History Of Events

Timeline

2223 – Eastern alliance bombs Greater Kansas in order to kill President John Baxter and to deal a serious blow to the Western Confederation. November 1 becomes known as the day the Eastern Alliance crossed the line between cold and hot war. It was during the Olympics, right after America’s win in speedball. Not only Baxter dies, but also a dozen other heads of state, there to watch the games. Along with thousands upon thousands of spectators. (Until Fear No Longer Defines Us)

2224 – The generals take control of the western confederation, begin the preparations for a full-scale war.

2225 – Start of the war between the Eastern Alliance and the Western Confederation: the Western Confederation hits back by bombing many political and religious symbols in the Eastern World, including but not limited to Mecca. From there the war officially stars.

2243 – Eastern alliance nukes Cuba, signalling a new phase in the war. Fallout drifting out to sea kills about 3/4 of the Eastern Fleet. Both parties decides it’s in everybody’s interest not to use nukes anymore. The war changes.

2263 – Ruiz Alfredo Trafalgar de Costa is born

2270 – the construct Rumble is set loose on the world by his making, signalling the final phase of the war. Missiles are abandoned in favour of humanoid robots that infiltrate enemy encampments and blow them up.

2269 – Hugh Sanches Cuberes is born

2270 – Stender is born

2272 – Weisz is born

2278 – Chang Kun Wei is born

2281 – Russia tips the scales of the war to the Western Confederation by signing a non agression treaty with the WC, and dominating China in an open field battle that draws out for 2 months, and is finally won by Russie due to their destruction of China’s supply lines.
2282 – Last stages of the most recent world war – Western Confederation pushes the Eastern Alliance into a corner, and peace is negotiated.
Valentina Marin is born.
Walter Lane is born.

2283 – Lannie Williams is born.

2284 – Daniella Summers is born

2287 – Weisz starts her career in the Black City betting stations. During the next three years she works herself up quickly to a position where she ends up as the assistant of the boss.

2295 – Stender finds Valentina at age 13, sees the killer that she is.

2296 – Stender meets Hugh, uses him to realise his dream to start the tournaments. Weisz obtains control over Black City betting circuit, is contacted by Huey.

2297 – The year of the first tournament, also the year of the snipers story.
Outcome:
Northern league: Kyle Jairam (first win, sniper – Imperfection + Walk with me)
Euroleague: Steiner Elmontz

2298 – Outcome: Peter Delmont wins the Northern league, taking out two media favourtites: Juanez Blanca and Steiner Elmontz (Shadows)

2299 – The year of the first rookie tournament, Peter Delmont wins the Northern league for the second time. (Perfect Enemy)

2300 – Northern League: Peter Delmont wins third time, close call – he quits the game.

2301 – Fight Or Hide After the Moon/Kwon match that lasts for over twenty four hours and had to end with the bombing of the premises in the Asia League it’s decided to start using a time limit. Also, Young is recruited by Stender to help deal with crisis management, video editing and COO work during League matches.

2302 – the first year of Valentina’s participation, takes out Peter Delmont (brought back by Stender just for this) in one of the prelims and establishes her reputation as the best thing since sliced bread. End of time limit, Delmont is slaughtered 10 mins before time limit
Young joins the Corporation League Team, creates the system with the probes, which opens up a whole new range of arena’s. The “boot camp” concept beforehand is abolished, as it turns out a lot of good candidates get slaughtered in camp already. The Fortress becomes a preliminary to the League, is usually held between November and December. The League Games are between April and July.
Outcomes:
Northern league: Valentina Marin (first win)
Asia League: Chang Kun Wei (first win)

2303 – Daniella Summers signs up for the fortress game in a fit of drunkenness. She never hears about it again and assumes she has been deemed unworthy or too drunk to sign with full conscience.
Outcome:
Euroleague: Donny Wellington (first win)
Northern league: Valentina Marin (second win)
Asia League: Chang Kun Wei (second win) — during the legendary battle w/ Li Nguyen battle. That standoff lasts for six hours.

2304 – Charlotte Adams and Myrian Seltzer face off in the Fortress; Charlotte wins. Charlotte will never enter the Euroleague, though – she is killed by Donny Wellington who was involved with Seltzer and Adams both. (Self-Assessment, A Bit Of Luck, Burn) Donny is trialed for murder and initially opts for Death Match. He’s placed in the Northern League, which is earlier than his usual Euro stomping grounds. He goes down under Valentina’s guns without putting up a fight. (Eyeless)
Outcomes:
Northern league: Valentina Marin (third win)
Asialeague: Chang Kun Wei (third win)

2305 – Outcome
Northern league: Valentina Marin (fourth win)
Euroleague: Laurent le Blanc (first win, then relocates to Northern League after the battle)
Asialeague: Chang Kun Wei (fourth win) – At the end of the seasons the triads kill Chang Kun Wei’s one true love. He repays them by practically destroying the triads. After that season he takes a 2 year break.

2306: Outcome:
Northern league: Valentina Marin (fifth win); – after a long standoff against tactical genius Laurent le Blanc (from Belgium, wields dual guns). It’s a game of exhaustion, lasting for nearly 48 hours. Val wins because of an aw, fuckit attitude. Laurent, who is more of a tactical person, does not expect this and loses.
Southern league: Ruiz Alfredo de Trafalgar (first win)

2307: Eventful League with spectacular battles, after this it is decided that there should be an overall championship next year because there’s just so much talent around and the ratings were through the roof.
Northern league: Valentina Marin (sixth win)
Southern League: Ruiz Alfredo de Trafalgar (second win)
Euroleague: Logan Falk (first win)
Asialeague: Chang Kun Wei (fifth win, back once again)
African League: Tijs de Kler (first win)
Rookie League: Lannie Williams (first win)

2308 – the deathmatch of the decade, and the year of Stenders retirement and Hueys imprisonment on grounds of fraud.
Ruiz gets impaled by Chang Kun Wei. Chang Kun Wei ends up in the finals with Valentina Marin and loses.
Valentina Marin becomes World Champion. Because of problems with her injector during the actual game in radioactive environment, she gets quite sick with radiation sickness and has to spend some time in regen tanks to get better again. (Resonance; Pending A God)

2308 (later) – The construct “Rumble” ends up in the hands of the good Doctor, who also revives Ruiz with the help of his geneticist wife, Charlene.
Ruiz stays with them for a while to recover, but he’s ready to take over the southern league at the start of the next season.
During this time he briefly meets Walter Lane, who stays there to recover from heavy knee surgery that has been paid for with the prize money of his dead wife Lannie Williams.

2309 – The Survival Game happens. (Sixty Minutes) Daniella Summers wins the survival game, but also manages to kills the brain behind the Survival Game: Jorn Berntsson. Summers is convicted and trialed – of which the outcome is either death or Death Match. She chooses for the deathmatch.

2310 – the Southern League finds themselves with a new convict: Daniella Summers. She enters the Southern League. Her presenter is Ruiz (now fully functional again with cyborg parts). Walter Lane, husband of deceased Lannie Williams, will also enter the League, alledgedly to win the game for her or else to be with her forever. The match will go horribly wrong, resulting in Lane and Summers on the run, outside League parameters. (Forsaken)

2311: The first working humanoid cyborgs are entered into the Asia league (??).

2314 – the cyborgs seem to rebel for no reason, causing a lot of mayhem in some major cities. Charlene is murdered, the cyborgs are taken out of commission in favour of other creatures.

2319 – start of the bot-plot.