Timeline

Chromed Out Lore Timeline

2087

• The events of Chromed Out 2: Shibuya Meltdown take place.

2086

• March 12th - 15th, the Saigon Raids occur.

2085

• The events of Chromed Out: 2085 take place.
• Another 5,000 members of The Voidmover are evacuated, leaving approximately 40,000 non-wealthy, non-executive men, women, children, and synthetic beings, stranded in space, in The Voidmover.
• Hired operatives on behalf of Shinjuku Clan, and members of Shinjuku Clan detonate a dirty bomb at a KMT weapons facility in the Gobi Desert, causing thousands of deaths, of both armed KMT combatants, scientists, engineers, as well as various groups of civilians involved with the area. The fallout spreads south-east, into Gansu and Ningxia Provinces This became known as The Gobi Desert Incident.
  • The occurrence is blamed on The Soviet Union, through a partially-successful campaign of agitation propaganda implanted within Chinese cities.

2084

• The Shinjuku-HELIOS merger falls apart, as Arya Washington vanishes.
• The docking site for The Voidmover, is abandoned, and eventually dismantled.
• The Voidmover itself becomes abandoned, with all HELIOS staffers now being in essentially, corporate purgatory, staffing a Megacorporation that no longer exists.
  • 5,000 high-ranking, wealthy members of the HELIOS executive staff are evacuated, back to Earth. This leaves approximately 45,000 men, women, children, and synthetics stranded, in The Voidmover.
    • This accounts for the last and final time, that any news was heard from The Voidmover.

2083

• Bleeding Lotus Continues.
  • Mainland Japan becomes unstable, quickly. The sheer population density of the Tokyo region causes the occasional bloodbath.
    • Crackdowns on security begin in various areas within Tokyo. Serious measures are put in place to police the city, with an emphasis on conflating standard gang activity, with terrorism, as well.
• The Voidmover is launched, after an extensive time of being caught within "Bureaucratic Limbo."
  • Ownership and governance of The Voidmover is not well-defined, due to bureaucratic issue within the HELIOS-Shinjuku merger.

2082

• The current Chinese operation (BLEEDING LOTUS) to attempt to take over the Japanese Mainland begins.
  • Chinese Kuomintang landings and attacks begin.
• Construction on The Voidmover is completed.
• The Shinjuku-HELIOS merger takes place, in The Sendai Lower Levels.

2081

• The external events of Cyberpunk: 2118 take place.
  • //The year of the lore of that third-party server was modified to actually take place in Chromed Out in 2081, due to the influx of players that moved from there to here, during Chromed Out: 2085.

2080

• Construction on The Voidmover begins, using explicitly HELIOS construction drone technology.

2068

• Assembly is founded.

2062

• The Second Anglo-American War begins.

2061

• SoulOS is released, after 20 years worth of development.

2059

• The Canadian Division occurs.

2058

• The Balkanization of The United States occurs.

2055

• [[Formation Day occurs, marking the creation of the [Pacific States of Cascadia]]
  • //The Pacific States of Cascadia is where Chromed Out 1 took place. Specifically, in "PACIFICA-2," an UrbSprawl built of San Francisco.

2050

• The Quebec Offensive begins, and war is declared on Canada by the Kingdom of Britannia

2041

• Development begins on SoulOS

2035

• The Year of The Blaze takes place, in the United States of America.
• The Collapse of Australia takes place in Australia, making most of the continent uninhabitable.

2017

• In the First Anglo-American War, the Kingdom of Britannia attempts to invade Hawaii, and fails spectacularly. America retakes the Philippines, and acquires Queensland, renaming it to New California. Britannia surrenders, ending the war.

2015

• In the First Anglo-American War, the United States occupies Papua New Guinea, and Queensland, Australia. Britannia occupies the Philippines.

2014

• The First Anglo-American War begins.

1990

The Tiananmen Square Protests take place in Beijing, China

1960

• Conclusion of the Lántiān Offensive
• Viet Nam is annexed by The Republic of China and becomes a Chinese province.

1955

• The Republic of China commences the Lántiān Offensive against The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

1950

• The Korean War begins.

1946

• The Cold War begins between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and his SSRs, United States of America, and Great Britain

1945

• Viet Nam declares independence from Japanese occupation and installs a Communist State
• World War II ends with an Allied victory, with the surrender of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The USSR claims its SSR territories to further expand socialist ideology. Britain refuses to give up her colonies.