Five Earths - Timeline (2014 September)

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This is the timeline of the Five Earths, All in a Row setting, September 2014. 
(1942 on Earth-2, 1880 on Earth-3, 1557 on Earth-4, and 516 CE/1269 AUC on Earth-5)
==September 2==
Skirmish over Joliet occurs in the skies of Stp-Illinois, between Dr. Aeolus's Air Pirates and a flight of gliders from the Illinois Aerial Militia's 2nd Fighter Squadron. On Earth-2, Black Widow assassinates Socialist Red Guardsman and defects to the Allies, forcing the surviving members of Axis Amerika to find new safe houses and new cover identities.
==Sept. 3==
The third Operation Pencil Sharpener expedition breaches the Earth 2 universe and the Battle of Point Carruthers (Allied Forces codename for the point at which vessels from Earth-1/Infopunk Earth have entered the Earth-2 Universe) occurs. This is the combat debut of the Nazi battle-saucer (specifically, the fighter-bomber vessel in the middle, given the NATO reporting name BARROW), based on Cytherean and other alien technologies. The distinction between these and the Eisenvogel introduced earlier (see July 10, 2014) is that every important piece of technology on the battle-saucers (apart from the guns) is imported from Venus(2) or Mars(2), whereas everything on the Eisenvogel is made in Dsp-Germany. It is also the combat debut of Inp-Japan's Wakamiya-class 'probe-carrier' (guided-missile bomber/arsenal vessel) and Yamato-class 'hazard clearing vessel' (space battleship/super-gunship), as both are tractored to the battle-site by their Clan Ssrax escorts. Small numbers of probes from Wakamiya's VDA are shown to be capable of short-range self-teleportation. The Tertiary Control Room on the Yamato is destroyed, but the main gun proves highly effective against shielded vessels, although the charging/cooling time and need to aim the entire vessel to aim the weapon are detriments. Between the two, they account for one-sixth of enemy combat losses. While the battle is an Allied victory, there are notable casualties on both sides, with eighteen fighters and twenty-two larger craft of the Allies being either destroyed or disabled, and more than fifty (mostly fighters, and nine of the twelve Cytherean raiders) lost on the Axis side.
==Sept. 4==
Dsp-Titan begins interplanetary trade with Dsp-Switzerland, and other neutral countries on Earth-2. Offers of trade from the belligerent nations are rebuffed, as the Titanians do not want to get involved in the war. In Dsp-Berlin, a number of German aviatrices are brought together by the Cytherean Amassador to Dsp-Germany. The Red Baroness and Sky Witch take an immediate dislike to the flamboyant Valkyrie. The first mission to investigate the Blue Harvest freighter (see July 7, 2014) reaches the vessel, and is eventually able to dock.
==Sept. 5==
Red Skull creates the Weltraumer-SS, placing all Third Reich space assets and personnel under same (in other words, directly under the control of the Nazi party, rather than under the Dsp-German military). In the Earth-1 worldline, all contact is lost with the expedition to the Blue Harvest freighter. Some Allied survivors of the Battle of Point Carruthers land on Luna(2), being unable to make atmospheric entry or having Luna(2) as their intended destination. Several captured enemy vessels which cannot survive re-entry land with them, including three Nazi BARROW battle-saucers (two of which had surrendered, and one which no-longer had a living crew - a disintegration ray had hit the cockpit, and oddly did no damage to the windows or consoles, but erased the crew and parts of their chairs; the unmanned BARROW is tractored down by Selenean vessels), one Korsshetth MANOR heavy combatant, and four Korsshetth FINGER space fighters. Allied crews are greeted with great enthusiasm by the Seleneans, particular attention being paid to those crews which damaged or destroyed Cytherean vessels. The Axis survivors withdraw to a near-earth asteroid where Clan Korsshetth has built a base (a wormhole leads from the asteroid base to a military base in Dsp-Hungary).
==Sept. 7==
Construction of the Aqaba Canal is begun by the Kingdom of the Sinai on Earth-2. While in theory it is redundant with the already existing Suez Canal, it grants two advantages: first, that very redundancy means that if Egypt annexes or blocks the Suez, as was done on Earth-1, the Aqaba will still be available for use, and second, the two canals will allow twice the volume of sea traffic to cross at the same time. JGSDF 30th Mobile Suit Team (really the second, all other MS teams but the 08th and 30th exist only on paper, or small groups of non-combatants with no combat mecha) formed in Japan-1. The remaining Allied survivors of the Battle of Point Carruthers land on Earth(2), mainly at Muroc in the Dsp-USA and RAF Box in Dsp-UK.
==Sept. 9==
In Sweden of Earth-1, a netrunner is found to have been killed by black ICE, which is illegal in Sweden. This is complicated by the fact that the server that the hacker was penetrating was in Siberia, Russia, where black ICE is legal; however, the curse had to follow the hacker's datapath back to his body, thus crossing several national borders. Further complicating the matter, the corporation, Oracle Biotechnologies, is American, and black ICE is only legal for government use in the USA. The question of jurisdiction is thus significant. A leaked corporate memo indicates that their logic in using black ICE was that they have armed guards at numerous such facilities, and this should be no different (which ignores the issue of attacking across multiple national borders). On Earth-3, in Stp-London, Sir William Geoffrey Saunders, 2nd baronet Saunders and newly-installed head of Saunders and Sons Aeronef and Rocketry, announces that his company will be investing in air-breathing jet propulsion, a sharp departure from his late father's insistence that there was url=]nothing wrong with solid-fuel rockets[/url <include link to 'Stp-British military aeronef classifications' article on each forum>.
==Sept. 12==
Soviet 'enhanced chimpanzee' cyborg supersoldier named Potemkin, nicknamed 'Battlechimp Potemkin' by the Dsp-American press, is send in as a replacement for Black Widow (which makes hiding the group when not on missions more complicated).
==Sept. 15==
USSF Space Exploration Command officially renamed USSF Star Fleet Command.
==Sept. 17==
A pair of what appear to be live thylacines are photographed in Inp-Tasmania. USA Today's website posts an excerpt from an upcoming article about idealistic superheroes (some of them also cops) conflicting with the regular police over incidents of police brutality and racism. One quote from the article, said by a superhero who was also a Chicago cop, gets memed and goes viral: "If we want to be trusted, we need to deserve it."
==Sept. 18==
Queen Clea XVI, Queen of the Atlantean city-state of Venturia (and many other titles that accumulate in ancient royal lines), called 'Clea Karcharías' (Clea the Shark) behind her back, joins the Axis powers in retaliation for the US Navy placing sea-mines in Venturian waters. This has no effect on the policies of Atlantis as a whole, at this time.
==Sept. 21==
Parapsychology Today's website posts an excerpt from an upcoming article called 'Veterans of the Psychic Wars' (the title is a reference to a song from the early 1980s, that itself references earlier works), about psychically-induced PTSD - that is, Post-Traumatic Stress from events that only happened in precognitive visions, or were only witnessed or experienced through retrocognition, remote sensing, or telepathy.
==Sept. 24==
Clp-Britain performs their first successful satellite launch, which along with red and white flares includes a radio transceiver powered by a mercury boiler. SpaceX's Starship flies on impulse power, making several orbits before returning to the Earth and landing safely on her tail.
==Sept. 28==
In and over the Inp-UK, the first flight of the Short Sparrowhawk (see Aug. 9, 2013) occurs. The fighter performs well, and both reaches orbit and re-enters and lands smoothly.
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