Timeline

This is the recorded timeline for the events that transpire in the ***Purple Skies 1983*** timeline.

## Main Timeline

1932

* March 3rd: Eastcove, Florida is established south of Miami.

1978

* April 2nd: A large conglomerate of Texas oil farmers purchase a gigantic portion of land in the middle of the desert. A covert operation begins to construct a huge fallout shelter miles underground.

1981

* January 23rd: Construction of the New Texas Drilling Complex is finished. The oil farmers begin to stock the bunker with essential goods, hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, illegal weaponry, mounds of oil, etc.

1983

* September 26th: Alarms begin to blare in the Serpukhov-15 nuclear missile bunker in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. Stanislav Petrov (Who in our timeline makes the call to not fire the nuclear missiles) is on vacation in France during this. There is no time for rational thinking. Several nuclear warheads are launched. All out nuclear war ensues.
* September 27th: American cities, along with cities of fellow NATO aligned countries, are shelled in nuclear fire. Most of the northern hemisphere is encompassed in a black plomb of smoke and ash from the subsequent firestorms. The world is painted a bright white, and then a dull gray. Preppers descend into bunkers, the US government descends into bunkers along with family, but most citizens are either decimated in nuclear hell or forced to flee cities. Highways are packed with abandoned cars, sewers and metros are filled with people escaping the fallout on the surface, and remaining cities like Albuquerque and San Francisco become centers of lawlessness and chaos. The Texas oil farmers descend into their complex along with hundreds of on-duty armed mercenaries.
* September 28th: The black smoke has materialized into thick swirling clouds, rising into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun. Most of the Northern Hemisphere is encompassed in this smoke, but countries south of the equator feel the hit as well, but not as much. The Nuclear Winter period begins. Refugees begin to start fleeing south to escape the cold. Places like Northern Canada become frozen wastelands. Students of the Eastcove Public High School barricade the walls and doors, constructing a fortress to defend against the roaming looters. The front manages to be rather successful, with students and teachers firing warning shots to prevent anyone from entering.
* September 29th: The Bahamas shut down their borders, firing at any incoming ships. The government begins rationing supplies, feeding families, and fortifying the city of Nassau in preparation for the long years ahead.
* October 1st: Central America is overrun by refugees from the US and Mexico. Columbia and Brazil shut down their borders to prevent more refugees.
* October 30th: The first public sightings of The Collective show up in San Francisco.
* October 31st: An all out assault on refugee camps by the Collective commences, an event later known as "Bloody Halloween" by most locals in the West. San Francisco falls to the collective, along with many surrounding towns and cities. Mount Tamalpais turns black with the collective mass covering most of it's land. Most people in the West avoid the Bay Area in fear of infection.
* November 3rd: Remnants of the Eastcove Public High School begin to expand their walls, constructing a makeshift settlement. They begin radio broadcasting across most of Southern Florida. Survivors with a signal flock to Eastcove.
* November 15th: The first signs of the Collective show up in Oregon.
* November 27th: The San Francisco mass expands to Oakland and the surrounding hills. The bay area begins to be known by locals as "The Rotting Bay."
* November 28th: The first Sallow baby is born. His parents believed he was disabled, and continued taking care of him.
* November 29th: A civilian paramilitary utilizes abandoned military technology to char a perimeter around a part of the infected area of the Rotting Bay. The endeavor is successful, and the northern bay is contained for a while. Many are taken in this containment procedure by the Collective, but the mission still goes down as one of the most successful mutant containments in all of wasteland history, along with being the first major operation. Public knowledge spreads quickly in the west of fire being a good counter to the collective. The unnamed paramilitary group eventually names themselves The Containment, dedicating their post-war life to controlling and destroying the disease by any means possible until the government arrives to take care of it.
* December 10th: A sudden firestorm sends most of the collective in the rotting bay back to the city. Local survivors bomb the golden gate and bay bridge to prevent easy travel to and from both sides of the bay.
* December 12th: The culmination of lack of clean drinking water, power, food, and competent governing in the Bahamas creates a shift between two sides of the country. A myriad of civilians and rebelling military forces fight back against the government of the Bahamas, attempting a Coup. War ensues between the newly formed Bahamian Liberation Front and the Government of the Bahamas. After weeks of fighting, a truce is declared. The government of the Bahamas leaves the city of Nassau, heading towards Cuba for refuge with half the remaining supplies on the island, while the Bahamian Liberation Front (BLF) stays on the island. The Bahamian government is not seen for a long time, and is assumed lost at sea after a few months of radio silence and no word of their arrival to Cuba.
* December 25th: Survivors in the Eastcove Public High School celebrate Christmas, a quiet, small celebration. No gifts are exchanged, but extra food is dished out, along with the school's last supply of chocolate pudding. Christmas music plays on their radio.
* December 31st: New years day is celebrated by survivors around the world. Flares and spare fireworks are shot into the air, and for once the shots heard were not from the barrels of guns. The gray and black sky, at least for a short while, is lit up in different bright colors. The few survivors who manage to see the lights, at least for a short period of time, have hope for a future.

1984

* January 1st: The first sightings of the Jacks are identified.
* March 26th: By the time of the 6 month all clear, most military bunkers have either destroyed themselves via infighting, cut communication off with their fellow mates, or left the bunker to start a new life. The dream of rebuilding the united states is dead, what is left are semi-militaries, all with different ideologies and motives. Many join civilian militias, building towns across the wasteland, while others create authorization regimes. Some remain in the bunkers, their doors closed, sealed away from the outside world, only occasionally making expeditions outside to trade or scout resources. As the 6 month mark hits, people began to suspect that nobody is coming for them, there will be no rescue team. Many refugee camps only barely holding out, waiting for some government to relocate them to greener pastures, fall to panic and chaos, as civilians realize it will be a long time before they will ever return to anything close to their prewar lives.
* June 2nd: Citizens of the Eastcove Public Highschool refugee camp are contacted by ex-government forces. The refugee camp is armed with government weaponry, and quickly it becomes the largest settlement in Ben County. Soon enough, the government remnants along with civilians in the area unite under the name of The Southern Front, a new governing force in the wasteland.
* September 2nd: The construction of Bogtown begins.
* September 4th: A battle in Half Moon Bay occurs between a concentrated pocket of ex-government/Containment and the Collective. Hundreds die in the onslaught, but the town is cleared, along with a guarded wall being constructed at Moss Beach. Many of those government forces join the Containment after the conflict, bolstering both it's members and firepower. The collective descend back into the crumbling ruins of San Francisco.
* October 31st: Civilians of the west coast mourn the loss of thousands on Bloody Halloween. Word begins to spread out east, with civilian groups being made aware of the collective and it's true capabilities as far as Arizona.
* December 9th: The construction of Coast Town begins as a way to provide safer living conditions than the high school, which had become overcrowded. By the end of 1984, Coast town finishes development, and the high school is abandoned.

1985

* January 5th: A gigantic onslaught of Collective forces, along with new, even deadlier, forms of the disease massacre hundreds in Half Moon Bay, breaching the Moss Beach walls and charging across the bay to the other side. The Containment, unable to contain the absolute onslaught, descend into the government bunker in hopes they will survive until the Collective vacate the area. The Collective begin to spread East, reaching as far as Reno in a matter of weeks. Refugee camps broadcasting messages are tracked down by the collective, and infected mercilessly. The infected plague most of California, many traveling as far south as Los Angeles, even some traces being found in Mexi-Cali and San Diego.
* April 6th: The first traces of infected are found East of Arizona, in a town outside of El Paso. Unaware of what the disease was, or what it could do, the civilians treated it as some sort of heightened form of mad cow disease or rabies. Within the week the town becomes infested.
* June 15th: Gila National Park becomes a rotting forest.
* August 6th: Traces of the collective are found in the South, with large battles in New Orleans occurring between refugee camps and the plague.
* September 2nd: The residents of the General Dynamics Bunker notice a strange smell in the filtrated air.
* September 3rd: A plague sweeps the General Dynamics Bunker. Residents fear a heightened form of the flu has made it's way into the bunker somehow.
* September 5th: A siege of infected swarm Coast Town. Hundreds die in the fighting.
* September 8th: The siege ends, with the Collective retreating.
* September 9th: The last uninfected member of the General Dynamics Bunker is found and converted by the collective of Bunker.
* September 23rd: After two years since the bombs, the Texas oil barons leave the complex. Immediately they start clearing ruins of infected with their massive amounts of firepower. They reach a city near Lubbock, selling oil to them for information on the outside wasteland.
* December 6th: New Texas begins moving out east, hearing of settlements situated in the South.

1986

* August 23rd: The Bogtown Revolution Begins.

1989

* April 9th: The Nuclear Ash begins to dissipate slightly, survivors hope this is the turn of the winter.
* December 28th: Settlers in the ruins of Southern Miami are approached by the Southern Front. The land is purchased, and the original owners are assured property once the construction of the city finishes.

1990

* June 5th: The nuclear ash dissipates heavily. Temperatures increase by a good 10 degrees Fahrenheit. While the winter is not over, snow begins to melt away in warmer climates, leaving barren wasteland. Environments similar to what is seen in the Regrowth Period are seen in places where there is usually a lack of snow or cold, such as Hawaii, central and southern California, most southern states and Mexico. Many flock to these areas during this time.
* January 2nd: Official construction on the city of New Miami begins. The Southern Front hires private companies and civilians to begin construction of walls.

1993

* April 23rd: The Nuclear Winter slowly withers to nothing but a few last clouds in the sky. The Winter is declared over. Millions celebrate across the wasteland of the United States and Canada. The air begins to heat up, and in the coming years green begins to return to life, and the black snow begins to melt. What is left behind is dry, stripped land and consistent dust storms from the decimated cities. The Regrowth Period period begins. By this time, many of the places who had already been exiting the nuclear winter period prior to the official declaration of the regrowth period (See June 5th, 1990) already had returned to states of green once again, while the colder parts of the country were still recovering.
* April 30th: Thousands of people who had fled to South America return home in mass.
* June 4th: Hundreds of caravans approach the city in San Francisco, hearing of the city being untouched by the war. Those who manage to arrive are taken by the collective.

1997

* May 12th: New Miami is officially opened to the public after the finishing of the perimeter wall. Southern Front citizenship is required. Coast town is given an evacuation notice, all citizens being moved to New Miami before the eventual deconstruction of most of the town.
* October 22nd: Passport stations are constructed outside of New Miami, allowing outsiders to apply for citizenship. Hundreds from Bogtown flock to these stations, but many are denied access for various reasons.
* October 23rd: Rejected New Miami immigrants travel in a large group along the New Texas Highway 94 up towards Fort Knox in hopes of starting a new life elsewhere. They are intercepted by New Texas border guards, and fail to pay the abhorrent price. Half are slaughtered by New Texas in cold blood, the others are decided to be sent to a New Texas labor camp. The captives fight back, managing to take out the border checkpoint. Horrified at New Texas' actions, the surviving members unite under the goal of eventual disbandment of every major faction in the region out of revenge. Their efforts soon turn violent, taking out New Texas trade caravans and Southern Front scout convoys. Eventually the group decides to name themselves after the pre-war Miami baseball team of the Sunshine Sluggers.

2009

* June 2nd: The events of Purple Skies: Bayshore take place.