Before we begin; Do I know of the Exo Zombies Timeline? Yes, I do, and I'm changing it specifically because... I want to. This is fanfiction, for Christ sake, if you have problems with me changing the canon, why the heel are you even on this site? And if anybody has a problem with the acronyms US and USA used in this, as well as different American themed groups, events and items, kiss my ass. I'm an American patriot, deal with it. Now, without further ado, here is my pet project.
Note: Try and keep track of all of the references.
November 20, 2054: The Atlas Corporation uses their biological superweapon, Manticore, in a prison riot to both test out its effects and quell the riot. The results changed Humanity forever. The gas, still incomplete and in testing stages, reanimates the dead bodies of the prisoners into zombies that did nothing but kill and consume the living. Atlas forces put down the outbreak and brought back a few live zombies for study.
November 23, 2054: The zombies held in captivity by their Atlas creators overrun the facility they are held in, killing almost all of the personnel inside and escaping to the outside world.
November 29, 2054: The outbreak, having reached all corners of the United States in some shape or form, is brought to the public eye. Governments collapse weeks after the infection comes within their territories. Atlas, having kept their role in the infection spreading secret, comes up as a large faction in the Post-Apocalypse, recognized as its own country by the survivors, with holdouts in almost every former country. Jonathon Irons, the CEO of Atlas, is the public face as well as dictator of the remains of the civilized world.
August 24, 2063: By Old World standards, Humanity is now an endangered species, now outnumbered by their zombie counterparts, with only 500 million left of the 10 billion before the outbreak.
May 7, 2065: The WALL Defense Network is completed, closing off Dead Zones, areas of land that is overrun by zombies, and reinforcing the borders with automated defenses.
June 13, 2066: A remnant of the Old World, the Sentinel Task Force, comes back into the spotlight having credible evidence about Atlas' creation of the zombies that plagued Humanity. Rebellions start within Jonathon Irons' empire, and soon World War III begins between Atlas Corporation and the Free Peoples of Earth.
October 30, 2068: Jonathon Irons is killed by Sentinel operative Jack Mitchell in New Baghdad, Iraq, ending WW3. While the zombie scourge still hung over Humanity, the numbers game was put a little more in Humanity's favor out with several nuclear strikes in China.
December 14, 2085: While going through old Atlas files, FPE researchers learn of the Atlas Space Program, when Atlas sent spaceships to the Moon as well as several celestial bodies within the Solar System to colonize other terrestrial planets. Taking the information of their former adversaries, the FPE follows them into space.
March 20, 2089: Contact is made with the Atlas colony on Titan, and because of misunderstandings between the FPE ambassadors and the colonists, the Sol War starts.
April 5, 2089: The Sol War ends with the signing of the Humanity Unification Treaty, bringing Humanity under one banner to expand and protect itself from any threats, including the zombie hordes still roaming Earth. The United Nations of the Milky Way is formed.
November 20, 2124: The zombies are finally hunted to extinction 70 years after it is created, starting a new era of UNMF expansion.
January 1, 2200: The Hyperdrive is invented by scientists, allowing starships to go faster than the speed of light. This allows humanity to reach other star systems.
April 24, 2219-2389: Rapid colonization and exploration of the Milky Way galaxy begins.
April 11, 2228: The colony ship, the UNS Coruscant, suffers a hyperdrive malfunction when trying to leave the Sol System. The ship disappears form the face of the galaxy.
In reality, the ship gets sent to another galaxy about 210,000 years in the past. The displaced colonists settle a planet that is near the galactic center.
September 24, 2552: The entirety of the Milky Way is mapped, and the Orion Arm is fully colonized, as well as parts of the Cygnus and Norma Arms. Surprisingly, no other alien space-faring civilizations are found other than derelict ships and ancient ruins on the surface of planets.
February 1, 2611: A group of planets in the Outer Reaches break off from the UNMF due to the increased stranglehold from Earth and the Inner Worlds. Taking the secession as an act of rebellion, the Interstellar War starts.
February 2, 2617: The Interstellar War ends in a similar fashion to World War 2: One day and six years after the start, and with the two uses of a new superweapon. In this case, it was the Hypermatter ISBM (Interstellar Ballistic Missile), and the targets were two large military space stations in the Yuma System. Both were completely annihilated, each explosion giving off enough energy to equal a Hypermatter reactor explosion multiplied by five, and the backlash from the explosion negatively affected the small backwater colony in the system to the point of evacuation. In order to never repeat the war and the circumstances that brought upon the end, the UNMF dissolves and morphs into the Sovereign Planets of Humanity, with each planet having their own say and no 'choking' of individual systems to get luxuries to others. The main goal of the new government is the individual freedoms of its citizens.
March-November, 2617: Several tests with refined versions of Hypermatter explosives are conducted in the Horsehead Nebula. Several terrestrial planets are used as ginuea pigs, with some being as small as Pluto, and others as big as Jupiter. The results... every single planet was destroyed, cracked open by the explosion and eventually formed into asteroid belts around their respective stars. The last test, the Fat Boy, did actually destroy an entire star system when the guidance systems on the missile short circuited and went into the sun, resulting in a mini super nova. Only a small amount of Hypermatter explosives are stockpiled in case of any threat that required desperate measures, but several top secret factories are constructed throughout SPH space in order to make more weapons in case of large-scale war.
June 6, 2644: A small patrol flotilla on the outskirts of the galaxy comes into contact with an unknown extra-galactic alien civilization. After the commander of the flotilla tries to initiate contact, the force is attacked and destroyed. The species, known as the Yuuzhan Vong, declare genocide against the human race for using mechanical technology. Possessing living technology and moon-sized ships, the Vong attack the Point Pleasant system. The Vong War, also known to historians as the War Against Extinction, begins.
April 2, 2652: The SPH Prime Minister finally authorizes the use of Hypermatter weapons, which are immediately used to target the Vong's worldships. The WMDs work like a charm, with some of the larger explosives destroying entire fleets. Despite the power of the weapons, the Hypermatter missiles only slow them down.
In an effort to make sure that the Vong didn't discover the homeworld, the Endwar Protocol is made. It can be summed up in one sentence; If a ship is boarded, the nav computers are to be wiped clean so the Vong wouldn't be able to search it and find out the locations of strategic systems.
August 25, 2657: The SPH, who had been slowly losing territory to the Yuuzhan Vong, and their R&D departments make a large breakthrough in kinetic weaponry technology, after a small pirate group launched an asteroid at a planet ship and 'popped it like a water balloon'. The Paris-class, outfitted with a railgun capable of launching 600 ton ultra dense slugs, are put into mass production. However, the breakthrough comes too late for 100 billion of the 500 billion humans of the SPH.
February 6, 2667: The Vong discover Earth, and the Battle of Earth begins.
June 17, 2667: After a Sentinel operative, who is later discovered to be a descendent of Jack Mitchell, wins a duel against the Vong Supreme Warlord, the Vong retreat from the entire Orion Arm. The Battle of Earth is won by Humanity, but they had lost two billion people. One of the big losses was the destruction of the Parliament Building in Geneva. The island of Madagascar is also destroyed.
In the wake of the attack on Earth, the government reforms to the United Systems Alliance. The government would be run by a Senate, a Senator from each star system, with a President as the head, but that is where the similarities with the previous government end. Instead of the individual freedoms of its citizens at the forefront of the SPH's concerns, it is replaced by military power; A person can't even be a full citizen until they serve the government for at least two years. It is deemed by future historians as an acceptable side effect of forming during a war against extinction.
December 24, 2670: The Yuuzhan Vong are finally driven from the Milky Way galaxy, sent on their way to terrorize the next galaxy on their pilgrimage. Overall, about 125 billion people are killed, and Humanity is forever changed. The military becomes one of the front most concerns of the humans of the Milky Way for millennia, and it is promised that if the Vong are ever found again that the USA would do nothing else but 'return the favor'.
November 30, 2745: A terrorist group known as the KVA launches a massive terrorist attack on the planet Moira. The terrorists use Manticore-like gas in the large cities of the colony, turning the populations into zombies. However, these zombies are multitudes smarter than zombies made with Manticore; while unable to use ranged weapons, they can pilot starships. After several zombie-infested ships escape the system, the Solanum Wars, named after the strain of Manticore used, begin.
July 11, 2756: The Demeter system is devastated when Demeter's largest moon is destroyed by Hypermatter explosives after a large horde is detected on he surface. Most of the zombies in the Norma Arm are destroyed in the strike, and the tide turns in Humanity's favor.
March 3, 2764: The zombie hordes are hunted down to extinction for a second time. However, since Counter-Terror teams never found the KVA facility that housed the Solanum research, contingency plans and tech are developed to counter zombies in case they turn up again. The KVA, however, is completely destroyed after their leader is killed after a brief chase on Earth.
May 6, 2868: Scientists begin researching new forms of FTL travel in order to journey to other galaxies. Most of the technology produced was reverse-engineered from ancient alien ruins found across the galaxy, along with a few choice pieces of biotech from the Vong. The inspiration came when it was discovered that the Andromeda galaxy, a close neighbor of the Milky Way, is discovered to be a great multitudes closer than originally thought.
November 4, 2901: Any star systems that sustained repairable damage during the Vong War are now repaired to the fullest possible extent, though a few had been damaged beyond hope of recolonization. Colonization efforts begin again.
August 12, 2937: A major breakthrough in the FTL Project produces the Wormhole Network; a special space station would be constructed at the edge of a star system. The space station would have a Hawking Emitter that would produce special radiation in specific quantities to make a portal into the limbo of different dimensions. A ship would go into the portal and make a jump to wherever they want to go. Instead of the day's travel in would take to go from one end of the galaxy to the other (Not counting maneuvers to avoid obstacles), it would take a ship less than twenty minutes to do it without stopping to dodge deep space gravity wells. However, the only thing that could make the wormholes were the Hawking stations, so any trip would be a one way trip if a station wasn't in the system the ship went to. Hawking stations begin to be constructed across the galaxy. Though only for military use at the moment, the project is considered a complete success.
February 14, 2946: The total human population surpasses 1 trillion. This is made possible with the large amount of garden worlds discovered, and the tax reductions for couples that had four or more kids.
October 14, 2955: The first expeditionary fleet leaves for the Andromeda Galaxy, and is estimated to take anywhere from one week to five years.
October 31, 2955/23 BBY: The Andromeda Galaxy is finally reached, and immediately the scouting party comes into contact with the Chiss Ascendency. After a rough first contact, an agreement is made and the Chiss are secretly brought into an alliance the US, while staying its own isolated nation in the eyes of the rest of the galaxy. The Ascendency's spy connections across the galaxy became invaluable the US which was used to install secret outposts and safehouses for future operations. Unfortunately, it is discovered that the Chiss had extensive reports of the Yuuzhan Vong a few decades worth of hyperspace travel away from the Andromeda galaxy. The information is classified level 10.
When it is discovered that a human race is in the Andromeda galaxy, Humanity takes a moral blow. In an effort to fix things, they change the name of any Humans that originated from Earth to Terrans. A poll put up on the Stellarnet the next day shows that over 85% of the Human population was okay with the change.
March 12, 2956/22BBY: Formal diplomatic relations are made between the Galactic Republic. The meeting goes rather well... until the Republic politicians insult the US and its experiences of war. Even though it is sighted that World War 2 was five times more deadly than the Great Hyperspace War, which was cited as one of the worst wars the Republic ever went through, the Republic politicians 'back up' their claim with the fact that the Terrans had only been space worthy for 900 years. The meeting ends with very sour relations between the two nations.
After extensive research, Terran historians make the connection of the disappearance of the ancient colony ship Coruscant and the Republic capital of the same name. Since the information is relatively easy to find in history records, the information is made public via major news networks all across the galaxies. The Galactic Republic quickly and stubbornly denies the claims, and the beginning relations become worse.
November 16, 2956/22 BBY: The connections that are now available helps the government hire new instructors for the next generation of soldiers in the new galaxy by hiring different bounty hunters and mercs, including one Jango Fett, who just finished training the Alpha-Class clone ARCs. They use this new asset to start the Give Life Project, a program designed to have an entire generation of supersoldiers trained from infancy in a Mandalorian-like way. It is not lost on Terran historians that it was also similar to the ancient Spartans.
November 31: The Clone Wars begin with a bang with the First Battle of Geonosis.
June 14, 2957/21 BBY: After a US military outpost was discovered by CIS forces on Hypori and destroyed after heavy fighting, the US enters the Clone Wars on its own side. Instead of a full frontal assault, the US instead take Count Dooku and his supporters away from the seat of the CIS government. Grievous is killed before he can truly make a name for himself by a Sentinel team, and Dooku is pressed into hiding. The US actually help install a new government, one that didn't use the funds of corrupt corporations to create endless armies of droids to fight. After a few months, the Confederate Armed Forces is mostly organic (Though the Navy was still mostly droid because it was a better tactical choice). Relations between the Republic and the US go even more downhill after Republic Intelligence finds out.
Refugees of every species of the Andromeda galaxy seek refuge in the United Systems Alliance, despite most being Republic citizens. After reluctantly accepting, some of the refugees apply to be US civilians, and later citizens. Despite their relatively bad history with aliens, most of the Terrans welcome them. Plans are drawn up for a large space station to become the new US capital, since it was considered unfair for a homeworld to be a capital of a multi-species country.
August 27, 2957/ 21 BBY: A misunderstanding between Republic and US forces on Dantooine escalates into a large scale battle. While US forces were superior to the clones due to their advanced gear, better weapons, better training, and ultimately their Exo Suits, they were pushed back to a single town due to being outnumbered 3 to 1. Only the timely deployment of the new Special Operations group, Task Force 141, saved the day, decimating the entire Republic force surrounding the town. Adding insult to injury, the US battlegroup that came to rescue the forces on Dantooine went to the Mandalore System and took it from the Republic forces in the area, blasting them to nothingness. After negotiations, a truce between the two powers is signed, saying that the US could keep the territory they conquered, and ending with, in a sense, "I don't fuck with you, you don't fuck with me."
July 15, 2958/ 20 BBY: CIA spies within Palpatine's inner circle learn about GAR Contingency Order 66, detailing the systematic execution of the Jedi fighting on the frontlines, carried out by the clone troopers, who are under control of Palpatine with the use of control chips installed in their brains from birth, along with giving the Chancellor enough power to basically be a dictator. The CIA gives this information to certain clone commanders and are given the chance to have the chips removed. Most of the commanders, as well as their troopers, take the offer. The Jedi, however, don't want anything to do with the Terrans, citing that they couldn't be trusted due to their complete lack of 'The Force'.
July 17: The Mandalorian terror group known as the Death Watch overthrow the pacifist government led by Duchess Satine in a coup, bringing the old warlike ways of the Mandalorians back. While the US extracted the Duchess and brought her to safety, they don't do anything to change the new government. The public seemed okay with it and it gave the US a new ally; The Mandalorian Clans. Pre Vizsla, the leader of Death Watch and self proclaimed Mandolore is killed and replaced by the former Sith Lord Darth Maul (who subsequently vanished that same week) and the Death Watch are again labeled as terrorists. They are hunted down by the Counter-Terror and Special Operations Divisions of the US military, including Counter Strike, the SAS (Special Astro Service), and the elite RAINBOW Task Force.
October 31, 2959/ 19 BBY: Order 66 is issued, and most of the Jedi fighting for the Republic are cut down by their own clone troopers. While some of the clones are no longer under the control of Palpatine, who was discovered to be the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, 95% of all Jedi in the galaxy die in the weeks following the Great Jedi Purge. The US cuts all ties it has with the new Galactic Empire, and offer safe harbor to all surviving Jedi and GAR defectors before the borders closed, as well as any refugees. Most of the clones enlist into the US military, becoming instructors and strategists, while the Jedi started the New Jedi Order and given privacy to rebuild themselves. The experience gets the US into the trust of the Jedi, and seal the deal by helping the Jedi build their new temple.
After the war, many former CIS and Republic worlds, such as Raxus and Krios, ask to be annexed by the US to avoid the economic suicide of staying independent and the slavery that awaited them if they let the Empire claim them. The US quickly accepts, though many systems are taken by the Empire before US forces could reach them. Since the US made no official claim to the systems, there is no way they can retake them without the risk of full scale war.
July 4, 2963/ 15 BBY: The construction of a large ring-like space station, known simply as HALO, is completed to serve s the new capital of the United Systems Alliance. It's location is actually in the star system of the first usage of the Hypermatter ISBM, the Yuma System, which is renamed to the Unity System. It is essentially a large ring, about 1,000km in diameter. While having conventional firepower that could rival a large fraction of the Imperial Navy, it's main weapon is a superlaser fired from emitters all around the station that can destroy a moon. It is planned for it to have an atmosphere with different ecosystems, but technology hadn't advanced that far yet.
September 25, 2966/ 12 BBY: A large skirmish between the 501st Stormtrooper Legion and a small group of 141 operators on Jabiim starts. After two days of nonstop fighting, the Imperials run from the system, with half of the once proud fighting force now dead bodies and memories on the surface. The US denies all responsibility, redirecting the blame on a series of mega storms on the planet and heightened insurgent activity in the sector that appeared on the planet that week. In retaliation, the Empire takes back Mandalore in a small skirmish, and the Mandalorian government is relocated to the US colony of New Sparta, the planet becoming a hive of activity later that month.
May 15, 2967/ 11 BBY: The US government secretly gives the go ahead for behind the scenes aid to rebel cells all across the Empire in the form of money, supplies, and extra personnel, as well as straight up sabotage missions.
January 26, 2974/ 4 BBY: A rookie 141 operative, codename: Hawk, is sent to help a rebel cell stirring up trouble by the Lothal System.
January 28, 2974: Present Day.
