Timeline (Black Crisis)

This is the Complete and Comprehensive Timeline of The Events of 'Black Crisis' Instead of years, it goes by days (and weeks at times) for a more comprehensive look at the history of the world
==August 2027==
*8:58 AM, August 21st, Black Mesa County: An unknown disaster happens at the Black Mesa Research Facility
* 8:58 AM, August 22nd, Black Mesa County: Black Mesa County is evacuated as the scale of the tragedy increases
* 12:00 PM, August 22nd, Black Mesa County: Black Mesa County evacuation becomes chaotic mess, as many people ditch their cars and continue on foot.
*14:00 PM, August 22nd, Black Mesa County: New Mexico National Guard sent in to deal with crisis in Black Mesa County.
*2:34 AM, August 23rd, Global: World Mourns Tragedy at Black Mesa.
* 4:40 AM, August 23rd, Black Mesa County: Emergency at BMRF ends with the New Mexico National Guard fleeing to Albuquerque.
*6:30 AM, August 23rd, Black Mesa County: Unknown meteorological phenomenon hits Diablo Peaks, New Cardiff & Red Hills, all in Black Mesa County.
*8:56 AM, August 23rd, Black Mesa County: Rescue operations begin in Diablo Peaks, New Cardiff, and Red Hills following the unknown meteorological phenomenon that hit the towns.
*10:50 AM, August 23rd, Sonora, Mexico: Mexican Air Force downs unknown UFO over Nogales.
*15:10 PM, August 23rd, Nevada: NORAD announces civilian communities in in Nevada that hundreds, if not thousands, of UFOs are spotted over their skies.
*21:28 PM, August 23rd, Nevada: USAF positioned over the skies in Nevada at high alert.
*11:20 AM, August 24th, Texas: State government of Texas announces same meteorological phenomenon, now known as a Portal Storm, has hit several counties in Western Texas, including El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Culberson County, Jeff Davis County, Ward County & Winkler Counties.
* 16:45 PM, August 25th, Colorado: Portal storms impact Pagosa Springs & Trinidad, Colorado. Federal Emergency Management Agency report details the casualties of the Black Mesa Research Facility so far, with 7,856 dead.
*7:30 AM, August 26th, Oklahoma: Portal Storm impacts Oklahoma Handle. Casualties increase to 8,324 dead.
*8:15 AM, August 26th, Utah: Portal Storms devastate Utah counties of San Juan, Garfield, Washington, Iron, Piute & Wayne.
*9:30 AM, August 26th, Washington D.C: Survivors of August 21st's incident at the BMRF set to give testimony in D.C.  The hearing, which will be led by Senator Kevin McCarthy, is aimed at shedding light on the events that occurred at the Black Mesa Research Facility and determining the government's response to the crisis.
*10:00 AM, August 26th, Nevada - Portal Storms impacts Nevada's White Pine County, Nye County, Lincoln County & Clark County. Casualties rise to 10,616 dead.
* 4:40 AM, August 27th, US-Mexico Border: US Department of State & Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs announces border is closed due to ongoing crisis in The U.S.
*8:23 AM, August 28th, San Diego County: Unknown wildlife attacks cause havoc in San Diego County, California.
*9:49 AM, August 29th, Global: Internet connection across the globe knocked out, causing pages to go blank & to have 404s to pop up at every search.
*12:30 PM, August 29th, Global: In many places across the globe, with the internet out for 3 hours now, shops begin to only accept payments in cash due to credit cards not working. In many office buildings, dusty fax machines from the 90s are unearthed or work is cancelled as e-mails can no longer be sent.
*8:26 AM, August 30th, Washington D.C: "This is what happens when someone mounts pressure on the research team from above, in order to gain results and more research grants. April 26th, 1986, Chernobyl. August 21st, 2007, Black Mesa" says Dr. Gordon Freeman during the 3rd day of the congressional hearing.
*12:50 PM, August 30th, Washington D.C: Protesters outside Congress demand Wallace Breen, BMRF Administrator from January 1st, 1996 to August 21st, 2007, be given either life imprisonment or the death penalty.
*8:30 AM, August 31st, Global: Casualties increase as FEMA declares that 67,627 people have died since Tuesday, August 21st.
* 13:40 PM, August 31st, Idaho: Bonner County, Boundary County, Kootenai County, Shoshone County & Clearwater County impacted by devastating Portal Storm. "This has become our biggest crisis since 9/11," Said U.S President George W. Bush in an congressional hearing.
==September 2027==*8:23 AM, September 1st, Cornwall: First Portal Storm reported overseas as Cornwall is struck by Portal Storm. FEMA & the UN increase the death toll to 417,806 dead.
*13:28 PM, September 1st, Global: Riots across the globe as internet outage enters 3rd day.
* 17:29 PM, September 1st, D.C: Barney Calhoun punches Wallace Breen, BMRF Administrator from January 1st, 1996, to August 21st, 2007.
*20:34 PM, September 1st, D.C: Dr. Wallace Breen charged with manslaughter, negligence, and malfeasance. Trial starts tomorrow.
* 7:32 AM, September 2nd, D.C: Dr. Breen convicted of manslaughter, negligence, and malfeasance and faces death penalty. Execution date to be revealed.
*12:23 PM, September 2nd, Global: In areas affected by Portal Storms, a new phenomenon has emerged, Portal Wildfires. Green in color, which can spread in less than 15 seconds to about 70 hectares of land, and if contact is caused, it will fuse with one's skin.
*18:28 PM, September 2nd, Global: Firefighters across the globe coordinate a futile attempt to put out Portal Wildfires
*8:24 AM, September 3rd, Global: Portal Wildfires seem to be "terraforming" land using some sort of spores, causing some sort of cyan/yellow-colored vine to take over vegetation like Trees, Grass & Bushes.
*9:40 AM, September 3rd, Seoul: Dr. Hyeon Eun-Jeong connects to Portal Storms, Portal Wildfires & extraterrestrial flora with the Black Mesa Incident.
*14:26 PM, September 3rd, Sonora: Sonora, Mexico goes under fire due to Portal Storms. Portal Wildfires causes extraterrestrial flora to appear across Sonora.
*18:23 PM, September 3rd, Global: FEMA announces global casualties have reached 2,906,997 dead.
*21:29 PM, September 3rd, Panama: Panamanian government closes Panama Canal as the nation is impacted by a Portal Storm and it's side effects, Portal Wildfires & extraterrestrial flora.
*5:23 AM, September 4th, Alabama: The State Government of Alabama announces a portal storm has hit the counties of Dale, Houston, Geneva, Covington, Crenshaw & Pike.
*11:20 AM, September 4th, D.C: Congressional hearing closes up with Dr. Wallace Breen's execution date announced as Saturday, September 15th, 2007.
*14:26 AM, September 4th, US: US Dollar drops in value as Wall Street closes.
*17:29 PM, September 4th, Global: United Nations declares emergency as death toll reaches 18,861,536 dead.
* 5:23 AM, September 5th, Global: As Portal Wildfires continue to expand, new flora appears, for example, a sort of fungi that grows near vines that contains a potent hallucinogen if consumed, a tree with dark yellow bark, cyan vines emitting a yellow pulse & dark blue leaves that emit toxic gas if near & the worst, what many are calling a sort of extraterrestrial life, known as Headcrabs by the public.
* 9:49 AM, September 5th, Japan: Shimane Prefecture hit by Portal Storm.
*14:28 PM, September 5th, Global: With the world's critical infrastructure destroyed, and the latest death count reports peaking at 63,561,976, a shortage of the world's supplies has given rise to an ever-increasing rise of prices on food, water, petrol, clothing & even medicine.
* 16:24 PM, September 5th, Chicago: In Chicago, desperate business owners purchase firearms, with the intent of defending their livelihoods, as looters, destined to provide for their families, pillage the shelves of fallen stores amid the global economic crisis.
*22:53 PM, September 6th, U.S: US Department of Defense admitted that government inspections at Black Mesa were rare, disclosing that Black Mesa received $10 Billion in federal contract dollars annually as of Spring 2006.
*23:24 PM, September 6th, Germany: As Portal Storms Devastate Europe, the German government as well as many others worldwide, are now relocating their rural-dwelling citizens to the world's most populated and defended cities.
*8:34 AM, September 7th, Brazil: The United Nations' newly established Global Human Affairs Agency (GHAA), estimates that the effects of the Black Mesa Incident on August 21st have claimed the lives of thousands, if not, millions, of people. The lack of essential utilities like food, running water, electrical power, shelter & internet has resulted in the total breakdown of civil order in Brazil and other countries in the Global South. One of the nation's largest cities, Rio De Janeiro, is one of the many cities that have been impacted by anarchic riots, looting & starvation.
* 19:23 PM, September 8th, Global: Internet outage continues, having started on August 31st. Many tech experts claim it will take until October 19th to fully repair internet connectivity. Many start to spread theories on what exactly caused the Black Mesa Incident. Many claim a malfunction occurred, causing the events, while others rule out the "Malfunction" theory. Some claim this is divine punishment for the sins of mankind, the Matrix collapsing in on itself, or weaponry testing by Jewish elites.
*21:30 PM, September 8th, Global: The United Nations declare a "greater global emergency" as a new incident, a side effect of the portal storms pops up, known as Portal Tides. Portal Tides cause the water to turn red & murky, toxic & lethal to any marine life or humans swimming in it. This date is now often considered by historians as the start of "The Great Panic".
*9:30 AM, September 9th, Australia: In Australia, government-provided provisions and stockpiles of food and water have run short, leaving the nation's cities in a state of panic, with trade routes fully cut off.
*10:30 AM, September 10th, MidEast: Taking advantage of the chaos, a coalition of Arab countries made up of Egypt, Syria, Iraq & Lebanon invade Israel & Palestine, who united their forces into the Levant Defense Force (LDF), in what is being called the "Second Arab-Israeli War".
*11:23 AM, September 11th, US: The UNGHAA gives a detailed 2,000-page report on the situation in the U.S. Western Georgia was impacted by a sudden Portal Storm. In New Mexico, the former site of the Black Mesa Research Facility has now been renamed "Ground Zero", as the wildfires in Black Mesa County and across the Contiguous U.S give way to new lifeforms & plants, including a tree that can pump out corrosive gas, a sort of beetle-like creature, named a "Bloodsucker" that can leech blood off of humans & animals and a Venus flytrap that can catch humans with its rope-like tongue and consume them, trapping them in some sort of cocoon, and then transforming them into a "Specimen", a 4-legged creature that can kill humans by stabbing it's tusks. Portal Tides have all but left communities without safe drinking water, and headcrabs, houndeyes & bullsquids populate the subways & underground infrastructure.
*12:35 PM, September 12th, Global: Supply lines in the Levant are exhausted, as the 2nd Arab-Israeli War rages on its second day, with conventional war becoming more & more useless.
*13:25 PM, September 13th, India: A lack of medical supplies in Calcutta results in the deadliest cholera outbreak in India's history, with 900 people dying daily. With a lack of disposal equipment, many people have resorted to burning corpses or carrying them and throwing them in rivers.
*17:25 PM, September 13th, Pakistan: Military convoys carrying food, water & gasoline were raided by hungry civilians on Thursday afternoon, who take the supplies home, with there being reports of murders over food, water & gasoline, now treated as luxury items.
* 10:30 AM, September 14th, US: Nuclear bomb detonated in D.C, killing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, much of the Cabinet, Senate, Supreme Court & Congress, with only the Secretary of State & the House of Representatives being the only survivors.
*10:30 AM, September 15th, Japan: Government-defended camps have run dry by this point, with a lack of food, water, electricity, internet services & even worse, septic systems. Photos taken across major cities like Tokyo, show people starving on the streets, begging for food and water, or for random strangers to take them in, or worse, urinating or defecating on the streets.
*15:23 PM, September 16th, US: Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky destroyed in Portal Storm, causing only 3 Corvettes to survive and causing the rest to perish.
* 19:23 PM, September 16th, Global: Global airspaces across the world close down due to continued Portal Storm phenomena, paralyzing air trade. With shipping routes are being blocked by a new species of algae known as "Bloatgles", yellow & emanating a stench that smells like aluminum or oil, which has baffled chemists worldwide.
* 9:23 AM, September 17th, US: Greater Los Angeles area destroyed by Portal Storm, Portal Wildfires & Portal Tides. Panic grips the city as people seek shelter in the city's high-rise buildings and in the hills. Meanwhile, the dollar completely drops in value, causing the banknotes to become totally worthless.
* 11:34 AM, September 17th, Saudi Arabia: The Saudis burn the entire Ghawar oil field in a panic as the region braces for its worst sandstorm in years.
* 16:23 PM, September 17th, US: Condonzella Rice declared emergency president for 100 days following Washington D.C's nuking.
* 20:30 PM, September 17th, US: Ground Zero, or the Black Mesa Research Facility, continues to turn more and more into an ecosystem. The newest discovery is a Vorutigaunt, a hive-minded, energy-wielding, sapient race.
* 7:20 AM, September 18th, Global: On August 20th, the stock exchange was a good day for the stock exchange. Now, a month later, with the Portal Storm phenomena & the many side effects of the Black Mesa Incident, many investors are rushing to sell their stocks, amid an economic crisis like never seen before.
* 9:20 AM, September 19th, U.S: Philadelphia rocked by several murders, resembling an infamous serial killer known as "The Philly Reaper", who terrorized the city between 1995 and 2003.
* 7:20 AM, September 20th, India: Foggy conditions caused by what's called a "Resonace Fog", due to the recent Black Mesa Incident, caused a 34-car pileup on an Indian highway today. The pileup started on NH 44 when a truck carrying timber swerved to avoid a cow that was crossing the road and rolled over, causing it to collide with a coach.
* 7:28 AM, September 21st, Israel: On the 11th day of the 2nd Arab-Israeli War, a massive explosion rocks Haifa, destroying the town.
* 9:25 AM, September 22nd, Poland: Formerly allies, the Polish government invades Slovakia, as resources run out in the mainland. With Germany & Czechia refusing to send aid to Warsaw.
* 8:23 AM, September 23rd, Canada: Amid the embers of a major Portal Wildfire, British Columbia is evacuated, with Alberta & Yukon set to evacuate tomorrow morning.
* 19:20 PM, September 24th, US: With the situation in America spiraling out of hand, the United Nations deploy peacekeepers to New England & the Boshwash Corridor.
* 17:39 PM, September 25th, Israel: Israel uses nuclear weapons on troop positions in Ramallah.
* 9:30 AM, September 26th, Poland: Having caused the Slovak government to surrender, Poland annexes Prešov Region & Košice Region, turns Slovakia into a puppet state & has it pay war reperations, and downsize it's army to just a few soldiers, 13 tanks & 5 helicopters.
* 10:30 AM, September 27th, Dagestan: The Republic of Dagestan declared independence today, with 67 votes in favor of staying in Russia & 123 votes in favor of independence, as the Russian Federation becomes more unstable than ever. "For Dagestan, there can only be one path to freedom, and that is separation from the Russian Federation!" Said President Sergey Melikov in a speech in the capital of Makhachkala. Armed only with mere guns, Molotov Cocktails & firecrackers, protesters headed towards the Dagestan Parliament, also attacking several Russian Army posts on their way, as the parliament voted for Dagestan's independence. Russia has been severely weakened due to the Black Mesa Incident, and it's aftereffects, now being called the Black Mesa Crisis.
* 10:30 AM, September 28th, Israel: Countries threaten nuclear strikes on Israel if they do not surrender to the Arabs. The Israeli President threatens retaliation.
* 11:20 AM, September 29th, Global: Cellphones left in pits as global communication lines won't be restored for a long time.
* 11:20 AM, September 30th, Global: People turn to pagers, home phones & even old landline phones to communicate with each other, with cellphones now obsolete due to global communication lines cut due to Black Mesa Incident.
==October 2027==
* 13:24 PM, October 1st, Israel: Offensive in Israel continues, as the Israelis dig deep into Giza & the Golan Heights, occupied by Syria.
* 11:58 AM, October 2nd, Karelia: Inspired by Dagestan's independence on September 27th, the Republic of Karelia declares independence, with Petrozavodsk chosen as its capital, exacerbating Russia's damage due to the Black Mesa Incident.
* 12:00 AM, October 3rd, MidEast: Syria nukes Jerusalem, in a desperate attempt to end the Second Arab-Israeli War.
* 12:03 AM, October 3rd, MidEast: Israeli nukes hit Cairo, then Damascus, then Baghdad, then Beirut.
* 6:00 AM, October 4th, MidEast: The limited nuclear exchange on Monday has damaged infrastructure in the MidEast.
* 12:00 AM, October 5th, Cascadia: Washington & Oregon secede from the union, forming Cascadia in the process, with the U.S. weakened by the Black Mesa Incident.
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==November 2027==
==December 2027 ==
== January 2028 ==
* 6:00 AM, January 1st, Global: Casualties now at 2,398,795,958 dead.
* 8:00 AM, January 2nd, US: United States Emergency State established in Dodge City, Nebraska.
== February 2028 ==