Long Night (historical event)

## Play by play timeline

**1905-** Formation of Groteland Republic, a puppet nation of Acadia

**~1930-** Groteland given heavy military investment as war escalates

**1940-** Formation of Neptune Energy

**1951-** Construction of first Nuclear Power plant outside of Groteland

**1965-** Waning tension leads to significantly less military investment in the Groteland Republic

**1967-** Severe economic collapse

**1970-** In desperation, a deal is made with the private company Neptune Energy for Groteland to become the location trial for nuclear reactor designs. Seen as a win win for Groteland as they are getting infrastructure and being paid for it.

**1980-** Construction of the first of many prototype nuclear power plants

**1981-** Reports come in of Neptune Energy cutting corners, dismissed by the Groteland government as mere rumors

**1982-** Safety inspector admits to being bribed, he along with any record of his existence disappears, this is only found out in 2012

**1983-** Test trials of prototype reactors are reported to effectively have only one safety mechanism, with others non functional or ineffective,

this is disregarded

**1984-** Reports come in that the new reactor cooling method requires constant human maintenance due to a critical design flaw, bureaucratic red tape means that the design was estimated to be fixed by 1987

**1985-** Scandal arises as safety admin at a plant admits to not knowing half of the controls on his console due to poor training of new systems, ultimately nothing happens to Neptune Energy as a result of this

**1986-** 'Big Bertha' enters into prototype phase, designed to hold the record for the largest amount of active nuclear fuel, regarded as a publicity stunt.

**February 1986-** Grotelandian protests turn to violent riots, military opens fire on rioters with live amunition

**March 1986-** Coup De Tat is found out by the Republic of Groteland, participants of Coup De Tat are publicly executed, speculated to have merely made the participants martyrs

**April 1986-** Riots turn to full scale rebellion, Republic of Groteland government was close to collapse but now it is on the very edge of collapse

**May 1986-** Armed mercenaries paid for by Neptune Energy start aiding Republic of Groteland, reports that only came out in 2012 show that Neptune Energy was planning a full takeover of the continent

**11:30 PM 13 June 1986-** C4 explosives are placed on critical components of prototype nuclear reactors by terrorist organization. Only half were successfully disarmed

**1:00 AM 14 June 1986-** Remaining explosives are detonated

**1:02 AM 14 June 1986-** Power fluctuations cause reactors to become unstable

**1:05 AM 14 June 1986-** SCRAM is activated on all affected reactors

**1:10 AM 14 June 1986-** Combination of critical design flaws caused only 2 successful SCRAM operations

**1:15 AM 14 June 1986-** Confirmation that 8 reactors started having an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction

**1:20 AM 14 June 1986-** Design flaws causes reactor explosion to restrict access to manual override

**1:25 AM 14 June 1986-** One reactor turbine began spinning at 100 times its normal capacity, sending a power surge and causing a cascading power failure to the nearby transformer array, sending a power surge that caused mass blackouts

**1:30 AM 14 June 1986-** Mass power failure causes obscure subroutine in reactor computers to activate, sending every reactor into an overdrive state

**1:40 AM 14 June 1986-** Massive combination of safety failures causes a domino effect that causes more reactors to start going into a meltdown

**2:00 AM 14 June 1986-** Island wide evacuation begins

**3:00 AM 14 June 1986-** Large amount of energy released into the environment, ultimately creating an uninhabitable zone that envelopes the entirety of Groteland

**15 June 1986-** Precipitation of exotic radioactive waste starts the great ecosystem collapse of Groteland

**1991-** Acadia deems the ecosystem to be 'unrecoverable' for the next ~20,000 years, almost all Acadian personnel pull out of the island, leaving only monitoring equipment

**2001-** Contact is established with the survivors of the accident, who have claimed independence from Acadia as 'The United Tribes of Groteland'