- 2015
- The advanced, industrialized countries of North America, Europe and Asia merge their huge trade blocs into the Global Market, a limited world federation.[1]
- 2020
- Cyberpunk Era of the WorldNet. The world becomes more stable.
- 2030
- Population is stabilized thanks to years of forced birth control.
- 2035
- Debates begin about the expansion of the Global Market within Earth's limited resources: conservatives promote limited economic growth, expansionists promote exploitation of space.
- 2040
- April: The UN Security Council votes the sponsorship of a series of macro-engineering projects to foster later growth. Formation of the UNSEC.
- 2044
- April: UNSEC shuttles move a Grade 2 asteroid into stable Earth orbit for mining purposes.[1]
- 2048
- UNSEC moves an asteroid into Earth's orbit.
- 2050
- Earth population stabilized at 8.5 billion people. Starvation is limited.
- UNSEC scientists postulate the possibility of FTL travel; Sergei Tal and Midori Sato present it to the UN Security Council.
- 2052
- Frontiers of Nanotechnology is published
- 2055
- Tal-Seto jump points are discovered near Jupiter.
- Turing Processing Cores are invented by Charles Drake.
- 2056
- 15 March: The Great Alaskan Meltdown. A TPC-based optical computer becomes self-aware causing a malfunction to the Multi-modal Traffic Control System of Anchorage, and the worst traffic disaster and gridlock in history.
- 2057
- By that time, probes have mapped 15 thread links to other stars, 7 of whom housing previously unknown planetary systems.
- Von Neuman machines got out of control at a manufacturing facility of German Rhineland, rendering several hundred square miles uninhabitable for months.
- c. 2058
- A TPC prototype computer in a University of Chicago laboratory becomes sentient and manufactures armed robots. The facility is vaporised by an Enforcement Station from orbit.
- 2059
- UN Security Council poses a ban to 'life-emulating technology'.[1]
- 2062
- Special U.N. conference in Brussels. After a vigorous debate, the world government makes the ban permanent.[1]
- 2063
- General Assembly and the Brussels Accord produces Resolution 1212 to enforce a permanent ban on technology.
- 2082
- Formation of the Alliance of Free States who attempt to repel the Resolution. They fail and the UN becomes more strict.[1]
- 2084
- Alliance members chose to secede from the United Nations. They covertly prepare a secession with armed force.[1]
- 2085
- (6 January): In a dramatic international broadcast, Alliance leaders declare their secession from the United Nations. The governments are declared illegal by the UN.[1]
- (8 January): U.N. armies invade the seceding nations to occupy their capitals. Hovertanks, troops and ground support aircraft clash with Alliance military units made up of men and women from Alliance states. [1]
- Summer: Landing to NE United States. Chinese, Indian, and Russian regulars invade cities in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. Massacre in Kuala Lumpur.[1]
- The Net and the Global Market are paralyzed.[1]
- Some Third World countries and L5 habitats, Erebus and Starhome revolt and join the Alliance. Violence in space.[1]
- Deaths reach tens of thousands. [1]
- (7 December): The UN launch an ICBM and vaporize the city of Atlanta with a 50-megaton thermonuclear warhead, killing 5 million and injuring many more. They demand for surrender. The Alliance prepares retaliation.[1]
- (3 weeks later): The secretary-general addresses the General Assembly about the nuclear horror stating that "the cure might just be worse than the disease".[1]
- UN and Alliance leaders negotiate a quick armstice.[1]
- 2086
- (February) UN and Alliance representatives meet in the Netherlands to establish conditions for a permanent cessation of hostilities.[1]
- (20 February) The Amsterdam Compact is signed, acknowledging the secession of Alliance countries. The New Cold War begins.[1]
- 2088
- First combat spaceships enter into service.[1]
- c. 2099
- By this time the UN has transitioned from a confederation to a vast nation-state.[1]
- 2105
- Lewis Tyrell is born
- 2110
- Dr. Alan Paho launches project CATALYST to study how to speed up human evolution
- (July 5): A confrontation between a Japanese destroyer and a U.N. cruiser over the asteroid Icarus results to the first space battle and the destruction of the destroyer.[1]
- 2111
- UN attacks after a tense peace. Secession War begins
- First Bunker Hill class light cruiser is built
- 2114
- (December 29): USN Bunker Hill-class light cruiser "Lexington" is commissioned
- 2115
- By that time, the UN had commissioned 20 military capital ships. Alliance had built 15.[1]
- 2119
- (early): A Japanese-American high-technology consortium announces its next-generation computer system, based on an upgraded model of the Turing Processor Core.[1]
- 2121
- Lexington blasts into action at four gravities during the battle for Delta Pavonis V
- c. 2124
- UN and Alliance begin a race to improve the battle-management software that runs on the battle drone computer hardware.
- 2127
- The ninth and last Bunker Hill light cruiser is built
- 2130
- "Why we fight" holovid is published by the United States Naval Institute
- 2131
- Beth Erenor Kalb is commissioned to create three paintings showing the Lexington's history
- Mission Critical protagonist, while serving with the Fleet Tender USS Hesparus buys a pre-holographic emulsion tpe photograph of one of Jupiter's moon from a junk shop.
- 2132
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- January
- An alliance probe scanning for jump points near Omicron Eridani detects Persephone.
- 2133
- Lexington undergoes a modernization at McHenry yards
- 15/2/2134
- Final crew manifest for Mission 161
- 20/2
- James Poole donates a display miniature of Lexington to the command. In reality it hides a timebomb
- 22/2
- Departure of mission 161
- 18/3
- Nuclear Plant Casualty Drill
- 19/3
- Lexington makes an FTL jump
- 21/3
- Poole asks Renato Olivar many questions about the recent upgrades to the ship
- 23/3
- Rumors among the crew that the mission is about an Earth-type world
- 24/3
- Nuclear emergency drill
- 28/3
- Lorraine Magrath and Mark Aguilar try to guess their locations
- 4/4
- Lexington makes another FTL jump
- 8/4
- Tension on the ships is getting worse
- 15/4
- Quan wonders in her diary why they are escorting a science vessel
- 20/4
- Poole and Taewon Narang had a heated argument
- 1/5
- 08:00:Another FTL Jump
- 4/5
- Quan notes that Poole has been running around the ship nervously
- 5/5
- 14:07:General Quarters (i.e., the klaxon which means that everyone must go to their battle stations). A rapid electronic alarm with a distinctive sound similar to "Bong BONG Bong BONG Bong BONG Bong BONG..."
- 14:36:Acceleration warnings
- 15:10:Secured from GQ
- 6/5
- Poole seems to have known about the battle ahead of time.
- 7/5
- Allen Gaiser and Philip Slocum finally have a big fight about Gaiser's pony tail. They trash the Karaoketron VR system. It is fixed by Mark Aguilar
- 8/5
- The protagonist notes that the VR works like new and thinks it is a miracle.[1]
- 16/5
- Mary Quan learns of Poole's affair with Kimberly Falcon. Player may spot evidence of motive, to copy unsecured codes.
- 22/5
- Sixth FTL jump
- 28/5
- Lexington arrives at Deneb Kaitos, also called the Persephone system
- 10/6
- One of the coolant pumps in Section B goes out
- 11/6
- Quan spots Poole hanging around the Weapons Bays
- 15/6
- Quan sees Poole searching Michael Dahl's quarters. It later becomes obvious that he sought clues about HYPE.
- 16/6
- Quan reasons Poole is either an undercover Alliance Intelligence/Special Operations officer or a spy.
- 17/6
- Quan realizes that Poole is much too unprofessional to be a member of Intel/Special Ops.
- 18/6
- Quan determines that Poole is definitely a UN agent
- 19/6
- Lexington draws closer to an orbit around Persephone
Original timeline[]
- 22/6
- Poole is even more unsettled, as though he knows something will happen. Suddenly, the UNS Dharma, hiding on the other side of the planet, ambushes Lexington
- 22:30:14:Multiple beam and missile hits cause a criticality one fault in the primary power reactor coolant system
- 22:31:21:Main data cores overloaded by enemy energy pulse; Transfer to secondary cores failed; General system failure. Autonomic functions delegated to system nodes
- 22:31:22:Damage Control System (DCS) sensors detect an enemy energy pulse around the main data cores. The backup systems fail to trip and contact with the main system is lost. Autonomic ship functions are delegated to local nodes
- 22:31:24:The emergency handover to the local nodes is finished
- 22:31:45:Beams and missile hits cease
- 22:45:07:Internal sensors detect an impact and subsequent decompression on Deck 2, Stateroom 2B. A warning is issued
- 22:51:40:Deck 2 under the most serious Damage Control Condition in the Navy, called Zebra, which is real.
- 24/6
- 00:01:36:Protagonist wakes up.[1]
- 00:01:40:He goes to Officer's Wardroom and finds Tran's message.[1]
- 00:01:51:He enters Steven Dayna's room and accesses VIS override codes.[1]
- 00:01:54:He enters Room 2B and fixes the leakage.[1][2]
- 00:01:59:He enters the Elevator.[1]
- 00:02:01:He reaches Deck 5 and at 02:02 he explores the Medlab.[1]
- 00:02:10:He enters the Science Lab and obtains a Geiger counter and microscanner.[1]
- 00:02:16:From Deck 8 he enters Reactor Spaces and descends to the first Reactor Level.[1]
- 00:02:21:He traverses Reactor Space Red-A.[1]
- 00:02:58:He enters Engineering and consults the terminal.[1]
- 00:03:11:He exits to the Engineering corridor. He goes to the Emergency Access Coolant Flow Systems and opens the valves of one of the Auxiliary Tanks.
- 00:03:40:He returns to the RCS controls and routes coolant to the Reactor Core.[1]
- 00:03:42:He goes to the Mess Hall.[1]
- 00:03:51:He exits to the corridor.[1]
- 00:03:53:He enters 3C and sees Hideki Miura's fascination with π.[1]
- 00:04:08:He enters 3B and finds out Kimberly Falcon's relationship with James Poole.[1]
- 00:04:16:He enters 3E and finds Mary Quan's diary.[1]
- 00:04:49:He enters 2F and finds that James Poole's USS Orlando scale model.[1]
- 00:05:07:He returns to Deck 5. Local access computer doesn't help him with the shredded Arika alloy barrier. He uses the cutting torch.[1]
- 00:05:25:He cuts the metal and opens the door to the computer room.[1]
- 00:05:29:He reaches the Cybersystems room and cold boots the system.[1]
- 00:05:58:He enters Secure Storage and gets a EC2010.[1]
- 00:06:07:He returns to Mess Hall and gets a EC2001 from the Karaoketron CPU.[1]
- 00:06:17:He goes to the Cargo Bay. He finds Poole's letter to the UNS Dharma and hears Poole's transmission.[1]
- 00:06:25:He goes to the Officer's Wardroom and finds the bomb installed by Poole.[1]
- 00:06:33:He goes to Stateroom 2D and opens Michael Dahl's safe and discovers about Hype/Telepresence Control System.[1]
- 00:06:48:At the Air Lock Control Room, he fixes a Manned Maneuvering Unit.[1]
- 00:07:09:He moves across the Shuttle Bay and landing pad and fixes the TCS dish.[1]
- 00:07:50:He returns to the Control Room.[1]
- 00:07:59:He goes to the Communications Center, overrides the distress call and gets the transceiver subsystem up and connects to Erebus. Admiral Charles Decker informs that a U.N. force is on the way, and suggests to pull
out to safety. The Lieutenant insists and he helps to get the weapons systems on line. The Admiral tells about Hype and gives the weapon release codes. The Lieutenant then activates Ariadne.[1]
- 00:09:15:He goes to the Bridge and initializes the Hype/Telecon system.[1]
- 00:09:32:At the Weapons Bay Corridor he programs and initiates the battle drones.[1]
- 00:10:04:Back to the Bridge, he injects himself with Hype and uses the Telecon MMI.[1]
- 00:14:27:Having finished the 8 training scenarios, he notices the arrival of 2 UN ships.[1]
- 00:14:42:He prepares to engage a Helsinki-class Battleship UNS Helsinki with 16 drones.[1]
- 00:15:05:At the Air Lock Control Room, he activates the homing sequence transmission for Ariadne.[1]
- 00:15:08:He traverses the Shuttle Bay to get an oxygen tank from the lander.[1]
- 00:15:17:He wears a suit and depressurizes the Bay.[1]
- 00:1S:2O:He traverses the Shuttle Bay and boards the lander.[1]
- 00:15:33:Ariadne flies to Persephone.[1]
- 00:15:57:The officer exits the lander and explores Persephone heading to the "Artifact". He plants Poole's anti-matter bomb in the ice.[1]
- 00:15:57:The officer exits the lander and explores Persephone heading to the "Artifact".[1]
- 00:16:40:After the explosion, he returns to the entrance of the Artifact. He uses a wire to cross a chasm.[1]
- 00:18:46:He explores the four rooms logging images, activating the objects. They result in micromachines. He feeds them with metal from the lander.
- 00:23:28:In the next hours they multiply into bigger machines and build a portal. He decides to cross it.[1]
- 10
- The Alliance relief fleet of Midway, Iwo Jima and Otawa assisted by Concord and squadron of destroyers arrives at Persephone and defeats the UN fleet, which in desperation, denies the alien installation to their enemies by "glassing" it with a nuclear bombardment.
- 2141
- The Alliance signs the Washington treaty and surrenders to the UN
- 2187
- A human colony ship is launched
- 2234
- Starhome's atmosphere will be breathable
- 2250
- By that time, the network of Tal-Seto jump points has been completely explored and mapped. The next step is to send sublight probes to the nearest (unconnected) stars hoping to find a new network of stars and Tal-Seto junctions.
- 2281
- UN controls 20 billion people and 20 colony worlds
- 2284
- First sentient Electronic Life Forms (ELFs) come into existence on the planet Prometheus Beta, fostered by dissident scientists who oppose the UN.
- 2295
- Unknown date
- 00:00:00 (AutoLog time): The Supply Officer arrives from the past, in a Wasteland near Los Angeles
- 00:01:00 (reset): He enters the Wrecked Dome and activates the MagLev.
- 00:01:11: He rides the MagLev track.
- 00:01:39: He reaches the Obsidian Wall outside the Tower.
- 00:01:54: He enters a Battle Tank damaged by field neutron strike. He restarts it and opens a hole to the Wall.
- 00:01:59: He goes through the hole.
- 00:02:09: He enters the Tower corridors and follows the robots.
- 00:02:31: He reaches a Central Cavern. He passes a portal and the ELFs establish a neural connection through the brain pathways created by Hype, and bring his consciousness to a virtual reality. The ELFs explain him what happened.
- 00:03:13: He completes the demonstration with the Jiffys.
- 2297
- The doomsday device would cause a large section of the Milky Way connected by Tal-Seto threads to collapse into a singularity
Alternate timeline[]
This timeline is triggered after successful completion of the game
- 22/6/2134
- 20:30:Player's memory from the future returns to the present
- 22:30:Battle of Persephone begins once more, but this time Lexington emerges victorious, defeating Dharma with the help of HYPE. Poole is arrested based on evidence provided by the player, for trial by court-martial on Earth.
- 2138
- Lewis Tyrell is arrested by the Alliance
- 2295
- Player arrives to the future once more
- 2300
- Player narrates his memories
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 1.63 1.64 1.65 Strategy Guide
- ↑ Strategy Guide mistyped the hour as 01:44