2008

*"If I had to describe this year in a word... it was a total shitshow."
"That's five words."
"And it just got even worse. Thanks a lot, Fern."*
―Sarah Spinzer and Sammy Fern
This is a timeline of events that occurred in **2008**.

## January

### 1st

* **Bombing of the Outlook**: As part of their investigation into Cronus, the Strategic Defense Collective investigates the Outlook in Rhode Island when a cluster of explosives is suddenly detonated, killing fifteen members of the SDC who were inside the base during the explosion. Killar, an important figure in Cronus who happens to be a Cionusian stuck on Earth, sees the explosion in real time and laughs.
* Gold-N News reports on the bombing of the Outlook, with Julia Thompson seeing the report. She tells her boyfriend, Henry Case, that she feels like she recognizes the name but doesn't know why. Case disregards her comment and leaves their house to go buy a gift for their anniversary on the fifteenth, telling her he is only going out to get groceries.
* **Kidnapping of Henry Case**: Case visits a local shop that has a vase similar to one that Julia had in her early childhood. As he is buying it Cronus members break in to the store, killing the cashier and knocking out Case before relocating him to Silverthrone.
* Julia Thompson waits for Case to return, and begins tallying the hours he has been gone in her notebook.

### 2nd

* Thompson drives through the city of Vancouver for three hours straight looking for Case. She shouts his name, and asks a plethora of people if they know where he is before giving up and heading home. She gets drunk before falling asleep on her bathroom floor.
* **Escape from Silverthrone**: Case wakes up in a small jail cell inside the Cronus facility inside of Silverthrone Mountain. He explores his cell, finding nothing of use before looking outside. He sees many other people being held inside of cells, including an army veteran named Nemesio Hernandez. He pretends to have a heart attack causing some of the Cronus members to panic and open his cell. He knocks them out, and steals their weapons. He frees the others from their cells, and starts to lead them out of the facility. They fight their way through several rooms before getting to the exit. A large force of Cronus soldiers surrounds them before they can escape, however. Preparing to sacrifice himself, Case tells the rest of the prisoners to run as fast as they can to the exit. Nemesio stops Case before he can do it, suggesting that he should do it instead. The two go back and forth before Case shoves Nemesio out the way, distracting the soldiers who follow him as he runs away from the prisoners' location. While the rest of the prisoners escape and alert the authorities, Case is captured and tossed back into his cell. An enraged Killar, who happened to be in the facility during the escape, goes into Case's cell before Jonesy Thomas is able to interrogate the man and beats him to death, leaving him unrecognizable afterwards.
* **Silverthrone Detonation**: All assets are relocated from Silverthrone to a facility near Williston Lake, with explosives being littered throughout the Silverthrone facility. When members of the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigate the facility, the explosives are detonated, killing fifty people.

### 3rd

* Julia wakes up off her bathroom floor and finally reports Case missing.

### 4th

* Julia sees a Gold-N news report on the detonation of Silverthrone. Immediately afterward she sees the interview of one of the survivors of the escape. Most of the survivors were brought to the Port McNeill Hospital. As the survivor describe one of the men who helped them escape, Julia realizes that the person they're describing is Case. She begins to get ready to drive to the hospital when the survivor says that the man gave his life to save them. She instantly stops what she's doing and breaks down.
* Nemesio is commended by several news sources for being one of the people to lead the group of survivors out of Silverthrone Base.
* Julia finds herself happy with what Case did but damns him for being so heroic.

### 5th

* Ivo Makovich trades weapons to Ivomir Milivić for Imperium.
* **Attempted kidnapping of Hana Takeda**: Ivo Makovich, under the alias "Elias Shawman" attempts to lead Hana Takeda into an alleyway and hold her for ransom so he can be paid in Imperium by Hideki Takeda. However Sarah Spinzer, who was still in a wheelchair, tracks him down and attempts to stop him. After firing Imperium at her, the Imperium makes its way into her bloodstream and heals her bones. She is able to stop many of the nearby PSB Sobaki members however is unable to stop Makovich.
* Julia questions her will to live after seeing several happy couples while on her way to work.

### 6th

* Spinzer retakes the GSOB physical test and passes so she can be reinstated to the GSOB.
* The United Nations ends the Vadalan Peace Program after five years of no progress in ending the civil war.

### 7th

* **Operation Stratagem II:** Sarah Spinzer is sent to Luanda, Angola, in order to learn and grow close and learn information from a dealer named Rolando Soares. Ntando Madikizela disguises as a man named Barak Wo. From the 7th to the 13th, she blends in and begins to learn about Imperium.

### 11th

* Spinzer and Soares visit the Luanda Ship Graveyard and plan to stay for a few days.

### 13th

* **Skirmish in Luanda**: After Rolando notices a GSOB patch that Spinzer has in her pocket, Rolando pulls out a gun to shoot her, however she is quicker and shoots him in the right arm, and then uses her Imperium powers to keep Soares stuck in place. When interrogated, he tells her about Ivo Makovich's underground facility in the United Kingdom. He then attempts to commit suicide, however fails due to Calidity being present and knocking the gun out of his hands with one of his flame projectiles. he then calls for help, and his henchmen begin to fight Spinzer. She is able to escape with Soares and bring him in for questioning.

### 15th

* Julia Thompson celebrates her anniversary by herself. She drinks several vodkas, getting herself drunk before getting into Case's old fourth generation BMW 3 Series E46 planning to commit suicide by driving herself into the Strait of Georgia. At the last second she is stopped by Christian Sherman, who gets in front of her car and talks her down.
* Sherman drives her home and gives her his number, telling her that if she needed someone to talk to he was available. She is able to thank Sherman in her drunken state before she goes to sleep.

### 16th

* Julia finds a poster advertising the GSOB's Program for Advanced Combat Tactics in Warhill. She throws it in the trash, seemingly not interested.

### 31st

* Using information obtained from Operation Stratagem II, Task Force Jericho locats an underground base in Aberdeen.
* After some research, it is discovered the base is owned by GreenTech, a front organization for PSB Sobaki.
* A small team of GSOB, TFJ and MI5 operators is assembled to raid the facility the following day.

## February

### 1st

* Jericho departs for Aberdeen at 0300 hrs.
* **Raid on Facility IM-1:** Task Force Jericho is sent to Aberdeen in order to find and capture Ivo Makovich, who is working with Lars Lohrenz in facility in order to utilize the strength of Imperium after witnessing Sarah Spinzer gain her mobility back after being in a wheelchair. When them team begins to close in, Makovich steps into the Epizo machine, and tells everyone to flee using the underground tunnel. The team arrive soon after and prepare to apprehend Makovich. However, by the time they enter, Makovich had already been powered up by using the Epizo machine to give him powers. Spinzer attempted to fight him by herself, however began to lose. Luckily for her, Calidity was nearby and was able to help her drive Makovich out of there. He left quickly before answering Spinzer who asked him who he was.

### 2nd

* Ivo Makovich makes public announcement: a threat to Slomakov City.
* The United Nations creates the Cosmopolitan Force, an international defense force composed of soldiers from militaries around the world.
* The Cosmopolitan Intelligence, Research and Analysis/Action Division is formed as a branch of the Cosmopolitan Force.
* **Battle of Belgorod:** After making the threat towards Slomakov City, Makovich actually travels to Belgorod and begins to destroy buildings and kill civilians. The armies that had amassed in Slomakov had been forced to travel a long ways in order to respond. Calidity, in the middle of the school vacation to Warsaw, runs out of the gift store that his class is in and flies all the way to Belgorod. He puts up a good fight, alongside Spinzer.

### 3rd

* Clark Clearmark steals the Variant One Robotic Protection Suit from the GSOB base in Santa Monica with the help of Oliver Boothman and flies it to Washington D.C. in preparation of Makovich's planned attack on the city.
* **Battle of Washington, D.C.:** After traveling to D.C., Makovich begins a showdown at the Capitol with his two minions Shaw Murray and Voina. After sending the minions to kill the thousands of soldiers showing up to defend the capitol, Spinzer and Calidity both show up and defeat the two minions. Makovich then destroys some of the capitol, which makes the two lunge at him and then they begin to engage in a duel. After defeating Makovich, he begins to feel extreme rage and fear, which upsets the Imperium in his body, starting the process of Imperium rejection. He then explodes, leaving only pieces of his body left. The Strategic Defense Collective collects his body parts and places them in the Tisztasag base.

### 4th

* **New York City Ceremony**: The United Nations holds a ceremony in honor of those whose lives were lost during the Battle of Washington, D.C. and the heroes who defeated Ivo Makovich, Voina, Shaw Murray and PSB Sobaki. Sarah Spinzer, Clark Clearmark, and Derrick Sanchez are all honored during the ceremony, with the latter concealing his identity and being given the nickname Calidity.
* The Global Special Operations Bureau begins to be absorbed by the Cosmopolitan Intelligence, Research and Analysis/Action Division.

### 5th

* Clark Clearmark is gifted a mansion in Los Angeles by the sitting president, which he then gifts to his parents.

### 6th

* Clearmark travels to the Nerve Center in Mannheim to talk to Sarah Spinzer about her leaving the CIRAD.
* Spinzer tells Clearmark that she wants a long break after the battle, and her situation in the CIRAD wouldn't ever give her the chance to ever get a break due to the constant heavy workloads.
* Clearmark tells Spinzer he understands before asking if he'll ever see her again. She tells him that he will before kissing him as she leaves her office.
* After going home, Clearmark thinks back to the 2003 Program for Advanced Combat Tactics in Mannheim, his rescue at the hands of Spinzer, Zhou and Redd. and Operation Turbine, in all of which he was at one point saving or saved by Spinzer.

### 7th

* -.
* At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a group of men provoke Kylie Cooper, believing her to be uncapable of any harm. They are wrong, however, as she ends up punching one of them in the face. She is dismissed from the University later that day.
* Kylie Cooper travels to a range in Warhill and lets out some frustration.

### 10th

* Kylie Cooper's brother, Brian, is kidnapped and never seen again.

## March

### 1st

* On one of the upper balconies of the Palace, Lunaria asks her brother Goran about becoming the next queen of Lu-Narr. Jealous of her being the inheritor of the throne, he tells her that she is no true heir and certainly no true sister of his. He then storms off, calling his sister a Lu-Narr slur as he slams her door shut.

## April

### 1st

* Operatives from Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate disguise themselves as tourists and set up a base inside of Shimal Sheher in Khilmaj.

### 27th

* Sarah Spinzer has a small surprise party held for her in the Nerve Center for her 25th birthday.
* Sarah Spinzer later celebrates with her family and Clark Clearmark in a Langley's in Los Angeles.
* Viktor Kilberg personally gives Spinzer her mother's old necklace after stealing it from the Armory in Warhill.

## July

### 4th

* Julia Thompson celebrates her 23rd birthday with her aunt, uncle, their extended family, and Christian Sherman. She cries after thinking about Henry Case's death and ends up leaving the party,

## September

### 15th

* In the climax of the subprime mortgage crisis, the Lehman Brothers file a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy petition, becoming the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

## November

### 4th

* The 2008 United States election is held, with Michael Sabi and Cassandra Cousins being elected president and vice president respectively. Sabi became the first African-American president while Cousins became the first female vice president.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 *Operation CITADEL: 1.04: The Harvest*
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 *Jericho Is Falling*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 *Jericho Six, Too*
4. ↑ *Moonbeam*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 *Operation CITADEL: 2.02: Reunion*