SORAverse timeline

This is a timeline of notable events in the SORAverse.

~1500 BC

The Three Kingdoms Civil War

The Three Kingdoms Alliance, which was stood for nearly 300 years, falls apart in a matter of days after Atlantis is sunk by the Vedic Lunar Cannon, and the resultant fighting wipes out nearly the entire remaining population. The handful of survivors band together, vowing to keep the history and technology of the Three Kingdoms a secret, to prevent the same tragedy occurring again.

4 BC

The Birth of Christ

Jesus Christ is born.

33 AD

The Death of Christ

Christ is crucified by the Romans. Whilst he will eventually rise again 3 days later, various individuals who interacted with him in the final few days of his life are granted reincarnative immortality, including Judas Iscariot, Longinus, and Simon of Cyrene, amongst others.

1127 AD

Simon and Judas fight in Syria

1242 AD

Simon and Judas fight in Croatia

1810 AD

Simon and Judas fight in the South China Sea

1863 AD

Simon and Judas fight in Gettysburg at the height of the American Civil War

1908 AD

The Tunguska Event And Discovery of Zarnite

The Tunguska meteorite impacts over Krasnoyarsk Krai in East Siberia, scattering the mineral Zarnite all over the Siberian region. Various experiments are conducted by the Russian Empire to harness its various properties. Projekt Shashka, the infamous top secret super soldier program, is also started utilizing Zarnite to induce psionic powers and facilitate genetic modifications.

1914-1918 AD

World War One

Specific Noteworthy Events:

• Hans Baudouin, who will later become known as Domino, rises to fame as the German Empire's Crimson Fury, becoming a legendary fighter pilot. During this time, he begins forming the Wisemen, his personal paramilitary organization.
• Elijah Cromwell, who will later become known as Bravarius, fights on the American side.

1917-1922 AD

Russian Civil War

Specific Noteworthy Events:

• The White Army turns to the infamous mystic Grigori Rasputin, who summons various 'otherworldly' tech and 'demons' to turn the tide of the war in their favour.
• The Red Army likewise counters the White Army's new advantages through the use of armoured mech squadrons and former Projekt Shashka hybrid soldiers.
• Heinrich Heyerdahl, a Swedish mercenary fighting in the war, is captured by the Tsarist forces and is forcibly mutated to become a 'Hybrid Killer', to help the White Army wipe out the hybrid forces employed by the Reds. He escapes, fleeing to America and becoming a Commandant of Thule.
• The Reds eventually win the Civil War and War Commissar Leon Trotsky is hailed as a hero.

1923 AD

Lenin’s Testament

Lenin writes a testament criticizing Stalin which is published by his wife at the XII Party Congress, disgracing the latter and paving the way for Trotsky to be named Premier of the Soviet government after his death.

1927 AD

The events of Weird Games: A BZPB SORAverse Story take place.

1928 AD

Sefer Yetzirah, adopted daughter of Japanese Emperor Akari Shingen, is formally recognized as heir to the throne amidst a constitutional crisis.

1930 AD

Rockbay Congressional Hearings

Following the Rockbay City crisis, a set of Congressional hearings are held to investigate the legality of the actions of various law enforcement and government officials during the event. The existence of the Wisemen, a paramilitary group operating under Hans Baudouin, is found to be a violation of the Posse Comitatus act, and the organization is disbanded. Most of its members will follow Baudouin in relocating to his homeland of Germany, where they will provide stiff initial resistance to various far-right groups, such as the Freikorps and Hitler's NSDAP.

1933-1934 AD

The Business Plot

A coup plot by members and sympathizers of the American Thule Society is uncovered by Retired Marine Corps Major Smedley Butler. Accusations of involvement fly in subsequent Congressional hearings, with some even saying that former President William Douglas Reed was involved with Commandant Heyerdahl and his plan. However, no proof is provided with these accusations. Eventually, arrests follow, and what was left of the American Thule was either dead, imprisoned, or in hiding. They would not resurge until after WWII.

1938-1945 AD

World War Two

Specific Noteworthy Events:

• Operation Valkyrie: Hans Baudouin, who fights as a Luftwaffe ace whilst secretly undermining the Nazi war effort, enacts a scheme which results in the death of Adolf Hitler in 1944. Germany descends into a brutal civil war; Erwin Rommel’s moderate faction is caught in bitter fighting against Field Marshall Landa's loyalist faction, even as allied forces encircle the two of them. Though Rommel dies in the final battle for Berlin, his faction is ultimately victorious; many of its leaders, such as Konrad Adenauer, will go onto be influential figures in the West German government.
• Tokyo Nuclear Strike: On August 6, 1945, the US Air Force drops a nuclear bomb on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and killing the reigning Emperor, Akari Shingen.
• Japanese Civil War: In the wake of the Emperor’s death, Sefer assumes her position as the new Emperor and brings the Yamato and Musashi, two retrofitted AC-317 class Atlantean battlecruisers, into operational status. She intends to use them to protect Japanese sovereignty whilst suing for peace, however there are many who do not recognize her legitimacy as Emperor and rally under the leadership of Admiral Yukikaze Gato, who assumes the ancient title of Shogun in direct opposition to Sefer's rule. With the assistance of Shehu Shonakan, a Nigeran man who is the current incarnation of Barabbas and possesses Three Kingdomer DNA, Gato hijacks the Musashi.
• Battle of Hawaii: Shogun Gato leads the Musashi and the rest of his fleet to Hawaii, catching the American forces off-guard. The battle is fierce; Elijah Cromwell, also known as Bravarius, coordinates a decisive counter-attack which wipes out much of Gato’s conventional fleet, but the Musashi, which possesses flight capabilities, energy shielding, and reactive plating, is effectively untouchable. Sefer arrives aboard the Yamato and communicates a plan of attack with the American forces, who are surprised by her offer of co-operation. With the Yamato acting as a distraction, Bravarius loads a prototype nuclear bomb onto one of the few remaining P-51 Mustangs left intact on the base, and takes off towards the Musashi above; the Yamato then focuses a full barrage of laser fire, briefly penetrating the Musashi's shielding and penetrating its outer hull. Bravarius flies in, crash-landing his plane within the ship, and fights his way to the engine room. He fights both Barabbas and Gato, but is able to successfully detonate the nuclear device, destroying the Musashi from within and effectively ending the war. Bravarius is presumed dead; the resulting Cromwell Accords are named in his honor, and pave the way towards peaceful relations between the US and Japan.

1943 AD

Disappearance of Hurricane Man

Sense of Right Alliance member Kurt Lutz, now known as 'Hurricane Man', is sent to investigate a location in the Pacific ocean through which huge amounts of Kø are being channeled. The Kø readings vanish shortly after his arrival at the location, and he is never seen again.

1961 AD

Sovereign

The Sense of Right Alliance's leadership expels Jared Creed, better known as Shining Beacon, along with all other members of the Washington State SORA for their brutality and violation of several organization protocols. The exiled supers reorganize as the group known as Sovereign.

1962 AD

Cuban Missile Crisis

Much of what occurred in our timeline occurs here, and a diplomatic deal saves the world from nuclear war. However, in the SORAverse, President Kennedy calls Premier Nikita Khruschev to propose a new collaboration of good faith between their nations: a joint intelligence task force meant to track down a missing Soviet submarine that had been stationed near Cuba during the crisis.

It is eventually discovered that the submarine had been taken over by a neo-Nazi militia led by Thule sympathizer Diego Alvarez Landa, operating out of Venezuela. Many of these militiamen were supers, forcing both the Americans and the Soviets to send their own respective Kø users to combat the new threat. They succeeded in neutralizing it.

1963 AD

ICSS is Founded

The United Nations Security Council creates the International Clandestine Superhuman Service, its existence largely kept a secret from civilians, but the leadership of UN member states and their intelligence agencies are all fully aware of its existence and actions. A recruitment drive begins across the world, and some of the supers who participated in the Venezuelan Incident are handpicked to be the among the first agents. The Wisemen join forces with the nascent agency as well.

1966 AD

ICSS-Wisemen Split

The relationship between the ICSS and the Wisemen, in which the Wisemen acted as the 'Black Ops' wing of the ICSS, dissolves due to personal differences between The Shadow Operative and Hans 'Domino' Baudouin, the commander and deputy commander, respectively, of the joint organization. The Wisemen once again become an independent organization and disappear from public view.

1967 AD

Six-Day War

Emma 'Avatar' Hanssen of the East German NVA leads Fallschirmjagerbatalion 37 Erwin Rommel to the defence of the Egyptian military during the Israeli-Egyptian Six-Day War. It is during this conflict that Hanssen comes to fully realize the futility of war; the event changes her and she will later resign from the NVA in 1969 and join the ICSS.

1969 AD

Burn Notice

Luciana Navarro, a CIA agent operating in Cuba, is captured by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. She will later be bailed out by Domino, who wishes to recruit her for his organization.

1970 AD

SORA

The events of the SORA RPG begin here.

1986 AD

Minatop Meeting in Rockbay, RI

Minatop, Donald Dalton, and The Shadow Operative meet to discuss her time travel activities, and how they factor into their mission.