User:Hawki/Timeline

Obviously there's a timeline on this site. However, as a wiki, very little speculation is allowed and certain dates are likely too minor. This is a more expansive, if more speculative timeline for future reference. Still a work in progress.

-497,817BCE (approx.): An unknown alien race begins sculpts the moons of Farcothu in their own likeness.

-200,000BCE: The first modern humans arise, possibly due to prothean influence.

-48,000BCE (approx.) The Reapers emerge from Dark Space and wipe out the prothean leadership on the Citadel. The Reapers then begin galactic-wide extermination, lasting hundreds of years.

-Late 40,000sBCE: The Reapers depart, the only living Protheans being those on Ilos. Vowing to stop the cycle of extermination perpetuated by the Reapers, they journey to the Citadel and alter the nature of the Keepers, preventing them from responding to outside signals. From now on, the only way the Citadel's Mass Relay can be activated is via internal signals. The scientists then complete the extinction of their race.

-1900BCE (approx.): The krogan enter a nuclear age. Nuclear weapons are unleashed in a global conflict, triggerring a nuclear winter on their homeworld.

-1800BCE (approx.): The Mu Relay is hurtled hundreds of lightyears away from its former location by the shockwave of a supernova. The nebula that forms hides its location from the rest of the galaxy.

-580BCE: Having developed FTL technology based on prothean technology, the asari discover the Citadel.

-520BCE: The salarians discover the Citadel and open diplomatic relations with the asari.

-500BCE: The Citadel Council is formed. This begins Year 0 on the Galactic Standard. The two species, with the aid of the volus in establishing a standard currency, begin a period of expansion.

-The turian Unification War begins.

-0: The Citadel races make first contact with the rachni. The insects prove to be a hostile species and begin a war with the rest of the galaxy.

-80 (approx.): The salarians discover the krogan and use them as pawns in the war against the rachni.

-300 (approx.): The krogan storm the rachni homeworld, erradicating the species and bringing the war to an end. In gratitude for their efforts, the Council grants the krogan several new worlds within Citadel Space. Freed from the hostile conditions of their homeworld, the krogan population begins to explode.

-600 (approx.): The Special Tactics and Reconnisance branch is formed by the Citadel Council, given its unease as to the krogan's expansion.

-700: The Krogan Rebellions begin.

-800: With the aid of the turians and the genophage, the krogan are defeated.

-900: The turians are granted a place on the Council.

-1900 (approx.): The geth succesfuly defeat the quarians, driving their creators into exile. Contrary to expectations, the geth do not venture outside the former quarian star systems, instead isolating themselves from the rest of the galaxy behind the Perseus Veil.

-1969, July 24: Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on Luna.

-2069, July 24: On the 100th anniversay of the moon landing, Armstrong Outpost at Shackleton Crater becomes the first human settlement on Luna.

-Late 21st century: Violent weather becomes more common on Earth due to enviromental damage.

-2077: Liara T'Soni is born.

-2080s: Notable sea level rises begin on Earth.

-2103: Lowell City in Eos Chasma becomes the first human settlement on Mars.

-2137: Ashland Energy Corporation demonstrates helium-3 fuel extraction from the atmosphere of Saturn.

-2139: Saren Arterius and Kahlee Sanders are born.

-2142: Contruction on Gagarin Station begins above Pluto.

-2148: A cache of prothean technology is discovered on Mars. The discovery gives a sense of human unification and accelerates human technology 200 years.

-2149: The Systems Alliance is founded.

-Mid 22nd century: Earth begins to recover from the enviromental damage inflicted upon it last century.

-2152: Roughly 30% of children in Singapore develop cancer due to being exposed to element zero.

-Colonization begins on Demeter; humanity's first extra-solar colony.

-2154: John Shepard is born.

-2155: At the age of 16, Saren enlists in the turian military.

-The Alliance occupies Arcturus Station as its headquarters.

-2156: Charon is revealed to be a Mass Relay encased in ice. Jon Grissom leads an expedition through, setting a precedent for more jumps.

-2157, May: David Anderson graduates with the rank of Lieutenant.

-Humanity makes first contact with the turians. However, the incident is far from peaceful, due to a misunderstanding as to the attempted opening of a dormant Mass Relay; something forbidden in galactic law. Thus begins the First Contact War.

-July: As per the intervention of the Citadel Council, the First Contact War ends with a negotiated peace. Humanity is introduced to the greater galactic community.

-2158: Humanity learns of biotics. An international effort to track element zero exposures begin. Roughly 10% of exposed children show some sign of biotic ability.

-April 14: Ashley Williams is born.

-2159: Saren becomes the youngest turian to enter the Spectres.

-2160: The Systems Alliance parliment is founded.

-2160s: The Alliance begins a pirate surpression campaign.

-With the existence of human biotics firmly established, the BAaT programme is set up on Gagarin Station to train potential candidates and develop biotic implants.

-2163: First experimental 'L1' biotic implants used.

-The Alliance begins charting the Voyager Cluster.

-2165: Humanity is granted an embassy on the Citadel.

-Tensions begin to mount between humanity and the batarians, both species attempting to settle the Skylian Verge.

-Revelation occurs.

-2167: L2 biotic implants are utilized.

-2170: The human colony of Mindoir is attacked by batarian slavers.

-Due to the hazards associated with the L2 implants, L3 implants entered service.

-2173: A fly-by over the world of Armeni discovers odd surface portrusions. Upon closer inspection, they turn out to be elaborate crypts for the zepioh, a now extinct former space-faring race. Various human universities seek to perform excavation. Council Law forbids this however, and a debate ensures.

-Risa Uversen uses the terrain of Faringor to film the external scenes of the movie Starless.

-2174: Ashley Williams finishes high school and enters the Alliance Marine Corps.

-2176: The Skylian Blitz occurs.

-2177: On a recon mission on Akuze, 50 Alliance Marines are wiped out by Thresher Maws. Corporal Tombs survives but is captured by Cerberus.

-2178: The Alliance retallitates against the pirates involved in the Blitz.

-Tali'Zorah nar Rayya’s mother dies after contracting an airborne virus aboard the Flotilla.

-The ExoGeni Corporation announces its decision to settle the world of Feros.

-2183: The colonization of Chasca begins.

-June 17: Ashley sends a response email to her sister.

-Late June: Mass Effect begins.

-August: Mass Effect ends.

-Late 22nd century: Mass Effect 2 occurs.