Timeline/1900s

## 20th Century

### 1924

* Archibald Witwicky has been relocated to the Psychopathic Institute for the Long-Term Insane in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his delusions and visions having progressed to the point that he is somehow experiencing visions of the future.

### 1927

* Herbert Hoover formally dubs Simmons's group "Sector Seven", named after the stable sector of ground along the Colorado riverbed to which they plan to move the AllSpark. The following year, Herbert begins his run for presidency, with a view to using the power the position would convey to arrange for the construction of a permanent housing for the AllSpark.

### 1929

* A battle between a Seeker known as Fortress and another of his kind over the latest potential lead to the location of the Matrix results in the accidental death of two civilians, and the crippling of their son, Carter Newell. Carter goes on to dedicate the next eighty years of his life to hunting down Transformers, founding the Initiative and capturing many of them, including Fortress himself.
* Over the course of his travels, Sixshot is challenged by the alien Reapers. He refuses to join them.
* The massacre at Babu Yar takes place, which sees the deployment of the controversial bioweapon Gideon's Glue against Flame's Autobots.

### 1934

* By 1934, Walter Simmons's estranged daughter Margaret has married and given birth to a child, Billy. Following her separation from her husband, Margaret is given a low-level position in Sector Seven by her father, and together with Roy Thompson, she hunts down and destroys the AllSpark Mutation that went missing in 1913, which had fallen in with outlaws Bonnie and Clyde.

### 1935

* Construction of Herbert Hoover's proposed enclosure for the AllSpark, the Hoover Dam, is completed, including a subterranean facility that becomes Sector Seven's Beta Command Post. Walter Simmons visits the dam in the closing stages of construction, preparing to retire once Megatron is transported from there from the Arctic for study in conjunction with the cube. A malfunction in the cryo-blocks that will keep Megatron frozen delays the move, and the subsequent outbreak of World War II tables both Megatron's relocation and Simmons's retirement indefinitely.

### 1938

* **August 13:** Archibald Witwicky dies. He is survived by his son Clarence.

### 1939

* The World's Fair takes place, which features the artificial volcano Mount Magma. Afterward, the volcano is relocated to Griffin Rock.
* The Griffin Rock Technology Expo also occurs, during which Griffin Rock scientists attempt to create a time machine, but are incapable of powering it up.
* **August 16:** The Temporal Station is decommissioned.
* **August 17:** A group of time-displaced individuals consisting of four Rescue Bot Autobots, the human children Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, and the Helper Bot Dither, accidentally travels through the time machine from the future. They are discovered by Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, who takes interest in the robots and begins to study them. The two kids are sent away, but escape and, along with Dither, recover the Autobots in Morocco's captivity. A surprise intervention by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who subsequently followed the Rescue Bots through the time machine to help them, along with some assistance from Elma Hendrickson, gives all of the time-travelers the chance to escape back to the future. However, a damaged Dither is accidentally left behind, and comes into Morocco's possession.

It is from here that the timeline is split in two, as the time travel incident creates an alternate timeline, but then erases it and has history put back on its corrected course.
Morocco starts to open up Dither to begin studying him, but the previous group of time travelers returns once again to retrieve their forgotten robot before returning to their own time, leaving Morocco unable to study the future technology.

### 1941

Robert Steven Savage joins the military; after going above and beyond the call of duty in Galibi, he receives a crack team of his own to command: the elite Screaming Eagles.

### 1943

* With Garrison "Blitz" Kreiger now serving as an officer on the Screaming Eagles, the unit is deployed to fight in Kalistan. They are startled to find robot drones—in reality, creations of the Talisman—fighting for the Axis. Garrison Kreiger, recognizing them as the work of alien magic, becomes fascinated by them.

### 1949

* Griffin Rock celebrates its tricentennial, which features holograms of some of its most prominent citizens, including its first female scientist Elma Hendrickson, on display in historical exhibits.

### 1950s

Bill Simmons proceeds to make quite a name for himself in Sector Seven, not least of all by leading a campaign to have scientist Robert Oppenheimer discredited and ejected from the organization on allegations of Communism.

### 1953

* Bill marries fellow agent Anne Fischer in a secret ceremony, and close to the end of the year, Anne becomes pregnant with their son, Seymour Simmons.
* Reginald Danco's grandson Joe, jealous of how his family has become sidelined in history in favour of the Simmons line, defects to the Communist Party. In February 1954, acting as an undercover agent, he sabotages the cooling system at Sector Seven's Arctic base, planning to use the escape of Megatron to cover his theft of Sector Seven data and flight to Russia. Walter Simmons calls for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the facility to stop Megatron from thawing out, at the expense of the lives of the base personnel, which includes his grandson Bill. This prompts Jetfire to intervene, but the Seeker proves able only to save the lives of Anne Fischer and Philip Nolan.
* Unbeknownst to Sector Seven, both Bill and Danco survive: Danco flees deeper into the tunnels and Bill pursues, but Bill is captured by a Soviet extraction team who have come to recover Danco. He is taken back to Russia for interrogation, and spends eight years being moved from facility to facility, often escaping, always being recaptured, but never breaking under torture. The data stolen by Danco, meanwhile, allows the Soviets to finally utilize the technology taken from the captive Shockwave, and with it, they create the world's first nuclear power plant, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, which is activated in June, 1954.

### 1954

* Seymour Simmons is born. At Walter's wishes, Anne leaves Sector Seven in an effort to keep the child from ever learning of the legacy of obsession and death that has defined his family, changes her name to "Tova Simmons", and opens a delicatessen. But Seymour proves to be every inch his father's son, and as he grows older, he takes to sneaking out of the house, setting up a secret room in the basement of his mother's deli where he studies the paranormal and develops an ardent belief in the presence of aliens on Earth.

### 1955

* The Vietnam War begins. Philip Nolan and Thomas Kinnear both serve in the conflict.
* Griffin Rock scientists experiment with subspace technology as part of the Sanctuary Plan, in which the insect-like tracers would transport the island's entire populace to a safe haven during the condition of a crisis. The plan is abandoned due to instability of the shelter, with the tracers being locked away in storage.

### 1960s

* The crash of the Ark is detected by both the United States and the Soviet Union, and a "space race" begins to be the first to reach the Moon and plunder this alien treasure.
* Disabled amateur sleuth Mike Power accidentally stumbles on a ring of Brasnyan spies smuggling alien technology into the United States. Their plan is foiled by British super-spy Action Man, who offers Power some words of encouragement. Bolstered by this praise, he goes on to study some of the technology he surreptitiously recovers from their base and eventually builds himself a new set of prostheses.
* The scientists of Griffin Rock install a magnetic pulse generator to disable all circuitry at Griffin Crest, setting it as a safe zone in case an experimental machine ever went haywire on the island.
* In 1966, the *S.S. Isolde* transports experimental technology to Griffin Rock from the mainland. During one of its voyages to the island, however, a piece of its cargo, the Sub-Zero Expander, is accidentally damaged and activated. After contacting the island for advice, the ship's captain, Zachary Burns, and crew are ordered to abandon the vessel and all of its cargo, leaving it to be encased completely within an iceberg.

### 1982

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* After serving with the Green Berets, Joseph B. "Joe" Colton is selected to join the Adventure Team, an crack team of American operatives.Template:Storylink He serves alongside elite military assets such as Lonzo "Stalker" Wilkinson and Miles "Mayhem" Manheim. They are eventually joined by superpowered operatives including Richard "Bulletman" Ruby and Mike Power, now calling himself the "Atomic Man". As "G.I. Joe", Colton and the Adventure Team enjoy numerous globetrotting escapades, on one occasion meeting Action Man.

### 1984

* Kreiger, having spent decades scouring the Earth for alien artifacts, finally tracks the Talisman to its resting place in the Tomb of Amtoltec and goes to retrieve it, disposing of his guide along the way. A few days later, the Adventure Team is deployed to rescue him. The team battles IRON Troopers and runs afoul of Soundwave before before discovering Kreiger and the Talisman. The Talisman upgrades Mike Power's cybernetic limbs; thus empowered, the team is able to see the Decepticon off and recover the Talisman, entrusting it to British intelligence.

### 1988

* Tyrest constructs the supercomputer/judging machine Aequitas, based on Mesothulas' old designs. The Aequitas trials begin, a catalog of Autobot atrocities.Template:Storylink What nobody but Tyrest knows is that every Autobot on trial is "constructed cold", a process he'd help develop. The revelation is enough to gnaw at his conscience, and eventually Tyrest vanishes from the public eye.Template:Storylink

### 1990

* Obsessed with defeating Squadron X, the Wreckers track them down to the planet Pova. After capturing them, Impactor is ordered to release them due to a technicality. Instead, he executes the prisoners, and as a consequence is himself imprisoned in Garrus-9. Springer subsequently takes over leadership of the Wreckers.

### 1999

* *A genius psychologist serving in the United States military murders his family and deserts the army, taking with him a cache of explosives and ordnance. Over the seven years that follow, he goes on to build a fortune on pyramid schemes as a Wall Street broker. Template:Istorylink*

### 28 years ago

* Professor Anna Baranova begins an investigation of the Griffin Rock Triangle with Project Midgard. Her mobile undersea laboratory, the *Midgard*, fails in its mission and is rendered permanently submerged.

1. ↑ *Spotlight: Sixshot*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Bullets*
3. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Under Pressure"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `It's a Bot Time`
5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Bot to the Future`
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 *The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb*
7. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "The Haunting of Griffin Rock"
8. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Countdown"
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *Power and Glory*
10. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Rules and Regulations"
11. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Tip of the Iceberg"
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 *Secret Raiders*
13. ↑ *Sins of the Wreckers* 1
14. ↑ *Last Stand of the Wreckers*
15. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "The Griffin Rock Triangle"