Timeline

Birth of the Universe

 * Big Bang-- 0 Years after the Birth of the Universe (13.7 Billion Years B.C.): The present Universe comes into existence, with the Artifact already extant. In less than an attosecond of existence the Artifact selects and stabilizes a set of proper parameters for the universal constants, guaranteeing the emergence of high-level orders of intelligence. Afterwards, it shuts down, and begins to feed off the Zero-Point Vacuum Energy. Chaotic inflation causes multiple Artifacts to be created and spread throughout the Universe.

Preluciferian Age

 * Recombination Era -- 0-329,000 Years B.U. (13.4 Billion Years B.C.): Life emerges in the high-energy soup that fills space in a time when matter and energy are virtually indistinguishable. Beings of this epoch, sensing the end of their time, would use the high energies available to them to crack apart the fabric of space-time and create a pair of parallel realities existing just beside reality. The Substrate, now known as the Far Realms or Dream Realms, is fixed in Space but not in Time. The Superstrate, also known as the God Realm, or Archetype Realm, is fixed in Space but not in Time. The Preluciferians, also known as Angels of Light would hide inside the Substrate.

Age of the the Ring

 * Ancient Era -- 800 million years B.C.: The Kiranni, in an act of incredibly devestating hubris, used the Artifact to connect all of their people into a singular consciouness; Unison. This inadvertently released their greatest fears and nightmares into the universe, a self-made eldritch abomination that spread from world to world, feeding on the life and dreams of all who lived there. Those who remained seperate from Unison gathered the remnants of their culture and built a massive ring within a barely explored part of the Milky Way galaxy, havesting materials from the uninhabited Solar System. Connecting the Ring to the Artifact, the Kiranni tore open a hole in space and created a new, empty, universe for themselves. See Cosmogenesis.
 * After the Kiranni fled, leaving Unison to be fought by the Suppressors and the Coalition of Free Worlds, a devestating Extinction Wave was released. This overpowered gamma-ray wave interacted with the FTL-fissures created by the Artifact enabled FTL travel developed by the Kiranni, and along all fissure paths the wave was released instantly. In seconds after the Kiranni had fled, most of the life in the Universe was destroyed.
 * With nothing to feed on Unison hid on a nearby planet (Earth) and waited for life to evolve once more.

1911

 * May 16, 1911: Alvin Isaacs is born.

1913

 * 1913: Spiritualist Davis Allen accidentally wanders into Limbo (Far Realms) while trying to contact the dead husband of a client. While there he meets Asraphael Evangel who tricks him into giving up his life. Davis becomes a Shinigami and Asraphael falls to Earth.
 * 1913: Asraphael Evangel is found swimming in the waters off Ellis Island. Although dressed like an immigrant child, he has no identification papers, and no one remembers seeing him on a ship. He is registered nonetheless, however.
 * 1913: Davis Allen is assigned to the court of King Enma of the Country of Rivers.

1914
1914: World War I begins.

1918

 * 1918: Lord Asrael rebels and is banished to the southern desert of the Jahannam.
 * 1918: World War I ends.

1920

 * January 12, 1920: Pollyanna Curtis is born.
 * July 23, 1920: Genevieve Samson is born.

1926

 * 1926: Brynhildr leads a flight of Valkyrie to Lord Asrael's domain.

1929

 * 1929: The Great Depression begins.

1939

 * 1939: World War II starts.
 * 1939: United States begins to work itself out of the Great Depression.

1944

 * June 6, 1944: Asraphael participates in Invasion of Normandy.

1945

 * August 6, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
 * August 9, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
 * August 14, 1945: Japan surrenders to allied forces.
 * 1945: World War II ends.

1947

 * 1947: Alvin Isaacs and Genevieve Samson are married.

1949

 * November 28, 1949: Jeremy Parsons is born.
 * 1949: Nine elemental crystals (Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Metal, Lightning, Shadow, Light and Wood) are found on the sands of Diet Water Island. They are taken to US where there are cut and set into pretty necklaces. Additionally, a grail-shaped Artifact is found and sent for study to Japan.

1950

 * March 13, 1950: Hari Isaacs born.

1951

 * July 5, 1951: Ariel Itsuki is born.

1952

 * August 29, 1952: Kenneth Isaacs born.

1953

 * October 2, 1953: Genevieve Isaacs dies.
 * November 10, 1953: Asraphael and Polyanna are married.

1958

 * October 21, 1958: Webster Evangel born.

1963

 * April 1, 1963: The twins Nicholl and Serena Evangel are born.
 * October 24, 1963: Nariko Aotama is born.

1965

 * September 2, 1965: Mariel Gevnana is born into a family of art thieves from West Germany.

1966

 * 1966: Sentaro Bluerivers born in Okinawa. He has three biological parents.
 * 1966: Lady Sedna of the Adlivun Ice Wastes begins turning Shinigami into Soul Reaver's and using them to raid for souls recently reborn in the Elysium Fields.

1968

 * 1968: Chiyuri Midorizaki born.
 * February 13, 1968: John Markinson is born, son of Alexander and Melissa Markinson.
 * February 13, 1968: At exactly the same instant that John Markinson is born, the Titanic appears, in the same condition it was at launch, in Death Valley. It is recovered by a confused USAF and resunk (with realistic damage), and covered up by ECHELON.

1970

 * 1970: Young Sentaro becomes lost in a blizzard and encounters the Yuki-Onna.

1971

 * 1971: Mizusu Satou born.
 * 1971: Yaya (Kimura) Sakaki born.

1972

 * Late Spring 1972: Hari Isaacs graduated from the University of Oxford and then moves to New York, to continue his research on the Order of Ouroboros
 * 1972: Marietta Savant born to French-Canadian immigrants in Osaka.

1975

 * March 15, 1975: Construction begins on Rutenguard Estate.
 * 1975: Nanking Treaty ratified by UN Security Council.

1976

 * June 12, 1976: [CLASSIFIED], the first (publicly known) Hero of the Twentieth Century makes his debut as Respawn.
 * July 1, 1976: Susan Isaacs (mother of Jacob Isaacs) makes her debut as the Hero Firestar.
 * July 4, 1976: William Teller debuts as Straightshot.
 * July 12, 1976: Shelley Baptist debuts as Hideaway.
 * August 23, 1976: Manuel Ortega debuts as Empowered Man.
 * August 24, 1976: Steven Archer debuts as Radiant.
 * Fall 1976: Respawn, Firestar, Straighshot, Hideaway, Empowered Man, and Radiant band together as the Guild of Superheroes.

1977

 * July 13-14, 1977: The New York Blackout of 1977, caused by the discovery of an ancient alien nano-construct by an electrical worker. During the examination of the construct it would assimilate with the automatic probe designed by the US military and almost succeed in capturing the other probes. The construct, calling itself Cade would be defeated by the Guild of Superheroes. Knowledge of this incident was suppressed by ECHELON and Cade's remnant's were hidden within Warehouse 31.

1978

 * 1978: Lebanon Accords ratified, banning the development of automatic unmanned probes with high AI.

1979

 * May 1979: Due to the death of one of the chosen Mahou Shoujo during the Fifth Magical Girl War, the Magical Girls Guild is "founded". In actuality, this is when the guild goes public.

1980

 * 1980: Chiyuri's parents die in an accident. Severely injured and lacking other relatives, she turns to other means for survival.
 * 1980: Sentaro Bluerivers takes up a disguise and the pseudonym Ulysses Frost to combat an Outsider invasion in Kyoto. His efforts span several years and become inspiration for a moderately long manga series.
 * September 5, 1980: Michael Robert Gency, Aria Lennox, and Grey Winters meet in Japan as exchange students.
 * 1980: Kichiro and Shikamaru's parents are married.
 * 1980: Uriel is born on a small island off the coast of India.
 * Summer 1980: Jeremy Parsons accepts a job offer from a Japanese firm and moves to Japan.
 * Fall 1980: Fall of the Guild of Superheros. Empowered Man brutally rapes and murders Hideaway and leaves evidence that Radiant committed the crime. When the Hero's discover that Radiant is dead, Empowered Man reveals his betrayal and kills Straightshot. Eliminating Respawn as a threat, Empowered Man targets Firestar, and the two eventually have a great battle within Grand Central Station, a battle that causes hundreds of civilian casualties until Respawn intervenes and kills both. Respawn is never seen again.

1981

 * August 3, 1981: Snow Redthorne (Armory) is born.

1982

 * 1982: Sirens Otomi appears in Kyoto, much to Frosts annoyance, and begins her magical girl exploits at the tender age of seven.
 * 1982: The Winter Rebellion occurs, and is placed on record. Officially a minor uprising that was summarily subdued by the JSDF, it was in fact a small-scale magical war that resolved itself without intervention.

1983

 * 1983: Ulysses Frost defeats the greater Elemental Incendius with the assistance of Sirens Otomi and Witch Adept Atlasia.
 * May 23, 1983: Chiiblade Shinsei meets Hideki Motosuwa while stopping at a ramen shop during a routine mission.
 * June 1983: Shinobu Hoshiki, a rescue worker, saves the life of a young woman in a deadly 5-car pile-up. Everyday for the next month, he visits Talia in the hospital, comforting her as she goes through several surgeries to repair the damage to her abdomen from the crash.
 * July 12, 1983: Jeremy Parsons marries Ariel Itsuki.
 * December 23rd: Mariel Gevnana meets Hari Isaacs while trying to steal a priceless work of art from his study. Despite the age gap and several other attempts at robbery, they hit it off and begin dating.

1984

 * March 1984: Mariel Gevnana marries Hari Isaacs against the wishes of her family.
 * Spring: Aria returns to Japan to continue her studies.
 * Summer: Grey returns to Japan (possibly at Aria's invitation).

1985

 * July 6, 1985: John Markinson graduates high school, with a look on his math teachers face that screams foul play.
 * July 7, 1985: John Markinson is accepted into MIT.
 * September 18, 1985: Chiiblade is married to Motosuwa Hideki.
 * November 5, 1985: Chiiblade and Hideki move to a secluded village in southern Japan.

1986

 * March 20, 1986: Marriage of Aria and Grey.
 * July 5, 1986: Isamu is born.
 * October 5, 1986: Shikamaru Nara is born.

1987

 * March 1987: Shinobu and Talia are married. Jokes about falling in love with your victim abound at his work.
 * June 25th, 1987: Kanau Nijihashi is born. Doctors attending were slightly worried when his right eye would not open for three days. No muscle contraction at all, and opening the eye it did not blink or contract. Only after running several tests that proved he was completely healthy did his right eye open and work normally.
 * September 1987: Hannya Raikuri is seduced by the demon Vassago, pretending to be a human. She later discovers his true nature.

1988
=== 1989 ===
 * February 2, 1988: Prometheus Asher mortally wounds Chiiblade. She is given less than a week to live.
 * February 5, 1988: Chiiblade Motosuwa has Hideki contract a company called Lands Beyond, who claim to travel across universes and time, to build a robot body.
 * February 8, 1988: Chiiblade's father Shinsei Eizo, uses runes to transfer his daughters mind and soul into the robotic duplicate of Chiiblade Motosuwa. Chiiblade's body dies and her ninja clan covers up the whole thing.
 * March, 1988: Talia Hoshiki saves a strange man from being hit by a train. She uses her car to shove his over the tracks where it had stopped.
 * April 12, 1988: Alyssa Meideline Parsons born
 * May 4, 1988: Asimov Isaacs is born
 * June 2, 1988: Chie Kumiko and Megumi Kumiko are born.
 * June 17, 1988: Vortigen Motosuwa is born.
 * June 16th, 1988: Kouken Raikuri is born.
 * July 14, 1988: Fox Winters born.
 * December 27th, 1988: Souji Hoshiki is born. The doctor considers it a miracle, as his mother sustained severe damage to her abdomen in a car accident five years before. She was previously told she could never bear children. His strange silvery hair is attributed to this.
 * January 7,1989: Chihiro Bluerivers is born to Sentaro and Chiyuri Bluerivers.
 * January 30, 1989: Kichiro Nara is born.
 * February 14 1989: Ohou Ninjou born.
 * March 20, 1989: Hyate Kurosawa born.
 * April 14, 1989: John Markinson gets his bachelors degree in Field Mathematics, and immediately begins work on his Masters degree in a field of his own creation--Chaos Theory studies.
 * April 13, 1989: Nikki Niigata born in Osaka.
 * April 27, 1989: Sakura Aijou born in Kyoto.
 * May 18, 1989: Yuuji Miyamoto is born.
 * June 16, 1989: Senshi Kisagami is born.
 * August 21, 1989: Rossiu Takayanagi is born.
 * October 10, 1989: Saki Ishii and Shigeru Ishii are born. Shigeru Ishii is born a few minutes earlier.
 * November 3, 1989: Emi Katsu is born.

1990

 * 1990: Kichiro's parents killed in plane crash. Shikamaru and Kichiro are left with their aunt and uncle.
 * 1990: Isamu begins training with the Guild.
 * 1990: Sen is born.
 * 1990: Delia Point is born.
 * 1990: Sophia Redthorne, mother of Snow Redthorne (Armory), dies in a car accident.
 * January 23, 1990: Takeo Tachikawa is born.
 * February 20, 1990: Hisato Nakamura is born.
 * March 9, 1990: Mariel Isaacs dies of the Isaacs family curse.
 * May 21, 1990: Fujiwara Hisakata is born.
 * July 1, 1990: Ichiro Kurogawa is born.
 * July 30, 1990: The Motosuwa family moves to a village that is 2 hours from Tokyo.

1991

 * March 10, 1991: Scott Orsen is born.
 * April 2, 1991: Kirie Kotohana is born.
 * May 17, 1991: Takeru Kawayama is born.
 * April 2, 1991: Rukia Seichiro is born.
 * June 3, 1991: Nao Kudo is born.
 * June 3, 1991: Renee Evangel is born. Her parents soon notice that she is well loved by plants and seems much stronger than most newborns.
 * July 3, 1991: Tsubomi Hikkiri is born.
 * September 27, 1991: Konoka Suguruzawa is born.
 * November 7, 1991: Tohru Lightsider is born.
 * November 30, 1991: Sara Kanzaki is born.
 * 1991: Koyomi Sakaki is born.

1992

 * 1992: Marietta Savant begins and ends her 8-month idol singing career.
 * Summer 1992: The family of Alyssa Meideline Parsons dies in house fire.
 * August 1992: Meideline sent to a special orphanage in Nagoya. She is trained in using her pyrokinetic abilities.
 * Winter 1992: Hari Isaacs seals the essence of Mjollnir into a blade, which he then gives to his son as a gift.

1993

 * 1993: Chiyuri Bluerivers dies. The official cause is heart failure.
 * 1993: Hannya begins teaching her son the basics of the magic Elementalism.
 * April 04, 1993: Hisagata Kumo born
 * April 14, 1993: Markinson defends his Masters thesis with great success. Several small towns in Alaska, coincidentally, vanish during the same period and materialize on the MIT Deans backyard. The dean has a very large backyard. He immediately begins work on his Ph.D.

1994

 * September 25, 1994: Having completed her research, Aria opens a magic shop called Arcana in the storefront below the families apartment.
 * 1994: Tsukasa Kirie is born.

1995

 * Spring 1995: Hari Isaacs begins work with the Japanese Self Defense Forces. Working with Dr. Ayumi Sakuraba, they tried to unravel the mysteries of The Order of Ouroboros. Hari Isaacs first comes into contact The Artifact, while working as a contractor for the JSDF. He intensively studies The Artifact, and deduces that the strange attraction Japan has for First Ones may come from it. He begins to collate and collect his notes, which he proceeds to seal within the Paternomicon.
 * 1995: Snow Redthorne runs away from home.
 * 1995: Emi Katsu begins training with the Guild.
 * 1995: Isamu is given his alternate guise in preparation for his first client. Further training ensues.
 * 1995: The Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division is established.

1996

 * Spring 1996: Midori Himeya killed in a freak elevator accident.
 * 1996: Uriel massively botches in his dabblings with demonology. Becomes the lovely host for Galgos instead.
 * 1996: Hari Isaacs reinvents the Cattedrali di Anima, the "Soul Cathedral" that would allow a human being to interact directly with The Artifact; however, they prove unstable do to human weakness. The technology is adapted onto a set of Mobile Armors known as the Titans, giving a ten-fold boost in efficiency and creating the group eventually called the Elite Eight. Hari Isaacs starts development on Remote Mobile Armors (Behemoth-class) that would not need a human pilot to negotiate with the Artifact. The Behemoth is eventually contracted to Sony through concealed means.
 * October 1996: Dr. Sentaichi and Suzzana begin to work on DNA Sample 1. They soon create two viable strains, Rei Ayanami Prime and Kaworu Prime, but only the Rei strain is capable of surviving the rapid aging tanks. The Kaworu strain is currently kept at a Lands Beyond Genetics Research Laboratory in Ohio.

1997

 * 1997: Hari Isaacs sub-contracts work on Ark Emulators to Lands Beyond and Mephasis. The Ark Emulators would later be known as the Obelisks and Monoliths of Capture Cages.
 * April 1997: Himeya Watanabe develops the AEON OS 1.1 for use in prototype A-life.
 * April 2, 1997: Vortigen begins ninja training.
 * May 1997: Model Rei IIs (Maids Ayanami) begin production run.
 * June 14 1997: Himeya SeaS Atari HRDS-43250 (prototype) is first activated.
 * December 2, 1997: Himeya SeaS disassembled.

1998
=== 1999 ===
 * 1998: Talia Hoshiki dies in some accident. [CLASSIFIED]
 * 1998: Tomoka Inoue, who had spent years and years training in assassination techniques, attempts to snipe Marietta Savant. She almost did not duck in time. After several more failed assassination attempts, Tomoka Inoue decided to lie in wait in Mariettas house with a knife. A frustrated Marietta sexually harasses Tomoka. Several days later Tomoka tried again.
 * January 14, 1998: Himeya Hela Atari HRDS-43256 activated using AEON OS 2.3.
 * March 17, 1998: Himeya Freya Atari HRDS-42300 body construction halted. [CLASSIFIED]
 * Summer 1998: Atari files for bankruptcy. Himeya Hela liberated by creator.
 * June 22, 1998: Nikki begins ninja training in a hidden village somewhere in Osaka.
 * 1999: Emi Katsu is officially made a Magical Girl, though she is not given a major role.
 * 1999: Isamu is assigned to Emi Katsu.
 * 1999: Sen begins training with the Guild.
 * 1999: Uriel manages to harness Galgos powers. His "hobbies" are revealed to the public by a nosy neighbor and he is consequently exiled. He wanders in an effort to gain more knowledge of his craft.
 * March 6, 1999: Vortigen becomes a genin.
 * April 1999: Taiki Shunsen and Akemi Takemitsu meet for the first time.
 * June 1999: Unemployed HRDS designer Himeya Watanabe hired by Sony, due to a recommendation by Hari Isaacs.
 * June 25, 1999: Nikki Niigata graduates to Genin level after only a year of training. She meets the sensei destined to inspire her incredible work ethic, Kunoichi Chika.
 * June 27, 1999: Nikki Niigata's first mission with her team.
 * July 1999: Nayuri, Tsubasa, and Kisa Ayanami start working at the Rutenguard Estate.
 * July 23, 1999: Hari Isaacs finishes term of service with the JSDF.
 * July 1999: While on a trip to the ocean, the rental van with Tai, Akemi, Takeru Suzuki, and several of their friends is hit by a tractor trailer that had drifted into oncoming traffic, killing everyone but Tai and Akemi.
 * October 1999: Hela upgrades to current body and takes a new teacher training course.
 * December 12, 1999: Nikkis first experience with Blood Rage.
 * December 15, 1999: The Grand Master of the Osaka hidden village pulls Nikki from all missions until a decision can be made about her condition.
 * December 19, 1999: After careful study and deliberation with Medic-Nin specialists from several hidden villages, the Grand Master decides that it is too risky to try and remove the Blood Rage from Nikki. Instead, he forces her to go through intense mental conditioning to control and suppress the Blood Rage.

2000

 * 2000: Shikamaru claims independence; gains his parents house and a small fortune that has been tucked away in the bank.
 * 2000: Shikamaru gains custody of Kichiro after a drawn out court battle with his aunt and uncle. Claims the entire thing was "too troublesome". That small fortune is considerably dwindled due to lawyers fees. Shikamaru is actually forced to work in order to support the both of them. The entire ordeal is still "troublesome". Kichiro still doesnt know where his brother works.
 * 2000: Shinobu Hoshiki and his son move to Tokyo. Soon after he marries Takeshis mother, a wealthy widow. Souji begins 6th grade and there is soon bullied by an older student called Satoh.
 * February 24, 2000: After weeks of intense mental training, Nikki is allowed to return to her regular mission and her old team.
 * April 26, 2000 (9:00 a.m.): Markinson begins his defense of his doctoral thesis "Chaos In The World: Using Numbers to Predict And Change the Future (or: Call Me Now, the home edition)"
 * April 26, 2000 (9:25 a.m.): The HMS Republic materializes in Boston harbor. Nobody quite figures out how it got there.
 * April 26, 2000 (9:30 a.m.): The evil Clown army invades the republic of Overlylongnameistan. Nobody saw it coming. Nobody. I mean, come on, clowns?
 * April 26, 2000 (9:35 a.m.): The entire Boston Red Sox baseball team vanishes, and is later spotted flying in formation over MIT, using hang gliders. An explanation of this event is still forthcoming.
 * April 26, 2000 (9:40 a.m.): A large coach bus falls through the MIT lecture hall roof, landing just inches away from Markinson as he defends his paper.
 * April 26, 2000 (9:45 a.m.): A poorly-aimed tomahawk missile flies into the front door of the MIT lecture hall, through the doors on either side of the coach bus still in front of Markinson, and out of the lecture halls rear door. No one quite knows what happened to the missile.
 * April 26, 2000 (9:50 a.m.): The roof of the MIT lecture hall is blown skyward by an explosion that, oddly enough, didnt even faze anyone in the lecture hall at the time, bus driver included.
 * April 26, 2000 (9:55 a.m.): The apocalypse occurs, but everyone is too busy watching Jerry the Magic Koala do the hula on national television to notice. Life goes on.
 * April 26, 2000 (10:00 a.m.): The review board finishes with Markinsons paper, and officially awards him his PhD, partially out of fear of how much more damage could be caused during the review process. Markinson goes out to celebrate, and within hours becomes smashed. The Titanic, in the condition it was at launch, materializes in Death Valley, Nevada, but is quickly covered up by the air force. Again.
 * August 2000: With help from [CLASSIFIED], Akemi Takemitsu and Taiki Shunsen attempt to cast a time traveling spell to save their friends and family. Tai realizes that they have been tricked and tries to stop the spell; while Tai is crushed under many books, backlash from the spell causes Akemi to come free from her body, which then dies. Akemi remains free until she is captured at some time and put into storage.
 * September 2000: Himeya Watanabe dies in a car accident. Although ruled an accident, there is evidence the brake line was cut; however, the evidence is suppressed.
 * September 2000: Sony hires the contractor "C-kun" to investigate the AEON operating system.
 * December 22, 2000: Having completed an astounding number of missions, singly and with her team, Nikki completes the Chuunin exam with record-breaking results. Examiners comment on the sheer ferocity of her fighting, and her tendency towards ruthlessness.