Post by at on May 28, 2024 15:26:40 GMT -5
| Year | Grim | Ricky | Paul | | Tech | | World Events |
| 1989 | Fall of the Berlin Wall, end of the Cold War | ||||||
| 1990 | Start of the first Central American conflict | ||||||
| 1991 | Born | Born | First artificial muscles developed. | Synthetic anti-drug virus released in South America and across the world targeting cocao and opium plants | |||
| 1992 | European EEC formed. Early space lifts and moon colonies established. DEA/Euro drug war. | ||||||
| 1993 | Born | First cyber-interface developed. | Columbian drug lords detonate nuke in New York. | ||||
| 1994 | Stock market / US economic collapse. Nuclear meltdown in Pittsburg. Night City established between North and South California. | ||||||
| 1995 | ESA / Pan-African orbital launch mass driver begins construction. Fortress-Europe totalitarian system established. | ||||||
| 1996 | Collapse of the US. Martial law declared after assassination of the president and vice president. Arcology projects abandoned. | ||||||
| 1997 | Mid-East meltdown, multiple nukes. Severe toxic spill wipes out fishing in the Pacific north-west | ||||||
| 1998 | Severe droughts. LA partially submerged after earthquake. Neo-luddites begin decade long campaign of infrastructure attacks. | ||||||
| 1999 | Federal weapons statute. Tycho colony established. First fully operational mass driver. Wasting plague hits US and Europe, esp Germany. Night City combat zone forms. | ||||||
| 2000 | First interface plugs developed. | Millennium cult riots. Firestorms in central US. | |||||
| 2001 | Worldsat network completed | ||||||
| 2002 | Food crash as Canada and USSR crops wiped out by mutated plague - US accused of bio-warfare. | ||||||
| 2003 | Bio-feedback linear frames developed leading to new power armour development. | Second Central American conflict started by the gang of four to weaken the US military. EU supplies weapons to the south. | |||||
| 2004 | Gang of Four is wiped out by the US military. First corp war (EBM vs Orbital Air) | ||||||
| 2005 | First cybermodems. First military full-borg experiments. First 'enable' civilian cyberlimbs. Industrial exoskeletons. | US military genocide the Mantoga corporation. Start of night city mob rule. | |||||
| 2006 | Early EU gene-tech. | First successful human cloning. | |||||
| 2007 | 16 years old | 16 years old | Braindance invented. Early cyberoptics. | Second corp war (SovOil vs Petrochem) openly backed by governments. | |||
| 2008 | Disfigured | Orbital war after US attacks Soviet platforms. Colorado Springs wiped out by mass driver. First US elections. | |||||
| 2009 | Romantic rival (Yakuza) | 16 years old | First Euro-Sov Mars mission departs. Attempted take-over of Crystal Palace by US aborted by near miss mass driver at D.C. Night city mob wars. | ||||
| 2010 | Enemy - lucha libre | Romance on/off | Enemy (Iron Sights gang) | Indroduction of modern linear frames. | End of second Central American conflict. Half a million nomad workers left behind, only 10% survive the journey back. | ||
| 2011 | Crystal palace completed, ESA controls high orbit. ESA-Sov mission reaches Mars. Night city corporate rule. | ||||||
| 2012 | Enemy (Yakuza) | First viable nanotech created (EU/Japan) | Bioplague kills thousands in Chicago. | ||||
| 2013 | Police contact | Modern cyberoptics. | Netwatch established. Night City Arasaka gutted by Johnny Silverhand riot. | ||||
| 2014 | Hunted by US intel | More widespread cyberware access. | Boostergang 'Metal-wars' start in Night City. Neo-Catholic reformation begins. | ||||
| 2015 | EEC locks down all military cyberware for citizens | Rise of cyber-merc outfits - Lithuania-Latvian war. Japan kicked out of the EEC | |||||
| 2016 | Favour with corp | Favour with corp | Third corp war fought entirely on the Net. Escalation in armed eco-terrorism. | ||||
| 2017 | First self aware human clone created, lives for a few weeks. | ||||||
| 2018 | Lost someone | Brushfire wars begin in Eastern Europe. ESA mission to Jupiter. Sentient human cloning banned. | |||||
| 2019 | New enemy - one eye | Still with GF | Addiction to stims | First Arasaka 'DaiOni' cyborg conversion | L-3 orbital colony revolt. Orbital lift begins construction in Canary Islands. Virus-resistant poppy plants developed. | ||
| 2020 | NOW |
NOTES -
Gang of four - comprised of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and DEA who jointly attempted to take full control over the US.
Wasting plague - a pandemic that left the infected unable to digest food. Estimated 14 million killed before a vaccine was developed in Japan.
Crystal Palace - space station located at the L1 point between Earth and the Moon (high Earth orbit)
Tycho - moon base