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.
• Armatech is denied a corporate hold within Ukiyo City.
  • Armatech proceeds to set up their own Special Economic Zone directly outside Ukiyo City, funneling military hardware and mercenaries into the city proper.

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.
  • Rumors of Armatech involvemnt are spread. All claims are denied by CEO Artem Tzovitch.
• 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.
• In Dixie, the Blaze of Christ begins.

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

• As a part of the Balkanization of The United States, the Symposium on Secession is held in May, establishing the territories for all American nations outside Cascadia.

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

2043

• The Republic of China signs the Sino-British Pact, thus ending the Two Centuries of Humiliation.

2042

The USSR launches the first manned mission to Venus.

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.

2023

• The United States of America, Soviet Union, Japan, and European Union launch Selene, the first semi-permanently inhabited lunar base.

2017

• The First Anglo-American War ends, with an American victory. Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, and Canada are all made independent from Britannia, Australia is demilitarized, and the United States takes coastal Queensland as the territory of New California.

2014

• The First Anglo-American War begins. Britannia invades the United States through New England and Central Canada, and performs naval bombardments on NYC.

2011

In a critical milestone for the Second Civil Rights Movement, race-based segregation and discrimination are federally outlawed.

2002

In the Second Civil Rights Movement, the Birmingham Risings occur, as the city's black majority lay siege to the segregationist mayor in his home.

1993

• In the United States, the Second Civil Rights Movement begins, sparked by the declassification of CIA documents proving their involvement with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

1990

• The Tiananmen_Square_Famine take place in Beijing, China

1983

• The Californian Cultural Revolution begins, as the Japanese economy, tightly linked with the United States, enters a massive period of growth.

1969

• The United States of America launches the first manned mission to the moon.

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

1954

• The United Kingdom and United States of America jointly launch the first manned spaceflight.

1950

• The Korean War begins between the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea in the north, backed by the Soviet Union, and the Republic of Korea in the south, backed by the Republic of China

1947

The Japanese-American War ends, marking the official, total end of World War II. The United States is left on her own with the task of reconstructing Japan.

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.

1944

• World War II ends, and Nazi Germany surrenders, thus ending the European front of the war. The USSR claims its SSR territories to further expand socialist ideology, Britain refuses to give up her colonies, and the Americans continue to fight the Japanese.