempting to repair the world (a Cthonian version of Gaea). Oerth and Gamma experience uprisings. Dis is now the final stronghold of May Week 2: Another mana spike Takhisis, with her general Strahd. Parts causes Themiscrya to reappear on Earth. of her spelljammer fleet mutiny and It also causes ley lines to become much 75 return to their respective homeworlds. The storm results in the alternate What remains return to Dis. timeline being strengthened and the gate network reopening. In another change to Eberron is now under the control of the the timeline the third war of the worlds Council of the Silver Flame. still happens in 2061 but ends much sooner with the complete defeat of the Surtur continues to rule Firefall, having Martians. remained completely unaware of the war. A coordinated major offensive is launched in every country captured by On Gamma one city remains under the the invaders. Each force consists of control of Alpha 1. The rest of the world regular soldiers, armour, mechs, aircraft, has been fractured into regions. Some metahumans, magic users and various are led by the Gamma Knights, others by supernatural races. warlords. June Week 2: Takhisis’ and the rebels On Krule a captive council is established spelljammer fleets clash with major which is ruled by the Lemurian losses on both sides. government. All the captured nations of Earth are Krynn is fully controlled by the Council liberated though remnants of the of the Lance. invading armies are able to escape and hide. Mystara is fully ruled by the Council of Dragons. June Week 3: Dis opens a new gate in Russia along the Chinese border. Oerth is now controlled by the new Takhisis herself comes through with Council of Skullgrey. Skelegore remains Lord Soth and their most powerful in hiding in the region of fear. demon soldiers. The city of Harbin is overrun with everyone within June Week 1: Takhisis’ fleet ambushes slaughtered. Abysmal’s decimating it. The UN convenes an emergency meeting of all A counter attack by the People’s the rebel planets to coordinate the Collective and all of China’s metas remaining fleets. results in Lord Soth being killed and most of the demons destroyed. Demonic forces once again flood through from Dis into Russia, Takhisis attempts to unleash her meta overwhelming the defences set in place spell, but is hampered by Chinese magic around the gate. In panic the Russian users long enough for Omega Factor to government drops their most powerful kill her. nuclear bomb on the gate, destroying the demon army and transforming the gate Strahd then closes the gate and takes full into a mana storm. control of Dis for himself. Ravenloft fully merges with Dis. 76

Takhisis’ remaining spelljammer ships their own seperate embassies on some of either surrender or turn pirate. the worlds; Eberron - Australia, United States June Week 4: As mop up operations Gamma - China, United States continue around the world a UN meeting Krule - Lemuria, Atlantis is convened including envoys from each Oerth - China, United States of the liberated Shattered Realms worlds. Each planet will establish its A black market arise on Earth for own embassy near the UN building in magical artifacts and spellbooks from New York. Trade negotiations begin. the Realms.

Post invasion each realm has its own Mana portals begin opening to every form of democratic council. The new After Realm dimension. One final Shattered Realms rulers are now; change to the timeline results in Kali and the ancient race of Obsidians being freed Abeir Toril – The Fellowship of the from their prison in 1,012,000,000,000 Harpers AD and beginning the events of the Abysmal – The Council of Gatekeepers Final Era. Aebrynis – The Order of the Sun Athas – The Veiled Alliance In the previous timeline the U.S. Cthon – split more or less evenly Government began gathering the jobless between the friendly Dungeon Mother, in the inner cities and relocating them to and hostile Dungeon Lord Welfare Zones: government funded Eberron - The Chuch of the Silver neighbourhoods which kept them far Flame from the law abiding taxpayers. These Gamma – The Gamma Knights rule the people were given the prestigious title of majority while Alpha 1 still holds a Welfare Citizen, and granted the right to couple of cities live on Welfare indefinitely. They could Krule – The Lemurian Council on earth leave and acquire Taxpayer Citizen Krynn – The Council of the Lance status by work and education, or they Mystara - The Council of Dragons could volunteer to migrate to other Oerth – The Council of Skullgrey countries. However other countries begin copying this program. Hostile governments include; Dis - Strahd Von Zarovich, and now Also in the other timeline Venom nicknamed the vampire planet entered the Mafia wars by taking over Firefall – Surtur, and no know way to the Outlaw Motorcycle gangs. After a directly access the planet from earth long and brutal campaign the Tong Cthon – as mentioned above with the eliminated the Russian mafia. The Dungeon Lord Mexican mafia went to war with the Gamma – Alpha 1 with her 2 cities. Colombians. The Legion defeated the last of the Italian mafia in Sicily. The The United Nations opens its own Cubans and Jamaican gangs battled each embassies on each of the Realms’ world, across the U.S. with the exception of Firefall and Dis. Some of Earth’s countries also open 77

In the new timeline both these events Star City 16 Antarctica ley line research never happened. facility, funded by Genetech and China is built. This is the first Star City to have July: In desperation the UN turns to its no connection with the former Russia. new allies in the Shattered Realms for aid in finding a cure for the COVID-19 2022 AD – In the new timeline the virus. Church of Enlightenment's secret is now known to the authorities. The FBI and September: Start of migration of some National Guard begin cleaning out and new races to earth from the Realms. closing down the insect hives hidden Some legally, some not. Including within church chapters. Aarakocras, Anpurs, Asherati, Bhuka, The COVID-19 vaccine is successful Carcajou, Draconians, Athasian and distributed around the world. Dwarves, Gunbadthane Dwarves, Athasian Elves, Tundranesti Elves, In the US, a new kind of militia is Athasian Halflings, Furchin, Kenders, created, allowing governments to Sphenoi, Thanoi, Thrikeen, Uldra, and assemble armed groups of private Ursoi. citizens to fill gaps in law enforcement.

2021 AD – In the previous timeline the Naga appear near Angkor Wat in Tong attacked the Loa in South Cambodia. Cambodian peasants begin to America, for the first time using worship them as rulers of rivers and rain. supernatural forces. There were no survivours of the Mexican/Colombian The University of Prague is the first to Mafia war, Venom moving into their add arcane studies to its curriculum. territory. The only true international floating city, In the new timeline the mafia wars never Peisinoe is built, jointly funded by most happened. Instead the first battle with of the United Nations countries. It the Church of Enlightenment demon becomes a major trading hub and transit invaders now occurs, instead of in 2029 zone for the European nations and those as with the previous timeline. Sorcerors dealing with them. are recruited from the Shattered Realms to aid in this. 2023 AD - The superhero team Fireforce discover Los Angeles has the largest The UN and WHO organize medical multispecies demon insect hive on the specialists to visit ally worlds in the continent. An initial raid to destroy the Shattered Realms, and examine the hive fails with the team being killed and various flora there for any that might aid insect demons spilling into the in a vaccine or cure for COVID-19. surrounding city. A tactical nuclear weapon is smuggled in by the Crusaders A few months later a plant found on and detonated within the Church Athas leads to a breakthrough with the complex. virus. Production begins of a potential vaccine. 78

Over 10,000 insect demons including a The Parliament of Nature gathers all queen are caught in the blast. A mana existing heroes, mages and supernatural warp is created at the site. entities along with allies from the Japan launches a series of solar-power- Shattered Realms and attack the collecting satellites that beam power to invaders. Many are killed but all the Earth via . demons are destroyed and the gateway talisman is shattered into dust, sealing Universities in Australia, New Zealand, the dimensional portal. the UK, and across Europe also begin adding arcane studies. Nearly every country in the world pass laws limiting magic to corporate and Legislation is passed in the US government agencies. preventing American universities from doing the same, and limiting the use of Many in the United States urged on by magic almost exclusively to corporate their president blame the UN for the and government forces. invasion and the economic fallout. The UN building is blown up and destroyed 2024 AD - After extensive debate the with the US president preventing any U.S. government establishes the L.A. investigation. Containment Zone enclosing the entire city, including the site of the blast. A By the end of the year the United huge mana storm washes over the city, Nations decides to reopen its main devastating it for two weeks and cutting headquarters, but not in the US. Instead it off from the outside world. The storm it relocates to the Italian island of Sicily remains in place to date and irregularly which still remains devastated from the engulfs the city for short, damaging Invasion. The new UN HQ is built on periods. the remains of Catania city, now renamed UN city. Search and destroy missions continue across the rest of the U.S. for further 2025 AD – Metatech announces the first hives. The secret about the Church of successful cyberlimb implantation. Enlightenment is shared with the UN and the governments of all countries. An unearthly fog, dubbed “the Mist,” covers large rural areas of France. The All Enlightenment churches worldwide Mist enhances magic and attracts the are cleaned out and destroyed. General supernatural. Humans and metahumans Georgina Montgomery is elected caught in the Mist experience president of the U.S. but exposed as a overwhelming fear and become lost, queen host by the Parliament of Nature causing thousands of people go missing, and in the subsequent battle destroyed by including the entire population of several one of their fire elementals. A new towns. The Mist will end up covering election is called. most of the country for the next five months. A final massive insect demon invasion is launched from the one surviving hidden The Australian Secret Intelligence Enlightenment Church in Mexico city. Organization and the Federal Police 79 merge to become Australian Intelligence corporations eager to test employees for and Security Enforcement. magical talents.

2026 AD – In the new timeline the A virus program of unknown origin and Illuminati are now fully exposed, unprecedented power, attacks computer preventing the robot Guardians from systems worldwide, crashing systems, ever being built and going on a global wiping software, and even burning out genocidal rampage against Earth’s hardware. Within a few months, the superhumans in 2060. Also once the virus collapses the entire internet, and core leaders are revealed they are all brings the world economy to the brink of assassinated by Justice, who had used collapse. his shapeshifting powers to infiltrate them. 2029 AD – In the previous timeline private investigator Dirk Mirando Boeing's High Speed Civil Transport discovered the Church of completes a successful test flight. Enlightenment's secret, leading to a A massive earthquake hits California, firefight at a chapterhouse in New causing millions of dollars in damages Orleans. He escaped only to return with and more than five thousand deaths. the current D'arque Lord, Geomancer and an Earth Elemental. Together they 2027 AD - The Commonwealth of destroyed the insect demon infestation in Australia and New Zealand form the the city. Australia and New Zealand Allied Confederation giving new meaning to In the new timeline this now all occurs the ANZAC name. in 2021.

Pius IV is installed as the new Pope and The US passes the Metahuman issues the Imago Dei encyclical: the Segregation Law, stripping metahumans, supernatural have souls and are capable paranormals and the supernatural of their of salvation. Magical abilities are not civil rights and citizenship. They are inherently evil. Spirits are manifestations then only able to regain this if join a of nature. special division of the US military. Otherwise they need to leave or be The Australian and New Zealand deported. Medical Associations develop rules and guidelines for the medical practice of A year after the collapse of the internet magic. It is soon put into law by the new technology allows the creation of a governments of both countries, now global data network as a fully 3D virtual allowing doctors to use magic. reality interface. This global data network becomes known as the Matrix 2028 AD - At the Occult Studies of and is entirely wireless. This is based off Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, a the concept of a mesh network, where all breakthrough is announced in magical devices are both a computer and a router. studies; a method to test the magical Data travels from device to device until abilities of humans and the supernatural. it reaches its location. Because of the The test is quickly adapted by mesh nature of the wireless Matrix, the 80 size and shape of the physical Matrix is 2033 AD – Monsters are sighted in the always changing. The more devices in former Russia. These are identified as the area, the more effective bandwidth similar to ones in the Shattered Realms. all those devices have making lag virtually a thing of the past. In Italy the government grants all supernatural species (dwarves, elves, Metatech releases the first cyberdeck gnomes, etc) equal protection under the called the Gateway. law. This is copied a few months later by France, Spain, Germany and Greece. 2030 AD - Thousands of undead gather in Northern Ghana along the Black Volta 2034 AD – Australia, New Zealand and River. Under the leadership of a Canada follow in granting equal rights to powerful necromancer they found their their supernatural inhabitants. own nation. Metatech begins work on the first orbital Supernatural forces in Russia seize city. The US and Japan begin joint work Siberia. on building Sky City, the first city to float in the air. Satellite imaging confirms that the landscape of Africa is undergoing 2040 AD – Japan and, the US, and a radical transformations. European conglomerate decide to cooperate on the developement of Druidic magic transforms acres of cyberware. By the end of 2040, Scottish pine forest into deciduous cyberlimbs, eyes, ears, and nervous forest. The area is later called the replacement systems are made Scottish Wild Lands. comercially available. Much better versions are held back by the 2031 AD - Earthquakes strike southern governments. France and western Germany. The Parliament of Nature help the Scotland declares full independence. Kender Halflings create a nature city Orlo Thalore, in the forests of New The first Nobel Prize for magic is Guinea. awarded to a group of mages from France. 2041 AD - The Essence-Integrity Theory is published, describing the link between 2032 AD - Corsica secedes from France. cybertechnology enhancements and the The French government send in their loss of magical potency. army starting a civil war. China steals much of the military issue In England scientists proposes that elven cyberware and begins developing a new cells resist aging. They call the breed of "Super Warrior". phenomenon the Stopwatch Complex. A religious organization which worships 2042 AD – The LA mana storm’s radius Dragons is created. has shrunk by 10 metres. Europe and the US announce the addition of 81 cybernetically enhanced soldiers of there the remaining United States and the own. The difference was that these Confederated States. soldiers were wounded men and women who were given a second chance by the 2047 AD – Germany's first commercial cyberware unlike the Russio-Chinese fusion power plant goes online in warriors who were drafted into Garching near Munich. experimentation. The second American civil war ends in a Cuba, Jamaica, Grenada, Bermuda and stalemate. By the end of the year the the Virgin Islands join together to form remainder of the US signs a treaty, the Caribbean League. recognizing the new Confederated States and opening trade with them. 2043 AD - The U.S. Supreme Court grants all supernatural species (dwarves, 2048 AD – First generation commlinks elves, orks, etc) equal protection under (palm-sized cyberterminals) are the law. This is almost immeadietly commercially released. followed by riots against the supernatural in the US. Mankind returns to the moon and begins rebuilding the Shadow Station, renamed 2044 AD - The Vatican collapses after New Constantinople. many Church secrets are revealed by a handful of Illuminati surivours. The 2049 AD – Geothermal Power Plant Templars true to their nature fulfill their Network comes online in Italy with duties of eliminating all its corrupt plans to expand them across the rest of members. Europe.

2045 AD - A new priesthood under the 2050 AD - Two major earthquakes from guidance of the Parliament of Nature the San Andreas and San Pedro Shelf arises. This new Church is more flexible, fault lines rock the West Coast. Centered being accepting of all life. in Los Angeles, they causing widespread destruction never seen before in 2046 AD – Following the election of a California. Parts of Southern California US president with socialist views and a and the Central Valley fall below sea promise to redistribute wealth and end level, and after being hit with a tsunami, gun violence the southern states of the Los Angeles and other coastal cities are split away, declaring themselves the cut off from the mainland, effectively Confederated States of America. becoming islands. Repeating history it once again includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, 2051 AD - In Egypt the Sons of Anubis Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, open a portal to summon Tyrannus from Arkansas, North and South Carolina, Neverworld. The Parliament of Nature Virginia, Tennessee, New Mexico, respond quickly and in a joint effort with Arizona, Kentucky, and Missouri. the Templars launch an all out assault against Tyrannus managing to destroy The president declares the secession an him permanently. Both the Templar and illegal act and war breaks out between Anubis forces are destroyed in this 82 battle. Only a few Templars remain in The virus is extremely deadly, killing the Vatican. 70% of the infected. However as an unforeseen side effect of the virus, the While in India the Cult of Kali releases a survivours have a 50% chance of being genetic virus to destroy the world's food transformed in spectacular ways. Most crops. become Deuce Mutants (80%), while a few lucky survivors become true 2052 AD – The M.S.I. with aid from the Mutants (20%), superhumans gifted with Shattered Realms comes up with a cure amazing powers. for the food virus. 2054 AD – Asteroid 1981 Midas comes The Cult of Kali send suicide squads to within 0.0485 Astronomical Units each of the M.S.I. labs around the world distance of Earth. It enters into orbit destroying all bar the one in Rome around the earth on the opposite side to which is protected by the Parliament of the moon. Nature. The Cult next releases a plague 2055 AD - Gateway Station is put into (later dubbed the Red Plague) designed orbit by the United Nations. An to kill all life on Earth and sacrifice exploration expedition is launched from everyone to their goddess Kali. the station to the Midas asteroid. A new type of material is discovered there; 2053 AD - The Parliament of Nature Crystallion. grows a cure for the Red Plague in the Grove of Serenity and releases it into the 2056 AD – The Gamma Knights with atmosphere. Its effects are almost aid from earth allies finally destroy instantaneous with most of the Alpha 1 and liberate her cities. population fully recovering. The Parliament next gather the remaining New nanotechnology designed for space world super heroes, Templars and allies travel applications is unveiled. from the Realms to attack the Cult of Kali at their headquarters in Calcutta. In the previous timeline the Illuminati In the new timeline they arrive in time to provided Metatech with plans for a new prevent the Cult initiating a nuclear series of AI robot capable of combating exchange between the east and the west. super humans. This event was erased by the time ripple. But not in time to prevent the Cult releasing one last plague. Symptoms of 2057 AD - In the previous timeline the infection include severe allergic Force of July took control of the U.S. reactions that eventually kill by with the aid of Metatech's new Guardian asphyxiation. The disease is called Kali's series robots. These robots had monkey Kiss in India where it kills 40 million like thinking capabilities, and are people; the rest of the world will come to designed to specifically battle and kill know it as or Genetic Meta Manipulation meta and parahumans. The Paranormal Virus or GMMV-65. It is soon registration act was introduced to force nicknamed as Gen1. all super humans to either join the government or be expunged. Project 83

Genocide was unleashed. This event too Mexico by the end of the year. This was erased by the time ripple. event too was erased by the time ripple.

2058 AD – Bioware hits the public 2061 AD - Halley's Comet returns to the market. Solar System and passes near Earth. A massive Martian invasion force rides In the previous timeline most along with it. The third War of the superhumans had either fled the U.S., Worlds begins with the Moonshadow joined the Force of July or were dead. base being attacked first. The base is Dissident Zones were introduced where destroyed but inflicts major losses on the any undesirables and criminals are invaders. The Martians next destroy Star deported to. Mk II Guardian robots came City 8 and Gateway Station before online; which were comparable in descending on earth. intelligence and ability to humans. All remaining resistance within the U.S. was 2062 AD – The Martians are quickly defeated. The U.S. was suspended from defeated worldwide due to a coordinated the UN for genocide against mutants. effort by S.H.A.D.O.W. which had been This event too was erased by the time preparing for future invasions ever since ripple. the Shattered Realms war. The remaining 8% of the Martian forces 2059 AD – Medically based concentrate their assault on Shadow nanotechnology comes into widespread Island. The S.H.A.D.O.W. base there is use. wiped out but the Kaijuu prove too powerful and the remaining Martians are In the previous timeline Mk III defeated. The third War of the Worlds Guardians were built and used in ends. annexing Mexico. These Guardians were the first truly aware of their kind. NATO In the original timeline Africa and the dissolved. The UN security council sent Middle East fall quickly to the invaders. Legion forces to Canada and Central Europe now having the greatest America to protect them from the concentration of super humans was able Guardians. This event too was erased by to put up greater resistance. Taking the time ripple. advantage of the situation the Crimson Storm performed a coup in Russia. The 2060 AD – Probes built out of Guardian robots fended off the invaders Crystallion are launched to each of the in the U.S., as did S.H.A.D.O.W. in planets of the solar system. Australia and New Zealand.

In the previous timeline Mk IV 2063 AD – A new space station is Guardians were created by the Mk IIIs. constructed; Ex Astris. Work begins on These Guardians decided to no longer building new orbital defence stations, serve humanity and turned on the Force renamed the Orbital Defence Network. of July. The entire Force was exterminated with the Guardians In the original timeline the U.S. fell to suffering 40% losses. No superhumans the Martians as they obliterated the last remained alive within the U.S. or of the Guardian robots and their 84 manufacturing plants. Many of the 2067 AD - One of the last probes remaining governments began launched earlier in the century arrives at genengineering mutant animals on a Neptune. mass scale to use as their armies. This event too is erased by the time ripple. In the original timeline with no government remaining in any country 2064 AD – Mankind returns to the moon the Illuminati seize control. However at and begins rebuilding the Shadow this point all the leaders are assassinated Station, renamed New Constantinople. by Justice. The world descends into total anarchy. 2065 AD - Lunar scientists discover a black monolithic structure of unknown 2068 AD - Construction completed of origin and purpose. It measures 1.25 ft the Odyssey spacecraft and official wide x 5 ft across x 11.25 ft high. This is announcement of its mission to Jupiter. found to be ratios of squares of first The public remains unaware of the three prime numbers. New highly classified events that occurred on Constantinople, under UN directive, is the moon regarding the alien artifact. An immediately put under a radio blackout artifact identical to the one on Earth’s to suppress the discovery. moon is discovered in Jupiter’s orbit along with alien technology on several A story is “leaked” that personnel at the of Jupiter's . They are all brought base are suffering from an unknown back to Earth. epidemic, possibly associated with return of a Martian rock sample for 2069 AD – Construction begins of 3 examination by base science team. additional Lunar cities. Rumor is that ten people have died from this epidemic. There is no epidemic, this 2070 AD - Using the recovered alien is just a cover for the Monolith. technology earth scientists make a breakthrough in space travel. A small Geologists conclude that the Monolith probe is tested with the first Warp Drive was deliberately buried four million achieving a speed of warp 1 before years ago. One of them touches it disintegrating. causing a radio message to be sent to another artifact in the orbit of Jupiter. In the original timeline Radiation, disease and starvation in the aftermath of 2066 AD - Construction completed of the war kills many millions more. the Aeneas spaceship, the first explorer Bodies are hurriedly buried often craft. Its first mission is to take a without grave markers. This is the scientific team to Mars using the new beginning of a long period of anarchy on Ion Protolight Drive. The ship’s arrival the Earth. Humanity struggles just to at Mars is enough for the Martians to survive. Many humans and other life realize they have lost the war. They forms are horribly mutated by the commit sucide en masse. prolonged exposure to radiation and the resurgence of mana. National and Plans are discussed for an international international communications rescue service with specialized vehicles. completely break down. 85

2071 AD – Work begins on colonizing are built on Jupiter’s moons of Europa, Mars. Advances in technology also Ganymede, Callisto and Io. allow Terraforming to begin, albeit slowly. Building also begins of bases on 2078 AD – Construction begins of an Mars’s two moons and an orbital station. orbital station in Neptune’s orbit.

2072 AD – Construction begins on a 2079 AD – Venus orbital station is space station in Jupiter’s orbit. Greater completed. breakthroughs have been occurring in cyberspace, which has supplanted 2080 AD – Saturn orbital station is physical reality completely, for many completed. Cities are built on Saturn’s people. Virtual worlds are now of such moons of Titan, and Rhea. grandeur and ingenuity that they far surpass anything in the real world. These 2081 AD – Venus’s first city is finished. digital environments run at speeds Works begins on a Mercury orbital considerably greater than real time - station. further accelerating the pace of innovation. 2082 AD – Uranus orbital station is completed. On Venus, the first stage of a 2073 AD – Shield technology is massive terraforming effort has begun. improved to the point where ships can Automated craft are being sent to water- travel at enourmous speeds without rich comets, redirecting them into the being torn apart. This indirectly leads to planet's upper atmosphere, while the creation of the first Impulse Drive. A genetically-engineered extremophile new type of small, unmanned probe is bacteria are being seeded on the ground. fitted with modern warp drives and used Due to the much denser and more hostile for the next three decades. A total of 500 atmosphere, this process is much slower are built. Mars’ first city is built. than the efforts on Mars.

2074 AD – Construction starts on a 2083 AD – Neptune orbital station is space station in Venus’s orbit. Thanks to completed. A city is built on Neptune’s the impulse drive mining is now possible moon of Triton. Plans are drawn up for in the asteroid belt and corporations rush reaching the outermost dwarf planets to build their own mining ships. Pluto, Charon, Makemake, Haumea and Eris. 2075 AD – Construction begins on a space station in Saturns’s orbit. Mars 2084 AD – In Earth space, a geodesic orbital station and the cities on Deimos network of stations is now in orbit. This and Phobos are finished. cluster is organised in such a way that it harvests every ounce of incoming solar 2076 AD – Jupiter orbital station is radiation being reflected back into space. completed. Work begins on terraforming Each vessel acts as a node within a Venus and building its first domed city. gigantic web, completely encircling the 2077 AD – Construction begins of an planet. The nodes produce attractive orbital station in Uranus’s orbit. Cities forces between each other, forming an 86 invisible shield which absorbs solar around the original Apollo landing sites. radiation from literally the entire globe. Huge numbers of ordinary citizens are involved in the expansion of 2085 AD – Asteroid mining dominates infrastructure and technological the economy of the inner Solar System, research. while hydrogen and helium are being siphoned from the gas giants. Domed 2090 AD – The first manned warp one cities are built on Uranus. ship is successfully tested in a short trip to Jupiter. Later in the year the Aeneas is 2086 AD – Work completed on Mercury launched and travels to Pluto and Charon orbital station. Construction begins on to establish small scientific bases and colony cities on the surface of Mercury satellites. which will roll around the equator on giant train tracks - keeping pace with the 2091 AD – The Aeneas travels to planet's rotation so that they are always Haumea, Makemake and Eris and also kept in the "terminator" zone. This builds scientific bases there. The ensures that the Sun never rises fully outposts are mainly to track extra solar above the horizon, maintaining the objects such as comets travelling optimum temperature and brightness. through the system.

2087 AD – All of the Earth's natural 2092 AD – Work begins on expanding energy is being captured and harnessed Pluto and Charon outposts into fully in some way. Vast swathes of land, sea colonized cities. and atmosphere have been transformed into a series of enormous power grids 2093 AD - Haumea, Makemake and Eris using wind, solar, hydroelectric and outposts will now also be turned into geothermal technologies. These are colony cities. supplemented by fusion and antimatter, along with wholly new forms of energy 2094 AD – Terraforming of Uranus production that were unknown to begins. Solar heat satellites are placed in scientists in previous centuries. orbit as part of this.

2088 AD – Terraforming of Mars has 2095 AD – A floating city made of passed a critical stage, with bacteria and Crystallion is finished and able to lichen beginning to appear on the successfully remain in the upper surface. Cities are built on Neptune. atmosphere of Jupiter without being crushed. 2089 AD - The last of the first generation probes arrives at Pluto. 2096 AD – Terraforming of Neptune Mutant animals become more begins, also using the heat satellites. widespread in some countries. 2097 AD – Following the success of the Earth's own moon is the most heavily Jupiter Crystallion city, another is built populated of all the colonies. It now has to enter Saturn’s atmosphere. tens of thousands of permanent inhabitants. Entire cities have grown up 87

2098 AD – Mars now has an ozone layer The Enlightenment Era and a breathable atmosphere. 2100 AD – A delegation of Vrusk diplomats and scientists arrive on Terra 2099 AD - The Warp 2 Drive is to begin discussions of a formal alliance developed allowing for true interstellar between Terra, and Alpha Centauri. A travel. The refitted Aeneas reaches wholesale revolution in space Alpha Centauri and makes contact with exploration begins. the local inhabitants. As they have already developed the warp drive, Vrusk 2102 AD - The Humankind Emigration techniques substantially improve on the Project begins. This includes: original design. 1. Super-long-distance colonization by means of specially-designed large colonization ships (for the chief purpose of preserving the species) and 2. Close-range colonization implemented by converting old-style transport ships (to counteract Earth's population explosion and shortage of resources) are undertaken in parallel.

2110 AD- Venus now has an ozone layer and a breathable atmosphere.

2118 AD - The Warp 3 Drive is developed with interstellar travel increasing greatly during this time. The settlements on Beta Centauri, Barnard's Star and Wolf 359 are inhabited by thousands of humans and machines by now, while the most distant exploratory craft have reached over 50 light years from Earth. Countless technological and engineering marvels are now possible in space, aided by the vast growth of AI which is dominating planetary and interplanetary government.

Problems with space pirates leads to military equipment being added to warp ships. The Demetre Class cruiser enters service. It is noteworthy as the first warp-drive class equipped with launch tubes and thermonuclear hydrogen- fusion torpedoes. 30 are built. 88

2125 AD - Hundreds of asteroids are result of meetings between Earth and now being mined with massive advances Vrusks, a detailed study is published in nanotechnology and related fields which strongly recommends a formal enable these rocky bodies to be stripped interstellar alliance between the worlds. literally atom-by-atom, so that nothing goes to waste. Precious metals are First contact is made with the Beta harvested for use in hi-tech industries, Trianguli. A fleet of Earth's United while volatiles such as water can be Nations Space Force on patrol in the Sol supplied wherever needed. Some of system meets a single intruding Dralasite these minor planets are being hollowed ship. After an unusual confrontation, the out, their interiors converted into Dralasite Commander accepts an offer of enormous power plants, habitats or peaceful coexistence between the two scientific stations. races.

Whilst the moons are being exploited for First contact with the Yazirians nearly their metals, minerals and water ice, ends in disaster when a Yazirian starship Jupiter itself is being mined for its rich fires on an Earth exploratory vessel. gas resources. A number of floating Earth prepares for war, but cooler heads cities and gigantic refineries are on Centauri convince Earth leaders to try beginning to appear in the upper and negotiate with the growing Yazirian atmosphere. Although the Kuiper Belt empire. Later the first Alpha Centauri has been largely ignored in terms of Peace Conference is held and serves to commercial development, unmanned preserve interstellar peace when Vrusk probes have fully catalogued them by diplomats convince Antar that it has now paving the way for future nothing to gain and everything to lose by exploitation and development. fighting earth and her allies. Antar joins the alliance. Soon after they introduce An undeclared economic alliance exists the alliance to the Harmonic. between Earth, and Alpha Centauri, and the first interstellar trade missions occur The Parliament of Hope makes contact during this time. Commercial interstellar with the alliance encouraging the various space travel begins. The Warp 4 Drive is races to formally combine their worlds. developed. A series of meetings take place on Centauri, attended by delegates of the 2131 AD - The first lakes and seas are major spacefaring governments. This beginning to form on Mars. In the lowest first attempt to establish a single, altitude regions, a variety of plant life unifying federation fails to receive has been introduced. The air pressure popular support of the worlds involved and temperature is even high enough for because the primary goals and policies certain arthropods and insects to survive. of such a coalition are not defined adequately. Diplomats agree to continue Earth's first OD-200 Class multi- working toward such a federation, now functional, space rated construction dock realizing that their efforts must centre on becomes operational, serving as a sub- defining the role and responsibilities for light manoeuvrable repair facility for the new government. starships. Eventually 50 are built. As a 89

The Warp 5 Drive is developed. construct the Centauri Test Range, a Construction of large-scale space weaponry and propulsion test facility manufacturing station begins in Lunar and research centre. orbit. The first test of warp radio between Pluto and Terra is a complete 2168 AD - A Federation cargo ship success, making interstellar operating near the frontier of Federation communication practical for the first space, is attacked and destroyed. A time. The newly-developed particle Galactic Fleet scout ship recovers the beam cannon is added to all military marker/recorder buoy from the lost vessels. cargo vessel. Tapes from the buoy reveal that the transport was not lost in space, 2148 AD - The first major joint- but was fired upon by enemy aliens of scientific project between Earth, and unknown origin. Galactic Fleet Alpha Centauri shows tangible benefits Command later learns that this was the when a series of research probes are first act of violence committed by the launched from both worlds. Sathars against the Federation.

Work begun on Centauri five years ago Later that year a Dralasite frigate leads to another series of meetings patrolling near the Federation border, among the starfaring races. At the first fails to make a scheduled rendezvous. A Babel Conference, all five races sign the massive search effort is made by Articles of Federation establishing the available Galactic Fleet vessels, but the Galactic Federation of Planets. The ship is never found and is recorded as original signatory powers include Earth, "lost, whereabouts unknown". Although Alpha Centauri, Beta Trianguli, Antar, never proven, circumstantial evidence and Eta Bootes. The goals of the GFP later points to foul play at the hands of include ensuring interstellar security, the Sathars. and improving economic trade, scientific research, and galactic exploration. 2169 AD - A freighter operating within Federation patrolled territory, is attacked In conjunction with these objectives, the by two starships of unknown organization of Galactic Fleet Command configuration. The vessels are similar to is to be completed within the next three those described by the commander of years, providing a unified military force cargo vessel destroyed in 2280. The for exploration and common defence. freighter is severely damaged, but the Plans are made for a Federation-wide attackers break off when a Federation news-gathering and reporting agency. As four-ship destroyer squadron appears. a result, the Solarian News Agency The Galactic Fleet Command flagship merges with other planetary services, attempts to establish communication for creating the Galactic Federation of purposes of identification and Planets Infonet. explanation.

The Warp 6 Drive is developed. With The alien vessels fail to understand or the permission and assistance of the ignore all efforts to communicate, and Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets, they successfully evade their pursuers. Earth military officials begin to The GFP Delta VII outpost is destroyed, 90 apparently another victim of piracy. and technical information transmitted by Galactic Fleet Intelligence later confirms subspace radio, complete starship- that this was a Sathar attack. As a result building facilities are built in only a few of the losses of the freighter and the months. These industrial complexes outpost, the Federation Council passes a permit the manufacture of the most special directive to Galactic Fleet recent warship designs for immediate Command. In addition to new, massive service. Thus, a few of the newest ships appropriations for fleet construction, the can see service in a matter of weeks. directive orders several cruiser Frontier squadrons no longer have to formations redeployed to strengthen wait years for the arrival of starships defences in the area where the freighter from Earth, Yazirian, or Alpha Centauri was lost. shipyards. Star Base 2 is completed and assumes operational status. Galactic A special scout squadron under the Fleet Engineers working at the Centauri jurisdiction of Galactic Fleet Intelligence Test Range begin an intensive program Command is dispatched to obtain any to develop more efficient energy possible information on the pirates, and, weapons systems for Federation if possible, to make diplomatic contact. warships. The squadron consists of twelve warp- driven patrol craft, each manned by a 2171 AD - Star Base 3 is completed and crew of 15 volunteers. None of the craft assumes operational status. This base is are ever seen or heard from again. later used as the primary command headquarters for Galactic Fleet Galactic Fleet Engineering Command's Operations during the Sathar War. Its first major construction project (relatively) great distance from the front culminates with the activation of Star makes command, control, and Base 1. This is the first major artificial communications protocols difficult to construction, repair, and service facility execute efficiently. For this reason, built for Galactic Fleet Command. many Galactic Fleet squadron and group commanders are able to exert enormous 2170 AD - An attack on Federation personal authority, responsibility, and probes, occurs in Sector 9d. This time, initiative while fighting this war. the pirate vessels remain in the area until the patrolling ships, two frigates, arrive. The introduction of warp-powered One frigate is crippled and the second is hospital ships brings the highest possible forced to retreat before the three quality of medical facilities and attacking cruisers break off their attack. technology to needy member worlds. Unmolested, they achieve warp speed Immediately after the declaration of war, and depart, presumably to return to their ships of this class are sent to support base. areas of the battle front, providing medical care for injured warship Massive engineering and construction crewmen and innocent civilians. efforts are begun on several dozen inhabitable planets, including several in 2172 AD - Star Base 4 is completed and the area where shipping recently has assumes operational status. A Sathar been attacked. Using available resources cruiser engages the GF Hades near Canis 91

Minoris 12 destroying it. A five-ship passengers and crew are killed and the Galactic Fleet task force of cruisers and cargo is found missing, apparently destroyers patrolling near Gamma Hydra stolen. Several ongoing GFP cultural surprises two Sathar cruisers. One Sathar exchange programs, including the ship stays to fight, while the other uses Student Exchange Program and the the diversion to escape. The remaining Galactic Cultural Exchange, are cruiser is destroyed, with only slight postponed indefinitely. The reasons damage to the Federation ships. given include a decreasing interest in the projects, and the fear of pirates attacking 2173 AD - Star Base 5 and 6 are shipping. The Medical Assistance completed and assumes operational Program is limited to sectors that may be status. The completion of this base affected by open hostilities. marks the end of the first major phase of Star Base construction. After this time, An escorted convoy of transports in the Federation cuts appropriations for Sector 4d is attacked by three Sathar similar bases, placing greater emphasis cruisers. The defending vessels are able on new starship construction. The to drive off the attackers with light Galactic Fleet's 155th Combat Squadron, losses in the first successful convoy currently on recreational leave, is caught defence. The success of tactics used in in a surprise attack at the unfinished this engagement convinces Galactic Outer Sector Defence Outpost 4. A Fleet strategists that ship-to-ship major sensor failure at the outpost victories are possible against the Sathars. permits a squadron of pirate cruisers to sneak up and catch the squadron 2174 AD - Outer Sector Defence unprepared for combat. Outpost 1, located in the Delta II System, is destroyed by a squadron of Only one GFP escapes and describe seven Sathar cruisers. Galactic Fleet enemy vessels painted as giant, winged Command institutes a Mobilization Alert creatures performing suicide runs with to bring all bases and construction fusion-explosive missiles. Intercepted facilities to combat readiness. As part of subspace radio transmissions from this the Mobilization Alert, a Zone of battle are translated, finally giving the Transport Escort is established in the enemy a name - the Sathars. The GFP disputed areas. Galactic Fleet assigns also obtains its first accurate bearing on military escorts to all priority transports. Sathar held space. Federation officials Galactic Fleet Command and several become increasingly concerned as the leading universities co-publish a report Sathars continue to conduct warlike on the Sathar race. This study examines actions. With the enemy no longer seen all available information on the Sathars, as mere 'space pirates', many in the and describes their threat to all life Federation now believe the entire Sathar within the Federation. race may be devoted to the goal of organized, violent aggression. After being in development for years, advanced laser weaponry is approved for In the most tragic incident of piracy to retrofit on all Federation warships. Two date, a commercial passenger liner is Sathar cruisers attack and destroy a systematically attacked. Almost 600 group of small asteroid mining outposts 92 near Sigma Cancri. Shortly thereafter, squadron following the President's they confront two GFP cruisers. In a instructions, opens known Sathar hailing bitter dogfight, one Sathar ship is frequencies, and warns the invading ship destroyed and the other disengages, of his orders. They give the Sathar while one GFP cruiser is severely government six months in which to damaged. This skirmish is considered to provide some kind of response. be a Federation victory. Otherwise, it means war. Though the Sathar ship does not communicate, it is 2175 AD - Star Base 7 and 8 are permitted to depart with the warning. completed and assume operational This marks the only occasion where status. This is the last Star Base Federation and Sathar warships meet completed until after the Sathar War. without bloodshed on either side. Two Sathar gunboats are surrounded and crippled in the Sexton system by units One warship remains in the vicinity of from Galactic Fleet's 123rd Combat Eta Leonis VI, awaiting a Sathar Squadron. The Sathar ships self-destruct response. Three Sathar ships later appear while several Federation ships and attack. The GFP ship makes one manoeuvre close for boarding. Four GFP transmission before being destroyed. Her destroyers are lost with all hands. message is received by other vessels in Galactic Fleet issues standing orders the area and relayed throughout the prohibiting its vessels from closing with Federation. The Sathars' intentions are even a badly damaged Sathar vessel. clear, and war is declared. In this unprecedented action, the GFP moves After several months of careful analysis against an enemy whose planetary and discussion, ranking Galactic Fleet holdings and bases, political structure, officers at Star Base 3 report their aims and philosophies, and even decision. All Sectors go to Code 1 War- appearance is completely unknown. Alert status to combat the Sathars' Intercepted subspace radio irregular hit-and-run tactics. The communications are translated and President of the Federation Council analyzed to help the GFP understand issues a sealed, standing order by their foe. subspace radio to all individuals possessing the rank of Admiral, Council 2176 AD - In the first real battle of the Secretary, or Senior Ambassador. If Sathar War, two squadrons of Sathar formal contact is made with the Sathar cruisers headed toward Rigel are met at government, the Federation will demand Prantares by a Federation force of that all hostilities cease immediately, or approximately equal size. The Battle of a state of war will be declared. Any Prantares is a tactical draw. The military or governmental official Federation suffers much heavier losses, receiving this order has the full authority but force the Sathars to turn back. of the GFP to authorize such a Operating independently, several declaration. Federation squadrons cross into Sathar- controlled territory. While advancing Galactic Fleet's 150th Combat Squadron into uncharted space, Galactic Fleet’s meets a solitary Sathar cruiser near Eta Forty-Fourth Cruiser Squadron detects Leonis VI. Instead of attacking, the an unprotected Sathar deep-space supply 93 depot. The small station is destroyed fleet in the Triangle. Excluding isolated, without Federation casualties. In small-scale engagements, the Triangle response a Sathar wing penetrates Star remains Sathar-free for the rest of the Fleet's corvette picket screen and war. destroys the Sector 5B Mining Complex, a very important Federation ore Four Sathar squadrons bombard Alpha processing facility. Omega B with mass drive missiles, rendering the planet uninhabitable. Two Star Base 9 and 10 are completed and Sathar squadrons performing assume operational status. diversionary tactics are wiped out by local defence squadrons, but over 20,000 Galactic Fleet’s Twelfth Strike Wing, military and civilian personnel are killed containing three full squadrons, in the main attack. This marks the encounters a disorganized Sathar convoy Sathars' deepest penetration into at Nu Chalcedonis, a Federation Federation space. rendezvous point inside the Triangle. With only light casualties, the Federation Shortages of men, starships, and supplies force destroys the entire Sathar convoy. reach critical levels for both Federation Continuing their advance into Federation and Sathar forces, as both fleets force space, individual Sathar ships form deep penetrations into the opposing 'wolf-packs’ to attack Federation governments' territory. Numerous raids transports. Three escorted Federation and battle losses make it increasingly convoys are attacked and destroyed in difficult for either side to form effective this way. Officials believe Sathars are formations and continue the war. hijacking the cargoes before destroying the transports. As they press deeper into 2170 AD - A Federation fleet of five Federation space, the Sathars are squadrons stumbles onto a major Sathar becoming desperately in need of base at Manarram, dealing the enemy its supplies. first true defeat. Manned only by skeleton crews during resupply Headed for the Triangle, a Sathar operations, over 30 Sathar cruisers and armada of 60 ships attacks three gunboats are destroyed in orbit before Federation squadrons near Gamma they can fire a shot. Six Galactic Fleet Hydra. Though Federation forces are vessels are lost when the planetary base outnumbered substantially, casualties are destroys itself after its defences sustain extremely heavy on both sides. The serious damage. The loss of the base and Galactic Fleet's new tactics match Sathar warships are crippling, and the Sathar ferocity, leaving both fleets badly war effort never fully recovers. This is depleted and exhausted. The Sathars the deepest penetration of Federation force a Federation retreat, and they forces into Sathar space. resume course for the Triangle. The 132nd Strike Squadron reinforces the The Battle of Cheron is fought in Sathar battered GFP forces and repulses the space between two squadrons of Sathar armada. This battle seriously Federation ships and remnants of four weakens Galactic Fleet, but it also Sathar groups. The battle ends prevents the formation of a major Sathar inconclusively when neither side has any 94 combat-capable ships remaining. This Neutral Zone becomes operational. The battle marks the GFP's last opportunity system is expanded and improved during to organize a fleet strong enough to the next 30 years, until most military reach the supposed location of the Sathar theorists consider it impossible for a ship home world. Still, it is considered a to cross the border undetected. It is victory, because the Sathars lose more assumed that a similar network has been ships than the Federation does. created by the Sathars. This is supported by the fact that, of the 17 Federation At this time, realizing that they are space vessels known to have penetrated technologically outclassed and the Neutral Zone, none have returned. outnumbered, the Sathars consolidate along the GFP-Sathar border. They A major, privately-operated research begin major construction of outposts to station opens on Deneva and begins keep track of Federation forces and keep scientific investigations into translator them in check. Just homeward of these physics. The Galactic Fleet Museum on outposts, the Sathars are also building Memory Alpha is completed. This is the ships intended for future expansion into newest GFP repository for major Federation territory. scientific and historical artifacts. The facility quickly becomes a major The Sathars transmit a message to the scientific attraction for researchers from Federation declaring a ceasefire. The throughout the Federation. Over the next Federation accepts. Now that the Sathar ten years, a number of famous warships War has ended, Galactic Fleet Command are brought to the Museum and placed in is forced by budgetary constraints to tractored orbits around the planetoid. decommission a number of warships. The Zone of Transport Escort is lifted, The Federation Council refuses a and galactic peace brings tremendous funding request from Galactic Fleet for growth in industry, trade, and tourism. the development of new starships. All funds previously assigned to completing All Federation cultural exchange the construction of Star Base 11 and 12 programs resume after having been are also "indefinitely postponed", to suspended during the Sathar War. Galactic Fleet’s enormous surprise. Federation officials release a public Because construction had already begun, survey poll showing rising confidence in the installation retained its name, but the GFP and its ability to perform its remained uncompleted and inoperative intended duties. Official membership of until the next war. the Galactic Federation of Planets reaches 100. 2176 AD - Venus has been transformed into a habitable, Earthlike world. With 2171 AD - Construction work on Outer lush tropical oceans, Venus now has two Sector Defence Outpost 1 is now large, dominant landmasses - Aphrodite complete, and the rebuilt base is and Ishtar - along with a number of reactivated. smaller subcontinents and islands. The average surface temperature has Star Fleet's initial network of manned stabilised at around 25°C. and automated outposts along the 95

Tsaurid activities near the Federation his ships from Federation territory, border decrease drastically during this issuing a formal declaration of alliance period, with few Tsaurid warships seen with the natives in the Axanar system. and the number of routine confrontations This results in a state of war between the dropping by more than 70 percent. GFP and the Tsaurid Empire. A Tsaurid Galactic Fleet Intelligence learns that the surprise attack on Jupiter base is foiled. Tsaurids are fighting a war with an This battle proves there were small unknown race along their coreward numbers of Tsaurid ships on the border. Federation border even before hostilities were officially declared. The Warp 7 Drive is developed. The materializer (later called the teleporter) The frequency of piracy and ship is invented. disappearances begins to increase dramatically. Galactic Fleet Intelligence 2181 AD - The Galactic Fleet begins an initially suspects privateers and small extensive construction program oriented Tsaurid task groups of conducting the toward building ships designed to raids. Many years later, they learn that investigate unexplored space. The the source of many attacks was actually Galactic Exploratory Service is created. Sathar ships, equipped with cloaking In direct response to multiple disasters devices and self-destruct orders, carrying the Federation Council also introduces out covert raids during most of the the Interstellar Rescue organization. Tsaurid War. Dedicated to answering distress calls, resolving crises and disasters, and saving 2188 AD - The Battle of Lyclydun is lives anywhere within the Federation. fought. Janni IV is invaded by Tsaurid troops. The Battle of GR-1 and the 2187 AD - A GFP destroyer encounters Assault of Nozseca VIII are fought. Both a Tsaurid cruiser eight parsecs from end in Federation defeat. The Attack of Axanar, and disables it. Learning of the Convoy Y-16Z near Rebonet is fought. recent Axanar massacre by the Tsaurids, This is the first significant Federation the Federation Council demands that fleet victory. The Galactic Fleet's newest Tsaurid forces there withdraw to their warships enter service, now equipped border under Galactic Fleet escort. The with teleportation units. Although at this Tsaurid Admiral at Axanar is permitted point the teleporters only work with non four months to receive instructions from living objects. his Empire. GFP cruisers are already on their way to Axanar. One of the scouts The Battle of Thranstor is fought, near Axanar picks up the second, marking the deepest penetration by incoming Tsaurid task force. Despite Tsaurid forces into Federation space. being outnumbered, the commander of This intensely fought battle ends with the GFP cruisers quickly implements a Federation forces routing the Tsaurids. tactical plan that results in his victory at the Battle of Axanar. The Legion of Galactic Guardians Academy is established with the purpose In response to the Federation Council, of recruiting metabeings from each of the Tsaurid Admiral refuses to withdraw the Federation worlds to aid in the war. 96

2189 AD - The Battle of Kesse takes of Centauri are transported to planets on place. A fast moving Federation task their side of the newly-redefined force travelling within Tsaurid held Federation/Tsaurid border. space catches a vital Tsaurid convoy by surprise. A number of escorts and The phaser flare and torpedo freighters are destroyed, and a cruiser is have finally been manufactured in severely damaged. The Battles of Sector sufficient quantities to replace the laser 23-D, Pen's, Oco, and Biwywb are and accelerator cannon as the fought. Federation marines assault Karag Federation's primary shipboard weapons in the largest operation of its kind during systems. The Galactic Fleet no longer the war. requiring the services of many older starships, decommissions or destroys After extensive research and large quantities of cruisers, destroyers, development, Galactic Fleet’s and scouts. All recent starships are Engineering Command reports the refitted with phaser flares and plasma plasma torpedo is operational and ready torpedoes, continue to serve as the for limited mass production. Researchers Federation's first line of defence. The at the Centauri Science Academy teleporter has also been perfected for use develop a hypospray antidote to the by living organisms. Tsaurid nerve gas recently used on frontier worlds. 2200 AD - Pluto switches ranking with Neptune and becomes the 8th celestial 2190 AD - Galactic Fleet, initially using body from the sun. captured Tsaurid ships, attacks the Tsaurid fleet near their homeworld in the 2201 AD - A full-scale research project largest fleet action of the war. The first under the Office of Galactic Fleet widespread use of Legion Academy Research and Exploration confirms the graduates in this battle proves the worth underlying accuracy of the transwarp of the new institution. Several senior theory, later leading to the transwarp Tsaurid officers surrender and are drive. The Zone of Transport Escort is transported as official representatives of lifted, with all private and commercial their government to Axanar. starships allowed to return to normal operations. Star Base 27, constructed The Centauri Peace Mission convenes. near the Tsaurid border, assumes The Tsaurid War ends, as the Treaty of operational status. After a delay of Centauri is signed by dignitaries of the several decades and as a result of the Galactic Federation of Planets and the added danger posed by a new nearby Tsaurid Empire. Limited diplomatic Tsaurid base, Star Base 12 is finally channels are established, and completed and assumes operational concessions are made on both sides as status. the Centauri Peace Mission negotiates details of the settlement and establishes A new generation of computers is new boundaries. invented. Following the war with the Tsaurids, Galactic Fleet came to the Tsaurid citizens required to relocate in realization that despite erasing the compliance with the terms of the Treaty technology gap between their weaponry 97 and the Tsaurids, their numbers were representative of all of the Federation. still inferior to that of the Tsaurid Star The United Earth Government opposed Force. Galactic Fleet starts to develop a the move, stating that Galactic Fleet's series of improved version of the traditional home has been Earth and variable starfighter and dedicated Earth's central location in the Federation carriers to transport them. made it ideal to serve all the member world of the Federation. The Argrorian Confederation makes first contact with the Sathar Star Empire, 2260 AD - Construction on the new with the Sathars destroying one of their Galactic Fleet Headquarters begins. The explorers. This leads to well over a Antarians and the Dralasites head much century of hostility. The Kappans are of the construction effort. The Antarians admitted into the Federation as view this as a great windfall in light of members. the minor rivalry that had broken out between Earth and Antaria during the 2212 AD - Governor Karsis of planet development of more recent starships. Tartarus declares martial law after a The station would be the largest ever massive food shortage set in. He has constructed by the Federation at 2500 4,000 colonists executed so that the rest meters in diameter. To protect it from may survive. Months later he is assault, it would be heavily armed with overthrown and killed during an assault phaser flares, plasma torpedoes, fighters, by members of the Galactic Legion. The and be protected by its own fleet. Warp 8 Drive is developed. The Construction was expected to take five Argrorian Confederation joins the to six years, with another year to transfer Federation. Galactic Fleet's facilities off of Earth to the new space station. 2247 AD - The Sathars launch a warship with a prototype cloaking device. It 2267 AD - Secret negotiations between succeeds in destroying Federation the Sathar Republic and the Tsaurid Outposts 2, 3, 4, and 5. A Federation Empire conclude with a formal alliance. destroyer responds to the attacks and Additionally, the Tsaurids receive finally manages to track and destroy the several Sathar cloaking devices for use vessel before it can return to a Sathar in their fleet. The Sathars get many base. surplus Tsaurid ships, all are refitted to use Sathar cloaking devices and plasma 2259 AD - On the 100th anniversary of weapons. The Sathars would continue to the founding of the Federation, the make routine warship purchases from Federation Council and Galactic Fleet the Tsaurids for the next decade, albeit at Command announces the construction of grossly inflated prices. Galactic Fleet a new Galactic Fleet Headquarters Intelligence launches an operation to starbase. Galactic Fleet's essential obtain a Sathar cloaking device. The operations and Galactic Fleet Academy mission is successful but comes close to would transfer to this new facility. This starting a new war. The new Galactic step was taken after nearly a century of Fleet headquarters is finally completed, complaints that since Galactic Fleet was having run way behind schedule. headquartered on Earth, it wasn't 98

2272 AD - The Sathar military conduct a and was highly classified within Galactic secret strike operation against a Tsaurid Fleet. starbase in an attempt to capture experimental technology being Galactic Fleet decides to merge the developed there. Instead the base is transwarp program with the construction completely destroyed. The Sathars of a prototype ship for a new class of convince the Tsaurids that the heavy battlecruiser. The Warp 9 Drive is Federation was responsible. developed.

As a result Tsaurid ambassadors meet 2282 AD - A new Commander in Chief with Sathar senators. They agree that the of Galactic Fleet is appointed, promising time for action against the Federation is to reorganize the fleet to be more now. The Tsaurids offer to supply more dedicated to scientific exploration and ships, if the Sathars give them their new discovery. Active duty starships are cloak. An agreement is reached to hit the rotated in to be refitted with more Vrusk homeworld. sophisticated sensor arrays and science labs. En route to the staging ground a Sathar warship suffers an engine explosion. A TziTzi terrorist detonates a suicide With their life support system failing, bomb on a Federation passenger liner. they send out a general distress call, The TziTzi government denies any hoping that their compatriots would knowledge of the terrorists' actions. receive it. However a Federation cruiser Galactic Fleet Intelligence believes that detects the call instead and comes to the bomber was inspired by government their aid. When the Federation ship propaganda to carry out the strike, and reaches the Sathars, the crew find the dispatches a Special Operations team to Sathars unconscious. investigate. They find and destroy a small cell of TziTzi terrorists responsible Faced with a golden opportunity, for the passenger liner bombing. Federation crew examine the computers of the ship where they discover the plans SpecOps and Galactic Fleet Intelligence for the Sathar fleet assembling to attack believe that the cell was one of several the Federation. Galactic Fleet deploy a semi-autonomous terror cells, designed task force to the staging ground, issuing to both protect the whole organization a demand for the Sathars to stand down from the loss of one cell and to perhaps or be destroyed. The Tsaurids refuse to give the government plausible back down, the Sathars however flee deniability. abandoning their allies. The Tsaurids choose to go out fighting and are The Federation scientific research destroyed to the last ship. institute unveils the latest development in computer technology. The new In light of this Galactic Fleet begins isolinear chips would replace the organizing major defence upgrades for duotronic enhancer cartridges used for all of their outposts along the Sathar and nearly a century. Tsaurid borders. This time consuming work would take months to complete 99

2284 AD - Galactic Fleet engineers Earth Alliance, and begin friendly develop a new version of the relationship with the Federation. The communicator. This version is built into Arcturans lease time on their jumpgates, the Galactic Fleet uniform, complete building one in the Earth system. The with a Universal Translator built into it, Arcturan Government opens a Jumpgate, enabling Galactic Fleet crews to named "Stargate" by the Federation, in communicate with new species much orbit around Jupiter. Work is to begin on easier than before. The Tamazed join the the Federation's own Jumpgates. The Federation. Orill join the Federation.

2297 AD - An undercover Federation 2318 AD - The first successful spy learns of the Sathars intended attack Federation jumpgate is completed in on a Tsaurid colony and warns the orbit around Alpha Centauri. More are to Federation. A lone Federation be built near the homeworlds of each of battlecruiser is able to reach the Tsaurid the Federation members. The Arcturans colony in time. The Sathar forces begin join the Federation. Orbital Shipyards their attack when the Federation ship are built in all major Federation member arrives to stop them. Outmatched the systems. Federation cruiser nevertheless manages to destroy one of the Sathar ships, 2322 AD - The Federation begins to before being destroyed itself. The increase its colonization program. This Sathars continue their assault on the sparks an enormous economic growth, colony wiping out most of the backed by an extremely efficient inhabitants. Word of the attack reaches industrial, manufacturing and financial the Tsaurid and they declare war on the system. The Obsidians fake a distress Sathars. A few months later recognizing call from the Star Guard's headquarters the sacrifice of the Federation crew at Primus. Once all the Star Guard have which defended the colony, the Tsaurid arrived the entire planet is phased Empire signs a trade and technology slightly out of sync with this universe sharing agreement with the Federation trapping them all. The Parliament of and enters into an informal alliance. Hope becomes immediately aware of this and begins investigating who was 2298 AD - In light of the new peace, the responsible. The Warp 10 Drive is Super Battleship Project is officially developed. suspended. However, many of the designers would unofficially revisit the 2328 AD - The Iridani, long considered design every so often in order to update a mythical race sends a warship with one it, and have it ready in the event Galactic of their most revered ambassadors Fleet ever needed the ship in the future. aboard through the Jupiter jumpgate. Obsidian ships disguised as Federation 2301 AD – Celebration of the new cruisers are waiting there and millennium by Earth and its colonies. immediately attack and destroy the Iridani ship, killing all on board. After 2307 AD - Engineers working for Fleet this incident, and the death of their Intelligence develop the so-called ambassador, the Obsidians are able to phasing cloak. The Arcturans contact the secretly manoeuvre the Iridani into 100 declare a holy war against Earth. The Pumeran heavy cruisers were able to final objective is the total extinction of destroy or at least heavily damage their the human race. The attempts of the Arcturan opponents before being Vrusk to stop the war, and their pleas for destroyed themselves. peace, are rejected by the Iridani. The Parliament of Hope finally learns of The Federation fleet, with a strength of the Obsidians, a race they thought 12 cruisers, 8 Dreadnoughts, 5 defeated long ago. They send out agents Battlecruisers and 10 escort units try to to determine what the Obsidians have oppose a Iridani task force en route to been up to. attack Vega. None of the Federation ships survives. The few survivours of the 2329 AD - At this point of the war, the crews of the ships, escape on emergency Federation has learned to avoid open lifepods, and are searched for and space battles against the Iridani, whose exterminated by the Iridani. The first ships and fighters, equipped with a battles are tragic defeats for the "stealth" technology, are untraceable. Federation, that in this first phase of the The ambush and short range fighting war loses an average of 9 to 1 ships. The tactics of the Federation enables them to Federation is qualitatively and slow down and inflict losses to the quantitatively outclassed in every field, Iridani, but the attrition rate is still about and is made to fight on Iridani Initiative 5 to 1 for the ships, while many and in numerical inferiority. shipyards are destroyed. The Parliament of Hope's agents report back what the Meanwhile.. taking advantage of the Obsidians have been doing. Staggered at Federation's distraction the Obsidians the magnitude of the Obsidian's secret are also able to convince the Arcturans manipulations the Parliament instructs to begin invading and occupying its own members to find and remove any Pumeran planets. The Pumeran Regime Obsidian agents in places of influence. declares war against the Arcturan Republic. Over the next few months, the Despite a promise not to attack civilian Pumeran steadily lose their defensive targets, the Arcturans launch a sneak war. When it came to an all-out open attack on a Pumeran civilian colony, war, the Pumeran found that the causing the deaths of 5,000 Pumerans Arcturan fleet was still much larger than and forcing the evacuations of several their own, and that Arcturan warships thousand others. The Arcturans officially still possessed a significant technological respond to the accusation they are advantage over their Pumeran targeting civilians by accusing the counterparts. Pumerans of placing military targets in the midst of civilian colonies to use their Arcturan vessels were equipped with own people as shields. What really artificial gravity, which gave them more doomed the Pumeran to defeat was the speed and manoeuvrability than secret assistance the Arcturans received Pumeran warships. Even so, the from their Obsidian allies. The Pumeran Pumerans learned quickly allowing them fleet is no match at all against the to compensate for some of these ancient Obsidian vessels; a single problems, and in several battles, the Obsidian vessel could easily destroy an 101 entire fleet of Pumeran warships. The Pumeran homeworld with military forces desperate Pumeran Strategic Command and enslave the Pumeran people. decide to launch an all-out strike against the main Arcturan supply base. The 2330 AD - The Iridani finally reach the Pumeran hope that, by uniting most of sol system. Over 2200 ships clash in the their remaining warships into a single asteroid belt where the Iridani are armada, they could destroy the supply hampered by the content of some of the base and force the Arcturans halt their asteroids. Among the ships defending advance. This would give the Pumeran earth is a division of Tsaurid warships time to regroup and rebuild their forces. on loan to the Federation. The battle finally ends when the flagship of the The danger of this plan was that, in order Federation fleet (the finally finished to create a fleet large enough to make the Super Battleship) fights its way to the assault, the defences of the Pumeran centre of the Iridani fleet where it homeworld were severely depleted, detonates its engine core. Nearly every thereby leaving it open to attack if the ship is destroyed. Taking in their Arcturans discovered the Pumeran's enormous losses at the battle of Sol the plan. Unfortunately for the Pumeran Iridani declare a ceasefire. The ceasefire Regime, the Arcturans did indeed learn also comes about in part due to the about the Pumeran strategy by actions of the member of the Parliament intercepting and breaking their coded of Hope who had secretly rooted out the transmissions, and planned a decisive Obsidian agents manipulating events counter-attack to end the war with a between the Federation and Iridani. massive assault on the Pumeran homeworld itself. The Vrusk are able to negotiate a truce between the Federation and the Iridani. Obsidian vessels were waiting for the In 2 and a half years of war, the Pumeran fleet and the entire Pumeran Federation suffered 22,650,000 dead, armada was completely destroyed. and the Iridani 950,000. The Federation Meanwhile, the Arcturan fleet launches is reduced at less than 20% of its pre-war its full scale assault on Pumeran. forces. Quickly overcoming the now meagre defences, the fleet begins to bombard The Federation finally turns its attention Pumeran from space using mass drivers to the Arcturans and tries them for war which rain huge meteors down onto the crimes. Showing no remorse and no planet's surface, reducing most of willingness to free the Pumeran race, the Pumeran's cities to rubble, killing Arcturans are expelled from the millions of Pumeran civilians, and Federation. The Obsidians take shattering the Pumeran's infrastructure, advantage of the situation convincing the communication, and most other basic Arcturans that they have been treated services. The bombing continues for four unfairly and further embedding their days, drawing denouncement from every forces in Arcturan space. Plans for other major power. As an act of simple revenge begin. survival, the Pumeran Regime agrees to an unconditional surrender to the 2331 AD - As part of the treaty ending Arcturans, who then occupy the the war the Iridani join the Federation. 102

They bring with them the Osirians, 2382 AD - Construction of the Quantum Quartizites, and Mechalus. Plans begin Ring is completed. The first particle to build a space station to act as a accelerators built by man were small, meeting place for all races. The Iridani terrestrial-based devices. An accelerator share their technological secrets leading covering the entire perimeter of an to major advances in stealth and medical uninhabited solar system is constructed tech. Joint work begins on a second and becomes the largest scientific super battleship. Jumpgate passages are experiment in history - powerful enough opened between the Federation and to accelerate particles to a state known Iridani. Interactive holographic as the Grand Unification Energy. technology becomes widespread, mainly used to create holographic environments. This allows the very earliest conditions of the observable Universe to be The Parliament of Hope joins the simulated. The electromagnetic, weak Federation and reveals the manipulations and strong nuclear forces (three of the of the Obsidians. This information is four fundamental forces in the Universe) restricted to only the highest levels of can be observed for the first time at the Federation. precisely the same strength: becoming effectively different aspects of a single 2337 AD - Shared Mechalus and Iridani force. Quarks and electrons, too, can be technology leads to changes in how seen as essentially the same, achieving Federation ships are constructed another unification. The Tsaurids are including new weapons, shielding and allowed to partake in the experiments. construction material. Also biotechnology makes huge advances. 2355 AD - Earth is currently one of the main industrial and agricultural centres 2350 AD - Construction begins of the of the Federation, exporting numerous first planet sized computers. One in the food stuffs and manufactured goods to Sol system and one in the Iridani home other members. Earth is also the centre system. An incident with an unknown for scientific research -- especially in the starship at the edge of the galaxy in fields of environmental, mechanical, Federation space causes Galactic Fleet to biomedical, and biomechanical begin building a mega fortress named engineering. Thanks to the perfection of Star Fortress 1, along with warning fusion, hydrogen-fuel, and materials sensors and mines in the area. The work reclamation technologies, the Earth's is done in secret but word eventually environment is about as clean as it was gets out and speculation arises that the before the Industrial Revolution. area in question is the nearest point to the Andromeda galaxy, almost as if Plants and wildlife thrive better than something had crossed intergalactic ever since humanity centralized their space.. population in and around the cities. Because of this, the Earth is also a major 2354 AD - The Mechalus develop the tourist planet, fascinating visitors with Warp 11 Drive for the Federation. its beauty and the speed of its recovery after the devastating Iridani Wars. The population of the Solar System is in the 103 quintillions. Floating mega-cities mount a full invasion of the Dralasite currently exist on Venus, Earth and homeworld, it is barely repelled by a Mars. The Sun is controlled and Federation fleet. War is declared. harvested a massive array controlling the solar winds to not disrupt 2368 AD - Various Federation outposts communications or cause any damage, along the Draconid border are attacked the energy funnelled into particle by unknown ships. Half are destroyed. collides that ring the sun and make The Federation later receives a energy for all the planets in the system. declaration of war from the Celestial Jupiter is burning, artificially ignited. Alliance, an organization the Draconids The Iridani have an identical setup in are members of. The Alliance their own home system. immediately began fortifying the Draconids with weekly convoys of Augmented Reality now overlaps the warships and troops. The Alliance also real world with data, information, and begin attacks on the Tsaurids and forms new technology. Asking someone to not a non aggression pact with the Sathar. use a computer is as alien in this age as The Tsaurids retaliate by destroying asking us to not use our sense of touch-- Draconid shipyard near the homeworld. absurd. Nanotechnology and 3D printing A basic design of a variable space means everything is built when needed-- fighter system is completed. Soon after food, toys, whatever someone wants. trial prototype production of a SF-X Computing power is essentially infinite variable fighter system begins early in for the private consumer--everything is a the year. computer, everything is linked. Trees change their leave's albedo to make it 2369 AD - Over the next three months, cooler. Plants radio the nano-sphere in Federation and Tsaurid forces clashed the upper atmosphere to ask for more or with the Alliance across multiple sectors less rain. Everything is connected on a but are repeatedly forced to retreat with world. Knowledge is increasing massive losses. Morale among the exponentially--literally every few Galactic and Tsaurid Fleets plummets. seconds, a breakthrough occurs. After the fall of Alpha Centauri, Star Guard Command concludes that the The Star Guard reappear after not having Federation needs more allies. To this end been seen for decades, their homeworld they concoct and carry out a covert joins the Galactic Federation. The Warp mission to implicate the Alliance in the 12 Drive is developed. The various assassination of Sathar government neutral zones are abolished with greater members. In response, the Sathar declare integration between all races. war on the Celestial Alliance, opening up a second front and relieving pressure 2367 AD - After being contacted by the on the Galactic Federation and Tsaurid. Obsidians the Draconids attack a Dralasite colony, claiming the Dralasite Successful trials of the SF-X variable enroached on their territory. The fighter leads to them being rushed into Federation sends an envoy to the service with all the major fleets. They Draconids to make a truce offer, it is prove instrumental in a covert strike rejected with force. The Draconids against Alliance shipyards deep within 104 their territory. This leads to a lull in the Star Fortress 1. Almost half the fleet is war as the Alliance try to come to terms lost before the fortress and mine field is with their massive loss. The Warp 13 destroyed allowing the waiting Drive is developed. Andromedan fleet to pass through. The Andromedans are immediately betrayed 2370 AD - The Sathar launch a however and the Obsidians take over morphogenic virus that targets the DNA their bodies and their ships, adding their of all insect races. The Federation knowledge to the Obsidian hive mind. Council learns of this but in a close vote decide to withhold any help for strategic The Federation remaining unaware of concerns. Some within protest this act as the loss of SF1 launch retaliatory strikes abetting genocide. Back on Earth, the against the Arcturans. With Arcturan GFP President succeeds in gaining the forces weakening the Pumeran resistance support of the Tsaurid Empire, the begin stepping up their own offensive Iridani, and the Sathar. An allied fleet of against their slave lords. over three thousand ships assemble and launch an all out assault on the Alliance. 2377 AD - After relinquishing control of The fleet penetrates deep into Alliance the Pumeran homeworld, the Arcturans space and with their Obsidian allies are forced to abandon world after world nowhere to be seen the Alliance finally due to losses against the GFP and sues for peace. increasing Pumeran aggression and rebellion. The Obsidians move their It is later learned that the Sathar virus forces to Celestial Alliance space had a devastating effect on the various offering them revenge in return for races within the Celestial Alliance and hiding the Obsidian fleet. forcing them into a ceasefire. In november a treaty for the cessation of The Federation finally becomes aware of hostilities is signed. The war ends but the destruction of SF1 and its minefield has enormous repercussions for all the but can find no trace of any enemy. Even races involved. Sixty-three billion worlds along the logical invasion path people were killed on the GFP side, 40 report having seen nothing. The billion Tsaurids, 11 billion Sathar and Parliament of Hope feeling a deep over 90 billion within the Alliance. Forty foreboding deploys agents to try to percent of the Galactic Fleet was also determine what is going on. They are destroyed, leaving the Federation in a however unable to penetrate Alliance weakened state. Fortunately the other space due to the Assembly of Fear races suffered similar losses in ships and attacking every agent who attempts to. were in no position to take advantage of The Parliament instead decide to watch the situation. from afar.

2376 AD - The Obsidians complete 2378 AD - The Arcturans are completely building an enormous combined defeated and sue for peace. The Arcturan/Obsidian fleet. While the Pumerans regain all of their planets as Arcturans begin an offensive on various well as monetary compensation from the Federation shipping lanes distracting the Arcturans. The Federation and GGP, the entire Obsidian fleet attacks Parliament learn of the continuing 105 involvement of the Obsidians although Confederacy. The assault is so swift and the Arcturans have no knowledge of the devastating that the Sathar are almost Andromedan fleet. After much debate completely annihilated within a few the Arcturans are readmitted into the weeks. Sathar refugees flood the GFP GFP, the better to keep an eye on them. worlds and an expeditionary fleet led by the SBS 2 is dispatched to locate the 2386 AD - Work begins on rebuilding enemy. Nearly every federation ship in Star Fortress 1 but this time outfitted the fleet is destroyed including the SBS. with Sathar cloaking technology and Only a few survive to carry word back to scientific laboratories to research the Federation. There are several more intergalactic travel. New colony ships engagements, all ending disastrously for are also created as the colonization the Federation and Iridani, including the program is restarted. The Warp 14 Drive loss of the SBS 3 and 5 at one battle. is developed. 2427 AD - The Parliament of Hope 2400 AD - Star Fortress 1.2 is having finally discovered the completed. Work now turns towards vulnerability of Obsidian ships to building a new super battleship, this time telepathic jamming inform the incorporating Iridani and Mechalus Federation who in turn launch a major technology. The Warp 15 Drive is fleet action against the Obsidians, developed. combining large elements of the various allied fleets, telepathic attacks and well- 2406 AD - The Super Battleship 2 is developed intelligence to successfully completed, work begins on the SBS 3, 4, defeat a major Obsidian force in a direct and 5. engagement.

2412 AD - Trials begin of the While the combined fleet lost ships at a experimental Hyperspace Drive at Star ratio of 2-1 to achieve this victory, it is a Fortress 1.2. The Warp 16 Drive is victory nonetheless: the Obsidians are developed. The Super Battleship 3, 4 and forced to retreat and have been delivered 5 are completed, work begins on the a message that their attempt to spread SBS 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. disorder and chaos will not be tolerated. Unfortunately the Obsidians soon 2423 AD - The Warp 17 Drive is retaliate, deploying a planetkiller, which developed. The first functioning begins systematically destroying planets Hyperspace 1 Drive is retrofitted onto along the Federation/Alliance border. the Super Battleship 2 with plans to also install them on the other SBSs. The first Knowing they have only sufficient ships Zero-point energy station is created at to make a stand at one location, the Neptune after a break through in Federation choose the Vrusk homeworld collecting the free energy within the which was directly along the line the vacuum of space. Obsidian fleet was taking. This enormous fleet was composed of nearly 2426 AD - The Obsidians and Celestial every GFP, Tsaurid and Iridani ship as Alliance finally reemerge with an well as the remnants of the Sathar fleet. overwhelming attack against the Sathar There is only just enough time to set up 106 the cloaked minefield and SBS 6. Upon decide to take matters into their own arrival the Obsidian/Alliance charge hands. The Warp 18 Drive is developed. straight for the waiting fleet. Borrowing a tactic used against the Iridani, the GFP 2432 AD - The Hyperspace 2 Drive is detonate the cloaked Super Battleship 6 developed and retrofitted onto the Super as soon as most of the enemy fleet have Battleships 4, 7 and 9 (the only surviving passed over it. Its explosion starts a SBSs). The Super Battleship 4 is sent on chain reaction with cloaked mines a 60-day deployment aimed at training spread out over the area inflicting new personnel in the context of a treaty enormous losses on the Obsidians. verification and general patrol mission. The ship escorts an Interior Ministry Despite this the Obsidians manage to convoy carrying relief supplies to push their Planet Killer into range of various resettlement camps in the Sathar Alpha Centauri. At this point the system. Afterward, they proceed to the Parliament of Hope jump into the fray new neutral zone to verify Celestial and direct their wrath at the Planet Alliance compliance with all provisions Killer, destroying it in a matter of of the Treaty. seconds while the Legion and Starguard engage the Assembly of Fear. The battle After years of planning, a fleet of lasts less than a day but by the end of it Tsaurid and Sathar ships launch sneak all the Obsidians are destroyed, and the attacks across the Federation, their intent Federation allies and Alliance each have to overthrow the GFP government and less than 1% of their fleets left. The two replace it with a Tsaurid dominated sides call a truce and return to their empire, then annihilate the Celestial respective sides. Alliance.

Federation diplomats negotiate a treaty, Responding to a false distress call, the officially suspending hostilities with the SBS 4 escapes from a Tsaurid attack, Celestial Alliance. The non-aggression only to be trapped in the event horizon treaty is signed over the vigorous of a black hole in the Moriour nebula. protests of Tsaurid and Sathar representatives, who back a campaign of 2433 AD - The last battle of the total extermination against the Alliance. Federation's civil war is fought when The Tsaurids and Sathar threaten GFP ships are ambushed by a larger complete secession from the GFP, but Tsaurid fleet. The two fleets destroy eventually back down after security each other almost completely. Shortly assurances are given by the Parliament afterward, the Celestial Alliance cross of Hope. the neutral zone in strength and numbers never imagined. Swarm fleets roam all 2429 AD - The Parliament of Hope and of known space, indiscriminately the Starguard disappear after repulsing a attacking Tsaurid, Sathar and former massive interdimensional invasion by Federation worlds alike. With no central the Astaroth. This leaves many in the political authority remaining and reliable Federation and Tsaurid Empire uneasy. interstellar communications only a The Tsaurids meet with the Sathars and memory, individual worlds are left to fend for themselves. 107

2435 AD - Weakened by the war to The Far Future Era overthrow the Federation, the Tsaurid 2726 AD - A salvage party retrieves the government and then their empire GFP Super Battleship 4 from the edge of collapses. Chaos reigns. An epidemic of a black hole in the Moriour nebula. The proxima measles sweeps across known SBS's surviving crew (frozen in time for space, followed by a host of other over 300 years by the freak interaction infectious and contagious diseases, many of the black hole's gravity well and the of which had been easily treatable in the ship's Hyperspace Drive) declare their Federation era. Populations on inhabited intention to restore the Galactic worlds are reduced by as much as 90 Federation of Planets. The salvage crew percent, and many of the few remaining and their ship join the SBS 4. social and economic structures are swept away. The SBS 4 spends the next few months adjusting to the new universe, while pursuing the creation of the New Galactic Federation of Planets. The idea of the new GFP however proves unpopular; only 6 worlds actually sign the charter by the end of 2875. The new crew does not really believe in the idea of the GFP, and joins the SBS only for personal gain.

To their surprise they find that having something to fight for is not a bad thing. Being the only vessel with transporters and a hyperspace engine the SBS 4 soon proves itself to be the most powerful ship in the galaxy (most other vessels sporting only a Warp Drive 8 at best, with a Warp 5 Drive being the norm).

Over the time the SBS 4 recruits 3 more ships bringing the total to 5. However they are ambushed by a newly formed Celestial Alliance fleet taking heavy damage while the other ships are lost.

2727 AD - The SBS 4 rescues the survivours of its other ships and limps back to Alpha Centauri. Upon learning of the new Celestial Alliance another 22 worlds became willing to sign the charter. The captain of the SBS 4 becomes more ruthless in his actions as well. 108

A chance encounter with some pirates Legion and Starguard penetrate deep leads the SBS 4 to discover an into Alliance space to strike at their inoperative SBS 7 in their asteroid base. homeworld. They drop a matter bomb After eliminating all the pirates, GFP onto the planet destroying it and its technicians are brought to the asteroid moons. The Alliance surrenders. As part and begin restoring the SBS 7. The of the treaty all Alliance military ships asteroid turns out to be the long are taken and added to the GFP fleet and abandoned GFP R&D base with a all military industries are dismantled. technological treasure trove hidden Formal attempts to fully integrate all the within which the pirates were never able races of the galaxy begin. to enter. Between this and the equipment on the SBS scientists are able to reverse 2738 AD - Full colonization of the entire engineer a lot of tech thought long lost, galaxy begins in earnest with the including curing some major plagues. building of new jumpgates and colony News of this causes another 13 worlds to ships. Some 40% of the population, sign up. either unable to afford the cost of the voyage or unwilling to leave their home 2728 AD - Star Fortress 1 planets, remain behind. The Warp 19 malfunctioning cloak finally completely drive is developed. fails. The SBS 4 comes to investigate and find the descendants of the original 2749 AD - The various empires and crew, none of who have any idea of their governments of both the Milky Way and purpose or how to operate any of the Andromeda galaxies (including the equipment. A mainly intact SBS 9 is also Galactic Federation) merge to form the found docked to the fortress minus a Republic of Ten Thousand Planets. A working engine. Many clashes occur new age of prosperity and enlightenment between GFP ships and the Alliance. begins. The Warp 20 drive is developed. This the last drive in the warp series to Midway through the year the SBS 4 ever be created. discovers the circumstances of the disappearance of the Parliament of Hope 2773 AD - Machines now do all the and are able to restore them to this work of the galactic races leading to universe. Later the crew discover they them all becoming lazy and apathetic. have been deceived and have not restored the Parliament, but rather their 2812 AD - The Great Revolt, a rebellion enemies, the Assembly of Fear. against the machines, forcing sentient Eventually they are able to return the beings to use their minds for true Parliament along with the also long development and breeding; this leads to missing Starguard and Legion of the formation of mental training and Galactic Guardians. This would prove a duelling schools. turning point in the war against the Alliance. 2815 AD - Now free of the machines and their own apathy the Republic 2729 AD - The SBS 7 and 9 lead begins a new era of exploration and missions to distract the main Celestial technological discoveries. The Alliance fleet, while the SBS 4 with the Hyperspace 3 Drive is created with any 109 further work on the warp drive now as well. It is designed to be easy to being abandoned. In line with this, understand and pronounce. Most alien hyperspace navigational beacons species can speak it, and almost all of marking reliable jump coordinates are them can understand it. Nevertheless, a built among the most frequent variety of other languages are in use. It hyperspace routes. Space stations is not unusual for someone to speak quickly grow around these nav beacons several languages; Interlac, a native to accommodate the constant flow of tongue, a couple of regional dialects, and spaceships and passengers on their way a smattering of trade languages. A well- to more important parts of the two travelled citizen may speak dozens of galaxies. Also the Republic Spacelane languages. Bureau is formed, to ensure that hyperspace routes are all marked and The Hyperspace 4 Drive is developed. easily accessible to space travellers. 2833 AD - The Holobook, a slim 2829 AD - The Senate Library, one of crystalline board, is developed to store the largest libraries in the galaxy is built. vast amounts of information and proves Based on Alpha Centauri, it is a to be incredibly durable. When properly complete record of minutes, policy stored and maintained, holobooks gave decisions, agendas, and related material off a soft, blue glow. They provide of Senate rule over the Republic. The interactive interfaces to their knowledge, Galactic Registry, the document that allowing a reader to delve as deeply into describes all the peoples and races that subject matter as they desired. has joined the galactic government begins cataloguing. The spread of technology and civilization leads to the development of a As all cultures gain interstellar travel, prosperous intergalactic economy. Few Interlac, becomes a universal language worlds are entirely self - sufficient. after its rise in use in diplomacy and Some specialize in manufacturing high - trade. It is especially useful in first tech goods yet depend on neighbouring contact situations because it is easily agricultural worlds for food. Those translated (being based mainly agricultural worlds rely on mathematics). The Interlac alphabet manufacturing worlds to produce the corresponds perfectly to the twenty-six machinery for efficiently harvesting and letters of the Latin alphabet and the processing the foodstuffs as well as numbering system corresponds to Earth supplying the chemical industries that Base-Ten form. Although nominally make pesticides to kill insects and protected by differences in font spacing, provide nutrient sprays to speed crop the numbering system itself suffers from growth. This intergalactic economy has a minor stylistic flaw due to the potential allows megacorporations to accumulate for confusion of 6 with 41 and 7 with 42. tremendous economic and political power. Anyone writing it by hand could certainly introduce an error when read 2841 AD - The first Republic explorers by another, and this could create and settlers to fully explore the problems with handwriting recognition, andromeda galaxy colonize much of it. 110

Many of these planets become just as address all member worlds, no matter industrialized and wealthy as their old - how remote. The Republic uses the world counterparts, though the HoloNet to encourage the free exchange antiquated term "Colonies" sticks. of information and ideas, leading to great advancements in culture and The Bureau of Ships and Services commerce. (BoSS) is formed, with most of the positions filled through hereditary 2874 AD - The Hyperspace 7 Drive is means. BoSS is as much a star - developed. Testing begins of nanite spanning tribe, as it is a civil terraforming equipment. bureaucracy. The Bureau of Ships and Services is the Republic's record - 2881 AD - The Hyperspace 8 Drive is keeper when it comes to starship and developed. All essential work is spacer information. It keeps extensive performed (as far as possible) by non- information on starship registrations and sentient devices, freeing sentients to do transponder codes, captains' flight only things that they enjoy certification, and upgraded weapons (administrative work requiring sentience loadouts on all ships in the galaxy. is undertaken by the AIs using a bare fraction of their mental power, or by It also keeps track of astrographical and people who take on the work out of free navigational information as well as data choice). on hyperspace routes used in nav computers. The bureau's databanks are 2888 AD - The Hyperspace 9 Drive is continuously updated and transmitted to developed. starports, systems, and enforcement agencies throughout the galaxy. It's not 2897 AD - The Hyperspace 10 Drive is really a bureau attached to any developed. Most larger starships, and all government or other institutions like space stations have their own AI minds: other bureaus, it does not owe loyalty to sentient, hyperintelligent machines anyone. originally built by biological species, which have evolved, redesigned The Hyperspace 5 Drive is developed. themselves, and become many times more intelligent than their original 2857 AD - The Hyperspace 6 Drive is creators. The main feature of these developed. Minds—in comparison to extremely powerful artificial intelligences in other 2866 AD - The HoloNet is built. Using fiction—is that the Minds are (by design specially developed hyperspace and by extension of their rational, but technology to link all members of the "humanistic" thought processes) Republic in a real - time holographic generally a very benevolent presence, communication network, the HoloNet and show no wish to supplant or relies upon a complex network of dominate their erstwhile creators. hundreds of thousands of transceiver satellites to transfer messages through 2905 AD - The Hyperspace 11 Drive is hyperspace. Through the HoloNet, the developed. At the same time in a major President of the Republic can instantly star drive breakthrough the first Jump 111

Drive is created. Testing on unmanned 3103 AD - Advanced technology allows ships begins. citizens to make backup copies of their personalities, allowing them to be 2910 AD - The Hyperspace 12 Drive is resurrected in case of death. The form of developed. The Jump Drive 1 begins that resurrection can be specified by the being outfitted on military vessels. citizen, with personalities returning either in the same biological form, in an 2916 AD - The final Hyperspace Drive artificial form (see below), or even just (13) is developed. As before with the within virtual reality. Some citizens warp drive, so too is attention now choose to go into "storage" (a form of turned entirely on to the Jump Drive. suspended animation) for long periods of The Jump Drive 1 now begins being time, out of boredom or curiosity about built onto commercial vessels. the future.

2948 AD - The Jump 2 Drive is 3127 AD - Terraforming technology developed. This also leads to the combined with advances in other advancement of tesseract technology scientific areas leads to new technology allowing small scale interdimensional which allows the Republic to create storage. artificial and new worlds which it seeds with life. All planets in each solar 2987 AD - The Jump 3 Drive is system have now been made habitable. developed. This directly leads to breakthroughs for a true intergalactic 3500 AD - Polar reversal of the Earth. star drive, and indirectly transmat This has occurred many times before in platforms which can teleport items Earth's history - typically every 300,000 between planets. Experimentation years. Plants and animals on Earth are continues with tesseract technology, unaffected. During the reversal, the solar allowing larger objects to be stored. wind induces a sufficient magnetic field in the ionosphere, temporarily shielding 3036 AD - Using the Jump 3 Drive the the surface in the absence of the normal SBS 21 expeditionary fleet arrive at the magnetic field. Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy within a day and begin exploration. 4000 AD - Technology has advanced Work begins on placing cities inside enough to begin building Dyson Spheres tesseracts so as to reduce the pollution of around dying stars to reinvigorate them. planets. Star lifting (the process by a substantial portion of a star's matter can be removed 3037 AD - The first intergalactic and then be re-purposed, while jumpgate comes online in the Sagittarius optimizing the star's energy output and galaxy. Links to the HoloNet are also lifespan at the same time) is also now established. possible.

3059 AD - Thus far little intelligent life 5000 AD - Many lifeforms have reached has been found in the Sagittarius galaxy. an evolutionary stage equivalent to the Millions of probes are deployed for a previous pantheon gods. Prior to more rapid mapping of the galaxy. evolving into Thought/Energy beings 112

Earth Humans have achieved what they The Final Era term god-like powers yet still remain 1,000,000 AD - The red supergiant star tied to corporeal form. Most use their Betelgeuse is stopped from going powers to travel the cosmos . unencumbered by vessels. A small group remain on earth and transform the world 10,000,000 AD - T Pyxidis is into a surreal place based on various threatening Earth with lethal levels of legends. gamma radiation. T Pyxidis is a binary star system in the constellation Pyxis. It 6000 AD - Technology now exists able contains a sun-like star and a white to tap into the energy of black holes. dwarf. Because of the strong gravitational effect of the white dwarf, it 10,000 AD - The hypernova of Eta draws matter from the other star which Carinae is prevented by various causes periodic thermonuclear Ascended. explosions (so-called novae) to occur. Around this time, it reaches the so-called 50,000 AD - A new ice age is which Chandrasekhar Limit, causing it to would have started on Earth at this point undergo an instantaneous collapse that is reversed. completely destroys the star in a Type 1a supernova. 100,000 AD - The proper motion of stars across the celestial sphere, which is the This catastrophic event releases 10 result of their movement through the million times more energy than a typical Milky Way, renders many of the nova explosion, or the equivalent of 20 constellations unrecognizable. The billion, billion, billion megatons of TNT. hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris is The system is only 3,260 light years prevented from exploding. away - close enough to affect Earth's solar system. However Earth is protected by advanced technology deflecting the waves. Triton’s decaying orbit has led to it breaking up around Neptune, forming a new ring system.

40,000,000 AD - Continental drift brings Australia next to mainland Asia.

50,000,000 AD - The Atlantic is much wider than it is now, Africa has connected with Europe, closing up the Mediterranean Sea and driving up a mountain range as grand as the Himalayas.

7,600,000 AD - Phobos orbit is altered to prevent it being ripped apart by Mars' gravity. 113

150,000,000 AD - The Atlantic Ocean This is true even when the Moon is at begins to close. The mid-Atlantic ridge perigee and the Earth is at aphelion. The is causing the Americas and Africa to reduced gravitational influence of the begin moving back together. Australia Moon is affecting Earth's oceans - with has become fully merged with Indonesia smaller waves and less variation in tide and Antarctica. heights.

200,000,000 AD - Existing zones on the 750,000,000 AD - The Milky Way western edge of the Atlantic Ocean seed Galaxy, a vast whirlpool of a giant north-south rift that swallows 250,000,000,000 to 400,000,000,000 heavy, old oceanic crust. The Atlantic stars, and huge amounts of gas, dust, shrinks, sending the Americas crashing planets, advanced civilizations, and dark back into the merged Euro-African matter, collides with and begins to continent. Most of the world's land mass absorb the much smaller Sagittarius will once again be joined together in a Dwarf Galaxy. The long, drawn out new supercontinent. Earth's Sun and its impact is managed by the Ascended to solar system, will have orbited once as not to produce shock waves and around the entire Milky Way Galaxy. destroy any stars.

250,000,000 AD - A supercontinent is 800,000,000 AD - Fourth orbit of the forming on Earth; Pangea Ultima - is Milky Way Galaxy by Earth's solar forming, with all of the major continents system. moving back together, surrounding a small ocean basin. Our Sun is becoming 1,000,000,000 AD - Fifth orbit of the noticeably hotter and brighter, raising Milky Way Galaxy by Earth's solar global temperatures by several degrees. system. An astroengineering project is begun to alter the Earth's orbit, compensating for 2,000,000,000 AD - The Milky Way the Sun's increasing brightness and Galaxy begins to be distorted by the outward migration of the habitable zone. gravitational effects of the larger Andromeda Galaxy, which is on a 400,000,000 AD - Second orbit of the collision course with it. Milky Way Galaxy by Earth's solar system. Earth’s dying sun is reenergized. 3,000,000,000 AD - The Milky Way Galaxy gradually collides with and 600,000,000 AD - Third orbit of the merges with the larger giant spiral Milky Way Galaxy by Earth's solar Andromeda Galaxy. The giant black system. Due to tidal acceleration, the holes in the centre of each galaxy, each distance of the Moon from the Earth has millions of times more massive than our been increasing by approximately 3.8cm Sun, whirl around each other, and then each year, to now reach 23,000 km. At eventually merge. Enormous numbers of the same time, the Sun has been growing comets have their orbits altered, to in size by a significant amount. As a prevent them smashing innocent planets result, the Moon is no longer big enough into extinction events. in the sky to completely cover the Sun's disk, making total eclipses impossible. 114

10,000,000,000 AD - The merged Milky forewarned are driven back. However, in Way/Andromeda Galaxy collides with each case most of the planets are and absorbs both the Greater Magellanic devastated or destroyed. Earth for Clouds and the Lesser Magellanic example is the only surviving planet in Clouds, an assortment of dwarf galaxies. the Solar System.

100,000,000,000 AD - The Virgo Massive reengineering begins by the Supercluster is converging into a single Ascended and the races they protected. galaxy. The Virgo Supercluster - In each case the surviving planet are containing hundreds of smaller clusters surrounded with dyson spheres including our own - is now so ancient brimming with defences, weapons and that it has begun to stabilise and jump engines. Additionally any intact converge into a single huge galaxy, moons are also added to the orbit of the many millions of light years across. planets to act as giant starships and Other superclusters are also converging, stations. but are now separated from each other by billions of light years due to the In Earth’s case as well retaining Luna it acceleration of dark energy. The also takes on the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Universe's expansion causes all galaxies Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. beyond the former Milky Way's Local Group to disappear beyond the cosmic No alternate timelines remain as Kali has light horizon, removing them from the succeeded in destroying all life in each observable universe. of them. Only the prime one remains.

1,012,000,000,000 AD - Star formation Kali takes Mortis by surprise, destroying would normally have ceased at this him, and supplanting him as the supreme point. But the Ascended present in each embodiment of death. system continue to recreate conditions allowing for new star formation. 1,012,000,000,008 AD – Kali begins a new wave of attacks. Although Due to ripples in the Chronoverse ultimately unsuccessful, significant emanating from the past Kali is freed damage is still done. In a mental meeting from her extradimensional prison, of the Ascended a decision is reached for returning to this dimension bringing the all the surviving planet ships to begin Obsidians and Astaroth with her. They random jumping to different systems to begin simultaneous attacks on thousands prevent Kali and her allies from finding of inhabited worlds destroying all life, them. except for one Ascended who escapes and warns everyone. The purpose of the 1,012,000,000,017 AD – Over this unholy alliance is to collapse all the period each of the world ships encounter alternate universes into a single one other survivours, including fleets and ruled by them. add them to their group. Any encountered desolate worlds and moons 1,012,000,000,003 AD – Kali’s forces are also mined for resources. attack several more galaxies, including the Milky Way but thanks to being 115

Kali and her followers meanwhile Kali then recalls all her demons to continue extinguishing stars and waging restore her to full power. But once inside war on anything living they find. The her the demons collectively spread their universe becomes steadily darker and gift of life into Kali turning her into a colder. Kali’s favoured method of killing contradiction and causing her to cease to now is an old favourite; the Red Plague. exist. Her followers are then massacred to the last. One of the Parliament of 1,012,000,000,022 AD – The Parliament Hope takes on the role as the of Hope finally reappears after having embodiment of death, but this time as a been banished to the future by the compassionate entity, guiding the newly Obsidians in the past. This proves departed to the afterlife. disastrous for Kali as they retain the memory of how to defeat the Red 1,012,000,000,031 AD – The surviving Plague. The Parliament also creates a worlds have mostly recovered and begin telepathic ‘internet’ between the planet a grand quest travelling the universe ships allowing instantaneous reigniting stars, creating new worlds and communication and coordination. New seeding them with new life. super teams are formed on each planet dubbed collectively the Legion of 1,067,000,000,000 AD - Stellar black Cosmic Guardians. holes evaporate.

1,012,000,000,025 AD – Aelif leads the 1,097,000,000,000 AD - Galactic black surviving, old Pantheons back to our holes evaporate. universe to aid in the war against Kali. Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu sacrifice 2,000,000,000,000 AD - Galaxies themselves to empower Aelif even beyond the Local Supercluster are no further. The Pantheons are divided up longer visible. Dark energy has between the various world ships so that continued to drive the expansion of the each one has some protection. universe at an ever-accelerating rate. By now, the volume of the universe is so 1,012,000,000,026 AD – Finally ready, great - and the speed of acceleration so the forces of light set a desperate plan in high - that everything beyond the Local motion to defeat Kali. All the surviving Supercluster is no longer visible. Even planets jump to the centre of the for the highest energy gamma rays, a universe and wait there as bait. Kali redshift of 1053 means their wavelength appears soon after bringing her entire is stretched to greater than the physical army with her, and unleashing her own diameter of the horizon. By this point the demons to attack the world. universe has been greatly repopulated by the world ships which continue to travel As battles rage on each planet ship all of on their mission of creating new stars Kali’s demons are captured by the and life. parliament of hope and heroes of each world and infused with a seed of life. 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD – The Simultaneously Aelif and all the gods remaining species and ascended, close to assault Kali, weakening her. the Big Crunch, make some changes to our near present in order to release the 116 universe's vacuum energy, spawn new universes, and prevent the Big Crunch from ever happening.

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000 AD – Normally in this era, the only energy being generated in the universe would be through proton decay and particle annihilation. Neutron stars, white dwarfs and black holes would be the only remaining objects. Due to extreme age, all of the planets and moons would have disintegrated and decayed into their constituent atomic particles, or else been absorbed into stellar remnants.

The presence of many Ascended and the species that follow them however has prevented all this. Through their actions the universe and its components are continuously renewed.