From owner-ffml@ffml.fanfic.com Wed Jul 15 18:11:29 1998 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by ffml.fanfic.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA04277 for ffml-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:11:29 -0400 Received: from pilsener.ucs.ualberta.ca (pilsener.ucs.ualberta.ca [129.128.5.19]) by ffml.fanfic.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA04274 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:11:28 -0400 Received: from gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca [129.128.98.10]) by pilsener.ucs.ualberta.ca (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA25283 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:11:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (cdavies@localhost) by gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA70444 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:11:20 -0600 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:11:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Chris Davies X-Sender: cdavies@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca To: ffml@fanfic.com Subject: [FFML] [DATA][Together Again] A Brief Attempt at Chronology, 1880-2080 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ffml@ffml.fanfic.com Precedence: bulk A Vague Attempt at Chronology (1881-2080) By C. Richard Davies. (Note: This timeline incorporates aspects of the "Maison Ikkoku" timeline included in the Maison Ikkoku Guide compiled by the Misery Loves Company. . There is another Maison Ikkoku timeline, which sets the events of the series considerably earlier. Much information on the Wold Newton families and those associated with them was provided by Win Eckert's "Wold Newton Crossover Chronology", ) (Appreciation is owed to the creators of these series, of course -- Rumiko Takahashi, Naoko Takeuchi, Suzuki Toshimichi, Kenichi Sonoda, Fujishima Kosuke, Masami Yuuki, Hiroki Hayashi, Matsumoto Izumi, Yuu Watase, Hideaki Anno, Monkey Punch, BePappas, Spider Robinson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lester Dent, Walter Gibson, Paul Ernst, Sax Rohmer, Ian Fleming, H. Rider Haggard, and others -- and to the various fans whose love of these series inspired the creation of the information sources from which I baldfacedly stole most of my data. :) (Thanks also to Robert M. Schroeck for suggesting the name General Nippon Orbital Manufacturing as a possible answer to the question "what does `Genom' *mean*?") (Needless to say, this is incomplete, and doubtless there are several errors. If you find them, let me know.) (Lupin III notes: I honestly have no idea when the original Arsene Lupin stories are set -- from what I've been able to find out, during the late 1880s and 90s, since he apparently clashed with a thinly disguised version of Sherlock Holmes -- and thus can't say whether or not its feasible to have Lupin III born when he is. (Right now the answer is "Yes ... if both Lupin and Lupin II were dirty old men. Which is probably rather likely.") [Lupin II only appears in a single episode of the Lupin III TV series, but I suspect that he was also known as the master thief Fantomas.] The date I use means that Lupin III's comments of being a "young guy" in the film "Die Nostradamus" (set in 1999) are rather facetious, since he'll be 48. It's derived from his self-description as a "young punk" when he first tried to buglarize Castle Cagliostro, a bit more than ten years before that movie takes place (in 1979). [Sidenote: Happosai was in his cave when that came out -- how in the world did he manage to rip it off in "Big Trouble in Nekonron China"? I can understand him being a fan of the original manga, which is pretty damn raunchy ...] Last note: I strongly suspect that the McNichol family is descended from Lupin, one of the coachmen at Wold Newton, based on the physical resemblance between Arsene Lupin III and Leon McNichol.) 1881 *Sherlock Holmes (b. 1854) begins lodging with Dr. John Hamish Watson (b. 1852), who has been invalided home from India. *Kamiya Ryu, first child of Kamiya Kaoru (b. 1862) and Himura Kenshin (b. 1849) (and eventual ancestor of Saotome Ranma) is born. 1882 1883 1884 *Patricia Clarke Wildman (b. 1859) dies of a fever; her son, James Clarke Wildman (b. 1878) is taken in by his father, William Clayton (b. 1836), the younger brother of the Fifth Duke of Greystoke. (Patricia refused to marry Clayton because of a scandal in her family the year before their son was born, involving her father's necromantic studies and eventual death.) 1885 *Allan Quatermain (b. 1819) is reported dead in the depths of South Africa, but the truth of this report is uncertain. 1886 1887 *John H. Watson and his associate Arthur Conan Doyle publish the first of their collaborative efforts describing a case investigated by Sherlock Holmes which occurred six years before ("A Study in Scarlet") *Vlad Dracula comes to England from Transylvania, but is forced to leave the country by Johnathan Harker (b. 1862), Abraham van Helsing (b. 1844), and associates (with unacknowledged assistance from Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson). Dracula allows his hunters to believe him slain, but escapes final death. 1888 *Jack the Ripper terrorizes London's East End. The killer is never caught, despite the fact that Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty (the Napoleon of Crime) are forced to cooperate in this case. *Theodore Brooks is born. *Quincy Abraham Henry John Arthur Harker, son of Dracula, the future Vampire Hunter D, is born. *John Clayton II (b. 1862) and his new bride Alice (nee Rutherford, b. 1868) sail from Dover for Freetown. The Claytons are stranded in the jungle of French Equatorial Africa (Gabon) by mutineers. There, in a cabin built by Clayton, John Clayton III, the future "Lord Greystoke," is born. (Nov 22) 1889 *Andrew Mayfair is born to Blodgett Mayfair and his wife Melissa (nee Rutherford) daughter of Dr. George Edward Rutherford (who was called Challenger in A. Conan Doyle's fictionalized accounts of him.) *Alice Clayton dies. Kerchak kills John Clayton II. Kala adopts the human infant and names him Tarzan (White Skin). (Nov 22) *The Fifth Duke of Greystoke, John Clayton I (b. 1835), is murdered. With his only son missing and presumed dead, the title of the Duke of Greystoke passes to his younger brother, William Clayton. 1890 *Jane Porter born in Baltimore, Maryland. (Jan 1) 1891 *Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty have their "final conflict"; Moriarty manages to deceive Holmes as to his fate. Holmes allows John H. Watson to believe him to be dead, and begins his world travels. He meets Irene Adler for the second time, and a relationship develops. *While researching a vampire story in the British Museum, Bram Stoker makes the acquaintance of Dr. Abraham van Helsing, and is persuaded to use the accounts of the Doctor and his associates of their battle with Dracula as material in his story. (Stoker is responsible for the falsification of Quincy Harker's birthdate.) 1892 *Hugh Drummond is born. 1893 *Alexander Clarke Wildman (b. 1867) goes to Canada to escape the family stigma caused by his father's involvement in black magic. He also drops Clarke from his surname. 1894 *Holmes returns to England. *Richard Wentworth is born to Phillipa Delagardie and John Byron Wentworth (called John Roxton in A. Conan Doyle's fictionalized accounts of him). *Sir Bruce Clarke Wildman (b. 1860) succeeds in his experiments in time travel, and his life from this point becomes very non-linear. For more information, see "Who Else Sailor Pluto Really Hates". 1895 *H.G. Wells writes a novel about Sir Bruce Clarke Wildman, which causes Pluto even more headaches by introducing the idea of time travel to the world. *Phillipa Delagardie leaves John Wentworth and goes to America, where she marries Ralph Rassendyll (a cousin of Richard Rassendyll). 1896 *Twin brothers Kent Allard Rassendyll and Bruce Gordon Rassendyll are born to Rhoda Delagardie and Ralph Rassendyll. *The Alephae discover Earth, and engage in an intensive study of the North American continent, beginning in California. 1897 *Dracula, the novel by Bram Stoker, is published. It contians a great deal of fiction, in addition to the accounts of the principals. 1898 *Tarzan first enters his parents' cabin; he kills a mad gorilla with his father's hunting knife. Soon after, he begins to teach himself to read and write English. *John Drummond is born. 1899 *Sherlock Holmes is retained by Mabel Tolkein to recover a family heirloom, later known as the Red Book of the Westmarch. He steals it back from Sailor Pluto, much to her consternation. 1900 *A "Gathering of Palladins" occurs in Japan. Very little has ever been revealed about it. 1901 *Tarzan kills his foster father, Tublat, with his father's knife. *Himura Kenshin dies of wounds inflicted in a final sword fight. *James Clarke Wildman and his wife Arronaxe (nee Land) flee England after his plot to kidnap his younger half-brother, William Cecil Clayton, goes disastrously wrong due to the intervention of Sherlock Holmes. James Clarke Wildman Jr born on board the schooner Orion, anchored off the coast of Andros Island. (Dec 12) 1902 *Arronaxe Wildman drowns when the the Orion is driven onto a reef by a storm, and sinks. (Feb) 1903 1904 1905 1906 *Tarzan can read and understand almost all the books in his father's library. Mbonga's people (cannibals) establish a village near the territory of Kerchak's tribe. Kulonga, Mbonga's son, kills Kala. Tarzan kills and eats Kulonga. *Paris is startled and terrified by a series of seemingly impossible homicides and thefts, which are traced to the machinations of an Asian master criminal called Hanoi Shan. 1906 1907 *Richard Benson is born to John Benson and Isis Fogg (neice of Phileas Fogg.) 1908 *Tarzan kills Kerchak and becomes "king" of the great apes. *An unnamed Russian psychic (related both to Grigori Efimovich Rasputin and Dr. Mikahil Andropov (Michel Andro)) undergoes what might have been called the Akira effect in Tunguska, Siberia. 1909 *Tarzan abdicates the "kingship". A month later, he sees his first whites -- the Clayton-Porter party, stranded by mutineers. Rescuing the various members of this expedition from their troubles brings him into contact with Jane Porter. Tarzan also makes the acquaintance of Lieutenant Paul d'Arnot of the French navy, and they aid each other in returning to France. Tarzan heads to America to reunite with Jane, but on discovering that he is the heir to the house of Greystoke, does the noble thing and denies it -- as Jane is to marry his cousin, whom he thusly does not wish to disinheirit. *The Alephae continue their surveillance in Europe. 1910 *Tarzan returns to Africa (after spending several months in Paris) and becomes chief of the Waziri after leading them to defeat Arab slavers. Subsequently, he discovers the lost city of Opar (and its high priestess, La), but escapes and is reunited with Jane (who has not married William). Following William's death from illness, Tarzan marries her, returning to England to claim his inheiritance. (Accounts vary as to whether or not he becomes the Eighth Duke of Greystoke, or poses as his cousin, the Seventh.) 1911 *The Asian master criminal known as Dr. Fu Manchu has his first battle with Dennis Nayland Smith and his associate Dr. Petrie. 1912 *While establishing a plantation in Kenya, Tarzan receives an immortality treatment from an ancient witch doctor. Later that year, John Clayton IV is born (May 20) *The parents of Hugh and John Drummond are killed in an accident; John is adopted by the Claytons. *The first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' fictionalized accounts of Tarzan's life and adventures is published in All Story magazine, prompting Tarzan to seek out Burroughs and ask him a few intense questions. 1913 *John Drummond Clayton has a series of adventures in Africa that lead to him becoming known as Korak. *Emilio Lizardo born. *Tarzan searches for his adopted son, John Drummond (aka Korak). He fails to find his son and returns to the plantation, meeting Jane there. 1914 *Korak is discovered, as is his beloved, Meriem Jacot. *The Greystoke Plantation is destroyed and Jane kidnapped by German soldiers. Tarzan declares war on the German army in Africa. *Patricia Wildman, second cousin to James Clarke Wildman, Jr., is born near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, to Alex Wildman and May Renfrew. *Twin sisters Eva and Maria Braun are born. 1915 1916 *Captain Kent Allard Rassendyll -- by now having dropped the Rassendyll -- of the Royal Air Force is assigned as a liason to the Czar of all the Russias. 1917 *Quincy Harker slays his first vampyre, but not before being told of his dampiric heritage. This causes him to have a nervous breakdown. 1918 *Masado Banzai born in Nagasaki. *While imprisoned in a German prison camp, James Clarke Wildman, Jr. meets Brigadier General Theodore "Ham" Brooks, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew "Monk" Mayfair, and others who will become his assistants in civillian life. Clarke Wildman orchestrates their escape. *Bruce Rassendyll, alias G-8, returns home from the First World War and is promply institutionalized, as much because of the potential for him to leak top secret information as because of the very real psychological collapse he has undergone. 1919 *Tarzan is reunited with Jane. *Kent Allard assists Tsarovich Alexei Romanov in escaping from the Bolsheviks; he sends him to the care of an associate of his, Aethan DeGales. *Charles McNichol is born in Windsor, Ontario. 1920 1921 *Sandra Willoughby (grand-daughter of Sir Bruce Clarke Wildman) is born. *Constanzia Velejo is born in Madrid. 1922 *Katsuragi Mai is born in Peru. 1923 1924 *James Bond is born to Andrew and Monique Bond (nee Delacroix). (Nov ?; date classified) *Asagiri Suzuki is born. 1925 1926 1927 *John H. Watson dies under uncertain circumstances. *Takamura Taishi is born. 1928 1929 *The Shadow (Kent Allard) begins operations in New York City. 1930 1931 *James Clarke Wildman, Sr. is murdered; James Clarke Wildman, Jr. tracks down the killers. 1932 *The Spider (Richard Wentworth) begins operations in New York City. There is no evidence that he ever crosses paths with the Shadow, despite their similar methods of operation. *Alex Wildman is murdered by a fake werewolf; James Clarke Wildman, Jr. is called in to investigate, and meets his cousin Patricia for the first time. *Henry Ralston secures permission from James Clarke Wildman, Jr. to begin publishing fictionalized accounts of his adventures, and hires Lester Dent to be the chief writer of "Doc Savage magazine". 1933 *Aethan Degales emigrates to North America. After a tour of the continent, he meets with Marisol Vasquez and transforms her into a vampyre, to be a companion for himself. 1934 *Patricia Wildman moves to New York. 1935 *Toichi Hikita and Masado Banzai start working together in Japan. *James Clarke Wildman Jr. and his associate first cross paths with the Shadow and his organization. Strangely, the story of this encounter is never published by either of their biographers. 1936 *Andrew and Monique Bond are killed in an avalanche, orphaning James Bond. *While fighting in the Spanish Civil War, self-described "adventurer" Charles McNichol meets Katsuragi Mai and her friend Constanzia Velejo. *Kamiya Kaoru is asked by Saionji Kinmochi, last of the elder statesmen of the Meiji period, to serve as a courier for those who covertly seek to protect the Meiji settlement from encroachment by the military. She readily accepts. 1937 *Masado Banzai and Toichi Hikita invited to Texas by Edward McKay Willoughy, and meet his daughter Sandra; Masado goes back to Japan after a month; Hikita stays in the United States. *Mano Chiaki is born. *Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific -- as planned, in order to become agents for the Shadow. 1938 *A criminal conspiracy costs the life of Richard Benson's wife and daughter, and the shock effects a strange metamorphosis on him -- bleaching his hair and skin of all colour, but rendering it incredibly malleable. Benson embarks on a crusade against law-breakers, with the help of several assistants, collectively known as Justice Inc. *Mano Madoka is born. *Pilot Cliff Secord discovers a rocket pack invented by James Clarke Wildman, Jr. and begins to use it to occasionally fight crime. *Toichi Hikita and Emilio Lizardo create first Overthruster at Princeton. It has the disastrous side-effect of alerting the Red Lectroids to the existence of Earth. *Orson Welles broadcasts "War of the Worlds" depicting an invasion of Earth by aliens at Grovers Mill, New Jersey. By an astounding coincidence, a group of extradimensionals arrive in Grover's Mill, New Jersey, that very day. (Oct 31) *The Shadow allies with Justice Inc. to battle his arch-nemesis, Shiwan Khan. 1939 *John Clayton (Tarzan) joins the RAF, and is assigned to fly bombers. *Andrea DelaFontaine is born in Florence, Italy. 1940 *Sandra Willoughby goes to Nagasaki, where she meets Masado Banzai again. *Richard Benson's face is restored to normal, but he continues to operate Justice Inc. 1941 *Masado Banzai and Sandra Willoughby flee Japan after Masado's connection to the Kishin Corps becomes known to the Japanese secret police. *Zenigata Heishi is born. 1942 1943 *Masado Banzai fights against Hanoi Shan (by now better known to Western ears as Dr. Fu Manchu) in Burma. 1944 1945 *Aethan DeGales witnesses the poisoning of Franklin Delano Roosevelt shortly before the Yalta Conference. *The Kishin Corps launches a massive strike against the main fortress of the German mecha project, Rugen Island. The Kanto Army is completely annihilated. 1946 *Masado Banzai and Sandra Willoughby finally arrive in America; they join forces with Toichi Hikita and Sir Godwin Lloyd-Jones. *An atomic weapon is detonated on Bikini Atoll, awakening the Sleeper Beneath the Pacific, also known as Gojira. (Jul 1) *Kenneth Clarke Wildman is born. (Jul 1) *James Bond, having earned the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy, is employed by M.I.6. *Gojira attacks a recovering Tokyo, compounding the damage, before being driven off by a suicidal gambit by Dr. Serizawa Daisuke. A campaign of misinformation keeps this event under wraps for the most part. However, the need to keep a large number of Westerners who witnessed the monster's rampage "under wraps" begins the establishment of "The Jyuban Project" to resettle them in Minato ward, with false Japanese names. *Callahan's Bar opens on Long Island, New York. 1947 *The Campbell sighting (Jun 21) and the Roswell discovery. *The Planetary Defense Force is created. Several of its initial agents are veterans of the Kishin Active Defense Corps, and (after James Clarke Wildman, Jr. declines the post) Richard Benson is given the post of the Director. *The man who will become known as Jigen Daisuke is born in Chicago. 1948 *Kamiya Kaoru passes away in her sleep. *Ishigawa Goemon is born. *James Clarke Wildman Jr.'s final adventure, against a group of demons operating in caverns beneath Maine. The first encounter forms the basis for the final "Doc Savage" story, while the second costs the lives of several of Clarke Wildman's assistants, prompting him to retire from active adventuring. 1949 *Masado Banzai and Sandra Willoughby married. *Jessica Drummond is born. (Oct 31) *Dmitra Poulis is born. 1950 *Otonashi Souichiro is born. *Kasuga Akemi is born. *James Clarke Wildman II weds Patricia Wildman in a small, private ceremony. *James Bond is given a license to kill from M.I.6, and the agent number 007. *James Buchanan "Buckaroo" Banzai born in London. (Nov) 1951 *Tendou Souun is born. (Mar 13) *Saotome Genma is born. (Mar 29) *Arsene Lupin III is born in Hanoi to Arsene Lupin II and his part-Japanese mistress. *Gordon DelaFontaine is born in Boston. 1952 *Mine Fujiko is born. 1953 *According to his birth certificate, Goto Kiichi is born this year. *Masaki Achika is born. *Sanada Noboyuki, future father of Masaki Tenchi, is born 1954 *Tsukino Kenji is born. *In his last documented operation, the Shadow implants a post- hypnotic suggestion in Joseph McCarthy's mind that there are subversives in the Army, leading to McCarthy's downfall. *Peggy and Penny Simpson born. *Mano Chiaki and Mano Madoka have a duel to determine which of them should take up the responsibility of being the 107th demon hunter of their family. Madoka wins, but Chiaki refuses to accept the victory as valid. *Dwight D. Eisenhower vists Edwards Air Force Base to examine the remains of the Roswell probe, being studied by the PDF. 1955 *Masado and Sandra Banzai die in jet car explosion, along with driver George Campbell. *Bran Mason is born in Belfast. *Kamiya Nodoka, future mother of Saotome Ranma, is born. *Ikuko McNichol, future mother of Serena Tsukino, is born. Her mother (Katsuragi Mai) and father (Charles McNichol) are veterans of the Kishin Active Defense Corps. *Aethan DeGales and Marisol Vasquez have a parting of ways after she summons the ghost of James Dean to be her familiar spirit. 1956 *Kent Allard is recruited to give Kenneth Clarke Wildman (his namesake) education in the use of telepathy. 1957 *Miyaki Rumiko, future mother of the Tendou sisters, is born. (Oct 10) 1958 *Meaghan McNichol is born in Scotland. 1959 *James Clarke Wildman, Jr. disappears on a mission in the Antarctic. Patricia marries financier Kenneth Masefield, in order to provide for herself and her son (the Clarke Wildman fortune having been almost completely used up.) Kent (her son) adopts the Masefield name. *While a student at MIT, Andrea (Andrew) DelaFontaine reads a first edition of Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", and is inspired to start work on the design and construction of a suit of powered armor. *Chigusa Kyoko is born. (Dec 8) 1960 1961 *Godai Yuusaku is born. (Mar 15) *Mano Sayoko is born to Mano Madoka and her husband. Shortly therafter, Madoka's estranged sister seduces and murders her brother-in-law, in order to have a child who will be a rival to Madoka's daughter. 1962 *Quincy Masada is born, if his birth certificate is to be believed. *Eva Braun is killed in an automobile accident, leaving behind several children. 1963 *Kent Masefield travels to Japan, becoming a student of the Kasuga family of ESPers. He is introduced to Kasuga Akemi, and a casual relationship begins to develop. *As fall-out from the Kennedy assassination, PDF Director Richard Benson is forced to step down. Takamura Taishi is elevated into his position, and the PDF's investigation into purely human crime and conspiracy is halted, with jurisdiction over them given to the newly formed Network for Command of Law Enforcement. 1964 *Asagiri Toshio is born, last child of Constanzia Velejo and Asagiri Suzuki. His mother dies in childbirth. 1965 1966 *Kent Masefield has his first encounter with Gojira. 1967 *Isamu Ohta is born. *Rokubungi Gendou is born. (Apr 29) *Akagi Naoko is born. *According to her birth certificate, Susan Mei'ou is born. (Oct ) *Kent Masefield, Sr., dies in an automobile accident, deeding his property to his wife and stepson. 1968 *Yamazaki Hiromi is born. *Gordon DelaFontaine persuades his older brother to let him be the test pilot for his most recent prototype of powered armor. His crime-fighting antics cause the brothers to be discovered by the Planetary Defense Force, who recruit both of them. *Arsene Lupin III attempts to get a quick reputation by burglarizing Castle Cagliostro, and fails. 1969 *The individual who will be known variously as "the Bean Bandit" and "Roadbuster" is born. *"Jigen Daisuke" flees to Japan after he is made to take the fall for an assassination which threatened to lead to a major gangwar in Chicago. He falls in with Arsene Lupin III. *The Apollo 11 astronauts discover the outskirts of the ruined city Millenias, capitol of the Moon Kingdom. This discovery is very classified, but rumors do slip out. 1970 *Nagumo Shinobu (niece to Asagiri Toshio) is born. *The Harmonian agent known as Alistair McGovern arrives from the future to observe what his culture terms "The Wonder Years" of 1970-2000. 1971 *Kasuga Akemi meets Kodai Takeshi while the latter is hiking in the mountains around her father's White Mountain estate. They fall in love, prompting Akemi to break off her relationship with Kent Masefield. Akemi and Takeshi are married a few months later. As he is a younger scion of his family, and her family has no sons, he assumes her last name. *Inspector Zenigata of Interpol is first assigned to the Lupin III case. It very quickly becomes an obsession. 1972 *Nakajima Ken is born. *Shinshi Mikiyasu is born. *The Banzai Institute of Advanced Research is founded. *Ayukawa Madoka is born. (May 25) *Txffu Mpwfs discovers Callahan's Place, and learns of humanity's developing abilities of compassion, prompting him to abandon his duties as a scout for a race of conquerors, and adopt the name "Mickey Finn". (Sept) *Kasuga Kyosuke is born. (Nov 15) 1973 *Kasuga Akane is born. *Darien Chiba is born. (Aug 3) *While on a mission in Scotland, Gordon DelaFontaine meets Meaghan McNichol, and a relationship develops quickly. 1974 *Becky Farrah is born. *Kyoko Zeppelin (niece to Toshio Asagiri) is born. *Hino Yuusaku is born. *Daniel DelaFontaine is born to Gordon and Meaghan DelaFontaine. *Kasuga Manami and Kasuga Kurumi are born, their mother dying in childbirth. (Mar 28) *Kobayakawa Miyuki is born.(Apr 7) *Tsujimoto Natsumi is born. (Aug 12) *Tendou Kasumi is born. (Sep 25) *Hiyama Hikaru is born. (Nov 15) 1975 *Olivia Asagiri (niece to Asagiri Toshio) is born. *Kanuka Clancy is born. *An inexpicable natural disaster destroys the island of Grand Cayman (Sep 15). *Morisato Keiichi is born. (Sep 15) *Kajiwara Tetsuya is born. (Sep 21) 1976 *Yuuki Keisuke is born. (Jan 3) *Yamazaki Jun (brother to Yamazaki Hiromi) is born. *Shibo Shige is born. *Gordon and Meaghan are married. *Morisato Megumi is born. *Kunou Tatewaki is born. (Mar 6) *Tendou Nabiki is born. (May 5) *Souun and Genma manage to imprison Happosai, and pledge to unite their families through marriage. 1977 *Shan Pu is born. (Jan 5) *Erica Ten'ou is born. (Jan 27) *Michelle Kaioh is born. (Mar 6) *Kuonji Ukyou is born. (Mar 29) *Saotome Ranma is born. (May 23) *Tendou Akane is born. (May 31) *Hibiki Ryouga is born. (Jun 17) *Kunou Kodachi is born. (Sep 8) *Aino Minako is born. (Oct 22) *Mano Yohko is born. (Nov 12) *Mano Ayako is born. (Nov 12) Her grandmother, Mano Chiaki, forced her mother to seduce Mano Sayoko's lover. Immediately after giving birth to Ayako, her mother abandons her to Chiaki. *Hippolita Kino is born. (Dec 5) *Mu Ssu is born. *Shinohara Asuma is born. *Ikari Yui is born. 1978 *Kent Masefield trains and lives at the Tendou Dojo. *Raye Hino is born. (Apr 17) *Masaki Tenchi is born. (Apr 24) *"Tamahome", aka Sukunami Taka, is born. (June 28) *Takamura Taishi dies, and command of the Planetary Defense Forces passes to the first in a series of U.N. appointed bureaucrats. *Serena Tsukino is born. (Jun 30) *Amy Mizuno is born. (Sep 20) *Irene "Rally" Vincent is born. (Oct 4) *Izumi Noa is born. (Dec 17) 1979 *Chigusa Kyoko marries Otonashi Souichiro. *Genma and Ranma's training trip begins. *According to his birth certificate, Himemiya Akio is born. (Sep 15) *Kent Masefield accepts a desk job within the Planetary Defense Force. His first major task involves recruiting a group of superhumans to deal with Soviet ESPionage in Afghanistan. Among these are Alistair McGovern, Niniane of the Lake, Bart Stoker, and Gordon DelaFontaine. Gordon DelaFontaine is killed in action. *Patricia DelaFontaine is born. (Oct 21) 1980 *Yuki Miaka is born. (May 12) *The boy who will become Kiryuu Touga is born. (Jun 4) *Kanzaki Azusa is born. (Jun 6) *Darien's parents are killed in an automobile accident. *Samuel Tsukino is born. *Saionji Kyouichi, a descendant of Saionji Kinmochi, is born. (Aug 25) *The recently widdowed Otonashi Kyoko becomes kanrinin of Ikkoku-kan, where Godai Yuusaku is a tenant. (Oct) *Hongou Yui is born. (Oct 26) *May Hopkins is born. (Nov 6) 1981 *Misty Brown is born. *Kasuga Kazyua is born. *Patricia Wildman dies in her sleep. *Arisugawa Juri is born. (Dec 1) 1982 *Lydia Tomoe is born. (Jan 6) *Masaki Achika dies of an unidentifiable illness. (Dec) 1983 *Katsuhito Stengovitch, grandson of Takamura Taishi of the Kishin Active Defense Corps, is born. *Tendou Rumiko dies of lung cancer. *Tenjou Utena is born. (Dec 29) 1984 *According to her birth certificate, Himemiya Anshii is born. (Feb 29) *Kaoru Miki is born (May 28) *Shinohara Wakaba, younger sister to Shinohara Asuma, is born. *Buckaroo Banzai defeats the scheme of the Red Lectroids. 1985 *Ayukawa Madoka is befriended by a time travelling stranger (see "Why Sailor Pluto Hates The Kasugas", coming soon.) *Kent Masefield weds Sheila MacMillan. *The girl who will become Kiryuu Nanami is born. (Aug 8) Shortly thereafter, her biological parents die in an as-yet unrevealed manner, and she and her older brother are adopted by the Kiryuu family. *Akagi Ritsuko is born. (Nov 21) *Callahan's Place closes after one last blowout. (Dec 31) 1986 *Sheila MacMillan is a casualty of the Planetary Defense Force's first clash with Dr. Michel Andro. Kent disappears. *The successor to Callahan's place, Mary's Place, opens, with Jake Stonebender as chief bartender. *Katsuragi Misato is born. (Dec 8) 1987 *Godai Yuusaku and Otonashi Kyoko are married. (Mar) *Kasuga Kyosuke meets Ayukawa Madoka and Hiyama Hikaru and becomes involved in an angst-filled love triangle with them. (Apr) *The experimental MADOX-1 battlesuit goes on a rampage in Tokyo. 1988 *Godai Haruka is born. (Mar ?) *Tenjou Utena's parents die due for uncertain reasons. She is comforted by a mysterious prince who inspires her to become a prince herself. 1989 *Hyuuga Makoto is born. (Feb 13) 1990 *Asagiri Toshio becomes Station Manager of Bokuto precinct. *Caroline Evers is born. (Mar 3) *The whimsical love triangle of Kasuga Kyosuke, Ayukawa Madoka, and Hiyama Hikaru comes to a sad end. (Jun) *The so-called "Mechatronic Revolution" is generally held to commence in this year, with the first primitive construction robots ("labors") being used in Japan. While various forms of anthropomorphic vehicles and armored exoskeletons have been in use by various secret organizations for over fifty years, this marks the first instance of civillian usage. Several MADOX battlesuits are distributed to American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War. 1991 *Aino Minako is awakened to her position as Sailor Venus, and assumes the secret identity of Sailor V. (Nov ?) *Kent Masefield returns to take command of the Planetary Defense forces. *Daniel DelaFontaine dies in a botched attempt by his uncle, Andrew DelaFontaine, to have him synchronize with the biotechnological powered armor he has invented. *Ibuki Maya is born (Jul 11) *Genom -- General Nippon Orbital Manufacturing -- is formed from a merger of Taito Petrochemicals, Archu Pharmaceuticals, and Hanto Steel, with the aim of constructing orbital factories within the decade. Quincy Masada, mastermind of the merger, is on the board of directors from the very first day. 1992 *Earth's greatest adventure begins as Serena Tsukino becomes the Bishojou Senshi Sailor Moon (Jul). Her comrades, Sailor Mercury (Amy Mizuno), Sailor Mars (Raye Hino), Sailor Jupiter (Lita Kino) are soon joined by Sailor V, who adopts the name Sailor Venus. They are victorious over the Dark Kingdom, but the battle results in a loss of memory for all five. (N.B. While the Jyuban press referred to the Sailors as "Sailor Scouts", imitating the usage of the girls themselves, other sources refer to them as "Sailor Senshi" or "Sailor Soldiers") *Nicholas Romanova is born to Anna Romanova (a descendant of the Romanoff family) and an unknown father. 1993 *The Sailor Senshi are reawakened to deal with a pair of alien energy vampires, as well as defeating a group of time travelling invaders. *Elsewhere, experiments by Dr. Tomoe Souichi ("The Doctor") open the way for an alien intelligence known as Mistress Nine to invade Earth, prompting the awakening of Sailor Neptune (Michelle Kaioh) and Sailor Uranus (Erica Ten'ou). *Mano Yohko becomes the 108th Mamono Hunter of the Mano clan, and is soon joined by an "apprentice", Kanzaki Azusa. *Aethan DeGales visits Japan and makes the acquaintance of Aino Minako, with whom he begins a long-distance relationship. *Saotome Ranma is cursed in the Nannichuan (the Spring of Drowned Girl) of Jyusenkyou (Mar 30), and comes to be engaged unwillingly to Tendou Akane. (Apr 13) *The Sailor Senshi clash with the Outer Senshi (Uranus and Neptune) before ultimately joining forces with them to defeat Mistress Nine's forces, the so-called Death Busters, during which clash the powers of Lydia Tomoe (Sailor Saturn) are revealed. Soon after, the Sailor Scouts do battle with the Dark Moon Circus of Queen Neherenia. 1994 *Tsujimoto Natsumi is assigned to Bokuto precinct, and soon becomes partners, roommates, and best friends with Kobayakawa Miyuki. *Mano Yohko has her first clash with her "cousin" (actually her unwitting half-sister) Mano Ayako. *Madoka and Hikaru are reconciled, largely due to the presence of a time-travelling Kasuga Kyosuke from 1991. (See "Why Sailor Pluto Hates The Kasugas" for more information.) *Belldandy of Asgard manipulates events to bring about her summoning to Earth by Morisato Keiichi, and is soon followed by her sisters Urd and Skuld. *Minako meets Yohko, and forms a friendship. 1995 *The European Super Parliament convenes for the first time. *Masaki Tenchi unwittingly frees the "demon" Ryouko (actually an alien space pirate), setting in motion events that lead to Tenchi's discovery that he is in fact part Jurain. *The first purely mechanical means of time travel is discovered, but after a single use, the inventor abandons it after a strenuous lecture by Sailor Pluto. (See "Who Sailor Pluto Also Really Hates.") *The cursed springs of Jyusenkyou are flooded by torrential rainfall. *Yuki Miaka and Hongo Yui are drawn into the Universe of the Four Gods Earth and Sky. *"Neon Genesis Evangelion" begins its twenty-six episode run, startling the Gehirn conspirators. (Oct) 1996 *Minako and Lita visit Vancouver, there meeting Mano Ayako. (Feb) *The Nerima district of Japan is the site of the final "Gathering of Palladins", an event which brings about the first meeting of the Sailor Senshi, Team Ranma, Tenchi and his associates, the Goddesses of Nekomi, Kasuga Kyousuke, and the Plantary Defense Forces. Kunou Tatewaki and Kasuga Akane are killed, as are others. Patience Masefield, daughter of Patricia Delafontaine and Kent Masefield is born. Kent Masefield vanishes beyond the ken of mortal man. (Apr 6-10) *Kasuga Kyousuke and Ayukawa Madoka are married, with Hiyama Hikaru present as Maid of Honor. She also catches the bouquet. *Serena Tsukino and Darien Chiba are married, not without incident. After a honeymoon in Canada, they move into Room 5 of Maison Ikkoku. *Kiyone Makibi is reassigned as Mihoshi Kuramitsu's partner on Earth. *Rally Vincent begins her career as a bounty hunter, soon acquiring a partner in "Minny May" Hopkins. She has her first run-in with "the Bean Bandit". 1997 *Olivia Asagiri is a courier in Chicago, under the alias "Riff-Raff". She has confrontations with the Bean Bandit and with the Gunsmith Cats. (It is widely held that the "Rally" of Bean Bandit's reminiscences -- "Riding Bean", published 2030 -- is a composite of Olivia and the actual Rally, assembled from the somewhat senile ex-courier's confused accounts.) *Kasuga Takeshi, first child of Kyousuke and Madoka, is born. *Saotome Ranma and Tendou Akane are married in a peaceful ceremony. (Peaceful meaning that the only brawl is between husband and wife ...) *Asagiri Suzuki, patriarch of the Asagiri family, dies. *Brian J. Mason is born in Belfast to a family of dock workers. His father is Bran "Raven" Mason's younger brother. *Mayuka arrives at the Masaki home, claiming to be Tenchi's daughter. The truth of the matter is soon discovered. (Jun) *"The End of Evangelion" premieres (Jul). Shortly therafter representatives from a variety of alternate timelines and potential futures conspire to prevent the Second Impact from ever occurring. 1998 *Katsuhito Stengovitch becomes involved in one of Rally Vincent's bounty hunting operations, apparently one involving Aethan DeGales. *Tenjou Utena begins attending Ohtori Academy, and becomes enmeshed in a scheme to revolutionize the world. As a consequence, a certain princess is freed from a curse to which she has been subjected for nearly twelve thousand years. Utena vanishes immediately afterwards, and her memory fades from that of almost all who knew her. *The Tenchi family is cast back in time to the Silver Millenium, where they become involved in the Martian-Jovian war. *First commercial ground-to-orbit spacecraft launched, by Genom. 1999 *The Second Unit of the SV2 Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police is formed under the command of Goto Kiichi. Isamu Ohta, Yamazaki Hiromi, Shinshi Mikiyasu, and Shinohara Asuma are assigned to the newly formed unit, while Izumi Noa volunteers. *The first phase of "the Final War" begins, as Hong Kong and Taiwan attempt to assert their independence from the mainland Chinese government, followed soon after by end of the ceasefire between North and South Korea. *Saotome Ryu, first child of Akane and Ranma, is born, named for the forest where he was concieved. 2000 *Kasuga Kyousuke and Madoka's second child, Hikaru is born. (Sep 13) 2001 *Sheila Tenkai is born to Michelle Kaioh and Erica Ten'ou. (Sep 12) 2002 *After Yoshou's final passing, Masaki Tenchi is declared heir to the Jurain Empire, and compelled to choose as his two brides Hakubi Washuu and Sasami (who is at this point beginning to develop into Tsunami.) *Yuki Miaka, Sukunami Taka, Hongou Yui, and Kajiwara Tetsuya all vanish without explanation. *William Fanward is born. 2003 *Tokyo is scudded by North Korea in a provacatory gesture. Numerous targets throughout the city are hit, most notably the Tendou Dojo. Tendou Souun, Tendou Hinako, Tendou Kasumi, Ono Tofuu, and Saotome Nodoka are all apparently killed, while Saotome Genma is incapacitated. (Elsewhere in the confusion, Mano Sayoko is also fatally wounded.) *Soon after, Ourrannos arrives on Earth, and seeks out Sailor Moon. In the battle that follows, Serena undergoes a final transformation to Serenity, and Sailor Uranus and Neptune are killed. Ourranos is defeated. Darien transforms to Endymion permanently. *The birth of Serenity prompts the Almighty to withdraw all other divinities from Earth. (Most of the Hells reluctantly agree to do likewise, having seen ample evidence of Serenity's power.) Keiichi vanishes shortly after Belldandy is recalled. *Amy marries Greg Urawa immediately after earning her doctorate. Shortly therafter, she meets Akagi Ritsuko. *Jeena Malso is born. 2004 *Shinohara Asuma and Izumi Noa marry. Allegedly, Yamazaki Jun meets Godai Haruka at this wedding. *The Crystal Tokyo Society is formed, absorbing the Planetary Defense Forces. Their sudden disappearance causes great confusion in the United Nations, leading to discussion of a need for a new permanent peacekeeping force. Saotome Ranma and Akane, and Tendou Nabiki are all recruited by the Society, the last as a deep cover agent in Genom. 2005 *Kyoko Zeppelin suffers a nervous breakdown from unspecified causes, and commits suicide in an insane asylum. *Twin children are born to Shinohara Asuma and Noa: daughter Shinobu and son Hiromi. 2006 *Iris Cara is born. 2007 *Leon McNichol is born to Richard and Yoriko McNichol. (Jul 16) *Prototype fusion reactor generates power for six hours. (Nov 9) *The surviving Ohtori Academy Duellists are reunited ten years after the conclusion of the duel for a mysterious purpose. 2008 *Injuries prompt Nakajima Ken's retirement from the police. He weds Kobayakawa Miyuki. *The final battle between rival sisters Mano Madoka and Mano Chiaki leads to their mutual deaths, as well as that of Mano Yohko's apprentice Kanzaki Azusa, and (apparently) Mano Ayako. Mano Yohko alone survives to tell the tale. 2009 *Tsujimoto Natsumi retires from the police to marry Asagiri Toshio. *Katsuhito Stengovitch (now calling himself Katsuhito Stingray) marries Rally Vincent. *Akagi Ritsuko is killed in a botched experiment involving a prototype neural interface. *Reika Chang is born. *Urawa Ritsuko is born. (Dec 12) 2010 *Sylia Stingray is born. (May 31) *The Treaty of Hong Kong ends the first phase of "The Final War", and work begins on reconstructing the war-damaged city. *Katherine Madigan is born to Masada Quincy's unwed personal secretary; her father's identity is unknown. 2011 *The Space Development Public Corporation is formed. It is intended to act as a "parks service" for the spaceways. 2012 *Yamazaki Linna is born to Yamazaki Jun and Godai Haruka. (Oct 22) Their marital status is unclear. *Empress Misaki of Jurai is assassinated during an aborted palace uprising on Jurai. *Nakajima Natsumi is born. *Irene Chang is born. *Anna Romanova dies. 2013 *Olivia Asagiri is reported as missing. *Priscilla Serena Asagiri is born to Asagiri Natsumi and Toshio. (May 27) *The Communist Chinese government attempts to consolidate its control over certain parts of its territory that have been in rebellion since Imperial times. The fortress of the Musk Dynasty is bombed, as is Joketsuzoku. The Sailor Senshi assist the Joketsuzoku, relocating them to the Australian outback. *SDPC sattelite cleanup crews discover a number of artificial sattelites of unknown origin in orbit around the Earth. Genom's Andrew DelaFontaine is retained to study them, and determines that they are energy weapons which are *millennia* beyond the capability of any Earth nation. He also figures out how they work. 2014 *Nicholas Romanova marries Patience Masefield (Apr 10). Patience's mother, Patricia, disappears shortly after the ceremony. *The United Nations Strategic Space Defense Force is chartered to serve as an international militia with the authority to shoot down nuclear missiles (using the top secret "missile curtain" system already in orbit, along with a slowly increasing supply of "conventional" beam sattelites.) *Nene Romanova is born to Nicholas and Patience Romanova. (Aug 13) 2015 *Mackinnison "Macky" Stingray is born. (Jan 25) *The first commercial fusion reactor goes online in Switzerland. *Genom begins strategic purchases and buyouts which will put it in a position of power after the 2nd Kanto Quake. 2016 *Katsuragi Ryuji is born to Katsuragi Misato and her lover, Hyuuga Makoto. 2017 *Kunou Kodachi kidnaps Sheila Tenkai, whom she insanely believes to be the "Osage no Onna" with whom her brother was infatuated. Sheila is rescued by Jupiter, who then beats Kodachi to death. As a result, Jupiter is stripped of her powers by Serenity. For her protection, Sheila is placed in suspended animation. *Morisato Megumi is killed in a motorcycle accident; her genetic information and much of her memories have been recorded by the Sailor Senshi. 2018 *Saotome Kasumi (aka "Senshi" Saotome) is born to Ranma and Akane, their fifth child. *Tsukino Ikuko dies without ever learning what happened to her daughter. *Reika and Irene Chang's parents are killed in a traffic accident engineered by Gulf and Bradley, Inc. 2019 *Rally Stingray disappears on a visit to America. 2020 *Saotome Ranma serves as a guinea pig for an experimental anti-agathic derived from Kavuru tablets, which activates a latent mutation in his system, causing him to briefly age backwards to a physical age of about nineteen years, and effectively suspends his aging at that point. 2021 *Katherine Madigan's magical abilities are discovered by her creche supervisor, and she is placed in an advanced executive training program. 2022 *Katsuhito Stingray is killed in a "tragic accident". *Intercepting packages which Katsuhito had intended for his children, Brian J. Mason undergoes "cyberevolution" (his own term for it), and "permits" Sylia to undergo the same process in an attempt to create the perfect mate. *The USSD's orbital beam satellites go online. 2023 *Saotome Ryu weds Kasuga Hikaru. 2024 *A permanent Moonbase is constructed. *Excavation of the ruins of the ancient Moon Kingdom begin, under an *incredible* veil of secrecy. *Kasuga Madoka dies as a result of an extremely rare tropical virus contracted in Hawaii. 2025 *Richard McNichol dies in an automobile accident the day before the Great Kanto Earthquake. *The Great Kanto Earthquake. Toshio and Natsumi Asagiri are killed, orphaning Priscilla (whom the Nakajimas incorrectly also believe to be dead.) Also among the dead are Greg Urawa, Ikari Yui, Katsuragi Misato, Andrew DelaFontaine, Nagumo Shinobu, and Mano Yohko (apparently killed trying to prevent the earthquake.) 2026 *Extensive oil and mineral deposits are discovered on Antarctica. Many nations announce that they will not renew the Antarctic Treaty in 2041. *The SDPC establishes orbital station Genaros-1 as a transfer point to Moonbase. *If, as is suspected, Tendou Nabiki becomes a double agent for Genom, her turning occurs in this year. 2027 *The SV2 Division (by now using battlemovers, rather than patrol labors) is incorporated into the newly formed ADPolice. Goto Kiichi is forcibly retired. *The Japanese Diet passes strict cybernetics control laws, essentially causing anyone with more than seventy per cent of their body replaced by cybernetics to be treated as a machine under the law. Caroline Evers and Billy Fanward are killed on different occasions as a result of this law. *Linna's parents are killed by a "runaway boomer". She briefly lives with her grandparents in Maison Ikkoku. 2028 *Masaki Noboyuki dies under circumstances which cause his son a great deal of embarassment, and which lead to the banning of Bu- 33S class boomers. *Godai Yuusaku and wife Kyouko die within moments of each other; Godai keeps his promise. 2029 *The Polar War between China (with allied forces from Argentina) and Neo-NATO begins. 2030 *The former "Bean Bandit" dies immediately after dictating his memoirs. *Kasuga Kyousuke dies in his sleep, of apparent natural causes. He is survived by his five children. 2031 *Priscilla Asagiri, Linna Yamazaki, and Nene Romanova are recruited by Sylia Stingray to form the Knight Sabres. *The exploration ship Galileo II is launched for Jupiter. *Nakajima Ken dies of a heart attack. 2032 *Nakajima Natsumi finds employment as a private investigator (and occasional operative for the Crystal Tokyo Society) in California. *The Knight Sabres complete the mission for which they were created, when Sylia Stingray kills Brian J. Mason, murderer of her father. 2033 *Largo, the "Boomer Messiah", destroys Genom's towers in Sydney, Berlin, and Chicago, sending the corporation reeling for nearly a year. 2034 *Aethan Degales initiates Nene Romanova into the arts of magick, before being destroyed. *Largo returns, and attempts to destroy MegaTokyo's fusion power plant. He is stopped, and destroyed completely, by the Knight Sabres. *Priss Asagiri begins to recover her past, with the assistance of Nakajima Miyuki, shortly before the latter dies of a stroke. *The SDPC relocates its headquarters to Moonbase, increasingly being called Luna City. 2035 *Senator John Connors (R, Cal) visits MegaTokyo on a state visit, and hires the Knight Sabres as additional security due to his outspoken anti-boomer (and subtly anti-Genom) stance. A confusing sequence of events involving multiple potential timelines occurs. 2036 *"Senshi" Saotome weds Hibiki Sho, a distant cousin to Hibiki Ryouga, after he beats her in combat, despite (or rather because of) her parents' best efforts to talk her out of it. 2037 *Katherine Madigan directs a brief attempt at a hostile take-over of Shinohara Heavy Industries, which proves to be a harder target than expected. During the conflict, Madigan is compelled to hire the Knight Sabres (through several layers of interference) as part of her overall strategy; Sylia Stingray and Nene Romanova determine who their actual employer is, and manage to use Madigan as a mole inside Genom for several months. 2038 *Yoriko McNichol dies in an appartment fire. 2039 2040 2041 *Quincy's condition begins an irreversible decline, and he elects to destroy life on Earth before he dies. The Sailor Senshi mobilize their allies against him. The SV2's Second Unit is reunited, and suffer heavy casualties fairly early on in the struggle that ensues -- Kumagami Takeo, Isamu Ohta, Shinshi Mikiyasu, and Shinohara Shinobu are killed, while Shinohara Asuma is rescued by his time travelling wife. Nene Romanova is apparently killed in the Knight Sabres' last stand. Ultimately, a nuclear weapon is detonated in the heart of Genom Tower, allegedly by Sylia Stingray. Most of MegaTokyo's downtown district is wiped out in the blast, and countless people are killed. *The deaths of most of the heads of corporate Genom deals a death blow to the megacorporation. Several factions actually manage to prosper, including the newly formed Conseption Corporation, composed of several Genom biotech firms. Genom's space assets are immediately divided up by the other members of the SDPC, in a move that leaves them open to a takeover by the Crystal Tokyo Society, which immediately begins to orient the corporation towards colonization instead of exploitation. *Katsuragi Kei is born to Katsuragi Ryuji and his wife, Misa. 2042 2043 *Graviton City is built near Olympus Mons, on Mars -- ostensibly as the first step towards colonization, but actually to provide an early defense system against possible alien invasion. Excavation of the Cydonian pyramids begins, under security unseen since the discovery of the ruins of the Moon Kingdom. 2044 2045 *So-called "Nomad" settlements begin to be established in the asteroid belt. * 2046 2047 *Several ex-Genom corporations, Weyland-Yutani at their forefront, begin a crash program to terraform Venus, dubbed Project: New Earth. *Hibiki Gen is born to Hibiki Sho and "Senshi" Saotome, their first child. *Shinohara Noa, heart-broken over the "death" of her husband, finally passes away. Her genetic code has been preserved by the Sailor Senshi. 2048 2049 *A space capsule is discovered passing through Martian orbit, and recovered shortly before its arrival in Earthspace by SDPC investigators. It proves to contain a computer chip which contains the sum total of the scientific knowledge and entire history of the Solnoid race, which is determined to have been extinct for over 300,000 years. (It also contains the personality and "mind" of the android known as Catty.) 2050 *The true purpose of the Cydonian pyramids on Mars is revealed, as explorers complete a spell begun at the very end of the Silver Millenium. Roughly 100 years worth of terraforming is accomplished in minutes, restoring breathable atmosphere to the planet. The "instant" terraformation of Mars is a major blow to the corporations involved in Project: New Earth, but the huge sums already invested in it ensure that it is kept on track. *Working from plans contained on the Solnoid probe, a slightly derranged SDPC scientist constructs a "Catty" android, and downloads the backup of Catty's memories and personality enigrams into the new body. 2051 2052 2053 *Catty is rescued from her life of sex slavery by the Sailor Senshi, and assists them in understanding the Solnoid technology. 2054 *Mercury begins a relationship with Hibiki Ryouga while he is assisting her in researching "Methods of Immortality", and he persuades her to conduct an experiment combining mermaid's flesh and braintaping, with himself as the subject. *Empress Funaho of Jurai is found dead of uncertain causes; her body is lying on her "sister-wife" Misaki's grave. 2055 *A plague breaks out in a corporate enclave on Ganymede, killing all but one of those present. Hibiki Ryouga makes it back to Earth in time to have Mercury conduct the second half of their experiment. While it is a success, the results alienate them from each other. *Mizuno Ryouko is born. (Aug 8). 2056 2057 *Nakajima Natsumi is killed in action as an agent of the Crystal Tokyo Society; per her request, she is not cloned. 2058 *Nicholas Romanova dies of a heart attack. 2059 *The United Nations headquarters is relocated from Geneva to Genaros-1. 2060 2061 2062 *The terrorist group Free Mars begins activities with several bombings, including the one that claims the life of Saotome Akane. The various corporate and governmental bodies which "own" the Martian colonies attempt to tighten their grip on them. *While recovering from injuries sustained in the explosion which killed his wife, Saotome Ranma and Kuonji Ukyou slowly begin a relationship. *Kasuga Wataru, grandson of Kasuga Hikaru and Saotome Ryu, is born. *Katsuragi Kei is apparently killed in a military exercise, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend. 2063 *After several months of intense fighting, the Martian Coalition wrests its freedom from Earth's control (Mar 15), and promptly disintegrates into dozens of warring principalities (Apr 1). *Leon McNichol dies in a high speed pursuit. 2064 *The first colonists arrive on Venus, including every single employee of the corporations involved in Project: New Earth. 2065 *The First Budokai is fought in China (Dec). Saotome Ranma is smuggled back to Earth by the Sailor Senshi to fight as their agent. Despite an early defeat by his long time adversary Tarou (who murders "Senshi" Saotome) he comes back to defeat both the daemonic sponsors of the event. 2066 *Kuonji Gennosuke is born (Jan 16). *Shampoo of the Joketsuzoku arranges for Kuonji Ukyou to fight her great grandmother Cologne, a battle Ukyou does not survive. Ranma Saotome returns to Mars a day later, and in a fury battles Cologne to the death. 2067 2068 *The Venerian colony declares itself independant of Earth. *Urawa Ritsuko has a nervous breakdown, and after delivering her mother an ultimatum in regards to her parenting skills, enters coldsleep to wait for the creation of Crystal Tokyo. 2069 2070 2071 *Mizuno Ryouko leaves home, swearing never to return. She finds a job working as a exoskeletal cargo handler within a few weeks. 2072 2073 *Former SDPC scientist Zefram Cochrane's test flight of his warp drive shuttle, with his financial backer, Linna Yamazaki, as co-pilot. Linna dies shortly after the ship comes out of warp near Alpha Centauri. 2074 2075 2076 *Earth's last extraterrestrial colonial holding, the Moon, declares independance. (Jul 4) 2077 2078 *The Nanoclysm. The "Nodachi" virus, originating from the megacomputer of a Manila-based biotech firm, infects the vast majority of the Third Generation boomers (those built using the information on the Sigma Narses probe) and sends them on a genocidal attack on the human race. With the assistance of the Galaxy Police -- who take heavy casualties, including the death of Commissioner Mihoshi Kuramitsu -- the Sailor Senshi coordinate the evacuation of Earth's orbital habitats and the asteroid belt shortly before nuclear war breaks out. Eight billion humans die over the next two years, and Earth's fragile ecology is tipped over the edge into nuclear winter. 2079 *The Galactic Union places a quarantine on the Inner Sol System, enforced by the Galaxy Police Battleship "Mihoshi" and Tsunami. With access to space travel restricted, and no possibility of escaping the planet, the Nodachi-boomers elect to commit mass suicide rather than surrender to the Galaxy Police. *The Sailor Senshi begin their efforts to heal the planet's wounds, hindered by the daemon-kind that have invaded, taking advantage of the injuries to Earth's biosphere. *Count Magnus Lee, a vampyre elder claiming descent from Vlad Tepes, conquers most of Eastern Europe in conjunction with a conspiracy of other vampyres. 2080 *The Diaspora. Over two hundred million Earth born humans, believing that their world has been wrecked beyond repair, begin to spread out over the Galaxy, founding the worlds that will, a generation later, transform the Galactic Union into the United Galactica. "In two hundred years, we went from a world where the sun never set on a single empire, to a world where the sun never rose anywhere. In two hundred years, we went from a world that was still not fully explored, to one that had been lost. In two hundred years, humanity itself changed forever, putting the lie to certain theories that its evolution was at a standstill." "And the next two hundred years would bring even greater changes." Dr. Sheila Tenkai, "Introduction to the Study of the Pre-Cataclysmic Period". To Be Continued (End notes: There are still a few blanks to be filled in, pending a reexamination of "Kishin Corps" and my viewing of "Moldiver". But I am (momentarily) satisfied with this version of the 1881-2080 timeline. I might want to include more information about how Gojira relates to the film version -- 99% of the movies are fictional, but there's that annoying 1% ... also, Gojira may be making an appearance in 1998, in San Francisco.) (The next section of the timeline, covering the Dark Ages (2080-2780, roughly), will be a lot more fragmentary -- literally, there were long swaths of time where *nothing* happened that is relevant to the storyline I'm creating. Still, it will cover "Vampire Hunter D", "Gunnm", and "The Dirty Pair" (ow!), expanding on the brief history of United Gallactica's collapse given by Yuri in Together Again: 2937 Chapter (and naturally, its rise.) Also, there'll probably be information about what the rest of the Solar System was up to during the period, including those guys at Weyland-Yutani. If you've read the trailer for "The Gunbuster Affair", you've probably got an idea ...)