Dieselpunk Earth Timeline

==Dieselpunk Earth timeline==
===1537===
*Lar Gand, an astronaut from the planet Daxam, arrives on Krypton, and allows their scientists to study his vessel.
===1539===
*Kal'El is born to Jor'El, and his wife, Lara'Lor'Van.
* The Kryptonian Science Council refuses to acknowledge Jor'El's analysis of Rao's stellar activity, believing that the helium flash will not be a concern for centuries.
* Jor'El and his brother, Zor'El, each send out multistage testing vessels, one bearing a puppy, the other a monkey, using plasma sails like the Daxamite vessel Lar Gand arrived in, but simpler, intended for one-way journeys.
* Lar Gand leaves Krypton.
* Kal'El and his cousin, Kara'Zor'El, are launched into space in their escape vessels, amid protests that this is pointless child-endangerment. Due to a combination of limited resources, and the fact that she weighs rather more than a puppy, monkey, or baby, her vessel has the smallest plasma sail in comparison to the size of her landing-rocket, while Kal'El's sail has the largest ratio of sail to lander, despite having a smaller sail overall than his cousin.
* Rao, known on Earth as Gamma Crucis or Gacrux, undergoes helium flash, greatly accelerating the plasma-sail vessels already launched, and rendering Krypton uninhabited.
===1627===
The light of Rao's helium flash reaches Earth.
===1893===
Kal'El's landing rocket arrives on Earth, while the acceleration stage breaks up in the atmosphere, and spreads out to minimize the damage done. Surviving items, such as the kryptonite power crystals, will be used for both good and ill over the next several decades.
===1895===
Martians invade Earth, crush it's military forces, and are defeated by the common cold.
===1905===
*Kal'El's adoptive father shows him the landing-rocket that brought him to Earth, and the young man begins studying the records left behind in the computer's vast data-storage system.
* The test-vessel containing the Kryptonian puppy reaches Earth, and its landing-rocket is drawn to the transceiver in Kal'El's landing craft, while the acceleration stage, as with Kal's, breaks up, giving Earth scientists more things to study. Kal'El adopts the puppy, calling him 'Krypto', after their birth-world.
===1906===
*Kal'El encounters the Legion of Super-Heroes, and after some childish hazing (not as bad as in canon, though), is invited to join them. He eagerly accepts, despite the need to wear a silly blue, red, and yellow costume (though he likes the red cape), that he suspects is yet more hazing (it isn't, and the costume eventually grows on him, though it will be decades before he's willing to wear something like it too often in his own time).
* Professor Dalton, a (slighly mad, and a bit clumsy) scientist, friend, and mentor of Kal'El's, develops a duplicator ray, which unfortunately makes only imperfect copies of items it is used on. An accident when Dalton klutzes out leads to the creation of the first Bizzaro.
===1907===
*The vessel bearing the Krptonian monkey arrives on Earth, and like the last two, the acceleration stage breaks up, spreading even more Kryptonian tech over the Earth. The landing rocket follows the transceivers of the other landers, and Kal'El has to deal with a mischievous monkey. He names the creature Beppo, but soon finds that trying to keep it under control takes up far too much time and effort, and so he gifts the monkey to the Legion, who have better means of dealing with it (like Saturn Girl's telepathy, for example).
===1908===
*The vessel carrying Lar Gand arrives on Earth, and follows the transceivers to Kal'El's family farm. An intermittent flaw in the life-support system gives Lar hibernation sickness, in the form of retrograde amnesia. Kal'El, believing that the older boy may be his brother, gives him the Kryptonian name Mon'El, and the Earth (USAmerican) name Robert Cobb.
* "Mon'El" experiences a severe allergic reaction to lead, and Kal takes him to meet the Legion, in the hope that they can cure him. Saturn Girl is not only able to treat his deadly allergy, but restore his memories. Despite now knowing they are not related, Kal'El and Mon'El remain brothers by choice, even if not by blood. Mon'El chooses to remain in the more advanced, and thus more familiar, world of the Legion, though Kal'El visits regularly.
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