Timeline/1953

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

• January 1: SRPA intelligence notes the lack of any major Chimeran assault on the United States since July 23, 1952. They believed that the completion of the Liberty Defense Perimeter has drastically altered the Chimeran strategy. SRPA analysts strongly hypothesize that Daedalus is building a vast fleet of battleships that would be capable of overrunning the country in one large scale sweep. President McCullen is continuing to evacuate civilians to the LDP in anticipation of such an attack.
• January 2: In Hawaii, multiple eyewitnesses see a strange, astronomical phenomenon in the sky, in which they claim to see a glowing fissure appearing in the sky, under which there appears to be a "second sky".
• January 4: A recent British field report documents a reconnaissance team in Warsaw in which they witness a strange Cloven-like creature, which the locals referred to it as the "Leben Geist", single-handedly destroying a Goliath.
• January 4: In SRPA 7, an experimental accident with the gray tech components results in the deaths of five research members.
• January 5: Due to safety concerns, SRPA relocated all gray tech research to SRPA 11 in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
• January 7: British reconnaissance units in Czechoslovakia discovers the remains of eleven recently destroyed Chimeran Drone construction facilities. The bodies of hundreds of Chimeras are found inside each facility. Most of the bodies appear to have been killed with knives or bare hands. The Chimeran commanders are found mutilated and show evidence of torture prior to death.
• January 10: Colonel Rachel Parker writes a letter to Richard Blake on thanking SRPA's assistance at Axbridge and Bracknell, concerning on the Cloven, and the situation of Chimera-controlled Europe. She also requested Blake to give a personal letter to a man who fought in the Battle of London.

February

• February 11: Joseph Capelli is transferred to Echo Team.
• February 12: Joseph Capelli is found in a torpid state bleeding from apparently self-inflicted wounds during a routine checkup at SRPA 3. Capelli became instantly alert and enraged when being helped by attending physicians and attacked them until being subdued by Sgt. Benjamin Warner and several security guards. Capelli is then transferred to the G Level Holding Zone.

March

• March 11: Benjamin Warner writes a letter to his wife in Twin Falls, warning her of an impending Chimeran invasion on the U.S. and advising her and their son to find safety at a protection camp in Baton Rouge.

May

Chimeran battle fleet over San Francisco on May 15, 1953.

• May 15: The events of Resistance 2 begin. The Chimera launches a full-scale invasion on both the east and west coasts of America. The Chimeran fleet devastates military installations on each coast. 60 percent of U.S. armed forces are killed within the first 72 hours of the assault.
  • Echo Team assist in defending SRPA Station 003 and damaging a Chimeran airship prior to evacuating the base. Echo Team tracks down the Chimeran airship that was damaged in San Francisco in Orick. Echo Team boards the airship and discovers that the Chimeran fleet is preparing to breach into the northwest sector of the Liberty Defense Perimeter in Twin Falls, Idaho.
  • The Liberty Defense Tower near Twin Falls is attacked by Chimeran ground forces, leaving Twin Falls vulnerable to a Spire attack. Echo Team arrives in Twin Falls and reactivate the Defense Towers, annihilating a fleet of Chimeran ships. However, Daedalus' flagship bypasses the perimeter and arrives at Bryce Canyon. Nathan Hale, acting on his resolve, travel to Bryce Canyon to save Dr. Fyodor Malikov.
  • Hale and his squad arrive at Station Genesis, where Daedalus succeeds in activating the Bryce Canyon Chimeran Tower. Hale escapes with Malikov.
• May 16: SRPA forces lead an assault on Chicago with the intention of shutting down the city's Chimeran tower. SRPA is able to take the tower, but it is remotely reactivated by Daedalus from Holar, Iceland.
• May 17: SRPA forces assault the Holar Tower but faced overwhelming Chimeran forces led by Daedalus. The assault ultimately becomes a total loss resulting in heavy human casualties including the lives of Benjamin Warner and Aaron Hawthorne. Nathan Hale is left near-fatally wounded by Daedalus and falls into a coma.
• May 24: Operation Crucible is initiated. Specter Team is tasked to regain Bryce Canyon and retrieve large quantities of grey tech components.
• May 25: Reports from British Intelligence and SRPA aerial reconnaissance in South America confirm that the Chimera are activating Chimeran tower nodes across the planet; in which 58 active towers are found in the United States, South America, Iceland, Africa, Europe and Asia.
• May 27: Dr. Fyodor Malikov writes in his journal of recommending SRPA hand-held electric weapons should neuroptera spiculus, or commonly known as "The Swarm", becomes prevalent in the future.
• May 28: The Chimera breached the Liberty Defense Perimeter. Within hours, 63-80 million people including President McCullen and his cabinet are either killed or infected, and leaving about 7 million survivors scattered throughout the United States.
• May 29: A SRPA reconnaissance team was unable to locate Daedalus after his escape from Iceland since nearly two weeks ago.
• May 31: Specter Team has successfully eliminated most of the Chimeran command structure in Bryce Canyon. The gray tech components recovered from Bryce Canyon are sent to SRPA 11, where the research team has found increasing evidence to support Dr. Julia Cathcart's "Prometheus Weapon". SRPA assumes that Daedalus is attempting to reassemble the weapon, making acquisition of the gray tech components a top priority.

June

• June 2: General Douglas MacArthur is sworn in as temporary leader of the United States.
• June 4: Four Chimeran battleships are sighted moving south towards the Chicxulub Crater in Mexico.
• June 6: Throughout the globe, the tower network is sending beams of energy to the Chimeran battleship fleet over the Chicxulub crater.
• June 7: Additional Chimeran ships have been coming to the Chicxulub crater each day. On the ground, Chimeran ground forces have excavated a very large tower (that is four times the size of the Chicago tower) from the center of the crater. 
• June 9: Specter Team has successfully contained the Chimeran threat in Bryce Canyon and destroying the Chimeran reactors, as per recommended by Dr. Fyodor Malikov, which causes a series of chain reactions throughout the underground conduit network that have successfully destabilize the surrounding Chimeran towers in the region.
• June 11: Dr. Richard P. Feynman meet Dr. Fyodor Malikov and discuss over their progress on Project Prometheus and the Chimera's current actions over the Chicxulub crater.
• June 12: Project Prometheus researchers at SRPA 11 reported that the Prometheus Weapon could be much more dangerous than SRPA have presumed it to be implying that the weapon to be a doomsday device capable of wiping out all but the most primitive life on the planet.
• June 12: In the aftermath of the Battle of Warsaw, James Grayson is listed by the Maquis as missing in action. Though, Russian refugees talk rumors of a British soldier roaming through the streets of Minsk, Kiev, and Moscow; a man they called the "Cloven Killer".
• June 14: Operation Wrath of God is initiated. Specter Team infiltrate the Holar Tower to retrieve all gray tech components before the Chimera can make any further progress in constructing the Prometheus Weapon.
• June 14: American command stations lost radio contact with naval crews in Hawaii at approximately 0100 hours. At 0823 hours, the crew of the USS Providence, which had been sent to resupply the Hawaii colony, reported that all 172,000 civilians and the crews of the battleships surrounding the islands have disappeared without a trace.
• June 15: At 1201 hours, the nuclear research team at SRPA NT, led by Robert Oppenheimer, successfully detonate a four kiloton fission bomb, becoming the largest successful nuclear test ever conducted.
• June 16: The research team at SRPA 11 recombined nine gray tech components to form a "super-computing" machine.
• June 18: Richard Blake takes custody of a fission bomb, code-named "Nellie", from SRPA NT and transporting it to field headquarters in Cocodrie, Louisiana in preparation for Operation Black Eden.
• June 18: Dr. Richard Feynman and his team at SRPA 11 "program" the gray tech computer to compute Mersenne Prime numbers with intriguing results.
• June 20: Dr. Fyodor Malikov writes in his journal concerning the inevitable confrontation between Nathan Hale and Daedalus, believing that should either one of them survived in their encounter it would be "devastating to humanity".
• June 21: The Chimeran command forces in Iceland are left in disarray due to Operation Wrath of God, resulting in Daedalus to abandon pursuing the Prometheus Weapon and retreating to the Chicxulub crater. General Douglas MacArthur later announce that he will award each member of Specter Team the Silver Star for their bravery and selflessness in defense of their country.
• June 24: The entire Chimeran fleet moves to the Gulf of Mexico.
• June 26: The events of Resistance 2 end. Daedalus activates the Chimeran tower network and routes their power to his flagship over the Chicxulub crater. Nathan Hale is awakened from his coma. SRPA initiate Operation Black Eden in an attempt to destroy Daedalus' flagship with a fission bomb. Major Blake and Daedalus are killed. The fission bomb's detonation "kick starts" the tower network, creating a massive energy surge that is channel towards the Chimeran hub tower in New York City and opening a wormhole over the city. Hale succumbs to the Chimeran virus and is killed by Joseph Capelli. After Hale's death, Dr. Fyodor Malikov studied Hale's corpse and found a unique antigen in Hale’s blood that becomes the basis for a cure against the Chimeran virus, aptly dubbed the Hale Vaccine.

July

• Joseph Capelli is inoculated with the Hale Vaccine and is later dishonorably discharged from SRPA for killing Nathan Hale.
• July 4: Thomas Voss, the current acting President of the United States, leads a failed attempt to destroy the main Chimeran tower in New York. Victor Company survives the VTOL's crash landed near the tower.
• July 6: Four deceased members of Oscar Company are found by Sgt. Mathison and the other survivors of Victor Company.
• July 7: Mathison and the other survivors retreat to the subway and found it to be infested with Grims.
• July 10: Mathison becomes the last survivor of Victor Company and found a nearby sniper perch in the Washington Square before he is found and killed by the Chimera.

August

• Modern Technologies publish a magazine with the exclusive being The World's Most Powerful Weapon! Chicago - Uncle Sam's Next Western Front and Can VTOL's Save Us? on Page 54.

September

• September 26: Colorado State inmate 26301, known personally as Susan Farley, escaped the Lucky Buckle Mine prison killing Warden Hiram Brewster and his two bodyguards in the process.

October

• October 27: New American Republic regulators storm the Freedom Base in the Ozark National Forest in an attempt to assassinate President Voss and destroy the federal government. This was unsuccessful; however the N.A.R. managed to obtain 5,000 vials of the Hale Vaccine.

November

• Joseph Capelli makes his way to Haven, Oklahoma, where he meets his future wife Susan.

December

• December 25: Joseph Capelli and Susan Farley are married in Haven.
• December 27: New American Republic regulator Tom Hunter turns up to Haven and tries to persuade the citizens to join the NAR; Haven refuse and Hunter is forced to leave after realizing the superiority of Haven's weapons.