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Post  Rhino Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:39 pm

Events that happened during 15 years period of "downtime" between Paragon City and Millennium City. Timeline is still in process of updating.


Chronicle List
1989
  • Stewart Hamner opens a Private Investigations office in Detroit.

1992
  • On graduating from Harvard Law, Gabriel Grant joins the Army. He rose to the rank of Captain.

1993
  • Gabriel Grant meets Japanese model/actress Nadine Morikawa while in Hong Kong. After a whirlwind romance they are married two months later.
  • An incident at one of Crey labs grants Kate Muller her powers. Captured by Crey forces, she's freed by Light of Truth.

1994:
  • Light of Truth takes Marvel Girl as her protégé
  • Diana Bright (known as retired heroine Love Angel) moves with her parents and sons to Detroit, Diana continues her studies in law at the local college
  • Light of Truth, Marvel Girl and Angelique Kraft (aka Darksparrow) investigate an odd correlating happening between Freaks, New upgraded Freaks, a Lemurian inventor and a time traveler. In the end heroines save Paragon City from insane machinations of Overrider, Captain Chronos and Mechanon.
  • Darksparrow meets Bernie (who barter with her an old Lemurian piscireme for booze), a Lemurian inventor and is given a "prophecy" by Captain Chronos. Both events set her on heroic path.
  • Attempted kidnapping of Andreas Bright by mutant extremists. Kidnappers were stopped by Diana Bright and private detective Stewart Hamner and local help of PRIMUS (Primary Response and Interdiction Military Unified Service).
  • Darksparrow follows Brights and moves to Detroit
  • Nadia Troy (aka Sword of Truth) and Malcolm Richard (aka Mesoc) move in their newly build house in Miami
  • Mark Walsh (aka Sable Lynx) finishes college and moves to Detroit to work as an architect.
  • Jada Troy is born, the child of Nadia Troy and Malcolm Richard
  • Gabriel Grant leaves the Army and joins his father Gordon Grant’s law firm, Grant Law.
  • During a vacation to Thailand, Gabriel and Nadine Grant adopt a local orphan and name her Emily.

1995:
  • BAMM Constructions Company expands business from Paragon City to Miami
  • The supergroup Silent Tempest is officially disbanded, most of its base properties are given back to Paragon City's authorities
  • Nadia Forester (aka Light of Truth) travels to Aigeira in Greece and helps archaeological efforts of the Austrian Archaeological Institute; while being there she makes also contact with the Sisterhood of Truth Order
  • The techno-mystic known as Lithium goes to Vibora Bay on the Florida coast where she is trained by Dr Ka to refine her abilities and achieve a blend of magic and technology.
  • Nadine Grant gives birth to Gabriel Grant’s son. He is named Gabriel Grant Jr.
  • Darksparrow helps Marvel Girl gaining control over her powers in exchange of various spying tasks.

1996:
  • Diana publishes her "Cooking With Love" cookbook and its profit is donated to Angel Foundation
  • Angelique moves in to be Mark's roommate
  • Screenwriter David S. Goyer attendeds to an underground party in Los Angeles. He didn't know that the party is hosted by undeads and zombies, who all looked like normal people, while trying to get in party mood. He realizes only at the point that something is wrong where blood is sprayed from the sprinkler installation and the crowd are all looking with a mad lust at him. Only in last second arrives Mesoc, this time in casual clothes instead armor, to start a burly brawl, slaughter these undeads and zombies and rescues Goyer.
  • Gabriel Grant files a successful lawsuit on behalf of inventor Buckland Stevens against Vanguard Technology after they produced a combat powersuit based on his designs for the Steel Gauntlet power armour. Stevens became a wealthy man and he and Grant became firm friends.
  • Olivia Diaz psychic powers manifest for the first time. Shortly after, she disappears for six months. When the police finds her back, she has no memory of the elapsed time.

1997:
  • Lana Jones (aka Ladybird from BUGS) is recruited by a fashion agency and starts her career as model
  • Countess Crey, CEO of Crey Industries, is apprehended by Task Force Justice's Prevalence; a long criminal case against her starts (again)
  • Diana finishes her studies and is employed as civil attorney in Grant's law firm
  • Elizabeth McPherson (Augury) wins 224 millions $US at Megamillions, sharing half with a charity foundation.
  • Kacey Fairbanks (Stormrise) dies of a drug overdose during a night party on a Californian beach.
  • Statesman and Sister Psyche, both signature heroes of the Freedom Phalanx, were killed through the machination of Darrin Wade in his quest to unlock the powers of the mad godlike being Rularuu. Darrin Wade partially succeeded with his plan and fused himself with the cosmic being and became Rulu-Wade at his hideout on his moon island. This time it wasn't a public known hero who stopped this madness: Araña, a mysterious woman rumored to be a clone project of Crey Industries, confronted Rulu-Wade on his moon-island hideout and in the end destroyed him. Araña remains afterwards untraceable.

1998:
  • Diana moves in her own appartment
  • Diana Bright enters the metahuman Olympics in the discipline Archery
  • The justice dismiss the New Jersey Lottery legal complain against Augury, arguing that "being lucky doesn't constitute a crime and cannot be used to demonstrate an ill intent to cheat".
  • The movie hit "Blade" is released in the theaters.
  • Gabriel Grant leaves Grant Law to work for the District Attorney’s office. He begins building a case against the criminal gang 13 Deadly Tigers
  • Olivia meets Diana Bright at a convention. They start to work together occasionally.

1999:
  • Darksparrow finishes police academy and works as regular police officer in Millennium City
  • Lana finished high school and studies fashion at a college in New York City
  • Mark, Diana, Olivia and Lana stop a criminal who can control fears and who wanted to increase his powers by using now gone Grinning Nightmare. His plan could not work from the start since all that is left of Grinning Nightmare is a creepy doll in Diana's possession and a goth subculture obsessed with dreams. He was stopped with help of mysterious Thea, who looks oddly familar, and her cat Hecuba. All the victims were saved.
  • Internal struggle in Crey Industries' board of directors are a public topic in the newspapers. Crey Industries' stock lose much of their value.
  • Mark and Angie stop living together.
  • Screenwriter Goyer said in the DVD version of "Blade" that an afro-american guy with a Katana rescued him from a party back in 1996. The introduction scene of Blade in the movie is a very close resemble of his own rescue from that party and he's thankful for the rescue and also for the inspiration he needed to create a new movie.
  • Gabriel and Nadine Grant, and their children Gabriel Jr and Emily, are abducted by members of the 13 Deadly Tigers. During an attempted escape by Gabriel, Nadine and Gabriel Jr are slain.
  • Buckland Stevens builds the Steel Gauntlet Mk II prototype.
  • Following Diana's advice, Olivia adopts the secret identity of Psyche.
  • Kate shortens her avatar name in Marvel.

2000:
  • Breakthrough in the case Rhode Island versus Countess Crey: the Supreme Court of Rhode Island finds Countess Crey guilty in charges of complicity of murder in numerous cases, human right violations and obstruction of justice. The trial of penality starts subsequently.
  • Crey Industries suffer massively from lose of customers.
  • The New Jersey Lottery hires Augury to become the new Megamillions TV show hostess and master of ceremonies, preventing her, being an employee, to ever bet again. Augury biweekly opening line is "Do you feel lucky today ?".
  • BUGS officially disbanded. Several months later Angel Foundation announces creation of AFTER (Angel Foundation's Team for Emergency Responses), a superhero team working directly for the foundation for quick help to those in need.
  • Cris Keller, a former BUGS member called Cricket Girl, starts working as a clerk for Angel Foundation.
  • Nadia Forester, the Light of Truth, is asked by the notorious criminal villain Crossfire to defend him. Crossfire, sentenced to death and executed, raised from the dead unexpectedly. He argues the sentence was already executed legally and thus has paid for his deeds. After pondering the situation, Nadia Forester refuses to agree with Crossfire point of view.
  • Nikki Wilcox, a mutant girl also adbucted in 1994 at the same time than Andreas Bright and now teen, is suspected of thefts. Diana Bright organizes a music festival to win her trust. At the start of the concert, the Lemurian Sorcerer-Scientist called Zorran the Artificer unleashes his magiconstructs on the helpless Nikki. Diana as the Mysterious Whitesparrow and Stewart Hamner battle the villain and rout him. Mark Walsh jumps from the public to join the fight and is fried by an electrical bolt.
    After the action, Nikki Wilcox flees the Foundation shelter without a word.
  • Diana's first peaceful and normal Christmas since 1991.
  • Powersuited hero Mandate becomes active in Millennium City and other areas were heroes are needed.
  • Gabriel Grant returns to work at Grant Law and meets Diana Bright. He escorts her to a New Year’s Eve party but at the last minute decides not to attend.
  • Kate Muller comes to Millennium City. She meets Mark and Diana at the New-Year's Eve Party, afterwards she seeks out Angelique and starts intensive combat training under her tutelage.
  • Stewart Hamner has a discussion with Diana and reveals a bit about him, the Lemurians and the Mandragalore, then leaves Millennium City for a while.
  • On the night of April the 30th , coming from the Faerie dimension of Glorantha, Vinga appears on a mystical site of power, in North Canada. Various mystics including Ravenspeaker feel it.

2001:
  • Trial of penality of Countess Crey is concluded: life-long imprisonment in Stronghold. Countess Crey's lawyers announce to go in revision.
  • Diana and Mark investigate a flying saucer near Diana's home.
  • Vinga adopts the canadian civilian identity of Karen Ernalssen.
  • Diana and Gabriel Grant end up in the house of evil where Diana was duplicated by an evil doppelganger and as an result knocked out cold when Gabriel hit her in the face by accident. After it Diana takes prolonged vacation and never willingly speaks of the incident again.
  • Mysterious explosions and spontaneous self-disassemblings of electronics start happening around Marvel Angelique tries to help her but in the process loses her motorcycle and Marvel's own apartment spontaneously self-explodes. Mystery is still unsolved.
  • Angelique and Marvel prevent a bank robbery by few outcasts from Paragon city; a Troll and a gang of Skulls. After epic and bone shattering fight on the streets of Millennium City, Troll and Skulls were defeated but the leader managed to escape.
  • Professor Paradox, almost forgotten mad scientist villain from the 1950s and former nemesis of Doctor Megaton, reappears in Millennium City and with a horde of bugbots tries to start a new ploy of world domination. He was stopped by heroic efforts of Marvel and Angelique (who was still a bit damaged from the fight with the Troll). Professor Paradox manages to escape, attacked bridge is heavily damaged with several civilian casualties, but the greater disaster is prevented.
  • Professor Paradox starts his new nefarious plan. He activates a gravity device hidden in a volcano on an Indonesian island to push Earth away from its orbit and start a new Ice Age. While many will die on Earth, he plans to rule the survivors. Angelique and Marvel investigates the old pod Paradox had used to escape after the battle on the bridge. They are assaulted by robots but defeat them.
    While skiing in Canada, Diana Bright runs into the retreating place of Paradox robots. She meets the villain Armadillo who take her with him for a dinner. Neither Marvel nor Angelique succeeds tracking Armadillo and his goons in time. Diana Bright is going to the volcano island with Armadillo.
    Having found again the track of the fleeing villain, Angelique hides in their transport. She will end being discovered and captured by the villain Lazer. She will be later molested and her cybernetics cruelly removed by the villain Steel Commando.
    While Marvel finds the volcano and discover the gravity machine, Diana escapes or is left fleeing by Lazer.
    Marvel disintegrates the gravity machine as the volcano erupts. Diana and Marvel runs into UNTIL heliported squads who are shot down on their arrival on the island.
    Later in Borneo, Diana declines having the surviving UNTIL soldiers led by the sergeant Alex Swan to come with them. Armadillo, Lazer and Steel Commando fled to Chiquador, a south american country ruled by a dictator, stuck between French Guiana and Brazil.
    Angelique Kraft is still missing.
    Diana and Marvel fly to French Guiana with UNTIL help. Then they infiltrate Chiquador through the jungle. Olivia Diaz (Psyche) is called to help.
    Olivia and Diana have a short fight with Chiquador military police. Marvel goes spying the local authorities, gets the name and address of a military police officer.
    Diana goes to that officer, convinced she can get useful info from him by talking alone. Surprisingly, she does.
    Olivia, Marvel and Diana travels to a false archaeological site where weapons of high technology are built for the Chiquador army under the watch of Lazer and Steel Commando. Angelique is found there, unconscious.
    The heroines are discovered and Olivia is severely injured by Steel Commando and is captured. Diana surrenders and is captured.
    Marvel calls Alex Swan from UNTIL to get help. She goes to Manilla and brings him back to Macapa City (Chiquador) at the speed of light.
    Swan and Marvel investigates the now abandonned false archaeological site. No meaningful lead to Paradox are found.
    Diana is considered as a spy by Chiquador dictatorship. A masquerade is held as a trial for her. She is detained in Macapa prison and will probably be shot.
    Everyday of her trial, journalists come to her. She runs into a Paragon Inquirer reporter and express her displeasure.
    Swan and Marvel are planning to free Olivia, Angelique (held at the hospital) and Diana, all at once.
    Swan poses as a journalist at Diana trial and frees her as she's about to enter the tribunal.
    Marvel frees Angelique and Olivia, defeating Lazer and avoiding Steel Commando.
    Everyone is safe again but no sign of Paradox. Earth didn't drift into Ice Age as the gravity machine was destroyed but is going to cool significantly, still, causing social and international chaos.
    Alex Swan is expected to be punished by UNTIL for taking an unauthorized leave and carrying UNTIL owned equipment to free Diana, without orders.
    Diana makes a world-plea to get clues to find Professor Paradox
    Marvel, after two unsuccessful attempts, finally goes in space and uses her extreme mastery over electromagnetism to repel Earth back to its orbit. That day, she will shine like a small sun in Earth skies. The last attempt is successful but Marvel dissipates in Earth electromagnetic field, fuses with it and dies.


2002:
  • Darksparrow is transferred from regular officer to police's special unit M.A.R.S. (Metahuman Activities Response Squad)
  • Lana Jones is by now considered to be among the peers of other supermodels.
  • In search of lore, Vinga visits Babylon for the first time. Back in Canada, she thwarts a portal opening attempt to the Qliphotic dimension and dismantles the local DEMON cell.

2003:
  • Crey Industries is bankrupt and has to shut down its offices, facilities and apply for insolvency. The former mega corporation and lead company in biotechnology with a nowadays very bad reputation does not exist anymore. As a consequence of this dismantlement are other megacorporations interested to buy shards of Crey Industries.

2004:
  • The Supreme Court of the United States deems the petition of Countess Crey's cases infront of Trials being not treated fair as not sustainable. Countess Crey's case is ultimately concluded and she starts serving her lifetime imprisonment in Stronghold.
  • The Megamillions TV advertisement now shows the famous lucky hostess, Augury, as the main point to bet in the game : "She works for us. She cannot bet. NOW -you- have a chance to win".

2005:
  • After ten years of studies and in partnership with PRIMUS, Lithium improves her own equipment and gave to PRIMUS the blueprints of a heavier suit, the Eclipse suit, destined to be field tested in the years to come.
  • Lithium starts working on the creation of a communication network and database called HERMES (Heuristically Engineered References and Mesh-Equivalent System) to connect mystic driven good-doers.

2007:
  • Darksparrow secretly teaches Diana Bright's son Andreas about self-defense
  • Iris "born" or created by someone in a stream of data somewhere on the Internet.

2008:
  • A book with the title "The Truth will out - The true face of Countess Crey and her empire." is published on the market. It's written by Tim Baker, a reporter for the Washington Post. A major source contributer is Nadia Forester.
  • Field tests of the PRIMUS suit built by Lithium are finished, the suit is approved.
  • Deirdre Flamel, a former Magic Lantern librarian, is recruited to wear the PRIMUS Eclipse suit. She is then known under the name Lithium II.

2009:
  • Angelique, Mesoc and Light regularly seen patrolling Millennium City.
  • Iris assumes secret identity of Iris Web, and with some magical help gets a job as IT worker for WCOC. Later in her heroic persona she meets Lithium and Light.
  • Countess Crey escapes the prison.
  • Lana Jones is one of the judges of America's Next Topmodel.
  • Buckland Stevens builds the Steel Gauntlet Mk III prototype. In addition to many advanced features the armour can be teleported to the wearer anywhere within a ten mile radius.
  • Mandate has become one of Millennium City’s high profile heroes after tackling crises in Canada, the desert and the city itself. There is intense media speculation about the identity of the man within the suit.
  • In a not so secret meeting in not so secret location on Belle Isle two not so secret former heroes and one new hero lay down plans for creation of Millennium Heores; a supergroup of old hero veterans who help and train new young heroes.
  • Rosemary Jasmine Freyburg, a rich and spoiled girl, is caught in a meteor shower night when she was coming back from a party. An odd crystalline meteor falls near hear car and one shard hits her straight into the heart and cause her car to crash. she was saved by retired heroine Love Angel and brought to hospital.

2010:
  • Family Troy-Richard moves from Miami to Millenium City. Jada is going to attend to the Ravenwood Academy.
  • Iris meets Starlit Amazon (Jada) and by a programming mistake Star's father, Mesoc (who got stranded in Canadian wilderness as a result of it). Later on she becomes Lithium's sidekick.
  • Return of Diana's evil double, Diana Blight. Diana calls her old friends for help. Love Angel returns because of it and begins the search for her evil double.
  • Mark Bright opens mysterious old box found hidden in the back of Bright apartment's storeroom.
  • Diana meets Lithium, and with help of Psyche and Light the quartet defeats a giant robot.
  • Love Angel, in search of her evil double meets Light of Truth, Lithium, Mandate and Vinga at Stronghold ; They prevent a massive jail-break perpetrated by Menton, later she meets Permafrost while stopping her evil twin's insane plan to pollute Millennium city's water supply with toxic waste bought from ARGENT.
  • Appearance of young heroine Spinel Heart who wears a costume similar to one Love Angel wore 15 years ago. She possessed odd powers of creation and manipulation of pink crystals and crystal dust that has odd calming effect on people. She claims that she wants to become new Love Angel in the future.
  • While taking care of Diana's apartment with Olivia, seemingly by now normal people start molesting and attacking Mark Walsh, demanding of him to give them "the one". To police it seemed that it all originated in "Treasures of Paragon City" museum exhibit that among other things have a set of Oranbegan artifacts. When Mark and Olivia investigated, museum visit turned into a huge zombified people riot. Not wanting to worry Diana (who is on a trip to France) Mark decided to tell her a white lie over the phone, saying that everything is okay, and afterwards decided to solve the problem before she is back. To do that, he again visited quirky yet helpful seller at Magic Lantern bookshop. She indeed helped him with useful informations (like that the cause is probably vengeful puppeteering spirit) and even renting him professional spiritualism kit (in exchange for his photograph and symbolic fee). On the same day 5 mummies were reported to be missing from the museum.

2011:
  • Darksparrow and Psyche are drawn by a technology mismanagement of Foxbat into a parrellel dimension, while they were trying to arrest him. They end in a world devastated where Mechanon exterminated almost all humanity after succeeding to start a nuclear war in 1985. In the bleak, toxic landscape of Millenium City ruins, where the Machine is the Rule, Darksparrow and Psyche try to survive, fending off or fighting Mechanon killer robots.
    They are finally discovered by a patrol of the human resistance, called the Eisen Legion and under orders of Dr Destroyer, the last defender of mankind on Earth. Running into the local version of Nadia Forester, they successfully set a mutual help arrangement. But Dr Destroyer shadow over the Eisen Legion gives a sinister taint to the resistance.
    More, the resistance is warned and led by a "prediction computer system" called AUGURY. Darksparrow rightly guess the "computer system" is actually the local version of the mutant girl Augury, known for her ability to bend probabilities to the extreme.
    Deciding to inquire Augury role, Darksparrow and Psyche are able to discover where the "computer system" is held secret. The "plain sight" hidden location puzzles Psyche but Darksparrow assumes Augury luck will avoid any trouble anyway, even in plain sight.
    The mutant Augury is met, a weak girl unable to move by herself, and reveal she tried to guide the two heroes, and Darksparrow admits she recognized the clues too late. The mutant girl is also held by a trio of unhealthy triplets of the infamous Kraft family. Follow a game of half lies and expected backstabbing between Darksparrow and the Krafts. The Krafts will finally try to backstab Darksparrow by poisonning Augury life support system but the mutant luck negates the toxicity.
    Meanwhile, Dr Destroyer has struck a deal with the fool. Foxbat, also lost in this world, was given a pompous rank and is cajoled into reusing his dimensional technology (that he barely understands). Dr Destroyer plans to use the opened dimension door to escape his ruined world and invade ours.
    Darksparrow, Psyche and Augury show up in time to foil the project and escape with Foxbat through the portal, back to our own dimension. However, Darksparrow is forced to concede a kiss to Foxbat.
  • Following another assault against Millenium City by Professor Paradox cloned forces, Darksparrow, Starlit Amazon and Love Angel start chasing the murderous villain. Alex Swan from UNTIL is called by Diana Bright to help. The trooper leaves his post to join the heroic forces. Psyche, on the other hand, has lost her body during an incident just before the assault. Her mind was placed in Neutron Fists body, a notorious villain who can disintegrate everything with a contact of his hands but can never turn off his power. She still join the heroic forces, while in Neutron Fists body.
    Stewart Hamner, detective extraordinaire, successfully discover Paradox retreat, which is ending in Iceland. The heroes cross the Atlantic ocean in the Lemurian submarine piloted by Darksparrow and Bernie the Lemurian.
    Follow a long siege of Paradox fortress where, after a decoy base is located and, trapped, is destroyed by Paradox, the real base is identified. Peeling the defense layer after layer, the heroes burn time and ressources to reach the evil professor. But all of this is in vain as the professor escapes again. During the assault, hoiwever, the villains Lazer and Blowtorch are captured. But clues left behind lead the heroines Darksparrow and Psyche (still in Neutron Fists body) to central Canada. There, they run into a cover camp of the Hunter-Patriots, a strange paramilitary group allied with Paradox. Spotting the heroines, the Hunter-Patriots make a hasty evacuation and most of them successfully escape, and Professor Paradox with them...
  • During the siege of Professor Paradox base in Iceland, Alex Swan from UNTIL decides to try to find a way underground to enter the base, adventuring inside old lava tunnels. Despite his opposition, Diana Bright (Love Angel) joins him. Both are trapped underground after a volcanic earthquake. They disappear from the surface of earth.
  • Orientation day at Ravenswood Academy : the girls Jada (Starlit Amazon), Sharon (Permafrost) and Jasmine (Spinel Heart) meet the other students. In this school for teens with extraordinary talents but also teaching to normal students, the feminine trio is forced to fight after its first training evaluation when muysterious men wearing bio-hazard suits and throwing strange powder are attacking them.
  • the search for Diana Bright and the trooper Swan are officially stopped without hope to ever see them again. Actually, Bright and Swan survived by going even deeper underground where they travel through strange lands and seeing even stranger things.

2012:
  • X-Files and a Whiteout: Rosemary, Jada and Jeff participate in an excursus to canada for further studies. They never reach their destination and their airplance was forced to land at Steel Head base due to a heavy blizzard. The trio dares to go out of the base to explore the wilderness of canada. The trio claims they have witnessed the crash landing of an alien craft, helped the helpless canadian troopers to defend their turf, fought in an interstellar war and even travelled in an alien craft and by the way have stopped an invasion of aliens! All of their claims are denied by the canadian government and military forces. of course, who would believe such tale of teenagers? One thing remains undeniable: Jeff behaved like a jerk during this trip.
  • A 5 man team consisting of Mesoc, Stormrise (the second one who bears that name) and some other heroes stop the former soviet created villain group Red Winter. They prevent the launch of the entire US arsenal of nuclear missiles and avoid a nuclear holocaust on earth in a last minute battle at the US military base Area 51.
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