Timeline/1950

Timeline

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(Based on dates given directly from the games, official websites, and other media)

Pre-Invasion
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1957

January

• The United European Defense notes a startling lack of refugees in cities that have fallen to the Chimera. Notably, less than a thousand people survive the fall of Warsaw, Poland, a city of nearly 2 million. In response to these figures, the United States government offers military support to Europe.
• In Genoa, Italy, human soldiers are overwhelmed by the Chimera, whom they refer to as "the deathless plague." Many regard them as invincible, due to their extreme durability. The troops cannot withstand the force of the attack, and Italy is left in ruins.
• The U.S. Congress agrees to provide military support to the UED. Congress signs an act allowing this to go ahead; the act is to be renewed every ninety days as advised by the Department of War.
• January 16: A British staffer at Bristol noticed that the crates that are being delivered came from the United States and is surprised to see its involvement in the war despite officially staying out of the Chimeran War.

March

• March 1: Johnny Grayson and his Gunner Ryan are shot down whilst doing a high-risk mission over Berlin, Germany. Only Grayson and along with a group of refugees managed to escape and reached Dunkerque, where Grayson is transferred back to Britain.
• March 7: Continental Europe falls to the Chimera, and millions of people are killed or turned into Chimeras.
• The British Royal Navy is attacked overnight while on patrol in the English Channel. Distress calls report huge freak waves overwhelming the fleet, despite it being an otherwise calm sea. By morning, all 96 ships are found washed up on the coast of France. Only seventeen bodies are found, all of which are dead by suicide. Also, the ship's bilges were filled with a unknown substance.
• March 23: Doctor Ian Coxen writes in his medical journal that the Chimera have developed a symbiotic bacterium which complements and amplifies their healing abilities, which he dubbed it as "Sym-Bac".

April

• April 25: Glenn Khaner is transferred to SRPA Station Igloo.
• April 28: Joseph Capelli is court martial for insubordination and sentenced to six weeks of work detail in the Humboldt Surveying Company.

May

• Simultaneous explosions at the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico claimed 46 lives. The Alliance for American Autonomy claimed responsibility for the attacks, declaring "America first, America only." Security at the borders is increased dramatically.
• Rumors of "supernatural creatures" in Europe causes panic across the United States. In order to "better serve the public's awareness," the office of Perception Protection and Guidance begins producing programs for television and radio that speak of an influenza epidemic in Europe. This explanation quickly raises public support for the increased border protection. Slowly, all independent broadcasting is replaced with government propaganda as President Noah Grace's Evening Conversation radio program becomes an even greater national comfort and refuge from the flood of news on the airwaves.
• Over 3 million people flee Britain to Canada and Greenland. This evacuation is more disorganized than the previous evacuation since most of the ships fleeing Britain are civilian ships. Most of the European refugees in Britain also flee the country.

June

• June 8: Joseph Capelli is dishonorably discharged from work detail.
• June 12: Joseph Capelli is court martial and found guilty on charges of assault.

August

• The British Seismology and Survey Department detects seismic activity under the English Channel. Their request to the British Army to quiet the shore batteries, in order to gain more accurate readings, is denied, due to near-constant strafing runs by Chimeran dropships make a ceasefire impossible.

September

• September 12: Lieutenant Sean Wickham receives a Department of Civil Defense letter from Lt. Col. Hamish Robson informing him that his wife Emily Wickham was not designated for inclusion in the preliminary stage evacuation from Britain, and that she had been transported to a holdover camp in London to await the next available vessel.

• September 29th: Central Command is completely sealed as the Chimera overrun London.

October

• October 7: Nathan Hale is transferred to Project Abraham.
• October 10: Frank Gennaro, Glenn Khaner, and Keith Oster are transferred to Project Abraham.
• October 11: Joseph Capelli and Kenneth Danby are transferred to Project Abraham.
• October 12: Keith Oster and Glenn Khaner are inducted into Project Abraham.
• October 12: Channing Brown is transferred to Project Abraham.
• October 13: Nathan Hale, Joseph Capelli and Frank Gennaro are inducted into Project Abraham.
• October 14: Unable to penetrate Central Command in London, the Chimera attack with Burrowers from below. The siege culminates with the Thames River flooding the base, drowning 14,000 soldiers.
• October 16: Channing Brown and Kenneth Danby are inducted into Project Abraham.
• October 21 The Chimera are hunting down British solders "to almost nothing" in London.
• October 24: The Chimera began sending hundreds of dropships to London.

November

• British civilians are infected en masses as they seek refuge in bomb shelters. The Chimera collects the bodies so quickly and efficiently that the shelters become known as "magic coffins."
• In Poughkeepsie, New York, Maury Welkers, a member of the Alliance for American Autonomy, took to the streets where he protested against the U.S. government's plans to catalog all gun-owners in America.
• In an issue of Popular Technologies, American federal health spokesman, Chad Evverest reported that a team of biochemists at Fort Greeley are working on a cure to the "European influenza", with which he hoped to inoculate every American citizen against the virus. He claimed that a cure wasn't far off, but when pressed as to how they planned to halt the virus, Evverest remained silent.
• November 1: Chimeran Burrowers have dug a vast pit near the river Thames, which unearth a Chimeran Tower in the center of London.
• November 2: Joseph Capelli is selected as the first test subject for Project Abraham and injected with an experimental vaccine. Due to his injection, Capelli became highly aggressive as he attacked his doctor with his new-found superhuman strength and is violently subdued before falling into a coma. Due to the violent and unpredictable nature of Project Abraham's experiments, Colonel Grant Thompson, the head of the project, temporarily suspends the project until further notice.
• November 6: Colonel Grant Thompson resumes Project Abraham and grants the science staff in individually choosing the following candidates - Nathan Hale, Kenneth Danby, Channing Brown, Keith Oster, Glenn Khaner, and Frank Gennaro - to be the next test subject.
• November 14: Channing Brown is selected as the second test subject for Project Abraham and injected with the combination of the Chimeran virus and its anti-virus. Due to his injection, the serum becomes unstable that destroys Brown's cell structures, causing him to quickly expire.
• November 16: Eastern Command is under attack by the Chimera and all 20,000 soldiers inside the base are killed.
• November 20: Keith Oster is selected as the third test subject for Project Abraham. However, Oster violently refuse to participate in the experiment and attacks an orderly before being killed in self-defense by a soldier on guard.
• November 21: Joseph Capelli is transferred to Station Genesis at the behest of Dr. Fyodor Malikov.
• November 23: A British patrol outside of Exeter discover a shell-shocked soldier, Buckler.
• November 25: Buckler reveals to his rescuers that he came from Salisbury when the Chimera attacked the city with Spire missiles.
• November 26: Glenn Khaner is selected as the fourth test subject for Project Abraham and injected with the Chimeran Virus. Due to his injection, Khaner's cell structures begins to mutate and starts to be building up new tissue around his brain cavity, lungs and neck which grows rapidly out of control and causing him to die from suffocation.

December

• December 1: Nathan Hale is selected as the fifth test subject for Project Abraham. Unlike the other candidates, Hale is injected with Pure Chimera DNA under Dr. Fyodor Malikov's orders. Due to his injection, Hale suffers from delusions before falling into a deep coma while his body become semi-immune to the Chimeran virus.
• December 8: Jordan Shepherd is selected as an unknown test subject for Project Abraham. Similar to Nathan Hale, Shepard is injected with Pure Chimera DNA. Due to his injection, his body severely mutates into a Angel-like Chimera being, which he is subsequently referred to as Daedalus.
• December 12: Frank Gennaro is selected as the sixth test subject for Project Abraham. Due to his first injection, his metabolism begins to accelerate and fend off the viral load into his bloodstream before the attending doctor gives him another injection of the Chimeran Virus. After his second injection, Gennaro's body severely mutates as his core body temperature rises up to over 106 degrees Fahrenheit, causing him to rip his internal organs out with a broken flask out of agony before shortly dying from blood loss.
• December 15: The SRPA shuts down Project Abraham and all its future initiatives would be performed at Base Station Genesis in Bryce Canyon, Utah. Kenneth Danby's scheduled injection is canceled by Colonel Dan Peterson due to conflicting data from Dr. Fyodor Malikov's research; instead, Danby is moved to Station Genesis to assist SRPA's research on the Bryce Canyon Chimeran tower.
• December 15: The United States government raids the news offices of the Alliance for American Autonomy.
• December 25: Nathan Hale is released to the United States Army Rangers for clandestine observation by SRPA.
• December 29: Aaron Hawthorne is released to the United States Army for clandestine observation by SRPA.