NCIS-1 Multiverse

[lordroel]

Dec 28, 2019 1:07:52 GMT Brky2020 said:

Good news is that I have the outline for the next chapter. Just need to flesh it out and post it.

That is good news.

[Brky2020]

NCIS-1 EARTH-1 TIMELINE (version 3.0)



13.8 Billion B.C. – estimated timeframe of the creation of the universe in the Big Bang



4 Billion B.C. – Krona attempts to observe the creation of the universe and goes mad



43,000 B.C. – Arion, Lord of Atlantis



38,000 B.C. – the Guardians of the Universe found the Green Lantern Corps



9,000 B.C. – a would-be tyrant triggers a chain of events that leads to the sinking of Atlantis in the north Atlantic Ocean; two cities are able to stay above water for a short time, but the inhabitants choose to use technology to turn themselves into water-breathers, and join their fellow Atlanteans in their new underwater kingdom



1,300 B.C. – the all-female Amazonian race found the Kingdom of Themyscria, which (much) later becomes popularly known as “Paradise Island”



4 B.C. – birth of Jesus of Nazareth



33 A.D. – crucifixion of Jesus; according to the Christian faith, Jesus rises from the dead shortly after his death via crucifixion



6th century A.D. – King Arthur establishes the Knights of the Round Table; the fall of Camelot; the wizard Merlin forces a Briton named Jason to be bonded with the demon Etrigan for eternity



10th century A.D. – the Viking Prince



1635 – Gotham is founded by Norwegian mercenary Jon Logerquist on the north end of what would become the island of New Troy, off the North American east coast (parallel to present-day New Jersey)



1648 – England formally buys the island of New Troy and turns it into a colony of the Crown



1661 – Metropolis is founded as a small settlement on the southern end of New Troy



1702 – Metropolis is incorporated as a city, part of the English Province of New Troy



1776 – the Revolutionary War in America, and the Fourteen Colonies declare independence from Britain; Tomahawk fights during this time for the Rebels



1833 – the Daily Planet newspaper is founded (April 19) in Metropolis.



1863 – Jonah Hex begins his adventuring career after fighting for the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War



1870 – Smallville founded in the U.S. state of Kansas



1905 – chemist Alexander Olson becomes the first Swamp Thing



1930 – Lamont Cranston begins his adventuring career as The Shadow, thus becoming America’s first “mystery man”



1931 – Doc Savage begins his adventuring career; Nathaniel Dusk begins his career as a private investigator



1935 – Doctor Occult begins his adventuring career



1937 – Slam Bradley begins his adventuring career, Feb. 25



1938 – Richard Benson begins adventuring as The Avenger



1938 – Lee Travis begins operating as the Crimson Avenger; one of his adventures results in the first public usage of the term “super-hero”



1939 – World War II begins in Europe



1939 – the Blackhawks are formed as a private group of seven European military pilots, led by Polish Major Janos Prohaska. The Blackhawks would eventually fall under Allied authority and work several undercover missions in Europe during the war



1940 – Richard “Buck” Dare becomes Britain’s first mystery man – Captain X; Congo Bill, Mr. America (Tex Thompson), TNT and Dyna-Mite begin their adventuring careers



1941 – Lance Gallant begins his adventuring career as Captain Triumph; Joan Dale begins her career as Miss America; John Sargent begins operating as Sargon the Sorcerer; Jonathan Law begins his career as the Tarantula, two months before Pearl Harbor; Greg Saunders begins operating in the western U.S. as the Vigilante



1941 – the United States enters the war when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; President Franklin D. Roosevelt activates the nation’s “mystery men” as the All-Star Squadron, to serve as a line of defense in the event the Axis powers decided to invade the U.S. homeland



1941 – Richard Dare retires as Captain X to work for British intelligence as a spy embedded behind Nazi lines



1942-1945 – Sgt. Rock and Easy Company; the Losers; the Creature Commandos; the Unknown Soldier; Johnny Cloud; Gunner and Sarge; the Haunted Tank; Captain Storm; and G.I. Robot are among the millions of personnel fighting for the United States in Europe and Asia during World War II



1942 – Larry Jordan – the grandfather of Hal Jordan – begins his adventuring career as Air Wave; Jim Harper begins his career as the Guardian



1945 – the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany and the U.S.’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan ends World War II;



1950 – King Faraday begins operating as a private investigator, and will later become a federal agent working for the CIA, the FBI, and NIS (the predecessor to NCIS)



1951 – the first “super-hero”, Starstriker (note: Captain Comet analogue), debuts and has a short adventuring career; Dr. Terrence Thirteen begins his adventuring career



1952 – the Phantom Stranger begins to make appearances across the United States



1955 – Slam Bradley goes into semi-retirement



1961 – the USSR puts the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Apr. 12); Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space (May 5)



1967 – Gotham police lieutenant James Gordon marries Thelma Kean in Gotham (Oct. 11)



1969 – U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the surface of Earth’s moon.



1974 – on Krypton, the scientist Jor-El discovers the so-called ‘Phantom Zone’ (March)



1975 – Apollo XXV is the last American manned mission to the moon for two decades. Astronaut Hugh Klein discovers an ancient structure in a lunar valley nicknamed the ‘Lunar Villa’. He also discovers an infant girl; after much discussion – not just on how to safely transport the infant to Earth, but on the revelation the structure was created by 1st century A.D. Roman mystics – President Gerald Ford orders NASA to find a way to bring the infant to Earth. Using data from the so-called Hundred’s records, the Apollo XXV capsule successfully returns to Earth with the baby. After verifying the infant isn’t contagious and not harboring viruses harmful to Earth-borne life, Klein and his wife are allowed to adopt the girl, whom they name Laura.



1976 – the planet Krypton explodes (June 16); an hour before the chain-reaction of events that destroys the planet, Jor-El and his wife Lara put their son Kal-El into a rocket and set its course for Earth; the rocket leaves the planet just as the planet begins breaking down


1977 -- Slam Bradley Jr., the eldest son of Slam Bradley, becomes a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department



1978 – Kal-El’s rocket lands in Kansas. The alien infant is discovered by Jonathan and Martha Kent of Smallville.



1979 – the USSR lands the first non-American human on the moon, cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov.


1981 -- while the Soviets attempt to expand their Mir orbital space station and put a second cosmonaut on the moon, the U.S. space shuttle program puts its first shuttle, Columbia, in orbit; on Earth, Slam Bradley Jr. leaves the LAPD for Metropolis, following his father's footsteps by becoming a private investigator

1982 -- the USSR puts its second and last cosmonaut on the moon, Anastasia Benikov (July 15). The Soviets later launch their own shuttle, Buran, which officially sends medical supplies to the Mir space station (Nov. 4-15). U.S. President Ronald Reagan resists political pressure to revive the Apollo space program -- Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) also played a significant role in derailing the Apollo revival -- but lent his support to the space shuttle program and the Skylab II orbital station.

1985 – Evidence of extraterrestrial life is discovered when a coded message containing the location of the planet Rann in Alpha Centauri, the periodic table and the structure of DNA is received by the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Six weeks later on August 4, Earth-based observatories spot an extraterrestrial spacecraft near the Jovian moon Io; subsequent military and civilian audio and visual observation determines the spacecraft is on a course for Earth – and on September 11, messages in broken Cantonese, English, French, Spanish and Russian are received on Earth: in English, translating to ‘we am of Rann moy ortro tah moy reuriano nientrys ('travelled 4.4 light years') love come in peace please be nice’. On October 19, the Rannian spacecraft, Vryntyo (translated to ‘odyssey) lands at Vandenburg Air Force Base in California, and five days later, President Ronald Reagan receives the Rannian crew during a public reception at the White House. The multi-racial crew of the Vryntyo are extroverted and friendly explorers, and quickly capture the hearts of the world’s populace.



1986 – a second Rannian spacecraft – larger, and military – lands in non-aligned New Delhi, India (Aug. 9). The Shon (translated roughly to ‘peacekeeper’) is met by a contingent that includes Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, U.S. President Reagan, U.N. General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar and other political dignitaries. The 505 Rannian military personnel end up meeting with Soviet and American military and government personnel.



1986 – Bruce Wayne’s parents are gunned down in Gotham, New Troy; Atlantis reveals its existence to the outside world; J’onn J’onzz is transported to Earth from Mars



1987 – Neil Armstrong is part of a small contingent sponsored by the United Nations who accompany the Shon back to Rann. The contingent includes scientist Carl Sagan, author Arthur C. Clarke and the first United Nations ambassador to Rann, Kofi Annan (who would become UN Secretary-General in 1996). The Shon returns in 1988, with all 31 humans safe and sound, along with staffs for Rannian embassies in the U.S., the USSR, China, India, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom and the UN.



1987 – The first known superhero since the early 1950s, Captain Comet, makes his debut; Diana of Themyscria, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, allegedly is created from clay (another account has Hippolyta giving birth, the father being the Greek god Hercules)



1988 – Superboy makes his heroic debut (June 11)



1989 – Aquaboy has adventures near Atlantis; the United Nations admits Atlantis, respecting its claims over the North Atlantic regions of Atlantis and Posedionis in exchange for Atlantis relinquishing its claim over the entire world’s waterways



1989 – inspired by the mystery men of the 1940s, the Acro-Bat begins adventuring. He is joined by the Bronze Wraith; Major Flashback; the Manx; Mister Action; and Song-Bird. At year’s end the adventurers agree to join forces as the Justice Experience, inspired in part by FDR’s All-Star Squadron.





1990 – Superboy is recruited by the 30th century Legion of Super-Heroes and accepts membership (July 31), traveling to the future under his own power; exploratory ships from Thanagar land simultaneously in Leningrad, USSR; Beijing, China; Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.; and Brasilia, Brazil (March 9); a super-powered criminal gang referring to itself as the House of Pain begins operations along the East Coast (March 11) and soon encounters the Justice Experience (April 4); Earth quickly learns about the second known alien planet with intelligent life, and Thangarian ambassadors land on Earth (Nov. 12) to begin formal relations with the U.N. and its member nations



1991 – U.S. Marine Leroy Jethro Gibbs covertly kills Mexican drug lord Pedro Hernandez to avenge Hernandez’s murder of Gibbs’ wife Shannon and daughter Kelly, both of whom were scheduled to testify against Hernandez. Gibbs joins the Naval Investigative Service shortly afterwards



1991 – Lawrence Trapp, a scientist working at the University of Pennsylvania, is seriously injured during a battle between the Justice Experience and the House of Pain in downtown Philadelphia. Trapp soon learns his girlfriend, Clarice Ferguson, was one of seven people killed during the battle (23 more are injured). Trapp begins to plot his revenge against the Justice Experience.



1991 – Congressman Newt Gringrich’s proposes severe regulation on “vigilantes” in the wake of the Philadelphia battle; pushback from the Bush administration keeps Gingrich’s proposal from gaining traction



1992 – by now, Rann has allied itself with the Western powers of Earth. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Thanagar announces a formal alliance with the new government of Russia, while reiterating its ‘commitment’ to Western democratic values.



1992 – having learned the Justice Experience members’ secret identities, Trapp (with help from the House of Pain) captures many of the members’ family members. Trapp manages to kill all but one of the Justice Experience members; President George H.W. Bush approves military action to capture Trapp and bring him to justice. Trapp is captured by the combined efforts of the special forces unit and the Bronze Wraith, and sentenced to life in prison



1993 – Christopher Logan Ambler is born on Rann to two American diplomats and is the first human to be born outside of Earth. His parents quickly market his likeness (somewhat for the fame, mostly to get out of debt and finance their son’s future education). The MTV reality show KL-99 (named after Ambler’s childhood nickname ‘KL’ and his soccer jersey number) chronicles his high school years on Rann and back on Earth in Florida. As of 2017, Ambler is finishing up his bachelor’s degree in engineering at Purdue University, with plans to study astronomy on Rann and use it as a base for his own explorations of the Milky Way Galaxy.



1994 – J’onn J’onzz assumes the identity of John Jones, an African-American without a family; the legend created by J’onzz is sturdy enough the truth behind it won’t be revealed for several decades.



1995 – J. Allen Carter becomes the first American astronaut to walk the surface of Mars.



1996 – Superboy discovers he can survive in the vacuum of space; he flies from the Earth to the moon and back; over the next several months, he’ll make several orbits around the Earth, as well as several trips to the moon.



1997 – Amidst heated debate in the UN regarding mining of the asteroid belt, NASA lands a craft on the asteroid Ceres. It will later be the site of a U.S. military/government base that oversees American mining interests throughout the belt. Also, Superboy journeys to Venus, Mercury, Mars and Ceres.



1997 – Leroy Jethro Gibbs becomes Special Agent in Charge of the Naval Intelligence Service’s Washington field office after Michael Franks resigns in protest over NIS’s failure to prevent al-Qaeda-backed terrorist bombings on the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia; the Rannian Embassy in Turkey; and the USS Metropolis destroyer in the Persian Gulf; shortly afterwards, the NIS is renamed as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS); U.S. President Bill Clinton authorizes the creation of Task Force X (Dec. 14) as a special forces unit investigating ‘unusual phenomena’; the team consists initially of US Air Force Colonel Rick Flag; Karin Grace (a flight nurse and a space medicine specialist); Dr. Hugh Evans (astrophysicist); and Jess Bright (nuclear physicist).



1998 – Superboy formally becomes Superman (July 4); he celebrates the occasion by traveling to the outer planets, all the way past Pluto to the Kuiper Belt.



1999 – scientist Rip Hunter perfects a device that will allow him to travel through the time stream, and begins his (very unauthorized) adventures throughout time



2000 -- The DNA Project begins operations outside of Metropolis; Diana travels to "man's world", specifically the U.S., and begins her superheroic career as Wonder Woman



2001 – the young American superhero Superman embarks on his first interstellar journey under his own power, a two-way trip to and from Rann. He is participating in several scientific studies on behalf of the UN and the European Space Agency when terrorists fly airplanes into both towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington and the Bridwell Communications Center in Metropolis on September 11. By the time Superboy returns to Earth, Congress has authorized military action against Al-Qaeda bases in Iraq, Pakistan and Qurac.



2001 – Ed Reiss, who was part of the first manned mission to Mars six years earlier, is the commander of the first manned mission to the outer planets. The mission flies by Jupiter’s moon Io in May and lands on Saturn’s moon Titan in October.



2002 – Adam Blake has his last public case as Captain Comet (Feb. 19), and shortly afterwards leaves Earth for parts unknown in outer space



2003 – construction begins on an American O’Neil space colony in the L5 position near Earth.



2003 – Bruce Wayne becomes Batman (Batman: Year One)



2004 -- Clark Kent joins the staff of The Daily Planet newspaper in Metropolis



2004 – Amanda Waller takes over as director of Task Force X, retaining Flag and Grace and reframing its mission as a covert special-forces unit consisting of metahuman criminals given an opportunity for reduced sentences by participating in missions; the team is nicknamed the “Suicide Squad”, as the missions are so dangerous the odds of coming back from them are usually nil.



2004 – Batman: Year Two; the first Joker debuts



2004 -- Batman and Superman team up for the first time; Superman meets Wonder Woman for the first time, separately from her first meeting with Batman; all three team up for the first time (Oct. 29)



2004 – Slam Bradley III (the grandson of the original Slam Bradley) begins his career as a federal agent, attached to the FBI



2005 – Superman travels to Thanagar on behalf of a joint NASA/European Space Agency scientific project (Jan. 29)



2005 – The Siege begins May 25 with the murder of federal agents Caitlin Todd, Anthony DiNozzo and Timothy McGee in Norfolk, Virginia and NCIS personnel Abigail Sciuto, James Palmer, Donald Mallard and, on May 26, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and Mossad officer Ziva David, in Washington, D.C., all at the hand of rogue Mossad agent Ari Haswari, who is working not for Mossad nor for Hezbollah, but for Task Force X head Amanda Waller. Haswari is immediately hunted down by an NCIS team and becomes unhinged, and his actions in the aftermath trigger a two-month-long event that results in hundreds of terrorist attacks across the U.S. and Israel that result in 2,160,010 deaths and the injuries of several million more people. One of those deaths is that of President Jonathan Vincent Horne, who is assassinated by Haswari himself (July 4) after the terrorist teleports into the Oval Office of the White House, where Horne insisted on remaining despite previous pleas from his advisors and the Joint Chiefs to retreat to safer ground. Vice-President George W. Bush is sworn in as President at an “undisclosed location” (Mount Weather in Pennsylvania) and, as his first act, does what Horne refused to do – citing the National Emergencies Acts, he declares a national emergency (largely at the insistence of Horne’s chief of staff, Dick Cheney); that does not stop the attacks, nor the growing fear and unrest throughout the nation. Superman hears of the emergency from Rannian sources (July 5) and arrives on Earth (July 14), saving the lives of Jonathan and Martha Kent and Lana Lang after an aborted terrorist attack in Smallville, Kansas led by Haswari himself (July 16). The Suicide Squad is tracked down to its base in Rhode Island (July 21) all members except for Floyd Lawton (Deadshot) are killed by a combined SEAL/Green Berets special forces team. Waller is not found and presumed missing or dead; Haswari’s whereabouts are traced to an abandoned farm outside of Bludhaven (throwing the entire state of New Troy into chaos), and Bush authorizes Operation Justice to capture Haswari alive or dead; it ends in the deaths of 207 American military personnel and 916 terrorists serving as Haswari’s last-stand Army (Aug. 5). In the aftermath, Bush lifts the state of national emergency (Aug. 8) and Task Force X is dismantled (Aug. 9). It also marks the first time the so-called Trinity (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman) meet (July 20) and all three have suffered tragedy from the events of The Siege. The Trinity also meets J’onn J’onzz during the Siege, and J’onzz later reveals his alien identity to all three members separately



2005 – former Navy SEAL and NCIS agent Marcus Stewart is named Special Agent in Charge of the Major Case Response Team at NCIS’s central headquarters in Washington. Julie Todd, the twin sister of deceased agent Kate Todd, is his Senior Special Agent and, secretly, his lover. Stewart, working directly under NCIS Director Jennifer Shepard, rounds out his team with rookie agents Gregory McGinnis and Barbara “Barbie” Walker (they and Todd replacing the late Tony DiNozzo, Kate Todd and Tim McGee); Gerald Jackson as NCIS’s new chief medical examiner (replacing his late mentor Donald Mallard); and Katherine “Katie” Yates as NCIS’s chief forensics analyst (replacing the late Abby Sciuto).



2005 – Batman: The Long Halloween



2006 – Barry Allen becomes the Flash; J’onn J’onzz goes public as the Martian Manhunter; Dick Grayson becomes Robin



2007 – Hal Jordan becomes Green Lantern; Oliver Queen returns from a deserted island and becomes the Green Arrow; Dinah Lance becomes the Black Canary; Arthur Curry becomes Aquaman; events of Batman: The Gauntlet



2007 – the NCIS Washington team works a joint case with the New York Police Department’s Special Victims Unit and the Metropolis Major Crimes Division, the first of several cases with both units



2007 – the United Nations Accords on Space are passed by all member nations, governing commercial interests in near-Earth space and establishing guidelines for private companies. It also provides for the cleaning of ‘space junk’, ensuring a safer environment for satellites, ships and large-scale facilities.



2007 – Ted Grant (Gotham, New Troy, USA) knocks out Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine) in the 12th round to win the International Boxing Federation’s heavyweight title, at Metropolis (Aug. 9); Grant knocks out Oleg Maskaev (Russia) to win the World Boxing Organization’s heavyweight title in St. Petersburg, Russia (Dec. 14).



2008 – An accident leads to a desperate attempt to save the life of scientist Silas Stone using his research on cybernetics; inspired by Superman and the small-but-growing community of superheroes, and his desire to represent the African-American community, Stone decides to become Robotman



2008 – NCIS director Jennifer Shepard is killed in a shootout in southern California, one week after the Washington team loses agents Greg McGinnis and Barbie Walker in a case with the Miami-Dade County police and its CSI unit in south Florida.



2008 – Leon Vance takes over as director of NCIS and temporarily assigns Julie Todd as agent afloat to the USS Ronald Reagan (the Navy’s space carrier) while Stewart is assigned three new agents: Michelle Lee (from legal), Dominic Keating (from CyberCrimes) and Brent Langer (a transfer from the FBI). This is to root out the mole within the agency, which turns out to be Lee (who is arrested and later sentenced to life for her unwilling cooperation with North Korea and for killing Langer to cover it up). Keating is sent back to CyberCrimes, Todd returns as Senior Special Agent and the team is assigned two new rookie agents to replace McGinnis and Walker: Brooke Conners and Carlton Long.



2008 – Ted Grant beats Ruslan Chagaev (Uzbekistan) by decision to win the World Boxing Alliance and World Boxing Council heavyweight titles, Las Vegas (July 9); he becomes the first unified heavyweight boxing champion since Evander Holyfield dropped all three titles in 1999



2008 -- The DNA Project renames itself Project Cadmus



2008 – separate incidents involving the Apokolipan dictator Darkseid and an attempted invasion by the alien Appellaxian race lead to the formation of the Justice League of America, with the following members: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Green Lantern and Robotman (Dr. Silas Stone, not to be confused with Cliff Steele, who would also call himself Robotman when he joins the Doom Patrol).



2008 – Batman: Dark Victory



2008 – Barry Allen meets Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-2


2008 -- Supergirl I (Kara Zor-El) arrives on Earth and trains undercover for several months before going public; Barbara Gordon begins her adventuring career as Batgirl



2009 – Black Canary and the Atom (Ray Palmer) join the JLA; the Metal Men (billionnaire, inventor and scientist Dr. Will Magnus created six androids, all outfitted with artificial intelligence that emulates human beings, based on the elements Gold, Plantium, Iron, Lead, Mercury and Tin) and the Doom Patrol (a team led by 'Chief' Niles Caulder, including Cliff Steele/Robotman, Rita Carr/Elast-Girl and Larry Traynor/Negative Man) debut



2009 – the first meeting between the JLA and the Crime Syndicate of Earth-3 ; the Satanic League of Earth-6; and the Mastermen and Freedom Fighters of Earth-10; the JLA members also take on the task of mentoring several pre-teens with the goal of preparing them for full-time superhero work: among them are Donna Troy (Wonder Girl I), Wally West (Flash I), Garth (Aqualad I), and Roy Harper (Speedy)



2009 – the NCIS Washington team works a case with the newly-formed NCIS undercover Office of Special Projects in Los Angeles, and later with the Major Crimes unit of the Los Angeles Police Department



2009 – Lex Luthor is outed as a federal government informant on the supervillain ‘community’, and assists the JLA in defeating several villains; in exchange for intelligence on the villains, Luthor is pardoned by President George W. Bush for his past crimes (Superman still doesn’t trust him)



2009 – China’s space program celebrates three milestones: the first taikonauts on the moon and on Mars, and the first Chinese mission to Thanagar (using Thanagarian technology)



2009 – on the first sanctioned boxing card held on the moon (at US Navy Lunar Base Armstrong's arena), Ted Grant is upset when he is knocked out by David Haye (United Kingdom) in the fourth round, losing all four major heavyweight titles (WBA, WBC, WBO, IBF), Dec. 19



2010 – Luthor forms LexCorp, working covertly with villains (and against Superman) as it suits him



2010 – Ted Grant announces his retirement from boxing and opens a boxing gym in Gotham; he rejects overtures from the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Wrestling Entertainment



2010 – the NCIS Washington team works its first case in Gotham, finding allies only with the Gotham police’s Major Crimes division, Commissioner James Gordon – and the Batman



2010 – Hawkman (Katar Hol) and Hawkwoman (Shayera Thal) join the JLA as its third and fourth members from off-Earth; Metamorpho rejects membership; the Justice League travels to Earth-2, and teams up with its JLA analogue, the Justice Society of America; the Teen Titans (Robin I, Wonder Girl I, Kid Flash I, Aqualad I) form; John Stewart, an African-American architect from Los Angeles, is given a Green Lantern Corps power ring and becomes the second GL of Earth/Sector 2814



2011 – the Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny) joins the JLA; Captain Thunder (Willie Fawcett) debuts as the first Native American superhero



2011 – the Khundish Empire and New Genesis send representatives to the United Nations.



2011 – the first Joker is presumed killed in Gotham; a second Joker emerges not long afterwards



2011 – the first meeting between the JLA and the Retaliators of Earth-8;



2012 – after assisting NCIS’s Washington field office on several cases, Ned Dorneget accepts a position on the team as a special agent; Guy Gardner becomes the third Green Lantern of Earth/Sector 2814



2012 -- Doomsday arrives on Earth, and appears to kill Superman while severely injuring Supergirl and much of the Justice League (Doomsday is defeated by three alternate Supermen, from Earths 2, 15 and 23). Superman is buried with honors in Metropolis's Centennial Park; three months later, four adventurers appear, all claiming to be the Man of Steel -- Steel (John Henry Irons, who created a suit of steel and decided to follow in Superman's footsteps); The Cyborg Superman (former astronaut Hank Henshaw, a living half-cyborg half-human with a grudge against Superman), The Eradicator (an advanced Kryptonian artificial intelligence that somehow used Kal-El's DNA to copy Superman's body and even convinced itself it was Superman); and Superboy (a clone created by Project Cadmus from the DNA of Kal-El and Lex Luthor). On the advice of the Superman of Earth-2 -- who lived through a similar experience in the 1990s -- the JLA leaves Superman's comatose body to lay in state, building up solar energy. After a month, Superman 'resurrects' -- his body stored up enough energy to awaken him from his coma -- and Superman, Supergirl, Steel, Superboy, the Eradicator join the JLA and Earth's other heroes to fight off Doomsday and the alien warlord Mongul (and keep them from destroying the San Francisco/Coast City/Oakland Bay Area)



2012 – Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing



2012 – after a series of gang-related incidents in his neighborhood, Ted Grant begins a new career -- adventuring as the costumed Wildcat


2012 -- Monica Suarez beats incumbent George W. Bush to become President of the United States, making history by becoming the first female and the first minority (Hispanic) person to be elected to the position.


2013 – Black Hand is given control of a ‘dark’ power ring, kicking off the event known as Blackest Night, in which thousands of dead civilians are ‘resurrected’, fighting the JLA and other heroes; Black Hand attempts to recruit several heroes and villains to his army by killing them, and is eventually defeated by the combined forces of Earth’s metahumans



2013 -- the Doom Patrol are apparently killed saving a small village in Rhode Island



2013 -- Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce), the third major African-American superhero, rejects JLA membership



2013 -- the JLA encounters Superboy Prime



2014 – Zatanna, Firestorm (a fusion of professor Martin Stein and college student Ronnie Raymond) and Red Tornado join the JLA; Harley Quinn debuts as the girlfriend of the second Joker



2014 – Hank Voight rejects an offer from the Chicago police to head its intelligence unit, opting to stay as Special Agent in Charge of the NCIS Great Lakes office in Chicago



2014 – the JLA fights off the Authority, a superheroic organization from Earth-52



2014 -- Superboy Prime destroys Earth 15 in a fit of rage; one survivor -- Caitlin Todd -- becomes that universe's Green Lantern of Sector 2814, resettling on Rann while plotting her revenge on Superboy Prime



2014 – Dick Grayson rebrands his superheroic identity as Nightwing when he leaves Gotham to attend Hudson University; Batman begins to train Jason Todd as the second Robin; The Saga of Ra’s al Ghul



2015 – the new Doom Patrol debuts; five-star U.S college football recruit Victor Stone – the son of Robotman -- is severly injured in an accident; his life is saved through surgery that grafts Dr. Stone’s cybernetic technology onto his son’s injured body. After a period of several months, Victor Stone debuts as the superhero Cyborg



2015 – the Lewis & Clark O’Neil colony opens in L5 space, and is given full territorial status by Congress in November.



2015 – the Green Lantern Corps set up a short-lived headquarters in Los Angeles



2015 – Helena Bertinelli becomes the Huntress



2015 – a case in which the Injustice League switches bodies with JLA members, and is later defeated, inspires Batman to draft contingency plans to defeat his teammates and other heroes should the need arise. Shortly before the Victorious JLA returns to the JLA satellite to celebrate, Dr. (Arthur) Light breaks into the JLA satellite and attacks Elongated Man’s wife Sue Dibny (not nearly as badly, nor roughly as in Infinite Crisis); she is injured but manages to fight him off, sending an emergency beacon (Superman is off on a case with Pete Ross and the Legion of Super Heroes, Wonder Woman on a case in Skartaris). After the League returns and sees an injured Sue Dibny fleeing from Light, the League captures the villain. Zatanna tries to mindwipe Light, only to be opposed by Batman; in turn, the other Leaguers on the satellite at the time (Hawkman, Hawkwoman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Black Canary and Atom) pile on the Dark Knight, and Zatanna apparently mindwipes him of Zatanna’s brainwashing of Light while completing her mindwiping of Light and turning him back into a buffoon. The incident sparks a growing paranoia within the Dark Knight that contributes to his quitting the JLA in 2016.



2015 – A Death in the Family; Jason Todd dies; weeks later, Tim Drake is rescued by Batman, and soon becomes the third Robin



2016 – Aquaman resigns and forms his own Justice League based in Detroit, Michigan; Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern John Stewart reform the JLA, base it on the Justice League satellite, and share leadership duties



2016 – the ‘New’ Teen Titans debut; billionaire Maxwell Lord forms his own Justice League International (without authorization of the satellite nor the Detroit leagues), basing it first in New York, then in Washington



2016 -- President Monica Suarez is nearly impeached after granting a full pardon to Amanda Waller while using the powers of her office to restart Task Force X. It turns Suarez into a lame-duck President; she declines the Democratic nomination in July, endorsing her vice-president, Hillary Rodham Clinton.



2016 – Tim Drake rebrands himself Red Robin, and begins to work covertly with three other pre-teen heroes – the mysterious Superboy; Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl II); and Bart Allen (Impulse) – as a team branding themselves Young Justice



2016 – former supervillain Lex Luthor is elected President of the United States (November) in a shock upset of frontrunner Democratic candidate and Vice-President Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Senator Ted Cruz



2016 -- Kate Kane resumes her superheroic career as Batwoman



2016 – Barry Allen, the Flash, disappears, and Hal Jordan is arrested; Guy Gardner is deputized as a Green Lantern; Talia al Ghul (using the name Talia Head) reveals the existence of her and Bruce Wayne’s son, Damian, to Batman before she formally takes over as acting head of LexCorp



2016 – Tamaran (home planet of New Teen Titan member Starfire) sends an ambassador to the United States.



2016 – Bruce Wayne formally adopts Damian al Ghul, and the young boy goes into training to replace Tim Drake alongside Batman



2017 – Twenty-seven Earth nations have some sort of presence in outer space, be it near-Earth, the solar system, other planets or some combination thereof: the United States, Russia, the People’s Republic of China, the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Israel, Japan, Canada, Germany, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Atlantis, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Mexico, Argentina and South Korea. The United Nations also has its own presence in space.



2017 – Lex Luthor becomes the 46th U.S. President; Damian Wayne becomes Robin; a mysterious entity known as The Monitor becomes known to law enforcement, apparently supplying arms to supervillains across the globe



2017 -- The ‘Event’ – millions of people from an alternate world are sent to Earth-1 to seek refuge, the same day global nuclear war breaks out on Earth-17; among them are the doppelgangers of the federal agents whose demise are considered to be the beginning of The Siege



THE FUTURE



2017 – Superman/Clark Kent proposes to Lois Lane; she and Clark Kent marry, and Lois becomes pregnant with a boy whom they will name after Clark’s adopted father Jonathan



201? – Crisis on Infinite Earths



2019 –political activist G. Gordon Godfrey begins his career; Godfrey is outed as a pawn of Darkseid, and Earth’s heroes join forces to foil a second attack by Darkseid on the planet; as his revenge, Godfrey uses Apokoliptian technology to send Superman, Lois and Jon Kent to Earth-52’s past, where Jon will grow up. They will return to Earth-1 in 2019, hours after they left.



2020 – the Invasion. A coalition of alien nations (led by the Dominion, including the Khunds, the Gil’Dishpan, the Durlans, the Okaara, the Citadelians, the Daxamites, the Psions, and soldiers sent by the regime ruling Thanagar) begin their invasion of Earth by unleashing a respiratory virus (E-1’s equivalent to Covid-19) in China; as the virus spreads rapidly around the world, the coalition invades Australia, Russia, Cuba, the Arctic, the South Pacific and Africa. The superheroes lead the U.N./Allied military response, even as the Dominion attempts to weaken their enemy by stirring up racial tensions across the U.S. and western Europe and inflaming tensions between India and Pakistan and North and South Korea. Daxam’s forces and rebel Thanagarian forces switch sides to join the Alliance, turning the tide of the war and forcing a coalition surrender.



2020s – Superman, Lois and Jon are thrown into an alternate universe where they spend several years, and Jon grows up to be a pre-teen; when they return, only a day has passed



2020s -- Superman and his son, Superboy III (Jon Kent) encourage various alien races to come together under a United Nations-type organization to work through their differences; the organization is named the United Nations, and will last for more than a millennium (Sept. 4); as Superman was recruited by the Legion, so Superboy III is recruited by the Second Legion from 3019, and he accepts membership



2030s – Superman I retires after helping broker a peace treaty between China and the United States that threatened to spark World War III. He leaves his legacy to his son, Jon, who takes over as Superman (II) and leads a new generation of heroes



2040s – Damian Wayne adventures as Batman. Superman II leaves for parts unknown, although many in the heroic community believe he went to the stars or to the 31st century. Reforms started by a far-left President and Congress aiming to force metahumans to stop their public activities are finished when far-right elements gain the White House and both houses of Congress in the 2048 election; the Martinez Trials, along with Damian Wayne’s last case that led to thousands of deaths in Gotham, effectively mean the end of the Heroic Era in American history.



2050s – with the First heroic age ended, the United States descends into social unrest, leading to a brief balkanization of the country along regional, social, religious and racial lines; a coalition of the U.S. military, far-right and far-left militias, and civilian billionaires and corporate entities helped reunify the nation after China’s involvement in the social unrest came to light. Superman comes out of retirement to help put the nation “back on the right path”, and the Justice League is revived with its most diverse lineup to date



2060s – the Cold War between China, the U.S. and Islamic Europe slowly heats up, with Africa, South America, Australia and Russia trying to stay out of the tensions



2076 – World War III begins, sparked by nuclear attacks on Belgrade, Balkan Union; Norfolk, Virginia; and Pyongyang, Chinese Korea and lasts five days, sparking the period known as the Great Disaster; Kamandi, a 14-year-old amnesiac, escapes from the Command D U.S. Army compound outside of New York City and begins his adventures; Superman comes out of retirement again, concentrating on preventing permanent ecological and geological damage to the planet



2076-93 – Superman leads a group of heroes, including the long-retired Diana (Wonder Woman I) and the Batman of Neo-Gotham (Terry McGinnis), in restoring society and government throughout the planet. Superman in particular is instrumental in forging numerous peace treaties and economic alliances, as well as restoring much of what was destroyed via nuclear, chemical, biological and conventional warfare during and after WW III and the Great Disaster.



2093 – Kamandi (now 29 years old), along with several of his allies, is present for the signing of the Second Constitution of the United States in America, in a still-rebuilding Washington, D.C. (July 4). The Second United Nations is constituted, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Europe.



2101 – Superman leaves Earth for parts unknown; his latter years are known mainly via legends collected across the Milky Way and Andromedan galaxies, and his final fate (and resting place) has yet to be discovered as of the time of the Second Legion in the 31st century.



2151 – the Treaty of Metropolis is signed by the 417 recognized nation-states of Earth in 2151, resulting in the formal political unification of Earth and a new age of prosperity; heroes during this time include Tommy Tomorrow (Kamandi’s son); the Star Rovers; Space Cabbie; and Star Hawkins



2192 – Earth’s “new age of prosperity” hits a pothole when five member states – the Kingdom of Rus; the Fourth German Reich; the Mongolian-Chinese Empire; the Hegemony of the Incas; and the Indonesian Federation secede, supported by Luna, Khundia and Thanagar



2232-2241 – the Great Wars between the Allied Democracies (United Earth, including the North American Federation, the European Commonwealth, the Republic of India and the African-Asian Confederation) and the Axis Coalition (including groups attempting to recreate the ‘glory’ of their namesakes, among them the Fourth German Reich, the New Syndicalist Union, the State of Islam and the Neo-Confederacy); in the aftermath, a group of American Indians (representing most of the recognized North American tribes) migrate from Earth and eventually settle on a planet they name Starhaven



24th century A.D. – once again united, Earth resolidifies its hold over the Sol system and begins to settle on worlds throughout the Alpha and Beta quadrants, among them Rimbor



25th century A.D. – Michael Jon Carter, a former North American intercollegiate American football player, is banned by the sanctioning body for North American intercollegiate athletics for gambling on his team; while his actions give the revived sport a black eye, Carter escapes prosecution by escaping to the early 21st century via a stolen time bubble once operated by Rip Hunter



27th century A.D. – World War IV erupts between the eastern and western hemispheres; it ends when it is discovered the war was covertly sparked by intergalactic powers seeking to stop Earth’s ascension as a galactic power



28th century – Earth and an unspecified power declare war on each other, sparking the Second Great Galactic War in 2707. Although that war would move away from Earth, the planet would continue to be embroiled in war for much of the century. Domestic unrest throughout the 2710s and 2720s would lead to World War V from 2828-32, between the Progressive Earth Federation, a.k.a. EarthFed, and the xenophobic Earth Only terrorist group, which established its foothold in Wuhan, South China and established a temporary empire stretching from Ethiopia in Africa to the Andes in Peru. Earth Only was finally defeated in 2832; EarthFed struggled to fully reunite the planet and feed its population, leading to rampant crime, pockets of famine and countless local and regional incidents of unrest. This was exacerbated by Luna’s refusal to help feed Earth; this led to an attempt by an alliance between the Australian System, the Texas Rangers and the West African Union to attack Luna, which was soundly defeated. EarthFed then imposed sanctions on Australia in 2751, leading to the Australian System’s declaration of war on EarthFed and the start of World War VI. Australia destroyed the EarthFed Capital District in Geneva with a 30-megaton fusion bomb and managed to bring down its EconWeb and MilNet, which split the planet into dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of independent groups, all fighting for the same resources, while under a blockade enforced by the Lunan, Martian and Venusian Navies. Australia soon brought nations from Africa to South America under its orbit as the Pacific Powers, while the rest of the planet joined forces as the Third United Nations. Rannian journalists’ discovery of covert arms funding of both powers by Lunan and Martian agencies led to the direct intervention by the Allied Planets in 2762. The A.P. broke the blockade and cut off arms to both Earth belligerents; the Mars government stood down and its military leaders resigned, while Venus accepted the resignation of its intelligence agency heads, while A.P. negotiators landed on Earth. The Pacific Powers and Third United Nations were told they should accept the “deal they cannot refuse”, the end of the war and reunification under A.P. oversight. The alternative would be a permanent blockade, and never-ending war that would undoubtedly decimate the planet. Certain military, government and civilian leaders on both sides stood down, were killed in fighting, or were otherwise “removed”, and the new leaders acted on the population’s desire for the fighting to end. In 2763, the Treaty of Lagos formally ended the Sixth World War, and brought both factions’s member nations and the 27 self-declared independent states together under the United Earth Government (EarthGov). Several groups of nations were combined together as single provinces; several groups of the largest cities were combined as single city-states (Arabopolis, Greater Lagos, Greater London, Hyperadad, Metropolis, North Europolis, Rio Aires, Sanangelopolis). One casualty of the Great Wars of Earth was the loss of many cultural and historical artifacts and records; much historical information would be restored via the efforts of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Time Institute in the late 30th century, via time travel back to the 20th/21st centuries and other points in time before the Great Wars.



2862 – Kristin Wells, a professor at Columbia University in the New York district of Metropolis, begins her career as the first Superwoman, traveling back in time to the early 21st century and spending several years there, before returning to her home time permanently on July 4, 2870.



2911 – the United Planets is reinstituted, with its government split between Earth and Weber’s World.



2956 – Craig King embarks on a brief career as Superman, the first hero in centuries to take up the mantle.



2956 – Barry Allen flees to this time period with his wife Iris (who actually was sent to the late 20th century/early 21st century from the mid-30th century by her parents). He and Iris have twin children, a boy (Don) and a girl (Dawn), before Barry returns to the 21st century as a result of the time-spanning Crisis.



2973 – the Legion of Super-Heroes is formed, Earth; in November, the original Superboy (Kal-El) is recruited from the late 20th century and becomes a member, operating at various times in the 30th century until 2986.



2982 – EarthWar



2992 – Black Dawn; EarthGov taken over by the Dominion; the Legion is banned;



2993 – operating covertly, the Legion helps overthrow the Dominator-run regime tyrannizing Earth



2995 – Earth Man’s Justice League tries in vain to destroy the Legion and is brought to justice with the help of a time-travelling Superman; nuclear and chemical waste stored near the Earth’s core centuries before threatens to destroy the planet; with help from time-traveling superheroes from Earth-1 and alternate universes (including Superman I of Earth-1), the planet is saved. Some cities leave Earth, however; among them is Gotham (now a division of Metropolis), which relocates elsewhere in the galaxy and becomes the capital of Planet Gotham



3010 – the remaining Legionnaires opt to retire, resulting in EarthGov asking them to hold on a “few more years” until the Legion Project is finished



3011 – Richard Kent Shakespeare, having left the Legion years before, has adventures as Superman



3017 – the first three recruits to the Legion Project are accepted



3019 – the Legion of Super-Heroes is reinstated, with new sentients taking on the codenames and powers of the original members beginning with Blok II, Cosmic Boy II, Lightning Lad II and Saturn Girl II



3019 – Superman and Lois Lane’s first-born son, Jonathan Kent, is recruited to join the 3019-era “Second” Legion; he helps the Second Legion on dozens of cases, including the retrieval of Aquaman I’s trident



3051 – Brane Taylor takes on the mantle of the Batman on Planet Gotham; he, Richard Kent Shakespeare III (Superman) and several now-adult members of the Second Legion re-form the Justice League



40th century – Pol Manning has adventures as the Green Lantern of Sector 2814, and is Earth’s first native hero since