Timeline

Desertion Day to Dark Age

  • 2000 Jan – Eden project announced by Richard Novus
  • 2012 Aug – United Nations begin funding of the Eden project
  • 2014 Sep – Eden project comes under fire following Novus’ scandal with the world bank
  • 2014 Dec – Military drills near Taiwan sends the world into high alert
  • 2015 Jan – North Korea goes into civil war, nuclear warhead stolen
  • 2015 May – Russia and USA’s joint covert raid in a rural chinese warehouse for warhead fails
  • 2015 Jun – Diplomatic fallout between Russia, USA and China
  • 2016 Dec – Military standoff between Russia and China, UN crumbling
  • 2017 Feb – Nuclear warhead detonated in Guang Zhou, China
  • 2017 May – All diplomatic means exhausted, war between Russia and China imminent
  • 2018 Jan – Eden ships launch into space – Desertion Day
  • 2018 Feb – Entire world thrown into chaos
  • 2018 Mar – Russian and Chinese forces engage in confusion
  • 2018 Jun – First Deadly Epidemic hits all nations simultaneously
  • 2018 Dec – Migration to South East Asia begins
  • 2019 Jun – Porrono Fields renamed to Redwater
  • 2020 Mar – First skirmish between SEA natives and migrants
  • 2020 Apr – Outsider Wars begin
  • 2020 Nov – Research facility in Singapore breeched, releasing gallons of mutagen
  • 2020 Dec – Outsider Wars destroys what’s left of SEA’s governments
  • 2021 Jan – Coastal town officially renamed to Barnacle
  • 2021 Feb – Dark Age begins

Dark Age to Twilight Age

  • 2021 Dec – Lorekeep founded by military commandos
  • 2023 Mar – Skirmish destroys a military stockpile, releasing gallons of mutagen
  • 2035 Jun – Hydroplasma energy technology perfected, used to power Redwater
  • 2059 Mar – Wrench founded on top of a vehicular junkyard
  • 2088 May – Blacksoot founded (rediscovered) by Pure Men pioneers
  • 2133 Oct – Forchan founded by retired bandits

Twilight Age to Present

  • 2150 Mar – Benign mutations observed, Scarren mutant species officially documented
  • 2215 Jan – More benign mutations observed, Ironjaw and Hulker species officially documented
  • 2280 Dec – First sightings of Wanderer communities in Hades
  • 2372 Aug – Bleen grows into a major trading hub
  • 2377 May – Formation of the Confederacy of Pure Men
  • 2378 Feb – The Great Purge begins, wiping out thousands of mutants in mere days
  • 2378 Apr – Formation of the Crissen Order to resist the Confederacy
  • 2378 May – Whisper founded as a Crissen military staging ground
  • 2388 Nov – Stalemate between the Crissen Order and the Confederacy in Blacksand
  • 2389 Jun – End of the Great Purge
  • 2389 Aug – Formation of the Combine
  • 2390 Jan – Spike rebuilt by mutant Great Purge survivors
  • 2390 Feb – Gauntlet is designated as the new capital of the Combine
  • 2395 May – High Councilman Carl assassinated in riots, replaced by Balman
  • 2395 Jun – Pure Men special rights drafted into constitution
  • 2397 Dec – Viceron corps formed after successful development of Micro Explosive rounds
  • 2398 Apr – Biosuit policy leads to dissatisfaction amongst mutant races
  • 2398 May – Sabari executed for refusing to put on the Biosuit
  • 2398 May – Second Deadly Epidemic released in Gauntlet
  • 2398 Dec – First group of mutants (Scarrens mostly) leave the Combine
  • 2399 Feb – Second group of mutants enter the Gloomy Tunnels and formed the Saberions
  • 2399 Nov – First Saberion raid repelled violently by the Viceron corps
  • 2399 Dec – First group of mutants forms the Awakened Order in Oasis
  • 2405 May – Mysterious patrols begin protecting merchant caravans in Oasis from bandits
  • 2410 Jun – High Councilman Balman dies of old age, replaced by Canny
  • 2419 Apr – Microexplosives developed for Vicerons to counter the Saberions’ mobility
  • 2421 May – High Councilman Canny assassinated, replaced by Privus
  • 2421 Nov – Successful invasion of the Gloomy Tunnels drives out Saberions
  • 2421 Dec – Gloomy Tunnels collapses, killing 400,000 Combine citizens
  • 2422 Jan – Combine Eugenics Research Center destroyed by Saberion raid
  • 2422 Feb – Saberions flee to Oasis
  • 2422 Mar – Combine army conquers Severim, uses as staging ground
  • 2422 Jan – Combine army pulls back to Fort Talos, leaving native regiments in Severim
  • 2430 Aug – First Combine invasion into Oasis commences, smashed by Archonites
  • 2430 Mar – Moonstone village razed by raiders
  • 2435 Sep – Second Combine invasion defeated in the Deadlands
  • 2440 Jul – Third Combine invasion commences, successfully reaching Redwater through sea
  • 2440 Oct – Bombardment of Redwater begins