Post by WildKnight on Sept 13, 2008 15:29:18 GMT -5
Earth 313 - General Timeline
Untold millenia ago: The Kree-Skrull war spreads to all corners
of the galaxy. The Shi'ar Empire attempts to broker a peace
between them and, as a result, is attacked by both sides and
nearly wiped out. The Shi'ar Majestrix and her Royal Guard
escape, but are hunted relentlessly. Her ship eventually crashes
on primordial Earth. The Kree and Skrull are both unaware of the
final fate of the Shi'ar peoples.
10,000 BC: The Kree, tracking the last Shi'ar vessel, discover
Earth. Though they fail to discover the remnants of the Shi'ar
vessel, they begin experimenting on Earthlings using the
mutagenic "Terrigen Mist." This speeds the evolution of a small
portion of the Homo Sapien population, creating the sequestered
populace who would come to call themselves the Inhumans.
5,000 BC: Kang the Conquerer asserts his dynasty in Egypt, taking
the place of his own children and ruling for two millenia. His primary competition for domination over the entire earth is The Mandarin, a deathless being who draws power from the spirits of all the peoples of Asia. These battles are primarily fought through proxies; Mandarin supports rebels within Egypt who call themselves the Sandstormers, while Kang (as Rama-tut) supports the tiny independant nation of K'un-Lun and its martial arts masters, who oppose Mandarin's rule.
3,000 BC: The stalemate of power is broken when both sides are destroyed. The K'un-Lun learn the secret of the Iron Fist, and The Mandarin is forced into hiding. Meanwhile the Sandstormers are destroyed in Egypt, but their last son, En Sabah Nur, defeats Kang/Rama-tut in single combat, forcing him to flee the time period. En Sabah Nur becomes Pharoh of Egypt.
146 BC: The Roman Empire finds evidence that its trade rival, Carthage, has people with super-human powers living amongst them. The Romans crush Carthage and re-write history to hide all references.
500 AD: King Arthur is defeated and carried to the isle of Avalon, which is then hidden from human sight by the Three Wierd Sisters. In the same year, magic has faded from reality to such a degree that the purely magical island of Atlantis can no longer be sustained. It sinks, and its last Prince, Namor, becomes frozen.
1846: Scientist Nathaniel Essex executes human experiments and discovers the existence of mutants. Eventually he comes to the attentio of authorities, and is arrested and scheduled for execution. He disappears from imprisonment.
World War II: Though "mystery men" have been appearing for almost a decade all over the world, the first true modern-era "super" humans appear as a direct result of the war. Germany first fields "Master Man" in its attack on Poland. By the time America enters the war, it already has two super soldiers (Captain America and James "Bucky" Barnes), a thawed out Namor the Sub-Mariner, and the androids Torch and Toro to field. The so-called "Invaders" are soon joined by The Whizzer and Miss America, as well as British heroes Captain Britain (created using the same super-soldier serum as Captain America), Union Jack, and Spitfire. At the end of the war, all of these heroes (and their villainous counterparts) retire, most of them to peaceful lives. A Nazi war-criminal known as the Red Skull escapes during his trial.
1976: The modern era of super heroes begins with the accidental creation of the Fantastic Four. Other heroes (mostly solo heroes) follow, including the infamous Hero X (Professor Charles Xavier in costume, though no one including his own brothers know it was him)
1980: David Banner, researching alternative energy sources, accidentally gamma-irradiates himself and becomes The Hulk.
1988: The Avengers are formed when the Norse trickster Loki convinces Thor, Ant-man, The Wasp, and Iron Man to to band together to stop The Hulk's latest rampage in New York City.
1990's: A boom in the population of super-powered beings sees the premiere of Spider-Man, Daredevil, The Punisher, The New Warriors, and myriad others.
The Mutant Issue: Though mutants have been a portion of human society for as long as there have been humans, the numbers were tiny (in 1980, there were fewer than a dozen living mutants on planet Earth). That has changed. From approximately 1980 until 1995, there was a "boom" in the number of children being born who would display an active X-gene when they hit puberty (later in some cases). The massive boom in mutant population could not go unnoticed. Around 2002 the world will start to be very aware of mutants, and within a year that awareness will become a full-fledged worldwide panic. The anti-mutant crusades won't be far behind. However, as of the year 2000 there are only a handful of active mutants. Amongst them are;
Professor Charles Xavier: Still seven years from establishing the Xavier Academy, Xavier is well aware of the "mutant boom" and is already laying plans to head off the prejudice he feels is inevitable. Charles has been retired from his heroic "Hero X" persona for a decade, but still dons the guise on occasion. As Hero X, Xavier has deep connections within the super-human community.
Eric Magnus Lensherr: Eric has only recently (within the past year) adopted the identity of "Magneto." As a boy Eric (at the urging of his half-brother Charles Xavier) attempted to use his powerful psychic abilities to soothe the mind of their dying Father, but instead completely absorbed their Father's memories of his boyhood in a Nazi concentration camp. As a result of the trauma, Eric's psychic abilities were blocked forever, completely unusable, but he developed a secondary mutation; one more suited to the rage and power lust he now felt; the absolute mastery of Magnetism. Magneto's mental health has been in steady decline ever since, and his brother Charles long ago cast him aside. The third brother, Cain Marko, is a normal human, and Eric feels nothing but contempt for him. Eric has three children. The eldest two (Peter and Wanda, twins aged 10) are a great shame to him, as their mother was a human, and he fears they will be as well. His younger daughter, Lorna (age 2) is his child with Charles Xavier's former lover Moira MacTaggart, and is in Moira's care on Muir Island.
Mystique: Having only recently discovered her powers, Mystique is a loner and a drifter, but is already forming the skills that will one day make her one of the worlds foremost spies and assassins. She has read Hank McCoy's famous novella "House of M" many times, and seeks the Mutant Messiah fervantly.
Forge: A Native American cast out of his Tribe when his mutant powers manifested, Forge is a young man who follows Charles Xavier as he travels the world. Together, the two recently discovered a crashed alien spacecraft, and Forge plans to use the technology to unlock a better future for all mankind.
Tessa/Sage: Another young mutant student of Charles Xavier, Tessa is emotional and heart-breakingly beautiful.
Logan (not yet codenamed Wolverine): Logan is a battle-scarred veteran of many wars. He doesn't remember his name or exactly where he came from, but he knows that he fought in both World Wars, and spent two decades in Japan following World War II learning the ways of the Samurai. Logan sometimes works as a freelance agent of SHIELD, including having tracked and battled The Hulk in Canada once. Logan does not yet possess an adamantium skeleton or the codename Wolverine, as he has yet to be experimented on by Weapon X.
Hank McCoy: Though he is young, Doctor Hank McCoy has many doctorates to his name, and is a well-known theoretical biologist. He is also a mutant. Dr. McCoy wrote the speculative "House of M" as his Senior Thesis at MIT, a book that theorized the inevitability of the emergence of naturally born super-humans, which he termed "mutants." The paper also theorized that these "mutants" would face horrific prejudice and eventually require the efforts of a violent "Mutant Messiah" to help them obtain acceptance. House of M also presented a theoretical future in which mutant pride would be shown by tattooing an "M" over the eye... a fashion which has already begun to take hold amongst Mutant youth culture.
Wade Wilson/Deadpool: The serum that created Captain America and Bucky Barnes was destroyed, but that doesn't mean the government gave up on creating super soldiers. The Weapon Plus program was devised in the early 70's in order to give the government obedient soldiers to battle super-humans, should the need arise. Many failed experiments later, the first successful test subject was Wade Wilson in 1999. A mutant with the ability to recover from any wound, Wilson was disfigured by the treatment, but he was also enhanced. Codenamed "Weapon X" (because the treatment was the tenth iteration of the successful serum), the project is working on obtaining more test subjects. The problem is that Wilson keeps escaping; on missions, in-between missions, during breakfast...
Untold millenia ago: The Kree-Skrull war spreads to all corners
of the galaxy. The Shi'ar Empire attempts to broker a peace
between them and, as a result, is attacked by both sides and
nearly wiped out. The Shi'ar Majestrix and her Royal Guard
escape, but are hunted relentlessly. Her ship eventually crashes
on primordial Earth. The Kree and Skrull are both unaware of the
final fate of the Shi'ar peoples.
10,000 BC: The Kree, tracking the last Shi'ar vessel, discover
Earth. Though they fail to discover the remnants of the Shi'ar
vessel, they begin experimenting on Earthlings using the
mutagenic "Terrigen Mist." This speeds the evolution of a small
portion of the Homo Sapien population, creating the sequestered
populace who would come to call themselves the Inhumans.
5,000 BC: Kang the Conquerer asserts his dynasty in Egypt, taking
the place of his own children and ruling for two millenia. His primary competition for domination over the entire earth is The Mandarin, a deathless being who draws power from the spirits of all the peoples of Asia. These battles are primarily fought through proxies; Mandarin supports rebels within Egypt who call themselves the Sandstormers, while Kang (as Rama-tut) supports the tiny independant nation of K'un-Lun and its martial arts masters, who oppose Mandarin's rule.
3,000 BC: The stalemate of power is broken when both sides are destroyed. The K'un-Lun learn the secret of the Iron Fist, and The Mandarin is forced into hiding. Meanwhile the Sandstormers are destroyed in Egypt, but their last son, En Sabah Nur, defeats Kang/Rama-tut in single combat, forcing him to flee the time period. En Sabah Nur becomes Pharoh of Egypt.
146 BC: The Roman Empire finds evidence that its trade rival, Carthage, has people with super-human powers living amongst them. The Romans crush Carthage and re-write history to hide all references.
500 AD: King Arthur is defeated and carried to the isle of Avalon, which is then hidden from human sight by the Three Wierd Sisters. In the same year, magic has faded from reality to such a degree that the purely magical island of Atlantis can no longer be sustained. It sinks, and its last Prince, Namor, becomes frozen.
1846: Scientist Nathaniel Essex executes human experiments and discovers the existence of mutants. Eventually he comes to the attentio of authorities, and is arrested and scheduled for execution. He disappears from imprisonment.
World War II: Though "mystery men" have been appearing for almost a decade all over the world, the first true modern-era "super" humans appear as a direct result of the war. Germany first fields "Master Man" in its attack on Poland. By the time America enters the war, it already has two super soldiers (Captain America and James "Bucky" Barnes), a thawed out Namor the Sub-Mariner, and the androids Torch and Toro to field. The so-called "Invaders" are soon joined by The Whizzer and Miss America, as well as British heroes Captain Britain (created using the same super-soldier serum as Captain America), Union Jack, and Spitfire. At the end of the war, all of these heroes (and their villainous counterparts) retire, most of them to peaceful lives. A Nazi war-criminal known as the Red Skull escapes during his trial.
1976: The modern era of super heroes begins with the accidental creation of the Fantastic Four. Other heroes (mostly solo heroes) follow, including the infamous Hero X (Professor Charles Xavier in costume, though no one including his own brothers know it was him)
1980: David Banner, researching alternative energy sources, accidentally gamma-irradiates himself and becomes The Hulk.
1988: The Avengers are formed when the Norse trickster Loki convinces Thor, Ant-man, The Wasp, and Iron Man to to band together to stop The Hulk's latest rampage in New York City.
1990's: A boom in the population of super-powered beings sees the premiere of Spider-Man, Daredevil, The Punisher, The New Warriors, and myriad others.
The Mutant Issue: Though mutants have been a portion of human society for as long as there have been humans, the numbers were tiny (in 1980, there were fewer than a dozen living mutants on planet Earth). That has changed. From approximately 1980 until 1995, there was a "boom" in the number of children being born who would display an active X-gene when they hit puberty (later in some cases). The massive boom in mutant population could not go unnoticed. Around 2002 the world will start to be very aware of mutants, and within a year that awareness will become a full-fledged worldwide panic. The anti-mutant crusades won't be far behind. However, as of the year 2000 there are only a handful of active mutants. Amongst them are;
Professor Charles Xavier: Still seven years from establishing the Xavier Academy, Xavier is well aware of the "mutant boom" and is already laying plans to head off the prejudice he feels is inevitable. Charles has been retired from his heroic "Hero X" persona for a decade, but still dons the guise on occasion. As Hero X, Xavier has deep connections within the super-human community.
Eric Magnus Lensherr: Eric has only recently (within the past year) adopted the identity of "Magneto." As a boy Eric (at the urging of his half-brother Charles Xavier) attempted to use his powerful psychic abilities to soothe the mind of their dying Father, but instead completely absorbed their Father's memories of his boyhood in a Nazi concentration camp. As a result of the trauma, Eric's psychic abilities were blocked forever, completely unusable, but he developed a secondary mutation; one more suited to the rage and power lust he now felt; the absolute mastery of Magnetism. Magneto's mental health has been in steady decline ever since, and his brother Charles long ago cast him aside. The third brother, Cain Marko, is a normal human, and Eric feels nothing but contempt for him. Eric has three children. The eldest two (Peter and Wanda, twins aged 10) are a great shame to him, as their mother was a human, and he fears they will be as well. His younger daughter, Lorna (age 2) is his child with Charles Xavier's former lover Moira MacTaggart, and is in Moira's care on Muir Island.
Mystique: Having only recently discovered her powers, Mystique is a loner and a drifter, but is already forming the skills that will one day make her one of the worlds foremost spies and assassins. She has read Hank McCoy's famous novella "House of M" many times, and seeks the Mutant Messiah fervantly.
Forge: A Native American cast out of his Tribe when his mutant powers manifested, Forge is a young man who follows Charles Xavier as he travels the world. Together, the two recently discovered a crashed alien spacecraft, and Forge plans to use the technology to unlock a better future for all mankind.
Tessa/Sage: Another young mutant student of Charles Xavier, Tessa is emotional and heart-breakingly beautiful.
Logan (not yet codenamed Wolverine): Logan is a battle-scarred veteran of many wars. He doesn't remember his name or exactly where he came from, but he knows that he fought in both World Wars, and spent two decades in Japan following World War II learning the ways of the Samurai. Logan sometimes works as a freelance agent of SHIELD, including having tracked and battled The Hulk in Canada once. Logan does not yet possess an adamantium skeleton or the codename Wolverine, as he has yet to be experimented on by Weapon X.
Hank McCoy: Though he is young, Doctor Hank McCoy has many doctorates to his name, and is a well-known theoretical biologist. He is also a mutant. Dr. McCoy wrote the speculative "House of M" as his Senior Thesis at MIT, a book that theorized the inevitability of the emergence of naturally born super-humans, which he termed "mutants." The paper also theorized that these "mutants" would face horrific prejudice and eventually require the efforts of a violent "Mutant Messiah" to help them obtain acceptance. House of M also presented a theoretical future in which mutant pride would be shown by tattooing an "M" over the eye... a fashion which has already begun to take hold amongst Mutant youth culture.
Wade Wilson/Deadpool: The serum that created Captain America and Bucky Barnes was destroyed, but that doesn't mean the government gave up on creating super soldiers. The Weapon Plus program was devised in the early 70's in order to give the government obedient soldiers to battle super-humans, should the need arise. Many failed experiments later, the first successful test subject was Wade Wilson in 1999. A mutant with the ability to recover from any wound, Wilson was disfigured by the treatment, but he was also enhanced. Codenamed "Weapon X" (because the treatment was the tenth iteration of the successful serum), the project is working on obtaining more test subjects. The problem is that Wilson keeps escaping; on missions, in-between missions, during breakfast...
