Sprocket

Finally got around to seeing it, & enjoyed it quite a bit. The interweaving of details from the prior Marvel (Avengers-verse) films was a special treat. Definitely will be adding it to my DVD library once it comes out.

Whew! Provided that there's nothing in the preceding timeline that needs fixing, it's time for a serious question. Namely, is this just a timeline or will it also do as a Grand Unified Metaplot for the Aeon Continuum games?

2110s: In 2112 a mining expedition from Eden is discovered by Upeo wa Macho psions on an exploration mission. Tentative contact between the Edenites and Upeo wa Macho psi order follows during the next year, leading to the Proxy Atwan and the Upeo coming to understand the truth about the novas' existence and the difference between them and the aberrants. Unfortunately this information leads to the Upeo having to abandon Earth in 2114 in order to keep themselves from being enslaved by the Ministry, Orgotek and the Legions. In 2116 nova Apollo Milliken and three other Edenite novas covertly assist the Upeo in the defense of Karoo Station by vaporizing an attacking Chromatic war fleet via matter/electromagnetic energy conversion.

In 2118 the NCE colony world of Khantze Lu Ge is invaded by a sub-faction of the Colony's forces, led by its daughter Kali. Their initial conquest of the city of Kuan and Khantze Lu Ge's northern territories goes well for them, until internal bickering between Kali and her rival Yog-Death and their followers slows down their battle plans considerably.

2120 and beyond: As per the timeline in the Trinity core book, pp. 82-83 and subsequent books.

(2100s cont.d)

Later that year, the Colony's forces attack, overwhelm and slaughter the Solar Guardians, causing the collapse of the quantum barrier. Most of the Nihonjin novas - including all those capable of interstellar travel - are killed by the Colony's forces soon after. The warp device is destroyed and Restored Hope is cut off from Nippon. Armed with information stolen from the Chinese colony ships, aberrant spies are sent ahead to Earth to secretly inflitrate human society at all levels. People in positions of authority are physically replaced, mind-controlled and subverted into willing pawns of the Colony as is feasible and/or necessary. Even the Aeon Society and the United Nations have human aberrant sympathizers among their ranks. Meanwhile, the bulk of the Colony's full aberrant forces are used to continually harass the nova colony worlds they've found, in order to keep the novas from coming to Earth's aid. Fortunately for them, precognitive warnings of the upcoming aberrant raids - and the more nebulous threat posed by the Doyen - have already galvanized the extrasolar novas into preparing for the onslaught. Nova strategists and tacticians begin planning on how best to deal with the aberrants once and for all.

On January 28, 2104, the Colony sends a band of its followers to Research Outpost Vesta in its first overt attack against baseline humanity since 2061. The raid has two goals; first to announce to humanity that the Second Aberrant War had begun, and second to determine how advanced Earth's weapons technologies had become since the 2070s. The research station is wrecked, most of the scientists and staff inside are murdered and military reinforcements are held off with ease. The aberrants leave after one of them is slain by an experimental pulse cannon, leaving irrefutable evidence of what humanity is up against. Further attacks are made against isolated intrasolar space stations and colonies over the rest of the decade.

In 2106, an aberrant attack on the Sydney Spaceport is thwarted by Psi Order Legions. Having received prior warning of the attack from ISRA, the Legions soldiers are posted early and ready to take on the Colony's forces, who are just as surpised by the psions' interference as most of human society is. Further aberrant attacks on Austronesian territory are likewise repelled by Legions psions, granting the Psychokinetic Order astounding good press as trustworthy defenders of humanity.

2090s: Nippon initiates the Star Project in 2093, using Nihonjin novas to locate and secretly colonize a viable Earthlike extrasolar planet with Nihonjin citizens. The colony world chosen is the second planet of the Iota Pegasi system and is named "Restored Hope". A quantum gadget is used to warp the colonists, some Nihonjin novas, their equipment and supplies to the new world. Once an infrastucture is established with nova aid, the covert Nihonjin colony world thrives with its steady influx of Nihonjin citizens and Superiors eager to escape the confines of the Nihonjin macro-arcologies. Nova Rushing Mountain claims the third planet in the Beta Canum Ventaicorum system as her own, and transforms a species of the native animal life into primitive sapients. When discovered by ISRA psions in 2110, the planet is named Erebus.

2100s: In 2100 the Doyen minority faction locates the Chromatics. Quickly recognizing them as a feasible soldier-species due to their conflicts with the bestial Howlers, they locate a nomadic band of aberrants known on Earth as the Seraphim. Influencing their mentally unstable leader Uriel with telepathic visions, the Seraphim are lured by the Doyen to Chrome-Prime. Their initial contacts with the Chromatics are peaceful enough, but the Seraphims' true nature is soon revealed as they betray the Chromatics' initial trust and attempt to conquer Chrome-Prime for themselves. In 2104 the Doyen then reveal themselves to selected Chromatics as "gods of light", granting them noetic biotechnological knowledge stolen from humanity. With the new weapons, the Chromatics manage to defeat the Seraphim and exterminate much of the Howler species. The Doyens' Chromatic lieutenants establish their control over Chromatic society and thrust the formerly primitive civilization into a greatly accelerated program of technological development. Within about 20 Earth years, the Chromatics go from a pure T2 Bronze Age culture to a amalgam culture incorporating technologies from many different Technology Ratings, including T10 space travel roughly equivalent to Trinity Era Earth. Information on Technology Ratings can be found in Appendix #1 of this book, pp. XX-XX.

In 2103 the Doyen majority faction implements their plan to transform suitable (and pliable) humans into psionically empowered agents of the Doyen. Doyen telepathic propaganda doesn't manage to convince all the canidates to respond, but eight of them do. In a hidden installation on Luna, the candidates are informed of the upcoming return of the aberrants and misinformed that the Doyen are engaged in combat elsewhere. The humans are convinced to take up the struggle and are transformed into potent (and limited) users of psionics via implants of Doyen genetic material. S. K. Bhurano, the Quantakinesis Proxy, is also possessed by a Doyen operative in order to maintain a titghter control over the nascent Quantakinetic Order. The newly-empowered proxies are each given a nascent Prometheus Chamber, knowledge of how to create noetic biotechnology and psi coordinates to habitable worlds surrounding known nova/aberrant space. They are also given Doyen-style plans for the psi orders to be established in secret, eventually growing to the point where they can launch interstellar war fleets from the aforementioned habitable worlds to exterminate the nova & aberrant colony worlds.