Timeline (Earth-9791)

This is a timeline for the history and events that occured on Earth-9791.

65 million BCE

 * A meteorite hits Earth, killing the dinosaursand most life in the planet.
 * A Black Marker emerges from the meteorite, resting under the depths of the Gulf of Mexico for the next millions of years.

2 million BCE

 * The inhabitants of Tau Volantis discover a Black Marker.
 * They start constructing Red Markers across the surface of Tau Volantis so they can acquire more energy.
 * The Marker triggers a Convergence Event, leading to the creation of a Keymind.
 * One of the extraterrestrials successfully escape from the planet aboard a ship, carrying multiple Ovomorphs.
 * The forerunners are extinguished.

2021

 * The International Society of Civil Engineers is founded.

2052

 * The Weyland Corporation is founded on the United Kingdom.

2075

 * The Unified Earth Government is founded, as an assembly of political leaders and scientists from all across the world, as commissioned by the United Nations. Their objective is to develop solutions that can avert the crises of the future through governmental unification issues and colonization of non-Earth settlements.

2080

 * The settlement of New Horizons is built on the Moon by the United States of America, establishing the first American colony on another astronomical object.

2097

 * The settlement of Lowell City is founded by the European Space Agency, at Eos Chasma, on Mars.

2129

 * The United Nations creates the first generation of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.

2214

 * The Office of Naval Intelligence discovers an alien artifact in the Yucatán Peninsula, on Mexico, URNA, in a research headed by in Michael Altman.
 * The entirety of the excavation team is driven to insanity and dementia after being exposed to the artifact, with the exception of Altman.
 * Michael Altman reveals the existence of the Black Marker to the general public on Sydney, and later destroys the artifact.

2215

 * March 15: Michael Altman is assassinated by Office of Naval Intelligence operatives. His death was later notified and used as martyrdom for the creation of the Church of Unitology.
 * Unitology quickly spread through Earth, and its conspiratory propaganda finds many sympathizers.