We just launched Tales of the Arx Jericho - Season 2 this past Sunday, and for any of you just joining in, the above is a timeline summarizing the events starting with the revelation of the Legulus in 2014 to the assault of the Arx Jericho in 2031 and what has happened in the last four months of the game leading up to the new year (2032).
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If you can't view it above, here's the timeline in regular, text format below (sans pictures unfortunately):
Timeline of Events
April 5th 2014 - They Are Among Us / Universal Communion
The Legulus reveal themselves on Earth and offer aid to mankind through their gifts and sciences while erecting colonies of silver and porcelain (esp. in third world nations).
The media names their religion, "Universal Communion," and the world adopts it, shortening it to, "The Communion."
February 18th 2015 - Acceptance
The Legulus begin accepting selective humans into their settlements, while other humans form camps outside and worship the aliens as saviors and angels. The Legulus neither encourage nor discourage this.
April 3rd 2017 - Denouncement
The Pope denounces the worship of Legulus as angelic messengers or new prophets, and the organizations of nearly every major religion follow suit.
Tensions continue to rise, as Legulus settlements expand over the next, two years.
April 4th 2019 - Exodus
The Legulus settlements gather as many devotees as they can, close the doors, lift-off simultaneously, and ascend into orbit, disappearing behind the moon.
July 4th 2029 - Invasion
The Legulus return to invade Earth in their Wormwoods. They are henceforth called the Mayzor.
Monday, March 24, 2031 - First Encounter
Season 1, Episode 01
The Mayzor invade Brooklyn, NY and Chicago, IL. Charlie Company departs the Arx Jericho and lands in Brooklyn, while Alpha and Bravo Companies land in Chicago.
Monday, March 24 - Tuesday, March 25, 2031 - Tragic Memories
Season 1, Episode 02
Charlie Company destroys the Mayzor attacking Brooklyn and Belial, the Principal Rank Magnas.
Chicago Catastrophe - Serena Hunter, Laurie Bach, and Leo 'Raspberry' Hayes defeat the Mayzor attacking Chicago and Vepar, the Dominion Rank Magnas, however most of the SAInt pilots of Alpha Company and Bravo Company don't survive the battle.
Jason overhears AK-47 talking to a couple of CRC scientists about Rafe Hunter being held by the CRC and that the military wants custody of him instead; Jason also overhears that Rafe has classified research the CRC needs concerning something called the Apostle Project.
Friday, May 9, 2031 - Celebrations and Romance
Season 1, Episode 03
Joanne Klein and Stephanie Yuzuki have graduated from the SAInt program and joined Bravo Company.
Jason Reyes celebrates his 14th birthday party.
Alex 'Strudel' Struder begins dating Stephanie Yuzuki.
Jason starts dating Laurie.
Joanne reveals some of her true feelings to Rick Hunter.
Charlie Company is dismantled; Rick, Sarah Werner, Jason, and Strudel are promoted to Alpha Company with Serena as their team leader.
Billy Henderson is promoted to Bravo Company as their new, team leader.
Alpha Company: Serena (TL), Rick, Sarah, Jason, Strudel
Bravo Company: Billy (TL), Joanne, Stephanie, Laurie, Raspberry
Friday, June 13, 2031 - Revelations
Season 1, Episode 04
Kazuhiro Mazaki (16) and Miguel Rodriguez (11) have graduated from the SAInt program and have formed the new Charlie Company.
Jason moves into the dorms with Rick as his roommate, while Miguel replaces Jason as Strudel's new roommate at the foster home.
Kazuhiro moves into the dorms and becomes Billy's new roommate.
During interface testing, Rick and Serena recall memories of their father injecting them and Opsie Wessel with the AmBrO51A serum.
Jason dreams of the Mayzor invading the Arx Galilee and Sydney which actually happens, and Jason learns his mother has been abducted.
Sarah has a precognitive dream of a Mayzor battle in New Alamo, which Alpha Company participates in.
Opsie transfers from the Arx Galilee and arrives at the Arx Jericho by helicopter.
Saturday, June 14, 2031 - Tests, Secrets, and Summer Drama
Season 1, Episode 05
Alpha Company overhears AK-47, Dr. Johnson, and several CRC scientists in the garden talking about Opsie piloting a P-class SAInt and more references to the Apostle Project.
Thursday, July 3, 2031 - Remember New Alamo! Part 1
Season 1, Episode 06
The Mayzor invade New Alamo. Alpha Company is deployed to counterattack with Bravo Company as backup, but their deployment trajectory is rerouted to the West Coast.
The MetaTron is hacked and experiences strange static before all communication from Alpha Company to HQ is terminated.
Alpha Company battles both Beelzebub, Dominion class Magnas, and Thammuz, Principal class Magnas, by themselves without backup or communication with HQ.
Thursday, July 3, 2031 - Remember New Alamo! Part 2
Season 1, Episode 07
During their debriefing, the SAInt pilots notice Dr. Johnson grinning at the mention of MetaTron static, and Billy confesses that he saw Dr. Johnson sneaking around the Operations computer room shortly before the New Alamo invasion.
Dr. Johnson speaks privately to Serena after the debriefing.
Friday, July 4, 2031 - Remembrance Day
The SAInt pilots and the Preservation Forces celebrate Remembrance Day (remembering the first Mayzor invasion of 2029).
Thursday, August 14, 2031 - To The Beach
Season 1, Episode 08
Bala and Lieke (13), collectively known at 'The Twins' have graduated the SAInt program and joined Charlie Company.
Alpha Company breaks into Dr. Johnson's office and acquires classified, CRC documents and encrypted, computer files:
• Psychological evaluations and progress reports for Serena and Opsie who are underground P-class SAInt training for the Apostle Project.
• More information on the Apostle Project and what the P-class SAInts (Prophets) actually are.
• Details on the AmBrO51A serum (Americium Bromine Oxide 51A) which expedites the zen-like state achieved by Prophet candidates after being in their system for several months to several years.
• Encrypted computer files have a deciphering key attached, but Jason needs time to decode them.
Friday, August 15, 2031 - To The Beach (cont.)
Season 1, Episode 08
The SAInt pilots take a summer vacation to the Bahamas.
Jason's Linc decrypts one of Dr. Johnson's files, revealing instructions for Dr. Johnson to attach a hand-size, Wormwood-shaped flash drive object to the Operations main computer.
Saturday, August 16, 2031 - Bad News and Beach Drama
Season 1, Episode 09
Jason recovers the second, decrypted file after it almost becomes corrupted; it contains detailed blueprints of New Alamo, plans for the Mayzor attack, and instructions for Dr. Johnson to redirect Bravo Company's Jehu's Bow trajectory before hacking into the MetaTron.
Alpha Company tells AK-47 about the information they've uncovered.
The third, decrypted file contains blueprints for two, new aquatic-class Locusts, the Constrictor and the Cannon, and a list of coastal cities and islands the Mayzor are targeting, including the Bahamas.
AK-47 reveals an underground base on Bimini Island to Alpha Company and the Twins, containing aquatic SAInt prototypes in case of a naval, Mayzor assault.
Sunday, August 17, 2031 - A Naval Assault
Season 1, Episode 10
The Mayzor invade the Bahamas using new, naval class Locusts and battle Rick, Sarah, and Jason in their prototype, aquatic SAInts.
Rick, Sarah, and Jason defeat the Mayzor and Enki, a Dominion class Magnas.
AK-47 asks Rick to join Serena, Opsie, and Dr. Johnson at the CRC facility for Prophet training.
Sarah is promoted as new team leader of Alpha Company.
Tuesday, September 2, 2031 - The Enemy Within
Season 1, Episode 11
Rick, Serena, and Opsie undergo their Prophet training together at the CRC facility.
Sarah is abducted by CRC scientists and taken to Rafe Hunter at the facility to be injected with AmBrO51A serum.
Jason, Strudel, and Allen Werner undergo a rescue mission to save Sarah.
Sarah escapes Rafe and the injection but is chased down after the CRC facility and Arx Jericho enters a lockdown.
Billy threatens Dr. Johnson with a gun and ends up trapped inside the facility with Rick and Serena.
Opsie darts off and runs into Jason, Strudel, Allen, Sarah, and AK-47 who disguised herself as a CRC scientist.
Alpha Company is reunited with Billy, Allen, and AK-47, when the power goes out. They run into Dr. Johnson and follow him to Rafe Hunter's office, where they discover a secret hangar/laboratory filled with: test subjects encased in glass tanks, chemistry sets, AmBrO51A serum, a crashed satellite, deconstructed aquatic Locusts, prototype designs for Locusts, and paintings and tapestries of a white woman with pale skin and silver hair wearing armor of glowing, white porcelain.
The hangar/laboratory also contains the words, Operation Blue Moon, classified designs for the Prophets, references to someone called 'The General', and a hologram of a transformed Rafe Hunter with silver hair who calls himself Legulus and the General.
Tuesday, September 2, 2031 - The Battle of Jericho, Part 1
Season 1, Episode 12
Locusts hidden away in the secret hangar suddenly wake up, as a self-destruct timer starts which Jason defuses.
While the CRC facility and Arx Jericho are still under lockdown, the Mayzor invade directly with the usual arsenal of Locusts and two, new, aerial classes: the Choppers and the Bombers.
Rick, Serena, and Opsie deploy in their Prophets as the newly formed Blue Company, while the other pilots escape the facility and board their SAInts.
Alpha and Bravo Companies team up to battle the Mayzor and help rescue their fellow pilots aboard the Arx, while Blue Company does the same and goes after the aerial Locusts.
The MetaTron is hacked again, Commander Yamasuka's voice is replicated, Joanne SAInt frenzies and turns on Strudel, and several other pilots' SAInts frenzy and turn on the Robbies and military.
Tuesday, September 2, 2031 - The Battle of Jericho, Part 2
Season 1, Episode 13
Asmodeus, the most feared and despised Throne rank Magnas, attacks the Arx Jericho but is fought off and destroyed by all four SAInt companies and the Preservation Forces working in unison.
September 3rd 2031 - January 4th 2032 - Reconstruction and Ascension
Over the past, few months, the Arx Jericho has not only repaired itself with unprecedented speed, it's also revealed technological advancements which have shifted it from hovering just above the midwestern, US Territory to orbiting the Earth in space, parallel to the moon.
The name of the Apostle Project has gone public, though concrete details on the Prophets, Blue Company, and Operation Blue Moon remain classified within the CRC aboard the Arx Jericho.
Rafe Hunter is a global fugitive who's still missing. Militaries across the world and the Preservation Forces are offering huge rewards for any information that would lead to his arrest.
Billy retired from the SAInt program just three weeks short of his 18th birthday and is now the Junior Head of Security for the Preservation Forces of the Arx Jericho.
Kazuhiro has been promoted to team leader of Bravo Company.
The pilots of Blue and Alpha Companies, who defended Jericho during Asmodeus's assault, have been invited for an interview by the Global News Network to be seen by millions around the world.
The Preservation Forces assign new missions to Blue and Alpha Companies that will take place on the moon.
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