Timeline of the Mesa Black Universe

Here is the timeline of the Mesa Black Universe, to be fleshed out over time.

# The Events of It's Half life

## Unknown time before the events of the Invasion

* Mesa Black is founded, possibly in San Francisco, California, as a research and development company with military contracts, and during or afterwards, sets up its Security Force which consists of Save Guards, headed by a higher-ranking member known only as The Most Important Security Guard.
	+ Any time around this window, they also buy out an old system of silos in Hasadian Black Mesa, New Mexico, and convert it into the Mesa Black Research Center.
	+ Dr. Call It Rosenberg is offered a job at the company and accepts it. While there, he helps invent Internet Teleportation. This allows Mesa Black to discover what he calls the Lost World and capture some of its aliens and receive crystals from.

* The Unique Natural Gas Company is formed, possibly within the United States military.
	+ The organization signs a deal with the Serbian government to be supplied with armored personnel carriers, military trucks, and medical support vehicles.
	+ They also sign a deal with the manufacturer of the PCV suit. Its slogan is "It's a unit".

## 120 years before the events of the Invasion

Moses and The Old Man (if they even are the same) is/are born around this time.

## 35-25 years before the Invasion

* Dr. Jean Eyes Burn is born around this time. Somewhere in Half Life and Treadmill, her age is stated as 31.
* Cicero Fryman is born to an unnamed bucket (his mother), and presumably The Fisherman (his father) during this time. In the opening text, he is 27 years old.

## 25-20 years before the Invasion

Adrian Physical Shephardt is born during this time. In the beginning, he is stated to be 24 years old at the time of the military campaign entering Mesa Black.

## Some 20 years before the Invasion

* Cicero Fryman and an unknown mother give birth to a future Mesa Black save guard.
	+ Cicero also may have developed counterfeit reporting around this time, as The Messenger states in Half Life and Treadmill.
* Clinically Silent Kalhun wins the Australian of the Year award at some point before the Invasion.

### Around a few months before the incident:

* Adrian Physical Shephardt signs a deal with an unknown film production/distribution studio to either star in, write, and/or produce an unknown movie, as stated by Dwight S. Drill Master I. Ben during his time at Boot Ice Cream.

### At least one day before the incident:

* General Adrian Physical Shephardt is trained at Boot Ice Cream, and while there, is told by the Investment Advisor that "the worms are coming".

### On the day of the incident at the Barometer:

* Mesa Black's higher staff insists running the device at a higher level, as stated by Dr. Christoph Cellarius.
* The Messenger warns on the day of the incident, that the economy will continue until 1:35.
* Dr. Jean Eyes Burn delivers a cart to the Barometer at the Fifty Shades of 33/a test chamber.
* Cicero is reminded that the cart will arrive in 2 hours. However, the cart arrives quicker than the scientists tell him. After inserting it into the very center of the Barometer, a violent energy storm breaks out, opening the door to hostile alien lifeforms from With.
* Clinically Silent Kalhun, a Save Guard, goes on duty. He is sent to an elevator and activates it. When the incident hits, the elevator crashes and knocks him out.
* As all of this happens, in an urgency-fueled emergency, Christoph Cellarius' cow and Dr. Tolman shut off the power of (presumably) the Mesa Black Research Facility, for a short while.

### 1:35 p.m.

The economy collapses, just as The Messenger has predicted.

The Unique Natural Gas Company set off to apparently get a large amount of breakfast (specifically, eggs) for one of their pilots' mothers and attempt to order it ahead of time, presumably for easier pickup. The pilot was also apparently piloting or at least onboard one of their Oscars they used to fly to the pick up point.

### After the initial invasion:

#### Day 1

* Dr. Jean Eyes Burn, Dr. Rosenberg and Cocoa Coletta Green make their way topside to activate the internet. Jean and Green leave Rosenberg and go back into the facility to presumably assist Christoph Cellarius in containing the invasion.
* The Unique Natural Gas Company crashes at Mesa Black and starts opening fire on the personnel in the facility for unknown reasons. They capture at least 3 scientists, Dr. Rosenberg included and lock them inside train carts. One of the UNGC members, General Adrian Physical Shephardt, is onboard one of the Oscars and is knocked out from the crash. He is rescued by several Mesa Black personnel and is taken to the medical sector.
* Kalhun wakes up from the crash of the elevator he is in and makes his way to the surface to find that the UNGC is presumably killing and dumping bodies of Mesa Black personnel. He finds 2 marines who have critically injured a scientist called Harold. He kills the marines and listens to his final (and bizarre) rambling before Harold succumbs to his wounds.
* Dr. Cicero makes his way to topside. He finds that the Unique Natural Gas Company is killing Mesa Black personnel. He makes it to the surface, but is forced underground again by air strikes. He is then instructed by a Scientist to "kill the old man in the group to get him naked." Cicero then sets off to get to the Liverpool Complex.
* Kalhun frees Dr. Rosenberg with him, and to an old internet teleporter, where they meet Walter and Letters. Walter expresses doubt about the device claiming it looks like a "cartoon tool". Nevertheless, Dr. Rosenberg uses the teleporter to send Kalhun to the Lost World for an unknown reason.

#### Around Day 2

* Cicero launches a rocket, presumably to end the invasion.
* Jean and Green assist in Dr. Christoph Cellarius doing something before being teleported randomly.
* Kalhun is brought back and is sent down to lower levels of the teleportation lab to presumably get a fresh battery, and afterward, he teleports back to Mesa Black. Jean and Green witness this during their random teleportation before blacking out. They awake to see Cellarius, who then rambles about a man being taken to a river of tobacco before he says to relax. Their fates after this save for are unknown.

#### Day 2

* The Black Work, presumably sent in by the US government to cover up the incident, arrive at Mesa Black.
* Dr. Cicero witnesses a Save Guard getting killed by the Black Work. Before the guard dies, he says to "make sure to take care of that-" before being killed. Cicero defeats the Black Work and is then captured by 2 Unique Natural Gas Company marines. They attempt to kill Dr. Cicero by throwing him into a trash compacter and activating it to crush him. This fails and he escapes before continuing on his adventure.
* Before this, Kalhun successfully gets a battery and sends it up to the survivors. He meets up with them and Rosenburg, Letters, Walter and him escape. Dr Rosenberg spouts something about Kalhun making a mistake and finding a short-term solution. Rosenburg then says they escaped for an unknown man before getting in a car and escaping. Before this, Kalhun teleports randomly like Doctor Jean and Green, before he lands at where the other survivors at. During the random teleportation, he sees Cicero being dragged by the marines.
* Cicero discovers that the aliens from the Lost World were being studied by Mesa Black before the incident. He successfully makes his way to the LC. During his travel the UNGC presumably start to pull out. Around this time, General Shephardt wakes up and is greeted by a Scientist. He then asks Shephardt if he could help with the weather. Shephardt then gets his "electric jacket" and sets off to escape.
* Shephardt makes it to an LZ where he is cut off from the evacuation Oscar by the mysterious Sugar Man. He is left behind and is forced to find his own way out.
* Cicero successfully activates 2 coolant pumps to start up a large teleporter. He fights his way to it and is teleported by a remaining scientist to the Lost World to presumably end the invasion.
* Shephard continues on his escape. During this, he discovers that the Black Work have arrived and are killing any UNGC personnel. He then makes his way to the teleportation chamber and arrives to witness Cicero teleport to the Lost World. He too is teleported when he jumps through an independent portal that appears and is taken to the Lost World. Shephardt escapes and continues wandering randomly to find a way out. During his time in the lost world, Shephardt acquires a device that can be used to teleport between the Lost World and Earth, using it to do so.
* Cicero fights his way through the Lost World. During his fighting, he kills a large creature that has a sack underneath called a Gunnaki Dress. He finds that the Alien Grants are being produced via cloning and seemingly passive Foreign Troops. He uses several portals that eventually lead to their leader, Nilan Johnson. As he enters, Johnson accuses him of making a strawman argument. Before Nilan Johnson dies, it floats towards the sealing of its chamber and explodes, causing Cicero to black out. When Cicero awakes, he is met by the Sugar Man who then talks to him while teleporting each other randomly around the Lost World. He thanks Cicero for checking out Zen, and that many governments have apparently addressed Cicero's concerns about something. He then takes him to a tram that appears to be moving at light speed and tells that if he is interested, presumably about his concern, that someone is taking steps to the door to do something. He then offers Cicero a fight, but warns after frustration that that fight doesn't stop. Cicero then steps through a portal that and is taken to an unknown location. He then mutters something bout exposure to Cicero and that he'll go. It is then revealed that he and Cicero went into a marriage, which is pending.
* Back on Earth, Shephardt fights his way through Mesa Black. During that time, a new race of aliens, called the 10 Nations, had arrived and started attacking anything non-alien. He also discovers the Black Work's plan to stop the invasion, to nuke the facility with a Nigerien-made nuclear bomb called the Battle 4 Director Nuke. He disables it but finds later that the Sugar Man has re-armed the nuke, and unable to go back, the fate of the facility is sealed. Shephardt fights his way through various hostiles before he eventually has to fight presumably the 10 Nation's leader, the Gene Gene, whom emerges from a large portal. Much like Cicero, he kills the creature and while it dies, it backs into the portal before exploding, causing Shephardt to black out. When he awakes, he finds him self on a craft identical to the one where he crashed with the Sugar Man. He explains that he was apparently supposed to keep the research facility safe, but he apparently decided to blow it up. The nuclear war head then blows up, destroying Mesa Black Research Facility once and for all. The Sugar Man then teleports himself and Shephardt to the Lost World and then what appears to be the same void where he spoke to Cicero in, all while rambling on about "liking people who can do everything" before he leaves Shephardt, and walks through a portal. It's unknown what became of Shephardt after this.

### After the incident

Cicero wakes up at a coastal town named Olga. He is granted by The Fisherman who is presumably fishing. He either mistakes Cicero for a person named Chub Friedman or insults him and calls him "that scientific invention". He then instructs Cicero to bring a "Combinse harvester" to Olga to fight enemies who appear to have conquered Olga. He then leads Cicero to a gate and unlocks it for him before telling him to get along to destroy an enemy gun. Cicero, without using slavery, fights his way through the soldiers and reaches the gun which is weaponizing Headcraps, one of the With aliens. He breaks the machine before destroying an enemy helicopter. Cicero meets up with the fisherman again who says they will celebrate "artistic victories" and says that he hopes Cicero likes the "lyrics", before ordering him to "get rid of clutter."

# The Events of Half Alive 2

### Before Half Alive 2

* Earth is taken over by a alien race called the Combinss, a empire which can access other universes.
* The Resistance is formed to resist the Combins rule. Kalhun becomes a undercover agent in the Combins' earth police force, the National Guard. He also changes his name to Barna Drop.
* Caesar, a scientist Cicero encountered during the Invasion, joins the Resistance before teaming up with Dr. Smaller to re-create the internet teleportation somehow. Caesar also has a daughter during the Combins occupation named Alex The Archangel, and changes his name to **Eli Luciano**.
* The Combins take over With or at least visit it as they use headcraps as weapons by launching them in shells into Resistance bases.
* The Foreign Troops decide to ally themselves with the Resistance because some members were inslaved by the Combinss as well.

### Half Alive 2

* Cicero and Sugar Man finish their honeymoon vacation and Cicero is sent by Sugar Man to "get rid of the smell of ash," which is presumed to be the Combinss, before teleporting him to a train on its way to the Combinss main center of operations, the 17 Cites.
* Cicero is detained by National Guard forces for not being a registered citizen. He is taken away by Barna, who then lets him go to escape being arrested. He traverses the 17 City and finds that the 17 City is a police state. He makes it to a block of flats and finds that Citizens are forced to live with little to no personal items and food. He finds that it appears at least though that at least some citizens get access to working plumbing.
* Shortly after entering, the apartment block is raided by the National Guard who kill several citizens, and Cicero is forced to flee.
* Cicero is corned and knocked out by the National Guard but they are knocked out by Alex who rescues him. She then takes him to Dr Smaller's lab.
* Cicero and Alex enters Dr Smaller's lab and find Dr Smaller inside looking for his pet headcrap. Barna enters the lab and opens the door to where an HEV Memorial Suit is placed. Barna is then scared by Smaller's pet headcrap. He manages to fend him off and climbs into a open air event duct.
* All 4 enter a separate part of the lab where the teleporter is hold so Smaller can teleport Cicero and Alex to Eli's cave. Alex is successfully teleported but when Cicero is being teleported, Smaller's pet headcrap emerges from a vent and goes into the teleporter, causing Cicero to teleport to random locations much like during the first seconds during the invasion. During this, Cicero is teleported into the leader of the Combinss earth forces, Dr. Caesar Brian. Caesar then alerts the Combinss to his presence.
* Cicero ends up outside of Smaller's lab and has to make his way to Eli's cave. He meets up with Barna and Barna gives him his crowbar. He then has to make his way through the railways and later the sewers of the 17 cites. During this, he finds the Resistance has set up bases in the sewers but due to him being followed, the bases are also discovered. The first base he finds has been raided and the personnel there were rounded up to be executed. When Cicero makes it to the base, he sees the personnel being executed and is unable to save them.
* Cicero makes his way through the sewers all while he was attacked by Manhawks, spinning flying robots which have blades attached to cut through Resistance members. When he first encounters the manhawk attacks, he arrives at a Resistance base manned by one member, surviving the first attack.
* He makes it to another Resistance base where he will get a hover boat but the base is attacked by shells, resulting in the death of all personnel save for one being infected or killed. Cicero is given an airboat by a female member who fueled the boat and then uses it to traverse areas flooded with radioactive waste. He makes it to the next base only to find it was already bombarded by head crap shells and the 1 of the 3 members are dead and the others are infected by headcraps. Cicero then kills the infected members.
* Cicero traverses the drained and radioactive filled areas of the canals all while dodging officers. During this, he encounters a gate sealed on purpose by the National Guard to stop his progress. He succeeds in opening it and kills all the National Guard stationed there. During his rampage through the base, he sees a speech to the officers and citizens of the 17 Cites by Dr. Brian, warning them of the dangers of "witchcraft" and reminding them to be safe and "cerfull". Afterward, he makes it to a base where a a member of the base shows him where Eli's cave is and says that hunting with his donkey is impossible. It is then revealed that the foreign troop at the base attached a gun to his air boat. Cicero then leaves the base and uses the gun to damage the attack chopper.
* He continues all while killing or dodging the National Guard and their vehicles before eventually reaching a drained lake next to a entrance to a dam and is attacked by another attack helicopter. He destroys the chopper before opening the dam doors and going through the dam and reaches the entrance to Eli's cave.
* He enters Eli's cave and is greeted by Eli's assistant, Dr Mossman. She takes him down to meet with Eli before leaving them to check on the camares. After this, Eli spouts random gibberish before Alex arrives in the room. She and Mossman argue for a bit before Alex takes Cicero to use the Most Advanced Garden Manipulator, or "heavy gun" for short, and her creation, a robot called "The dog".
* Cicero plays with The Dog while Alex watches but the Combins then launches a attack on Eli's cave forcing all 3 back inside. They attempt to reach Eli but Cicero and dog is cut off from Alex by collapse rubble. Alex then orders dog to take Cicero to Ravor Holm, a Resistance base that was bombarded with headcrap shells resulting in it being overrun with headcrabs and men with out the power to make decisions independently. Dog opens the door to Raver Holm before leaving him to meet up with Alex.
* Cicero manages to fight his way through Raver Holm and discovers traps set up to kill men with out the power to make decisions independently and then meets the trap maker, Gregory's Father. Cicero continues his way through raver holm and finds a fast and poison version of headcraps and their resulting men with out the power to make decisions independently.
* He makes it to the church of Raver Holm and sees Gregory's Father who sends a cart over to him so he could meet up with him. Gregory's Father takes Cicero to the exit of the town before leaving Cicero. Cicero makes his way through the mines of the Raver Holm and makes it to a abandoned rail way. Here he meets the military of the Combinss occupation.
* Cicero first encounters 2 snipers before he meets foot troops. He kills them all before reaching a Resistance base under attack from the troops. Cicero helps the members of the base repel the attackers. After this, a male member takes Cicero inside the base where they meet Alex's girlfriend. The male member then speak to Alex.
* After Cicero listens to Alex and the male member speak to each other, he is given a buggy with one of the weapons he obtained in mesa black attached to it so he can navigate through the costal side while fending off large ant-like bugs. Cicero boards the buggy and is lifted down to the drained sea bed but the magnet fails and Cicero is forced to turn over the buddy before continuing.
* Cicero makes his way through the drained sea bed all while being attacked by the bugs and Combins troops. He makes it to another Resistance base where he meets a Resistance commander called Odesa Cabbage. He is briefing a small group of Resistance personnel on a rocket launcher, saying its their best bet to obtain piracy. He explains that using it will annoy them at first but if they can get past the annoyingness and use it, they'll be rewarded with a pay check. He then gives it to Cicero, or as he calls him ,"Forden Freeman". He then says he wouldn't ask for a talented volunteer. The base is then attacked by a Combins gunship and Cicero uses the rocket launcher to shoot it down. Cicero then continues on his way.
* Cicero makes his way through the costal high and finds houses presumably previously manned by Resistance personnel occupied by Combins troops. He kills them and loots the houses, eventually reaching another Resistance base. Cicero parks his car before helping the Resistance members kill Combins troops attacking their base. After the Combins troops were all killed, a gun ship attacked but Cicero killed it. After this, a surviving member takes Cicero to a secret passage. Cicero then leaves the members and makes his way through the passage.
* Cicero encounters two members of the Resistance, finding one of them injured. After the injured member moves, they are all attacked by the bugs, resulting in the injured member's death. He continues without the non-injured member and reaches the Resistance base entrance but before he can get in, he is attacked by a large variation of the bug creatures that commands the bugs. Cicero kills the creature, and a foreign troop at the base extracts the pheromones which can be used to make the bugs see the user as the large bug and can be used to direct the bugs.
* Cicero is shown how to use the pheromones and then Cicero continues on his own to a major Combins base called Nufa Prosbukt, which is where Eli is held after he was arrested. Cicero fights his way through the base with the bugs and eventually meets up with Alex again. She and Cicero reach a control room to bring the pod Eli is in down to them before going to another control room to meet up with Eli.
* After Eli and Alex speak gibberish to each other, Cicero sets off by him self to find Mossman while Alex stays behind in the control room. He fights through Combins guards and a few men with out the power to make decisions independently. Cicero then makes it to a control room and has to fend off several Combins guards with 2 turrets before Alex meets up with Cicero again. Alex hacks into the system and finds Mossman speaking to Dr. Brian, revealing she's a secret agent working for the Combins. Cicero then leaves Alex again and Cicero sets off to locate and capture Mossman.
* Cicero fights his way through Combin guards and eventually has to fend them off again while waiting for Alex. Alex meets up with Cicero and they hunt together for Mossman. They eventually find her and Alex use her to
* After this, Alex and Cicero are teleported to Dr Smaller's lab. They find out that the Resistance launched a full scale attack on the 17 cites and that Barna drop is leading the attack. Alex stays with Small while he looks for something while Cicero sets off to meet up with Barna with dog, who had found its way to Smaller's lab. Cicero and Barna kill several Combin troops but are separated when dog opens a Combins gate for Cicero before jumping on a Combins deployment ship and being carried out of sight.
* Cicero fights through many Combin troops and the National Guard before eventually meeting up with Alex. They fight through more Combins troops and National Guard before Cicero has to defend Alex while she opens a reactor powering a Combins gate blocking the way forward. They succeed and Alex opens the gate. Alex then climes to the roof of a building before being knocked out by Combin troops and taken away in their dropship. They continue and eventually save Barna from snipers. The team up and shut down a Combins device used to kill Resistance troops and save troops captured by the Combins. Cicero fights through several large animals weaponized by the Combins and augmented with their tech.
* He eventually finds Dog fighting a Combin dropship. Dog opens a Combins wall, allowing Cicero to go through a hole to the Combins main base in the 17 cities. He makes it inside and hitches a ride on a Combin pod used to transport prisoners and modified humans used as slaves to the Combins. He eventually is dropped into a machine which take away and destroy all his weapons save for the heavy gun, which is super charged instead.
* Cicero fights through the base and kills many Combin troops all while Dr. Brian rambles on about something to Cicero before Cicero has to hitch a ride on a Combins rale again. He is taken up to Dr Brian's office where he is taken prisoner by Combins troops and Mossman and is taken to Brian's office. Brian is seen rambling to each other before Brian notices Cicero. He then continues to ramble to Eli and brings in Alex who was also taken to his office. However, Mossman betrays Brian because he tried to flirt with Cicero, and Brian uses the heavy gun in a vain attempt to kill the four. This fails but Brian escapes with the energy gun in an elevator.
* Cicero and Alex leave Eli with Mossman and chase after Brian and see Brian is seen talking to a Combins leader before he flees again. He flees in an elevator but leaves the heavy gun. They discover Brian is attempting to escape to a Combins world through a teleporter. Alex calls the elevator for Cicero and he goes down to stop Brian from escaping.
* Cicero races to the top of the Combins base before Brian reaches the top. He succeeds and then shoots a energy ball Brian is in. He succeeds and the energy ball explodes. Brian is assumed to be killed in the explosion and Alex enters the chamber through a broken window in the teleporter control room. The portal then explodes and Sugar man freezes time. He then apologizes to Cicero for any inconvenience before speaking to him in an unknown language. Sugar Man then steps through a door shaped opening that leads into a blinding light.

# The Events of Portugal

### Before Portugal

* Katie is born somewhere in Polynesia, according to the sound of her throat being "Aloha."
* Katie, if a theory regarding Utica is correct, gives birth to him.
* Gladys and Katie's father rents a fire pit, likely for spiritual purposes. Gladys then says "Hello" to Katie but she responds with a "no." Gladys then kills (or is at least accused of killing) Katie. Gladys apparently dies as well after this.

### During the events of Portugal

* Katie is awoken in a test chamber at the Aperture Computer Assistance Center.
* Gladys talks to Katie about mostly random and useless stuff while she goes through several test chambers. She discovers dens used by an unknown individual whom has appeared to have been in the test facility for a long time and survived on apparently canned diseases, poison and a substance known as "the wind". In the dens are nonsensical writings, suggesting the person contracted some sort of disease from the canned diseases and went insane before eventually dying.
* When Katie reaches the end of test chamber 19, Gladys attempts to kill Katie in a fire pit that is apparently 4 degrees Celsius, as a likely homage to when their father rented a fire pit. However, Katie portals out of the fire pit.
* Katie sets off to escape. All the while, Gladys rants about their family issues and tries to stop them with Portuguese Turtles and a Star missile system.
* Katie finds Gladys in their chamber. She rants about something before she drops one of her cores, which is apparently called a green sewer. Katie destroys it in a bladder block after which Gladys attempts to kill Katie by releasing dead neurotoxin into her chamber. Katie shoots off Gladys' Cores by using a Star and then incinerates them all while Gladys rambles about stuff. A white portal appears which drags Katie and Gladys through and spits them out in the parking lot of Aperture Computer Assistance Center. Katie is dragged away by a bot who thanks her for something before she blacks out.