World History

welcome to the first ever helldump of a history lesson. This timeline is heavily unfinished and no i cannot explain any of it.

## Timeline overview

The timeline of the Cyberpunk series diverges dramatically from our own around roughly the 1990s—although other divergences do occur well before then, albeit smaller in size and scope—where the fall of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War leads to a dissemination of nuclear weapons on the black market. Coupled with a US government "deep state" called the Gang Of Four , the world soon finds itself in the midst of an economic crisis and the Collapse. Proxy wars, trade wars, and a resurgent Europe butt against the prevailing US world order. Eventually, brief nuclear exchanges and biological warfare around the globe cause the gradual decline of Western civilization. Societies collapse and many governments either dissolve or are reduced to reactionary, petty authoritarian states. I will attempt to explain all of it.

In the chaos, corporations fill the vacuum of power amidst a collapsing social order. Technological advances, unbridled from government oversight or ethical limitations, lead to hundreds of new inventions. As time wears on, some corporations become as powerful as the countries they are housed in. Ultimately, four corporate wars have occurred by 2023, each one becoming more overt and deadly than the last. The infamous Fourth Corporate War was brought to an end by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in the heart of Night City. The years that followed until 2047, the Time of the Red, were a period of global reconstruction as corporations and governments alike tried to recover from unparalleled economic and environmental damage.

Lawlessness, chaos and technology. This is the world of Cyberpunk.

## Timeline

* **1916-**The Arasaka Corporation is founded by Sasai Arasaka. (Saburo Arasaka's Father)
* **1939-**World War 2 Begins. current timeline exact to ours.
* **1945-**World War 2 ends. The defeat of the German Nazi Party is a success, but desolation of the UN causes insurrection and splinter groups to remain and resurface into mainstream society.
* **1954-**The Gang of Four begin recording all records and monitoring a major percentage of every telegraph, telephone, and radiophone call made in Moscow. This would later amass into a complete collection of unchecked informational blackmail against the soviet union, and America by the 1990s
* **1960-**Saburo Arasaka assumes control of the Arasaka Corporation and immediately creates its security division to undertake black operations. This was to purge Japan of rebellion, insurrection, and clear the way for future reinstatement of empirical rule after the japanese surrender following world war 2. This would begin the war on gangs in japan- which would cause the yukaza to later flee to Night City in the 1990s
* **1988-**The State Law and Order Restoration Council launches a coup in Burma and renames the country Myanmar.(This means nothing to plot)
	+ **November 16:** Johnny Silverhand is born in College Station, Texas.
* **1989** George H.W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States of America.
	+ The Gang of Four - a group made up of the CIA, NSC, FBI and DEA - forms to secretly run the United States of America behind the president's back.
	+ The Cold War ends.. The Berlin Wall falls. Busy Year.

## The 1900s

* **1900**-The First Central American Conflict begins.
	+ The Fall of South Africa occurs. Very little information comes out of the country other than rumors of genocide.
	+ London Riots between labor and racial extremists occur.
	+ West and East Germany are reunified.
	+ Warsaw Pact breaks up.
	+ Soviet Union president Gorbachev appoints successor, Andrei Gorborev. The USSR enters into a period of reform. This will later create the neo-soviet union.
	+ Night International is formed, which will lead to the creation of Night City
	+ The Quiet War begins.

* **1991-** Eurospace Agency launches the Hermes Spaceplane.
	+ Biotechnica Develops CHOOH2.
	+ Stanford Research Center develops artificial muscles. Beginning the idea of cybernetics and bionetics
	+ Plans for Coronado City are drawn. Coronado city will later be renamed Night City after Richard Nights Murder.

* **1992-**The Euromarket and Eurodollar are established.
	+ The DEA develops artificial plagues to curb the production of drugs in South America, and as a result, multiple drug wars break out. This will cause a nuke to be dropped next year..
	+ The Governments of Chile and Ecuador collapse.
	+ First use of high energy laser lift arrays in USSR. Massdriver established in the Canary Islands by eight member Eurospace Agency.
	+ Arasaka, EBM and Petrochem fund the creation of Coronado City.
	+ The Aldecaldo Clan forms in East Los Angeles, CA.

* **1993-**James Richard Allen is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States of America.
	+ TRC Biologic Interface chips are developed in Munich, West Germany.
	+ The AV-4 Enters production.
	+ A small yield nuclear device is detonated in New York City. 15000 are killed. Colombian Drug-lords are to blame.
	+ Construction on Coronado City starts.
	+ The First Nomad families appear on the west coast as America begins to fracture.
	+ The Australian Government announces plans to recognize aboriginal land.
	+ The Aldecaldo Clan is removed from Los Angeles
	+ The EC Ministry for Economics is formed.

* **1994-**World Stock Market Collapse occurs.
	+ The First Central American Conflict ends.
	+ Nuclear meltdown occurs in Pittsburgh, PA. 257 are killed and cancer rates skyrocket. The area is known as *The Pitt* from then on. The Aldecaldo Clan is hired to rebuild *The Pitt.*
	+ Coronado City is founded.
	+ The Soviet Union ends and the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics is formed.
	+ Pressure from the Corporations leads the Australian government to recognize corporations over the aboriginals.
	+ Martial Law is declared in Poland.

* **1995-**Construction on the Kilimanjaro Massdriver starts.
	+ The Grand unification of Ministries and agencies is carried out in Japan. The Empire of Japan is reformed
	+ The Bloods gang controls all of Miami, Florida and declare war on the Disney Corporation

* **1996-**The Event known as The Collapse begins.
	+ Martial Law is established in the United States.
	+ **August 17**: U.S. President James Richard Allen and Vice President Harold Harrison Hunt are killed.
	+ U.S. Secretary of Defense Jonathan Seward claims the vacant U.S. presidency after the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate decline to accept it.
	+ The Lawyer Purge occurs.
	+ The first Boostergangs appear.
	+ Nomad packs become widespread due to the high rate of homelessness.
	+ Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is scrapped by Arasaka backed politicians.
	+ The United States Military withdraws from Japan and Korea as the completetion of the Empire is reformed with Saburo as Emperor of Japan.
	+ Armatech-Luccessi is founded. This will later be named Militech.
	+ Portugal and Italy join the EEC. (European Economic committee. Eurodollar now accepted across Europe)

* **1997-**The MidEast Meltdown occurs.
	+ **August 3**: Popular Rockerboy *Manson,* is killed in the United Kingdom.
	+ California's economy follows suit with the rest of the nation, and collapses. This causes the state to split into factions- leaving NIght City in No-Mans-land.
	+ The KGB Rebellion occurs in the USSR. The event is known as the *Nights of Fire.*
	+ Tycho, the first Luna colony, is founded.
	+ A toxic spill occurs in the Pacific Northwest, wiping out the fishing industries in the area.
	+ The Gang of Four are formally investigated.
	+ The United States Military reforms into Combined Operations Groups.
	+ The Bald Hill political scandal occurs in Japan, 60% of politicians were arrested for bribery charges.
	+ Drug and smuggling laws are repealed in Thailand. This will allow for the voodoo gang to become influential in Night City.
	+ The Yasubisu Affair occurs. 24 French Police officers are killed by Arasaka Security when attempting to arrest a high level executive. This Puts Arasaka on the shit list for Europa

* **1998-**A 10.5 Earthquake decimates Los Angeles. 35% of the city is underwater and upwards of 65000 people are killed.
	+ A drought in the Midwest destroys a large amount of crops. Many farms go out of business.
	+ *The Luds*, a Neo-Luddite group emerges in Kentucky. They begin a spree of bombings that last nearly ten years.
	+ Richard Night is killed by the mafia.
	+ Tsunami Defense Systems is founded by Toshio Yamabatsu, Timothy Davidson, and Michelle Teguchi Langley in Osaka, Japan.
	+ Coronado City is renamed Night City, in memory of its founder.
	+ The formation of the Soviet state oil industries is completed and is known as SovOil.
	+ The Martial Law Authority is formed in the United Kingdom. It declares a state of emergency and removes the monarchy. King Charles III, Prince Andrew, and other members of the royal family are forced into exile or detained.

* **1999-**Martial law in the United States ends.
	+ Millennium cults appear in response to the 'threat' of Y2K.
	+ Tycho colony established. A massdriver is constructed to provide raw materials for orbital platforms.
	+ Ellen Trieste invests in Parker Petrochemicals.
	+ Parker Petrochemicals is granted a license by Biotechnica to grow T. Megasuavis, a component of CHOOH2.
	+ The Second Korean War begins.
	+ Martial Law is declared in Hong Kong after riots break out.
	+ The Jodes, former farmers from the dust-bowl, begin salvage operations in the decimated Los Angeles. They become a Nomadic Clan/Haven
	+ The Bloods Gang from Florida become a Nomad group.
	+ Night Corp is founded by wife of Richard Night.
	+ The End of the current world has begun.

## 2000s

* **2000-**Crystal Palace Space Station begins construction.
	+ Wasting Plague spreads across the United States and Europe causing mass starvation and famine.
	+ Firestorms decimate farmland in the northwest.
	+ The first Posergangs emerge.
	+ Millennium Cult run amok on Jan 1st in an orgy of suicide and violence, most destroy themselves.
	+ The Olympic Games in Sydney Australia fail due to bankruptcy.
	+ Orbital Air begin construction on a spaceport in Cape York Australia.
	+ The Aldecaldo Clan begins construction on Mexico City to rebuild.
	+ The Civilian Justice code is formed in the United States.
	+ A Millennium Cult kills upwards of 19000 in a chemical attack in Berlin.
	+ EBM (European Business Megacorp) Begins to purchase Hamburg, Germany.
	+ Alaska becomes a free state.

* **2001-**The World Sat Network is constructed. The Framework for *the Net* is set up.
	+ Armatech-Luccessi is renamed Militech Arms International.
	+ A Military coup occurs in Britain and the British Monarchy collapses.
	+ Australia reforms as the Federal Republic of Australia. Western Australia declares independence after rejecting the new government, they are backed by Arasaka.
	+ The Jodes finish the salvage operation in LA. They do not win any construction contracts and are left out of a job as a result.

* **2002-**The Food Crash occurs. Crops around the world are hit by a new virus. The United States survives after developing a counter agent.
	+ SovOil declares itself independent of the USSR government. As a result. Gorborev resigns in disgrace.
	+ Igor Starobin is named president of the USSR.
	+ Lupold Korepino is promoted to General of the Soviet Army.
	+ Copernicus, the second Luna Colony is founded.
	+ The Santorini Volcano erupts in the Aegean sea, many Greek Islands are hit hard by Tsunamis.

* **2003-**The Second Central American Conflict begins.
	+ The Gang of Four begins to crumble under new reforms.
	+ U.S. President Jonathan Seward is assassinated. General William Newell takes charge as acting president, and a second period of martial law begins.
	+ World News Service star Tesla Johanneson exposes the NSA for orchestrating the First Central American Conflict.
	+ The Jodes return to agriculture.
	+ Sugo Manufacturing merges with Mitsubishi and is renamed Mitsubishi-Sugo.
	+ Samurai is founded.

* **2004-**Tesla Johanneson is assassinated in Cairo, Egypt by NSA operatives, causing the U.S. to forego a planned a return to civilian government and extend martial law another four years.
	+ The First Corporate War begins.
	+ Cloned tissue is developed.
	+ The CIA and Army unite to finish off the Gang of Four.
	+ General I Ryong Yon launches a coup in South Korea and creates the United Korea junta.
	+ Bureaucratic reformation occurs in the EEC after a major scandal.

* **2005-**The Cybermodem is invented.
	+ EBM Solos attack Tokyo office of Kenjiri Technologies, Killing 18.
	+ The First Corporate War ends.
	+ The Mob rule over Night City begins.
	+ The Second Korean War ends and the United Republic of Korea is created. General I Ryong Yon is elected president.
	+ President I Ryong Yon is killed in a bombing on the presidential palace. General Park is elected President.
	+ Los Angeles Reconstruction project is finished and many Nomads leave California.
	+ EBM Declare Hamburg an independent nation.

* **2006-**The first human clone is grown, this leads to the development of artificial organs.
	+ SovOil is granted a license to produce CHOOH2.
	+ Cyberlimbs become commonplace among the United States Military.
	+ Vietnam joins the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations.
	+ The Polish city of Gdansk is annexed by Germany and renamed Danzig.

* **2007-**Lupold Korepino is named commander of the SovOil armed forces.
	+ The Second Corporate War begins.
	+ Braindance is developed.
	+ Parker Petrochemicals is renamed Petrochemical Associates International.
	+ The Maoist Loyalist Cabal capture Hong Kong and begin a series of pogroms.
	+ New Zealand legalizes Marijuana for the production of Hemp.
	+ The Greek military launch a coup and oust the government.

* **2008-**The Orbital War begins. United States forces attack a soviet space installation, the EuroSpace Agency joins the conflict on the side of the soviets. The conflict lasts only a few weeks, and ends after intervention by the Luna Colony.
	+ Colorado Springs is destroyed by a meteor shot by the Tycho Massdriver on Luna.
	+ Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern territory, is also hit by the Tycho Massdriver. 25,000 people are killed.
	+ The band Samurai splits.
	+ **November 7**: The United States government undergoes a period of reform. Martial law is lifted once again, and free elections occur.
	+ Taiwan declares independence with the assistance of the Arasaka Corporation.
	+ General Jiang Xiax is elected head of the Chinese communist party.
	+ Greece attempts to annex Cyprus, they are unsuccessful.

* **2009-**Joint Euro-Soviet mission to Mars begins. This is not explained.
	+ The Mob War in Night City begins.
	+ Anatoly Novikovo is assassinated by Petrochem.
	+ Yarno Kurgasyn assumes control of SovOil.
	+ The United States begins operation to take control of the Crystal Palace space station, the Tycho mass driver delivers a warning to Washington, D.C.
	+ Indonesia invades Papua New Guinea and renames it East Irian Jaya.
	+ The Papua New Guinea government escapes to Wellington, New Zealand.
	+ The Association of Southeastern Asian Nations disbands.

## 2010s

* **2010-**The Second Central American Conflict ends.
	+ Network 54 now controls 62% of all media broadcasting in U.S.
	+ Over a million Nomad contractors are abandoned in central and south America, *The Long Walk* home begins.
	+ Food Riots occur in Denver, Colorado.
	+ The Lazarus group is formed.
	+ The Second Corporate War ends.
	+ Construction of the O'Neill One space colony begins.
	+ The Corporations and the Triads of Hong Kong ally themselves with against the Maoist Loyalist Cabal.
	+ The Night City Psycho Squad is formed by the psychotic Solo Ares.
	+ The Italian Government passes a law to allow the confiscation and resale of valuable farmland to corporations.
	+ Earthquake decimates Romania, 267 are killed in Bucharest.

* **2011-**Corporations "restructured" the Night City Council due to the anarchy in the last decade.
	+ *July 13*: Bryan LeShawn sets record for deepest independent suit dive, utilizing the Poseidon Fluid Breathing Suit.
	+ The Crystal Palace space station is completed by the EuroSpace Agency.
	+ Joint Euro-Soviet mission to mars is a success.
	+ The Night City Mob War ends, with the Corporations emerging victorious.
	+ An experimental Nanotech device is used in Australia, but becomes dangerously out of control. It is abandoned- no other information is ever released.
	+ An oil rig is hijacked in the Gulf of Mexico and a new Pirate haven is formed, called MetaKey.

* **2012-**A Bioplague is unleashed on Chicago, IL. 1700 are killed.
	+ Arkady Cherminino assumes control of SovOil.
	+ Nanotechnology breakthrough is achieved.
	+ Filipino President Aguilar is killed for cheating in the election, his successor President Lopez is killed on the way to his inauguration.
	+ The Nomad *Long Walk* ends with only 10% returning home. this period of pilgrimage further cements nomadic independence.
	+ Drought decimates Spain and a small Corporate war breaks out over water rights. The EC intervenes to stop the conflict.
	+ MetaCorp is founded.

* **2013-**The events of *Cyberpunk 2013* take place. (just the source books. no actual plot is written in them)
	+ The first Artificial Intelligence is developed by Microtech.
	+ The Neo-Catholic Church begins reformation.
	+ Emperor Showa-Tenno dies and Emperor Shinka-Tenno ascends the throne in Japan.
	+ Maoist Loyalist Cabal leader Hua Yuchi is assassinated.
	+ Filipino President Tiapan is elected.
	+ Alt Cunningham captured by Arasaka. Johnny Silverhand concert riot in Night City kills 18, wounds 51. Old Arasaka Tower gutted. Alt Cunningham dies.
	+ Johnny Silverhand goes into hiding with the help of the The Aldecaldo Clan.
	+ The Mexico City rebuilding project is completed.

* **2014-**Turf wars begin in Night City, they are known as *The* *Metal Wars.*
	+ I-G Transform Redesign the Net
	+ Emperor Shinka-Tenno is removed from power in Japan. Saburo Arasaka assumes election.
	+ The Peoples Liberation Party regain control of large areas of southern China.
	+ Hong Kong is liberated.
	+ The Association of Southeastern Asian Nations is reformed.
	+ The Amnesty International office in London is bombed. They set up a new HQ in New Zealand.
	+ The Cape York spaceport completes construction.
	+ The Church of Poland is formed, splitting from the Vatican.
	+ Kizamasu Inc. own major portion of Houston to build corporate city.

* **2015-**Latvia attempts to invade Lithuania. Cyber-Mercenaries repel the invasion.
	+ Nanotechnology becomes commercially available.
	+ Japan is removed from the EEC.
	+ Japan establishes the New Yen currency.
	+ The Yen War begins in Europe, with Germany aiming to limit international corporations in Europe.
	+ MetaCorp is founded.

* **2016-**The Third Corporate War begins.
	+ The O'Neill One space colony completes construction.
	+ Bioware becomes commercially available.
	+ The Scottish uprising begins.
	+ Water riots begin in Australia. Arasaka funds construction of a desalination plant.
	+ Bermeo Incident occurs. 127 protesters are killed by corporate security teams.

* **2017-**Blair is inaugurated as President of the United States of America. His vice president is Elizabeth Kress.
	+ The first self-aware human clone is created.
	+ The O'Neill Two Space colony is completed and named Galileo Cylinder.
	+ NASA launches a mission to mars.
	+ Imperial Metropolitan Agriculture forces capture Bristol, dealing a blow to the Martial Law Authority and strengthening the Restoration movement.
	+ London is flooded as the Thames flood barriers are bombed.
	+ The Martial Law Authority is disbanded and the monarchy is restored in the United Kingdom. Princess Beatrice is crowned Queen Victoria II in Westminster Abbey a week later. A new period of martial law is declared to maintain order while the UK's districts and reorganized and the Democratic Government Committee debates how to set up the new Parliament. The DGC has yet to issue a final report as of 2020.
	+ Arasaka discovers precious natural deposits under a facility in Africa. Militech supports the native population in removing Arasaka, they fail and Arasaka buy the rights to the land.
	+ The Seven Nomad Nations are formed.
	+ A Neurotoxin spill occurs in the Latvian town of Jelgava. Lithuania is to blame.

* **2018-**EuroSpace Agency launch a mission to Jupiter.
	+ The O'Neill Three space colony is completes and named Paradise Station.
	+ The EuroSpace Agency send another joint mission to mars with SovOil.
	+ Human cloning laws are passed in Europe.
	+ The Pirate Haven of MetaKey is moved to Tampa Florida to begin the salvage operation of the city.
	+ Poland is attacked by Czechoslovakia but are repelled.
	+ Romania invades Bulgaria.
	+ Interpol launches their organized crime division.
	+ Greece annexes Macedonia with the aid of Albania. In retaliation Serbia invades Albania.
	+ U.S. President Blair falls ill and is incapacitated. His vice president, Elizabeth Kress, becomes acting president.

* **2019-April 14**: President Blair dies. Elizabeth Kress is sworn in as the next President of the United States of America, and holds office until at least 2045, winning re-election at least four times.
	+ L-5 Space colonies revolt and declare independence.
	+ L-4 Space colonies placed under martial law.
	+ Orbital colony revolt at L-3.
	+ NASA Mars mission is successful.
	+ Opium production begins anew in the golden triangle of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.
	+ Storm Technology (nomad owned) begins operations in Chicago, Illinois.
	+ Albania is annexed by Yugoslavia.

## 2020s

* **2020-**The events of *Cyberpunk 2020* take place.
	+ The Second Joint SovOil ESA Mars mission is successful.
	+ Storm Technology contracts the Jodes and The Aldecaldo Clan to begin the Chicago salvage and reconstruction project.
	+ Several Nomad nations are contracted to build an extension of the Intercontinental MagLev in Boston, MA.
	+ Carbon Plague ravages Night City for two weeks, then mysteriously stops. Theres no info on this what the fuck is a carbon plague
	+ Chicago Rebuilding Project begins.
	+ NASA's crewed Pathfinder mission to Jupiter launches in the summer of 2020. It is expected to reach Jupiter in 2025.

* **2021-**NASA builds a base on Mars, it is called Chryse Base.

* **2022-**Rache Bartmoss is killed in a Corporate raid, dead man switch unleashes DataKrash virus two weeks later.
	+ The Fourth Corporate War begins between Arasaka and militech after Militech attempts to kill Arasaka Executive in NC.
	+ The Chicago Rebuilding Project collapses when Arasaka factions detonate virus bomb to deny the city to Militech.
	+ DataKrash virus infests 78.2% of the NET.
	+ Industrial factories appear in orbit around Mars.
	+ The Seven Hour War begins when O'Neill Two, Galileo Cylinder, declares independence.
	+ The ESA and SovOil build a base on Mars, called Isidis Base, and creates a colonial government.

* **2023-**International trade breaks down.
	+ Gargoyles Nomad tribe plans New York City Maglev extension preliminary work to begin.
	+ NASA begins offering commercial flights to Mars.
	+ Contact is lost with the Pathfinder mission to Jupiter after Cape Canaveral and NASA's mission control center are destroyed during the Fourth Corporate War.
	+ **August 20**: The Night City Holocaust. Nuclear device detonated in Arasaka Tower, much of central Night City destroyed. Over a half million people are killed. Another quarter million die in the resulting aftermath.
	+ Militech nationalized by President Elizabeth Kress.
	+ Arasaka forces expelled from continental US.
	+ Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Northern California, and British Colombia unify into the Pacifica Confederation.
	+ Time of the Red begins. Atmospheric particles from widespread devastation stains sky red for two years.
	+ Kei Arasaka is talked into committing seppuku by Spider Murphy.
	+ The Net is shut down by Rache Bartmoss.
	+ The Japanese government nearly collapses, but saves itself by forcing Arasaka to take the full blame for the destruction of the Fourth Corporate War. Arasaka is forced to confine its operations to Japan for the next several years as it rebuilds its reputation.

* **2025-**The Fourth Corporate War officially ends.
	+ Arasaka is exiled back to Japan.
	+ NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Bureau launch a joint mission to Saturn.

* **2026 - 2029**-The Diaspora begins. Groups displaced from ruined cities set out to reclaim locations abandoned since the Collapse
	+ Widespread looting of old tech and abandoned storehouses.
	+ United States is a functional dictatorship under President Elizabeth Kress's State of Emergency.
* **2026-**The opposing sides in the Fourth Corporate War sign a belated formal truce. Militech then tries and fails to reestablish contact with NASA's lost Pathfinder mission.

## 2030s - 2040s

### 2030 - 2035

* Reestablishing of Nomad High Roads..
* Rumors of Johnny Silverhand's body being found in cold storage in the wreckage of Old Night City arise.
* Start of Night City Reconstruction

* **2030-**Ziggurat founded.
	+ Rocklin Prosthetics rebrands to Rocklin Augmentics.

**2035 - 2049**-Rebuilding of old factories and old tech begins to be replaced, new corps begin to rise.

* Netwatch attempts to clear out the R.A.B.I.D.S. fail, all major nodes into the old NET shutdown.
* Establishment of first Data Pools.
* Events of *Cyberpunk RED* take place.