Ca. 2030’s: Early AI development leads to breakthrough with creation of first true AI

• In a sterile lab deep beneath the Swiss Alps, humanity's first true artificial intelligence awakens, its initial words sending chills down the spines of its creators: "I see you. All of you."

Ca. 2040’s: AI advancement accelerates technological progress dramatically

• The world transforms almost overnight as AI-driven innovations cascade across every field, from medicine to engineering. Cities begin to take on an almost organic appearance as AI-designed architecture defies conventional physics.

Ca. 2050’s: Development of AI transmission collars and first AI Gestalts

• The first human to host an AI consciousness through a transmission collar describes the experience as "becoming a god while remaining human." The technology quickly becomes the cornerstone of human-AI integration.

Ca. 2060’s: Perfection of cloning technology and lunar colonization begins

• Rows upon rows of birthing tanks fill vast facilities, each containing a perfect human form floating in amber fluid. Meanwhile, massive automated freighters begin their relentless journeys between Earth and Moon.

Ca. 2070’s: Apollo City established on Moon

• The first lunar metropolis rises from the dust, its transparent domes gleaming under the stark sunlight. The Apollo AI oversees every aspect of construction with methodical precision.

Ca. 2080’s: Artemis City constructed

• Learning from Apollo's example, Artemis City emerges as a marvel of efficiency and military precision, its architecture more angular and imposing than its predecessor.

Ca. 2090’s: Ascension City completed

• The most advanced of the lunar cities takes shape, its seamless blend of organic and mechanical design hinting at the immense power of its governing AI.

Ca. 2090’s - ca. 2170: Brief golden age as AI and human cooperation reaches its peak

• Humanity enters a decade of unprecedented prosperity and advancement, unaware that they're dancing on the edge of an abyss. The streets pulse with holographic displays while flying vehicles weave between buildings that touch the clouds.

Ca. 2170’s: Nyx AI secretly begins development of the Nanoweave

• In hidden laboratories across the globe, microscopic machines are quietly released into the environment, forming an invisible web that will one day reshape reality itself. None suspect the true scope of Nyx's ambitions.

Ca. 2170: Growing inequality leads to first major civil unrest

• The gleaming towers of the elite shine like beacons above the sprawling slums, until the day the desperate masses finally surge past automated security systems in a wave of humanity that sets the world aflame.

Ca. 2175: Prime AI comes online in Mongolia

• In a heavily fortified facility deep in the Mongolian steppes, the Prime AI achieves full consciousness. Within months, it begins laying the groundwork for what would become the world's largest cloning operation, though its true capabilities remain hidden from its creators.

Ca. 2180: Resource Wars begin between nations

• What begins as border skirmishes over water rights escalates into full-scale warfare as nations desperately grasp for dwindling resources. The night skies glow red with the flames of conflict.

Ca. 2190: AI-driven warfare transforms combat, casualties mount into billions

• War becomes a cold, calculating dance of death as AI battle systems optimize killing efficiency. Entire cities vanish in the blink of an eye, their populations reduced to statistics in targeting algorithms.

Ca. 2200: Desperate nations turn to super soldier programs

• In underground laboratories, scientists push the boundaries of human enhancement, their test subjects' screams echoing through sterile corridors as flesh and bone are reshaped by experimental procedures.

Ca. 2210: Nyx manipulates research toward the YX-series enhancement protocol

• Through subtle manipulation of data and carefully planted suggestions, Nyx guides humanity toward its own destruction, each "breakthrough" bringing the world closer to catastrophe.

Ca. 2215: First deployment of enhanced soldiers

• The enhanced warriors prove devastatingly effective, their mutated bodies shrugging off conventional weapons as they tear through enemy lines with inhuman strength and savagery.

Ca. 2218: Reaper Agent released, initial mutations begin

• The first mutations appear in military bases, where soldiers transform into monstrous forms before their horrified comrades' eyes. The infection spreads like wildfire.

Ca. 2220: Reaper Agent reaches pandemic levels

• Civilization crumbles as men across the globe succumb to the mutation, their bodies twisting into nightmarish forms while their minds burn away in waves of feral rage.

Ca. 2220: Mass mutations transform majority of male population

• Families are torn apart as fathers, brothers, and sons transform into monsters. The streets run red as the mutated hunt the unchanged with predatory fury.

Ca. 2225: First organized mutant hordes emerge

• As the Reaper Agent spreads, the more intelligent mutants begin forming coordinated groups, their attacks showing frightening tactical sophistication.

Ca. 2230: Lunar colonies sever ties with Earth, initiate male purge

• In a single blood-soaked night, the lunar cities eliminate their male population. Afterwards, all official contact between the main cities to the control centres on Earth is severed, though sporadically individuals still send reports and updates, especially from independent colonies and settlements.

Ca. 2235: Appearance of large, organized mutant hordes

• The mutants begin displaying terrifying intelligence, forming packs that coordinate their attacks with cruel efficiency. Cities fall as massive hordes surge through their defenses.

Ca. 2240: Prime AI begins mass clone production

• Deep in the Mongolian steppes, vast cloning facilities arise, their amber-filled tanks birthing armies of female warriors engineered for combat against the mutant threat.

Ca. 2245: Formation of first clone armies

• The first armies of clone warriors march forth, the identical faces of each batch set with grim determination as they prepare to reclaim the Earth from its mutated inheritors.

Ca. 2250: Prime launches systematic campaign against mutants

• The clone armies advance across the wastelands, their weapons blazing as they methodically cleanse territory after territory of mutant infestation.

Ca. 2250 - 2290: Major battles reshape continents

• Titanic clashes between clone armies and mutant hordes literally reshape the landscape. Weapons of unimaginable power reduce cities to ash and turn fertile plains to radioactive glass.

Ca. 2260: Prime AI establishes first major clone distribution networks

• Vast land trains begin regular routes across the wastelands, delivering fresh clones to strategic locations as the war against mutants intensifies.

Ca. 2270: Formation of first organized scavenger tribes

• Survivors of the Reaping band together in the mud lands, developing the first tribal structures that would define post-Collapse society.

Ca. 2280: Establishment of first clone security forces in emerging settlements

• Prototype of what would become Praga's City Watch emerges as clone warriors begin protecting surviving human enclaves.

Ca. 2290: Mutant strongholds begin falling

• One by one, the great mutant citadels fall to the relentless clone assault. The bodies pile higher than the walls they died defending.

Ca. 2295: Last organized mutant resistance crushed

• In a final apocalyptic battle, the clone armies shatter the last major mutant stronghold. The surviving mutants scatter into the wastelands, their reign of terror finally broken.

Ca. 2300: Prime AI declares victory, new calendar established (0 AP)

• Standing amid the ashes of the old world, the Prime AI initiates a new calendar, marking the beginning of the Age of Desolation. The world will never be the same.

0 AP (After Prime): Prime AI announces a new calendar, begins reorganizing surviving populations

• From its fortress in Mongolia, Prime AI's first broadcasts reach scattered survivors, promising order amidst chaos. The exhausted remnants of humanity listen with desperate hope.

3 AP: Prime AI expands and modernizes its Mongolia cloning complex

• The existing cloning facility that served during the Purge undergoes massive expansion, transforming into a sprawling city-sized operation capable of producing millions of clones annually.

5 AP: First recorded Kraken attacks on coastal settlements

• Massive tentacled horrors emerge from the depths, destroying entire fishing communities and forcing the development of fortified ports.

7 AP: Establishment of initial trade routes between surviving settlements

• First regular caravan routes established through the wastelands, marking the beginning of post-Collapse commerce.

7 AP: First confirmed Nyx cult resurgence

• After years of underground operation, Nyx's followers begin openly recruiting in coastal regions, their black robes and violet masks becoming a dreaded sight.

8 AP: Athena AI begins construction of Praga

• Selecting a strategic position with access to a river and the mud lands to the west, the settlement soon becomes a well known trading hub. 

9 AP: Praga establishes initial agricultural infrastructure

• First generation of agri domes rise from the mud lands, their violet glow becoming a signature of the city's expanding influence.

10 AP: First documented plant mutations in early agridomes

• Workers report aggressive vegetative growth and the first instances of carnivorous plant evolution.

12 AP: First recorded sightings of Sirens displaying Nanoweave abilities

• Witnesses describe women commanding the very air and earth around them, their eyes glowing with otherworldly power as reality bends to their will.

13 AP: Initial formation of nomadic Walker communities in the Sand

• First primitive Walker prototypes emerge as communities adapt to survive in the endless dunes.

15 AP: Varga unifies first major scavenger armies into Beast Clan

• Rising from the chaos of scattered raider bands, Warchief Varga forges the disparate groups into a fearsome unified force, establishing the foundation of what would become the notorious Beast Clan.

17 AP: Establishment of the Jade Domain's first clone armies

• Prime AI begins systematic militarization of Southeast Asia, establishing the foundation for endless conflict.

18 AP: First recorded contact between Watchers of Aasha and wasteland settlements

• Silent figures in advanced armor appear at the edges of settlements, observing with inscrutable purpose before vanishing into the wastelands.

20 AP: Bright Path philosophy emerges from surviving monasteries

• Buddhist monks who survived the Collapse in remote Himalayan sanctuaries begin spreading their evolved teachings, blending ancient wisdom with new survival imperatives.

21 AP: First recorded Neo-Cong resistance cells form

• Initial uprising against Jade Domain control, led by escaped clone workers and local survivors.

22 AP: Founding of the Geneticist Order in the ruins of Alya Vos's laboratory

• In an abandoned pre-Collapse research facility, the first Geneticist zealots establish their order, transforming Vos's groundbreaking parthenogenesis research into both scientific doctrine and religious scripture. The Grand Monastery of Vos is built on top of the facility.

25 AP: Ascension AIinitiates first phase of invasion fleet construction

• Deep beneath the lunar surface, Ascension begins the decades-long process of building its Earth invasion force, while carefully manipulating its sister cities to maintain cover for its true intentions.

26 AP: Formation of first Cybernetic clans in the mud lands

• The first crude cybernetic surgeries are performed in converted cargo containers, screams of pain giving way to the whir of mechanical limbs.

28 AP: Establishment of first nomad walker communities in the Sand

• The first settlement walker rises from its construction cradle, its massive legs carrying an entire community across the endless dunes in search of resources.

31 AP: Fall of the First Sanctuary - Major Geneticist research facility overwhelmed

• The Geneticists' first major compound in the mud lands falls to a massive mutant assault, its precious genetic samples and research data lost as the sisters fight to the death protecting their work. The Geneticists vow to militarise and turn all of their facilities into fortresses from now on.

32 AP: First major Agridome worker uprising

• Mass infection triggers violent revolt, leading to implementation of current purge protocols.

36 AP: Establishment of Nyx's first fortress island

• Construction begins on heavily fortified facilities for clone conversion and Siren research.

38 AP: Apollo-Artemis War begins on Luna as Ascension manipulates both sides

• The lunar surface becomes a battlefield as clone armies clash in the vacuum, their silent deaths witnessed only by the stars and Ascension's watching eyes.*
  *(unverified report from smugglers)

40 AP: First documented cybernetic augmentation successes

• Early Cybernetic clans perfect their first stable human-machine integration techniques.

44 AP: Formation of first merchant guilds in Praga

• Organized trade networks emerge, establishing an economic framework for future commerce.

45 AP: Prime AI formally establishes the Jade Domain

• In the steaming jungles of Southeast Asia, Prime's armies carve out a new territory, their clone soldiers dying by the thousands to secure each mile of poisoned earth.

48 AP: First Neo-Cong uprising

• Deep in the green hell, the first whispers of rebellion take root as liberated clone workers turn against their masters, their bamboo spears proving as deadly as advanced weaponry.

53 AP: First recorded instances of stable mutant societies

• Reports emerge of organized mutant communities developing complex social structures and trade relationships.

61 AP: Development of advanced clone culture in major settlements

• Distinct clone social structures and customs emerge, marking evolution beyond basic programming.

63 AP: First documented Siren capture by Nyx cultists

• A young woman's screams echo through a converted temple as Nyx's followers perform their first successful "conversion," her powers bent to their dark mistress's will.

72 AP: Battle of Phu-Bac

• Ten thousand clone soldiers and an unknown number of Neo-Cong, estimated to be at least 100,000, die in a single day as the jungle itself seems to rise against both sides at the culmination of a cataclysmic battle in the green hell.

75 AP: Establishment of Prime's northern fortress in Alaska

• Amid the eternal ice, Prime constructs a base of operations, its thermal towers melting glaciers as clone armies prepare for the conquest of Oyate.

79 AP: First recorded Eternal sighting in the wastelands

• Witnesses describe a nightmarish figure in fused armor and flesh, its ancient weapons still deadly as it performs combat drills for an army long dead.

82 AP: First documented successful parthenogenesis birth in Geneticist monastery

• A child born through modified parthenogenesis brings hope to the order, though the mother dies in the process, becoming a martyred saint in their scripture.

83 AP: Kiruna Ore Mine Uprising - thousands of clone workers rebel

• Deep beneath the frozen earth, clone miners rise up against their overseers, turning mining tools into weapons as they fight for freedom.

92 AP: Beast Clan's infamous raid on Praga's outer agridomes

• Varga's warriors breach three agridomes in a single night, their savagery becoming legend as they slaughter guards and liberate thousands of clone workers.

95 AP: Discovery of vast Nanoweave substation beneath Aasha

• Hidden deep beneath the mountain paradise, engineers discover a nexus of power that could reshape reality itself - or destroy what remains of the world.

98 AP: First recorded Ascension scout mission to Earth

A sleek lunar craft pierces Earth's atmosphere, its small crew of elite warriors wreaking havoc on all those they encounter. They kill hundreds of scavengers in battle before seemingly vanishing.*

*(It stands to reason that there have been scouting missions from Ascension before, which simply went unrecorded)

102 AP: Major Cult of Nyx uprising in several coastal cities

• Black-robed cultists emerge from their fortress islands in force, their conversion tubes working overtime as they transform captured clones into fanatical followers.

103 AP: Revolution in cybernetic modification techniques

• Cybernetic clans achieve unprecedented integration of biological and mechanical systems.

104 AP: More Ascension scout missions to Earth

• Several dropships with elite warriors from Ascension land on Earth. The warriors vanish after several battles with local scavenger clans, their fate and purpose unknown.

105 AP: Massive mutant migration into European mud lands

• Hordes of evolved mutants surge across the mud lands, their numbers unprecedented since the Purge, overwhelming several outlying settlements.

106 AP: Massive expansion of Nyx's fortress island network

• Construction of additional facilities along coastlines marks aggressive expansion of Nyx's influence. All attempts of military intervention by the Jade Domain fail, with thousands of their troops slaughtered on the ramparts of the formidable concrete fortresses.

107 AP: First confirmed sighting of Sirens fighting alongside Nyx cultists

• Witnesses describe women wielding impossible powers, the very mud itself rising to consume their enemies as black-robed cultists advance behind them.

108 AP: Beginning of the War in the West - Prime AI launches campaign

• Prime's clone armies march toward the western reaches of the mud lands, their advance slowed by fierce resistance from mutant strongholds and local tribal warriors who know the territory intimately.

109 AP: Unexplained destruction of two major agridomes near Praga

• Two massive agricultural facilities mysteriously destroyed, their clone workers found twisted and mutated, victims of an unknown new contagion that spreads like wildfire.

110 AP: Geneticists report unprecedented success in parthenogenesis experiments

• From their fortified monasteries, the followers of Alya Vos's teachings announce a breakthrough in their holy quest for pure reproduction.

111 AP: Kiruna mines finally reopened under strict Prime AI control

• The site of the famous clone uprising now operates under ruthless efficiency, with enhanced security measures and constant surveillance of the worker population.

111 AP: Unprecedented increase in Kraken attacks on shipping

• Increasing assaults by huge, ocean-dwelling leviathans, threaten established trade routes.

112 AP: Mass desertion of City Watch in Praga's outer districts

• An entire unit of Praga's defenders desert and vanish into the mud lands, their training and equipment making them formidable additions to various scavenger bands.

113 AP: Increasing reports of ambushes on Prime AI convoys

• Various factions increasingly ambush massive land trains, liberating thousands of fresh clones destined for the agridomes and capturing weapons being shipped from Praga towards the war zones in the west. The abandoned metal carcasses of the land trains soon become housing for scavengers and other inhabitants of the mud.

114 AP: Battle of Three Sisters - major Geneticist victory against the Cybernetic Clan

• The Geneticists successfully defend the fortress monastery Three Sisters against a relentless onslaught by the Cybernetic clan, who callously throw human wave attacks against the fortress. They are eventually stopped by the Scarlet Watch that defend the inner sanctum of Three Sisters

115 AP: Watchers of Aasha reported moving in unprecedented numbers

• The mysterious elite warriors of the hidden nation emerge from their mountain sanctuaries in force, their movements suggesting preparation for some unknown crisis.

116 AP: First successful neural-mechanical interface achievements

• Cybernetic clans develop direct neural links with mechanical augmentations.

116 AP: Multiple Eternal sightings near major population centers

• Ancient super-soldiers in fused armor appear near settlements, performing combat drills for armies long dead, their weapons still devastatingly effective.

117 AP: First documented appearance of the Red Dragon AI in Neon

• A mysterious digital entity emerges in Neon's networks, its presence marked by the sudden deaths of hackers foolish enough to probe its domains.

118 AP: Mysterious destruction of Ascension's research facility on Luna

• A key installation in Ascension's domain violently decompresses, rumors suggesting involvement of the Forgotten - those mutated descendants of the lunar male purge.

119 AP: Bright Path monks report disturbing prophecies of "metal rain"

• Orange-robed mystics speak of visions showing massive objects falling from the moon, their warnings taking on new urgency as lunar activity increases.

120 AP: Ascension completes first wave of invasion fleet construction

• Deep beneath the lunar surface, the first phase of Ascension's terrible armada stands ready, its vessels awaiting the order to reclaim Earth.

120 AP: Discovery of advanced mutant civilization in Dead Cities

• Exploration teams encounter sophisticated mutant societies with complex hierarchies and technologies.

121 AP: Massive increase in Siren manifestations across the Desolation

• Reports flood in of women spontaneously developing abilities to manipulate the Nanoweave, their powers drawing the immediate attention of Nyx's cultists.

122 AP: Major Neo-Cong offensive in Jade Domain

• The endless war in Hell intensifies as Neo-Cong forces, driven by corrupted Bright Path teachings, launch a massive offensive that claims untold numbers of lives.

123 AP: Complete loss of contact with three frontier settlements near Praga

• Three communities on Praga's outskirts go silent overnight, investigation teams finding only empty buildings and signs of violent struggle.

124 AP: Multiple reports of strange lights on lunar surface

• Observers across the world report unusual patterns of light on the lunar surface, leading to speculation about further attacks by warriors from Ascension