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Timeline Fragment: 2033-2037 (Author's Note: we are not going to follow the Exodus timeline and some other things will be altered.)
2033 – 20 years after The Great War of 2013, the events of metro carry out:
The events of the Metro 2033 Novel, and Metro 2033 Videogame take place over the course of 8 days.
Veteran Stalker, Ranger, Hunter travels to VDNKh, Exhibition station to aid against a new mutant threat, the Dark Ones.
Artyom is entrusted by Hunter to travel to Polis to get help from the Stalkers, Rangers there.
Artyom meets with ex-bandit and Metro guide, Bourbon. After traveling together for a short time, Bourbon is killed.
Artyom first encounters Khan, who shows him the mystical side to the metro.
Cursed Station is saved by Artyom and Khan.
Artyom is almost arrested by the Reds at Armory Station, he is saved by Andrew the Blacksmith.
Nazi's Attack Kitai Gorod station, also known as China-Town.
Artyom is captured by Nazis. He is saved, by Revolutionaries, Rangers Ulman and Pavel.
Accompanying Artyom to Black Station, Pavel dies at the Depot.
The Hole Station Massacre takes place. Artyom manages to save a child, Sasha.
Artyom finally arrives at Polis, though the Brahmin there refuse to help Artyom. This is unless Artyom helps them find 'The Future'. Veteran Stalkers Melnik and Ten, Brahmin Daniel and Artyom travel to the former Lenin Library in search of the legendary book known as 'The Future'. In the process, Daniel dies and the the Future is not found.
Elite Stalker, Ranger Colonel, Melnik, Miller conceives that the Dark Ones can be stopped by a missile strike to the Gardens. For which they will need to travel to D6 which can only be found if Documents from the Library can be retrieved.
The D6 documents are found in the great library.
Kievskaya resident Oleg is abducted by the Cult of the Great Worm.
Artyom is abducted by the Cult of the Great Worm, and is saved by Stalkers led by Melnik - who has returned from D6.
Kievskaya resident and rocket expert Tretyak dies.
The journey to D6 begins. Many Rangers fall in battle.
Oleg, among others, dies from the Kremlin Creature.
The legendary D6 is found, and the Biomass at the bottom of it is defeated.
A group of Stalkers including Miller and Artyom travel to Ostankino Tower to attack the Dark Ones.
Metro 2033 Concludes with the destruction of the Dark Ones and with Artyom stricken with guilt, questioning whether he did the right thing.
At the same time, contact is lost with the stations of Polshad Ilychia and Rimskaya along with the rest of the line.
Late 2033- a new faction called 'The Scientists' is created from the O-13 and O-21 vaults in the quarantined Polshchad Ilychia and Rimskaya stations and the isolated Sevastopolskaya, Khavovskaya and Varhavskaya stations respectiveley, led by a man named Arseniy Skadov. With their pre-war equipment and knowledge, they quickly prosper and expand. Furthermore, by New Year's Eve, they create a prototype for a vaccine to cure to the quarantine, but do not reveal it until after the events of metro 2034. (AN: This is based on the play store game 'metro 2033 wars'. Seriously, check it out, that shit is RAD.)
2034 – The Scientists clear the yellow line and set up a capital, Aviamotorya. They also begin a project to connect the isolated southern stations with the rest of the metro.
Around May of 2034 – the events of Metro 2034 take place:
The events of Metro 2034 take place.
Ex-Stalker Hunter stations himself at Sevastopolskaya Station, under the alias of the Brigadier
According to the Gospel according to Artyom, Artyom returns to the Botanical Gardens to discover a surviving Dark One.
Artyom is promoted to the position of Ranger.
The Rangers of the Order finish getting settled in D6.
The events of Metro Last Light take place sometime after the 10th of May:
Note: The events of the Faction Pack DLC for Metro Last Light take place sometime before or during Metro Last Light.
A Red Army spy, Lesnitsky, abandons D6 with a covert sample of The Virus.
A Dark One is found in the ruins of the Botanical Gardens by Khan, Artyom and a Ranger by name of Anna are sent to assassinate it
Artyom and Anna fail to kill the Dark One. It is captured by Stalkers of the Fourth Reich, along with Artyom. In Reich custody Artyom comes across a Red soldier, Major Pavel Morozov.
Pavel guides Artyom through the metro, with promise to take him back to the Rangers. Pavel betrays Artyom to the Red Line at Theatre Station.
Escaping Red Line custody by help of Leonid, Artyom uncovers plans by Red Army General Korbut and puppet leader of the Red Line Moskvin, to use a super weapon to conquer the metro.
Sparta Base is destroyed by ex-Ranger Lesnitsky. In the process, Anna is taken hostage.
Oktyabrskaya is infected with the Virus as a test scenario. Roughly one day later, the Red Army, satisfied with the result, storms the station and burns it to the ground.
Anna is saved by Artyom, at the cost of them both being infected with the Virus. In quarantine the two become intimate.
Artyom tracks down and saves the baby Dark One from a hijacked Hanza train, remembering his pact he once made to them. Together they cross the surface, and uncover plans to use the Virus after the upcoming Polis Peace Conference. The two also encounter Lesnitsky and Pavel again - and Artyom is made with the decision to spare or kill each of them.
With Khan and Artyom's assistance, the baby Dark One discovers more Dark Ones sleeping in the vaults of D6.
Artyom arrives at the peace conference with the baby Dark One, and together they make Moskvin uncover Korbut's plans to invade D6.
It is about this time that Heavy Squad takes place. Reich successfully defends the front line from the Red Army.
The Battle of D6 takes place. Despite valiant effort the Rangers are defeated by the sheer number of Red Line soldiers, and their unrivaled equipment.
The baby Dark One stops Artyom moments before he activates the self-destruct system, stating that he has returned to help. The second coming of the Dark Ones begins with their defeating the Red Army and saving the metro.
In a twist of fate, the Dark Ones decide to stay in the metro with the Scientists. They stumble upon a highly radioactive area, even for them, and mutate, allowing them to interact successfully with humans almost every time, with exceptions being isolated people.
July of 2034: The scientists officially join the main factions and release the cure to the Plague and Virus alike.
2034-2035: Aviamotorya, Rimskaya and Polshchad Ilychia become trading hubs and new bases for Stalkers due to the area of the city being full of scrap, as there were little people still living in the stations before. Rimskaya becomes an interstation training ground and where most of the scientist's professional troops are created. Polshchad becomes a small market and research station and Aviamotorya becomes a jack-of-all-trades. The process to connect the southern isolated stations is successful and is quickly settled.
Late 2035: The Reds are defeated by both Reich, Polis and many small rebellions. Immediately afterwards, the Fourth Reich declares war on Polis and is crushed after one year of fighting.
Late 2036: in a surprising turn of events, the Scientists and Polis unite under the banner of Polis, now with an atom in its flag like the scientist had. Quickly after most of the metro joins the new 'Metro Council'.
Hunter returns to the Order, now a changed and more peaceful man. A reunion with Artyom ensues and they become closely knit with a second stepfather and son relationship.
The remnants of the Russian Federation make peace with the remnants of NATO, but keep the existence of survivors in Moscow a secret, alongside St. Petersburg and other big or isolated cities due to their, well, isolation.
The Murmansk Republic declares independence.
Finland reclaims its pre-Winter War lands with the exception of a 200 km zone outside of St. Petersburg.
In this GATE universe, the battle of Ginza takes place the 31st of December 2016. The start of 2017 is celebrated by the entrance to the Special Region and The Battle of Alnus Hill.
In the Special Region, Emroy and the Empire decide to open another gate.
2037:The day of New Year's is celebrated across the metro, but is cut short by a mysterious marble gate appearing in the complex where the Dark Ones once resided. And thus, the Metro enters the table…
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