(Based on dates given directly from the games, official websites, and other media)
Pre-Invasion
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1957
March[]
- March 23: A journal notes that a Chimeran Death Squad has been setting fire to unborn Leaper and Grim pods. The writer of the journal wonders if the Death Squads are afraid of the Leapers and Grims.[1]
April[]
- April 28: A journal describes a sighting of five Hybrids being attacked by Leapers. All the Leapers and a Hybrid are killed. The writer of the journal theorizes that there are now two types of Chimeras: military and feral.[1]
May[]
- May 11: A journal describes a swarm of Grims inhabiting a riverside attacked and killed two Steelheads.[1]
June[]
- June 14: An anonymous writer of a journal witnessed the first instance of a feral Widowmaker.[1]
- June 28: A fishing log describes the extent of the Chimeran terraformation process by describing thick ice on a river. They described the ice growing around Chimeran plants known as Blast Roots. The log notes that the ice is so thick that ice axes do not work and advises the use of guns.[2]
July[]
August[]
- August 9: The events of Resistance 3 begin. About 90% of the human population is wiped out or converted by the Chimera. At this point of time the Chimera have begun creating terraforming weapons to cool Earth's temperatures.
- Joseph Capelli is reluctantly recruited by Dr. Fyodor Malikov on a journey to New York City in an effort to close the wormhole to the Chimera's home world and preventing the Chimera's terraformation process, which he believes that humanity will not survive. Capelli and Malikov departs Haven, as it is soon destroyed by the Chimera and a Terraformer.[4]
- British resistance fighters, led by General Stephen Cartwright battle the Chimera in Glydmorgan and Wales in order to halt any further Chimeran advances into Britain.[5]
- James Hickey and two other survivors, Ciaran and David, take shelter in an abandoned police station in Londonderry, Ireland, where they make a stand against Grims.[6]
- August 11:
- Joseph Capelli and Dr. Malikov travel the Mississippi River and, after encountering Goliaths, are ashore in St. Louis. They encounter the city's local resistance fighters, the Remnants, led by Charlie Tent.[7]
- Freddie Valmore reports of a battle in a small town of Fort Lamy in the Republic of Chad, where African resistance fighters surrounding the Chimeran army in a prison and killed more than 2,000 Hybrids and other Chimeran fighters.[8]
- August 12:
- Joseph Capelli helps the Remnants in stealing a power core from a Chimeran Dropship to refuel the Remnants' damaged VTOL in exchange for a lift to New York.[9]
- In return for securing the power core the Remnants promised in transporting Joseph Capelli and Dr. Malikov to New York. However, all does not go to plan as they are attacked by Chimeran Dropships. Capelli and Malikov are forced to drop off in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, where Capelli help Jonathan and Jean Rose in eliminating the feral Chimera known as "Satan".[10]
- Freddie Valmore reports on a Japanese attack on a Chimeran Terraformer above Nagoya, Japan. Thousands of Japanese resistance fighters are reportedly killed, but the Japanese vow to fight to the last man.[11]
- August 13: Joseph Capelli and Dr. Malikov continue their journey to New York by train. During the journey their train is attacked by the Wardens, a group of former prison inmates. The train is derailed by a stampede of Widowmakers. Malikov is brutally murdered by Mick Cutler, the leader of the Wardens, and Capelli is captured and taken to Graterford Prison.[12]
- August 15: Joseph Capelli is freed by Herbert Sawicki and lured the Chimera to Graterford Prison. Capelli kills Mick Cutler and continues his journey to New York.[13]
- August 17: The events of Resistance 3 end. Joseph Capelli closes the wormhole by crashing a Terraformer into the New York tower. The destruction of the New York tower returned Earth's temperatures to normal as human resistance groups mount a series of successful battles against the Chimera.[14]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Feral vs. Military
- ^ Ice Blocks
- ^ Widowmaker#Resistance 3
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level Home, Wanted Man, Paradise Lost, Women and Children First
- ^ Heard on Freddie Valmore's radio show in Wanted Man
- ^ Heard on Freddie Valmore's radio show in Paradise Lost
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level Wrightsburg, City of the Past
- ^ Heard on Freddie Valmore's radio show in City of the Past
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level The Plan, Plan B
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level The Hunt, Savior, Satan
- ^ Heard on Freddie Valmore's radio show in Savior
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level Nature of the Beast
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level The Encore
- ^ Resistance 3, campaign level The Promise