User:Ant2242/Fallout timeline 2077


 * Gas prices sky rocket  with the regular gas price being $7450.99 per gallon and $8500.99 per gallon for premium.
 * The United States Army commissions General Atomics International to manufacture the Mister Gutsy line of combat robots. The Mister Gutsy line is completed just before the Great War and are released for use.
 * Robert House puts himself in stasis.
 * A Chinese sabotage attempt takes place at Hoover Dam.
 * New Plague hits Denver. Rioters burned down large parts of the city in their fear of contamination and anger at their treatment. Many panicked and fled the city by car, clogging the freeways when they ran out of gas and trapping everyone behind them.
 * January 7: Major Barnett orders transfer of all Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) research to the newly-constructed Mariposa Military Base, despite objections by the research team.
 * January 10: Alaska is reclaimed, and the Anchorage Front Line is again held by the Americans.
 * January 22: The first domestic use of power armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured, and are sent to military prisons.
 * January 28: At 4:32 PM, an All Clear is sounded at Anchorage and DEFCON is lowered to 3.
 * February: F.E.V. Research is leaked to the world through an unknown source. Protests in many major cities and governments around the world, as well as accusations that the U.S. was responsible for the New Plague. F.E.V. is seen as the threat, and serves only to fuel tensions. The governments of the world fear what the U.S. is up to. Speculating anything from trying to make a breed of super soldier, to trying to make Hitler's master race, they begin to panic.
 * February 16: The testing of the Archimedes I weapons system was successful. However, despite precautions being taken, several minor systems were overloaded. Furthermore, both the Black Mountain communications array and the Hidden Valley military bunkers experienced system frying power fluctuations at the time of the testing. However the Archimedes II testing was pending the long-range communication/targeting system on the Euclid's C-Finder.
 * February 22: The Army takes control of the HELIOS One installation in Nevada from Poseidon holdings. Full use of the laser artillery enters the American arsenal.
 * March: Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreat to Control station Enclave and make contingency plans for continuing the war.
 * March: Vault Dweller's Survival Guide is published by Vault-Tec.
 * March 14: Twenty seven defective Mister Handys are delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.
 * April: A United States Navy destroyer was sunk, one of the few survivors, the Marine Thomas Davis, eventually made his way home to Bar Harbor, Maine, where is fellow members of Beaver Creek Lanes would gather to welcome him home.
 * April 2: John-Caleb Bradberton undergoes the LEAP-X program procedure, preserving his head in a jar beneath his office at Nuka-World.
 * April 28: A major Class 1 nuclear incident occurs at Nuka-World's power plant, causing a large amount of radioactive coolant to discharge into the local river (which flows through the parks). Park administration covers up the incident as a Class 7 failure and fires the whistleblower.
 * May 24: Nine protectrons that were missing all their limbs were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.
 * June 8: Fourteen Eyebots missing their vision sensors were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.
 * June 14: The Berkeley Springs Police Department defused a bomb that was planted by "The Appalachian Assassin."
 * June 15: Eight Robobrains whose mental acuity was well blow standard were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.
 * June 22: Several decommissioned sentry bots were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.
 * June 25: The Mistress of Mystery Season 8 Episode 16 was recorded in Los Angeles.
 * June 26: The after party for the eighth season of the Mistress of Mystery was held in Los Angeles, attended by the staff and actors
 * June 26: The installation of Cryptos and the Hall of Trials into Riverside Manor is completed. Frederick Rivers and Zack Hayes run tests on the system's functionality. Recording of Mistress of Mystery Season 8 wraps up in Los Angeles.
 * June 29: Frederick Rivers unveils the Order of Mysteries's Lair to his wife, Shannon Rivers, along with a three months of solid training with stunt actors, martial artists, military trainers, a cavalcade of experts, all for her upcoming television performance on The Silver Shroud.
 * July: Between July 10 and October 23: Sierra Army Depot VI is evacuated.
 * July 4: After contact with the contaminated lake water causes a medical crisis at a General Atomics-sponsored bass fishing tournament, Lake Quannapowitt is closed to the public.
 * July 22: Four decommissioned Sentry bots were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.
 * July 22: The long time communication between Kent Connolly, comic fiction extrordinare, and Frederick Rivers, unbeknownst to him the husband of Shannon Rivers and an actual extremely wealthy and well connected scientist, ends when Mr. Rivers tries to tell him that the project that they were working on, the Lair of the Mistress of Mystery was completed. Mr. Connally believing it to simply be a model of some sort and asking for pictures.
 * August: Sometime prior to August 15, General Constantine Chase, the hero of the Anchorage Reclamation, begins testing a virtual reality simulation of the Reclamation at the V.S.S. Facility in Washington, D.C.
 * August 17: The ATLAS Program receives full funding as its clandestine weather modification technology proves successful (a full whiteout snowstorm in mid-fall).
 * August 27: Miners strike outside Garrahan Estate, protesting their working conditions. Bill Garrahan exacerbates the situation by firing a shotgun into the air, scarring off the protesters.
 * September: The M42 "Fat Man" Launcher is perfected and shipped out out Fort Strong to "the supply yard in Mississippi."
 * September: Free States leaders Raleigh Clay and Sam Blackwell retreat to their bunkers in the Mire after seceding from the United States of America.
 * September 6: Technicians at the V.S.S. Facility notice General Chase is making radical, unrealistic changes to the Anchorage simulation. They believe Chase is becoming obsessed with the simulation and is gradually going insane, but refrain from confronting him out of fear that they will lose their jobs to military contractors.
 * September 9: Fifteen Protectrons that were missing all their limbs were delivered to Robotics Disposal Site East 09B.
 * September 13: Employees of Robotics Disposal Site East 09B discovered their colleagues at other facilities also received shipments of Protectrons missing their limbs.
 * September 13: Lester, an employee at the Mass Fusion containment shed, died after tripping behind the forklift as it was reversing. In response corporate forced the facility to post a multitude of work safety posters.
 * September 27: The Bysshe Company build a secret lab in the basement of Van Lowe Taxidermy overnight for Calvin van Lowe to conduct his "Sheepsquatch" research out of. The noise from which was reported to the Lewisburg Police Department, which sent him an official letter of warning.
 * September 29: Martin Reid begins uncovering that not all was right with his employers, spotting several odd shipments to the vaults under their regional purview; the first of these was fifteen cases of psycho and jet to Vault 95.
 * October: An explosion in Kerwood mine kills 17 miners and traps 32 more.
 * October: Nuka-Cola Quantum is released to the public.
 * October: The Whitespring cancels the Springhill golf tournament.
 * October: The Nuka-Cola Corporation becomes the first "business class" sponsor of the Whitespring. With the public release of Nuka-Cola Quantum becoming its main event, Nuka-Cola bottle caps becoming accepted as legal tender throughout the hotel. This promotion marks the event that elevates bottle caps to currency for post-war Appalachia.
 * October 2: The manager of the regional Vault-Tec headquarters, Frank Davidson, brushes off his coworkers concerns.
 * October 2: An non-depleted Ultracite vein in Atomic Mining Services' Mine Shaft No. 9. burst into Welch. Word spread about the discovery. Penelope Hornwright and Gregory got to the town after AMS, who immediately secured the town and begin evicting the town's residents.
 * October 2-8: The weekly meeting of the Faneuil Hall merchants' came to the conclusion that their sales were down three percent relative to last October 2-8, 2076. The meeting focused on a perceived shoplifting "crisis." They then discussed Fallon's proposal for Protectrons and the Freedom Society's objections to it. The Freedom Society issued a veto on historic preservation grounds. At the conclusion of the meeting the merchants unanimously agreed to detailed inventory tracking to assess the scope of the problem.
 * October 3: Faced with forced relocation the residents of Welch rebel against AMS. The rioting spreads to anything related to the local mining companies after the years of maltreatment. News of the town's rebellion spread across Appalachia, disfranchised mine workers across the region began to occupy company properties across the region. With the rebellion and property damage the Governor called in the National Guard and the local mining companies called in "independent contractors" to restore order. The violence began after AMS tried to dismantle people's homes to get to the Ultracite, the minors then deciding to strike before the mining companies decide to wipe them out completely. The minors called a meeting deciding to split into two groups, one, Mick Flanagan's to go and secure the Rockound, the other O'Conner's to go to Bramwell to destroy the mega mansions of the wealthy industrialists whom own the mines.
 * October 3: Hornwright Industrial closes their headquarters amidst the violent rioting, reopening the 5th of October, however noting that they wouldn't be responsible should an employee be injured crossing the picket lines.
 * October 3: Bryce Garrahan proactively calls the Governor for assistance with the violent riots outside his home, hoping to keep his sociopath brother from exercising his own brand of justice with the weapon he's purchased and been brandishing for that purpose.
 * October 4: A supervisor at the Mass Fusion containment shed put their innermost feelings to record about their coworkers and occupation.
 * October 4: Hornwright Industrial manages to secure all its property from the rioters except the Rockhound, the rioters retreating. The executives of the company are forced to meet that day to make sure AMS is held liable for the "tens of millions" in damages.
 * October 5: The rioters whom destroyed the maga mansion in Bramwell were arrested, Bryce Garrahan officialy requests permission to negotiate with a small contingent of more peaceful minors.
 * October 5: Yvette Wiesman a coworker of Penelope Hornwright wrote an left a message at the reception desk of Hornwright Industrial headquarters, asking how she and her father was, and about the riots at the Rockhound and Welch.
 * October 7: Walter Scott opens a shipment marked "Vault 111 - DO NOT OPEN." To his and his colleague Martin Reid's perplexion, it was hundreds of gallons of liquid nitrogen, something that the vault wouldn't normally need, and more evidence that Mr. Reid's theory was correct.
 * October 9-15: The weekly meeting of the Faneuil Hall merchants' assembled. They came to the realization that despite sales being up by eleven percent due to the Columbus Day holiday. The merchant's inventory report showed net losses of $2,294 for the week, with twelve confirmed shoplifting incidents. Several merchants threatened to sue for breach of contract over security issues, and the Fallon's prepared to withdraw immediately. With the pressure building the Mayor insisted that the Protectron installation will proceed despite objections. By this time the Society – whose representatives shrank from fourteen to eleven – also had to allocate funds for roof repairs.
 * October 10: Captain Roger Maxson and his men discover that the scientists at Mariposa have been using "military volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in robobrains) as test subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and in light of the mental breakdown of Colonel Robert Spindel stationed at the base, Maxson's men turn to him for leadership.
 * October 12: The National Guard arrive at Mount Blair to clear the remaining "rebels" (rioters) from the Rockhound with minimal damage to the machine. However Bill Garrahan decided to go to the site to, in his own words, "lend the National Guard a hand." Injuring if not killing six miners, and causing superficial damage to the Rockhound. This a act destroyed the solid week of negotiation and the peaceful settlement with Garrahan Mining Company and its workers.
 * October 13: After an interrogation, Maxson executes Robert Anderson, the chief scientist at Mariposa.
 * October 13: Sharon accidentally spills coffee on her boss, Frank Davidson's new shirt, prompting his desire to stab her in the throat with his pen.
 * October 15: Colonel Spindel commits suicide.
 * October 15: Robotics Disposal Site East 09B receives a mysterious delivery by even more mysterious men in black.
 * October 15: Walter Scott warns Martin Reid about getting Frank Davidson's violent temper.
 * October 15: The Whitespring officially terminates all non "ironclad service" contracted employees, essentially all non-management personnel are fired to finish the transition period for making the facility automated. The "Employee Fairwell dinner" takes place at 7:30pm.
 * October 16: The United States Army sends a letter to SLCT James Oberlin to inform him of the closure of the ATLAS Program. Not understanding why they would do so the Senior lieutenant colonel decided to wait and discuss the situation with chief research scientist Dr. Isaac Hammond.
 * October 16-22: The weekly meeting of the Faneuil Hall merchants' assembled for the final time. After the installation and activation of the Protectrons the Hall experienced what could only be described as a massacre. The Protectrons killed seven people, including five alleged shoplifters, one bystander, and the Fallon's cashier. A public relations nightmare followed, sales dropped eighty-one percent. To avoid further media scrutiny the Freedom Society cancelled further weekly merchant's meetings.
 * October 17: Bysshe operative Bo-Peep is scheduled to meet with Calvin van Lowe in Bastion Park. van Lowe is a no-show and Bo-Peep is murdered by the imposter sheepsquatch which has escaped from van Lowe's lab.
 * October 18: Hornwright Industrial wins in the "Man vs. Machine" competition against the Garrahan Mining Company due to cheeting.
 * October 18: Scientist interrogations at Mariposa come to an end as the last scientist is shot.
 * October 19: Scott Conroy falls into a sinkhole and breaks his leg while investigating a sunken church in the Mire for ghosts.
 * October 19: Frank Davidson murders Sharon and expresses that he has the same desire to "discipline" Martin Reid for continually bringing up his Vault theory.
 * October 20: Captain Roger Maxson, now in control of Mariposa, declares himself to be in full desertion from the army (via radio)... and receives no reply.
 * October 20: Employees of Robotics Disposal Site East 09B discus the prospect of losing their careers if they look into their last recorded delivery.
 * October 21: Maxson orders all families stationed outside the base moved inside the Mariposa facility.
 * October 21: At 9:30 am EST Vault-Tec staff at Vault 94 received the decryption keys to unseal their new orders for the Vault. With the exception of maintenance engineer Tyrone Hayes, the staff wrap up their assignments and depart for Vault-Tec University.
 * October 22: The United States Army orders SLCT James Oberlin falsify data so that the closure of the ATLAS Program. Dr. Isaac Hammond flew into a rage, after having to be restrained by the Military Police Corps he walked off the property without saying a word to the SLCT.
 * October 22: The Platinum Chip was printed at Sunnyvale, and was to be delivered the next day by courier direct to Mr. Robert House.
 * October 22: Martin Reid, completely disgusted with his boss Frank Davidson and his company Vault-Tec Corporation turned in his two week notice.
 * October 22: A hazardous material inspector stopped in to the Mass Fusion containment shed unannounced to check their operation. The supervisor informed their direct superior, Mr. Feld, who told the supervisor that if he caught on to their conspiracy they needed to kill him. He did, and they attempted to kill the inspector and stuffed him into the pipe they were using to dispose of the nuclear waste into Lake Quannapowitt.
 * October 23: Fallout 4 prologue begins.
 * October 23: The Great War begins, and ends. Lasting only a scant 2 hours, most of Earth is reduced to cinders in that time. It begins in the early morning, U.S. Eastern Standard time. The United States and China deploy their nuclear arsenals. Other countries, seeing the missiles on their way, launch their planes and fire their warheads as well. Air raid sirens sound, but very few people heed the warning. The vaults are sealed. Two hours of nuclear bombardment later, the War ends, along with much of humanity.
 * October 23: A Halloween costume show was to be held at local Freddy Fear's House of Scares costume stores.
 * October 23: 82 students from the Early Dawn Elementary school go on a field trip to Lamplight Caverns with a couple of teachers and a few parent chaperons.
 * October 23: L.O.B. Enterprises is raided by federal agents.
 * October 23: Skylanes Air flights Skylanes flight 1665 and Skylanes flight 1981 take of from Washington, D.C. and Chicago to Boston, respectively; they would both crash en route due to the effects of the nuclear detonations.
 * October 23: Tyrone Hayes, Maintenance Engineer of Vault 94, receives orders to contact Pastor Gabriella Salavar and informs her that she and her congregation have a standing invitation to enter Vault 94.
 * October 23: Randall Clark witnesses the destruction of Salt Lake City and, by extension, the death of his family. The city is hit by thirteen nuclear warheads, resulting in total destruction.
 * October 23: The Sierra Madre gala event begins, but is cut short by the war. The casino hermetically seals itself and the holographic security kills many of the guests. The few scattered survivors eventually commit suicide in the following hours and days. Vera Keyes dies from an overdose of her pain medication, while Frederick Sinclair dies in his attempt to disarm his traps. The only known survivor is Dean Domino.
 * October 23: Vault 12 fails to close properly. Once it becomes known that the other vaults have sealed, people within Bakersfield attempt to force their way into Vault 12 to protect themselves and their families.
 * October 23: The West Tek Research Facility is hit by warheads, breaking open the F.E.V. tanks on levels four and five and releasing it into the atmosphere. Mutated by radiation, it loses its mutagenic abilities, but it later complicates things for the Master.
 * October 23: The Mariposa Military Base survives; the soldiers within protected from the radiation flooding the wasteland.
 * October 23: Dr. Hein, a Nuka-Cola Corporation geneticist, is taken hostage by the A.F.A.D. at the Angry Anaconda in Nuka-World.
 * October 23: The Platinum Chip, still at Sunnyvale, becomes buried under the rubble from the aftermath of the Great War where it would stay buried for over 200 years.
 * October 23: Mr. Robert House saves Las Vegas and most of the surrounding area from complete destruction with his defenses at the Lucky 38, stopping 68 of the 77 ICMBs launched at Las Vegas (59 through forced deactivation and 9 destroyed with laser cannons mounted on top of the Lucky 38). The resulting "light show" can be seen as far as Mexico City. Nine of the warheads evade destruction, a fault of Mr. House being forced to use an inferior operating system without the Platinum Chip, but only damaging minor parts of the Mojave Desert, with the most damaging detonation being near Nellis Air Force Base.
 * October 23: The Lucky 38's operating systems crash under the strain of the nuclear attack. Forced to work with an inferior version of the OS, he suffered numerous system crashes and was even forced into a coma by one of the failures before being able to reboot an earlier, stable version that only allowed him to save Las Vegas from 68 out of the 77 warheads, 59 disarmed and 9 destroyed, aimed at the city.
 * October 23: Surviving scientists and soldiers based in Los Alamos band together with other survivors they encounter for safety. They set up a temporary camp in a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde and attempt to contact the federal government for further instructions. No contact is ever made. A small vault is built into the cliff side to shield the only computer they have from the elements.
 * October 23: All Enclave personnel leave Bloomfield to either take cover or maintain "hot spots". Sub-reactor is turned off. Bloomfield, B.O.M.B.-001 & 002, and Hermes XIII & 14 are completely forgotten.
 * October 23: Two Poseidon scientists are trapped in the AGRICOLA Lab. After four years, one dies of natural illness. After one more year, the other commits suicide.
 * October 23: Due to seismic activity, some radiation seeps into the sub-levels of the Reservation. Even though the people underground are safe from the blasts, radiation eventually takes its toll.
 * October 23: The Sole Survivor and their family evacuate from their home in Sanctuary Hills to Vault 111. Once inside, they and the other vault residents are placed in indefinite cryonic suspension by Vault-Tec personnel.
 * October 23: Following the Great War, mothership Zeta abducts Sally and her sister, her parents having died during the war.
 * October 23: At 12:03 AM, the commander of the United States Pacific fleet reports 3 Unidentified Submerged Objects off the coast of California to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 * October 23: At 3:37 AM, the United States Air Force detects a squadron of airplanes off the coast of the Bering Strait.
 * October 23: At 9:13 AM, the Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System reports 4 nuclear launches. DEFCON is raised to 2.
 * October 23: At 9:17 AM, NORAD confirms the launch of ICBMs. DEFCON is raised to 1.
 * October 23: At 9:26 AM, the Defense Intelligence Agency at Switchboard confirmed the nuclear response scenario MX-CN91.
 * October 23: At 9:42 AM, Switchboard confirms nuclear strikes in Pennsylvania and New York.
 * October 23: At 9:47 AM, all monitoring stations at the Switchboard go offline. The entire United States is bombarded with nuclear warheads.
 * October 24: The Boylston Club adds its Memoriam Gala to its October events calendar.


 * October 24: The Whitespring resort is sealed against radiation at the orders of the new general manager.


 * October 25: The Whitespring guests and staff acclimate.
 * October 25: At Mariposa, Platner, bound in power armor, is sent out to get specific readings on the atmosphere. He reports no significant radiation in the area surrounding the facility.
 * October 27: After burying the scientists in the wastes outside of Mariposa, the soldiers seal the military base, then head out into the desert, taking supplies and weapon schematics with them. Captain Maxson leads his men and families to the government bunker at Lost Hills.
 * Note: Although Maxson's points in his holodisk indicated that civilian personnel other than the families of soldiers under his command were to remain at the base, whether they did so or not is unknown.
 * October 28: After having wandered for five days, Randall Clark takes refuge in a former USGS research station inside a cave in Zion Canyon.
 * October 30: The Boylston Club has its Memoriam Gala, those that attend agree to commit mass-suicide rather than live in a post-nuclear America.
 * October 29: Taggerdy contacted by Maxson.
 * October 30: Lavonne made a telephone call to her friend warning him of the nuclear devastation. He followed her coded advice and sent his teamsters home to their families.
 * October 31: The military begins sending out Vertibirds to towns across the United States with medical supplies in an attempt to treat the injured and dying and guard towns with the two-man teams that piloted the Vertibirds.
 * October 31: A black rain (caused by the irradiated material and carbon from widespread fires being spewed into the upper atmosphere) begins to come down in areas across the United States and likely the globe, causing a spike in radiation levels in affected areas.
 * November: Captain Maxson, his men, and their families, arrive at the Lost Hills bunker a few weeks later, suffering many casualties along the way, including Maxson's wife (but not his teenage son). The surviving soldiers go on to become the Brotherhood of Steel.
 * November: During the Exodus, a faction within the Brotherhood of Steel led by Sergeant Dennis Allen breaks off to explore the southeast Glow to recover technology. The Captain refuses to permit that, so Allen and his separatist group splits away from the Brotherhood of Steel, taking power armor and weapons with them.
 * November: The separatists make their way to the West Tek research facility. They arrive there twenty days later, and are promptly chewed apart by the West Tek's unforgiving automated defense systems. Wounded, Allen begins to suffer radiation poisoning from a leak in his suit. Before he dies, he logs what happened to the expedition into a holodisk.
 * November: Ms. Carrie Delaney is the last adult to leave Little Lamplight Caves in search for help. Ten year old child Jason Grant takes charge in her absence.
 * November 1: Theodore Croup wakes to the complete devastation of his family, who began suffering from ghoulification.
 * November 1: The Foreman of a South Boston factory learned via radio that Framingham, Massachusetts was completely devastated.
 * November 2: Original date of the election to replace Samuel Blackwell's seat as Senator of Appalachia.
 * November 4: Camp Venture secured Taggerdy's Thunder in preparation for the winter.
 * December 14: The Whitespring inventory reveals a stockpile large enough to last a decade if not more.