TIMELINE

2381

Originally-estimated earliest possible year where humans can begin repopulating the world.

2476

The first cryogenic facility is discovered and accessed by a local group of people in Europe where Germany was located. Their presence activates the thawing protocols to the pods, but only one of their occupants regains consciousness. A man named Althed had remained behind and was frightened when the survivor arose from what he thought was a coffin. Upon calming, Althed helps the survivor out. The survivor is Rhonda Barlow, twenty-four years old and formerly of Project: Zero Dawn who worked as a Gamma on the Subroutine Hephaestus. Althed takes her to his village. Rhonda is considered one of the Great Ones of the Great World.

2477

Rhonda marries Althed and they go on to have four children together.

2523

Althed dies from natural causes.

2540

Rhonda Barlow dies at the (biological) age of eighty-eight, leaving behind four children, twelve grandchildren, eighteen great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. Her body is interred at the cryogenic facility, now consecrated as a tomb to the Great Ones. She had always wondered if any more of her fellow Great Ones had survived and why Apollo had failed its task.

2724

The second cryogenic facility is discovered and accessed by a local group of people in Asia where India was located. Their presence activates the thawing protocols to the pods, but none of their occupants regain consciousness.

2912

The third cryogenic facility is discovered and accessed by a local group of people in South America where Argentina was located. Their presence activates the thawing protocols to the pods, but none of their occupants regain consciousness.

2985

The fourth and fifth cryogenic facility are discovered and accessed by a local group of people in Africa, where Kenya was located, and Australia respectively. Their presence activates the thawing protocols to the pods, but none of their occupants regain consciousness.

3019

The sixth cryogenic facility is discovered and accessed by a local group of people in Asia where Israel was located. Their presence activates the thawing protocols to the pods, but only one of their occupants regains consciousness and emerges from the cryogenic facility, much to the shock of the people who had entered because they are camping outside for the night. They nearly end up attacking the survivor, but he manages to calm them and explain who he is and what had happened. He is Mark Monroe, thirty-three years old and formerly of Far Zenith. They are shocked to learn that he is one of the High Men who was a part of the Lost Era.

3020

The Derangement begins (though it is called other names by other peoples out there) and Aloy is "conceived".

3021

Aloy is "born".

3028

The seventh cryogenic facility is discovered and accessed by two local people in Africa where South Africa was located. Their presence activates the thawing protocols to the pods, prompting the intruders to flee. Only two of cryogenic facility's occupants regain consciousness. They eventually leave the place and encounter those same two people, who at first treat the two survivors with suspicion, but then the two survivors told them about theirselves. They are Eric Jones and Brenda Clements, both twenty-seven years old and formerly of Far Zenith. The story makes the new humans realize that they are Ancients from The World Before. Eric and Brenda are taken in and eventually ingrain themselves with the people, learning the lore of the land, including the Rage that has been plaguing machines for the past eight years so that they ended up attacking humans, and newer ones appearing for the purpose of attacking humans. They learn about two places to the north where the First People came out and understand that those are two of the Eleuthia cradles, but are unable to learn of their exact locations, save that they are far to the north.

3029

The eighth cryogenic facility is discovered and accessed by a single local in Asia on one of the islands once called Japan. Their presence activates the thawing protocols to the pods, prompting that person to flee in terror. Only three of its occupants regain consciousness and they are David Miller, twenty-five years old and formerly of Project: Zero Dawn as a Gamma for the Subroutine Minerva; Robert Swyers, thirty-one years old and formerly of Far Zenith; and Debbie Smith, twenty-nine years old and also formerly of Far Zenith. Upon emerging from the cryogenic facility, they are attacked by a Sawtooth. Robert is killed, but David and Debbie manage to escape unscathed. David and Debbie continue walking, ever stalked and fearful of the machines around and having to avoid them. They eventually reach a city called Mother, lying in the shadow a mountain. It is here that they manage to find a place to live and work as machine gutters. During their time here, they learn that the city of Mother got its name from the nearby mountain known as Mother Mountain, so named because it is where the First People had emerged from. David and Debbie come to an understanding that it must be where one of the Eleuthia cradles is located. They also learn about the Fallen Ones and their Fallen World, about the Insanity that has plagued the machines over the past nine years so that they end up attacking humans and causing new machines to appear for attacking humans. This also causes them to learn that Mother is one of the twenty sanctuaries scattered across former Japan, all of which were built upon the ruins of a Fallen city. It was because people could no longer live anywhere else like they once did before the Insanity because the machines compelled the people to seek safety in the larger urban areas, leaving the hamlets, villages, and towns abandoned to the Insanity. David and Debbie settle in the slum area of the sanctuary city.

3040

The events of Horizon Zero Dawn take place.

Mark Monroe, now a husband and father of three children and grandfather of two grandchildren, is currently chief of the Jeun tribe. He currently wonders what had happened for the Metal Bloodlust to have started and ended. He also wonders if any more of his fellow High Men and Women survived and why Apollo had failed its task.

Eric Jones and Brenda Clements have two children together after managing to have readjusted to life in this new world. The Rage had vanished from the machines and the world is safer now. Eric and Brenda still wonder why Apollo had failed its task and if any of their fellow Ancients had survived, but have since come to assume that they must be the last of their kind.

David Miller and Debbie Smith live in one of the claimed villages. With the Insanity suddenly over, there is little incentive for the people in that part of the world to remain in a sanctuary city, causing many to recolonize the countryside. They still work as machine gutters and are expecting their first child together. They never told anyone of their origins and continue to wonder why Apollo had failed in its task, or if any of their fellow Fallen Ones had survived.

The events of Yore Solution take place while simultaneously the last cryogenic facility in the world, which is in Asia where China was located, also has its thawing protocols activated due to the near depletion of the pod's energy cells. Only three of its occupants regain consciousness and they are Peggy Hanover, thirty-four years old and formerly of Far Zenith; Margaret Jones, twenty-six years old and formerly of Project: Zero Dawn as a Gamma for the Subroutine Poseidon; and Anita Sandoval, forty years old, the creator of Cyan and formerly of Project: Zero Dawn as a Beta for the Subroutine Demeter. But after exiting the facility, all three are confronted by a Ravager and shot to death.

Note:

I would have included Ted Faro's fate, but I have a hunch that there is general uncertainty over whatever fate people want for him.