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Timeline of the Phlegethon

The 'Phlegethon" game is set in a alternate history.

Chronology of the World after Second World War


1960 – Invention of laser beam.
    Fall of Hagerman meteorite (witness says, that it didn't look like a typical meteorite), scientist convention in New-Mexico and further creation of International Independent Scientist Society.(IISS)

1961 – Discovery of new semiconductors. Incredible speed of electronic engineering technology research & development.

1963 – Lee Oswald was found shot in the library building after succesfull attempt of J.F.K assassination.

1964 – Dougle Inc. from IISS announces personal computer system.
    Launch of the first high speed EM-train in Japan.
    Prometheus Corp. releases the first heart implant.

1965 – New-York City blackout. (IISS is experimenting with EM-fields)
    Deepone Lab. developed kevlar and nyltec.

1966 – Dougle Inc. releases universal HUD-implant (with different issues and editions: drivers, pilots, students, police, military etc.)

1967 – Six days war (Arab-Israeli conflict).
   
    Che Guevara dissapears.
    Prometheus Corp. releases neurocontrolled artificial limbs.
    IISS begins building of the vault network across the country.

1968 – Prague spring, Warsaw Pact Alliance troops entry into Chzecoslovakia.
   
Autumn 1968 – WAPA sent reinforced forces into DDR. Conflict escalation.

07.11.1968 – USSR appeals to UN impose sanctions for USA due charged with violating the prohibition of genetic research for military purposes.

    USSR satelite that consisted of three men crew crashed into american spy-satelite "Crown", this information is being leaked to mass media and press.

22.11.1968 – USA carries out a nuclear weapon tests.
    Prometheus Corp. secretly provokes uprising in the western countries of WAPA.

24.11.1968 – Anti-war and military protests and meetings all across the USA territory. All municipal and public services are blocked and shut down, government relies on army.

15.12.1968 – USSR supresses revolt in Poland and Germany.

17.12.1968 – UN accuses USSR in agression against civilians. Armed conflicts arise in the countries of Warsaw Pact.

24.12.1968 – Beginning of the massive joint training of WAPA "Eroberung" forces along with DDR on their territory. Covert concentration of USSR mountain infantry on southern borders on the direction of Turkey.

26.12.1968 – Execution of american spy who captured secret document and was trying to escape through Berlin wall. Mutual declare of war.
    Beginning of the Third World War.
    Mobilization of WP and NATO armies. USA prepares for troops landing on the neutral France territory.
    Citizens are forced to settle down in underground shelters and isolate themselves for the following 5 years.

3.01.1969 – WP forces are advancing towards NATO nuclear weapons bases.

5.01.1969 – Breach of Berlin Wall with mass WT tank attack
    Annihilation of NATO bases in Turkey by Soviets air forces.
    Precise bomb strikes in Scandinavia.

6.01.1969 – USA suffers heavy losses in the Black sea, suppressed by WP fleet and aviation.
    Invasion of PRC in Alaska and East coast of US.
    England sends a nuclear submarine into Barents sea.
       
7.01.1969 – Tactical missile launch in Karelia direction.

       
11.01.1969 – The second landing of USA in Normandy
    B52 armed with thermonuclear warheads crashes on the front line.

12.01.1969 – Malfunction caused by an unknown agent in launching missiles system leads to the destruction of many important strategic facilities, and some large cities as well. Great Darkness and Nuclear autumn.

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Summer 1969 – Those who survived form civil communities on the surface in the ruined and abandoned cities.

1972 – War of the gangs and bandits. Breaking of still sealed shelters and vaults.
Majority of Earth population is gone by now due to radiation, starvation and pandemic.

1973 – In some areas gangs gain their power and authority through violence and force.

1974 – Shelters are being unsealed. More than half of the dwellers didn’t survive.
IISS resumes to work. No information available from foreign detachments.

1987 – Opening of the North-IISS in Lake County (MT) and East-IISS in Wyoming (NY) laboratories.
Agricultural and communications researches. Many states are uninhabitable because of the aggressive environment or gangs activity.

1993 – Restoration of electricity and mechanical engineering.

1994 – Resumption of the light and food industries.

1999 – Mass construction and rehabilitation of cities and facilities initiated by IISS labs.
Nuclear fusion research.

2002 – Full recovery of Information and communications technology.

2008 – IISS conglomerates have grown. Building a network of underground transportation system.

2044 – IISS conglomerates form autonomous arcologies (Hagerman, Skylake, Metropolis). Building a underground transcontinental transport lines between the arcologies.
   Dougle Inc. resumes production of Consumer Packaged Goods. HUD-implants become available to the public.

2048 – Information leak of the Prometheus Corp activities (Research of cloning and gene modification)
Artificial limbs become available to the public.

2050 – Citizens are forced to get chip implants installed.
Those chips create a rating and It’s affected by negative acts such as murder, robbery and what not. "Decency rating" determines living standards of the citizen, regulating access to different areas.

2059 – Dougle Inc. presents a Substituted Reality Portable Complex. Now everyone can now escape their real problems into VR-world.

2063 – The launch of Phlegeton show.

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