Yes, I am insane. I admit it. However, they do say insanity and genius are very closely related...
In any case,somehow Iplan tocram Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Lupin III into one massive crossover of hopefully epic proportions. Entire this will be utterly brilliant or a complete turd. Who knows? But hey, you only live once, right?
The following is a timeline that tries to make sense of all four series and put them in context with one another (warning: spoilers):
Please note: I don't own any of the series
1950s – Lupin III is born (death unknown)
1973 - Chess Master Hex born on Earth.
1977 - Lupin III the series…
1994 -- August 14, Faye Valentine born on Earth.
2003 -- Chess Master Hex joins the Hyperspace Gate Control team.
2007 -- A 13-year-old Faye records a Betamax message to her future (23-year-old) self.
2008 -- Chess Master Hex develops the main program for controlling the hyperspace gates.
2014 -- An orbital shuttle accident results in Faye being placed in cold sleep.
2015 -- Project Seeds begins its ten year project, after studies show that Earth will become unfriendly for human life by the early 2100s. The project's goal is to find a large planet where the human race can migrate to and settle, as research was indicating that the solar system would not be able to sustain the project 8.2 billion population of known humans existing on both earth and in the solar system.
2021 -- The Hyperspace Gate Accident destroys a large portion of the moon. Wen is exposed to the energy released by the Gate Accident and stops aging. Chess Master Hex puts his 50-year plan to sabotage the Hyperspace Gates into motion after the Gate Corporation runs him out of the company. Feng Shui master Pao Pu born.
2021—Project Seeds accelerates; survivors of the Gate Accident go into a cold sleep and leave Earth and its solar system to find a new planet and solar system to settle and inhabit.
2022 -- Most (if not all) data from before this point is lost due to the Gate Accident.
2022 – The crew of Project Seeds stumbles upon two alien babies (Vash and Knives) on a remote planet not suitable for human life.
2023 – Knives kills the crew of Project Seeds; Rem manages to save those in a cold sleep. The shuttles crash on a desert planet with two suns, soon to become known as Gunsmoke.
2034 – Knives completes his creation of two very powerful guns to destroy the human race; Knives and Vash split ways, Vash taking both guns.
2035 -- December 3, Jet Black born on Ganymede.
2036 – Vash befriends the citizens of Sky City.
2044 -- June 26, Spike Speigel born on Mars. Vicious born.
2057 -- The last time the Blue Sox won the pennant.
2058 -- January 1, Edward born on Earth (Likely a false birth date.).
2061 -- Jet and Pao meet for the last time. Spike acquires the Swordfish II from Doohan.
2062 -- Alisa leaves Jet.
2063 -- Jet looses his left arm and leaves both the ISSP and Ganymede. This is also the last time Jet worked with his old partner, Fad.
2064 -- Meifa taken from Pao Pu by her mother. Edward dropped off at daycare by her father (who then forgets she's there).
2066 -- Edward arrives at the nun's orphanage.
2068 -- Spike "dies," leaving the Red Dragon syndicate in the process. Faye is unthawed from cold sleep and saddled with a debt of over 300 million woolongs. Edward leaves the nun's orphanage. Jet and Spike become bounty hunter partners on the Bebop.
2069 -- Gren and Vicious serve in the military in the Titan conflict. Gren escapes from a military prison. Julia seen on Callisto (she leaves after a month). Ronny Spagen's medical accident reduces him to a catatonic state. The Scratch cult formed soon after. Ein born and/or grown.
2070 -- Spike forgets a lobster in a storage fridge on the Bebop.
2071 -- Cowboy Bebop the Series; Julia dies; Vicious dies; Spike…?
2116 -- Vash discovers one of Rem's relatives is residing in July City and goes out to meet him; Knives is there and activates Vash's angel arm; July City is destroyed. A bounty of sixty billion double dollars is placed on Vash the Stampede's head.
2139 – Trigun the series; Nicholas D. Wolfwood dies; Knives falls into a comatose state.
3550s – Human beings, having been exploring space for over the last millennium (Cowboy Bebop) have been advancing further and further away from Earth and it's solar system. At this point, humans begin settling what will become the frontier region, 50 light years away from Earth.
3642 – Gene Starwind is born in Locust on Sentinel III.
3656 – Gene Starwind goes up into space with his father; his father dies and he returns to Sentinel III.
3662 – Outlaw Star the series; Gene Starwind and crew find the Galatic Leyline.