2009 CE
First Blacklight virus outbreak
Alex Mercer releases Blacklight in Penn Station and is gunned down
Alex Mercer wakes up in a morgue with amnesia and what can only be described as super-powers. Naturally, after finding and ensuring the protection of his sister, he embarks on a gory rampage, earning himself the designation "ZEUS"
Alex Mercer prevents the detonation of a nuclear device in Manhattan, survives, and leaves New York to go on homicidal walkabout
2012 CE
Second Outbreak
Alex Mercer returns and releases an improved strain of Blacklight in Penn Station
Alex Mercer visits his sister and tells her that he plans to replace humanity with Blacklight. When she expresses horror and disbelief, he infects her and leaves, claiming that she would soon understand
Dana Mercer, under the alias "Athena," works with the recently infected Sergeant James Heller against her apparently insane brother, Alex Mercer
James Heller consumes Mercer and burns off all but a shred of his available biomass in ending the infection. He and Dana, who he refers to as Athena, agree to keep in contact in order to "make sure neither one of us go bugfuck crazy and start eating people who don't fucking deserve it."
2013 CE
James Heller transfers the bank account contents of all the Blacklight personnel he has consumed into a new account and moves to Seattle with his daughter, Amaya Heller
Dana Mercer does the same and, using the identity of one of the infected she has consumed, begins to study medicine, trauma surgery with a minor in virology
2023 CE
Dana Mercer joins MSF (Doctors Without Borders) as an epidemiologist, volunteering for zones of heavy conflict
2062 CE
Amaya Heller is diagnosed with rare blood disease, Cardiac Amyloidosis, and given five years to live
2069 CE
Armstrong Outpost at Shackleton Crater is formally founded on the hundredth anniversary of the first lunar landing
2070 CE
· Amaya Heller dies
· James Heller uses a well-established identity, Billionaire Victor Manswell, to begin funding his own private spaceflight expedition, publicly citing frustration with the slow pace of official progress
2073 CE
James Heller contacts Dana Mercer, now operating a clinic at Armstrong Outpost as "Dr. Athena," and asks her to help him die. She refuses, offering to talk and try to help him work through his grief, and Heller ends the call
2075 CE
The Manswell Expedition, with 300 colonists aboard in cryo-stasis, launches successfully. James Heller sends Athena a message before using an escape pod to launch himself into the sun
Athena begins the work of finding a manager to run her clinic
2076 CE
Athena begins taking net-based college courses in assorted scientific fields, including everything from marine biology to theoretical physics
2096 CE
· The Second American Civil War Breaks out
· Athena returns to earth to work with the red cross
2103 CE
The European Space Agency establishes Lowell City, the first permanent human settlement on Mars, in Eos Chasma
2104 CE
· The Second American Civil War ends
· Athena stays behind and helps with reconstruction in Manhattan
2107 CE
Athena moves to Lowell City and establishes a new clinic there, funded by the interest of her rather impressive savings. She continues her studies
2137 CE
The Eldfell-Ashland Energy Company begins helium-3 fuel extraction from the atmosphere of Saturn
2143 CE
Construction of Gagarin Station begins in orbit of Pluto
2147 CE
Element Zero is discovered on Mars
2148 CE
Advanced Prothean technology is discovered on the southern polar region of Promethei Planum
2149 CE
The Charon Relay is discovered and activated, allowing a team of explorers, led by Jon Grissom and including doctor-of-most-anything-worth-being-a-doctor-of Athena, to reach and explore the Arcturus system, 36 light-years away
The systems alliance charter is signed by the eighteen largest nations of earth, and soon becomes the military and exploratory spearhead of humanity
2150 CE
The Systems Alliance begins surveying for colonization prospects outside the solar system
2151 CE
The Systems Alliance begins building an immense fleet and space station at the Arcturus relay hub, despite having not yet met another intelligent or spacefaring species
2152 CE
The first extrasolar human colonies are established
Athena organizes the construction of one of her clinics, which have become reasonably common and well-known, on all newly colonized worlds
2155 CE
The Systems Alliance occupies finished sections of Arcturus station, intending it to become their headquarters
Athena moves to Shanxi to manage and work in one of her clinics there
2156 CE
Arcturus Station is formally completed
Some children exposed to element zero exhibit minor telekinetic abilities
2157 CE
First Contact War
