Before the dawn of Civilization –
Volturi founded.
1090 Hassan Sabah founded the Order of
Assassins or Hashishim. This is the earliest organization to which
the Illuminati can trace their lineage.
1118 – The Templars are founded.
1307 – Templars arrested across
Europe.
1312 – Templars officially dissolved,
surviving members go underground, forming a long lived conspiracy
group.
1776 – Adam Weishaupt starts the
modern Illuminati from scratch in Bavaria. (Thomas Jefferson will
independently do the same thing in America a few years later.) This
organization will survive unbroken until the secret war of the 2030s.
1901 – Edward Cullen born.
1918 – Edward Cullen vampirified.
1936 – Cullen clan moves to a town
near Forks Washington, makes a treaty with the local werewolves.
1940 – Illuminati begins using
smallpox vaccinations to collect genetic data on the population, this
data will later be used in the breeding program to create a subject
compatible with nano augmentation.
1950s – The Illuminati found two new
branches: The Bilderberg Group and Majestic Twelve (MJ12).
1953 - Model year of Bella's truck.
1980s – Original Echelon system
created.
1987 – Bella Swan born.
1989 – Bella's parents separate,
Bella's mother takes her to California.
1993 – Bella and her mother move to
Phoenix, Arizona.
Estimated birthyear of Tsukasa's player.
2003 – Bella stops visting her father
in Forks.
The Cullen clan moves to Forks
2005 – Bella Swan moves to Forks, gets truck, becomes disillusioned with her story, goes on a long drive, meets an
alien, becomes a traveler of time and space.
2006 – A genius named Harald Hoerwick
creates a game called Fragment, which is picked up by the CC
corporation.
2007 – Fragment, renamed The World,
released to the public as a MMORPG.
2010 – Tsukasa becomes trapped in
(the platonic ideal of) an online game called The World. Six months
of (the platonic ideal) of the internet from this year were linked to
the period from, roughly, mid Octoober 2051 to mid April 2052.
2012 – Increased instability
resulting from Bella's attempt to cross the 2010-2052 barrier
resulted in a handful of internet users, notably facebook users, from
this year being bodily transported into 2051 on the leading edge of
the anomaly.
2018 – Paul Denton is born, the most
successful product of an Illuminati breeding program intended to create people compatible with nano augmentation.
2020s – Mechanical augmentation
becomes widespread.
2023 – Paul Denton found to be
compatible with nano augmentation. He is cloned. Clones will be
experimented on for the next 26 years.
2028 – Testing on the first Paul
Denton clones has some promising signs, the decision is made to
create a clone in the same womb as Paul.
2029 – JC Denton, a clone of Paul implanted in Paul's mother, is born.
2030 – AIDS is cured
The entire west
coast of the United States is devastated by an almost unbelievably
large earthquake.
2031-2032 – Midpoint of the anomaly.
Entities from the (platonic ideal of the) internet began to
materialize at this point, but before 2051 their impact was largely
irrelevant.
2031-2035 – Several secessionists
groups spring up throughout the United States, civil war breaks out.
Mexico invades with assistance from Russia, the US teeters on the
brink of collapse, but eventually stabilizes. MJ12 (led by Bob
Page), believing that the Illuminati's non-response to these events
is a sign of weakness, rebels and, by 2035, overthrows the
Illuminati.
2035 – The biological parents of Paul
and JC Denton are murdered by MJ12, because Bob Page believes that
they are a bad influence on the brothers. The brothers are adopted
by MJ12 employees. Paul heads off to college. JC is sent to a Swiss
boarding school.
By the end of the 2030s the global
population was reduced to 2 billion via a series of plagues.
Vampires, immune to the plagues, were forced to adapt to a sudden
reduction in their food supply. With the human population reduced to
a fraction of its former size, but the vampire population unchanged,
grazing patterns were altered. Some simply made use of the chaos to
grab meals they assumed no one would miss, but others, particularly
those who depended on tourists, were forced to abandon their old ways
and look for better pastures.
The resulting instability caused a
series of minor squabbles and wars between vampires, the casualties
from which reduced the size of the vampire population to one more in
line with the human population. As a result the existence of
vampires did not become public knowledge, but in areas where battles
took place it was a poorly kept secret.
2040 – Paul Denton joins UNATCO, the
United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition.
2042 – The NSF, originally the
Northwest Secessionist Forces, is re-founded as the National
Secessionist Forces. Most separatist groups in the US unite under
its flag.
Believing that the nano augmentation
project is a waste of resources, and mechanical augmentation too
clunky and conspicuous, MJ12 scientist Arthur Donovan begins to look
for other means of human augmentation, investigating claims of
individuals with superhuman strength and subhuman compassion.
2043 – Arthur Donovan's research
brings a coven of vampires to his attention. He will spend the next
three years chasing them.
2045 – Leon Woods, founder of the
NSF, dies in an infamous last stand. So the story goes. But rumors
abound that a ghostly white apparition of the Washington native was
seen some days after the battle. Tales that he sparkled are assumed
to be the result of inebriation.
2046 – The Upper West Side bombing
takes place. The grid zoning laws are passed in response, sections
of New York are walled off so that travel between blocks can be
controlled via checkpoints.
The Ambrosia project begins.
2047 – The Aquinas project, an effort
to route all electronic communications through a single hub
controlled by MJ12, begins.
MJ12 first encounters reference to a
highly advanced AI that existed in Japan almost four decades earlier. It is hoped that information on this AI can help them combat
Daedalus, a rogue AI MJ12 created that doesn't like their worldview
very much.
Arthur Donovan's team captures
Edward Cullen. Research begins on how to give others Cullen's
strength and durability.
JC Denton graduates from the Swiss
school.
2048 – Advancements from the Cullen
research are incorporated into the physiopharmaceutical augmentation
project, specifically the Series L agents. Initially it was believed
that the only downside was the pale white skin and red eyes that the
augmention resulted in. However when the first agents stepped from
the artificial light of the lab into sunlight, Series L was declared
a failure. The exact words of the assessing scientist were, “Let
us never speak of this again.” Subsequent series would remove the
strange reaction to sunlight. The albinism and red eyes would
persist.
2049 – Nano augmentation perfected.
Most Denton clones were destroyed.
In the shattered remains of
California, the first recorded case of a “sparkling zombie” was
observed. Subsequent research indicates that it was the result of a
vampire beginning to feed on an infected individual and then leaving
in disgust because she “didn't like the taste.”
2050 – Paul Denton becomes UNATCO's
first nano augmented agent.
MJ12 is able to trace references to
the Japanese AI to a game called The World, created by the CC
corporation.
2051 – UNATCO bombs the Statue of
Liberty as part of a successful ploy to use a terrorist attack on the
US to make the US a member nation. UNATCO is rechartered, and
Liberty Island is donated to it as a headquarters.
The adoptive parents of Paul and JC
Denton are murdered when they object to JC being recruited
JC Denton joins UNATCO.
The first significant, if relatively
small, wave of the zombie outbreak begins, though it largely goes
unnoticed as sick incoherent bitey people are nothing new to the
world.
Characters (notably Tsukasa), items,
and monsters from the 2010 online game The World, begin appearing in
reality as a result of the anomaly that will be started in the next
year.
The Templars are declared a
terrorist group and (mostly) slaughtered. Zombies present during the
operation infect several interpol and UNATCO members. These
individuals are then sent to various MJ12 labs for study. This is
MJ12's first contact with zombies.
The Voluturi are declared a
terrorist group and slaughtered. This occurs without incident. The
bodies of the Voluturi are sent to various MJ12 labs for study.
A group of MJ12 scientists under the
leadership of Gary Savage quit their jobs at Area 51, steal
everything in their labs smaller than a paperclip, blow up everything
larger, and found the group X-51. They are, naturally, branded a
terrorist group. They are not yet slaughtered.
The Gray Death, an nano-tech virus,
is unleashed upon the world. MJ12, which released it, is also the
only entity with a vaccine, Ambrosia, which they use for political
leverage.
Beth Duclare, a former Illuminati
leader, is assassinated.
Bella Swan's attempt to push through
the anomaly creates temporal instability throughout the entire period
from 2010 to 2052 and results in her becoming stranded here. It also
results in several people being pulled from near one side of the
anomaly (circa 2012) to this point in time.
Walton Simons, second in command of
MJ12, is appointed to be head of FEMA.
2052 – A global coalition of resistance
groups attempt to steal barrels of the Ambrosia, the vaccine for the
Gray Death, so that it can be sent back to Hong Kong to be analyzed
by the resistance scientist Tracer Tong.
UNATCO plans a global raid on
resistance groups to crush the resistance once and for all.
JC Denton becomes an active duty
agent.
MJ12's attempts to retrieve
information about the Japanese AI by accessing archives from 2010
results in them linking not the the archives themselves, but to the
ideal of the archives, which, being timeless, is the same as it was
in 2010. This, and an unfortunate incident involving Coca Cola, a
control panel, and a fusion power generator, creates the anomaly.
The second wave of zombies arise, in
much greater numbers than the first. They come from two sources. The first is that the anomaly didn't limit itself to The World, but
also managed to bring in some contamination from a Capcom game. The
second is that MJ12 base security really, really sucks, and several
of the zombies they had been experimenting on escaped.
Several vaccines to the
zombification are developed, both by the resistance and the
conspiracy groups, but none see widespread distribution.
Order breaks down across the world.
In the US, UNATCO and NSF troops find themselves fighting side by
side against zombie hordes. Bob Page's plans for apotheosis will
have to wait.
DVL begins small, but overt, tests
of her power over the earth.
Bella Swan, attempting to return to
her home time of 2005, encounters the anomaly. She attempts to force
her way through it, becoming stranded in 2051.
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[Previously: General Thoughts on getting the team together][Next: Story, Part 2]
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[Previously: General Thoughts on getting the team together][Next: Story, Part 2]
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