The NEW Official Sunset Valley Timeline

There have been a lot of timeline contradictions lately (mostly on my part, lol), so I've decided to make a new and improved one! This one will take into account all the recent roleplay and story revelations, and I'd like to spice things up with some short stories, lab logs from both Solanum and Konstantin (the main Eclipse doctor), and my usual theories and bits of commentary.

With that out of the way, welcome to the new official Sunset Valley timeline, a better, even more comprehensive guide to everyone's favorite little doomed town and all the unfortunate events that earned it the monster and conspiracy-filled reputation it has today!

**! Work in Progress !**

*This warning will be removed when I've at least finished the basics. While it's still here, take everything with a grain of salt, as there are a lot of placeholders (ex. "Dates Unknown) and other details I may choose to change. Also, feel free to give me dates, events, etc. to add for your characters!*

**1960**

On August 16th, the now infamous Sunset Valley Lab opened with a 25 year old Dr.Solanum as its head scientist. Back then, the lab was actually fairly normal; consenting adults could go there, take a few drugs, and report their effects in order to make a few quick bucks.

On October 23rd, the first report was made of a volunteer seeing "flower-faced monsters" during their test. Unbeknownst to everyone, this one report would kick off a chain of events that would send the new laboratory and the bright young scientist in charge of down a dark and terrible path.

*Note: In the book, Suspicious Minds, El's mom reports seeing flower-like monsters (which I'm assuming were demogorgans, though I don't think that's been confirmed) while participating in an experiment like this, so I decided to use a similar event as the starting point for Solanum's fascination with a possible monster realm.*

Date Unknown: Jack was born.

**1961 to 1966**

Dates Vary: Reports continued to trickle in regarding the flower-faced monsters; subjects also began reporting another, shadowy beast reminiscent of a spider. Over time, the scientists began to take more interest in these reports, eventually transitioning their studies to focus almost solely on them. Solanum was especially fascinated by these monsters, proposing the theory that they are more than just figments of the volunteers' drug-induced imaginations.

**1967**

Date Unknown: While on vacation with his mother, Jack, age 7, fell into the Upside Down and gained supernatural abilities. It didn't take long for Solanum to catch wind of this event, and she immediately took it as not only confirmation of her previous theories, but also a doorway to an exciting new project to create human superweapons. She kidnapped Jack, who she declared Subject Zero, and murdered his mother to stop the word from getting out, officially kicking off Project Midnight and one of the worst mistakes in Sunset Valley's checkered history.

Date Unknown: Twelve was born.

**1968**

On February 29th, Aera was born.

Dates Unknown: Kitty, Two, Alpha, Rowan, Robin, and Chalcedony were born.

**1969**

Dates Unknown: One, Three, Psyche, Dana, and Beta were born.

**1970**

On August 16th, the tenth anniversary of the lab, Solanum started her most well-known project: Project Indigo. She had studied Jack and his abilities for three years at this point, putting him through a long series of torturous tests to figure out the full extent of what his time in the Upside Down had done to him and trying-but failing-to force him to reconnect with that strange world, which she had started to call the Mirrored Earth, and she was finally ready to try something new: using transfusions of his blood to give his powers to other children in order to create weaponized superhumans. She started the project with just two subjects, Twelve (A), age 3, and Kitty (B/16), age 2.

Dates Unknown: Four, Five, Six, Elias, and Gamma were born.

**1971**

Dates Unknown: Two (C), age 3, and One (D) & Three (E), both age 2, were added to Indigo.

Dates Unknown: Eight, Ten, and Delta were born.

**1972**

On April 1st, Aella was born.

On June 15th, Ryker was born.

On September 16th, Thirteen was born.

Dates Unknown: Psyche (F/9) & Dana (G/14), both age 3, and Four (H), age 2, were added to Indigo.

Dates Unknown: Seven, Fifteen, Darkling, and Hourglass were born.

**1973**

Date Unknown: Five (I) and Six (J) were added to Indigo.

Dates Unknown: SVL was infiltrated by a Russian spy, leading the Russians to begin Project Eclipse.

**1974**

Dates Unknown: Elias (11/K), age 4, and Eight (L) & Ten (M), both age 3, were added to Indigo.

**1975**

Dates Unknown: Seven (N), Thirteen (O/Epsilon), and Fifteen (P), all age 3, were added to Indigo.

Date Unknown: Jack, age 15, escaped the lab.

**1977**

Date Unknown: After having had a couple of years to study the effects of the blood transfusions on the Indigo children and the differences between the Indigo children and Thirteen, Solanum decided to put the kids through a power mastery test. They were ranked by how well they could use their superhuman abilities (One being the best and Sixteen being the worst), and these numbers became their new names, replacing the letters they had initially been given upon arrival at the lab.

*Note: Considering the fact that these kids seem to have significantly better grammatical skills than ST Eleven (their speech is less broken, Thirteen was able to start reading with Atlas (and later without him) with seemingly little trouble, etc.), I believe that Solanum put a little bit more effort into making sure the kids in her care were at least able to give the illusion of having had a decent education. They may not have known everything that normal kids their age would have, and some likely knew more (or less) than others, but I definitely believe all of them had some sort of non-power lessons during their time in the lab.*

*Regarding some of the kids having been taught more than others, some examples of this from my characters include Four (and possibly Thirteen by association) knowing more due to her use during spy missions and Kitty probably not actually joking about not learning how to read because Solanum saw her as a waste of time due to her status as Sixteen.*

*Side note about Kitty specifically: Solanum actually considered having her killed after she did so poorly on her test, but she was eventually talked out of it because the scientists didn't want to risk retaliation from the other kids, especially since some of them (\*cough\*Twelveandhisrockthrowing\*cough\*) had already proven they were willing to cause the scientists harm even without having been provoked by their sibling's murder.*

Date Unknown: With Indigo progressing nicely and the kids having been officially ranked by their power mastery, Solanum decided it was time to take the next step: spy missions. The primary duo for these missions was Four and Thirteen, who were sent into the Void to spy on the Russians; Four would act as a human lie detector, and Thirteen would act as a translator.

**1981**

Date Unknown: Four took advantage of one of her involuntary moments of invisibility in order to escape the lab, becoming the first Indigo escapee as well as the first lab escapee since Jack six years prior.

**1982**

Date Unknown: Seven connected to the Upside Down, inspiring Solanum to run tests on the other children to see if any of them could connect to it as well.

**1983**

Date Unknown: Twelve escaped the lab.

**1984**

Date Unknown: The Russians started Project Starcourt.

Dates Overlap: Five, Six, and Psyche escaped the lab, leading to Elias getting his eye ripped out by Solanum. SV1. Kitty escaped the lab. Thirteen escaped into the Upside Down, with Three getting dragged in shortly afterwards. Solanum escaped prosecution, fleeing the lab with Eight, Ten, Elias, and Dana.

**1985**

In January, Three died.

In October, SV2. The Mindflayer built an army of, well, Flayed. Eight, Elias, and Dana all managed to escape Mr. Squishy; Ten, unfortunately, did not.

In November, Eight just barely survived getting attacked by Jack.

In December, Jack found and kidnapped Elias to give Carmine an exorcism for Christmas. (Can't possibly change this perfection, lol)

**1986**

In late February, Jack killed Six, Five got stuck in the Upside Down, and Psyche began her journey to SV.

In March, SV3.

In May, the apocalypse.

*Note: These events may end up moved to 1987. We've referred to SV2 as both a few months before SV3 and a year and a half before it, and I'm deciding which one makes more sense (feel free to provide input). I'm actually sort of leaning towards a year and a half primarily because the kids were in middle school on Halloween and high school for spring break, which doesn't really add up, but we'll see what happens.*