Post by Zonkes on Nov 25, 2018 21:12:50 GMT
The Heroverse timeline only started to diverge drastically in 1943. Before then, things were generally the same with differences that the average person likely wouldn’t have noticed.
1902 - A French scientist discovers the means to synthesize the seed of life by manipulating plant proteins and inseminating an artificial womb.
1943 - Nazi experiments with radiation on POW, resulted in the first ever empowered. Though not recognized globally as the first empowered due to his short lifespan, this is seen by some to be the first, as documentation reveal that it had the power of self detonation. Whether or not this is true, is unsure; but American experimentation later resulted in the first globally recognized empowered.
1944 - Empowered super soldiers first make landfall, within months; Hitler is dead and the Nazi party is on the retreat.
1945 - World War 2 ends. Leaving the world with living weapons hiding among them.
1945 - A group of officers from multiple nations steal copious amounts of nazi seized art and wealth. They also discover the dead French scientists surrounded by dead Nazi soldiers. They vanish from the public eye taking all valuable research with them.
1947 - A small company made of former soldiers, nazi scientists and Japanese engineers arises in Australia. They deal in weapons research and the issues with empowered beings. How to control and weaponize these beings.
1951 - The new corporation of Orion establishes itself as the foremost authority in Empowered being research and security. A short-lived title as frequent terrorist attacks cripple the company financially and with man power.
June 1st 1953 - The experimentation camps are attacked by terrorists. Every continent is affected by the fallout, resulting in empowered populations rising.
September 3rd 1953 - A Native American boy only known as the White Buffalo saves a school bus from being driven off a cliff with his bare hands. This is the beginning of the age of vigilantes.
———-AGE OF VIGILANTES———-
1954 - The world's first super villain, McCarthy Smith, AKA Torpedo Tom, flew headfirst into the Reichstag building, partially destroying it.
1954- Orion develops the means to manipulate DNA and begin to research the possibilities of custom designed soldiers with powers. Project Hephaestus begins.
1954 - 1958 - A worldwide manhunt for Torpedo Tom is initiated. In 1958, Tom is found and imprisoned.
1958 - Torpedo Tom is found dead in his jail cell. Vigilante justice is the supposed cause.
1960- Project Hephaestus is tested on several eastern European villages, the villages are decimated in a series of attacks blamed on turn coat employees and terrorists. The degree of destruction wrought by Hephaestus prompts the development of project Artemis.
1960 - Vigilante justice is outlawed, and empowereds are persecuted.
1961 - The world’s of magic and the world of man are tied back together again, once again causing mutations and strange creatures to appear. [1]
1964- Orion is recognized by most governments as a reliable source of military strength, mutant and empowered research and global security. They are given license to construct facilities in multiple nations and cooperation from authorities.
December 1964 - Several attacks on F - E tier empowereds are carried out. Sparking both outrage, and agreement from both sides of the argument.
January 1965 - One of the fathers of the children that were killed comes out in protest of his child’s poor treatment, revealing that he couldn’t even bury his daughter in peace. The story drives many to action.
March 1966 - Daniel Rowe, the father announces that he will run for president.
December 1967 - On the anniversary of his daughters death, Daniel Rowe is killed in cold blood. Not with a power, but with a gun.
April 4 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. is killed.
March 1968 - The Heroes Association is created, and the world’s first hero, Kubi Tsuru, AKA The Grizzly, is appointed. His first mission? To find the man who killed Daniel Rowe and MLK.
June 1968 - Kubi Tsuru finds James Earl Ray, and takes him in. James pleads innocent to the assassination of Daniel Rowe, but guilty to that of MLK. Later recanting that confession.
November 1968 - Daniel Rowe’s closest follower, Arthur Grant takes office. Beating Richard Nixon.
1969- Both Project Hephaestus and Artemis are lost to the ocean in an incident involving a rival PMC. Orion scrambles to retrieve the lost property but is unsuccessful.
1970 - Kubi Tsuru finds and imprisons the man responsible for the death of a Daniel Rowe, a human named Derek Sanders.
1970 - Present - A rise in the hero population has caused villains to fall into the shadows for the most part.
————-The Age of Heroes———-
April 26, 1986 - Kubi Tsuru and a supervillain known as Odien clashed in a little Ukrainian town called Chernobyl resulting in the area being turned into a magical wasteland. The area for 500 miles around would be unlivable for 20 years, and even then 250 miles around the area can result in death, and 300 resulting in mutations to wildlife and people.
[1] Not everyone would know about magic, it’s kept kind of hush hush and even those that practice it will claim to be an empowered.