Timeline
18 June 2212
Opening Night IC
29 June 2212
Attack on Seoul, First Appearance Of The Stardroids.
6 September 2212
A massive reptile is discovered guarding the Amazon Basin during a battle. After being wounded by Sigma, he is altered and rebuilt into King Dragon.
28 November 2212
In an act of defiance against the Stardroids, Bass nearly kills both himself and Megaman by flying into orbit and dropping Rock.
17 December 2212
Dr. Wily is arrested for his crimes and is to be transported to the UN for trial, but is freed by a sudden assault by his Robot Masters.
17 February 2213
A transporter 'accident' meant to kill Rock brings alternate-universe versions of several key players in the Robot Wars to this world.
19 February 2213
Starhaven, the Stardroid city, crashes into Vancouver, destroying it totally. The Stardroids pass down judgment: if the alternate-universe people are not sent back, they will destroy Earth before the distortions caused by the visitors destroys the universe.
6 March 2213
Kaiser Sigma is sent back to his own universe by a combined assault from the combined forces of the Mavericks, Robot Masters, Repliforce, and Maverick Hunters. Robotropolis is destroyed.
7 March 2213
The Robot Masters move into the Wily Star.
13 April 2213
Vile comes back to his senses as Vava, and surrenders himself to Repliforce for trial. Unfortunately, his old personality returns, and he ends up returning to the Mavericks.
22 May 2213
Dr. Wily dissappears, and King and six new Robot Masters activate, taking over the Robot Masters and kicking Bass out.
23 May 2213
Bass, suffering memory loss, becomes a Maverick Hunter for a short while, under the name Forte.
24 May 2213
King fires the Wily Cannon aboard the Wily Star, destroying Hope, Nevada, a reploid-only city.
10 June 2213
King kills Requiem, the Robot Master femme when she prevents him from killing Bass.
12 June 2213
The Robot Masters find Dr. Wily in a mental insitution. Bass comes back to his senses and kills King, who is later rebuilt by Wily.
June 2213
The Stardroids begin more actively appearing on Earth, often picking fights for no readily apparent reason.
7 July 2213
Duo appears on all world media, judging the Earth guilty. Almost immediately, Terra tries to stop the Earth's destruction, but is imprisoned. A search begins for keys kept by each of the Stardroids to free Terra, the only being who can stop Sunstar. Over the next week, each of the planetary Stardroids is forced to give up their keys, or they give them voluntarily.
14 July 2213
Gathered on Easter Island, the combined forces of all four groups fight Duo/Chaos, who is incapacitated by an unknown hero known only as Hero Boy. With the keys gathered, the Maverick Hunter Twila Peterson is used as a channel for the keys, releasing Terra at the cost of her own life. Sunstar and Terra are destroyed together, and Duet restores Twila to life, gathering the Stardroids to leave Earth.
11 September 2213
The Battle and Chase games are held, a temporary alliance holding the factions together for the time.
26 September 2213
The first Battle and Chase games come to a close.
27 September 2213
The Mavericks launch a massive assault and level the city of Berlin to show they haven't gone soft.
18 October 2213
Dr. Wily, masquerading as Coyote Masters, runs for Secretary-General of the UN. The Masters work undercover as 'heroes', but the plot is revealed and Kelly McLaren wins the election.
13 November 2213
A super-virus left over from the Chinese Revolution is intercepted while being transported for destruction. The Striders, a secretive group of ninja, are revealed to the world as both the thieves and the heroes that destroy the virus.
3 December 2213
Sigma leads a Maverick assault that destroys the WilyStar, so the Mavericks can preserve their dominance in space. The Masters retreat to an undersea base, the WilySphere.
28 December 2213
A mysterious 'virus' of tiny robots known as Cancers threatens the robotic life of the world.
9 February 2214
Colonel supposedly attacks Double, starting tension between the Hunters and the Repliforce
11 February 2214
A bunch of Repliforce recruits who had gone Maverick strike San Angeles with missiles, prompting the Maverick Hunters (with surprise assistance from the Mavericks) to react with force.
12 February 2214
The world turns against Repliforce, and battle rocks across the city of San Angeles for the next few days.
13 February 2214
The United Nations, the Maverick Hunters and the Mavericks attack Repliforce Island. Many notable Repliforcers are killed, and the Fortress II is destroyed. However, Repliforce manages to survive the assault with the intervention of the Robot Masters.
16 February 2214
Double is revealed as Jello Man, and the Maverick plot to discredit Repliforce is made plain. Colonel and Zero double-team and defeat Sigma, and Repliforce is pardoned by the United Nations. Double/Jello Man is killed by Protoman.
4 April 2214
Visitors from the alternate-universes come to Earth again, trying to stop Lady Viris and Zero Omega from taking advantage of this world.
15 May 2214
The Yakuza begin to experiment with new android members, the Shadow Hunters first appearing in Neo-Tokyo. Techno, their new hacker, begins playing havoc with the world's computer systems.
25 May 2214
Techno is defeated by his twin, Midi, in a Cyberspace battle, and the Shadow Hunters are revealed as Yakuza as they defend Techno while a retreat is made from the hacker's hidden base.
9 June 2214
The second Battle & Chase games are held.
7 July 2214
The UN unveils the Gateway Teleporter, using it to quickly assemble a new space station, Eurasia, without interference. The Mavericks, fearing their Lunar base being found, build the Enigma Cannon, a new superweapon. The Masters use the Skull Shuttle to board the station and take most of the UN Senate hostage. Repliforce fakes a surrender, then launches a surprise attack on the Masters, freeing Eurasia.
15 August 2214
Tron Bonne clones Dr. Wily in a plan for him to gain eternal life. Scott Wily, the clone, rebels and creates the Robot Overlords from his father's rejected plans. They go on a wild tear of chaos, but eventually trade information on the Robot Masters (including the location of the secondary fortress, Skull Citadel) to the UN in exchange for being let off the hook. Scott becomes a ward of Constance Wily, Dr. Wily's mother.
10 October 2214
Dr. Wily builds a giant ice ray and freezes Neo-Tokyo with it. At the same time, Sigma builds a 'daughter', Grace, to test out if his ideals of the Maverick Cause are correct. Grace is killed several days later, protecting Zero from Sigma.
14 October 2214
Repliforce launches an all-out assault on Skull Cidadel, to destroy the ice ray. After hours of hard fighting, Repliforce wins - but the Masters use the stolen Gateway system to move the Citadel to Egypt, making it look like it was destroyed.
4 December 2214
The UN, provoked by the Catholic Church, has a series of major debates on if robots have souls. The Irregulars took this as a chance to try and be taken as serious villians - but their attempts to kidnap UN politicans and foul the debates were stopped.
January 2215
The Maverick Hunters move into their second base, built in the
ruins of a World War III ship named the Fort Sam Houston.
January 2215
Unusual artifacts, supposedly of Stardroid make, appear and are
sought for by many people across the world. These pendants, when
brought together, bring about the destruction of El Paso, Texas, and
the apparent creation of a strange energy being, who vanishes.
Winter 2215
Robot Masters and Mavericks, in bold strikes, conquer large portions
of Europe and Africa, seizing sizeable footholds on both continents.
Doctor Wily sets up camp on Mount Kilamanjaro, while Sigma declares
Berlin the new Maverick capital.
7 April 2215
Kalinka Cossack becomes a Maverick Hunter.
17 May - 20 June 2215
The Third Battle & Chase games begin with a massive
celebration and concert by Boba Fett and the Assassin Droids,
performing their hit, No Chance To Survive (Make Your Time). The
games run for several weeks, and the world gets to take another
breather from war.
Summer 2215
Robot Masters build and officially open Wily World, an amusement
park built deep into Africa, and begin to promote it as a sign of
their benevolence.
15 July 2215
Robot Master advance from Africa into the Middle East is halted
by concentrated defense by Repliforce forces. At the same time, the
last footholds of non-Maverick Europe are fortified by the Repliforce
as well. Repliforce moves into the Monolith, a massive base outside
of London, England.
July 2215
Gate, a Reploid researcher, claims to have invented a program to make
Reploids immune to the Maverick virus. He and his creations explore
the lost city of Atlantis, apparently a Stardroid ruin. His theory
is eventually disproven as several of his children turn Maverick,
but the rest remain to join the good side and assist Repliforce and
the Maverick Hunters.
November 2215
The Stardroids reappear, this time split into two factions, one
fighting for, the other against, a mysterious world-devouring entity
that becomes known as Nigh. Starhaven is wrecked, collapsing into
rubble in Earth orbit, and many of the Stardroids are killed before
the world rallies together one final time to put a stop to the
mysterious menace, bringing an end to the power of the Stardroids
and Nigh.
21 December 2215
An unusual asteroid carved by the Robot Masters to resemble
the face of Bass crashes into northern South America during a concert
being staged by the fallen Stardroid Scorpio.
Winter 2216
Interpol, the International Police organization, is granted more
authority by the United Nations and put in charge of global law
enforcement under the leadership of Director Abernathy. Many former
UN operatives are shifted into this new organization, while some go
freelance.
January 2216
An asteroid strike destroys Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. This, coupled
with the asteroid that destroyed the Stardroid Scorpio, throw Earth's
weather into havoc, though immediate attempts are made to limit the
long-term impact of the events.
April 2216
The Arcanum Corporation seemingly revives deceased Reploids,
including King Dragon and Double, before their duplicity is revealed
to the public. Regardless, these recreations of deceased Reploids
serve in much the same role as their predecessors did.
May - June 2216
The fourth annual Battle & Chase games are held. These games
are not without incident, as on May 25th, a battle between General
and Zero goes awry and the memorial to the original defeat of the
Stardroids on Easter Island is destroyed, as well as the island
itself, when the safeties on the combat simulators fail and the
island is struck by General's Apocalypse Cannon.
June 2216
In a massive strike by the Repliforce battle platform, the
Fortress III, the Robot Master base on Mt. Kilamanjaro is destroyed.
The Robot Master headquarters is quietly relocated to Antarctica.
July 2216
A Maverick attack on the Repliforce base in London results in the
destruction of the Monolith base.
August 2216
Tengu Man attempts to assassinate Director Abernathy of Interpol,
under orders from Kalinka Cossack. Kalinka is kicked out of the
Maverick Hunters and goes to work for Interpol as a condition of
her punishment.
August - October 2216
Sheena, a mysterious Strider, has a composite clone of
Matic and Kain created from their DNA, creating Hien. The enigmatic
mercenary, Dynamo, slaughters Matic and Kain. Hien gains existence,
Yang Cipher; Mai Atsuki gains sexy sunglasses, Yin Cipher. The
Striders are briefly unified under Sheena, though they soon fragment
and form factions once more, the White and Black Dragons.
January - March 2217
Scott Wily, leader of the Robot Overlords, and Epsilon,
leader of the Irregulars, form the Irregular Overlords and terrorize
the world for several months, coming to a head as the Overlords manage
to steal Poland from the Mavericks, though they cannot hold it for
long.
8 March 8 2217
Gemini Man breaks into Light Labs and lowers its defenses, leading
a Robot Master assault which results in the destruction of the labs.
The raw destructive power of the assault wrecks much of the Donachi
District, driving the Mavericks Hunters from Neo-Tokyo.
Sigma is destroyed in a nuclear strike by Protoman, annihilating a large swath of land in Italy and nearly atomizing the Maverick leader. Protoman is nearly killed in the assault, and is saved by the Irregular Overlord iLuz, who dies from the radiation. Following her death, the Irregulars and Overlords part ways, Scott Wily returning to live with Constance and Epsilon and his merry band vanishing to explore the Solar System.
April 2217
Elpizo, a charismatic human, conquers Mexico City and renames it
Neo Arcadia. They declare their intentions to support a human-only
culture, using a new process: Human Enhancement, as well as the
ruthlessness of the homeless French Foreign Legion to secure their
new homeland and purge it of robotic life. Enhanced Humans quickly
prove to be capable warriors, able to fight robots in single combat
and win.
May 2217
Berkana, a UN researcher, announces the discovery of a method to
analyze reploid neural nets, which she termed the 'DNA Soul' This
allows researchers to begin investigating the changes between
normal neural nets and those infected with the Maverick Virus.
May 2217
Alpha, a member of the Maverick Hunters, contracts the Maverick Virus
and leads the Mavericks in an assault on Light Labs Minnesota.
Captured by Dynamo, Foucalt, and Durandal, she is cured of the virus
during a revolutionary procedure by Gate, using Berkana's DNA Soul
research.
May 4 2217
Mega Man announces his retirement from the Maverick Hunters.
May 10 2217
Vile kills the Pope, leader of the Roman Catholic Church,
horrifying humans worldwide by this breach of the neutrality
of the Vatican. The Church relocates to South America.
May 14 2217
Based on his successful viral purge of Alpha, Gate cures the
Maverick Virus.
May 28 2217
Kelly McLaren, the popular Secretary-General of the United Nations,
is felled by an assassin's bullet, dying of complications some days
later. Blame is initially leveled at Neo Arcadia, but it reality it
was a ploy by a secretive organization called Black SHIELD to
ensure that James Houseman, a UN Senator from England, would ascend
to the position of Secretary-General.
May 31 2217
Repliforce and the Maverick Hunters assault the Maverick stronghold
of Berlin, only to discover that Sigma has returned. In his new,
powerful form, Sigma infects many Repliforce warriors with a new
infectious strain of the Maverick Virus, later known as the
Sigma Virus. Sigma nearly kills the newest Maverick Hunter, Axl.
Summer 2217
Gate designs a new team of Reploids known as Red Alert. Using a
derivative of his Dream Protocol, this new team is immune Maverick
Virus and resistant to the Sigma Virus, and are assigned by
Secrtary-General Houseman to infiltrate Maverick Berlin. Abandoned
there by Black SHIELD, they sabotage the Mavericks and stage their own
escape, eventually signing on with the Repliforce army.
June 2217
The Sigma Virus proves more tenacious than the Maverick Virus, capable
of not only infecting reploids, but cyborgs, androids, and practically
anything computerized. Even the Robot Masters are not immune, and the
virus wreaks havoc among their ranks, and their new base in Neo-Tokyo,
built on the former grounds of Light Labs. The final casualty of the
virus amongst the Robot Masters is the destruction of the E-Ring
system, the process that guaranteed virtual immortality for the
Masters in battle.
June 24 2217
Repliforce is decommissioned by Secretary-General James Houseman,
citing the adoption of an army of UN Power Armors as the new defensive
force for the world.
July 27 2217
The Fortress IV, the superfortress meant to be the main base for
the Mass-Production Power Armor Corps, is destroyed during
construction. In the meantime, the decommissioned Repliforce works
on converting and rebuilding the crippled Fortress III into
Fortress V. Berkana abandons the UN and joins Repliforce there,
bringing with her Hi-Max, a powerful new reploid warrior.
July 30 2217
The underequipped UN Power Armor Corps are thrown into war,
landing on Normandy Beach in France and attacking the Maverick
defenses. Both sides are slaughtered in a battle that becomes an
utter bloodbath. The UN fails to gain a foothold in Europe in what
is ultimately a phyrric victory for the Mavericks.
July 2217
Mikage Yukiato, Kumichou of the Yakuza, is assassinated. An African
named Sera assumes his position in the organization.
August 26 2217
James Houseman destroys a large swath of South Africa with an
orbital ion cannon, rendering the Maverick-controlled capital city
incapable of robotic life, and threatens to use it on the entire
world. Interpol loyalists attack Houseman's inner circle in Seoul.
Interpol Director Abernathy is killed by Houseman, but his death is
avenged by Doctor Cossack, who kills the Secretary-General on the
roof of the UN Building. Meanwhile, Interpol destroys the man behind
the conspiracy, Black SHIELD Director Arkady, and his followers,
destroying the UN building in the process.
August 26 2217
In the United States, a joint strike by the Maverick Hunters and
Repliforce destroys the main headquarters of Black SHIELD. The base,
guarded by mass-production power armors and genetic mutations, is the
base for the intelligence group's conspiracy to conquer the world with
mutant soldiers and an army of reploid warriors based on their
original design, Dynamo.
August 26 2217
Mega Man destroys the orbital weapons system and saves the world,
coming out of retirement.
September 2217
The fifth annual Battle & Chase games are held.
Autumn 2217
The Repliforce establishes itself as an independent military force,
signing contracts with many of the countries of the world. Interpol
declares its independence from the UN, once more becoming the world's
largest legitimate investigative agency. The United Nations, reeling
from the chaos of Houseman's coup, largely dissolves, a core of mostly
Asian countries forming a new UN, under the leadership of reluctant
android Ambassador Chord.
Autumn 2217
The new, independent Repliforce's first military campaign is against
long Wily-held Africa. With their new flagship, the Fortress V,
Repliforce systematically attacks each of the Robot Master Sphere
Outposts, destroying each in turn. On November 27th, the campaign
is declared over. This success is considered by many to be proof
that Repliforce can stand without the United Nations.
January - February 2218
The government of Russia collapses, the country falling
into chaos. It is months before any semblance of civility returns to
the country.
January 31 2218
An experimental Reploid prison hosted by San Angeles is attacked
by Mavericks. San Angeles's finest police officer joins the Hunters.
February 26-27 2218
At the GTSE conference, a little-known researcher named
Gaudile introduces a mysterious new power source known as Force Metal,
as well as his creation, Cinnamon, a reploid designed to channel
Force Metal energy into raw healing power.
February 17 2218
GNN interviews members of Interpol concerning Javelin Whitetail,
a known Maverick sympathizer who was allowed into the organization.
Public doubt about Interpol's motives begins.
Winter 2218
Dr. Wily becomes the Emperor of Japan by mandate of the former
Emperor in his will. Interpol fails to prove it was a forgery,
legitimizing Wily's reign.
March 17 2218
Dr. Wily builds Redips, a new Force Commander, who promptly rebels
and takes over the Robot Masters, forcing Wily to work with the
Hunters for some time. Redips promotes Dust Man into Bass's position,
and the former Force Commander moves into a frat house in Eurasia.
April 25 2218
Neo Arcadia seizes much of Central America, sparking a war with
Repliforce, which eventually ends in the loss of the territory and
an uneasy truce between the two armies.
May 1 2218
In a combined attack by Maverick infiltrator Shadow and the recently
turned Foucalt, Mavericks attack and destroy both the hidden Hunter
base Elysium and their main base at the remains of the Fort Sam
Houston. The Hunters return to the original Light Labs in
Minnesota, where Dr. Light unveils the Tower of Light.
June 2218
Work begins in earnest on a Space Elevator, meant to stretch from the
surface of the Earth into orbit.
June 2218
Yakuza hacker Techno defects secretly from the organization and joins
the Robot Masters. When information provided by Techno goes public,
the group loses much of its former power and prestige.
June 4 2218
Dr. Light and Dr. Wily unveil the anti-Robot Master peacekeeping
robot Gamma. Dr. Wily reveals that Redips was under his control all
the time and tries to steal Gamma. Bass returns, destroying Gamma
and Redips and resuming his role as Force Commander.
June 11 2218
Interpol agent Javelin Whitetail betrays the organization, leading
to the destruction of their base at Shambala and her entry into
the Mavericks as Fianait.
June 11 2218
In a massive siege on Maverick-held Berlin, combined allied forces
charge through to the center of the city, where the Maverick Spire
is toppled in a paroxysm of explosives and firepower.
June 20 2218
Working with the reigning scientists of the Maverick Hunters,
Hunter Durandal creates a new working Buster, giving it to Alia.
June-July 2218
Doctor Wily sends the Robot Masters on a worldwide robbery
spree, stealing eclectic and unique artifacts in order to create
a new team of Robot Masters, his first since King and his court.
July 3 2218
Skull Monument, the Robot Master structure built on the ruins of
Light Labs, is destroyed. The Robot Masters remove to the Wilydrome,
a new hidden base.
July 21 2218
Australia bans all reploids, kicking them off the continent.
August 2218
Force Metal is discovered on the moon.
August 17 2218
A mysterious computer program known as Legion.DAT makes itself
known to the world. Quickly becoming known as Duo.EXE, it apparently
wishes to learn all there is of the world, and is the first digital
life form.
August 31 2218
Gate goes Maverick, driven insane due to his Force Metal
experiments, and unveils Lumine, a powerful new Maverick incorporating
a Buster-light copy system.
September 2218
The Irregulars return to prominence, led by Sclera in Epsilon's
absence.
September 25 2218
An Umbrella biomonster terrorizes El Paso. The rogue company,
thought dead after the Raccoon City incident, quickly allies itself
with Neo Arcadia.
October 5 2218
Force Metal discovered in Vancouver, where Starhaven fell long ago.
A city quickly springs up there, quickly becoming known as Giga City.
October 8 2218
The US and Canada pull out of Interpol, marking the beginning of
the end for the military arm of the global government, which dissolves.
Over the next few weeks, the organizations SciTech and S.T.A.R.S. take
over much of Interpol's former portfolio.
November 28 2218
War grips Giga City for a week as multiple parties vie for
dominance. While many groups gain a foothold, Giga City remains free.
December 4 2218
A transmission from Epsilon alerts the Irregular Overlords that
their leader is still alive. They see him under attack by beings
called Reavers, apparently Martian life forms. The transmission cuts
off, leaving his fate in doubt.
December 8 2218
A ship crashes in Cuba holding the bodies of fallen members of the
Irregulars, including Consonant and Mega Water S, but not Epsilon.
Reavers on board attack those who explore it, but are quickly wiped
out. The US government claims the wreck, and using it the various
groups involved in the war learn the secrets of faster-than-light
travel using Force Metal.
January 1 2219
Gemini Man detonates a Force Metal Bomb in San Angeles, killing
millions and turning the city into a war zone. In the weeks that
follow, Mavericks, Repliforce, and Neo Arcadia begin a protracted
campaign to secure, conquer, or subvert the city for their own purposes.
January 6 2219
Scott Wily betrays the Irregular Overlords, returning to work for
his father.
January 7 2219
Explorers from Earth make landfall on Mars, bringing with them
the first dedicated exploration teams to see the planet. They
quickly find that it is not uninhabited, a Robot Master holdover
known as Patriarch residing there with his Robot Gentlemen, as well
as an army of Reavers. Epsilon is found there, the only survivor of
the Irregular Overlord expedition.
January 12 2219
The Space Elevator, a massive structure reaching from Kansas City
to orbit, is complete.
January 16 2219
Iris discovers evidence of a previous civilization on Mars,
destroyed by the Stardroids. Scott Wily betrays his father, joining
the Robot Gentlemen.
January 26 2219
Aile, a surviving AI created by the Martian civilization, appears
and tries to warn the Earth forces of a superweapon Patriarch is
trying to uncover. Several days later, Patriarch kills Aile, using
his core to try and unlock the superweapon.
February 3 2219
The combined forces of Earth strike out against Patriarch.
However, he unseals an ancient Martian weapon known as Ra Moon, who is
in turn struck down by Steel Massimo. Dr. Light activates a massive
Force Metal-fueled weapon that transforms all of Mars into a green
planet that will one day be habitable.
February - August 2219
Increased turbulence in Australia is created by repeated
Robot Master and Maverick attacks that continue through August.
Australia's military begins to grow at a rapid rate, primarily in terms
of power armor based infantry.
February 12 2219
Melody, a HeraCorp Reploid specializing in medicine, is kidnapped
by the Robot Masters and reprogrammed into Meddy.
February 15 2219
Battle and Chase 2219 is held at Unity Atoll, an artificial
island created and maintained by the Disney Corporation.
Clockverk performs at the opening ceremonies and reveal themselves
to be Robot Overlords Clock Man and Oil Man. Clockverk defies Wily in
their opening song, "Vengeance", and escapes. Overnight, Clockverk's
popularity skyrockets.
March 1 2219
Battle and Chase 2219 officially concludes.
March 3 2219
Tol Eressea's Force Metal reactor goes online, providing cheap and
abundant power to the Reploid city. Australia begins to put political
pressure on the United Nations to watch Tol Eressea more closely.
March 13 2219
The Irish Outrage takes place. A massive Maverick attack led by
Fianait on the Irish Parliament almost eradicates the Irish government.
United Nations forces move in to restore order.
March 24 2219
Tol Eressea's Force Metal reactor is found to be leaking dangerous
radiation that has unusual effects on Reploids. The leak creates a
political scandal that results in the city's government being changed.
The city is soon renamed Able City, and appears to become a large
Maverick front.
March 25 - April 1 2219
Scott Wily rampages across the world in an armored suit
apparently powered by Force Metal. During his onslaught, most of the
Robot Overlords are killed. Scott Wily is finally defeated in the newly
christened Able City by a coalition force. Near the end of the battle,
Clock Man seemingly sacrifices himself to remove Scott Wily's power
source of "Supra Force Metal", allowing Mega Man to strike the
final blow.
April - May 2219
Increased pressure on the Pantheon military weakens it to
critical levels. Their push into San Angeles leaves them weakened
and allows enemy forces to repeatedly hammer the country.
They gradually retreat within their own borders.
April 8 2219
An entity claiming to be Ra Moon attempts to destroy the world
through the Internet. The world's hackers unite to fight this new
threat. Duo.EXE and the hacker Gabriel sacrifice themselves to give
the world's forces the means to defeat Ra Moon. During the battle,
Midi apparently is briefly given a new, more powerful avatar by Duo.EXE
that was able to finish Ra Moon off.
April 10 2219
The family of James Houseman V, son of conspirator James Houseman
IV, is killed in a Maverick attack on Houseman V's property. His home
is destroyed as well, but James is rescued by Maverick Hunter and
Repliforce agents.
April 22 2219
The WilyArk returns from Mars carrying a Nemesis-like creature and
Ra Moon. The WilyArk attempts to use the Space Elevator to destroy the
planet, but is destroyed by coalition forces. The Space Elevator itself
is revealed to be a powerful energy cannon designed to be used in
planetary defense. Ra Moon is apparently destroyed once again, as is
the Nemesis creature.
April 26 2219
The Omnidroids, now serving Ra Moon, appear and attack Washington
D.C. The Omnidroids are accompanied by the surviving Robot Gentlemen,
who also serve the Martian. The Omnidroids and Gentlemen begin a
campaign of terror that rages across the world.
April 29 2219
Ra Moon begins recruiting followers, who come to be known as
Blackguards. First among them is Kirin Mathers, the Blade Dancer, an
escaped Umbrella project. Many choose to serve Ra Moon for power, but
are almost all eventually killed by the allied forces.
May 8 2219
Protoman betrays the world to join with Ra Moon, ostensibly to attempt
to defeat him from within.
May 12 2219
Maverick General Tactical Raccoon is killed in battle against
Ra Moon in Able City.
May 13 2219
Elegy, believed by many to be a prophet of the Stardroids, is killed
by Ra Moon. The Book in his possession is apparently lost.
May 16 2219
Ra Moon launches a massive strike against China and gives his
ultimatum to Earth.
May 19 2219
Hien is killed by Hiryu in a massive battle in Moscow.
May 21 2219
The Maverick Hunters are directly attacked by Ra Moon. Pugilation Man
betrays Ra Moon to protect Roll from being killed. Roll is seriously
injured in the battle by Ra Moon and falls into a coma. Mega Man
begins to unify the world's forces around the Tower to make a final
stand against Ra Moon, and disappears for a week to receive upgrades.
May 25 2219
Tora Bora, the main Blackguard fortress, falls.
June 1 2219
The final battle against Ra Moon takes place in Minnesota. A loud
rock concert begins to weaken Ra Moon. His forces, accompanied by
seemingly endless waves of Reaverbots, clash against the surviving
forces of the world. At the peak of the battle, Mega Man in his
Peacemaker armor appears and directly battles Ra Moon. Despite
summoning Patriarch to assist him, Ra Moon is defeated by Mega Man
and imprisoned by Doctor Light inside of a trap created using the
remaining Stardroid pendants. The trap is entombed on Pluto, and
the remaining Blackguard forces, cut off from their power supply, are
defeated, though not all are destroyed.
June 6 2219
In a secret deal brokered by the US and Australia, Elpizo abdicates
power in Mexico to a new government. Pantheon forces begin
their retreat to the south. Marco "Macho" Jaggerstein becomes
Mexico's new President.
June 7 2219
Blues is pardoned by the US government for his role in the Blackguard
under a controversial ruling that, as a robot, he did not have free
will to resist.
June 8 2219
The Islington Horror occurs. James Houseman V, in protective
custody, is attacked by Maverick forces. Hunters and Repliforce
operatives once again protect James, as does anti-hero Thomas Houseman.
Thomas is killed by Sigma in front of James, then retreats.
James begins his campaign to become Kraft.
July 2219
Australia begins warning its citizens of an upcoming "wide scale attack"
at some point in the near future.
July 16 2219
At the climax of the Global Science & Technology Expo, Dr. Wily
unveils a device that drains color from the world. With the world
stuck in seemingly permanent black and white, Wily holds color itself
for ransom.
July 19 2219
Grandmaster Meio, who had been previously operating in the shadows
in an attempt to reunify the Strider organization, attacks Lisa Faulkes
at a society gala. James Houseman V does battle against Meio in his
guise as "Mongoose", but is defeated. Houseman is rescued by renegade
Strider Solo, and begins to receive training.
July 21 2219
Grandmaster Meio sets loose a biomonster on Eurasia that carries a
virus that kills all humans without Strider DNA. The Maverick Hunters
and remaining Striders turn against Meio, stopping his genocidal plot.
July 28 2219
Color is restored to the world as an experimental device is turned
against the hidden WilyDrome, trapping Doctor Wily and all the Robot
Masters in a subspace realm.
July 20 2219
The Sigma Virus begins to mutate more rapidly.
August 2219
The Robot Masters and Mavericks intensify their campaign against
Australia. A great amount of damage is done to the country,
and anti-robot sentiment hardens among the Australian people.
August 4 2219
James Houseman V, now known as Kraft, hunts down and kills
Maverick operative Fianait, formerly Javelin Whitetail, on worldwide
television. Kraft is ultimately pardoned of all of the various
criminal acts he committed during his quest by the King of England
and is invited to join the Maverick Hunters.
August 6 2219
Elpizo threatens the Reploids of the world on world television,
claiming they will be destroyed within a day. The threat is
widely considered to be a bluff.
August 7 - August 19 2219
The Genocide Virus, a deadly variant of the Sigma Virus,
is released by Neo Arcadia. Over the course of the next two weeks, it
kills over 12 million Reploids. The main delivery vector of the
Genocide Virus is Omega, a biomonster created by Dr. Weil in Zero's
image. Omega rampages wildly across the world and eventually turns on
his creators. The Genocide Virus mutates to effect everything
technological, but is eventually cured by a coalition force of
scientists including Prismatic Spider and Berkana. The cure also
cures the Sigma Virus, ending the pandemic for good.
August 13 2219
Neo Arcadia attempts to assassinate Secretary General Chord
in a gruesome attack in Seoul. Chord only barely manages to recover
from the Genocide Virus infection. The images of the attack galvanize
world opinion against the Pantheon terrorist movement.
August 21 - 25 2219
Sigma makes his last stand, rampaging across Australia.
Sigma manages to kill most of the leaders of the nation before finally
being put down by a joint Hunter/Repliforce assault. Sigma's core is
consumed by Lumine, who takes over the Maverick movement.
August 27 2219
Almost a year after all Reploids were banned from Australia, acting
head of state Gaus Magrevich revokes the law, claiming the emergency
has ended. Civil unrest in Australia rises but is surpressed by ADF
and Repliforce action.
September 2219
The United Nations and most other nations in the world begin
to focus their attention on eliminating the Pantheon insurgency.
Repliforce's coffers rapidly fill as heads of state from around the
world demand an end to the Neo Arcadian threat. Knowledge of the peace
deal brokered earlier in the year is revealed and does harm to
US President Dion Seers' domestic image.
October 2219
Mexico faces a government corruption scandal. An investigation
by the Swiss of Pantheon finances overseas helps to reveal
numerous collaborators across the Mexican banking system, with
profiteering apparently taking place by Mexican President Marco
Jaggerstein.
October 01 2219
Australia elects a new Labor government without incident.
Within days, the state of emergency ends, and business as usual
resumes throughout the nation. Repliforce is credited with
helping to keep order during the month-long interregenum.
October 02 2219
The Aztlan News Network (ANN) relaunches under new
ownership to become Nuevo One (N1). N1 pitches itself as a
regional network designed to be accessible to the average citizen.
October 18-20 2219
Business tycoon Harold Magrevich is apparently
assassinated by Blues, but it is quickly discovered that someone was
impersonating Blues at the time. Many in the world are suspicious of
the alleged "framing". The next day, "maneuvers" apparently
held between the US Army, Repliforce and the Hunters take place.
These "maneuvers" are later shown to be part of an incident
involving the Hunters abducting an Australian national from her
home in Rio. The identity of the victim is kept suppressed by
Official Secrets Acts in the various countries. Skillful public
relations work keeps the matter from becoming a repeat of the
infamous Repliforce Island affair.
October 24 2219
Disturbances in time, often accompanied by strange radio
transmissions, begin to be observed across the Earth. These
disturbances continue at irregular intervals for almost two weeks.
October 25 2219
In response to political pressures, President Seers demands
that the Maverick Hunters leave the United States.
October 27-28 2219
The city of Willamette, Colorado is destroyed by a
massive biological weapons attack. The incident is publically
credited to Pantheon terrorism enabled by an Umbrella
Corporation security breach, though details about the attack are
kept tightly controlled by the American government. Journalist
Frank West wins the Pulitzer Prize in 2220 in Photojournalism
for his embedded coverage.
November 02 2219
A Ra Moon apocalypse cult attempts to retrieve their
leader from his prison on Pluto. They are prevented from doing
so, but the device they were attempting to use is damaged and
rips a hole in time and space. Our San Angeles is removed from
reality and replaced by a strange alternate future in which a
copy of Mega Man known as "Copy X" rules over Neo Arcadia with
Reploid Guardians assisting him.
November 08 2219
The Seers administration loses its majority in Congress
after midterm elections, allowing Marvin Thackery to become
President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
November 11 2219
A massive battle between Earth's armies and the alternate
universe's Pantheon takes place in order to drive all of the
alternate universe's inhabitants back into their own dimension.
During this battle, Dr. Weil introduces the Genocide Virus into
the Neo Arcadian universe, apparently dooming it to extinction.
The next attempt to bring our San Angeles back results in the
retrieval of a very similar San Angeles from a world where the
Wilycode did not reactivate after the death of Redips. During
the brief stay of this San Angeles, their Ballade -- the leader
of a radical sect of the Robot Masters -- is destroyed.
November 17 2219
Internet superbeing NumberMan.EXE, resident of the
alternate San Angeles, is destroyed before he is able to take
control of our Internet.
November 20 2219
A third attempt to bring back our San Angeles results in
Fortress Angeles, another possible future, being brought in San
Angeles' place. Kaiser Sigma continues to rule over this
universe, and causes a great amount of destruction during his
battles with the forces of Earth.
December 01 2219
A massive battle takes place within Fortress Angeles,
prompted by Kaiser Sigma's use of a Force Metal nuke against
part of the city. Despite overwhelming odds, the forces of
Earth manage to permanently destroy the Kaiser and his
companion, Lady Viris. Once the forces of evil are defeated,
Fortress Angeles is returned to its own universe, and our San
Angeles is finally returned.
