Timeline Explorer 1990-2044

Update: 02.01.2000

Time Line Explorer 1990 - 2044

by John Maniha and Paolo Marcucci collected by Stefanie Pulla, 10.06.1998

1990-2044 (All) 2044-2058 (All) 1990-2058 (Germany)

1990: Civil unrest intensifies worldwide. In response to the seemingly indifferent or incompetent governments, corporations begin to take matters into their own hands. Beginning with third world holdings, corporations arm their security personnel with the finest military equipment available. Professional mercenaries are hired on both short and long-term contracts. These new paramilitary assets are transferred to anywhere that civil violence threatens corporate holdings.
1991: In Hessen, Germany, a coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green Party gain control of the state Landtag. They begin to try and curb unfair business dealings and control environmental destruction.
1992: In the U.S.A., Jeffery Lynch is elected President of the United States. In his inaugural address, he refers to his landslide victory "as a mandate to cure the ills of the nation and bring a new vitality to America." Seeing how easily the voters accept Lynch, Congress quickly falls into step behind his programs.
1992: In South London, England, U.K., a major riot breaks out.
1992: In Australia, Boggo Road jail is closed for barbaric and substandard conditions.
1993: In the U.S.A., the Handicappers of America (HA) begins its campaign to protest the abundance of handicapped parking spaces.
1993: In the U.S.A., the first of the Supreme Court justices appointed during the Burger court leaves office.
1993: In Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Jeffrey Lynch is inaugurated President of the United States.
1994: In Germany, a record heatwave sends temperatures up to 86 to 104 degrees F.
1994: In Hessen, Germany, Speeds on the autobahn are restricted to 90 km per hour. Additionally, new environmental laws strongly discourage the purchase and use of air conditioners. Businesses are extremely displeased over this new legislation. This also furthers a growing rift between the pro-environmental northern Hessians and the pro-business southern Hessians.
1994: In the U.S.A., Chief Justice Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court retires for health reasons. He is succeeded by Terence Ordell, an outspoken conservative law professor from the East Coast.
1996: In the U.S.A., President Lynch is re-elected.
1996: In Germany, the Die Grunen political party, a group known for being a leading ecological power in Germany, is dissolved.
1996: In Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., the Summer Olympics are showcased.
1996: In Quebec, Canada, separatist advocates are finally elected into government positions.
1996: In Canada, The Mohawk Indian tribe begins to kill off the criminal element in its tribal government in order to properly pursue their land claims.
1996: In the U.S.A., President Lynch begins a massive program of deregulation. Beginning with the sale of the U.S. Postal service to various private messenger services, Lynch approves the sales of the U.S. Weather Service, Forest Service, Amtrak, and a half-dozen other public services.
1997: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., the KSAF television station goes on the air.
1997: In the Washington D.C., U.S.A., President Lynch is again inaugurated President of the United States.
1997: Control of Hong Kong reverts to the People's Republic of China.
1997: In Ireland, U.K., the government once again initiates policies of internment without trial anyone associated with the IRA or other "terrorist" groups. Tir nan n'Og)
1997: In the U.S.A., the Shiawase corporation opens a new metallurgical engineering plant. The plant draws huge amounts of power from the regional utility grid. The government-run grid raises its rates for high-load commercial customers, increasing Shiawase's energy costs by more than 550 percent. in less than six months.
1998: In Berlin, Germany, the Daimler Benz corporation covers the Potsdamer Platz with a 250-meter skyscraper with three administrative wings.
1998: In the U.S.A., a group calling itself the Turnflashers begins a campaign to advocate the use of turn signals on cars by shooting vehicles that don't use them with paint pellets.
1998: In South London, England, U.K., rioting breaks out.
1998: In the U.S.A., police stop writing speeding citations except during "reckless conditions."
1998: By this year, in the U.S.A., the defense establishment has been cut by almost 40%, with even bigger cuts in procurement and R&D for new weapons systems.
1998: In the U.S.A., the Shiawase corporation approaches the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and demands the right to set up a nuclear plant. This would make the Shiawase corporation independent of the regional utility grid, saving it untold millions. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission refuses Shiawase's request. As a result, Shiawase takes the case to the Supreme Court.
1998: By this year, in the U.S.A., three members of the Supreme Court appointed during the Burger court have either died or retired.
1998: In New York City, New York, U.S.A., the Teamsters' New York Local initiates strikes that last into the next year. The Teamsters fail to realize that the state of New York does not have the money to meet their salary demands.
1998: In the U.S.A., the import of all firearms is banned.
1998: The Perfluoro-4-methyl-octahydroquinalidine (P4MO) artificial blood replacement is created.
1999: In Canada, the armed forces offer safe-conduct to all non-combatant Mohawks. The offer is ignored.
1999: In Germany, the independent towns of Gladbeck, Bottrop and Kirchhellen are merged to form the city of Glabotki.
1999: In Canada, the Dene Indian tribe is violently forced off its tribal land to make room for natural gas pipelines.
1999: On October 3, in Canada, at local dawn, a perfect time-on-target salvo of Cataphract wire-guided missiles hit the Kahnawake fortification. Mechanized army, an armored platoon, and several air cav units move in. The fighting is over by noon and the Sovereign Mohawk Nation is wiped out.
1999: In Canada, after a four-week standoff with the Mohawks, the Canadian infantry attacks the reservation. Canadian casualties are very high. Although the Mohawk position is weakened after two assaults, they still hold one well-fortified position in Kahnawake.
1999: In Canada, the Mohawk Indian Tribe declare land in dispute between them and the Canadian government to be Mohawk territory. They support this claim by blockading roads into their reservation around Oka, Kahnawake, and Kanesatake in Quebec. They declare themselves the Sovereign Mohawk Nation.
1999: In the U.S.A., in a landmark 193-page decision (The United States vs. Seretech Corporation (1999)), the Supreme Court upholds Seretech's right to maintain an armed force to protect its own personnel and property. Furthermore, the Supreme Court commends the corporation for protecting innocent citizens and honoring its duty to dispose of the infectious materials safely.
1999: In New York City, New York, U.S.A., in an attempt to end the assembling of corporate armies, the city, followed by the state and federal governments sues Seretech Medical Research for criminal negligence. Seretech maintains that in defending their truck, they prevented its potentially lethal cargo from infecting the population at large.
1999: In New York City, New York, U.S.A., during the riot, a Seretech Medical Research truck hauling medical wastes, some of which is infectious, is attacked by a mob. The mob believes that, since the truck is refrigerated, it must be a food transport. The mob tries to overturn the truck and get its contents. In what becomes a running gunfight, Seretech security comes to the aid of the corporate truckers, withdrawing them to one of the firm's medical research facilities. The enraged crowd storms the building and Seretech security fights back. By dawn, 20 Seretech employees and 200 rioters are dead.
1999: In New York City, New York, U.S.A., in response to the strike, which halts the flow of fresh foods, A massive riot erupts in New York City. Hundreds are killed and thousands are wounded in the ensuing violence hundreds are killed and thousands are wounded.
1999: In New York City, New York, U.S.A., the Teamsters' leadership, realizing that the city of New York cannot meet their demands, urges the rank-and file members to accept the state's final contract offer. The truckers reject the contract and the strikes continue.
1999: In Europe, a concentrated effort is made to create a united European currency. This establishes the European Currency Unit (ecu, or EC) as legal tender in European nations.
2000: In the U.S.A., the Supreme Court rules the case of The Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Shiawase Corporation in favor of Shiawase and allows them to build their own nuclear power plant.
2000: On January 2, in Australia, a referendum is held concerning turning the country into a republic and changing the flag. Both movements fail.
2000: In Texas, U.S.A., the Texas Rangers begin to evolve from a law enforcement group into a more military organization.
2000: In the U.S.A., Martin Hunt is elected President of the United States.
2000: In the U.S.A. the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sues Shiawase for criminal negligence and reckless endangerment, charging that Shiawase's inadequate security had failed to prevent the terrorists from penetrating the plant's outer perimeter. Shiawase counters with evidence that not only could plant security have taken a force three times the size of the terrorist group, but that the only reason that they got as far as they did was due to security force restrictions enforced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
2000: In the U.S.A., within weeks of its opening, the Shiawase reactor is attacked by a special assault team sent by the radical eco-terrorist group TerraFirst!. Armed with military weapons, the group penetrates the plant's security perimeter and clashes with Shiawase security forces. The Shiawase security team kills every member of the TerraFirst! team. They discover that the terrorists carry enough explosives to crack open the containment building and reactor vessel spreading nuclear material throughout the surrounding area.
2000: In the U.S.A., the Shiawase corporation builds its reactor and brings it on line. They immediately declare themselves independent of the regional utility grid.
2000: Acura Motors releases the Acura Demon. This car is the fastest production car built in the year 2000.
2000: In San Francisco, California, U.S.A., renovation begins on the Foran Bridge.
2000: On January 1, Quebec declares itself independent from the rest of Canada.
2000: In Panama, the rights and responsibilities of the Panama Canal Zone are given solely to Panama.
2000: In the U.S.A., the Supreme Court upholds several important government challenges to corporate autonomy.
2001: In Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Martin Hunt is inaugurated as President of the United States.
2001: In the U.S.A., due to the precedent set by The United States vs. Seretech Corporation (1999), the second Shiawase Decision (The Nuclear Regulatory Commission vs. The Shiawase Corporation) rules in favor of the Shiawase corporation. It also firmly establishes the extraterritoriality of multinational corporations in international law by giving them the same rights and privileges as foreign governments.
2001: In the U.S.A., NASA launches a manned mission to Mars. Upon its return some of the data recovered by the astronauts is labeled top secret by the government causing speculation of its contents.
2001: In the U.S.A., the government starts a movement to confiscate all handguns currently owned by any citizens not employed as police or security agents. Resistance against this movement is high.
2001: In the U.S.A., P4MO is deemed safe for use by the FDA.
2001: In Mexico, the governors of Chiapas, Campeche, and Quintana Roo are assassinated within a span of two weeks. The governor of the Distrito Federal barely escapes death when his car explodes outside his office. Two of the three assassins are later captured. They are later revealed to be acting on their own.
2001: A few weeks after the initial German ecological evacuations, the Baltic Sea becomes so poisoned with caustic chemical sludge that the surrounding communities can no longer survive. Soon after, the North Sea suffers the same collapse, affecting the seaboard regions of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
2001: In Mexico, the government reduces the influence of the Catholic Church.
2001: In Oroville, California, U.S.A., the Oroville Buddhist temple, once a popular tourist attraction, is shut down due to lack of funds.
2001: In the U.S.A., Turnflashers upgrade their campaign by using live ammunition to shoot out the signals of cars that don't use them.
2001: In Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., Due to the enormous amount of trash, the Saint Louis police enact the Citizen Trash Patrol (CTP). Members of the patrol can phone in reports of littering, and the police will issue the offender a ticket without question.
2001: In Canada, the Athabascan Tar Sands oil extraction project is abandoned as no longer economically feasible.
2001: In Germany, Long forgotten landfills from the former East Germany begin to leak poison into the groundwater. This forces the government to evacuate and seal off large portions of the eastern Lander.
2002: In the U.S.A., angry and frustrated over the seizure of their land, more radical members of the Native American population found the Sovereign American Indian Movement(SAIM) whose roots trace back to the Indian-rights struggles of the twentieth century.
2002: In the U.S.A., the beginning of what the media dubs "the Resource Rush." corporate coalitions demand and are granted access to oil, mineral, and land resources on U.S. federal lands. The U.S. government invokes eminent domain again and again to claim property, only to license its exploitation to a corporate sponsor. The majority of lands taken in this fashion are Indian reservations and federal parklands. Conservationists and Indian-rights groups express their shock and disgust, though corporate influence and paramilitary power make it dangerous to object.
2002: New technology makes it possible to build an optical chip that is proof against electromagnetic pulse effects.
2002: In Germany, the ecology-minded Bundnis 2000 political party achieves landmark victories in response to the recent ecological damage.
2002: In Australia, Japanese corporations begin pulling out of the Australian tourism industry, increasing animosity of Australians against Asians.
2002: In St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., Mitsuhama Computer Technologies opens its corporate office.
2002: In Minnesota, U.S.A., Governor Rudd opens discussion with Native American tribal leaders of major reservations to prevent exploitation of the resources of Minnesota.
2002: In the U.S.A., prison populations have jumped to 700,000 inmates.
2002: In Mexico, the government initiates a bloody clampdown on the Chiapas rebels. Over two dozen rebel leaders are captured or killed in escape attempts.
2003: In Germany, on November 19, the worst flash flood in recorded history strikes the North Sea regions of the country. Huge portions of Hamburg as well as eastern and western Frisia are bathed in oily sewage. In response the government shuts down the nuclear power plants along the Lower Elbe River in time to prevent a worse disaster. Even so, thousands die in the flood and then from chemical poisoning in the following weeks.
2003: The Anglo-Japanese suborbital Ghost is unveiled. This new plane is capable of flying from London Heathrow International Airport to Boston in 76 minutes, and London to Tokyo in a few hours.
2003: In Washington, D.C., U.S.A., the United States Congress ousts the city government of Washington D.C. amid charges of widespread corruption and incompetence.
2003: The North American panther is declared extinct.
2003: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., the Stouffer Concourse Hotel burns to the ground. It is later rebuilt.
2004: Libya unleashes a chemical-weapons attack against Israel. Israel responds with a nuclear attack that destroys half of Libya's cities.
2004: In south London, England, U.K., major riots break out.
2004: In the U.S.A., Philip Bester is elected President of the United States.
2004: In the U.K., the first nuclear meltdown at Dungeness in Kent creates a local irradiated zone. The meltdown kills over 6,000 people including a third of a group of 800 attending a gaming convention.
2004: In St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., the CTP is repealed. Despite this act the CTP continue their own method of enforcement: Namely pouring trash on the lawns or in the cars of known infractors.
2004: In Hessen, Germany, responding to the barely averted meltdown of the Biblis nuclear plant, the SPD/Green coalition government initiates severe environmental laws. The measures force many plants to close, including the Merck processing plant in Darmstadt and the BP refinery in Gustavsburg. The plant managers as well as other employers respond angrily.
2004: In Mexico, Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) president Miguel Avila is revealed as taking bribes from the U.S. government.
2004: In Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A., the South Plains Police Academy is built.
2004: In Tasmania, the Conservationist party is elected into power. This party's main platform is the protection of the environment, regardless of the consequences. Their main targets are corporations who respond by withdrawing from Tasmania.
2004: In Germany, responding to the close calls of the flood, the government shuts down all remaining German nuclear power plants. Despite the long-term benefits of this move there is one accident. At Biblis, near Mannheim in southern Germany, engineers working too quickly release small amounts of radioactive gas into the atmosphere.
2005: In South London, England, U.K., new riots flare up.
2005: By this year, in Japan, the largest coffin hotel boasts 350 cubicles.
2005: In the U.K., the rebuilding of Corfe Castle begins.
2005: In Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., major renovation begins on the "T" line.
2005: In the U.S.A.. the Church of the Whole Earth Inc. makes its first appearance.
2005: Sakehisa Tajika of Genentech gains a reputation for bringing massive success to his company.
2005: In Minnesota, U.S.A., the Treaty of Bemdji is signed. This treaty between the state of Minnesota and leading Ojibwa tribal leaders prevents the exploitation of resources on Ojibwa land.
2005: In Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A., the city, previously facing a crippling recession, starts to experience an economic boom due to the relocation of the East Coast Stock Exchange.
2005: At 7:20 A.M. on August 12, In New York City, New York, U.S.A., the city is struck with a major earthquake that goes 5.8 on the Richter Scale. This results in over 200,000 deaths and 20 million dollars worth of damage. The only Manhattan building of any size that does not collapse is the Empire State Building. As a result of the quake the East Coast Stock Exchange is moved to Boston and the United Nations is moved to Geneva.
2005: In Germany, the Border Wars cause massive migration of refugees away from the fighting. This along with the turmoil within the Russian Republic and the migration from the contaminated North Sea causes massive economic and social turmoil. The cities of the south are unable to handle the massive population explosion.
2005: In the U.S.A., Philip Bester is inaugurated as President of the United States.
2005: In Eastern Europe, political and social tensions erupt in May. The Border Wars, extended skirmishes between Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states, last for 6 months and claim 15,000 lives.
2005: In Tasmania, BHP opens a new Uranium mine in the Kakadu National Park after convincing the government that there are large profits to be made from the mine and, therefore, larger taxes.
2005: In the U.S.A., the Public Broadcasting System is disbanded and privatized.
2005: In Mexico, the Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary) political party is brought down in a rash of scandals.
2005: In the Russian Republic, the Border Wars cause internal isolationist turmoil. This brings calls for secession from the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), from Siberia, and from other semi-autonomous areas of Russia.
2005: In the U.K., the Conservative Government establishes regional parliaments in Scotland and Wales.
2006: In Germany, the general elections give a slim majority to a coalition of candidates from the leftist social democrat SPD and the USPD (Independent German Socialist Party), Bundnis 2000, and a few communists. within months however, this government finds itself at odds with Germany's megacorporations.
2006: In Japan, the government asserts its position as a world power by announcing the creation of the new Japanese Imperial State and deploying the first of a fleet of solar-powered collection satellites to beam microwave energy to receptors on the Earth's surface. With this relatively cheap method of distributing power to isolated regions, Japan begins to make strong inroads into the Third World.
2006: In the U.S.A., the government, realizing that high-tech weapons production and exportation is one major portion of the U.S. economy that the country cannot do without any more, loosens the import/export restrictions on firearms.
2006: In Germany, the government, in an attempt to control its voter base, passes legislation giving migrants the right to vote in local as well as general elections.
2006: Texas Instruments successfully sues Miroyama Electric for gross violation of patents. Although TI has to take the lawsuit through all levels of the Japanese legal system before finally forcing the appeal to its highest levels. In a surprise decision, it is ruled that Miroyama is guilty of the charges. The management of the company is ordered to turn over its assets to TI. This they do, then commit seppuku.
2006: In British Columbia, the BC Ferries Corporation retires all of its old ships.
2006: In London, England, U.K., local tong leader Zhing Wo is displaced due to infighting.
2006: The first High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT), a plane design based on the Concord, is flown.
2007: In Germany, the elections of the Berlin leaves that city in control of cronies of the Daimier-Benz corporation.
2007: In Germany, the cities of Langen and Dreieich merge to form Langen-Dreiech
2007: In Mexico, Medellin drug cartel chief Juan Ortega coordinates cartel resources into legitimate business investments. He, David cartel chief Julio Ramos, and Masaya cartel chief Diego Oriz, buy out a major Villahermosa, Mexico development corporation and rename it ORO Corporation.
2007: In Germany, the Mueller-Schluter Infotech corporation is formed.
2007: In Germany, the disbanded Die Grunen party is re-established, although never to its former position.
2007: In the U.S.A., the Supreme Court declines to review the decision of Congress to remove the Washington D.C. city government.
2007: In the U.S.A., the last of the Nazi groups are disbanded.
2008: In the U.S.A., the implementation of an ultra-fast digital packing algorithm allows high definition television to finally work on existing U.S. channel bandwidths.
2008: In Panama, major molybdenum deposits are discovered several kilometers off the coast in Golfo de los Mosquitos. The ORO Corporation has already obtained the mineral rights to this area indicating they had prior knowledge of the find. It also raises their status to that of a major corporate power.
2008: On May 1, in Germany, the administrative governments of Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach, Hanau, Darmstadt, the Bergstrase, Gros-Gerau, Main-Taunus, and Wiesbaden secede from the state of Hessen to create the new state of Rheinhessen. The city of Wiesbaden proceeds to evict the Hessen state government and the officials are run out of the city by armed mobs. The new state then seizes Border Guard and Bundeswehr armories with militia that have been training in the abandoned American karsernes in Russelsheim, Munster, and Offenbach.
2008: The Nestle corporation falls apart.
2008: In Mexico, ORO Corporation convinces the nations of Columbia, Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras to rescind all laws involving the illegality of pirating software for sale from another company. The ORO Corporation makes millions in the business of reselling computer software at cheap prices.
2008: In Texas, U.S.A., a law is passed creating urban militia units, which allow residents of an area to sign up for limited combat training and obtain military weaponry with minor restrictions. New laws also define the right of residents to contract private security firms to provide armed protection for their communities and homes.
2008: In Minnesota, U.S.A., four months after Texas authorizes urban militia units, Minnesota follows their example and passes the "Firearm Education Law."
2008: In the U.S.A., Proto-Feudalism is first recognized.
2008: In Germany, the coalition government collapses when the USPD breaks from it and the SPD replaces them with members of the Christian Democratic Union. This makes the decaying social situation in Germany worse. In an attempt to control the growing violence, the government begins to rely heavily on the Federal Border Guards as well as Lander, or individual state, police forces.
2008: A meteor impacts with the Mir space platform (recently sold by the Russians to the Harris-3M corporation) killing two of the crew outright. The rest die later when Harris-3M fails to launch a rescue mission. The orbit of the station begins to decay.
2008: On November 25 Harris-3M, determining that the Mir platform cannot be saved, place a Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE) on board and destroys it.
2008: In Berlin, Germany, the Olympic stadium is constructed.
2008: In the U.S.A., Jesse Garrety is elected President of the United States.
2009: In the U.S.A., Jesse Garrety is inaugurated as President of the United States.
2009: In the U.K., Charles III is crowned King of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.
2009: On March 4, in Lorraine, France, the nuclear plant at Cattenom suffers terminal meltdown and the plant leaks highly explosive gas which detonates Block 2 of the plant. This releases a cloud of radioactive gas which blow into provinces of both France and Germany. German and French authorities manage to evacuate the entire Saarland, the province of Lorraine, and the nation of Luxembourg. The meltdown costs 37,241 lives. The Saarland and the nearby district of Trier are declared disaster areas. Refugees flood the Rhineland-Palatinate and northern Baden-Wurttemberg.
2009: In Germany, Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg, threatened with more refugees from the Cattenom nuclear disaster, threaten to secede from Germany.
2009: In Mexico, business leaders band together to fight repressive government business laws.
2009: On April 29, in Germany, the Federal government vests all political power into a military council headed by General Horst Stockter. This council dissolves all parliaments and Lander governments and establishes martial law. The population hardly resists at all. In Bavaria the council confiscates weapons and the Bavarians surrender on May 4 giving General Stocketer complete control of Germany.
2009: On May 5, In the U.S.A., United Oil Industries announces that it has acquired the right to exploit the petrochemical resources in one-quarter of the remaining federal parks and one-tenth of the remaining Indian reservations, which the government has just confiscated.
2009: In Montana, U.S.A., in immediate response to the United Oil Industries announcement a small band of SAIM members, including some one-time members of the USMC Scalpel special forces team, enters the U.S. Air Force's Shiloh Launch Facility in northwest Montana. It is unknown how the group bypasses the security systems in the facility. Once inside the silo, the group meets up with USAF Major John Redbourne, a full-blood Dakota Sioux. Redbourne knocks his partner unconscious and uses the man's keys and codes to unlock the missile launch fail-safes. The Shiloh raiders threaten to launch the facility's missiles unless all Indian land is returned.
2009: In Montana, U.S.A., after ten days of negotiations a Delta Team anti-terrorist group invades the silo. During the struggle, which results in the death of all the occupying SAIM members, a single Lone Eagle ICBM carrying four MIRVed five-megaton warheads is launched. The missile, which is targeted for the Russian Republic, ignores all auto-destruct signals. The military has no interceptors in position that can shoot the missile down either.
2009: Although denying responsibility for the launch, U.S. President Garrety informs Russian President Nikolai Chelenko of the targets of the multiple warheads. Garrety hopes to prevent a full scale retaliation by giving the Russians enough time to use semi-secret ballistic defenses to stop the missile.
2009: In the U.S.A., Don Victor Marconi of the Washington D.C. Mafia marries the Daughter of the late Don Howard Torricelli of San Diego, California. He initiates a campaign to destroy all local Mafia competition.
2009: In the U.S.A., when the Lone Eagle incident is revealed to the American public, the outcry against all Native Americans skyrockets. Corporate propaganda makes all Indian scapegoats for the actions of SAIM. Anti-Indian riots break out nationwide.
2009: In the U.S.A., the government quietly repeals the laws forbidding private ownership of firearms to non-security employed citizens.
2009: In Texas, U.S.A., in response to the Dallas riots, the Texas state legislature passes laws giving corporate security forces carte blanche in dealing with armed intruders.
2009: In the U.S.A., in fear of further attacks against military targets, the government moves several important aeronautic research projects including hypersonic spyplanes to Pearl Harbor and Kahuku Point in Hawai'i.
2009: In the U.S.A., the Re-education and Relocation act is introduced in response to the growing outcry against Native Americans. This act calls for confinement of anyone connected in any way with SAIM.
2009: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., the "Battle" of Bagley is fought between security and gang forces.
2009: In Dallas Texas, U.S.A., enraged unemployed and homeless workers storm United Oil Industries' Dallas headquarters and take control of the tower. The leaders of the revolt demand that "fascist corporations" be held accountable for the city of Dallas' financial and criminal plight, that their assets be liquidated and used to revitalize the Dallas side of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
2009: In Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., Governor Hunter Carstairs calls in Texas Ranger Assault Teams to quell the Dallas riot. After the smoke clears, six mercenaries are dead, five United Oil Industries employees are seriously injured, and 167 rioters are killed.
2009: In Berlin, Germany, a second network to the U-Bahn system is constructed.
2009: Moscow, skeptical of Washington's claims that the launch was accidental and not an attempt of a surgical strike on Russian cities, puts their forces on full alert and orders all citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States into shelters. The U.S. public is kept unaware of the situation. President Garrety waits anxiously and as later revealed in the celebrated "back-room tapes," alternately weeps, rants, and prays.
2009: In the U.S.A., United Oil Industries announces plans to build a multimillion-dollar convention complex at Eagle Mountain Lake, west of Fort Worth, Texas.
2009: Shortly after being informed of the missile, President Chelenko tersely informs Garrety that the warheads have been stopped. A privately conducted stress analysis of Chelenko's voice later indicated only a 79% probability that he speaks the truth, but neither seismic nor space-based sensors record any nuclear explosions.
2009: The North American gray wolf is declared extinct.
2009: In the U.S.A., the last California condor dies in captivity.
2009: In the U.S.A., NASA and United Oil Industries complete a high-speed rail link between Houston, Oklahoma City, and Dallas/Forth Worth. This above-ground train, built as a prototype for use in a proposed lunar colony, is propelled by a frictionless cushion of magnetic repulsion. It travels great distances at high speed.
2010: Ares Industries absorbs the EoTech corporation.
2010: In Mexico, rebellions break out in the states of Campeche and Yucatan. Unlike the previous Mexican uprising, these rebels seem well armed and organized.
2010: Australian Aborigines and New Zealand Maoris riot in sympathy for the Native Americans in North America. The response is at first to stop the rioting, but due to corporate influence, the governments later decide to drive all Aborigines and Maoris from the major cities after they refuse to stop the rioting. These natives are accepted into the outback communities and country towns where they have numerical advantage.
2010: By this year massive phase-outs of U.S. military bases in both Japan and Okinawa leads to a complete lack of significant American military presence west of the Philippines.
2010: In the U.S.A., the Drug Enforcement Agency, in response to the growing fierceness of the war on drugs, reworks itself to become more of a paramilitary strike force than a law enforcement group.
2010: In Quebec, Canada, The Latin Quarter of Quebec City is destroyed in a fire.
2010: In Louisiana, U.S.A., Casino gambling is legalized.
2010: In Canada, the Nepean Act, legitimizing internment camps for Native Americans in Canada, is passed the same day as the Re-Education and Relocation act in the U.S.
2010: In Mexico, another rash of assassinations involving government officials occurs. The state governments of southeastern Mexico are brought to a standstill. Within a span of four months over two dozen government officials are killed. Only one assassin is ever captured and executed for the crime.
2010: In New Delhi, India, The first cases of a new disease, Virally Induced Toxic Allergy Syndrome (VITAS),are discovered.
2010: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., the New Metropolitan Council (NMC), a group formed to handle the riots and chaos of the VITAS outbreaks, is formed. The group's members have their identities concealed to all but themselves and Governor Haroldson (Governor Rudd's successor) in order to protect them.
2010: In the U.S.A., to conserve funds, Congress contracts out management of the re-education centers to corporations. Once out of the media spotlight, the corporate managers allow overcrowding, poor sanitation, and insufficient medical care to plague the inmates.
2010: Michel Beloit, a young senior executive with BMW, expands the corporation and makes it Europe's premier industrial power.
2010: In England, U.K., a number of primates escape from Exeter Zoo.
2010: Japanese-style coffin hotels open in North America.
2010: In Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., a major urban reconstruction project occurs in the Pine and Broadway region.
2010: In New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., River Walk Mall closes down. It soon becomes a haven for drug addicts known as Nitemare Alley.
2010: In Germany, the Buer district of Gelsenkirchen and Recklinghausen is almost totally destroyed in a food riot.
2010: In Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., Black Cougar Mountain is leveled as part of a federal housing project.
2010: In Germany, the military government officially recognizes the new state of Rheinhessen and further aids them by annexing to them the districts of Mannheim and Heidelberg.
2010: In Los Angeles California, U.S.A., Amalgamated Studios begins buying up huge amounts of Orange County for a major entertainment project.
2010: In the U.S.A., Macdonnel Douglas, already having purchased several smaller companies in order to diversify production capabilities and broaden their technology pool, changes their name to Advanced Weapons and Systems (AWS).
2010: In Mexico City, Mexico, a major fire breaks out destroying much of the city.
2010: In the U.S.A., Daniel Coleman is sent to the Abilene Re-education center.
2010: In the U.S.A., the Re-education and Relocation act is passed. All Native Americans believed to have connection with SAIM are sent to detention camps referred to as "re-education centers." Due to the general feelings of hatred against Native Americans, abuse of the law is rampant and many innocent people are incarcerated.
2010: In Mexico, the Frente Democratico Nacional (National Democratic Front (FDN) and Partido de Accion Nacional (National Action Party (PAN) are involved in massive scandals.
2010: Within weeks of its first appearance, VITAS cases are being reported around the planet. Most fatalities occur in outlying areas of the planet where medical care is scarce and in high-population centers where supplies of medicines and vaccines are insufficient. China, India, many African nations, and densely populated Third World cities suffer disproportionately due to their insufficient medical delivery systems. By the end of the year approximately 25% of the world's people are dead or dying. Ironically, the re-education centers are spared the worst of the plague due to their isolation.
2010: In Australia, the Monash Industries corporation becomes Australia & New Zealand Amalgamated Corporations (ANZAC) with Alex Monash as CEO.
2011: In Texas, U.S.A., declaring a state emergency, re-elected governor Carstairs calls in the national guard to deal with the crime. Dallas residents live in a state of siege, unsure which to fear more, the governor or the refugees. Before negotiators can strike a bargain with the police department, 27 National Guardsmen are killed. Six shantytowns are razed in the struggle, but more quickly replace them.
2011: In Mexico, the business community bands together to form an interim government.
2011: In England, U.K., toxic waste leaks from landfill sites result in an epidemic of pollution for that country.
2011: In the U.S.A., the Plains Federation, a Native American group autonomous from SAIM, disbands.
2011: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., the maglev train line linking Boulder to Colorado Springs is completed.
2011: On April 23, in Australia, the first reported sighting, and subsequent attack, of the Carnivorous Koala, or Drop Bear, occurs when one attacks Wildlife Ranger Patrick Stone of Sydney.
2011: In Canada, the Athabascan Tar Sands oil reclamation project is reopened when Biogene Laboratories Inc. markets the first efficient oil-leeching bacteria.
2011: On April 14, in Northern Ireland, U.K., the IRA attacks and destroys the SAS base in Belfast. Thirteen members of the SAS are killed along with eleven Protestant paramilitary groups used as informal death squads by British intelligence and the military. British Press covers up the assault but the truth is revealed several years later.
2011: In Europe, massive civilian protests lead to raids on nuclear power plants. Three plants suffer meltdowns and cause massive radiation damage.
2011: In England, U.K., the Conservative Party is voted out of Parliament in favor of the new Socialist Labour Party.
2011: In Ulster, Northern Ireland, U.K., the first of a series of Magical attacks are made on military targets by the IRA. 75 members of the Parachute Regiment are killed. 44 in Coalisland in February and 31 more in Derry a month later.
2011: In Texas, U.S.A., the police departments, severely outnumbered in the face of the violence, vote to strike.
2011: In the U.S.A., thousands of refugees from the Mexican dissolution cross the border into Texas. Some head for southern California, but most end up in San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas/Fort Worth. This influx of people overtaxes the already strained welfare and housing system, leaving most of the refugees in the street. Shantytowns spring up in vacant lots and under highway bridges. The crime rate in Texas soars, leading to increased incidents of racial violence.
2011: In Germany, General Stockter responds to the flood by decreeing a restructuring of the federal Lander, uniting the northern Lander of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Bremen, and the northern part of Saxony-Anhalt to form the North German Federation. The General also establishes the Special Legislative Zone (SOX) in the Saar. Corporations respond to this chaos by buying up many smaller corporations. Telecommunications, information, and computer related industries tend to gravitate towards southern Germany. Heavy industry moves towards the North German Federation.
2011: On February 9, hurricane-force winds push the poisonous waters of the North Sea into the mouth of the Elbe River in Germany. This soon becomes the worst flood in human history. The dikes of North Frisia and the dams of the Dutch Ijsselmeer burst. When the waters finally recede, most of the Netherlands and North Frisia and all of East Frisia is buried under toxic sludge making them uninhabitable. The flood costs half a million lives and leaves nearly 45 million people in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Denmark without homes. In the city of Hamburg, the waters never recede earning it the nickname, "Venice of the North." The city soon becomes a black market paradise. The defunct nuclear plants of Brunsbuttel and Brokdorf are also hit, turning them into radioactive time bombs.
2011: On January 13, in the U.S.A., a powerful earthquake rocks the Olympic Peninsula. The destruction of buildings in the re-education camps results in mass breakouts. Among the thousands of escapees is Thunder Tyee, a Salish warrior chief and friend of Daniel Coleman.
2011: In San Francisco, California, U.S.A., the City Hall burns to the ground.
2011: In Ireland, U.K., dramatic storms, flooding, and seismic shocks occur along the eastern coastline due to radiation leaks from British nuclear power stations.
2011: In the U.S.A., rumors spring up of a second mission to Mars to follow up on information labeled top secret from the previous mission. NASA and the government deny the existence of such a mission.
2011: In Germany, Degussa, Solvay, and BASF merge together to form AG Chemie Europa. This new corporation joins with ZetaImpChem to buy out and divide Hoechst AG. AG Chemie Europa builds its new corporate headquarters in the remains of Hoechst AG's Stammwerk in Frankfurt.
2011: In Scotland, U.K., Dounreay nuclear power plant suffers critical meltdown, creating the Scottish Irradiated Zone.
2011: In the U.S.A., Coleman and his followers are joined by New Rolling Stone journalist McBean.
2011: In England, U.K., floods hit central and southern England, destroying much property.
2011: On December 24, in Japan, hundreds of people witness the first appearance of the great dragon Ryumyo as they pass Mount Fuji on a bullet train.
2011: Worldwide, mutant children begin being born to "normal" parents. This event is labeled Unexplained Genetic Expression, or UGE. Newsweek magazine label these children as "elves and dwarves."
2011: In Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., Trojan-Satsop, a nuclear power plant in the Redmond district, suffers partial meltdown, contaminating Beaver Lake and the surrounding land for kilometers around.
2011: In Germany, sightings of dragons are reported in the Eifel and Harz mountains, the Bohemian Forest, the Giant Mountains, and the Allgau Mountains.
2011: On October 31, in Salem Massachusetts, U.S.A., at the height of the annual Samhain ritual of the witches of Salem, a ghostly hunting group complete with a male and female lead hunter, a full dog pack, and attending hunters appears out of the mist, circles the witches three times, and then vanishes. Several of the witches collapse and are taken to the hospital. They are treated for various problems including migraine headaches, bruises, unexplained cuts and burns, and one stroke. The stroke victim later dies. The attending doctor has no explanation for these injuries apart from stress due to what the witches claim to have seen.
2011: In California, U.S.A., there is a massive influx of new age enthusiasts looking for magical areas.
2011: In Australia, the first mana storm strikes the Campbell sheep station, 102 kilometers northwest of Hay, New South Wales. Only three people out of the 31 inhabitants survive. These storms quickly increase in frequency.
2011: In Germany, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank join together to form the Frankfuurter Bankenverein. This organization absorbs many other banks in the Rhein-Main-Neckar region.
2011: In Scotland, U.K., an earthquake erupts destroying much property in the central region.
2011: In England, U.K., Sizewell B nuclear power plant suffers critical meltdown, resulting in 7,800 deaths.
2011: In Wales and along the length of the Pennines in central England, U.K., a series of serious landslides occur.
2011: The Year of Chaos. In Mexico, the government of is violently disbanded leaving the nation in total anarchy. This event marks the beginning of an unprecedented number of governments being overthrown in the following five years. More governments are overthrown in this span of time than in any other comparable span in history.
2011: On November 23, In Germany, the Treaty of Passau is signed settling all remaining disputes about the rights of national and international corporations. This treaty guarantees extraterritoriality to any corporation larger than a certain size.
2011: In Greece, the ruined temple at Larisa in Thessalay is magically replaced by a fully rebuilt classical temple.
2011: In Ireland, U.K., western forests begin a rapid and unexplainable period of growth.
2011: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., certain occultists claim that the city is home to a spirit of immense power.
2011: Tibet regains independence from China as magical defenses seal it off from invasion and render the region incommunicado.
2011: Pope John Paul IV denounces metahumans as abominations in the eyes of God.
2011: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., the NMC is granted further governing powers. The Metropolitan Security Directorate (MSD) and Metropolitan Police Corps (MPC) are established to exercise these new powers and to keep the state from falling into anarchy.
2011: In Ireland, U.K., the ancient Slighe roads, peat bogs, and cairne lines begin to re-emerge from the land as well as an occurrence of mana storms similar to those in Australia.
2011: In the U.S.A., at the same moment as the Ryumyo sighting, Daniel Coleman and his followers escape from the Abiline re-education center in plain view of all guards and inmates during a storm. Guards later claim that Coleman is "glowing" and that he and his followers ignore bullets fired at them. This event, as well as the appearance of Ryumyo is considered the sign that magic has returned to the world.
2011: In Ireland, U.K., the Giant's Causeway begins to grow larger.
2011: In Hawai'i, U.S.A., the Army for the Liberation of Hawai'i (ALOHA) begins a series of car bomb attacks against U.S. military targets. Over the next two years ALOHA claims responsibility for two dozen such attacks. 150 ALOHA targets are killed along with 300 innocent bystanders.
2011: In the U.S.A., the CTP changes its name to Litterbugs International.
2011: In England, U.K., no less than 14 mediums and clairvoyants report astral sensings of the energizing of the Stalker ley line.
2011: On December 26, In England, U.K., the Great Welsh Dragon Celedyr is first sighted in the fortress town of Caerleon.
2011: In various sites across England, U.K., most especially in the center of the Welsh town of Brecon (where the town center is flattened) stone circles and standing stones erupt through the earth, forming patterns of sacred sites extending along known ley lines.
2012: After a series of hostilities between corporations resulting in massive profit loss, the Keruba Corporation (later absorbed by Renraku Computer Systems), BMW, Ares Industries, The Shiawase Corporation, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, ORO Corporation, and JRJ (later absorbed by Fuchi Industrial Electronics) band together to form the Inter-Corporate Council (ICC) to represent the interests of all megacorporations.
2012: In the U.S.A., the Plains Revival Movement, an offshoot of the Plains Federation, officially joins SAIM.
2012: In England, U.K., a new stone circle erupts at the foot of Bon Nevis.
2012: In Washington, D.C., U.S.A., National Airport restricts traffic to flights with federal clearance only.
2012: In Australia, ANZAC buys the contract of Derrick Rommanche, a noted expert on computers, from the Renraku corporation.
2012: In the U.S.A., the "smooth flow of traffic" concept replaces speed limits. This new law states that anyone disrupting the smooth flow of traffic is to be cited and that actual speeds are irrelevant.
2012: In China, a minor earthquake strikes a region near the Great Wall of China. The quake is unusual in that it is localized and, according to seismic readings, shouldn't have occurred at all. Moments later, a great dragon, later identified as Lung, appears before dozens of tourists. Military jets sent to investigate only catch a glimpse of the dragon before being engulfed by a freak thunderstorm. Lung then disappears from the plane's radar scopes.
2012: In the U.S.A., New Rolling Stone journalist McBean disappears while covering the Daniel Coleman story.
2012: In Germany, the great dragon Kaltenstein disappears, apparently killed by the great dragons Lofwyr and Nebelherr.
2012: In Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Colonel Edward Hildebrandt a commanding officer of the Native American re-education camps, is found torn apart as if by wild animals. The Army suspects SAIM to be involved but never find any evidence. The case is listed as "unsolved."
2012: In Llandovery, Wales, U.K., two weeks after his appearance, the great dragon Rhonabwy orders everyone within a five-mile radius of his new lair site to leave for good within 72 hours. Most people are pacified by his payment of double the land value to the whole town. He then destroys all the buildings and digs a new lair within two weeks.
2012: In Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., corporations offer funds to shore up the city's failing welfare system. Corporate lawyers draw up terms, which include corporate approval of welfare distribution. Governor Carstairs has no choice but to agree. The rules tend to favor Fort Worth and Tarrant County. The poorhouse system of relief is reinstated and work farms are established to contain the growing masses of homeless and to supply labor to the new construction projects in the area.
2012: In the U.S.A., Chief Harold Jim, the influential and well loved leader of the Nootka tribe of Native Americans, is killed when a truck's brakes fail and he is hit.
2012: In Germany, devil rats suddenly begin to spread and flourish.
2012: In the U.S.A., President Garrety is re-elected President of the United States.
2012: On January 1, in England, U.K., King Charles III announces his intention to join an unspecified esoteric order. He then abdicates in favor of his third son George VIII, his first two sons having been killed in a plane crash. Charles III then withdraws from society completely.
2012: On February 12, in Caerfyrddin, Wales, U.K., the great western dragon Rhonabwy breaks out of his lair leaving a huge crater. He then goes on a rampage destroying hundreds of buildings and causing the deaths of over 150 people. He subsequently apologizes for the destruction blaming it on "post hibernation trauma."
2012: All around the world the resurgence of magic causes high-tech industry to suffer a slump.
2012: By this year, in Germany, 4 great dragons: Lofwyr, Nebelherr, Kaltenstein, and Feuerschwinge, have all made at least one appearance.
2012: On January 27, in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., the great dragon Dunklezahn makes his first appearance. He is notable because unlike other great dragons, Dunklezahn shows an exuberant fascination with high technology. He later takes up a lair in the area around Cherry Creek Lake.
2012: The first HSCT production models enter regular service.
2012: In Colorado, U.S.A., as the military tries to seal off Cherry Creek Lake, reporters from all over fight for an interview with Dunklezahn. The winner is Holly Brighton, an early-evening weekend anchorwoman. The resulting 12 hour and 16 minute interview gives humanity its first real clues into the breadth and depth of the Awakening. Dunklezahn earns $13 million dollars tax-free for participating. Holly Brighton maintains an informal business relationship with Dunklezahn.
2012: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., Dunklezahn, in order to bypass the problem of recording his words (due to the fact that dragons communicate through a "thought-voice"), hires John Timmons, a young black divinity student from Denver, to be his interpreter. As a result, Timmons becomes a major voice in Post-Awakened North American Protestantism, where he preaches tolerance and clear-mindedness against a tide of religious reactionism.
2012: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., Jaelle Lester, founder of the Church of the Whole Earth Inc., suffering from a crisis of faith, sees Dunkelzahn make his first appearance and declares him to be a sign from the Goddess. She begins to turn her tiny church into a much larger organization.
2013: The awakened animal known as the Gabriel hound is first sighted.
2013: In the U.S.A., President Garrety is again inaugurated President of the United States.
2013: In Germany, leading politicians in the districts of Munster and Detmold declare themselves a separate land called Westphalia.
2013: In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A., Vernon Prudhomme, a native, hires a group of motorcycle daredevils and stages a game involving motorcycles, stunt riding, padded clubs, and "paintball" guns as a publicity gimmick for his speedway business. The game is broadcast over radio and T.V. and becomes quite popular. Prudhomme jokes about starting a "Combat Cyclists League."
2013: In England, U.K., the IRA attack in Aldershot leads the government to consider a referendum to determine the fate of Ireland.
2013: In England, U.K., the British Imperial Chemical Industries corporation is revealed to have been improperly dumping chemical waste in North Cambridge.
2013: The great dragon Feuerschwinge disappears. Rumor has him living in Iceland.
2013: In Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., renovation of the "T" line is completed.
2013: In Ireland, U.K., IRA attacks, which have been escalating in Ulster and the British mainland since the destruction of the SAS base, culminate in an attack in Aldershot using elementals.
2013: The Keruba Corporation and ORO corporation go to limited corporate war for reasons unexplained. The ICC meet to mediate the dispute but are unable to do anything substantial due to their lack of power. The war eventually winds down due to lack of liquid assets on both sides.
2013: In Hawai'i, U.S.A., the Na Kama'aina pro Polynesian group begins a PR campaign to distance itself from the ALOHA attacks.
2013: In Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.,the Eli Whitney Tower housing project is built.
2013: In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A., soon after Prudhomme's exhibition, a go-gang called the Maulers show up. Calling themselves a Combat Biker team, they violently defeat Prudhomme's stunt riders. The Mauler's leader, Charles "Mangler" Patterson tells Prudhomme that for a modest payment they will stay away. In response Prudhomme hires a rival go-gang, gives them uniforms unpadded weapons, and riot weapons firing plastic ammo, and names them the Red Devils. When the Maulers show up again the Red Devils soundly defeat them. Strangely enough, for the first hour the game stays within the rules (for the most part). The story makes huge ratings on the national news.
2013: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., the Denver Union Stockyards are purchased by Denver Foodstuffs Inc. (DFI) and turned into one of the Southwest's largest sources of algae for food purposes.
2014: In Mexico, the Aztlan, political party reaches new heights of popularity.
2014: In Australia, most of the desert regions of the outback are lost to mana storms. Some people however, having learned how to predict one, stay in the outback.
2014: The international signal format agreements for computer datalines are signed.
2014: In Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A., Redondo peak erupts, burying the city under a cloud of volcanic ash. Howling Coyote appears soon after in a vid-cast from a nearby Zuni reservation. He claims credit for invoking "our Mother Earth to punish the children who forsook Her."
2014: In Germany, less than half of the population remains with any major religious organization. Some join the Ecumenical Devotion Movement and Catholic fundamentalist groups. Some simply distance themselves from religion altogether.
2014: In the U.S.A., businessman Clayton Wilson begins his two year success spree in the stock market, increasing his net worth from the low millions to a multi-billionaire.
2014: In April, in Germany, the German Catholic Church holds its Council of Bishops. This particular meeting is fraught with conflict among the differing sects brought about by the Awakening.
2014: In Hawai'i, U.S.A., the state government declares martial law. The federal government sends in troops from Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Base. These troops are organized into the Civil Defense Force. This group puts down insurrection with extreme brutality.
2014: In Germany, the Northrhine-Westphalia district is absorbed by neighboring districts.
2014: In the U.S.A., six teams begin playing the Combat Biker games professionally. The competition receives national T.V. coverage.
2014: In Cuba, old age and bad health force President Fidel Castro to finally resign from office. Within weeks of this announcement the Communist government collapses.
2014: In South Africa, the white controlled government finally dissolves completely.
2014: In the U.S.A., the ban on steroids in amateur sports is ended due to new physical enhancement drugs on the market that make testing too difficult to be practical.
2014: In the U.S.A., the government ignores Howling Coyote. The media tries to make a laughing stock of him and his followers. Despite the fact that magical phenomena has become increasingly commonplace, no one believes that any one group has that much power.
2014: In Germany, the Landers are rezoned.
2014: In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A., a board of regents composed mostly of corporate executives and token government representatives now runs the Dallas/Fort Worth municipal welfare and education system. Despite widespread dissatisfaction, the situation works out quite well. Education programs are established to teach the Mexican refugees English and a trade. Graduates from the program are guaranteed jobs with the corporations as long as they obey the law. The crime rate drops significantly and economic stability begins as the per-capita income rises.
2014: In the U.S.A., Don Victor Marconi's war of elimination of Mafia competition ends.
2014: On August 22 in Germany, parliamentary elections organized by the Military Council return Germany to a democratic government. Under the newly appointed Chancellor Meibner, the new government still allows the loosening of the federal structure and the enhanced rights of large corporations.
2014: In Germany, the first world-recognized use of magic occurs, within the Sinti and the Roma, also known as gypsies. Gypsy women use magic to walk into the headquarters of the military government.
2014: In the U.K., a week after the Act of Dissolution is passed, the governments of the United kingdom and Ireland sign the Treaty of Galway and the United Free Republic of Ireland is formed.
2014: In the U.S.A., Daniel Coleman, now calling himself Daniel Howling Coyote, reappears. He has spent the past three years proselytizing to both free and imprisoned Native Americans and convincing them to wage a guerrilla war against the white man. Backed by an elite core of fanatics, including New Rolling Stone journalist McBean and Thunder Tyee and his multi-tribal warrior team, he announces the formation of the Native American Nations (NAN), a coalition of tribes with the Sovereign Tribal Council at its head. They lay claim all to all of North America and demand all persons of European, African, and Asian ancestry to withdraw from the continent. They threaten dire magical retribution if their demand is not met.
2014: In Vatican City, Pope John Paul IV dies in his sleep. He is replaced by Pope John XXV. Despite this change in power, several Irish Catholic bishops who had refused to accept John Paul IV's denouncement of metahumans, break from the Catholic church and instead go to the Church of Ireland, a small splinter church.
2014: In the U.S.A., within an hour of the broadcast, a federal reaction force, composed of the Sixth Air Cavalry Battalion from Fort Hood, Texas is on the way to capture Howling Coyote and destroy his movement. The entire group is destroyed before it even reaches the reservation by the sudden appearance of several violent tornadoes. By the time a second force arrives, Howling Coyote is long gone.
2014: In Louisiana, U.S.A., the state capital moves from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
2014: In the U.S.A., the story of Howling Coyote's successful guerilla war is leaked to the public by unknown sources. President Jesse Garrety is forced to take all the public outcry.
2014: In Germany, immediately following the German Council of Bishops, the diocese of Munster breaks from Rome and declares itself the center of the True Church of the Lord God and His Saints. This new faith is known for its complete rejection and hatred of anything connected with magic.
2014: In the U.K., the referendum on Northern Ireland is held. By a majority of 78%, the People vote to exclude the province from the United Kingdom. As a result, the House of Commons passes the Act of Dissolution on June 16.
2014: In Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A., Adam Goines forms Proteus Subsystems.
2015: In Mexico, ORO Corporation achieves limited respectability due to its humanitarian actions during the VITAS plague.
2015: A shuttle is sent to retrieve the crew from the Freedom space station. The mission is almost a failure when a member of the TerraFirst! eco-terrorist group launches a man-pack SAM at the rescue shuttle. The ceramic tiles of the shuttle prevent serious damage.
2015: In Quebec, in response to the recent riot, the National Assembly makes civil insurrection a capital offense.
2015: In Washington, U.S.A., two months after the Trident base, Tyee's group captures the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremington. One Nereid class submarine, the Wichita, almost escapes capture, but Tyee's warriors sink her with cannons and a missile.
2015: In Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., now armed better than the army forces in that area, Tyee's troops prepare for a final showdown and surround McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis.
2015: The orbit of the U.S. space station Freedom begins to decay for unknown reasons. It is predicted that it will burn up in Earth's atmosphere in 2017.
2015: In April, in Berlin, Germany, the city , now completely consumed in rebellion and violence, is declared an exclusion zone by the government and surrounded by troops. The troops however are unable to keep the motorcycle gangs and mobs from plundering Berlin and its more upscale suburbs. To control this, the government surrounds Berlin, Potsdam, Oranienburg, and a few other suburbs with a temporary wall. The city's only remaining connections with the rest of the nation is a heavily patrolled Transrapid and ECE high-speed train link as well as Berlin's three airports.
2015: On May 5, in Mexico, the nation's first direct elections are held using computers provided by the ORO Corp. Francisco Pavon y Guetterrez del Cordoba of the Azatlan party wins the election.
2015: In Australasia, Viking Enterprises, a maritime food production corporation, purchases the Woolworth chain.
2015: In Mexico, President Pavon's first act in office is to rename the country Aztlan.
2015: On January 26, Australia and New Zealand merge into one nation, formally named Australasia, though still called Australia.
2015: In Hungary, the Green Party wins control of the government. They try to cut back all polluting industries but only manage to destroy Hungary's already weak economy.
2015: In Ireland, the Catholic church begins to lose power when people abandon it for the more moderate Church of Ireland.
2015: In Germany, the entire Hustadt district is condemned as a public hazard and abandoned.
2015: In the U.S.A., the SportsBlast cable channel broadcasts the first "official" freestyle fighting match. This new sport allows any attack that a fighter can make unarmed to any point in the body including eyes, joints, groin, or throat. The fight goes on until there is a knockout, disable or surrender.
2015: In Ireland, a census is taken revealing that only the province of Ulster has a recognizable population of non-Catholics. Each of the other great provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught have Catholic populations as high as 90%.
2015: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., the Magic Hat, a professional organization for practice of real magic opens.
2015: In Ireland, the IRA reopens negotiations with the Dublin government. Although Ireland is now unified, the IRA's political wing Sinn Fein still wants to further certain policies. This movement is led by Liam O'Connor, commander of the Derry IRA. During these negotiations, O'Connor and a handful of his key advisors and allies who until now has concealed their true identities with magic, are revealed to be a "spike baby" elves. This leads to rumors of an elven conspiracy among the non-elven members of the IRA. As a result a schism occurs and the IRA splits into two factions: The human led Official IRA, and Liam O'Connor's primarily elven Provisional IRA. The Official IRA breaks off negotiations with the Irish government. The Provisional IRA strikes a deal with the Dublin government that incorporates the IRA into the security apparatus of the state. In return for IRA help the Fianna Fail government agrees to initiate strict environmental protection laws, metahuman equality legislation, and government subsidized hermetic study programsn
2015: In Qubec City, Quebec, a riot breaks out. The Hotel du Gouvernment, the meeting house for the Republic of Quebec National Assembly, is destroyed.
2015: Hong Kong secedes from mainland China and declares independence as the Hong Kong Free Enterprise Zone. Great Britain is duped into using its influence to protect and give aid to Hong Kong but find that corporate interests have wholly taken over.
2015: In Ireland, the Lough Key forest shows an unnatural growth rate of 40%. This growth lasts for another four years.
2015: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., immigration of Asians virtually stops due to the political upheaval of the Native American situation.
2015: In Seattle Washington, U.S.A., a group of Salish warriors led by Thunder Tyee captures the Trident Submarine base at Bangor.
2016: On December 12, in the U.S.A., an Army Ranger battalion receives intelligence on a large concentration of Native American warriors and materials located near the battalion's base. The Rangers fire artillery and stand-off weaponry to "soften them up." When the Rangers run an assault on the position they discover that it is in fact a refugee settlement housing several thousand non-combatants of the Kiowa tribe, mainly women and children. For all intents and purposes, the Kiowa tribe ceases to exist.
2016: In the U.S.A., one month after President Jarman issues Executive Order 17-321, it is ratified in Congress with the Resolution Act of 2016.
2016: In U.S.A., intelligence agencies such as the CIA and FBI begin to integrate magicians into their organizations.
2016: In the U.S.A., the AMA bans the use of magic by practicing doctors. This action is condemned by many awakened support groups.
2016: In Hawai'i, U.S.A., The Na Kama'aina group manages to convince Danforth Ho, a distant descendant of former Hawai'ian king Kamehameha I, to join the struggle of secession from the U.S.A. He begins to broker deals with corporate interests.
2016: In the U.S.A., Ares Industries purchases the failing NASA from the United States government including the shuttle and cargo fleet, Cape Kennedy launch facilities, installations in Florida and Texas, tracking stations, and so on. According to the agreement, key elements of the facilities will be returned to the United States in 2055.
2016: Immediately after the NASA purchase, Ares Industries re-stabilizes the orbit of the space station Freedom, beginning a program of expanding its facilities. They also team up with Lloyds of London and begin a salvaging operation of non-functioning satellites in Earth orbit.
2016: In San Francisco, California, U.S.A., renovation on the Foran Bridge is finally completed.
2016: In Scotland, U.K. a terrorist-caused major oil spill in the North Sea penetrates more than 20 miles inland, creating the Scottish Fringe Toxic Zone.
2016: In the U.S.A., President Jesse Garrety is succeeded by his Vice President William Jarman. His first act immediately upon taking office is the issuing of Executive Order 17-321. With this order Jarman plans to solve "the Indian question" by authorizing the total extermination of all Native American tribes.
2016: In Texas, U.S.A., Billionaire Clayton Wilson moves to Austin in search of new opportunities. Seeing the need for increased security in the U.S., he targets takeovers against two Austin based companies, Bartholomew Security, Inc., and Absolute Software, Inc.. He fires the management of both companies and merges them into Lone Star Security.
2016: U.S. President Jesse Garrety, Russian President Nikolai Chelenko, Prime Minister Lena Rodale of Great Britain, and Minister Chaim Schon of Israel are all assassinated within a three-week period. The people responsible for Chelenko Rodale, and Schon's deaths are all killed in violent confrontations. Garrety's assassin, William Springer, escapes and is never captured for the crime
2016: In the U.S.A., investigation into the Kiowa massacre proves that the Intelligence report leading to the attack was provided by a group of radical Cheyenne nationalists.
2016: BMW president Michel Beloit dies, leaving his wife Mina the primary-stock holder of the company.
2017: In Minnesota, U.S.A., the Awakened Forest, an area teeming with awakened lifeforms, begins to grow.
2017: In Ireland, documents are discovered revealing that visions of holy figures in the village of Knock were a hoax.
2017: In Hawai'i, the previously believed extinct volcanic crater of Haleakala experiences a limited eruption.
2017: On December 11, Quebec sends official invitations to the United States (particularly the northeastern section) and the Maritime provinces to join the Republic. All but Labrador, the mainland portion of Newfoundland, refuse.
2017: In England, U.K., four separate British high-tech companies complete the merging of their facilities to create the Transys Neuronet corporation.
2017: British Imperial Chemical Industries merges with two Swiss owned pharmaceutical firms creating the Zeta-Impchem corporation. urce
2017: In Europe, U.S. military forces begin a final pullout from NATO countries.
2017: In London, England, U.K., the friction between the Kung Soo and Xiao Ziang Tongs break out into open war.
2017: In Tampa, Florida, U.S.A., a group calling itself the Leftlaners (composed mostly of retirees) begin a campaign of slowing down traffic in the U.S. to safe speeds by driving slowly in groups.
2017: In Germany, the city of Wuppertal is prohibited from expanding further. To compensate for this the city begins to build over with concrete structures forming four distinct levels.
2017: In the U.S.A., the government and a consortium of corporations creates the Public Broadcasting Network (PBN) to replace PBS.
2017: In Hong Kong, the great dragon Lung becomes involved in a massive Triad war. The war ends with the headquarters of the Majestic Peacock Association going up in flames for no explainable reason.
2017: In the U.S.A., due to the increased nationwide chaos, Lone Star Security enjoys major growth and financial success. During the next three years Wilson hires huge amounts of personnel and opens branches in Lubbock San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, and Texarkana.
2017: In Quebec, President Celinne DeGaulle begins peace talks with the NAN.
2017: In the U.S.A.,Native American tribesmen and non-Indian sympathizers, now occupying military bases in all three North American countries, demand a multinational conference.
2017: On August 22, in Hawai'i, Danforth Ho takes the name of King Kamehameha IV, and declares Hawai'i a sovereignty. Much of the Pacific Fleet, previously en-route to North America, changes course to Hawai'i. A delegation of corporate interests tries to convince the U.S. government to recognize Hawai'i as a sovereign nation. The government refuses. The corporations respond by firing a salvo of Thor non-explosive missiles around the Pacific Fleet flagship USS Enterprise. The fleet returns to San Diego.
2017: In the U.S.A., two magicians, Robert Greene, a shaman in SAIM, and Ursula Mahr, a hermetic working for the U.S. government, try to summon the Denver city spirit at the exact same moment. The spirit, whose name is Zebulon, splits into two separate beings. These spirits kill Greene by invoking intense fear in him, and Mahr by blowing her apart.
2017: In Hawai'i, U.S., Danforth Ho sends his followers to attack the Civil Defense Force. His Kahuna magicians use their powers to immobilize the Civil Defense Force. Great Form spirits act as shock troops. The Yakuza initiate a civilian army to disrupt island communications. Ho and his followers march on the capital building next to Iolani Palace, and send away the government officials. Ho is installed as Ali'i.
2017: On August 17 at 10:32 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, in the U.S.A., soon after the government has managed to assemble its troops to carry out the extermination, Mount Hood, Mount Ranier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams all erupt simultaneously.
2017: In the U.S.A., Daniel Howling Coyote and his followers initiate the Great Ghost Dance. With this potent magic ritual, the NAN continuously delays Jarman's plans to exterminate the Indians by causing freak weather patterns to disrupt the organization of the necessary troops and equipment.
2017: In Hawai'i, U.S.A., the Na Kama'aina leadership discover that Danforth Ho has brokered deals with the Yakuza. They try to distance themselves from Ho but he has become too popular. Some radical members even consider assassinating Ho but later decide against it.
2017: In Texas, U.S.A., on July 22, Clayton Wilson officially incorporates Lone Star Security in Austin.
2017: In Nevada, U.S.A., a major cholera epidemic sweeps through the Pyramid Lake Re-Education Center. Many fatalities result.
2017: In South London, England, U.K., a new riot breaks out.
2017: In Hong Kong, Wuxing Inc. chairman Wu Kuan-Lai begins work on his new corporate headquarters
2018: The federal governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico all send representatives to Denver, Colorado to negotiate with the NAN.
2018: In Ireland, government prosecutors convict Health Minister Seamus Molyneaux and fourteen of his departmental officials of skimming funds from contracts awarded to medical equipment supply companies.
2018: In the Ute Nation, NAN, the government grants the Mormon Church the rights to govern Salt Lake City, Utah as a society only nominally part of the nation, analogous to Vatican City in 20th-century Italy.
2018: In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., three months after the meeting of the North American powers the Treaty of Denver is signed by all parties. Quebec abstains from signing, citing their historically close ties with the Native Americans and its recent rapprochement with others who felt disaffected. In the treaty, all three governments acknowledge the sovereignty of the NAN over most of western North America. The document outlines a ten-year population adjustment plan that would relocate all non-Indian off NAN lands. Provisions include the establishment of reservations for non-tribal peoples and corporations, the maintenance of certain cities (such as Seattle) as extraterritorial extensions of the governments that formerly owned the land they are on. and the retention of most of the state of California by the United States. Denver itself is renamed the Front Range Free Zone (FRFZ) set aside as a "treaty city," under joint administration by The Sioux Nation, Ute Nation, Pueblo Corporate Council, United States, and Aztlan (formerly part of Mexico). Immigration is effectively prohibited into FRFZ. The NAN is divided into the Salish-Shidhe Council, the Sioux Nation, the Pueblo Corporate Council, the Ute Nation, the Algonkian-Manitoo Council, the Athabascan Council, the Trans-Polar Aleut Nation, Aztlan, and the Tsimshian Nation.
2018: In FRFZ, the U.S. government blows up the NORAD facility in Cheyenne mountain to prevent it from entering Native American hands.
2018: In Australasia, the spaceplane America, with its secret military payload, disintegrates in orbit. The wreckage lands in the town of Longreach, Queensland. 300 Longreach citizens are killed. One of the major pieces of debris strikes the Stockman's Hall of Fame, killing 57 tourists and staff.
2018: In FRFZ, the Denver City and Council Building is renamed Council Hall.
2018: In the NAN, Daniel Howling Coyote is named as head of the Sovereign Tribal Council.
2018: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., the first-generation of Artificial Sensory Induction System (ASIST) is created by Dr. Hosato Hikita of ESP Systems Inc. This technology is later called "simsense."
2018: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., immediately after announcing the creation of ASIST technology, ESP Systems Inc. is bought out by maverick financier Dan Truman. Truman goes on to make Chicago the capital of ASIST and simsense research.
2018: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., ESP becomes a subsidiary of Truman Technologies, but is absorbed into the parent company after Truman Technologies loses a lawsuit it brought against the Fuchi Corporation on ESP's behalf, claiming that Fuchi had stolen ESP's ASIST technology.
2018: In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A., a Boeing 787 heavylifter delivering military supplies to Dallas/Forth Worth Airport crashes with its full load of ammunition and bombs on the downtown area of Irving, Texas. The shockwave from the blast shatters thousands of panes of glass throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, adding to the already large list of casualties. The accident is never successfully explained.
2018: In FRFZ, the UCAS sector begins to adjust its security procedures.
2018: In Australasia, after five months of protest from the Aboriginal Tribal Council (ATC) regarding land rights, the Australasian government rounds up all Aboriginal people and sends them to live in the mana-storm-affected lands of the outback, whether they want to go or not.
2018: In Ireland, the book Walking in the Light is published by James Michael Killearn, a recluse in Dublin. The book attains a large following with its message of spiritual transcendence, especially for elves.
2018: In Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., Fuchi Electronics completes its new Seattle Industrial Compound.
2018: Ares Industries completes its expansion program of the space station Freedom, using its primary storage area for orbital salvage.
2018: In Hawai'i, Mount Haleakala explodes in a volcanic eruption. A ridge on the west face of the mountain gives way and a massive lava flow destroys the buildings of Wailea and Keokea.
2018: In Ireland, in the next six years the bishops of Cork, Galway, Dublin, and Derry are caught in sexual scandals. Tir nan n'Og)
2018: In Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., Ares Industries is named one of the ten largest corporations in the world.
2019: In Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., more than 200,000 non-Indian refugees from lands now belonging to the NAN enter the city. This causes massive food and supply shortages.
2019: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., The Red Lake "Invasion" occurs when street gangs invade the Red Lake district.
2019: In China, the Communist government collapses. The resulting chaos causes the country to split into numerous warring provinces.
2019: Dr. Clarissa Beacham writes a scale for measuring the mana or life energy in the world.
2019: In Minneapolis Minnesota, U.S.A., the 1st Minnesota Regulars are formed to battle the increasing gang violence.
2019: The premier of Newfoundland, acting as spokeswoman for the Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the island of Newfoundland, approaches the state of Maine and asks to be annexed. Maine agrees.
2019: In Germany, the Rhein-Main Air Force Base is acquired from the U.S.A.
2019: In Washington, U.S.A., by summer's end, Seattle has also absorbed all of King County, Washington and most of neighboring Pierce and Snohomish Counties as well.
2019: On September 6, in Washington, U.S.A., the citizens of Everett and Tacoma, Washington vote in favor of joining with Seattle.
2019: In FRFZ, the University of Colorado is closed down.
2019: In Washington, U.S.A., the Washington districts of Bellevue, Renton, and Kent vote overwhelmingly to become part of greater Seattle.
2020: In the U.S.A., by this year, all American telebroadcasting is controlled by twenty-three corporations.
2020: The new Ares Industries space platform Apollo becomes their primary space facility.
2020: In the U.S.A., Federated Boeing announces the release of its 777A fleet.
2020: In the U.S.A., President Jarman is re-elected President of the United States.
2020: The space station Freedom becomes the Zurich-Orbital Habitat.
2020: In England, U.K., Paul Bernal, Jr., CEO of the Hildebrandt-Kleinfort-Bernal (HKB) corporation initiates a takeover of Lloyds of London, making HKB the leading provider of London-based financial services.
2020: On November 16, in the U.S.A., President Jarman signs a resolution dissolving Washington State and officially recognizing the creation of a city-state to be known as the Seattle Metroplex, with Seattle Mayor Charles C. Lindstrom to be named as governor.
2020: In Ireland, elvish children are reportedly being born of 41% of all registered births.
2020: The EuroFighter Aircraft (EFA) becomes the European Economic Community's standard STOL tactical fighter.
2020: In the U.S.A., despite a disastrous first term for President Jarman, the 29th Amendment to the Constitution is approved. This allows a president to serve an unlimited number of terms in office.
2020: On February 28, in Australasia, the state of Sydney is formed. The Sydney Metroplex is formed along the same lines as the Seattle Metroplex, except for the lack of international boundaries. The state capital is moved to Canberra.
2020: In Tehran, Iran, in response to a jihad declared against the new races by Iran's ruling Ayatollah, the city is demolished by Aden, a sirrush Great Dragon.
2020: In Texas, U.S.A., Lone Star Security signs its first law enforcement contract with Corpus Christi. The corporation is contracted to bolster the official police force, who have been working without contract for eleven months.
2020: The World Bank is replaced by Global Financial Services, a Zurich-based financial corporation.
2020: In Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., Amalgamated Studios announces the completion and incorporation of their latest project, Fun City. This facility is a massive amusement park covering most of Orange County.
2021: In Germany, where the Goblinization creates a disproportionate number of trolls, the government proposes putting the victims of goblinization in camps. The goblinized Germans respond by organizing the Mutant's Congress in Cologne. They threaten to revolt against the rest of German society if interned.
2021: The Atlantean Foundation is founded by Sheila Blatavska. Its goal is a return to the "enlightened days of Atlantis."
2021: Rocknet's "New Notes" segment plays the trideo Sons of Thunder by Concrete Dreams. This is the band's first public vid-cast.
2021: In Hong Kong, Triad gangs begin to expand throughout the Pacific Rim.
2021: In the NAN, Walter Bright Water is named as representative of the Cascade Crow tribe to the Salish-Shidhe Council.
2021: In the U.S.A., an assassination attempt is made on Lone Star Security president Clayton Wilson. The assassin dies in custody of a brain aneurism. Although no evidence exists, it is suspected that the assassin was sent by Carlos Mergulhao, a major narcotraficante in the Asalla drug cartel.
2021: In New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., noted journalist McBean comes out of seclusion to write an article for Time about the experiences of a friend of his suffering from Goblinization.
2021: The release of high-power solar cells on the market allow the option of decentralized compared to centralized power usage.
2021: In the U.K., King George VII of Great Britain is announced dead. Rumors state that he goblinized and was ordered killed by senior members of the British aristocracy and military.
2021: In Portland, Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, fires break out in much of the city, destroying many old-growth forests.
2021: In Texas, U.S.A., Governor Melissa Santiago-Ortega establishes metahuman detention centers. She strong-arms the Welfare Board into allocating the funds to provide adequate shelter and sanitary facilities for the newly transformed population. Psychologists are brought in to find out if orks and trolls can be safely reintegrated into society. Specially trained units of Texas Rangers ensure that the new metahumans do not fall victim to attack.
2021: In Germany, the government declares the North Sea too polluted for widespread commercial use. Essential shipping lanes are kept open by special cleanup ships, but most shipping groups use computerized ships for North Sea ventures, using live crews only for transatlantic voyages.
2021: In the U.K., rival bloodlines begin to compete for the throne of Great Britain.
2021: In Quebec, full rights are immediately extended to all French-speaking victims of UGE.
2021: In Washington, D.C., U.S.A., President Jarman is again inaugurated as President of the United States.
2021: In South London, England, U.K., another serious riot breaks out.
2021: In the Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Governor Lindstrom, acting on fears that goblinization is contagious, orders the Metroplex Guard to round up all metahumans and their families. He then has them detained at camps once used to contain Native Americans.
2021: On April 30, one out of every ten men, women, and children suddenly metamorphosize into bizarre humanoid shapes. Soon after, children begin being born this way or change soon after puberty. This change, termed by the media as "goblinization", marks the first occurrence of "trolls" and "orks". Variant expressions of goblinization occur in different geographical regions, such as the minotaur troll in the Mediterranean basin, and the ogre ork in continental Europe.
2022: The tension and prejudice against the new races erupts in race riots around the globe.
2022: The islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Grenada, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands as well as the Southern tip of Florida join together to form the Caribbean League.
2022: In Japan, a new Sendosha Yakuza subclan, the Mizu-Kagayaite, is formed. ("Free Fall") Into the Shadows)
2022: On December 3, the HMAS Darwin is struck by Indonesian aircraft-launched missiles. This causes the Australasian troops to engage in full scale warfare.
2022: In the U.S.A., the MegaMedia corporation buys the SportsBlast channel.
2022: In the U.S.A., John Timmons is killed by an assassin with connections to the growing anti-metahuman movement. Dunklezahn, who is present at the assassination, kills the assassin. Witnesses report that he reduced the gunman "to his component atoms" with a glance.
2022: In the U.S.A., in an attempt to re-establish order the Government institutes martial law
2022: Data, an electronic news magazine, first coins the term, "Awakened" to refer to the new metahumans and other lifeforms influenced by magic.
2022: In Tennessee, U.S.A., in order to prevent a takeover by Renraku, mayor Bradley of Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson and Mayor Scott of Metropolitan Murfreesboro-Rutherford merge their two districts into Metropolitan Nashvill-Murfreesboro/Davidson and Rutherford Counties or Davidsford for short.
2022: In Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., fighting over the narcosoft trade between the yakuza-controlled Green Dragons and the Seoulpa Ring-controlled Tigers erupt into all-out warfare. The fighting is eventually suppressed by the National Guardsmen. As a result, the worst slum areas of L.A. are walled off from the rest of the city. They are renamed "El Infierno" by the residents.
2022: The Australasian Armed Forces activate and move to protect interests in the Indonesian and PNG areas, closely followed and supported by corporate security forces.
2022: During the lull in fighting between Indonesia and PNG, Australasia tries to help with peace negotiations, but their ambassador is killed by Indonesian troops for reasons yet to be fully explained.
2022: A few months after the Indonesian attack, the PNG army returns in force.
2022: In August, in Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Governor Lindstrom orders all Seattle metahumans released from quarantine. He speaks of a united people living together in peace as he did before goblinization.
2022: In June, tensions rising for two years between Papua-New Guinea (PNG) and Indonesia reach flashpoint. Armed tribesmen (mostly trolls and orks) supplied by the Indonesians attack and destroy an army camp near the border. The Indonesians use this as an excuse to annex prime mineral sites in PNG territory. The PNG armed forces respond, causing the Indonesians to temporarily retreat.
2022: In Ireland, seventeen business and political figures are implicated in the "Kavanaghgate" affair. They are convicted of misappropriating EEC agrosubsidies.
2022: In the U.S.A., the United States government disbands the FCC and ceases to have any control over broadcasting. The Internetwork Transmission Control Council (ITCC) takes over as a "self-regulating oversight body for the responsible management of the communications industry."
2022: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., the political parties are realigned. A coalition is now needed to pass any legislation.
2022: In Germany, Bishop-President Bernhard Freiherr von Heereman exchanges territory with Lower Saxony, giving up Protestant Bielefield for Catholic Emsland.
2022: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., construction is begun on the Aztechnology Pyramid.
2022: In Mexico, ORO Corporation renames itself Aztechnology as part of an image remaking program.
2022: In Seattle, Metroplex, U.S.A., the Mizu-Kagayaite subclan of the Sendosha New Century Yakuza makes its first appearance in the Seattle crime scene.
2022: In Germany, members of the federal government abandon the now lawless city of Berlin and move to the city of Hanover.
2022: In Germany, the Zeta-Impchem corporation takes over the German Hoechst becoming the biggest pharmaceutical corporation in Europe.
2022: The French gang game (now called Jeu de Guerre de Ville) becomes popular worldwide through satellite coverage.
2022: In France, Javert et Cie, a French megacorporation begins sponsoring the gang games in order to control them when they fight on Javert et Cie territory. They play for cash purses, assignments in corporate security, and other prizes.
2022: In France, street gangs begin playing a special game to settle problems. Two armed teams establish a playing field and the team that scores the most goals with a ball wins the argument.
2022: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., federal troops attempting to control a food riot in a northern suburb accidentally drop several high explosive bombs. 20,000 people are killed and an estimated 45,000+ are crippled or injured. Fires rage out of control for ten days.
2022: In Germany, several German mages form the Doctor Faustus Society to campaign for acknowledgement of hermetic magic as a science.
2022: A new wave of the VITAS plague kills a further 10% of the world population. In fear of the disease, most people forget about the racial tensions and the violence dies down.
2022: In the U.S.A., to counter the Leftlaners, a new group is organized called the Speed Demons.
2022: Reports trickle out of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States of death on a massive scale brought on by social disorder.
2022: In Scotland, U.K., 14 members of the Campbell Clan are massacred by a group led by William MacDonald of the rival MacDonald Clan.
2022: In Texas, U.S.A., Governor Santiago-Ortega refuses to release the metahumans without legal provisions for their safety. She rocks the Texas legislature by personally escorting ork and troll representatives into senate hearings. In a moving speech, she stresses that the metahumans had been taxpayers before goblinization and, like victims of any other disease, still deserve the protection and support of the government they have trusted.
2022: In Waikiki, Hawai'i, the International Market Place Convention Center burns to the ground in a devastating fire. The City Council votes to rebuild the International Market Place instead of the convention center. A banyan tree is planted in the market center to commemorate the occasion.
2023: In Germany, AG Chemie having unsuccessfully tried to buy land in the city of Offenbach for a new cryochemical processing facility, lobbys the state government to merge Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach under the name Greater Frankfurt. After a vicious political fight, the Landesrat approves the measure by very close vote. Other megacorps follow this precedent by forcing the mergers of other areas.
2023: A new type of magical talent is discovered when Frances Daniels, a Ph. D in engineering and a 4th dan black belt in ki-akido, is documented using magic to perform incredible physical feats instead of casting spells. Daniels and those like him are labeled physical adepts.
2023: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., in response to the federal bombings, Federal troops are restricted to federal land in Minnesota.
2023: In Germany, the leaders of Bavaria are angered over the government's move to Hanover. In order to placate the Bavarian government, federal authorities grant them the right to veto certain decisions.
2023: In Minnesota, U.S.A., the International Trade Zone of Saint Paul, Minnesota is moved south of the Mississippi River to occupy that section of Saint Paul.
2023: The Corporate Court (formerly the ICC) establishes the Zurich-Orbital Habitat as its base of operations.
2023: In the U.S.A., the Supreme Court amends the corporate extraterritoriality provisions. The amendments define the limits of "territory" for the purposes of determining extraterritoriality. According to the new amendments, territory owned by a corporation extends down into the earth in a cone traced out by connecting each point on the territory's boundary with the center of the earth. It also extends upward from the earth's surface along these lines to an altitude of 1,200 meters.
2023: In Texas, U.S.A., the state legislature passes the Metahuman Bill of Rights, guaranteeing voting privileges and equality in housing, medical care, education and employment for all metahumans.
2023: In Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., rumors of VITAS serum being hoarded at the MLK-Drew Medical Center sparks a massive riot in the Watts district. As a result Watts is almost completely leveled and 23 soldiers, 89 police, and 619 civilians are killed.
2023: In FRFZ, the Denver Broncos football team declares that they will not play until they get a new stadium, due to the fact that their old one is in Ute territory.
2023: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., an incensed Governor Lindstrom declares the Seattle Police strike illegal and fires all members of the SPD.
2023: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., the Seattle Police Department, tired of taking the brunt of the anger expressed in the racial riots between human and metahuman, goes on strike.
2023: In the U.K., George Edward Richard Windsor-Hanover, the candidate of corporate interests, wins out over Edward Arthur Charles Gordon-Windsor, the candidate supported by the growing druidic movement for the throne of Great Britain. He is crowned Edward VIII.
2023: In Texas, U.S.A., senator Franklin Moss becomes so incensed during a debate over metahuman rights that he challenges his opponent, Senator Victor Sanchez, to a duel. Senator Moss' death the following morning is widely televised.
2023: In Germany, parliament follows the example of the federal government and abandons the city of Berlin for Hanover.
2023: In Berlin, Germany, massive riots break out. With no real law enforcement in the city, the riots leave 14 people dead, more than 2,000 injured, 14,000 arrested, and damages in the realm of billions of Deutsche marks.
2023: Sakehisa Tajika becomes CEO of Ares Macrotechnology.
2023: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Governor Lindstrom hires Lone Star Security to take over all law enforcement and security measures for the Seattle Metroplex.
2024: In Germany, a killer whale Orca disappears from Duisburg dolphinarium. The disappearance is never explained.
2024: In the U.S.A., the new experimental "remote-vote" system is authorized for use in the upcoming presidential election.
2024: In the U.S.A., President Jarman is re-elected by landslide victories in urban centers. He becomes the first three-term president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. The opposition claims fraud.
2024: in Minnesota, U.S.A., the metropolitan area inside the `94 Loop' is designated as the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metroplex (MSP) under the rule of the NMC.
2024: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Govinda Enterprises adopts Jeu de Guerre de Ville to co-opt the gangs plaguing its operations in depressed neighborhoods. They rename the game Urban Brawl.
2024: In Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., Georgia Tech turns the now unused Fulton County Stadium into a research project. The coliseum is covered with an experimental biotech membrane that is supposed to photosynthesize to produce food, turn solar radiation into usable energy, and purify the air it releases into the domed interior of the coliseum. Before the project can yield results however conflicting business interests and corporate sabotage result in a cut-off of funding which eventually shuts down the project.
2024: In MSP, Minnesota, U.S.A., the University of Minnesota develops a Multi-User/Multi-Input (MUMI) program using a Cray donated mainframe computer.
2024: In Texas, U.S.A., Governor Santiago-Ortega presides at the opening of a multimillion-dollar Metahuman Resource Center in eastern Dallas.
2024: The Renraku Corporation releases the Digital-XScan holo protocol which is adopted by all major broadcasting networks.
2024: In San Francisco, California, U.S.A., Candlestick Park is razed and completely rebuilt.
2024: In the U.S.A., responding to the dominance of Government and its attendant private industry over the economy in the Delmarva area (the intersection of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia) the Federal Capital District Act of 2024 is passed. This extends the boundaries of Washington D.C. to include Montgomery, Prince Georges, and Howard counties in Maryland, and Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax counties in Virginia. Lorton prison in Fairfax becomes a Federal Prison. Tax revenue lost by the two states are to be made up by increased allocation of federal tax monies to their budgets. This new jurisdiction is chartered as the Federal District of Columbia, colloquially known as DeeCee Sprawl.
2024: In Germany, Jeu de Guerre de Ville organizes into official non-gang teams.
2024: Using ASIST technology, the first simsense entertainment unit (a kind of sensory VCR) becomes available on the open market.
2024: In Munich, Germany, the Olympics are held.
2024: In MSP Minnesota, U.S.A., grain wars between corporations in MSP result in a trucking war. It is short lived as the NMC intervenes.
2024: Pope John XXV, the Roman Catholic pontiff, issues his historic encyclical, In Imago Dei ("In the Image of God"). In this document, the Pope sets forth the following as official church doctrine: 1) Metahumans are possessed of souls and capable of salvation. Discrimination against Metahumans is not Christian. 2) Magical abilities are not, by nature, evil. Rather, like any other human ability, they may be used for good or evil ends. 3) Spirits are living manifestations of nature. Thus, conjuring is not in itself evil. This encyclical however, is unable to prevent the virtual disappearance of Catholic influence in Ireland.
2025: In Ireland, the "Walsh's hookers" scandal brings down three government ministers, two industrial leaders, and a Bishop Palatine in Limerick.
2025: In the U.S.A., Tim Washington of the New York Jets wins the Super Bowl with a 99-yard pass.
2025: In New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., the dragon Falthur makes his first appearance.
2025: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Truman Technologies has become rich enough from simsense entertainment profits to begin a major revitalization project in Chicago's South Side district.
2025: In the U.K., the police force changes its policy of restricting firearms and now routinely arms its officers.
2025: In Africa, the African Rhino becomes extinct in the wild. The only survivors are specimens in zoos.
2025: The Optical Music Networking Interface (OMNI) is invented. This method of music-data interface revolutionizes the music industry.
2025: In Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., UCLA becomes the first university to recognize magic by offering an undergraduate program in occult studies. Within the next two years, technical magic programs and magical research facilities are established at Texas A & M and MIT, with the latter adding "& M" to its name(for "and Magic").
2025: In Minnesota, U.S.A., Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) changes its name to 4M by adding magic to its industries.
2025: In FRFZ, the Broncomania Stadium is built in the U.S. sector to replace their former stadium which ended up in the Ute sector.
2025: In the U.S.A., the first cyber-modified players enter the NFL. These players are restricted to those who needed reconstruction due to injury.
2025: In Australasia, the government contracts the Commonwealth Aerospace corporation to provide RPVs for their armed forces.
2025: The U.N. issues a unilateral ban on all commercial whaling.
2025: In the U.K., the United Kingdom Constitution Act is passed. This formalizes roles of Parliament and Royalty. It also creates the Office of the Lord Protector, a post with many powers relating to administration of internal and national security.
2025: In England, U.K., the Conservative Party renamed the Conservationist Party, wins the general election under new Prime Minister Kenneth Redmond.
2025: In DeeCee Sprawl, U.S.A., President Jarman is inaugurated President of the United States for a third time.
2025: In the U.K., Lord Marchment, a leading figure in the British Druidic movement, is appointed as Lord Protector of Great Britain.
2025: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., the Skytrack Company begins development of a monorail system for Chicago's Southside.
2026: The guerilla war between Indonesia and PNG ends with the tide turned against Indonesia.
2026: In Brisbane, Australasia, three days after the Grayson killing, outside the Wynnum Police Station, seven bodies are found by Constable Susan Smith as she arrives for her shift. Six of them are identified as U.S. members of racist groups, the seventh a local fixer of some note. With the bodies is a note: "For the Grayson Family."
2026: In Germany, the coalition government of the ESP and LDFP parties liberalize magical research laws. and grant local political groups large administrative freedoms.
2026: In Honolulu, Hawai'i, the city borders expand into the city of Ewa, eventually completely absorbing it.
2026: In Germany, people report attacks by a creature living in the Emscher River that resembles a crippled killer whale.
2026: In the Souix Nation, NAN, the Bureau of High Technology rules that only Souix-based corporations are eligible to license technology from the University of Cheyenne.
2026: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., the Skytrack Company expands its monorail plans to encompass more areas.
2026: The World Combat Cyclists League is established. Combat Biking now has full league organization, established rules, and major media coverage.
2026: On September 26, in Australasia, the home of Thomas Grayson, a dwarven mining engineer is demolished by a bomb set by U.S. racists, killing him, his wife and three children, two neighbors and injuring twelve others, all metahumans.
2026: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Brian O'Malley from Milwaukee is named head of the Finnigan family and Don of the Seattle Mafia by the Commissione. His first assignment is to deal with the Yakuza.
2026: The first cyberterminal is created. It is a room-sized isolation chamber with multi-contact point jacks and multiple hook-ups for the operator. It is designed by various military-intelligence agencies to make it possible for strike teams of "cyber-commandoes" to raid data systems. The first volunteers go mad.
2026: In the U.S.A., the Constitution is amended to give full legal rights to all metahuman races.
2026: In England, U.K., Oxford and Edinburgh universities establish Bachelor of Science degrees in occult studies.
2027: In the U.S.A., the NFL allows all players to receive cyber modification.
2027: In New York City, U.S.A., Manhattan Inc. vs. The State of New York, New York City forces the boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx to separate from it.
2027: In Minnesota, U.S.A., parabiologicals appear in Northern areas carrying new and dangerous virus strains.
2027: In Aztlan, the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church is rescinded. For the next four years the church's financial records are audited by the government. Charges of fraud are leveled against major church figures including Tenochtitlan's archbishop Most Reverend Jesus de la Torrez.
2027: In DeeCee Sprawl, U.S.A., the new Federal District of Columbia jail complex opens.
2027: Cyberterminals become more refined and less dangerous to use.
2027: In England, U.K., rebuilding of Corfe Castle in is completed.
2027: In England, U.K., the Lord Protector's office drafts the Magical Practitioners Registration Bill, which Parliament passes into law. This act severely restricts the use of magic in Great Britain.
2027: In FRFZ, the ironing out of the border details of the city is completed.
2027: In New York, U.S.A., Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx attempt to become one entity called Quad Counties.
2027: On March 13, due to a combined venture with New South Wales University of Technology, Maquarie University, Queensland University of Technology, and Gaetronics Corporation the first commercial fusion reactor power plant goes on-line. It lasts for 22 minutes before running away and detonating. With the data collected, functional reactors are built worldwide by years end. Although not the tiny generator hoped for by scientists, the large plant proves highly efficient.
2027: In Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., David Ralph is elected Alderman for the 47th Ward.
2027: In the U.S.A., cybernetically enhanced fighters are introduced in professional boxing.
2027: In FRFZ, the Aztlan government claims the University of Denver and renames it Anahuac University.
2027: In Paris, France, Dr. Etienne Dumas, Professor Emeritus of Occult Studies of Sorbonne University leads a ground breaking research group in magical studies. During this project he develops the Dumas test of measuring magical abilities in humans and metahumans.
2027: In Aztlan, Mount Tajumulco experiences a major volcanic eruption.
2027: In the U.S.A., the government passes the Telecommunications Act of 2027. This act states that if the content of a program is legal in its country of origin then it is legal to receive it in U.S. territory.
2027: In Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., the Los Angeles Power and Water Company begins the first use of cold fusion. The process, which produces fresh water as a by-product, helps to alleviate Los Angeles' water shortage.
2027: In Europe, the Interpol treaty is signed.
2027: In MSP, Minnesota, U.S.A., a mass exodus of dwarves (who appear immune to the new viruses) begin to migrate north from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, to Duluth in particular.
2028: Sakehisa Tajika steps down as CEO of Ares Macrotechnolgy.
2028: In Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., a massive earthquake strikes causing terrible damage and loss of life. LAX is completely destroyed in the quake. Large areas of the Cold Fusion Reactors are declared off limits.
2028: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Governor Lindstrom retires.
2028: In England, U.K., Cambridge University establishes a Bachelor of Science degree in occult studies.
2028: In the U.S.A., the NFL football season is delayed two months to make alterations for the new cybered players. The new regulation NFL field becomes 160 yards long by 65 yards wide. The end zones remain 10 yards long, but the distance from end zone to end zone becomes 140 yards. Completing a first down on the ground means moving the ball 20 yards instead of 10. The ball is also armored and has extra weight added to it.
2028: In Chicago Illinois, U.S.A., the University of Chicago incorporates magical studies into their philosophy department.
2028: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Shiawase Atomics builds a new nuclear power plant next to the deserted Trojan-Satsop plant in the Redmond district.
2028: In the Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, a massive blight breaks out in the remaining forests of the former state of Oregon, destroying most of them.
2028: In the U.S.A., Andrew McAlister is elected President of the United States.
2028: Dunklezahn appoints Terri Ann Riberio, a neophyte reporter, to be his new interpreter.
2028: In Germany, due to the passing of the Research of Paranormal and Paramedical Phenomena Act, the Enactment of Patent Law vs. Magical Formulas Decree, and the Control and Release of Paranormal, Parabiological, Magical and Noncorporeal Entities Act, the University of Hamburg establishes the first professorship of magic.
2028: In U.K., the Conservationist Party government withdraws from the European Economic Community.
2028: In the Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, Walter Bright Water gains a reputation for strong support of segregation of humans and metahumans. At the same time he becomes a strong advocate of welcoming metahumans into Salish-Shidhe Council territory.
2029: In August, in the U.S.A., the new members of Echo Mirage, armed with improved cybertechnology, begin their attack against the virus program. Eighteen minutes after engaging the virus, four members of Echo Mirage are dead. When their data logs are analyzed, two things are discovered. First, the virus program can induce lethal biofeedback in humans accessing cyberspace. Second, no existing computer security can even slow down someone using a cyberterminal.
2029: In Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, Walter Bright Water announces his retirement from the Salish-Shidhe Council, citing a recent diagnosis of terminal cancer as the reason. After making a final public appeal for segregation of humans and metahumans, he drops from sight.
2029: In MSP, Minnesota, U.S.A., a major gang crisis forces the MPC to get active assistance from the MSD crisis response teams.
2029: In Tenochtitlan, Aztlan, a major earthquake strikes. This quake destroys much of the older architecture in the city including the Metropolitan Cathedral.
2029: In Minnesota, U.S.A., Satisfaction Safaris, a company that gives tours of the Awakened Forest in Northern Minnesota, is founded.
2029: Sony Cybersystems, Fuchi Industrial Electronics, and RCA-Unisys develop prototype cyberterminals to allow a user to interface with the world data network via his or her central nervous system. These cyberterminals are still massive and require the user to be placed in a sensory deprivation tank.
2029: In Germany, The Deutsche Treuhandanstalt Finanztransaktions-Und Consulting Oag corporation takes over Volkkswagen and the Schumacher & Brandt department store chains.
2029: In the U.S.A., Echo Mirage learns techniques to isolate and contain the virus. Equipped with new combat programs and beefed-up cyberterminals, they begin to purge the grid of the virus.
2029: Horrified by the ease at which the Echo Mirage members penetrate their most secure systems, the corporations involved begin secret research to develop new security software that can repel intruders using a matrix interface device. This includes research to duplicate the lethal effects generated by the virus program. The resulting software is the first generation of intrusion countermeasures, or IC, now known worldwide as "ice."
2029: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Charles S. Kross replaces Lindstrom as Governor.
2029: In Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., the Hall of Records catches fire. Most of the records within are completely destroyed.
2029: In the Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, many of the first generation UGE elves move to the Mount Rainier area and form a separate tribe called the Sinsearach. Dwarves, orks, and trolls also move to the area, but in smaller numbers.
2029: In New York, U.S.A., Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx after failing to stick together as Quad Counties, become counties of New York State, municipal entities unto themselves again.
2029: In DeeCee Sprawl, U.S.A., Andrew MacAlister is inaugurated as President of the United States.
2029: In the U.S.A., the directors of Echo Mirage recruit the most brilliant, if erratic, data-processing mavericks from industry and the universities. These men and women are drafted under a presidential emergency order and put through a brutal training program. 32 men and women graduate with their sanity intact.
2029: In the U.S.A., the Echo Mirage team is activated under presidential order to combat the computer virus. The "straight arrow" agents however, are unable to withstand the psychological demands of psycho-physiological combat in cyberspace.
2029: In DeeCee Sprawl, U.S.A., the city breaks out in riots due to the fall of civilian government initiated by the computer virus.
2029: On April 19, in the U.S.A., the computer virus infects the national air traffic-control network. As a result of inaccurate signals and scrambled communications, 27 air accidents occur within two hours, with a death toll in the thousands. Non-essential air traffic remains grounded for almost a week following the disaster, until a new control network can be put together.
2029: In Germany, the Corps Astralia Jenense is formed as part of the Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft (General German Student Society) to further occult studies.
2029: On February 8, computer systems worldwide are attacked, apparently at random, by a virus program of unprecedented power. The program crashes systems, wipes software, and even burns out hardware. The chaos caused by the virus topples governments and brings the world economy to the brink of collapse.
2029: In the course of fighting the virus and attempting to rebuild the world data system, the computer network called the Matrix is born.
2029: In the NAN, the Salish-Shidhe Council, soon followed by the entire NAN, declares the emerging metahuman races to be welcome in tribal lands.
2029: Sakehisa Tajika becomes a member of the board of directors of Ares Macrotechnology.
2029: In Australasia, the government contains the virus by taking their communications network connections to the world off-line. Special receiving stations are created to handle normal communications traffic. All communications received are extensively checked for contamination.
2029: In the U.S.A., the CIA, NSA, and IRS pool their resources and create the Echo Mirage project. Headed by Air Force Major David Gavilan, a liaison to the National Security Agency, this organization recruits and trains a team of cyber-commandoes to function in the world data network despite the balky equipment and psychoses induced by overwhelming sensory signals generated by the primitive cyberterminals.
2029: The Sikorsky-Kamov corporation collapses.
2029: In the Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, Walter Bright Water is announced dead. The city of Portland mounts a lavish funeral and memorial service.
2029: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., the 20 largest greenhouses in the world, polluted by toxic waste and damaged by the virus, are abandoned.
2029: GMC Motors completes its first 4201 jeep.
2030: In Detroit, Michigan, UCAS, Nicholas Aurelius dies of a heart attack.
2030: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Patrick Finnigan takes control of the Seattle Mafia organization.
2030: In California, U.S.A., during local elections almost every ballot calls for a referendum for secession from the United States.
2030: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., construction is completed on the Aztechnology Pyramid.
2030: In Germany, the North German Federation begins resettlement of the polluted North Sea shoreline at Groningen, Emden, and Bremerhaven. Work is begun on Arkoblocks, huge elevated habitats, in Emden and Bremerhaven.
2030: On October 15, U.S. President MacAlister and Canadian Prime Minister Harold Frazier sign a treaty to merge the remains of the United States of America with what is left of Canada, including her major industrial center and important natural resource areas. The new government is called the United Canadian and American States (UCAS). The merging goes through smoothly despite protests on both sides of the border.
2030: In Duluth, Minnesota, UCAS, Tong & Anvil Mining Company (an exclusive dwarvish corporation) is founded.
2030: In the UCAS, Frederick Davitt begins work as a reporter for Newsnet (formerly Turner News Service).
2030: In Big Sur Coast, California, UCAS, agrobusinesses have used so much chemicals in the northern region that the area is too polluted to sustain life. The agrobusinesses abandon the area.
2030: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS the suburb that was bombed during the food riot is walled off and made into "Crystal City"-Minnesota Maximum Security Facility. Every inmate of this new penitentiary is fitted with a security collar which has a timer, a transceiver, and a plastic explosive charge. Any attempt to tamper with the collar or to leave the area of the prison and the transmitters on the prison walls, results in detonation of the collar. When the inmate's sentence is over, the explosive dissolves, destroys the transceiver, and the collar falls off. Each inmate is left to his own devices as to how to survive the length of his sentence.
2030: In Australasia, an American anti-metahuman group tries to open a chapterhouse in Sydney. The first turnout is composed entirely of metahumans. This causes a small riot in which the Humanis members are arrested with disturbing the peace.
2030: In the UCAS, the Super Bowl is canceled.
2030: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Brian O'Malley, head of the Chicago and Seattle Mafia, is shot and killed in his home.
2030: The beginning of series of conflicts in Europe and Asia known as the Euro-wars. With the Russian communication and surveillance systems disrupted by the virus, the Commonwealth of Independent States make a bid for true independence. The conflict is long and drawn out as Eastern European powers like Germany and Poland are drawn into the war. Switzerland remains, as always neutral.
2030: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Francis Daniels is killed during the DeeCee riots.
2030: Under the direction of the Corporate Court, all of the major corporations sign the Concord of Zurich-Orbital. This document states that no corporation will attempt to reconstruct the technology to tap into fiber-optic lines. Furthermore, if any corporation attempts to violate this agreement, the other corporations will band together to eliminate them.
2030: In England, U.K., the government begins funding the building of a vast series of domes, stretching six miles north and south of the Thames river. These "breathing" domes will be designed from a biofabric that block and absorb pollutants but pass air.
2030: The Awakened come to dominate the Western Siberian Lowland, Yukat ASSR, and all other lands to the west of the lowlands.
2030: On February 13, in Australasia, Viking Enterprises initiates unrevealed hostilities against ANZAC causing a conflict known as the Corp War.
2030: In Australasia, ANZAC responds to the Viking Enterprises attack by giving Chief of Security Susan Patrick, an elven physical adept and former member of the Australasian Special Air Service Regiment, free hand in stopping Viking Enterprises. She immediately and almost publicly calls on every available shadowrunner in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth for work. Viking also beefs up their security and conducts covert activities against ANZAC. The fighting goes on for five months, mostly in Brisbane.
2030: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, The Yakuza oyabun is assassinated along with his lieutenants.
2030: On July 29, In Australasia, an ANZAC shadowrunner team known as the Maroons is caught in an ambush set after a traitor tips Viking Enterprises off about the raid. The Maroons not only destroy the ambushers but also the facility they are supposed to penetrate, which hosts several senior board members of Viking Enterprises. Within three hours, Southern Cross Security, an ANZAC security organization, conducts a series of precision strikes against Viking facilities that devastates the corporation, killing the rest of the high level management and rendering the overall corporation a non-viable entity.
2030: In The Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, the Shoshone and Modoc tribes integrate into the Salish and Makah tribes, ceasing to exist as individual tribes.
2030: In Detroit, Michigan, UCAS, Nicholas Aurelius retires as CEO and chairman of Ares Industries.
2030: In New Orleans, Louisiana, UCAS, Prostitution is legalized within city limits.
2030: In Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., a new renovation on the "T" line is begun.
2030: In Chicago Illinois, U.S.A., Dan Truman of Truman Technologies begins a colony of writers, painters and other artistic experts to create concepts for simsense chips. The area begins to grow as other corporations branch into simsense technology and the neighborhood becomes known as Dream Town.
2030: In Seattle Metroplex, U.S.A., Concrete Dreams plays its first show at Club Penumbra.
2030: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the deaths of the bosses of the Mafia and Yakuza results in a truce between the previously warring groups.
2030: In FRFZ, the Adirondack Brewery is destroyed.
2030: The environmental group Nova Gaia is established.
2030: The 4F corporation is discovered by other corporate powers to be performing research on a method of tapping into fiber-optic communication lines that was previously lost in the computer crash of 2029. The corporate powers immediately go to the Corporate Court on the Zurich-Orbital Station and demand that they put a stop to 4F's research.
2030: In the UCAS, Steven Coe Bowling, having been discharged from the Army as a less-thanreputable soldier 2 years previously, re-enlists. He soon gains a reputation as a bright, by-the-numbers soldier and rises in rank with amazing speed.
2031: In FRFZ, the governing council begins to establish security zones.
2031: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, The violence dies down.
2031: In the UCAS, a Constitution is submitted to the Provisional Congress. Within six months, two-thirds of the new country's states have ratified the UCAS Constitution. U.S. President MacAlister becomes the provisional president and Canadian Prime Minister Frazier becomes the provisional vice president.
2031: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, in response to the inability of the civilian police to control the violence, the UCAS Congress set up the Federal Capital Police or FedPols to deal with law and order in DeeCee.
2031: On May 19, the Russian Republic steamrolls across Belorussia and launches an invasion of Central Europe to secure vital industrial and agricultural resources. Germany, Poland, and the other members of NATO, fight back tenaciously. Despite this however, Warsaw falls to the Russian Army in August. In a fit of isolationism, the UCAS Congress recalls all American troops from Europe.
2031: In Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, Aithne Oakforest, Sean Laverty, Lugh Surehand, and Ehran the Scribe, four previously unknown elves in the Salish-Shidhe Council, become major figures in the southern region of that country. Oakforest and Laverty become strong advocates of reoccupying and revitalizing the southern cities. Surehand and Ehran become more social figures, bringing the elves together into a new society.
2031: In Oroville, California, UCAS, the Oroville Buddhist Temple is purchased by a wealthy ork named Yee Chan who turns it into a martial arts school.
2031: In the UCAS, Echo Mirage head Major David Gavilan disappears without a trace.
2031: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, UCAS, James O'Malley, capo of Milwaukee becomes obsessed with avenging his brother's death against the Yakuza. He neglects his duties as capo so drastically that the Commissione takes away his position and forces him to retire.
2031: In Australasia, the government, reconnects their communication network to the Matrix, but keeps the equipment to disconnect it again in case of an emergency.
2031: In FRFZ, The enclaves begin to police their own regions.
2031: In the UCAS, the Echo Mirage team wipes out the last known concentration of the virus code. Of the original 32 members, only seven are still alive. Four of these survivors decamp into the private sector, taking with them the secrets of cyberterminal technology.
2032: In the UCAS, the AAA baseball league relaxes its rule and allows a limited amount of cyberware for players.
2032: In the UCAS, a new group calling itself the Techno Republic or Technocrats enters the political arena. This group advocates increased technological advancement for the betterment of all mankind.
2032: In Berlin, Germany, a major riot breaks out resulting in the destruction of the Berliner Rat (Berlin Council) building.
2032: In Europe, several Islamic states experience violent upheavals, allowing fundamentalist rulers to take over.
2032: In the UCAS, Harlan Carson, one of the original members of Echo Mirage, founds Robot Technologies Inc.
2032: In the U.K., the government, previously uncommitted to the European struggle, steps in by sending troops to the low countries "to protect British interests."
2032: The European conflict slows to a deadlock due to attrition. Despite heavy loss of both men and materials on both sides, little territory has changed hands. Russia negotiates for the surrender of Poland.
2032: In the UCAS, Lone Star Security, having bought the Drug Enforcement Agency from the government, reworks it into the Drug Enforcement Division (DED).
2032: Russia, with a precarious hold on much of Poland, renews the war with a surprise attack on Berlin. The allies are thrown into confusion but still manage to slow the offensive.
2032: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, the city celebrates its 300th birthday.
2032: In the UCAS, President MacAlister is re-elected, becoming the first elected president of the UCAS.
2032: In the UCAS, President MacAlister is re-elected, becoming the first elected President of the UCAS.
2032: In Bavaria, Germany, the government institutes forced registration of all metahuman refugees of the Euro-Wars.
2032: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, several megacorporations are robbed of a fortune in nuyen by a group of shadowrunners. The money is never recovered and the thieves escape.
2032: On September 28, in Texas, UCAS, Lone Star Security, having bought out seven corporations in two months, is granted extraterritoriality.
2032: In Duluth, Minnesota, UCAS, the dwarvish majority is recognized when a dwarvish mayor is elected.
2032: Wilhelmina Graf-Beloit becomes chairman of the board of BMW.
2032: In Chiba, Japan, the oyabun of the Yakuza sends new Korean bosses to run the Seattle organizations.
2032: Official Olympic events fall apart due to worldwide chaos.
2032: In the UCAS, Led by senators from Alabama and Georgia, a major walkout of legislators from the southern bloc threatens to derail the merging of the United States and Canada. As the rest of the Senate argues over new tax structures and fund allocation, the delegates from ten southern states meet to discuss secession.
2032: In the NAN, the Elected Council of the Ute Nation approves a proposal from Maritech Enterprises of Vancouver in the Salish-Shidhe Council to convert the Sevier Bridge Reservoir into the world's largest fresh-water fish farm.
2032: In the UCAS, the AMA develops strict rules and guidelines concerning the licencing of magic practitioners for medical purposes. Such practitioners are required to have a medical degree, nursing degree, midwife certification or medical technician certification in order to legally treat people.
2032: The members of the Corporate Court band together to take over Global Financial Services.
2032: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Yakuza begins to recruit large numbers of Koreans to bolster their ranks in their war against the Mafia.
2032: In the UCAS, Frederick Davitt uncovers a scam operation in ConEd. His story is hailed by journalists around the country.
2032: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the Genesis Foundation, a corporation specializing in genetic and biological research, is founded.
2033: In Poland, a "consolidation council is established by the Russian military. Shortly after, the council reestablishes the long defunct Polish monarchy.
2033: In Ireland, Leap Castle is restored by the O'Carroll family. Tir nan n'Og)
2033: In Detroit Michigan, UCAS, Leonard Aurelius officially takes control of Ares Industries.
2033: In Europe, the Nightwraith strike ends the major fighting of the Euro-wars, although lesser battles still continue on.
2033: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, President MacAlister is again Inaugurated as President of the UCAS.
2033: In Germany, the people vote in a USDP and ESP (European Social-Democratic Party) coalition.
2033: In Russia, the Democratic Recovery Alliance comes into power.
2033: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, UCAS, the Grumman trial is fought in court. The Tulsa School Board refuses to admit a troll into school and then tries to fine the Grumman family for violating the state's compulsory education law. The Grumman family loses the case when the state establishes the "Academy for Diversity": An obviously substandard school for metahumans. The Grumman family hires lawyer Richard Scott to handle the appeal.
2033: On January 1, in Australasia, the Brisbane Metroplex becomes the 12 state of Australasia. The Metroplex covers the old shires and cities of Beaudesert, Caboolture, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Maroochy, Moreton, Landsborough, Pine Rivers, Redcliffe, and Redland. Sharon MacKenzie, a former member of the Queensland National Party, is elected first Metroplex Premier.
2033: In Quebec, Lucien Cross, a wealthy financier purchases several small high-tech companies and consolidates them under the name Cross Applied Technologies.
2033: On January 23, in Europe, Swedish airspace monitors detect several flights of what appear to be British Aerospace FA-38 Nightwraith fighter-bombers flying across northern Europe. In short order, the aircraft obliterate key communications and command centers belonging to both sides. At the same time unidentified commandos murder several hard-liners on both sides while the Matrix grids of both factions are destroyed by a virulent expert attack program. With their offensive plans crippled beyond recovery, the two sides announce a cease-fire the following day. Although Swedish records indicate the planes origin to be in the area of Great Britain, no nation ever takes credit for the Nightwraith strike.
2033: In Aztlan, President Pavon dies.
2033: Lone Star Security's DED becomes so popular that every branch in North America creates one.
2033: In Atlanta, Georgia, UCAS, homeless people begin to move into the abandoned Fulton County Stadium and using it for shelter. The increasing numbers of people build their own microsociety based on such primitive principles as "might makes right."
2033: On March 14, in the UCAS, Andrew Cole, an employee of the accounting and disbursement division of the Kensington corporation suspected of embezzling 500,000 nuyen, dies.
2033: Global Financial Services is moved to the Zurich-Orbital Habitat and renamed the Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft Bank.
2033: In Europe, an alliance of Islamic states, including Turkey, attacks Europe through the Balkans. Russia is forced to put the majority of her troops on the southern borders. This assault ends much of the remaining conflicts of the Euro-Wars.
2033: Damien Knight, a previously unknown financier, initiates his now-famous Nanosecond Buyout of Ares Industries. Using a series of expertly programmed computers in Stockholm, Sweden, Knight executes a series of transactions so complicated that they can only be read by another computer. By the end of the minute that the transactions took, three corporations have ceased to exist, two multi-millionaires have lost their fortunes, three people have become multi-millionaires, and Damien Knight has acquired 22 percent of Ares Industries. At the next shareholders meeting Knight takes the CEO position from Leonard Aurelius.
2033: In Detroit, Michigan, UCAS, Damien Knight orders renovations on Ares Industries' headquarters: Hart Plaza. In addition, he renames the complex Knight Plaza.
2033: In Germany, the entire animal population of a local zoo is slaughtered and eaten by neighboring humans. This event becomes known as the "protein revolt".
2034: In London, England, U.K., Armor Industries scientists Anatole Torkin and William Kingston III along with 10 other specialists make a breakthrough in body armor technology that will lead to the creation of Kevlite.
2034: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, a major gang war breaks out inside the city and destroys most of South Saint Paul. The area is rebuilt and redesignated as Corps Saint Paul.
2034: On Christmas, In Ireland, politician Seamus O'Kennedy, an associate of Liam O'Connor, makes a nationwide broadcast announcing further governmental changes and the birth of a new nation: Tir na nOg. Many humans, feeling displaced by the new predominately elvish government, emigrate to Boston sprawl, Massachusetts, UCAS.
2034: Unofficial Olympic Games are held in Beijing, Buenos Aires, and Johannesburg.
2034: Aztlan becomes the first nation to recognize the CAS.
2034: In the UCAS, a few days after MacAlister's speech, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the southern portion of Virginia secede from the UCAS to form the Confederated American States (CAS). The CAS is instantly recognized by Aztlan. Sentiments run high, and fears of a second civil war are rampant. Nevertheless, the transition is relatively orderly. President MacAlister signs the Treaty of Richmond with the rebel states establishing peaceful boundaries and a working political and economic relationship between the two countries. The Northern part of Virginia remains as a state in the UCAS. The CAS is also written into the governing council of the city of FRFZ. Military units, divided in loyalties, split up and move to their preferred countries with few incidents of violence. The former governor of Alabama is voted pro tem president of the CAS until regular elections can be held.
2034: In May, in Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, Matrix Systems comes out with the first "gray-market" cyberterminal.
2034: In the Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, Lugh Surehand and his associates have by now forged the southern area of the Salish-Shidhe Council into an independent state in all but name. Through reestablishing infrastructure, social and governmental programs and the establishment of a police force named the Portland Axis Peace Force.
2034: In the UCAS, displeased with what they perceive as President MacAlister's preferential treatment of the midwestern and northeastern sprawl zones, the southern states of the UCAS threaten to withdraw from the union. MacAlister, in his oft-quoted "Eat My Shorts" speech responds that if the southern states walk, there will be hell to pay.
2034: The Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft Bank establishes its primary headquarters in the Zurich-Orbital Habitat.
2034: In Brazil, a force of Awakened beings and metahumans led by three great dragons descends on the Amazon basin. In a short but extremely bloody conflict, Brazilian forces cede most of the Amazon basin to the invaders. The Brazilian government falls and two days later, most of their territory is claimed by the Awakened army. They name their new nation Amazonia. They claim that they will be the savior of the eco-sphere.
2034: In London, England, U.K., Armor Industries director of Research and Development Anatole Torkin suffers a freak auto accident and is killed.
2034: In London, England, U.K., Armor Industries executives discovers that Security Concepts, a company that has been buying up their stock, has broken into their computers and stolen the files on their Kevlite discoveries. Security Concepts denies this accusation. Lacking proof, Armor Industries is forced to recreate their discovery.
2034: In London, England, U.K., despite their setbacks Armor Industries successfully recreates their Kevlite armor. It attracts the attention of many German and Soviet buyers.
2034: In Brazil, the government signs a contract with Armor Industries reaching into the several billions range.
2034: In UCAS, six weeks after the cyberterminal release, Matrix systems' main computer crashes and two of its founders are killed in apparently unrelated accidents.
2034: In the Salish-Shidhe Council, NAN, Lugh Surehand fires the chief of the Peace Force John Big Smoke, and replaces him with Rainer Grundman, a German elf from Berlin. Grundman reorganizes the Peace Force in a more military fashion.
2034: In Aztlan, the government secedes from the NAN. The reason given is that the Sovereign Tribal Council has censured them for their treatment of aboriginal people.
2034: Armor Industries demands that the new government of Amazonia makes good on the amounts still owed by the former Brazilian government. Amazonia refuses, stating that any bills owed by the Brazilian government are null and void.
2034: In June, in Ireland, State President Charles McGoldrick is impeached for vidphone-tapping, illegal surveillance of political opponents, and corruption on a grand scale. Power is passed to acting State President Eamonn McCarthy.
2034: In the Athabascan Council, NAN, Dunklezahn begins his purchase of Lake Louise to serve as his lair.
2034: In the U.K., the government gives Primrose Hill and the surrounding buildings to the New Druidic Movement as its headquarters.
2034: In Germany, Meuller-Schluter Infotech, having already forced the mergers of Bad Homburg, Neu Isenburg, Russelsheim, and Maintal, forces the merger of Hanau. However, the confederate government in Hanover finally realizes what the corporations are up to. The corporations convince the government to recognize the Rheinhessen as a Sprawl city-state. The state of Rheinhessen is now called the free metropolis of Greater Frankfurt. The state legislature moves from Wiesbaden to Frankfurt am Main. In return, the metropolis concedes most of its undeveloped territory to Baden-Wurttemburg and Hessen.
2034: In The Balkans, half conquered and half independent, a melange of Islamic city-states and Christian enclaves are created.
2034: In Europe, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is reborn from the Austro-Hungarian-Czech alliance against the Muslims.
2034: In Europe, Germany's elite MET2000 together with an alliance of Hungarian, Czech, Austrian, and Ukranian troops stop the Islamic invaders. Although unable to regain lost territory, the MET2000, deployed for the first time in this conflict, distinguishes itself as a premier fighting force.
2034: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, in order to deal with an interim undercapacity in shipping warehouses on Marginal Way, new interim warehouses are constructed.
2034: In FRFZ, the Stouffer Concourse hotel burns down a second time and is rebuilt.
2034: Anton D'Venescu, a prominent mage with Aztechnology announces a significant breakthrough in summoning spirits and claims to be close to rediscovering the magical rituals of the pre-Columbian Aztecs.
2034: On December 11, in Ireland, President McCarthy turns to Liam O'Connor and asks him to impose a state of emergency while the legislature and other influential governmental officials initiate future constitutional changes. Within weeks O'Connor has passed through massive changes, including cutting the power of the Dail and increasing that of the largely elvish Senate. Local governmental powers are also cut.
2034: A coalition of laboratories, doing research on the lifespan of metahumans, declares that the elven metatype has a potential lifespan of several centuries.
2034: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the University of Chicago and the Atlantean Foundation create a research park on Lake Michigan to study the high number of free air and water spirits in the area. The facility is named Elemental Hall.
2035: In the UCAS, a devastating winter storm wreaks havoc across much of the country.
2035: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, a series of bombings strikes Union Station.
2035: The Zurich-Orbital Corporate Court rules that, since Amazonia is recognized by neither London nor the Corporate Court, they are not responsible for the monies owed the Armor Industries corporation.
2035: Coffin hotels begin to replace front-desk employees with automated computers.
2035: The coalition of laboratories that determined the elven lifespan strangely retracts their findings, saying that elves live 100-125 years.
2035: In Tizimin, Aztlan, a massive riot breaks out. The violence is swiftly and brutally crushed by the government.
2035: In Texas, CAS, the government angrily declares its independence from the CAS, again becoming a Republic. They immediately launch an invasion against Aztlan.
2035: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the last major gangs inside metroplex are forcibly disbanded. Gangs inside MSP are outlawed and wearing gang colors becomes a crime punishable by internment in "Crystal City."
2035: In Tir na nOg, acts of Constitution vest large amounts of power into the Senate.
2035: In FRFZ, the Pueblo sector begins construction of a new base for Pueblo Security Enterprises, Inc. on the land of Fort Carson.
2035: In Prince Edward Island, Maine, UCAS, the Red Branch company begins sales of hybrid plants that make huge profits in the agricultural market.
2035: In Vermont, UCAS, Arthur Vogel, Gary Grey, and Sarah Lynn found the Gaia Awareness Network.
2035: In San Francisco, California, UCAS, Aztechnology buys land to create its new corporate headquarters.
2035: In Tir Tairngire, High Prince Lugh Surehand makes a motion to make the great western dragon Lofwyr a member of the Council of Princes. Although this is adamantly opposed by Jenna Ni'Fairra, Aithne Oakforest and Ehran the Scribe, the other members support the High Prince. Ehran bluffs and decrees that if Lofwyr becomes a member of the Council he will resign. The High Prince calls his bluff and Lofwyr becomes a Prince.
2035: In the Cape Republic, the old South African Houses of Parliament are converted into Parliament Prison.
2035: The Aztlan Freedom League (a non-profit organization dedicated to sending medical supplies and food to the impoverished areas of Aztlan) begins an underground railroad to allow a steady stream of refugees into Texas.
2035: In England, U.K., the Yarrow nuclear reactor complex suffers a meltdown, resulting in the Northern Toxic Zone.
2035: In Texas, CAS, the State Legislature petitions for a military venture to reclaim the southwest of Texas. The CAS government, fearing that the NAN will come to the defense of Aztlan, refuses Texas' petition.
2035: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, The Insurance War. Cord Mutual Insurance and North American Eagle Life Insurance wage a semi-covert war over the insurance contract for all employees of the CAS government. On June 8, six Geas jets explode simultaneously in flight from their Atlanta departure point. Geas Airline is insured by North American Eagle Life Insurance which pays out huge sums both for the jets and the relatives of slain passengers. No connection is made with Cord Mutual. A sweep of assassinations of vidstars and entertainment personalities across the continent, especially in Atlanta, follows.
2035: In the Republic of Texas, four months after their failed invasion of Aztlan, Texas applies for re-admittance to the CAS.
2035: The Medusa Sisterhood makes a series of vandalous attacks on Cord Mutual-Insured corporations and individuals. Cord Mutual responds with attacks against the Medusa Sisterhood as well as North American Eagle. What began as a clandestine corporate power struggle becomes a bloody war, claiming the lives of hundreds of insured.
2035: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, the media breaks the story on the Insurance War, acting on rumors of the two corporations' involvement in the rash of violence in the sprawl. The CAS government and the City of Atlanta government comes down hard on both corporations, ending the war.
2035: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, Cord Mutual is able to provide evidence of North American Eagle's funding of the Medusa Sisterhood, while no official connection is made between Cord Mutual and the independent operatives they used as soldiers in the Insurance War. North American Eagle is assessed fines and several top officials are arrested. Cord Mutual wins the CAS insurance contract despite a storm of controversy.
2035: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, Cord Mutual goes through a power struggle and several changes in upper management. There is also a supposedly unrelated accident in the company's skyraker, which leads to the closing of the building's top 25 floors. Cord Mutual officials say only that it is declared structurally unsound.
2035: In an unprecedented interruption of worldwide broadcasting by mimicking the Civil Emergency Network priority code, the Ceneste or "forsaken" tribe of elves of the Northwest territories of the NAN (formerly Oregon) declare their independence and announce the birth of Tir Tairngire (the land of promise). Lugh Surehand, now mayor of Portland, declares himself to be the High Prince of Tir Tairngire. Aithine Oakforest, Sean Laverty, and the relatively unknown Jenna Ni'Fairra become the first members of the Tir Tairngire Council of Princes. Ehran the Scribe also becomes a member, but secretly.
2035: The Salish-Shidhe Council sends troops into the Tir Tairngire area, confident that the elves are poorly armed and constitute no real threat. The elves strike back using heavy military weaponry, driving the Salish-Shidhe troops back. The Salish-Shidhe attack six more times from different directions and are driven back each time with heavy losses.
2035: Aztlan begins a military takeover of southern Texas. Despite the efforts of the Lone Star Militia and the Texas Rangers, Austin and San Antonio are lost before the invaders can be stopped. The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex becomes the new Texas capital.
2035: In FRFZ, the Native American representatives split into separate sectors due to political differences.
2035: In Tir na nOg, State President Eamonn McCarthy resigns on the grounds of poor health. He is replaced by Liam O'Connor. Seamus O'Kennedy is appointed Minister of the Interior, and Thomas O'Brien is appointed Minister of State for Industry and Commerce.
2035: In Tir Tairngire, three more members are added to the Council of Princes. These are Jonathon Reed, Maria Cinebal, and Dar Varian.
2035: In CAS, Atlanta is appointed the permanent capital.
2035: In Tir na nOg, the Danaan family creates the province of Meath in order to define on paper the heart of the nation.
2035: In London, England, U.K., Armor Industries president Franklin Tulley dies of a heart attack. He is replaced by William Kingston.
2035: In FRFZ, the NAN sector in Denver fragments into three separate sectors. ruled by the Pueblo Corporate Council, Sioux Nation, and Ute Nation.
2035: In Tsimshian, NAN, a major schism opens between the government and the other members of the NAN.
2035: In Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., renovation on the "T" line is completed.
2035: After seeing the strength of Tir Tairngire, every other member of the NAN recognize Tir Tairngire as a sovereign state. The Caribbean League, UCAS, CAS and Aztlan refuse to recognize Tir Tairngire.
2035: In Ulster, Tir na nOg, a resistance cell is wiped out by the army. The sole survivor, Ian O'Donnel, a physical adept and former member of the special forces, flees to Boston sprawl Massachussetts, UCAS, to form the Knights of the Red Branch terrorist group.
2035: In Texas, CAS, Corpus Christi cancels its contract with Lone Star Security due to its policies of sexism and racism. They replace the corporation with a subsidiary of Houston Police Corporation.
2035: By this year, the UCAS has no military presence anywhere outside North America.
2035: In the Athabascan Council, NAN, the government orders all the UCAS to remove all DEW sensor stations from their territory.
2035: In Tir na nOg, the Fianna Fail political party, long holding a dominant role in that nation's political structure, begins to lose power and support. Tir nan n'Og)
2035: Eventually North American Eagle's corporate investigators make a connection between one of the assassinations and Cord Mutual. North American Eagle begins funding a terrorist organization known as the Medusa Sisterhood to retaliate against Cord Mutual.
2035: In London, England, U.K., Armor Industries manages to take over its former adversary Security Concepts after a 2 year stock battle.
2036: In Tir na nOg, an Establishment Act is passed placing the Church of Ireland higher in importance than the Catholic church.
2036: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, California representatives recognize their secession Proposition 129 and begin to push for heavy economic and political concessions. President MacAlister calls California Governor Nelson Treacle and tells him that if his state votes to seceded he will hang them out to dry.
2036: The first commercially available cyberdecks are released on the market.
2036: In Tir Tairngire, the government holds its first Rite of Progression. This series of mental and physical tests determines ones rank in Tir Tairngire. High scores allow for upgrades in rank, average scores keep their original rank, and low scores suffer demotions.
2036: In Europe, the first lines of the ISDN2 Euro Grid become active.
2036: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Urlan Manes and Thomas Martelli establish Global Technologies Inc.
2036: In Germany, the Alliance government establishes a system of grades recognizing magical academics. These include "Dr. Mag. Herm." for a scholar of hermetic magic and "Dr. Utr. Mag." indicating a doctor of magical theory.
2036: In Aztlan, a light armored division invades California and takes over the city of San Diego and surrounding areas.
2036: In New Visions, Ohio, UCAS, a church is fire-bombed with napalm. Twenty people, most of them metahumans, are killed. Two hours later, an anti-metahuman terrorist group calling itself Alamos 20,000 sends an announcement to 187 media channels claiming responsibility for the incident.
2036: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Kross is succeeded by Victor "Vic the Quick" Allenson, a former combat biker for the Tacoma Timberwolves. Allenson is known to have a low opinion of metahumans as shown during a trideo interview when he is quoted as saying, "Orks and Trolls make great offensive combat bikers, but I'm afraid they haven't the brains for much else."
2036: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Kross Metroplex Retires.
2036: In Los Angeles, California, UCAS, Dr Caitlin O'Connal, a sociologist, psychologist, futurist, and writer as well as a lecturer in sociology and statistics at U.C.L.A., begins her research under corporate grant to develop a numerical value system that can be used to measure and ultimately predict social interaction in various situations, particularly mob dynamics. Dr. O'Connal's husband Paul Grigg, a shaman and fellow instructor at U.C.L.A., assists her in her work.
2036: In Las Vegas, Ute Nation, NAN, a period of expansion allows McCarren International Airport domestic, international, trans, and sub-orbital capacity.
2036: In Tir Tairngire, Portland is officially recognized as the hub of trade between Tir Tairngire and the rest of the world. Construction of a massive wall surrounding Portland to protect it is begun.
2036: In New York, UCAS, Ambrosius Publications York releases the first issue of the Manual of Practical Thaumaturgy.
2036: In Minnesota, UCAS, Three weeks after entering the Awakened Forest, 75 of the 500 elves return as broken men. They tell of the forest itself rising up and killing the other members of the colony.
2036: In Minnesota, UCAS, a group of 500 elves from the MSP Metroplex gather to enter the Awakened Forest and start an independent colony.
2036: After witnessing the Tir Tairngire proficiency at combat, all North American nations except Aztlan recognize Tir Tairngire as a sovereign state.
2036: Tir Tairngire mounts a surprise attack on Northern California using an entire armed division supported by infantry and limited air cover. The attack catches the California National Guard completely by surprise. Within the first six hours of the assault the California units are pushed south of Yreka. By adding paranimals, combat mages, and allegedly at least two dragons to their regular army, the Tir Tairngire forces roll south of Redding, where the CNG digs in to make a final stand. The battle lasts for two days and although the CNG fights valiantly, the defending soldiers of Redding are completely destroyed by the Tir Tairngire forces with no survivors. The survivors of the CNG army retreat from Redding. The Tir Tairngire army demands that all non-elves leave the area taken from California within 30 days.
2036: Doctors Akiko Kano and Arthur White Eagle win the Nobel Prize for their work on the Kano-White Eagle Theory of Metaphysical Phenomena.
2036: Large portions of New Mexico and Oklahoma join the CAS, though the government excludes them from the upcoming elections until a distinct border can be determined.
2036: In the CAS, the government legislates a new tax structure that meets with wide-spread disapproval.
2036: In California, UCAS, lawmakers approve legislation dissolving California's political bond to the UCAS. Secession from the Union lacks only Governor Treacle's signature, but he is in Africa at the time.
2036: In the CAS, elections are sporadic and ill-run. Most pro tem officials are elected by default.
2036: In Minnesota, UCAS, within three weeks of their return, all of the 75 survivors of the Awakened Forest colony are dead. The senior elves of the Great Northern Council have ideas as to the reason, but make no public comment.
2036: In the UCAS, Martin Vincenzo, a charismatic businessman from Massachusetts defeats President MacAlister in his bid for re-election. Vincenzo, a member of the newly organized Technocratic Party, introduces a new level of coalition politics into UCAS elections in selecting Republican Vernon Washington as Vice President.
2036: In Aztlan, the government official expels the Catholic Jesuit organization.
2036: In Detroit, Michigan, UCAS, Damien Knight buys control of Belle Isle from the city.
2036: In Michigan, UCAS, the city of Windsor officially becomes part of Detroit.
2036: In the CAS, elections are scheduled for the fall and campaigning focuses heavily on taxation.
2036: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, David Ralph is elected to the UCAS House of Representatives on a "Good Riddance to California" ticket.
2036: In FRFZ, Fort Carson is converted by the Pueblo Corporate Council government into Pueblo Security Enterprises Inc.
2036: In Japan, the government immediately recognizes the newly declared California Free State (CFS) as a sovereign nation.
2036: In California, Governor Treacle, failing to receive help from the UCAS, makes semi-covert overtures to the Japanese Imperial State. Stating that further takeover from Aztlan or Tir Tairngire would jeopardize Japanese interests.
2036: In California, all federal resources are immediately withdrawn from the newly independent state of California. All California citizens no longer qualify for Social Security. The only UCAS services maintained in California are veteran's benefits. However, some military units refuse to abandon California and stay as independent fighting units.
2036: In the UCAS, upon hearing about California's bid for secession, President MacAlister goes before Congress and declares, under Article IV, Section 3 of the UCAS Constitution, California no longer qualifies as a member of the UCAS.
2036: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, UCAS, in response to his achievements with the Grumman case, President Vincenzo appoints Richard Scott to the Oklahoma Circuit Court as a judge.
2036: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, UCAS, Richard Scott takes the Grumman case all the way to the UCAS Supreme Court. Citing that the Grumman child's civil rights are being violated, the Court rules in favor of the Grumman family.
2036: In Iowa, UCAS, Jess Rummens is elected to the UCAS House of Representatives as one of the first Technocrats to hold office in Congress.
2036: In Tir Tairngire, the number of official members allowed on the Council of Princes is set at eleven when its first non-elven (other than Lofwyr) members are elected. Blake Ladner and Garth Stone, both dwarves; Larry Zincan, an ork; and "Rex", a sasquatch are also elected to the Council.
2036: In the UCAS, The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified. This amendment establishes the System Identification Number(SIN), requiring the registration of every UCAS citizen. Individuals without SIN's are defined as "probationary citizens," and have sharply limited rights. Probationary citizens are not allowed to vote in federal elections. Species other than Homo Sapiens are eligible for probationary citizenship in the UCAS, but full citizenship to a non-human/metahuman may be granted only by act of Congress.
2036: In the NAN, the Cascade Ork tribe of the Salish-Shidhe Nation in the NAN uncovers a major uranium concentration in their lands near Peshastin.
2036: In California, Lieutenant Governor Marshall calls an immediate press conference to announce that Proposition 129 will not be signed into law, and that the Governor Treacle is returning to California early to deal with the crisis. President MacAlister states however that secession, based on the vote for Proposition 129, is the popular choice and that such a mandate cannot be ignored.
2036: In Scotland, U.K., druidic magic transforms acres of economically unsuitable pine forests into deciduous forests, marking the creation of the Scottish Wild Lands.
2036: On April 8, during the meeting of the Lone Star Security board of directors, Wendy Manderscheid, a major stockholder and enemy of Clayton Wilson, moves to terminate Clayton Wilson as CEO of Lone Star Security. Wilson laughs in her face and immediately closes debate for a vote. To his shock, Wilson's brother James throws support to Manderscheid, leaving the vote 55%/45% in favor of the motion. Clayton Wilson is voted out as CEO of Lone Star Security. Manderscheid takes over as board chairman and James Wilson becomes the new CEO.
2037: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, a group of nonsmokers organizes themselves into a paramilitary organization called the Nonsmokers' Supremacy League (NSL) to combat public smoking. Armed with small arms, they begin a campaign of raiding restaurants and other public places which no longer have separate seating for smokers and nonsmokers.
2037: In Florence, Italy, a lost codex by Leonardo Da Vinci is discovered by the Savoy family confirming that he assisted on the statue Lady with Primroses.
2037: In London, England, U.K., the Armor International corporation releases a revolutionary type of highly durable body armor known as kevlite.
2037: The Truman Reality 500 simsense gear is released. To this day it goes without major upgrades or changes.
2037: In Tir Tairngire, Lugh Surehand replaces Rainer Grundman with another European, Elya Therese. Therese names General Martha Gardener as commander of the constabulary, and General Rory Harty as commander of the military.
2037: In the NAN, in the wake of the Tir Tairngire and Tsimshian secessions as well as massive internal dissent, Daniel Howling Coyote resigns as head of the Sovereign Tribal Council of the NAN. He then withdraws into isolation.
2037: In the U.K., the government orders the Yorkshire Fringe Zone evacuated due to pollution and radiation hazards.
2037: In the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, a UCAS maritime research expedition discovers the Abrams lobster. This creature is identified as Europe's largest crustacean.
2037: Tir Tairngire is admitted into the U.N.
2037: In the UCAS, the first North American Urban Brawl championship, "The Super Brawl," is held.
2037: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, The DocWagon organization is founded. It promises to provide better emergency on-site medical care by responding to calls much faster than any other private paramedical service.
2037: In Los Angeles, CFS, Affiliated Artists Inc. begins making successful media ventures despite the competition with Amalgamated Studios, the most powerful media corporation in CFS.
2037: In the UCAS, Congress votes to rescind the responsibility of the representative of the UCAS in FRFZ to attend sessions in the House of Representatives.
2037: In the NAN, Emboldened by the Tir Tairngire secession, the Tsimshian nation also declares independence from the NAN.
2037: In Scotland, U.K., timber wolves and bears, long extinct in the Scottish Wild Lands, are spotted once again.
2037: In the UCAS, the federal government revokes the rights of representation for citizens living in the UCAS sector of FRFZ.
2037: The great dragon Lofwyr makes his first appearance in the financial world. Announcing that he owns 63% of Saeder-Krupp stock (the backbone of the BMW corporate empire), he votes himself into the chairmanship of the board ousting Wilhelmina Graf-Beloit. She flees to the Zurich-Orbital Habitat. Lofwyr then names himself to be president and CEO of BMW, changing the name to the Saeder-Krupp Corporation.
2037: In France, The hemophiliac population is struck by a strange virus with a long latency period.
2037: In the UCAS, CYCO Circuits is founded.
2037: Fuchi Industrial Electronics introduces its Keep an Eye Out surveillance program to prevent contract breaches.
2037: In CFS, two Japanese Imperial Marine light divisions arrive by air at San Francisco's International Airport and the Alameda Naval Air Station.
2037: In San Francisco, CFS, less than two weeks after arriving, the Japanese Imperial Marines declare martial law "until order can be restored". Metahumans and individuals too weak to resist are expelled from San Francisco to make room for the Japanese.
2037: In San Francisco, CFS, a group of dwarves fleeing the Japanese marines starts a colony in the hills surrounding Diablo Bay. This fast growing community comes to be known as Halferville.
2037: In Aztlan, the Panamanian Freedom Front tries to fire a missile in the Pedro Miguel Lock of the Panama Canal. The plan fails because the missile is improperly guided and impacts into a nearby mountain.
2037: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Martin Vincenzo is Inaugurated as President of the UCAS.
2037: In Tir Tairngire, construction of the wall surrounding the city of Portland is completed.
2037: Tir Tairngire extends an offer of peace to the California Free State to reconcile their differences in the form of expanded trade relations between the two nations.
2037: In CFS, Guerrilla warfare waged by the populace of Northern California forces the Tir Tairngire army to retreat to Yreka. An informal stalemate is reached with both nations claiming control over the territory between Yreka and Redding but neither is able to hold it.
2037: Agatamori Kihara, chairman of the board of Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, is shot in the chest during random gang violence. As a result of the resulting health problems, he resigns from the board.
2037: Dunklezahn purchases VisionQuest from the Ares Macrotechnology Virtual Reality labs.
2037: In Tir Tairngire, Rainier Grundman retires as chief of the Tir Tairngire Peace Force, citing ill health as the reason. He dies soon after. Rumors state that he actually suffered a broken spine during an attempt to depose Lugh Surehand and the Council of Princes.
2037: Simsense gear is now improved so that it can broadcast emotive signals.
2038: In Texas, CAS, computer genius Steven Z. Ridgemont creates FTL Technologies with a group of colleagues from Texas A&M.
2038: In Berlin, Germany, radical, left-wing students from 3 universities organize massive strikes to demand improvement of unfair examination techniques. At Humbolt Universitat, the school president receives a box of severed ears of instructors from the protesters. He hires security forces to clear occupied student buildings. The confrontations turn bloody and the security officers are driven back by the students. The protests bring out many other radical organizations and the violence eventually spreads throughout the rest of the city.
2038: In Los Angeles, CFS, all roads leading into El Infierno have checkpoints installed and an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew is established.
2038: In London, England, U.K., in order to control the violence in south London initiated by the Lambeth Martyrs, the government declares a medical emergency and creates the Lambeth Containment Zone.
2038: In the Bermuda Triangle, the Acoola-class submarine Gahanna Girl disappears without a trace.
2038: In London, England, U.K., the Lambeth Martyrs initiate more attacks on government sites. Their most infamous one is at Dulwich Village, where 74 people are killed, including a retired ex-prime minister.
2038: In London, England, U.K., the Lambeth Martyrs, who have moved underground, initiate terrorist strikes with automatic weapons and rockets. The first units strike at Waterloo and Victoria Stations and in the Bond Street Station Mall. Almost one hundred innocent people are killed.
2038: In the UCAS, the NBS network creates the game show "Do You Feel Lucky?" which randomly calls people at their homes to play. This gimmick soon becomes popular on other game shows as well.
2038: In Germany, the secession of the South German Lander prompts the subdivision of the Matrix into regional and local telecom grids, much like the UCAS LTG/RTG system.
2038: In England, U.K., on Channel 7's show "Medicine Bag", ork reporters expose the Adams-Hoffmann "Project 42-20". The show reveals that for 15 years the Adams-Hoffman corporation have been performing a wide-ranging experiment in forced gene-pool manipulation on the inhabitants of south London housing estates in order to discover how to control goblinization. The corporation has been systematically crippling, mutilating, and generally decimating south London's population by exposing them to a huge number of experimental mutagens. One particularly shocking incident involves Generation Epsilon/Alpha 16 mutagen put in free milk distributed to school children. Investigation reveals the project responsible for 720 deaths, with a further 9,500 unprovable.
2038: In FRFZ, a freak blizzard causes massive disruptions across the city.
2038: In San Francisco, CFS, the Mandarin Oriental hotel is bought by the Otsu Hotel conglomerate.
2038: In Germany, work is begun on Arkoblocks in Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven.
2038: In Erfurt, Germany, Jubilee park is built with the help of local nature magicians to celebrate 200 years of gardening expositions.
2038: In London, England, U.K., in response to the Adams-Hoffman revelation, the inhabitants of Brixton, Camberwell, and New Cross in south London initiate a major riot that ends up on Tower Bridge. The police block the way leading to the Adams-Hoffman corporate headquarters in the city. During this riot, the first 19 of a group calling itself the Lambeth Martyrs are killed. The Tower Bridge and the nearby Thames Wharf shopping mall are seriously damaged.
2038: In Germany, the airship Lothar Spath gets in the way of a dragon over the Black Forest. The dragon breathes fire on the ship and, being full of hydrogen, the Lothar Spath explodes.
2038: In Tir na nOg, elven scholars discover a new version of the Book of Invasions at the University of Galway. Tir nan n'Og)
2038: The Chrysler corporation becomes involved in a hostile takeover war with the Nissan corporation. While at first it looks as if Nissan will win control of Chrysler, last-minute talks result in a merger agreement resulting in a new corporation: Chrysler-Nissan. The corporation moves its headquarters from Auburn Hills, Michigan to San Francisco.
2038: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Haukshorn Chemicals completes its twin red and blue skyscraper headquarters.
2038: In the NAN, border skirmishes are fought between the Ute Nation and the Pueblo Corporate Council.
2038: In the Tsimshian Nation, Great Chief Deborah Jim is named head of the government.
2038: Dosan Aburakoji rises through the ranks of Mitsuhama Computer Technologies by selling deutschemarks short.
2038: In FRFZ, the Lakewood Correctional Institution, closed for renovation, is reopened.
2038: In Austin, Texas, CAS, Lone Star Security head of the Patrol Division Connie Bannister, introduces a Fast Response team, acting in much the same way as their SWAT teams.
2038: Aztechnology initiates an "information coup" against Robot Technologies Inc., forcing the company to improve employee screening and benefits.
2038: In Nassau County, New York, UCAS, massive riots break out.
2038: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, the only successful escape from Crystal City occurs. Criminal mastermind Wentworth Childe, known as "Brain Childe" is able to escape by stealing his collar-link transmitter, thereby keeping his collar from exploding.
2038: In Detroit, Michigan, UCAS, Judy Hofsted becomes the first woman to win a professional baseball contract when she joins the Detroit Tigers.
2038: On May 21, in Germany, the southern Lander which consists of Bavaria, Baden-Wurttemberg, Greater Frankfurt and the Rhineland-Palatinate secedes from the Federal Republic and forms the South German Federation, putting its capital in Munich. Alfons Hunggarten of the right-wing Bavarian People's Party (BVP) becomes its first chancellor.
2038: A group of workers within an Ares Macrotechnology subsidiary attempts to form a union. Ares management responds by terminating everyone involved. When the fired workers appeal, the courts recognize Ares' rights to fire the employees because their action violates the megacorporation's law prohibiting unionization. The attempts at organization took place within Ares facilities, and so fell under corporate jurisdiction.
2038: In FRFZ, rumors begin to circulate of Denver Data Haven, a clearing house for the Shadowland networks as well as many other computer nets.
2038: In the Ute Nation, NAN, the Cheyenne minority charges the government with maintaining a discriminating hiring system against metahumans. The implementation of a highly effective affirmative action program heads off any real confrontation.
2038: In Tir na nOg, Ares Macrotechnology is expelled from the country for violating the laws prohibiting corporations keeping private military forces on Tir na nOg territory. Tir nan n'Og)
2038: In the UCAS, the Corporate Interaction Act is passed.
2038: In the UCAS, the Super Bowl, canceled since 2030, is reestablished.
2038: In London, England, U.K., several more riots break out after the Tower Bridge riot. These are controlled however by the army and the police.
2039: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, a hermetic magic group called the Scions of the Rose are implicated in a rash of disappearing orphans and juveniles. Most of the members are found guilty and given sentences of up to 25 years.
2039: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, The Week of Sirens. Lone Star Security forces go on a massive manhunt for the terrorists in Seattle. Within a few days, most Hand of Five leaders are either dead or behind bars.
2039: In Paris, France, renowned French artist Adam Alone holds a widely attended show of his works.
2039: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, a group of four fire elementals that have been ravaging that city's barrens are banished.
2039: The United Nations passes its Declaration on Human Rights.
2039: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, three days after the Night of Rage, members of Alamos 20,000 use a combination of explosives and magic against the supports of the nine units making up the Sears Tower, sending the building crashing down to the street. The falling debris destroys blocks worth of buildings, streets and sidewalks. Thousands are crushed to death. Gas lines rupture and the whole area goes up in flames. A second Chicago Fire is narrowly averted by mages who contain the blaze in less than an hour. The final death toll is nearly 26,000. The Sears Tower and surrounding areas are never rebuilt and the area becomes known as the Shattergraves.
2039: Despite attempts from the Minneapolis home branch to segregate itself from the Chicago group, the NSL becomes the focus of nationwide law enforcement attention.
2039: A superheavyweight class (95 kilograms and up) is introduced into the World Boxing Association in Atlanta and the International Boxing Commission in Bonn, Germany to accommodate superboosted human and metahuman fighters.
2039: In Paris, France, at the Adam Alone show, Dunkelzahn the dragon is seen talking for a long time with Nadja Daviar, an Eastern European Elf socialite with no personal history on file.
2039: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, local megacorporations begin buying up land in the Tacoma district at an unprecedented rate.
2039: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Mather Group purchases the Cabrini Green low-income housing facility. When they attempt to evict the tenants, a riot is sparked that results in 32 deaths and millions of nuyen in damages. As a result the Mather Group abandons its renewal plans and become landlords of Cabrini Green. They hire gangs to "police" the facility and take percentages from their illegal activities.
2039: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, a fringe group of the NSL bomb a United Airlines 797-jetliner, killing 161 people. The act is followed by a declaration of de facto war by the NSL against smokers everywhere.
2039: The GM-Nissan Spotter recon drone becomes the standard for long-range remote spotter drones.
2039: In Aztlan, death matches fought with real weapons and minimal armor are introduced as a form of execution of condemned criminals.
2039: In Latvia, a farm settlement is attacked by a group of bulldog stoats. eleven people are allegedly killed.
2039: Terri Ann Riberio resigns as Dunklezahn's interpreter in order to begin what will become a somewhat successful, if not noteworthy, acting career. She is replaced by Nadja Daviar.
2039: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Mafia of Redmond is thrown into turmoil when Carl Dacavitt and a group of followers declare independence from the Seattle Mafia. Dacavitt is summarily executed but his followers manage to begin a serious challenge for control of the district.
2039: In Tokyo, Japan, Fuchi Incorporated sponsors the Universal Matrix Specifications Conference. More than 7000 humans and metahumans meet for three months to determine the details of matrix programming.
2039: In the CAS, senate hearings begin to investigate charges of racial prejudice against metahumans. The committee's shocking report verifies that conditions amount to slavery in most states. The Native American Nations impose heavy trade sanctions on CAS to speed up metahuman equality laws.
2039: In Las Vegas, Ute Nation, NAN, a freak blizzard brings the city to a standstill.
2039: The Night of Rage. On February 7, In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Seattle Metroplex Guard, under order of Governor Allenson, systematically rounds up all metahumans and transports them under armed guard to a series of warehouses on the Seattle waterfront. They are told that they are being deported to camps near San Francisco, CFS. In one of the warehouses a series of screams prompts gunfire from the guards. Panic and hysteria takes over. One of the warehouses catches fire due to explosions. Soon all warehouses are burning. Some witnesses claim to see Hand of Five terrorists in the area. The Metroplex Guard does nothing to stop the blaze. As news of the incident reaches the public, citizens protest the barbaric treatment of the metahumans. The United Corporate Council threatens Governor Allenson with lock-outs and boycotts to force him to act against the terrorism. By the time Governor Allenson acts, the fire has already ended and many of the metahumans are dead. This incident sparks violence around the city. Similar events occur worldwide. Thousands are killed. These are mostly metahumans, their supporters, and those cosmetically altered to look like metahumans. In New York alone, 836 deaths occur.
2039: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, Alamos 20,000 makes the destruction of the Sears Tower look like the work of metahumans in retaliation for the Night of Rage. The corporations of Chicago respond by sealing the metahumans and poor out of their neighborhoods. The city government and the corporations build projects on Chicago's North Side district to house the metahumans and keep them separated from the rest of the city.
2039: In Australasia, Asians commit the greatest number of attacks on metahumans. The Australians respond by attacking the Asians with the same anger that metahumans experience worldwide.
2039: In Germany, the lives lost in the Night of Rage are almost exclusively racist humans killed by humans and metahumans working together to protect innocent people.
2039: In Berlin, Germany, the fighting breaks out into a full-fledged revolt. This civil war brings down the corrupt city government. Das Rote Rathaus, the red bricked city hall is burned to the ground. The rebels withdraw to Schoneberg city hall and deliberate for 23 days. Berlin is declared by the rebels to be the Free State of Berlin, an anarchist state.
2039: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is stolen from the Art Institute of Chicago.
2039: In Chicago, Illinois, UCAS, the Art Institute of Chicago is closed down.
2039: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, three days after the Night of Rage, public, civil, and media anger focuses on Governor Allenson. Rumors spread that he is a member of the Hand of Five. Local politicians, with heavy prodding from the UCC, demand that Governor Allenson step down. Allenson denies any wrongdoing and refuses to resign.
2039: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the day after he is called on to resign, Governor Allenson is found murdered in his office.
2039: In Charleston, South Carolina, CAS, a serial killer is captured after the detective-mage handling the case studies the ghost of one of the killer's victims. The ghost's actions reveal sources of evidence that lead to the murderer's arrest and conviction.
2039: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz delivers an ultimatum to Lone Star Security: Arrest the leaders of the Hand of Five or else face a breach of contract lawsuit for their criminal refusal to stop a crime in progress during the Night of Rage.
2039: In London, England, U.K., the Pan-Europa terrorist group releases a paraviral agent on the city of London in retaliation for their involvement in the dissolution of the European Community. The virus has immensely destructive effects on all wood and biofabrics, including the biofabric covering the London weather control dome.
2039: In Duluth, Minnesota, UCAS, Alamos 20,000 attempts a mass murder spree. Eleven members of the terrorist group are captured but escape the day before being turned over to state authorities.
2039: In Africa, the Cape Republic, Zulu Nation, Oranje-Vrysraar, and the Trans-Swazi Federation sign the accords of 2039, uniting them into the Confederated Azanian Nations.
2039: In the U.K., outcry against the chemical spill leads to a schism in the British Conservationist government.
2039: In the Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a special election is held to choose a new governor. Marilyn Schultz, mayor of Belvue and a relative unknown, wins by a surprisingly large margin. Reports that she was one of the first city officials to appeal to the UCC for help during the Night of Rage apparently clinches he nomination.
2039: In London, England, U.K., a massive chemical spill on the Teeside district results in more than 70,000 deaths from nerve-gas poisoning.
2039: In June, Dr. Caitlin O'Connal discovers the equations that she has been searching for that fit into the equations of all races and cultures. Dr. O'Connal calls these equations of group consciousness the, "universal brotherhood." No reputable journal will publish O'Connal's report because her conclusions are considered unacceptable.
2039: In the Trans-Polar Aleut Nation, NAN, the government announces plans to build a fusion power plant on Cape Dalhousie to supply energy to their districts of Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, and Alavik. The idea is quickly scrapped in response to violent objections from the populace.
2039: In Germany, the Reparation Law of 2039 is passed giving control of certain lands over to the Roma.
2039: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, a majority of the city's African-American population demand that a portion of the city be set aside for them to set up their own community. Despite protests from both corporate and civic leaders, the city gives in to the group's demands. The area set aside for the black group becomes known as the Zulu Nation.
2039: Mullins Chadwick, a sociologist and leading authority on the Awakening and its effects on modern culture, receives the Campbell Fellowship to the Mythological Institute for his book Monkeytribe: Survival Manual for Erect Bipeds.
2039: In Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS, on St. Patrick's Day, the Irish terrorist organization known as the Knights of the Red Branch "strike a blow for Eire." A bomb is planted in a popular elven restaurant along Boston Commons. 24 people are killed and dozens injured in the resulting explosion. The St. Patrick's Day parade rapidly degenerates into a massive race riot. By the time authorities impose martial law and reestablish order, hundreds are dead and hundreds more are injured. The day becomes known as "Bloody Tuesday."
2039: In Celestun, Aztlan, massive riots break out. The government quickly puts an end to them with military troops.
2040: In the CAS, campaigning for the presidential elections heats up, with the Metahuman Protection Act as the most publicized issue. Coalitions of orks, trolls, and elves lobby for equality. The elections run more smoothly this time and the competition for all offices is fierce.
2040: In the CAS, South Carolina Senator Joseph Alexander is elected President, with Florida's governor Jeanette Malory as Vice President.
2040: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCAS, Minuteman Security takes over the city's police contract. Their headquarters are built on the remains of the old police headquarters.
2040: In Tir Tairngire, Kate Mustaffah, a dwarf from Europe, emigrates to Tir Tairngire. She quickly becomes leader of the business community of Portland.
2040: In Connecticut, UCAS, a casino on the former site of an Indian reservation is hit with a magical explosion leveling part of the building, killing eighteen people, and wounding many others. A group calling itself Warpath claims responsibility. The organization, consisting of Native Americans from East Coast tribes claims that the attack "struck in the name of those whose lands were first taken from them, whose spirits cry out for justice." The NAN immediately denies any ties to Warpath.
2040: In Australasia, A.I. Proncs is hired as head of ANZAC's Discoveries Unlimited.
2040: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Salvador Ramirez is named division head of Aztechnology's northwest operations.
2040: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, construction is begun on the Renraku Arcology.
2040: In Berlin, Germany, all city services are privatized to coincide with the new anarchist ideal.
2040: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCAS, police headquarters burns to the ground in a massive fire. The cause is unknown.
2040: In Europe, noted mage Martin de Vris begins a series of one-man hunts of vampires.
2040: In the UCAS, Carl Preston is elected President of the UCAS.
2040: In the UCAS, The Film Noir style enjoys a minor revival.
2040: In the UCAS, the government begins a training program for the Trans-Polar Aleut Peace Force (That nation's police).
2040: In the UCAS, the Association Para-Nobilis (APN), a radical pro-elf organization with an all-cosmetically altered human membership, is founded by Leo Ridgeworth.
2040: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Thomas Jefferson International Airport opens just south of the boundaries in North Virginia.
2040: In San Francisco, CFS, a council represented by Fuchi Industrial Electronics, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, Renraku Computer Systems, Shiawase Corporation, and the Pacific Rim Bank and Financial Services Corporation quietly takes control of the city government.
2040: In the UCAS, the Biogene Technologies Inc. corporation is created from three similar companies experiencing financial difficulties.
2040: In the UCAS, Lochlann Investments is established by Geyswain, a low-profile western dragon.
2040: In England, U.K., Daffyd Rhys Williams, one of the first noble-born elves, becomes Earl of Pembroke.
2040: In Australasia, a law is passed stating that any reflex enhancing modifications must be registered with the government.
2040: Gaia Awareness Network founder Sarah Lynn leaves the UCAS on a long-term trip to Europe.
2040: In England, U.K., new evidence is discovered revealing government approval of the Adams-Hoffman experiments.
2040: Anton D'Venescu's wife Diana is found murdered in ritual style. D'Venescu himself has disappeared. His daughter Fayette disappears as well.
2040: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, that city's trolls and orks demand their own community similar to the Zulu Nation. The city responds (although slowly). The area set aside for the trolls and orks becomes known as Orktown.
2040: In the CAS, several Metahumans are named to key cabinet posts, which persuades the NAN to lift some of its sanctions.
2040: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, Hammer & Shield Security, an all dwarvish corporation, is founded.
2041: EuroAir Flight 329, enroute from London to Atlanta, is destroyed over the Atlantic with no survivors. Though garbled, the flight recorder indicates the plane is attacked by a dragon (later identified tentatively as Sirrug, a well known Western Great Dragon). The recorder also states that one passenger holds the dragon off with magic for several minutes before the plane is destroyed. Many believe the plane is destroyed in retaliation for the Night of Rage.
2041: In Greater Frankfurt, Germany, the Der Nachtmachen policlub bombs the Fermnmeldenturm in Bockenheim. Half of the neighborhood is destroyed. The policlub holds the city hostage for months.
2041: In the UCAS, all official athletic competitions are officially opened to all metahumans.
2041: In Germany, Doktor Gansz, an employee of the Waldheim Klinik is discovered to be a nosferatu vampire. He is revealed to have a whole private ward of people on life support to allow him to feed on them. It is discovered that over the past ten years he has killed fifty people.
2041: In England, U.K., the Green party, a pro-environment political group, takes over Parliament in Great Britain from the now disgraced Conservationist party.
2041: A unilateral ban on all genetic warfare experimentation is enacted.
2041: In Omaha, Nebraska, UCAS, Richard Zai, chairman of Meynt-Zai Industries dies of a brain aneurism at a stockholders meeting.
2041: In Tir Tairngire, the Art Education Act is passed. This law states that all students in the Tir Tairngire elementary, secondary and high school levels must take art technique classes until each student finds one or more art forms in which he or she can adequately express himself. The definition of art extends beyond traditional schools and includes embroidery, bonsai-like tree cultivation, manuscript illumination, and other forms.
2041: In Germany, the Duchy of Pomorya is successful in revitalizing the Baltic Sea with biobacteria and magic.
2041: In Europe, arms reduction talks are held resulting in each nation arming themselves solely for the purpose of defense. Each nation also accepts a ceiling of how many troops they can have in their army.
2041: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, Casinos and nightclubs are opened by the Mafia on White Bear Lake.
2041: The Yamatetsu corporation manages to make headway into obtaining a seat on the Corporate Court and the Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft Bank. Ares Macrotechnology, Fuchi Industrial Electronics, and Mitsuhama Computer Technologies all resist Yamatetsu and skirmishes erupt between corporate forces around the world.
2041: The Antibac genetic treatment for bacterial infections becomes available.
2041: In the Tsimshian Nation, a total of seven planes crash due to heavy storm activity.
2041: In Germany, the Confederate Constitution is enacted.
2041: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Leather Devils go-gang force their way onto Council Island (the NAN embassy in Seattle). Before Island Police and Lone Star Security's Rapid Deployment teams can chase them off, 50 people are killed.
2041: Mullins Chadwick wins the Pulitzer Prize for Monkeytribe: Survival Manual for Erect Bipeds.
2041: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Ingnaz Yablonski, Seattle's chief Medical Examiner since 2032, is elected to that city's newly created post of Director of Forensic Magic.
2041: By this year in Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, DocWagon has become the city's de facto official on-site health-care provider.
2041: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, DocWagon further consolidates its hold on the health care market by purchasing a small for-profit hospital about to go out of business. Using its excellent management skills, DocWagon turns the hospital around, and the first of several DocWagon Acute Care Clinics in the Atlanta area becomes one of the corporation's largest profit centers.
2041: Sakehisa Tajika becomes chairman of the board of Ares Macrotechnolgy.
2041: Rumors abound in the corporate world that Lofwyr has given or sold some of his shares of the Saeder-Krupp Corporation to other individuals.
2041: In Tir na nOg, President Liam O'Connor marries Lady Brane Deigh. He then secures her position as Prionsa within the Court of Stewards.
2041: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Ballard Bridge is built over the shipping canal.
2041: In the CAS, the Atlanta based Lanrie Corporation infects a Miami-based competitor's computer system with a tailored computer virus. The other major corporations discover this action and, under the terms of the Concord of Zurich-Orbital and with the sanction of the Corporate Court, destroy the Lanrie corporation. Lanrie's infrastructure is shattered, its facilities and assets are destroyed, and its board of directors are executed. This is the last known incident of viral warfare.
2041: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Denton's Lore Store, a magic shop with a strange reputation, opens.
2041: In Los Angeles, CFS, the East L.A. district is converted from a primarily Hispanic neighborhood to a factory district owned by Lockheed Corporation.
2041: In Aztlan, a presidential order is issued rescinding the Catholic Church's right to function in Aztlan. The church is forced underground and acts as an antigovernment force.
2041: In England, U.K., the British Conservationist government is voted out of office.
2041: Dr Michael Davis rewrites Dr. Clarissa Beacham's mana scale and adds his own name to it.
2041: In the Tsimshian Nation, John George, a half-blood Haida Indian, establishes the radical group known as the Haida National Front. This group agitates for equal rights for their tribe. As a result, George and many of his followers are put in jail.
2041: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, a violent dispute with resident orks leads to the exodus of all dwarves from the Ork Underground community.
2041: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Carl Preston is inaugurated President of the UCAS.
2041: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, Vladimir Zorgon, CEO of Zorgon Cybersystems, sends his brother Vasilev to the city to open a new facility there.
2041: In the UCAS, Global Oil merges with UCAS Steel. Both facets of the conglomerate continue to do business under the Global Oil label.
2041: The Austro-Hungarian Empire breaks into its component states of Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia.
2041: In FRFZ, a freak hurricane strikes the city.
2041: In Osthofen, Germany, Scherist-Manngold AG announces their plans to construct a new arcology.
2041: Policlubs, youth-oriented associations devoted to spreading various political or social philosophies, appear in Europe. Each club hopes to recruit the masses to its own viewpoint and thus play a leading role in the European Restoration.
2041: In the NAN, new border conflicts erupt between the Ute Nation and the Pueblo Corporate Council.
2041: In New York City, New York, UCAS, Knight-Errant Security presents evidence that Warren Security has been systematically butchering squatter-residents of various buildings owned by Warren habitats, their parent company.
2041: In Germany, the ISDNpro standard is developed allowing the German Matrix to integrate vidphone, fax, cable trideo and simsense dataflows into a single system.
2042: The Euro-wars officially come to an end.
2042: The Munich Amendments are added to the Geneva Conventions by the United Nations.
2042: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Oyabun of the Yakuza, seeing that the new Korean bosses are now putting Korean interests over Japanese interests, sends an ultimatum to them: Pledge their loyalty to the Oyabun or face the consequences. The Koreans ignore this threat.
2042: In the UCAS, the government grants Seattle Metroplex the right to send its own ambassadors to any country vital to its well being.
2042: The Yamatetsu corporation is finally recognized as a member of the Corporate Court and the Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft bank. Skirmishes between the disputing factions die off.
2042: In Germany, a monastery is found completely gutted by fire. All of the monks inside are killed.
2042: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Fuchi Electronics Industrial Compound is rebuilt after being destroyed during the Night of Rage.
2042: In Germany, a series of volcanic eruptions devastate the Eifel Mountain region. Lava blocks the Rhine River, causing the Neuwied Depression to flood. Koblenz and other towns are abandoned as the Rhine overflow forms a new lake stretching from Remagen to Lahnstein. The land south of Rsselsheim is turned into swampland that is named the Oppenheimer Marsh At the same time a series of earthquakes hits the Upper Rhine Graben. Although nobody claims responsibility, popular opinion places the responsibility on the shoulders of metahumans. As a result the government abandons their proposed eugenics laws and grants full rights to metahumans. Fearing for their lives however, South German dwarfs begin to emigrate to the Eifel and Hunsruck hill regions. Orks and trolls follow suit by resettling in the Black Forest, the Upper Palatinate Forest and the Bohemian Forest.
2042: In London, England, U.K., the Underplex Corporation is established to oversee the final stages of development for the West End Underplex mall in London.
2042: Dunkelzahn the Dragon hires former Knight-Errant security specialist Carla Brooks as a full-time employee.
2042: DocWagon begins to expand beyond the Atlanta, Georgia area. In an unprecedented marketing campaign, DocWagon begins franchising its operation throughout the UCAS, excepting Seattle. By the end of the year, DocWagon has sold at least three franchises in each major UCAS city-again excluding Seattle-and have many more scattered through the country's smaller communities.
2042: In Big Sur Coast, CFS, small groups of settlers reinhabit the toxic zones and use magic to make them livable again. Almost immediately the corporate owners claim ownership and try to force the settlers off the land. The settlers fight back with surprising force and chase off the first corporate army. This fighting escalates into continuous small-scale war.
2042: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, several streets in the downtown areas collapse. Rather then rebuild the streets on badly saturated foundations, the sunken areas are smoothed out and turned into the MSP Canals, allowing boat travel in the city itself. The area becomes known as "Little Venice."
2042: The Zeta-Impchem corporation is exposed in the Polydopa scandal of dumping neurotoxins for the past four years in central Africa. This results in 4,000 premature deaths and 35,000 cases of irreversible brain damage.
2042: In Los Angeles, CFS, rivalries between southern California college magical departments escalate into the Magic Wars. Although dangerous, none of the magical pranks have yet proven fatal. The constant barrage on astral space however, has caused odd side effects for those using magic in the area. Magic now has a dangerous unpredictability in Los Angeles.
2042: In the UCAS, the various pro-sports commissioners charter a joint committee to make a decision as to whether physical adepts should be allowed to compete in professional sports.
2042: Holly Brighton retires from the media industry.
2042: In London, England, U.K., several floors of the Angel Towers Arcology are damaged when a missile from the Lambert Containment Zone is misfired.
2042: In the Mojave Desert, CFS, a rogue UCAS military unit calling itself the Minutemen take over the abandoned China Lake Naval Weapons Center as a base after being chased off of Fort Irwin by corporate interests.
2042: In the South Lander, Germany, metahumans are placed into containment camps. The South German parliament considers a program of Eugenics to keep any more from being born.
2042: Ares Macrotechnology's space exploration division AresSpace, implements Project Cydonia. This project launches a probe which flies to Mars and performs detailed scans of the planet. Upon it's return the results of the project are kept secret from the general public.
2042: In the Mediterranean, the villa of a collector of rare animals is destroyed by a rocket and missile attack on his island. The explosion releases his collection of greater armadillos, allowing them to breed and establish for the first time in Europe.
2042: In San Francisco, CFS, less than 15% of the population are metahumans.
2042: In UCAS, Congress passes the Military Improvements Act, giving many failing military bases a second chance.
2042: The Commonwealth Aerospace corporation begins testing a series of refinements on its RPVs by using them in active war zones across the world.
2042: The United Nations recognizes the Sasquatch species as a sentient race.
2042: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, an Aztechnology long-haul dirigible crashes into Puget Sound when it is fired upon by Metroplex Guard fighters for not following travel orders. Tensions build up between Aztechnology and the Seattle government over this incident.
2042: In Los Angeles, CFS, Arthur Garrett, the most influential academician in the field of magical studies, takes over as Chairman of the Department of Occult Studies at UCLA.
2042: In March, In Tir na nOg, State President Liam O'Connor stages his own election as High Steward.
2042: In Los Angeles, CFS, Harry "Ironjaw" Bartlett, pitcher for the L.A. Yankees, goblinizes after five years on the mound.
2042: In the Tsimshian Nation, police discover the headquarters of the Haida National Front. They attack with Japanese-built one-man gunships and decimate the HNF headquarters. No HNF members survive.
2042: The policy of automating coffin hotels becomes much more widespread.
2043: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, controversial political scientist Dr. Rozilyn Hernandez joins the staff of Georgetown University as an instructor.
2043: In CFS, The Universal Brotherhood, a humanitarian organization that preaches a philosophy based on the group consciousness equations of Dr. Caitlin O'Connal, opens its first chapters: Two in San Francisco, one in Ukiah, and one in Gilroy.
2043: During the World All-Star baseball exhibition between the Yomiuri Giants, Japan's most revered team, and the L.A. Dodgers, the Yomiuri corporation newsnets create a major uproar at the fact that they are playing a team with Harry "Ironjaw" Bartlett due to the fact that he is kawaruhito (changed person, goblinized). The L.A. Dodgers win the game.
2043: In Tir na nOg, Lady Brane Deigh proclaims herself Rian, or "Queen" of the Seelie Court, a non-legislative body independent of the Court of Stewards.
2043: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, the Yakuza sends Japanese assassins to purge all Koreans from their organization. Most are killed but some escape. One of these, Pak Jai Kyu, begins to form the Seoulpa Rings with the help of his remaining followers. The concept catches on around the Metroplex and throughout the rest of North America.
2043: On February 19, in Germany, the Troll Kingdom of the Black Forest proclaims itself a separate state from the Federal German Republic. It places its capital at Freiburg.
2043: In the Upper Rhine, Germany, a series of powerful earthquakes occur. In the city of Karlsruhe, 10,000 people are killed and the city suffers billions of Deutschemarks in damages.
2043: In Bonn, Germany, the EBMM scandal occurs. It is the only reported verified event of magical cheating in Urban Brawl.
2043: In the U.K., elves in the Welsh regional Parliament begin to make major advances.
2043: In England, U.K., The Knights of Rage, a group claiming to be descendants of Nubians who predict that the world will be eaten by dragons, begin support of the dragon Celedyr in Caerlon.
2043: Ehran the Scribe publishes his first book Mankind Ascendent.
2043: In Greater Frankfurt, Germany, the wave of terrorism begins to subside.
2043: In the Trans-Polar Aleut Nation, NAN, the government announces plans to dam a tributary of the Mackenzie river to build a hydro-electric power plant. The idea is quickly canceled by environmental interests in the government.
2043: In May, In Tir na nOg, State President Liam O'Connor disappears.
2043: In CFS, magical prodigy Frazer Williams receives his Th.D from UCLA under Aikiko Kano.
2043: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Governor Schultz is reelected.
2043: In Atlanta, Georgia, CAS, the construction of Freepark is completed and the turbulent government transition comes to an end.
2043: Waren Tyler, president and primary stockholder of Western Biosystems, dies.
2043: In Wales, U.K., Rhiannon Glendower, an elf mage, becomes Countess of Snowdonia.
2043: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Several months after the beginning of the APN assaults, Aaron Mitchell (now calling himself Xeric) calls a halt to the violence and begins a recruitment drive to rebuild the APN.
2043: Dunklezahn begins a semi-annual vid program called Wyrm Talk. Topics range from celebrity interviews to insightful commentaries on culture and society.
2043: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Aaron Mitchell, convinced that Leo Ridgeworth was murdered, trains 27 APN members as soldiers and launches a covert war against the APN's enemies. Many of the APN's opponents are killed but only six APN soldiers survive the assault.
2043: In Seattle Metroplex, UCAS, Leo Ridgeworth of the APN dies. He is replaced by APN secretary Aaron Mitchell.
2043: In Tir Tairngire, The Willamette Compustat Corporation is founded by Darcy Dybhavn.
2043: In Greater Frankfurt, Germany, the districts of Ludwigshafen, Worms, and Mainz become part of Greater Frankfurt.
2043: In the UCAS, professional gladiator sports, with fighters under contract, have their first official matches.
2043: In DeeCee Sprawl, UCAS, Don Franco Mueller, leader of a second Mafia group in the city, becomes member of the Mafia Commissione.
2043: In Tir Tairngire, the Rite of Progression is held.
2043: In Aztlan, the La Venta rebel group is formed.
2043: In the UCAS, two weeks before it is to go on-line, a Seattle prototype wash-phase-array radar near the Sioux Nation border explodes.
2043: DocWagon goes international, as well as finally opening a chapter in Seattle.
2043: In FRFZ, DocWagon is awarded the contract for city medical services.
2043: Due to increased senility, Sakehisa Tajika is removed as chairman of the board of Ares Macrotechnology.
2043: In Germany, The Nationale Aktion (NA) terrorist group commits a massacre at the Munich Olympic Village.
2043: In MSP, Minnesota, UCAS, after a failed attempt at a hostile stock take-over of Tong & Anvil Mining, 4-M launches a prolonged corp war against the dwarven corporation.
2043: In London, England, U.K., Protestant terrorists launch attacks using incendiary bombs. 31 people are killed and 102 people are maimed.
2043: In Tir Tairngire, the Council and the High Prince respond to the population's growing demands for equal representation in the government by creating the Star Chamber. This organization divides the country into 128 districts and each district elects a representative to serve in the Star Chamber. The Chamber has advisory powers over the Council and the High Prince, but cannot force them to do anything.
2043: In Germany, soon after the Black Forest secession, the dwarfs announce the formation of the Grand-Duchy of Westrhine-Luxemborg. The German government initially tries to retake both seceded lands but eventually gives up.
2044: In Tir na nOg, the Ulster museum is half destroyed in a terrorist attack by the URF.
2044: In Panama, the government becomes economically incapable of maintaining the Panama Canal.
2044: On February 23, in New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, three humans and an elf attack and nearly destroy a Downtown Metro Security precinct. Two humans and the elf are killed, but the remaining human is captured and revealed to be a vampire. Before her execution the vampire reveals that a small group of her kind, led by an ancient vampire/mage named Bartholomew, is plotting to conquer New Orleans. "This is our age, not the age of man," she is quoted as saying. "We will rain hell on this city until the blood runs in the streets and we turn it into our hunting ground."
2044: In England, U.K., a group of radical feminist trolls manage to gain an elected majority on the Croydon council. Although they are only in office for a year, they manage to create all sorts of chaos on the other branches of Croydon government.
2044: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, within days of the precinct attack, ghouls, hellhounds, and elementals, all lead by one or more of the vampires, direct more deadly attacks on New Orleans corporate and city property.
2044: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, in response to the vampire attacks and the inability of Metro Security to do any thing about them, the city government of New Orleans organizes a specially trained and equipped group of Metro Security Officers to battle the vampires and their troops. Combined with mages to fight the elementals and other awakened creatures, the elite force is named the "Night Stalkers." They are sent out in two to four-man patrols to deal with the vampire threat.
2044: In New Orleans, Louisiana, CAS, within six months of their founding, the Night Stalkers have scored twenty vampire kills. Every suspected member of the New Orleans vampire group except Bartholemew is dead. The closest they come to capturing Bartholemew is finding a massive library of grimoires and tomes belonging to him. Magical experts who examine the books call them black magic, dealing with beings of alien dimensions and how to summon them. The books are put under lock, key, and spell at Tulane University.
2044: In Aztlan, the president dies. She is replaced by Francisco Gortari.
2044: In Germany, Chancelor Hunggarten attempts to break the monopoly of foreign corporations. As a result, on May 10, all south German datagrids turn off for 72 hours, causing massive economic problems and causing the Association of German Unions (AGV) to call for a strike. Twenty-four hours later, a flight of dragons flies in formation over Munich and Stuttgart, which many residents see as a bad omen. On the sixth day of the crisis, foreign governments worldwide freeze all assets of the South German Federation held in their banks. The following day MET2000 ends its contract with the South German government, depriving it of an army. On the eighth day of the crisis, Chancelor Hunggarten is forced to resign.

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