Planetary: Elseworld
Timeline
   

 

TIMELINE

 The secret chronology of the Planetary: Elseworld universe.
This section is updated whenever the field team discovers new information.

 

 

1000 BC A meteorite falls in central Africa. Its radiation will slowly grant super-intelligence to the local humans and gorillas.
500 The evolved gorillas make contact with the evolved humans and together they found Wakanda.
1000 The evolved gorillas split over the decision of using genetic engineering to anthropomorphize them. A group secedes from Wakanda and goes west.
1800 January 1st Kenneth Robb, Lord Whitestack, is born to an English noble family. A few days later, a mutiny aboard the ship they were traveling on maroons the Robb family on the west coast of Africa. Kenneth's parents eventually die and he is raised by the splinter group of the evolved gorillas.
1823 Obed Curry discovers the sea god-worshiping natives of the Tuamotu Archipelago and starts trading with them.
1838 The sea god-worshiping natives of the Tuamotu Archipelago are wiped out by their neighbors.
1840 Lord Whitestack finds Wakanda.
Obed Curry contacts the Deep Ones of Y’ha-nthlei.
1846 Obed Curry completely controls Happy Harbor. The hybrid program starts.
1880 Alan Walker founds the Daily Sentinel in Gotham City.
1900 January 1st Elijah Snow is born in the southern United States.
1914 Bruce Wayne is born in Gotham City.
1915 The Watchers try to assassinate Elijah Snow and fail. In the process, they kill his family and alert him to their existence.
1918   An alien ship, carrying the Orphan, crashes in the Hudson farm, in Kansas.
1922 May 8th Thomas and Martha Wayne, Bruce's parents, are murdered.
May 11th Elijah Snow adopts Bruce Wayne and begins training him.
June 17th The Hudsons are murdered and the Orphan is taken captive by the Watchers.
1925 Elijah Snow publishes the first Planetary Guide.
1930 Elijah Snow publishes the second Planetary Guide.
1931 April First appearance of The Whisperer.
1932 January An alien police officer and his ship crash off the norteastern cost of Japan, creating Night Island and the electromagnetic anomaly.
February First monster sighted near Night Island.
March Japan initiates Project Yorushima.
1935 Elijah Snow finds Wakanda and meets Lord Whitestack. Snow publishes the third Planetary Guide.
1938 August Elijah Snow and Bruce Wayne free the Orphan.
1940 Elijah Snow publishes the fourth Planetary Guide.
1941   Arthur Curry, the first true Deep One/human hybrid, is born in Happy Harbor.
December The American super-soldier serum test is derailed when the chief scientist and the subject are murdered by the Watchers.
1942 November 13th Project Yorushima is terminated by influence of the Watchers.
1945 June The Watchers are finally vanquished by Elijah Snow and Bruce Wayne. Snow publishes the fifth Planetary Guide.
1949 November 29th Margot Lester dies in the explosion that destroys Lawrence Carter's mansion.
November 30th Final confrontation between The Whisperer and Lo Pan.
December 1st Last recorded appearance of The Whisperer.
1950 Elijah Snow publishes the sixth Planetary Guide.
1952 Lex Luthor is born in Metropolis.
1959 Wakanda is destroyed by a mysterious group of posthumans that steal its advanced technology.
1967 May Uri Ben-Drav finds the Samsonian bracelets.
November Ben-Drav disappears after thwarting a PLO nuclear attack on Israel.
1971 April A comet passes by Earth orbit and changes several people into posthumans.
1972 Lex Luthor acquires a copy of the 1940 Planetary Guide.
1978 January 11-year old Paulo Doherty and his cousin, Luciana, start altering reality in their grandmother’s farm.
1983 February Paulo Doherty opens a hole to the Bleed, releasing the Coisa, an extradimensional being who possesses Luciana, kills everybody at the farm and puts Paulo in a coma.
1985 The Miracle War: The superhuman angle of the Cold War turns red hot as a shiftship is found in Antarctica. The superpowers move to get a piece of the action and their C.A.T.s clash. As the conflict escalates, the US and Britain's posthuman development programs come to light. Drs. Kriegstein and Gargunza unleash their respective posthuman armies and the secret conflict almost spills over into Third World War before a truce is declared.
1986 The countries involved in the Miracle War sign the SPB Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Security Council approves the creation of the UN Special Crisis Intervention Team, StormWatch, with Henry Bendix as the Weatherman.
1993 Skywatch, StormWatch's orbital base, is concluded.
1997 The Changers strike and are defeated. Jackson King becomes the new Weatherman. Mohammed Al-Fayad, aka Neutrino, resigns from StormWatch.
2001 August 8th Erik Wurfel, John Gaia and Mohammed Al-Fayad become Planetary's field team. Lair of The Whisperer.
August 19th Unbound.
September 12th Night Island. John Gaia leaves the field team.
2002 January 5th Nigel W. Farmer joins the field team. The Boy from Red Sparrow Farm.
January 7th From Barovia, With Love. Erik Wurfel goes on leave to accompany his sister's recovery. Pedro Magalhães replaces him in the field team.
April 15th Gorillas in My Mind.
June 28th The Shadow over Happy Harbor. Vassily Kasparov is promoted to the field team to cover Al-Fayad's vacation.
July 5th Point of No Return.
July 12th Masquerade.
July 15th Endgame.

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Last Update: 28-Feb-06

 

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