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The Earth Bet timeline. Anyone born before 1982 will likely have a duplicate in Earth Aleph.<ref name="commonalities">The only commonalities would be with people born before 1982 (Stephanie Meyer would be such a person), in works that were being written just after, and in works established prior, with sequels planned to go past that threshold (as with Star Wars). - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>

Shared Timeline

1969

1976

1977

  • May 25th
    • Star Wars first released in theaters
  • August 20th
    • Voyager 2 launched.<ref>Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. - NASA Website</ref>
  • September 5th
    • Voyager 1 launched.<ref>Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. - NASA Website</ref>
  • November 26th
    • In Chernobyl, Ukraine the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station's first nuclear reactor is 'commissioned. Coming online for the first time.<ref>[Andrew.] Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster. Self Published, 2016.</ref>

Earth Bet Exclusive

1980

  • Three distinct Entities are in Space around this time.<ref>The shard that allows the entity to see the future is broken up, then recoded with strict limitations. It wouldn’t do to have the capabilities turned against the entity or the shards.

    The fragment it just used is sent off, directed to a small female.

    [...]

    In a haste to decide matters before it enters the stratosphere of that barren planet, the entity casts it off to a similar location as the future-sight ability. A similar time, thirty-one revolutions from now. The destination is a male, thin, in the company of strong males and females, drinking. - Exerpt from Interlude 26</ref>

1981

1982

  • May 20st
    • Golden man found loitering in the ocean.<ref>“We don’t know how long he had been there. Suspended in the air above the Atlantic Ocean. On May twentieth, 1982, an ocean liner was crossing from Plymouth to Boston when a passenger spotted him. He was naked, his arms to his sides, his long hair blowing in the wind as he stood in the sky, nearly a hundred feet above the gently cresting waves. His skin and hair can only be described as a burnished gold. With neither body hair nor clothes to cover him, it is said, he seemed almost artificial. - Exerpt from Gestation 1.x</ref>

1983

  • Ciara triggers.<ref>The major players are busy recovering and rebuilding, giving us six straight months of peace for the first time in twenty years.

    [...]

    The rest would take getting used to, after thirty years as the childlike Faerie Queen, but the wings were a natural fit from the start. - Exerpt from Teneral e.1</ref>

1985

  • Hana triggers.<ref>So hard to believe that the events from her dream had occurred just twenty six years ago. - Exerpt from Interlude 7</ref>
  • The Breakfast Club was released with Nicholas Cage in the role of John Bender.<ref>Kind of 90’s bad boy, with the long hair, ripped jeans and flannel, very Bender in Breakfast Club, except you’re way more attractive than Nick Cage. - Interlude 5d</ref>

1986

1987

  • Superheroes show themselves to the public.<ref>Just five years after Scion’s first appearance, the superheroes emerged from the cover of rumor and secrecy to show themselves to the public. - Exerpt from Gestation 1.x</ref>
  • Nicholas imbibes a Cauldron vial.<ref>Cauldron permitted Gray Boy because he was the closest thing to a weapon they had against Scion since Eidolon. - Wildbow on Spacebattes</ref>
  • King, Screamer, Harbinger, Breed, Crimson, Gray Boy, Nyx, Psychosoma and Jacob founds the Slaughterhouse Nine.<ref>King
    Screamer
    Harbinger
    Breed
    Crimson
    Gray Boy
    Nyx
    Psychosoma

    There were ten of each in various glass chambers. The original members. - Exerpt from 25.x</ref>
  • Harbinger and Jacob kill King.<ref name="21.x">1987

    [...]

    “Jack,” Jacob said. He kicked King’s body again. “Fuck it. He always called me Jacob, practically purring. His little killer in training. As if I could match up to his Gray Boy. I want to be more than that. Get out from under his shadow.”

    “Okay… Jack.”

    “If it’s a farce, a joke, let’s run with it. We take simple names, dumb names, and we make people quake in their shoes at the sound. Jack… Slash.”

    [...]

    “I’ll play, though,” he said.

    ““Play?”

    ““Make a name for myself.” - Exerpt from 21.x (Donation Interlude 1; Number Man)</ref>
  • Jacob becomes Jack Slash, the new leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine.<ref name="21.x"/>
  • Harbinger becomes Number Man and leaves Slaughterhouse Nine.<ref name="21.x"/>

1988

  • Paige Mcabee born.<ref name="6.x">“Determining sentencing for this case is not easy. As your lawyer has no doubt made you aware, you do fall under the umbrella of the TSPA, or the three strikes act. At the age of twenty three, you have been convicted of no prior crimes.

    “According to the witnesses heard in this court, you first demonstrated your abilities in early 2009. You were vocal about not wanting to become a member of the Protectorate, but you also expressed a disinterest in a life of crime. This state, in which an individual does not identify as hero or villain, is what the PRT classifies as a ‘rogue’. - Exerpt from Interlude 6</ref>
  • May 1st
    • Hero, Legend and Eidolon meet with Alexandria, Doctor Mother, Contessa, Number Man, William Manton and Doormaker. Alexandria proposes to found a government-controlled hero team.<ref>May 1st, 1988

      “Alexandria,” the Doctor called.

      Alexandria waited patiently as Contessa adjusted her cape, then strode through the door. The Doctor was there, of course. Professor Manton, too. The boy with the math powers was there, standing next to a boy who was staring off into space.

      [...]

      “Alright. I can keep an open ear,” Legend said. Eidolon and Hero nodded in agreement. “What’s your proposal?”

      [...]

      “No. Because I’d like to propose a solution. A way to assert control. I want to band together. Form a team.”

      Legend leaned against the wall. “There are teams forming already. Yes, we’d be powerful, influential, but I don’t see how that addresses the problems.”

      “Simple. We do what the government’s been pushing for. We regulate. We bend to the government’s yoke, all four of us together. We follow their stipulations and regulations.” - Exerpt from Interlude 15.z</ref>

1989

  • Vikare dies.<ref>In 1989, attempting to quell a riot over a basketball game in Michigan, the superhero known to the public as Vikare stepped in, only to be clubbed over the head. He died not long after of a brain embolism. - Exerpt from Gestation 1.x</ref>
  • Battery born.<ref name="5.3">Battery was a member of the Protectorate. When I’d been starting junior high, she’d been the head of the Wards for a brief while, and she’d soon after graduated to the Protectorate. I could guess she was twenty-two or thereabouts now, if they didn’t fudge the graduation date or anything to make it harder to guess the hero’s real age. - Exerpt from Hive 5.3</ref>

1990

1991

  • Cherie Vasil born.<ref>Cherish – An amoral emotion detector and emotion manipulator who uses her powers to find targets for her group, the Slaughterhouse Nine. Twenty, she sports a stripe of violet in her dark hair. - Cast</ref>

1992

  • Crystal Pelham born.<ref name="age1">As a superteam that is also an extended family, New Wave has several junior members that gained powers of their own. These individuals are nineteen year old Laserdream and fifteen year old Shielder, the children of Manpower and Lady Photon, and seventeen year old Glory Girl, daughter of Brandish and Flashbang. - Edit by Wildbow
    Not in the list of retracted edits.</ref>
  • December 13th

1993

  • January 19th
    • Protectorate and PRT officially formed.<ref name="I15.z">January 18th, 1993

      “I, Alexandria, do solemnly affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the director appointed over me, according to the regulations of the PRTCJ.”

      Applause swelled around her. As far as the eye could see, there were crowds and flashing cameras. President Griffin extended a hand and she shook it.

      He leaned close, “You do us proud.”

      “Thank you, James. I’ll give my all.”

      He squeezed her hand and moved on.

      “I, Eidolon, do solemnly affirm…” - Excerpt from Interlude 15.z</ref>
  • June
    • Brian Laborn born.<ref name="4.4">I turn eighteen in June, and when I do, I plan to get my mother and father’s parental rights terminated and apply to become Aisha’s guardian. - Exerpt from Shell 4.4</ref>
  • July 6th
  • Carlos born.<ref name="3.x">“You’re next oldest, after Carlos. It’s only going to be what, three or four months, before you’re the senior member?”

    “And I’ll hold that position for not even the rest of the summer before I graduate and pass the mantle to you,” Clockblocker smiled self deprecatingly, “No worries. Take charge.” - Exerpt from Interlude 3</ref>
  • Dennis born.<ref name="3.x"/>

1994

  • March 26th
  • Victoria Dallon born.<ref name="age1"/>
  • Amelia Claire Lavere born.<ref>Marquis frowned. “My daughter, she would be… what year is it? 2010?”

    “2011,” Lung replied.

    “She would be seventeen. - Exerpt from Interlude 10.5 (Bonus)</ref>
  • Dean Stansfield born.<ref name="9.5">Vista had to bite her tongue.  Pointing out that people were being condescending had a way of making her look petulant, which only compounded the problem.  Yes.  Because any maturity on my part is something special.  Doesn’t matter that I have nine months of seniority over Kid Win, being thirteen means everyone expects me to be squealing over Justin Beiber or the Maggie Holt books, or dressing in pink or-

    Her train of thought stopped dead when her eye fell on the portraits on the wall above the front desk.

    Three feet high and two feet wide, the two pictures were black and white, bordered by foot-wide black frames.  The pictures themselves were head-and-shoulders shots of Aegis and Gallant, both in costume, masks on.  She knew from her own experience that the pictures would have been taken in their first week on the team.  Gallant looked so young.  He had still been so young when the tidal wave had smashed into him and caved in his chest.  Only seventeen.

    She looked at her own picture.  In contrast to the boys’, it was vibrant, filled with color.  Her eyes, costume and the frame of the picture were a high-saturation blue-green, the background of the image a sunset orange to highlight her blonde hair.  Vista was young in that picture too.  Her photo had a missing fang tooth on the bottom row, which created a small, dark gap in her awkward smile.  She’d been just a month shy of turning eleven, then. - Exerpt from Sentinel 9.5</ref>
  • Lily born.<ref name="Foil">Foil is 17 and a senior. She triggered 3 years prior to her appearance, as part of a group trigger in New York. One of her old nemeses, March, was another part of that group trigger. - Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref>
  • Sarah Livsey born.<ref name="Tattletale">Tattletale is a year older than Taylor, 16. tested out to claim her GED. Counting backward, before 1.1, she had one year with the Undersiders, maybe four or so months living on/around the Boardwalk, and two months existing at home post-trigger. Triggered 1.5 years prior. - Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref>
  • Rachel Lindt born.<ref name="Bitch">Rachel is roughly the same age. Triggered at 12. 3 years solo, one year with Undersiders.</ref>
  • November 1st

1995

  • June 18th
    • Behemoth destroys Moscow, Russia.<ref>Moscow, June 18th, 1995. Behemoth. - Excerpt from 24.x (Interlude)</ref><ref>Overall, Russia has suffered more at the hands of Endbringers and S-Class threats than most, and it was the lack of faith in the government's ability to protect the people (and the aftermath of losing Moscow) that led to the fall of the U.S.S.R. and rise of other forces. - Private message by Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref>
  • June 19th
    • Taylor Hebert born.<ref name="25.1">“Will you state your name for the record?”
      “Taylor Hebert.”
      “Your date of birth?”
      “June nineteenth, 1995.” - Excerpt from Scarab 25.1</ref>
  • Browbeat born.<ref name="age2">He'd be about 16 or so. Younger than Clockblocker, Gallant and Aegis (recall their discussion in interlude 3, about who would be succeeding in terms of leadership). Older than Shadow Stalker and Vista. - Wildbow on Spacebattes</ref>
  • Chris born.<ref name="age2"/>

1996

1997

1998

  • January 18th
  • Aisha Laborn born.<ref name="Imp">Imp, 13 as of the point she joins the Undersiders, failed a grade at one point, so ~grade seven. Triggered at 13, between the end of arc 8 and the end of arc 9. - Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref>
  • Missy Biron born.<ref name="9.5"/>
  • Uppermost asked the PRT for assistance in managing the NEPEA-5 bill, which sought to curtail parahuman involvement in business and media, and was arguably targeted directly at Uppermost.<ref>In 1998, Uppermost reached out to the PRT for assistance in dealing with a bill (NEPEA-5) that sought to curtail parahuman involvement in business and media, arguably targeted directly at Uppermost. - PRT Quest (Anchorage)</ref>After a great deal of consideration, the PRT’s head office turned down the request for assistance. NEPEA-5 was passed, and Uppermost disbanded.<ref>After a great deal of consideration, the head office turned down the offer for assistance, the bill was passed, and Uppermost disbanded. - PRT Quest (Anchorage)</ref> Many former members of Uppermost joined either the Protectorate or Wards to manage the fines and fees that followed the bill’s passage and avoid bankruptcy.<ref>Many members of Uppermost found their way to the Protectorate and Wards as a way of avoiding bankruptcy and to manage the fines and fees that followed the bill’s passage. - PRT Quest (Anchorage)</ref>
  • July 3rd
  • December 25th

1999

  • Scion donned the white bodysuit.<ref>The golden man would reappear several more times in the coming months and years. At some point, he donned clothing. At first, a sheet worn over one shoulder and pinned at either side of the waist, then more conventional clothes. In 1999, he donned the white bodysuit he still wears today. For more than a decade, we have wondered, where did our golden man get these things? Who was he in contact with? - Exerpt from Gestation 1.x</ref>
  • Purity joins Empire Eighty-Eight.<ref name="4.x.1">As someone who had worked alongside Max for ten years and been married to him for one, she knew this was all negotiation. - Exerpt from Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)</ref>
  • Dinah Alcott born.<ref>Dinah Alcott – A powerful clairvoyant, twelve years old, has straight brown hair. - Cast</ref>
  • Starlet born.<ref name="23.2">It flipped the right way around. I could see a young girl on the opposite side. She was flanked by two other small children, one a male with a widow’s peak and a severe expression for his age, ten or so, the other a girl of about twelve, in overalls that ended at the knee, a star at the chest, and far too much makeup.

    [...]

    “Sniper’s active,” Rime’s voice came through the earbuds. She was panting. “Deliberate, accurate shooter. I’ve taken three bullets, ice armor took most of the force out of the shots. Bambina is accompanied by Starlet and August Prince, um. Shooter’s shots ricochet. Can’t dodge. There’s wounded just outside craft. Traffic caught underneath when you fell.“ - Exerpt from Drone 23.2</ref>
  • July 21st
  • November 2nd-3rd
    • Leviathan 'sinks' Kyushu, Japan devastated.<ref name="8.2">“Kyushu, the night of November second and the morning of the third, 1999. His sixth appearance. Nine and a half million killed when the region was swamped with tidal waves from every direction while Leviathan disrupted prearranged evacuation attempts. Nearly three million evacuees rendered homeless, a nation sundered. - Excerpt from Extermination 8.2</ref>

2000

  • Brockton Bay Brigade arrest Marquis. Dallon family adopts Amelia Claire Lavere, making her Amy Dallon.<ref>The Brigade's only known accomplishment is bringing down Panacea's father, eleven years ago (approximately the year 2000), apparently a notorious villain. - Edit by Wildbow
    Not in the list of retracted edits.</ref>
  • Marquis birdcaged.<ref>He’d been one of the scary bastards of Brockton Bay well before the Undersiders were even on the map.  A guy who could go toe to toe with a full squad of Empire Eighty-Eight and walk away.   He’d been successful enough to pay for hirelings and ruthless enough to execute them for failures.  His path to the Birdcage had been very similar to the path that had almost taken me there; so many violations of the law that the three strikes rule had been left well behind him by the time the good guys finally won. - Exerpt from Extinction 27.3</ref>
  • Brockton Bay Brigade unmasks before the public, advocating capes without masks, and becomes New Wave.<ref>Amelia was taken in by Brandish and Flashbang, because they were afraid she'd be abused/kidnapped by others who'd blame her for Marquis' actions or use the chance that she was that much more likely to trigger to get a child with powers.

    A short time later, the Brockton Bay Brigade unmasked before the public, advocating capes without masks. - Wildbow on RPG.net</ref> Lady Photon replaces Manpower as leader. <ref>Onetime leader of the Brockton Bay Brigade, became second in command with his wife Lady Photon taking the leadership role when the group was rechristened New Wave. - Edit by Wildbow
    Not in the list of retracted edits.</ref>
  • Fleur murdered in her civilian identity by a cape looking to earn cred and (consequently) membership in Empire Eighty-Eight.<ref>While in her civilian identity, Fleur was killed by a cape looking to earn cred and (consequently) membership in Empire Eighty-Eight. This occurred at the peak of New Wave's rising popularity, at a point when the team and the idea of capes with public identities and full accountability was a topic of nationwide discussion, and was thus a death that received a great deal of media and public attention. - Edit by Wildbow
    Not in the list of retracted edits.</ref> Unmasking movement ends. Lightstar leaves New Wave.<ref>A short time after that, Fleur was murdered in her civilian identity, putting an end to that movement. Lightstar (brother to Carol/Brandish and Sarah/Lady Photon) quit the team. - Wildbow on RPG.net</ref>
  • April 10th
  • September 15th
  • September 16th
    • Alexandria recovered. Doctor Mother decides to leave Manton be - to attract people to the Protectorate<ref>September 16th, 2000

      Alexandria sat in the hospital. Eidolon’s healing had only been able to do so much. She held a glass eye in one hand, the remains of her other eye in the other.

      [...]

      “The sample he took, F-one-six-one-one, it tends to give projection powers. I suspect his real body is unchanged. But I’m wondering if we shouldn’t leave him be.”

      Alexandria stared at the doctor, wide-eyed. “Why?”

      “So long as he’s active, people will be flocking to join the Protectorate-” - Exerpt from Interlude 15.z</ref> and explain to Legend the appearance of the Case 53.<ref>“We made assumptions, and we were way off base. That’s what concerns me.” Legend leveled a hard look at the Doctor. “See, we’ve been going by the assumption that William Manton, from the time he left Cauldron to the present day, has been continuing his work. We’ve been assuming he’s traveling across the world, experimenting on human subjects, giving them powers with physical mutations as a side effect, then releasing the victims back into society with Cauldron’s symbol tattooed on their bodies. Or at least, that’s what you told us.” - Exerpt from Interlude 14.y</ref>
    • Leviathan attacks Naples.<ref>Naples, September 16th, 2000. Leviathan. - Excerpt from 24.x (Interlude)</ref>
  • Lung and his mother move to Chaohu.<ref name="Lung">August 13th, 2002

    [...]

    All in all, three years since he’d fought Leviathan. Two years since he and his mother had come here to Chaohu. A year and eight months since he’d been arrested by the Yàngbǎn.

    [...]

    He would risk it, and accept the offer. He would do whatever they required of him, and then he would kill whoever he needed to and escape. - Excerpt from 22.y (Donation Interlude; Lung)</ref>
  • December

2001

  • January
    • Jamie Rinke triggers and becomes Nilbog.<ref name="16.x">“Lady’s not wrong,” he admitted, “We’ve been able to piece together who he is. We got security camera footage from the early stages of the incident, just last week, and we found his face. One of the top geeks from the Protectorate then found other cases of his face around the city and found a name. Jamie Rinke.”

      [...]

      “Rinke?”

      “You mean Nilbog.”

      “Huh?”

      “That’s what he called himself. He’s alive and presumably well. I saw out the window as the chopper pulled us out, Nilbog retreating to hide in some building, his creatures were returning to their hiding places. I expect the man will be alive for some time.”

      “Why?” She wheezed the question.

      “Far as I could tell, he’s wearing one of his creations. Made him bulletproof, maybe fireproof. We won’t be able to bomb the area. He’s created beasts that multiply if you set them on fire. Did you see those?”

      She shook her head.

      “He may have other countermeasures for other courses of action. You’ll get your chance to talk to the Chief Director, but last I heard, they’re planning to wall the city off. They’ll let the motherfucker be the god of his own little town, so long as he doesn’t try to expand any further, which they’re saying he won’t. I almost envy him.” - Exerpt from Interlude 16.x</ref>
    • Nilbog takes over Ellisburg.
  • February 2nd
    • Three PRT squads and Toronto Protectorate team invade Ellisburg.<ref>February 2nd, 2001

      [...]

      “We’re not alone out there, so be careful about where you’re shooting. This place’s got a population of about five thousand. Sort of town that has only the one movie theater. But whatever this bastard Rinke is doing, we think he’s operating from somewhere near the middle of the area. Three helicopters in the air, three squads of six, and a team from Toronto’s Protectorate division backing us up. We move in a spiral pattern to close in on the center of this podunk town, see if we can’t squeeze him out of hiding, and we maintain radio contact with the other squads at all times so everyone knows what’s going on.” - Exerpt from Interlude 16.x</ref> In the ensuing battle all PRT agents (exept Emily Piggot and Thomas Calvert) died and Protectorate capes fled.<ref>“Choppers one and two down, squad two. Your capes vacated the scene.”

      [...]

      “I’m Thomas Calvert,” he introduced himself. “Squad three. We’re the only ground forces that got out alive.” - Exerpt from Interlude 16.x</ref>
    • Ellisburg quarantined,<ref name="16.x"/> Nilbog designated as S-Class threat.<ref>There’s six class S threats active in the world at large. The Endbringers make up three of them. The Slaughterhouse Nine as a group are a fourth. - Exerpt from Queen 18.3</ref>
  • February 25th
  • Phir Sē becomes Thanda.<ref>“I have been doing this for ten years. I admire you for retaining your…” he trailed off. - Exerpt from Crushed 24.4</ref>
  • August Prince born.<ref name="23.2"/>
  • July 6th
  • December 6th

2002

  • PRT expands to Canada.<ref>Montreal - M - As per terms of US-Canada deals in 2002. - PRT Master Reference</ref>
  • April 23rd
  • August
  • August 20th
  • December 27th
    • The Simurgh first appears in Lausanne.<ref name="17.2">“It’d take too long to explain in detail. The moment when someone gets their powers. The idea was maybe she and Scion met some specific set of conditions. So the whole world watched for something like three days, to see if she would be another Scion, or if she’d be something else. People approached, she even communicated with them some. Not talking, just gestures, I guess. Interacting might be a better word. And when we thought things would be okay, she made a move. The entire population of the city around her, with all the people who had come to talk with her and research her…” - Exerpt from Migration 17.2</ref>
  • December 30th
    • The Simurgh screams,<ref>Lausanne, December 30th, 2002. - Excerpt from 24.x (Interlude)</ref> dementing the entire population of Lausanne.<ref name="17.2"/>

2003

  • The Simurgh brainwashing declared uncurable. Switzerland quarantined, all remaining Lausanne citizens killed.<ref>“Maybe you don’t really get what the Birdcage is. See, I hate it. I was in Lausanne in two-thousand two through oh-three. Fought a whole mess of ugly. People that couldn’t be reasoned with, people who were hopeless, in the grand scheme of it. Victims, as much as anyone else.”

    [...]

    “Once we realized what was happening, we had to act, contain the damage. Contain families. Had to act against people who went home from a day of trying to kill the rest of us and cooked a nice dinner, oblivious to just how fucked they were in the head. People who were otherwise good, who got warped on a fundamental level, left open to the preaching and the incitement of their angrier neighbors. Two years of fighting before we got the word down from on high, that they couldn’t rehabilitate the ones they’d captured, the ones who’d listened too long. The poor assholes would play nice until they saw an opportunity, then they’d take it, do as much damage as they could. Two years fighting good people who’d been convinced they had to throw their lives away fighting an enemy that didn’t exist. So we closed the perimeter, bombed them out, herded them and gunned them down.” - Exerpt from Cell 22.2</ref>
  • Moord Nag becomes warlord in Namibia.<ref>Moord Nag. Warlord based in Namibia. As far as the current warlords in the area go, she’s had the longest lifespan at about eight years or so, and she’s gotten things to the point where most of the other bastards around there are kowtowing, asking permission to attack this city or occupy that area, to go to the bathroom or unite two groups in an alliance. - Exerpt from Scarab 25.5</ref>
  • Ash Phoenix joins Atlanta Wards.<ref name="Cinereal">Cinereal leads the Atlanta Protectorate, Wards, and maintains liaison with the Watchdog group. She’s a powerful breaker and shaker, and maintains a peculiar style of leadership. Her power altered her thought pattern and emotions, which would normally preclude being put in a leadership position, but she stepped into the position as a temporary measure after the prior Protectorate leader committed suicide (owing to PTSD from the local war) and nobody truly went out of their way or found cause to replace her.

    [...]

    Her reputation is well established. She’s been around for eight years and in charge for six. - Link made on the IRC archived on Spacebattles</ref>
  • Jessica Yamada starts to work as parahuman psychologist.<ref>“Nothing that graphic, but the penalties are severe, and they include extensive jail time, and forfeiting the credentials it took me eight years to get.  You strike me as someone who’s paying a great deal of attention to the workings of the system.  Where people are, how they’re operating.” - Exerpt from Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus 3)</ref>
  • April 1st
  • August 12th
  • October 3rd
    • Behemoth attacks Lyon again, due to great many nuclear plants in the vicinity.<ref>Lyon, October 3rd, 2003. Behemoth. - Excerpt from 24.x (Interlude)</ref><ref>Lyon is an area with a great many nuclear plants in the vicinity. - Comment by Wildbow on 24.x (Interlude)</ref>

2004

  • Slaughterhouse Nine captures Riley’s family.<ref>Probably. You might be able to say that Jack had her family for weeks/months before finally running her into the ground, and that what we saw was only the final stage. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

2005

  • January 20th
    • Riley triggers.<ref>January 20th, 2005

      Riley panted for breath. Her body wasn’t listening, now.

      She reached her mommy’s room, then collapsed on the floor, head turned towards the foot of the bed.

      The carpet was stained with blood. On it, just beside the bed, her mother lay face down, head turned to one side just like Riley’s was. She was covered in stitches. There wasn’t a place where Riley could have reached out and placed a hand down flat without touching one of the marks.

      An entire row had been cut open, the stitches severed, from temple, down the side of her throat, along the side of her body to her pelvis.

      Too much blood loss. Her mind leaped into action, reaching for knowledge she hadn’t had earlier in the night, knowledge of how to fix people. She took in details, grasped everything from the amount of blood her mommy had to heart rate and the amount of air she was breathing, just from the clues in how fast the blood flowed and the color of the skin. She knew the order she’d have to fix things. Ideas fired through her mind, telling her how to close the wounds, to draw the blood out of the carpet and clean it, or even making something that would do the same thing blood did, out of water and some junk from the kitchen, all with the exact right amount of electricity, to fill the veins and carry a low amount of air throughout the body, staving off the shut down of her brain long enough for Riley to figure out something else. - Exerpt from 25.x</ref> She becomes Bonesaw and joins Slaughterhouse Nine, replacing Crimson.<ref>If Bonesaw's joined, then Crimson's gone, as she replaced him. - Comment by Wildbow</ref>
  • Cinereal becomes the new leader of the Atlanta Protectorate, when the previous leader killed himself.<ref name="Cinereal"/>
  • May 9th
    • Leviathan sinks Newfoundland. Nearly half a million dead,<ref>“Newfoundland,” he spoke.

      I knew exactly what he was speaking of, and mouthed the date as he spoke it, “May ninth, 2005. Nearly half a million dead. The Canadian island simply gone, after the shelf of land holding it up cracked in the face of what we now understand were incredible pressures beneath the water level.</ref> including Andrew Richter. Dragon transfers to a backup server in Vancouver and becomes a superhero.<ref>She had lived in Newfoundland with her creator. Leviathan had attacked, had drawn the island beneath the waves. Back then, she hadn’t been a hero. She was an administrative tool and master AI, with the sole purpose of facilitating Andrew Richter’s other work and acting as a test run for his attempts to emulate a human consciousness. She’d had no armored units to control and no options available to her beyond a last-minute transfer of every iota of her data, the house program and a half-dozen other small programs to a backup server in Vancouver.

      From her vantage point in Vancouver, she had watched as the island crumbled and Andrew Richter died. As authorities had dredged the waters for corpses, they uncovered his body and matched it to dental records. The man who had created her, the only man who could alter her. She’d been frozen in her development, in large part. She couldn’t seek out improvements or get adjustments to any rules that hampered her too greatly, or that had unforeseen complications. She couldn’t change.

      She had done what she could on her own. She had repurposed herself as a superhero, had managed and tracked information and served as a hacker for the PRT in exchange for funding. With that money, she had expanded her capabilities. She had built her first suits, researched, tested and created new technologies to sell to the PRT, and had quickly earned her place in the Guild. - Exerpt from Interlude 10.5 (Bonus)</ref>
    • Sometime later a group of treasure hunters come across a mysterious box.<ref name="I26.x"/>

2006

  • Lab Rat birdcaged.<ref name="27.4">“I’m not an ordinary tinker,” String Theory said.  She tapped her head.  “I’ve had four years to think, plan what I’d build if I got out.  All up here.”

    “Me too, seven years of thinking,” Lab Rat said. “Need a lab. Not sharing one with her.” - Exerpt from Extinction 27.4</ref>
  • Aidan born.<ref>Aidan hung his head.

    “That’s excellent,” Tattletale said.  She looked at the seven year old.  “How are you?” - Exerpt from Interlude 26</ref>
  • Jean-Paul Vasil triggers and becomes Hijack.<ref name="Regent"/>
  • May 9th
    • Dragon triggers.<ref>“We were dealing with harder jobs, more capes in general out there, and our gear was getting beaten up. Fine, okay, we can deal. Until Dragon changed. All at once, I couldn’t read her code on the same level. Like gears changing on a bike.”

      “May ninth, 2006,” Defiant spoke. “Her trigger event.” - Exerpt from Cockroaches 28.2</ref>
  • Rachel Lindt triggers and becomes Bitch.<ref name="Bitch"/>

2007

  • Battery joins Protectorate.<ref name="5.3"/>
  • Sophia Hess triggers.<ref name="19.z">It was something of a relief, to hear Taylor getting excited about something, to hear her getting excited over nothing. She’d lost her mother a year ago, and hadn’t bounced back, not entirely.

    [...]

    Her mother spoke through the door, “Emma?  Taylor’s on the phone.  She’s still at summer camp.  Do you-“

    [...]

    Taylor didn’t speak for long seconds. “Can you blame me? Since school started, you’ve been… after me. As if you’re trying to make a point or something. Except I don’t know what it is.”

    [...]

    There was a shuffling of papers at the other end of the long table.  “We, the committee, have reviewed the documents, and agree that case one-six-three-one, Shadow Stalker, has met the necessary requirements.  With stipulations to be named at a future date, specific to her powers and the charges previously laid against her, she is now a probationary member of the Wards, until such a time as she turns eighteen or violates the terms of this probationary status.  Congratulations, Shadow Stalker.”

    [...]

    “Of course I’m angry. Stipulations, rules and regulations. I’ve had my powers for two and a half years and I’ve stopped more bad guys than half the capes in that room!”</ref>

2008

  • April 10th
    • Newter imbibes a Cauldron vial.<ref>April 10th, 2008

      [...]

      Entering one cell, she brushed the hair from the young man’s face once more, then propped him up while she administered the sample the Doctor had left for her.

      She stepped back while he convulsed, his wounds filling in, his breathing growing steady enough for him to scream.

      [...]

      This entry was posted in 15.x (Bonus Interlude #3) and tagged Alexandria, Behemoth, Contessa, Doctor Mother, Eidolon, Legend, Newter, Number Man, Siberian by wildbow. - Exerpt from Interlude 15.z</ref>
  • Annette Hebert dies.<ref name="21.2"/>
  • Kayden Russel marries Max Anders, becoming Kayden Anders. Purity becomes Kaiser’s second-in-command.<ref name="4.x.1"/><ref name="7.4">The brunette woman was Purity, according to the email.  Far mousier than I might have thought, given the sheer presence she had in costume.  Real name, Kayden Anders.  Interior decorator.  Single mother of one Aster Anders.  Purity was promoted to Kaiser’s second in command in the same week that Kayden Russel took Max’s hand in marriage to become Kayden Anders.  Their separation occurred within the same time period as Purity leaving Empire Eighty Eight to apparently strike out on her own.  Little citations pointed to files apparently in the attached zip file. - Exerpt from Buzz 7.4</ref>
  • Triumph joins Brockton Bay Wards.<ref>He was still relatively new to this.  Three years of duty, most of which had been spent among the Wards.  Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority over anything else? - Exerpt from Interlude 15</ref>
  • Lightslinger joins Eminent.<ref name="Lightslinger">A Japanese refugee, Lightslinger moved to San Francisco for a time where he found work with corporate sponsored team, ‘Eminent’, from 2008 to 2010.  Lightslinger left the team and the area, moving to Alaska where he roamed, changing locations with some regularity before being approached for placement in Anchorage’s Protectorate team. - PRT Quest (Anchorage)</ref>
  • Group trigger occurs in New York, involving Lily and March.<ref name="Foil"/>
  • Victoria Dallon triggers and becomes Glory Girl.<ref>Victoria triggered (easily) in gym class, started to go out in costume, more and more as years went on, as Glory Girl.

    Amy triggered a little later on. It was more devastating than joyous, because it was one step closer to her following her father's path. There was a great deal of pressure as well (outlined in the latter half of interlude 3), with her inability to heal everyone. - Wildbow on RPG.net</ref>
  • Amy Dallon triggers and becomes Panacea.<ref>“Everyone knows how you visit hospitals.  How many people have you helped over the past three years?  How many lives have you saved, how many people have you rescued from a lifetime of misery?” - Exerpt from Snare 13.2</ref>
  • Carlos triggers.<ref>Aegis is 17, very nearly 18, old for his grade level, he's already graduated high school and is taking prelim college courses (not the same courses as Faultline & Glory Girl). He triggered at 15.
- Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref>
  • Dennis triggers.<ref>Clockblocker is 17, a high school senior. He triggered at 15, during a bone-marrow transplant for his dad. - Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref>
  • Brian Laborn triggers and becomes Grue.<ref>“So even if I was only fifteen, I was tall for my age, I was fit, and I knew how to throw a punch.  I didn’t say a word, didn’t make a sound.  I put my sister down and beat my mother’s boyfriend within an inch of his life, my mother screaming and wailing the entire time.  When I was done, I picked my sister up and returned to the cab.  We went to my father’s that night, and we went to the police station in the morning.”

    “When you throw a punch barehanded, it doesn’t leave your hands pristine.  A few good swings, you connect solidly with someone’s face, someone’s teeth, and it tears the fuck out of your knuckles.  It was at my father’s place that night, washing and cleaning my hands, when I saw it.  It wasn’t just blood leaking out of my torn up knuckles, but there was the darkness too, like wisps of really black smoke.  You hear about the trigger event, you might think it’s all about rage or fear.  But I’m a testament that it can be just the opposite.  I didn’t feel a fucking thing.” - Exerpt from Shell 4.4</ref>

2009

  • April
    • Blasto becomes crime lord of East Alston in Boston.<ref>Blasto, Real Name Unknown
      Classification:  Tinker 6 (sub: master 5, blaster 2, shifter 2, brute 2); plants.
      Disposition: Villain (B)
      Last Known Location:  Boston (Allston area, east).

      Crime lord of East Allston since est. date of April 2009. - Exerpt from Interlude 19.x</ref>
  • String Theory birdcaged.<ref name="27.4"/>
  • Taylor Hebert goes to summer camp.<ref name="19.z"/>
  • Emma Barnes and Alan Barnes attacked by Azn Bad Boys, but saved by Shadow Stalker.<ref name="19.z"/>
  • Paige Mcabee imbibes a Cauldron vial.<ref name="6.x"/>
  • Kayden Anders divorces with Max Anders and Purity leaves Empire Eighty-Eight.<ref name="7.4"/><ref>“Kayden,” he said, when he’d stopped, “You’re already associated with me.  People say our names in the same breath, even when we haven’t worked together in two years.  When my name appears in the newspapers, yours is never far behind.” - Exerpt from Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)</ref>
  • Night and Fog leave Empire Eighty-Eight and form their own duo in Boston.<ref>The people that had come in with Purity were other members of Empire Eighty Eight.  Krieg, Night, Fog and Hookwolf.   It was interesting to see, because as far as I’d known, while every one of them had been a member of Empire Eighty Eight at some point in time, Purity had gone solo, while Night and Fog had splintered off to form their own duo in Boston not long after.  All reunited, apparently. - Exerpt from Hive 5.1</ref>
  • Weld joins Boston Wards.<ref>“Good.  The team here is smaller than your old team in Boston.  It currently consists of Clockblocker, Vista, Kid Win and Shadow Stalker.  We had two members die in the attack, and a third left with his family when they evacuated.”

    [...]

    “The second half of this phase is getting the public more comfortable with the outliers.  The people with stranger powers, and stranger appearances.  You’re likable, Weld.  You have a clearly unnatural appearance, if you’ll forgive me saying so-”

    Weld shrugged.  He stood out.  There were a hundred things that bothered him more than stares and comments on the https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/interlude-18-donation-subject.

    “-but you have fans, and people are interested in you.  You get higher ratings for your interviews than even the average handsome hero gets.  You’re second most popular for team leaders for number of youtube videos, possibly helped by a briefly lived internet meme featuring your face, and you have a blemish-free record, both academically and in your two years serving as a part of the Wards.” - Exerpt from Sentinel 9.1</ref>
  • Vista joins Brockton Bay Wards.<ref name="9.5"/>
  • Emma and Sophia begin to bully Taylor.<ref name="19.z"/>
  • Sarah Livsey triggers.<ref name="Tattletale"/>
  • Hijack runs away from Heartbreaker and becomes Regent. He also changes his name from Jean-Paul Vasil to Alec.<ref name="Regent"/>
  • Sarah Livsey runs away from her parents and changes her name to Lisa Wilbourn.<ref name="Tattletale"/>
  • Shadow Stalker joins Brockton Bay Wards with probationary status.<ref name="19.z"/>
  • December
    • The Simurgh attacks Madison, Wisconsin.<ref name="17.7"/>
      • The Simurgh first uses Tinker power, copying Professor Haywire technology. Portals to Earth Aleph and Cauldron Compound opened, transferring multiple buildings and everything inside to Earth Bet.<ref>A low rumble shook the city, and the gate began to bulge with a dark shape that stretched out from within the metal, like a soap bubble emerging from an enclosed loop.

        Or a lens, Krouse realized.  It flared bright, rays of light meeting, and things began pouring forth from the point the lines met.   Piles and piles of solid matter flowed down to land at the heart of the city: debris, fragments of architecture, and tiny shapes that were very likely to be people, in a stream as wide across as the Simurgh’s wingspan, lit in high contrast by the light of the halo.

        And there were tiny shapes that most definitely weren’t people, but were alive.

        It’s a portal.  A door.

        “How the fuck is she not a tinker!?” Krouse shouted.

        “She isn’t!” Jess called back.  “She’s never done anything like this before!” - Exerpt from Migration 17.2</ref><ref>When the Simurgh had attacked Madison, she’d copied Haywire’s technology to open a gate to a building much like this one.  A research facility.  The portal had dumped the buildings, soil, plant life and all the residents into the city on Earth Bet, costing Cauldron a horrific amount.  Even a stockpile of formulae had been lost. - Exerpt from 21.x (Donation Interlude 1; Number Man)</ref>
      • Francis Krouse, Noelle Meinhardt, Oliver, Luke Brito, Marissa Newland, Jess and Cody imbibe Cauldron vials, becoming Travelers.
      • Madison quarantined.<ref name="17.7"/>
  • December 23rd
    • Travelers leave Madison.<ref name="17.7">Madison was well behind them, now.  Odd, how it felt like he was leaving home, even when it wasn’t really his city.  A bad copy, an ugly copy.  One with more violence, where the criminals could do far, far worse, by virtue of having more power.  Having powers.  That was without even touching on Endbringers, the Simurgh, and the desolate quarantine area.

      [...]

      It was the day before Christmas Eve, Krouse remembered.  He’d have to be thankful for their well being, at least.  They were alive.  Things were okay.  Not great, but not as hopeless as they might have seemed before.  And things had settled down, at least.  For the first time since the others had joined him and Noelle at the coffee shop to discuss his inclusion on the team, things were calm.  They’d find a way to put their new powers to work.  They’d get money, get themselves home. - Exerpt from Migration 17.7</ref>

2010

  • Acidbath birdcaged.<ref>It was Acidbath.  One of the Birdcage’s cell block leaders.  He had the stylings of a rock musician or punk rocker who’d spent a little too much time doing drugs and not enough time playing his instrument.  Worn around the edges, a little too full of himself.  He’d been a bit player in the real world, caught up in his vices, yet had managed to take over and rule a cell block for three years after being sent to the Birdcage. - Exerpt from Speck 30.2</ref>
  • Circus and Chariot hired by Coil.<ref>Circus and Chariot were hired nearly a year and a half ago, their actions and development in the public eye carefully orchestrated. - Exerpt from Monarch 16.10</ref>
  • Kid Win joins Brocton Bay Wards.<ref name="9.5"/>
  • Purity makes the Azn Bad Boys a priority target.<ref>A year ago, she had made the ABB a priority target. - Exerpt from Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)</ref>
  • Canary arrested.<ref>“Yeah.  Canary.  I was a singer, until midway through twenty-ten.  Indie, but I was breaking through to mainstream, some radio stuff.” - Exerpt from Cockroaches 28.1</ref>
  • July
    • Tattletale, Grue, Bitch and Regent founds the Undersiders.<ref>“I’ve spent ten months on the same team with her, and I haven’t even come close to getting how she thinks.  I can usually keep her from going too far or hurting someone, keep her mostly in line and get her to follow directions, but I haven’t had a conversation with her yet that didn’t make me want to bang my head against a wall.” - Exerpt from Buzz 7.4</ref>
  • Lightslinger leaves Eminent.<ref name="Lightslinger"/>

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • First year after Gold Morning

2015

Trivia

  • While the divergence point is technically 1980, Scion did not reveal himself until 1982. Which set off a chain of events that led to the diestinguishable timelines of Earth Bet and Aleph.<ref name="25.5 c1">The Soweto Uprising happened, but the events from 1982 onward were increasingly different. Warlords taking over and establishing particular sorts of order or disorder, rules, regimes and so on. Ensuing lies, propaganda, and misinformation muddled up a great deal in the status quo. - Comment by Wildbow on Scarab 25.5</ref>

References

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