FA Sessions Timeline

   Given how many things are going on in the Federation-Apocalypse setting – and how many plots and schemes are taking time to develop there – here’s a quick week-by-week timeline for the sessions so far.

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Prequels:

• -Many Weeks: Raphial begins major research in augmenting cybernetic systems with magic.
• -4 Weeks: The House of Roses becomes aware of Kevin’s status as an Opener, and begins making offers of recruitment.
• -3 Weeks: Raphial becomes a House of Roses operative as part of a cooperative arrangement with the New Imperium. Marty arrives in Core Earth New York City, and begins a tour of Earth.
• -2 Weeks: John Jack arrives on Core Earth Scotland, and defeats a small Dalek Invasion. Marty assists. Both are soon contacted by the House of Roses.
• -1 Week: Benedict arrives in Core Earth London, and attracts considerable attention. Jarvian Mitchell also arrives in England, but initially assumes that he’s in potentially hostile territory and hides in the park.

Week 01: Teams initial mission to Greenweld. Kevin recruits 3 Thralls. The Firestorm Meme infects Core. Samples of both Praetorian and Anoptic Battle Technology are obtained.

• Major Characters: M, Dr Vu, Michelle Wingates, and Spellweaver / Adrian Mercati, Thrall-Recruits: Daniel, Gerald, and Bard.
• Major Factions: The House of Roses, Ourathan Alien Robots, Neanderthals (not yet revealed).
• Major Plot Elements: The Firestorm Meme, Praetorian Nanites, Anoptic Broadcast Node
• Major Realms: Core (Earth, Greenweld), Crusader, Highway, The Colonial Era.

Week 02: Jarvian joins the team. The House of Roses discovers something of how powerful Kevin’s Thralls are, and begins to investigate. The House – and several other major organizations – are attacked by the Anoptics via the Firestorm Meme, but they are easily beaten back. Raphial cracks the singular nanite coding. Second Mission: Investigating Singular. Intrigues of the Underdark. John Jack quarrels with the team and departs.

• Major Characters: Ilthulsin the Exile, assorted possible Thrall-recruits and badly damaged children. Various local characters in the Underdark. The Backup Team and a strange Kobold.
• Major Factions: The Adventurer’s Guilds. Various minor factions in the Underdark.
• Major Plot Elements: The Silmaril of the Earth
• Major Realms: Catacomb, Coral, Faerun/The Underdark.

Week 03: Into the Negative Zone. The group arrives in the Negative Zone, hooks up with the Arrancar, and begin patching things up – a lengthy project – while heading for the exit. Note that, due to the time-distortion of the negative zone, roughly twice as much time went by for the rest of the universe as for the group: this timeline goes by core time.

• Major Characters: King Arthur (Version I), the Arrancar, Dimentio / Shyan
• Major Factions: The Hollows (a.k.a “The Devourers”), The Oracle Archonia
• Major Plot Elements: The Haven, a.k.a “The Citadel of the World’s End”.
• Major Realms: The Negative Zone

Week 04: Traversing the Darkness: The group continues improving the Haven and healing the Arrancar.

• Major Characters: Revan mentioned and history summarized.
• Major Factions: None introduced.
• Major Plot Elements: Assorted training (an easy excuse for later ability purchases).
• Major Realms: None introduced. In the Negative Zone.

Week 5: Studies in the Negative Zone. The group continues studying exotic abilities in the Negative Zone before reaching, and negotiating with, the Hellstorm.

• Major Characters: The Hellstorm
• Major Factions: None introduced..
• Major Plot Elements: The Hellstorm and Kevin’s Contract with it.
• Major Realms: None introduced. In the Negative Zone.

Week 6: Escaping with the Hellstorm. Revan’s Archives. The Sith Planet / Tomb Archive.

• Major Characters: The Second Emperor, the Inquistor, Darth Plageous, the Newly-freed Hellstorm.
• Major Factions: Both sides of the Singularity War. The Jedi and Sith, The Singular Robots, and the Neanderthals (Revealed).
• Major Plot Elements: The Tomb and Revan’s Archives, a “Manifold Map” (a minor relic which enhances dimensional navigation and lore skills), the Silmaril of the Air.
• Major Realms: The New Imperium, Classic Star Wars, The Plague and Disaster Realms.

Week 7: Recruiting at Baelaria, Marty sets up his offices in Core. Visiting Singular and the Gravesite. The House obtains details on Kevin’s Contract and Thrall-Capabilities. Third Mission: find out what’s going on in Baelaria.

• Major Characters: New Thralls, The Mirage, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• Major Factions: The Mages Guild of Baelaria,
• Major Plot Elements: AI’s.
• Major Realms: Singular, Baelaria

Week 8: The Battle Realms, Rescuing the Singularites, Business Negotiations and Baelaria Again. Mages Guild dig is closed down, group moves into Baelaria and begins to establish itself.

• Major Characters: Arxus, the Elder Wingates (Generals Martin and Martha),
• Major Factions: The Men In Black, the Clans (a minor faction of the Battletech Realms).
• Major Plot Elements: Singular Nanite Technology, Wellstone, Voidstone, the Ebon Hawk, and the Soulless Ones.
• Major Realms: Battling Business World, The Battletech Realms