Titans of Tomorrow Timeline
Story Year Month Day Event
  1634     Serena Sousa, a Portuguese noble is forced to take refuge with another Portuguese noble house. Spanish forces seize her father’s lands and strip him of his titles, using the authority of the Inquisition to convict him on charges of heresy.
  1637     Serena Sousa is forced into hiding, reduced to poverty as former allies either betray her to her Spanish enemies or are themselves arrested by the Inquisition. She begins looking to the supernatural for the means to exact her revenge. She is approached by a mysterious but very powerful man who identifies himself only as a Priest. Although suspicious of
anyone with ties to the Church, she hears what he has to say and soon, Vamp is 'born'.
  1637     Later this year, small Portuguese insurrections against Spain begin. Despite the relatively small numbers in the Portuguese forces, they are surprisingly successful, perhaps due in part to the fact that many of the attacks are conducted at night.
  1640     The Portuguese are in full rebellion. The Spanish are driven out and John IV is declared king.
  1811 November 11 ‘Tecumseh’s Curse’ is pronounced. Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, is said to have cursed the office of the Presidency such that no president elected in a year ending in ‘0’ shall live to complete his term. Further, these contests shall be marked by sharp divisions in the people and that within 7 years of each contest, the nation would know war. While some claim that he pronounced the curse, others believe that it was actually a prophecy told to his brother, Tenskwatawa the Prophet, after his loss to Gen. William H. Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
  1834     Spanish Inquisition Abolished
  1840     William H. Harrison is elected President. The election is contentious and he wins with only a narrow margin of the popular vote, even though he wins big in the electoral college.
  1841 April 4 Pres. William H. Harrison dies of pneumonia, presumably contracted as a result of the longest inaugural speech ever presented - a speech given out of doors in January.
  1846     The Mexican War breaks out.
  1860     Abraham Lincoln was elected president with a small plurality, although a big margin in the electoral college.
  1861     The US Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, begins
  1864     Sir John A. Macdonald created the Western Frontier Constabulary. The Constabulary operated along the Upper Canada borders and rail lines, reporting on activities related first to the American Civil War, then to Fenians whose goal was to overthrow English rule in Ireland.
  1865 April 15 Lincoln is shot and killed at the Ford Theater. Rumors persist that Lincoln dreamed of his own murder but took no steps to prevent it.
  1876     Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, is fought. Although Custer and his unit are killed to the last man, the battle is often regarded as the beginning of the end of the Indian Nations.
  1880     James A. Garfield is elected president with a margin of less than 7,100 popular votes nationwide, although a convincing margin in the electoral college.
  1881 July 2 Pres. Garfield is shot and dies September 19, 1881, following complications from his wounds.
  1898 December 12 Peace treaty is signed that ends the Spanish-American War.
  1900     Max Planck discovers energy comes in packets called quanta, giving birth to quantum theory.
  1900 August 14 Boxer Rebellion. Beijing was liberated from its Chinese rebel captors by a 10,000-strong international armed force. The rebels were members of a patriotic mystical martial arts society and have been dubbed Boxers because they practice a form of shadowboxing that they believe makes them immune to bullets. They inflicted 3 months
of terror on Europeans in China in a protest against "foreign devils" in the country. This is particularly ironic in light of
rumors that state the rebels were led by a Caucasian. However, these rumors were never verified.
  1900 November   William McKinley is elected to a second term. The election was not close, and although McKinley managed to get more than 800,000 votes more than William J. Bryan, it was hard fought and marked the merger of the Democrat and Populist parties.
  1901     Wireless message crosses Atlantic.  On 12 December, the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi has astonished scientific experts by transmitting a wireless message from Cornwall to Newfoundland, a distance of more than 200 kilometres (2000 miles)
  1901     Pres. McKinley is shot on September 6 and dies on September 14.
  1901 Febuary 4 Queen Victoria, the longest-reigning monarch in British history (63 years) was laid to rest in the family mausoleum at Windsor, two weeks after her death on 22 January, aged 81. During her reign, the Empire over which the sun never sets reached it’s height, stretching across five continents, encompassing over a quarter of the world's
population.
  1908     The Federal Bureau of Investigations is created by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. The FBI is in charge of investigation into violations of federal criminal law, protection from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities, and provide leadership in law enforcement.
  1908 June 30 Massive Blast in Siberia.  an object believed to be a large meteorite explodes over the Siberian landscape. Extreme seismological and meteorological phenomena were observed shortly afterwards around the world. The origin of this object is unknown but evidence of the devastation remains to this day
  1912     RMS Titanic sinks. Traveling at a speed of 20.5 knots, she struck an iceberg on her starboard bow and sank, approximately 13.5 miles east-southeast of the position from which her distress call was transmitted. Lost at sea were
1,522 people, including passengers and crew. Many of the 705 survivors, claim that the iceberg 'came from out of
nowhere.' Later, officials claim that as many as seven warnings were broadcast to the vessel regarding the iceberg but
were ignored. Since any shipboard records went down with the Titanic, these claims cannot be verified.
  1914     Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated in Sarajevo. On June 28th, the Archduke is assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand. The assassin repeatedly claims that his actions shall be vindicated by 'the High Lord'. Despite all efforts, the man will not divulge the identity of the mysterious 'High Lord'. This event is regarded as the catalyst for the beginning of World War I, the War to end all Wars.
  1916     The Outsider Appears.  A vigilante naming himself the Outsider makes his first appearance as he wages a war on Chicago’s underworld. The few surviving witnesses to his attacks claim to have seen him 'step out of shadows, attack, and disappear'. These observations are officially chalked up to hysteria and ignored.
  1917     October, The Bolshevik Revolution. Led by Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik party seizes control of Russia. Czar Nicholas Romanov II, his wife Alexandra, their five children and four family attendants are executed. Rumors persist that the youngest daughter, Anastasia managed to escape death and still lives.
  1917 April 6 the United States enters World War I
  1918 November 11 11:00 a.m. the Armistice is signed that effectively ends hostilities in World War I.
  1919 June 28 Treaty of Versailles is signed bringing WWI to an official end.
  1920     Warren G. Harding is elected president by a huge margin but only after a contentious campaign with the main issue being U.S. membership in the League of Nations in the aftermath of World War I, which ended only two years before.
  1920     A lone, Latvian immigrant, Edward Leedskalnin, weighing in at 5-ft. tall, 100-lb., begins construction of Rock Gate Park in Florida City, FL. The building materials of choice are large blocks of coral, some weighing as much as 30 tons. No one ever discovers how the small man is able to move such massive stones without heavy equipment nor is it discovered how he achieved some of the amazing feats of engineering that he accomplished. Some neighbors claim to have seen him sing to the stones as he moved them. He later moved the entire structure, stone by stone, to Homestead, FL and re-named it Coral Castle.
  1920     As a result of Canada's developing security intelligence function, The Dominion Police was amalgamated with the 2,500 members of the Royal North West Mounted Police to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Between the WWI & WWII, the security intelligence function remained small and inconspicuous. Later in 1939, at the headquarters, it employed only three members and two stenographers, with field units in the larger cities investigating threats such as the fascist movement. The espionage activity related to the Second World War, and the subsequent defection of Soviet cypher clerk Igor Gouzenko that would occur in September 1945, removes any thoughts the government might have had about reducing the security intelligence function to pre-war levels.
  1923 August 2 Pres. Harding dies in office of a heart attack although many claim that the president was in excellent health.
  1928     Adolf Hitler experiences a marked increase in popularity that would eventually catapult him to the leadership of both the Nazi Party and Germany. Rumors persist that he often held private meetings with a mysterious figure. It is said, by those that manage to overhear snippets of conversation from these closed meetings, that Hitler would only refer to this person as "High Lord" or "Liege". No one ever actually sees this mysterious individual.
  1929     J. B. Rhine founds the Parapsychological Laboratory at Duke University.
  1929 Febuary 14 St Valentine’s Day Massacre.  the infamous ‘mob hit’ took place. Official reports of the event indicate that the hit was an elaborate plan by Al Capone to assassinate rival Bugs Moran. However, when asked who had shot him, the only survivor, Frank Gusenberg, replied, 'No one --nobody shot me' Gusenberg held to his story and died a short time later. Other witnesses, deemed 'unreliable' by the authorities, told tales of moving shadows and laughter accompanying the gunfire.
  1929 October 29 Stock Market Crash. , after a decade of prosperity following the wake of WWI, the stock market crashes, heralding the beginning of the Great Depression. The market crashes in the wake following the unexplained
disappearance of several industrialists who had been a strong, driving force behind the nation's economy.
  1931     Modern awareness of vampires begins with the release of the movie Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. The producers of the film mysteriously disappear over the next three years.
  1933     US Dept. of Defense begins the Tyrian Project - a “super soldier” training program. The program is designed to produce supreme athletes with high degrees of military and espionage skills. After long months of hard training, one of the first agents completes the program. The agent is dubbed 'Old Glory'.
  1934     The German villain, The Spellbinder, manages to capture and brainwash Old Glory, turning him into the “Ultimate” German officer and leader of the Brownshirts, a.k.a. Stormtroopers. He manages to break free of the Spellbinder's control in June, just before the 'Night of the Long Knives.' During this time, Hitler had a large number of Brownshirts summarily executed, claiming they were homosexuals, and all to appease the German Army. An interesting aside, the Spellbinder was a founding member of the German Workers Party, the forerunner to Hitler's Nazi Party, and was known to frequent a gay bar in Munich called the Bratworstglockl. The Spellbinder later became Chief Officer in Hitler's Psychological Warfare Division
  1934     The general public as a whole becomes aware of tales regarding the Loch Ness Monster. Tales of these sightings encourage others to come forward with similar stories in other parts of the world.
  1934     Rocket Research Laboratory at Peenemunde is established, fires two sample A-2 rockets from the island of Borkum.  The aim of rocket research is to get around the limitations on field artillery imposed under the Treaty of Versailles,
which did not cover rockets. Design testing for the A-4 rocket (later called the V2) begins around 1937.
  1935     U.S. Congress appropriates $57 million dollars to build three air bases for pre-emptive strikes on Canadian air fields. The base in the Great Lakes region is camouflaged as a civilian airport and is capable of dominating the industrial heart of Canada, the Ontario Peninsula. Also in 1935, the US holds its greatest peace-time military maneuvers in history, with 36,000 troops converging on the border south of Ottawa and another 15,000 held in reserve in Pennsylvania, all to practice for a motorized invasion of Canada.
  1935 January 8 Elvis Aaron Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
  1935 October 3 Mussolini invades Ethiopia, a former Italian colony, using chemical weapons in violation of WWI treaties and international (League of Nations) law.  An Ethiopian deputation sent to the Pope in Rome informs him that he cannot remain neutral. If he supports the invasion by his silence, Ethiopia will declare war on the Vatican. The Pope does nothing, war is declared and all Catholic property in Ethiopia is nationalized.
  1936     Japan forms Unit 731, a biological-warfare unit disguised as a water-purification unit.  Shiro Ishii builds huge compound more than 150 buildings over six square kilometers outside the city of Harbin in occupied China. Test subjects, which Ishii and his peers call ''logs,'' are brought to the compound to be experimental subjects.
  1936     American runner Jesse Owens sets a world record pace in several Olympic events, but in each case is narrowly beaten by a German ten-year-old, Eckehart Stahl.  The Olympics are documented in breathtaking (propagandistic) style by German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
  1936 May 9 After seven months of warfare, Ethiopia is conquered.  Haile Selassie, Negus of Ethiopia, goes into exile in an attempt to build international support.  A civilian airplane loaded with munitions crashes onto St Paul's cathedral, killing a few bishops and hundreds of minor Catholic functionaries. The Pope narrowly escapes injury. The plane is traced to Ethiopian partisans.
  1937     An American group of scientists, including Jack Parker, begins working on rocket propulsion.  Accidents made this year result in advancements during later years.
  1937 December 13 Nanking, the Capital of China during the war, finally falls to the Japanese. Feeling humiliated for not capturing China within their predicted 3 months, Japanese military force immediately systematically started murdering civilians in the Chinese capital under the "Kill all, Loot all, Burn all" military policy. It is a well planned, full scale revenge designed to intimidate and crush the spirit of China. Japanese soldiers begin an orgy of cruelty seldom, if ever, matched in Human History.
  1938     Uberknabe first appears in Nazi propaganda film, apparent age about fifteen.
  1938 December 8 German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is launched, partially complete.  In an exchange of technologies, Japanese technical experts suggest many design changes for the GZ’s final fitting and the Peter Strasser, the second carrier of the
same design. The Germans reciprocate with munitions and tank designs, although tanks are nearly useless for the
swamps and islands that the Japanese are looking to possess.
  1939     The Manhattan Project begins. The United states begins its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
  1939 August 23 Germany and the USSR sign nonaggression pact.  British mystic Helen Duncan sends a message to both Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill warning that Germany will invade Poland on September 1. Chamberlain does not receive the note until after the invasion has occurred, but Churchill receives it on the 29th and takes note of the informant's name. Churchill, then leader of the opposition, will not become Prime minister until May 10th of the following year.
  1939 August 31 Poland launches a surprise attack on German forces, a reinforced batallion under Polish metahuman Stalowy Sokól (Steel Falcon) destroying two out of six panzer divisions which are poised on Poland’s border before Sokól is wounded.  Polish commander Marshall Edward Smigly-Rydz maintains that the attack was provoked by German plans for invasion.
  1939 September 1 Germany invades Poland the following day with Uberknabe and the remaining 4 panzer divisions, reinforced by air supremacy maintained by Luftflot 4 of the Luftwaffe.  Stalowy Sokól, wounded in the prior day’s preemptive strike, is reported killed. A German ace is shot down in flames, but survives the immolation to become Flammentod (Flaming Death). Public surprise at the Polish provocation delays French and English response for a few days, by which time Soviet forces are on the march and the swift fall of Poland is assured.
  1940     Franklin D. Roosevelt breaks tradition and seeks a third term. He was re-elected by a solid margin.
  1940     Across the war, British mystic Dion Fortune claims to fight Nazi Occultists on the Astral planes, gathering a small group of people to visualize defense of Britain and strengthen the British consciousness.
  1940     Charlie Chaplin’s film, “The Great Dictator,” is released, featuring a pie-fight between Dictator Hynkel of “Tomainia” and Dictator Napoloni of ”Bacteria”.
  1940     Neither nation takes much notice of several panzers on the other arm of the blitz that were slowed by accidentally running through a small field of beehives.
  1940     During the defense of Dunkirk, a Scottish corporal by the name of Thomas MacGuire jumps on a grenade to save his squad, and survives intact, sans clothes.  He then personally destroys or captures over two dozen tanks with grenades in vital places, crippli
  1940 April   “Norwegian campaign.”  Britain loses out big time in Scandinavia. Lasts 2 months
  1940 May 10 Neville Chamberlain is replaced as Prime Minister of England by Winston Churchill.  Among other fraternal associations, Churchill is a member of the Grand Ancient Order of Druids.  He is rumoured to have Iriquois blood. His
mother, Jennie Jerome Churchill, is a major social force in England, who has a snake tattooed around her left wrist.
  1940 May 11 “Operation Apple Pancakes” Recruited by Churchill, British mystic Helen Duncan and Swiss mystic Emma Kuntz begin a focused campaign of psychic babbling at Adolf Hitler, composed largely of “Apple pancakes are delicious.  Eat apple pancakes.  Apple pancake
  1940 May 28 Belgium surrenders unconditionally.  German panzer divisions under General Gerd von Rundstedt push French and British forces towards the sea around Dunkerque.  Given the choice between reserving his forces for a later phase, or destroying 350,000 enemy tr
  1940 August 13 “Eagle Day” - Battle of Britain begins with German bombardment of England.  The completed German carrier Graf Zeppelin uses the confusion to escape through the English Channel to the middle Atlantic.
  1940 October 28 Mussolini invades Greece.  Weather problems, terrain problems, bad tactics and two Greek metahumans known only by the code names of Pareidolia and Apophenia slow the assault and cause major damage to the Italian forces.  Much of the damage is caused by fr
  1940 December   All British officers of rank lieutenant and above, and all RAF pilots and navigators, begin receiving quarterly post-hypnotic suggestions.  If they are killed in battle, they are to report and debrief if possible to mystic Helen Duncan.  While largely ine
  1940 December 18 Ignoring the lessons of history, Hitler orders the preparation of operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia.  Apple pancakes are declared the national dish of Greater Germany.
  1941     Jack Parker, an American rocket scientist, joins Alistair Crowley’s mystical group O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis).
  1941 April 6 German Luftwaffe Marshall Alexander Lohr commands a surprise air attack on Belgrade. Germany invades Yugoslavia and then Greece.  Luftwaffe suffers heavy casualties due to 37 mm guns in the Metaxas line.  A battle of metahumans, Uber and Flammentod versus
  1941 May   the Luftwaffe accidentally bomb 2 Dublin residence areas, destroying hundreds of homes.  Ireland remains officially neutral, but begins sending aid to Britain.
  1941 June 22 Ignoring the lessons of history, Hitler invades the USSR.  Russia is caught largely unprepared for something so stupid - Stalin had assumed Germany would not attack until after it largely won the war in Europe.
  1941 December 7 “A day which will live in infamy.”  At 8 AM on a Sunday morning, Japanese fighter-bombers attempt a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  The US Navy, warned 23 minutes in advance by a patrol boat and a civilian pilot, destroys scores of planes but loses
  1941 December 8 Japan declares war on the United States and Great Britain; the United States and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
  1942     [Dal’s NOTE - many historians claim that Hitler was losing the war by the end of 1942, the mere presence of the USA in the battle tipping the scales.  I don’t buy that.  Meanwhile, something has to happen in 1942 or 1943 to turn around the war for the All
  1942     Japanese soldiers themselves became ill and 1,700 die of the diseases.
  1942     Second Battle of Midway - Japanese carrier forces are devastated at Second Battle of Midway
  1942     Japanese “Unit 731” begins field tests of germ warfare on Chinese soldiers and civilians in Zhejiang Province in China. Tens of thousands die of dysentery, typhoid, bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases. U.S. soldiers captured in Philippines
  1942 Febuary 23 Japanese submarine shells refinery near Santa Barbara, California.  Ammunition mysteriously bounces back, destroying the submarine.
  1942 June 4 Japanese are defeated in Battle of Midway, losing 2 carriers.
  1942 July 19 Junkers Jumo engine becomes available, and is perfectly matched to the newly prototyped ME262 “Sturmvogel” (Stormbird) jet, although somewhat finnicky.  Hitler orders the redesign of the jet as a “blitz bomber”, but inexplicably changes the order after on
  1942 July 31 The Free Indian Legion is established by Subhas Chandra Bose, from over 300 Indian POWs held by Germany.  Within 12 months, the numbers swell to 2000, organized in 3 regiments.  They are ferried to India to disrupt the British there.
  1942 August 8 Japanese naval task force devastates Allied fleet off Guadalcanal, destroys all planes at Henderson Field.  Allied naval forces retire from Guadalcanal area.
  1942 October 3 First successful flight of an A4 (ie V2) rocket.  Production begins in earnest.
  1942 December 2 At the University of Chicago's Staff Field, the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is realized by a team of scientists working under the name of the Manhattan Engineering District.
  1942 December 24 The first surface-to-surface guided missile is launched in Peenemunde, Germany.  The A4 rocket has been designed by 30 year-old rocket engineer Wernher von Braun.
  1943 April 30 “Operation Mincemeat” - The body of British courier William Martin washes up on the Spanish coast.  The documents in his briefcase convince the German authorities that the Allies are about to invade Sardinia and Greece, rather than the more obvious targe
  1943 June 9 Allies Invade Sicily.
  1943 September 3 Italian government signs armistice (effective Sept. 8).
  1943 September 6 Bombardment of Britain begins [exactly 1 year earlier than our timeline, because of the ME262 defense against allied bombardment.]. At this time there is a stockpile of 1,800 operational missiles and production was expected to keep pace with expenditure.
  1944     Operation Overlord (D-Day). On the morning of June 5th, the Invasion of Normandy begins. Old Glory, along with Patriot, is one of the first to hit the beach.
  1944     Tokyo's military planners seized on a remarkable way to hit back at the American heartland: they launched huge balloons that rode the prevailing winds to the continental United States. Although the American Government censored the reports at the time, som
  1944 July 20 An attempt to assassinate Hitler fails.
  1944 September   Battle of Leyt Gulf (Major loss for the Japanese)
  1945     Codenamed “Cherry Blossoms at Night,” the Japanese plan to use kamikaze pilots to infest California with the plague.  In late July of 1945, Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Diego, the result of germ warfare developed by Japanese Unit 731.  Three planes, c
  1945 April 12 FDR dies in office from a cerebral hemorrhage. The news comes as a complete shock to all who knew the president. .  Rumors of a metahuman involvement are squelched by the intelligence community.
  1945 April 30 Hitler “commits suicide.” Nazi icon “Uber” is seen leaving the vicinity, and never seen again.
  1945 May 7 German High Command surrenders all forces unconditionally at Reims.
  1945 May 8 V-E Day. the war in Europe is declared to be officially at an end.
  1945 June 26 San Francisco, The United Nations Charter was drawn up and signed by the representatives of 50 countries at the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became one of
  1945 July 6 The first atomic weapon is successfully tested at Los Alamos. J. Robert Oppenheimer is quoted, “I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes
  1945 August 6 Hiroshima is destroyed by the first atomic weapon to be used in war.
  1945 August 9 Nagasaki is destroyed by the second, and last, atomic weapon to be used in war.
  1945 August 14 Japan surrenders.
  1945 August 15 VJ-Day. The war with Japan comes to an end.
  1945 October 24 The United Nations officially comes into existence.
  1946     U.S. cover-up of secret deal with Shiro Ishii and Unit 731 leaders germ warfare data based on human experimentation in exchange for immunity from war-crimes prosecution begins in earnest. Deal is concluded two years later
  1946 March 1 John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons, Marjorie Cameron and L Ron Hubbard attempt to create (summon) a moonchild.  In a magical ceremony lasting 3 days, they inaugurate the Babylon force.  As a result, Hubbard goes on to found Dianetics and Scientology.  Parsons
  1947 June 2 A UFO allegedly crashes at Roswell, New Mexico.
  1947 June 7 The Board is created by Pres. Harry S. Truman, hoping to dissolve the proliferation of metahuman and super-powered crimes. The purpose and mission of the Board is similar to that of the FBI but is an independent body.
  1947 June 24 UFO sightings become more common, beginning with Kenneth Arnold's Mount Rainier sighting.
  1947 July 26 Congress passes the National Security Act which establishes, along with other agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency. The foremost of the CIA's jobs is assessing the long-term potential threat to the United States by other countries from both conventio
  1948 May 15 In order to better utilize existing resources and manpower, The Board is made a branch of the FBI
  1949     The Tyrian Project underwent drastic changes in the post-WWII era when it’s focus turned to combating the ever increasing numbers of super-powered villains. The Project culminated with the discovery of the Tyrian Formula, an encapsulated compound that gra
  1949     Shiro Ishii disappears.  Several weeks later his dismembered body is found, the victim of a vivisection that must have taken at least two weeks to kill him.
  1950     The Canadian Shield is founded and lead by iconic Canadian hero, the Redcoat.
  1950     In the UK, Parliament establishes the Ministry for Metahuman Affairs. Initially, it was hoped that the new Ministry would be able to act as a policing agency for Britain's emerging metahuman population. Unfortunately, owing both to inadequate equipment
  1950 June 30 Pres. Harry S. Truman commits US troops to enforce the United Nations demands. The UN Security council had demanded that North Korean Forces stop their attacks on the Republic of South Korea and return to it's borders.
  1950 August 23 A private investigator, apparently descended from a long line of talented detectives, successfully solves a crime that involved aspects of the supernatural. He is often referred to as Dr. Wight.
  1952     June, Jack Parsons dies in an explosion.
  1956     Elvis Presley makes his network television debut. On 'The Milton Berle Show', a performance of Hound Dog is so provocative (for the time period, anyway) that it causes a national scandal.
  1956     November, a police raid on a séance by medium Helen Duncan somehow results in 2nd degree burns on her stomach.  She dies six weeks later.
  1958     The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti - State Security Committee) is formed. This organiztion is the government agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in charge of the Soviet political police. Later replaced by the FSB (Federal S
  1958     Public awareness of Sasquatch/Bigfoot begins.
  1959     Dr. Janos Kaminski begins experiments involving intrinsic gravity fields.  The purpose of these experiments is to discover the means of creating a gravity field through a complex system of particle acceleration. In doing so, it would be possible to harnes
  1960     John F. Kennedy was elected president with one of the narrowest margins in modern history. Even through there were widespread reports of fraud, his opponent did not contest the results.
  1960 November 4 Wonder Boy is called to appear at the US Senate, before the Sen. Mike Harrison’s Special Investigative Committee to answer charges that he has been connected to Nazi Germany. It is revealed that he is the son of Dr. Fantastic, a.k.a. Dr. Emil Fantastisch,
Nexus and Next World 1960 November 24 Wonderboy is presumed dead after an encounter with the villain Socothbenoth
  1962 October 15 Cuban Missile Crisis. For a period of two weeks, the world holds it’s collective breath as The United States and Soviet Union square off over the placement of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Cuba.
  1963 November 22 Pres. Kennedy was shot and killed. The man arrested for the crime, Lee Harvey Oswald, is believed by many to have been innocent or, at the very least, working with others. The full truth is still unknown to this day.
  1965     An adolescent girl calling herself “Moonchild” gradually becomes a leader in the California peace movement.
  1965     The U.S. enters the Vietnam War.
  1967     Generallisimo Juan Hernandez rises to power in Santo Domingo.
  1968     500 million year old footprint found. In June of this year, a fossil of a trilobite, apparently crushed by a sandaled foot, is discovered.
  1969 July 16 Apollo 11 Moon Shot. The first mission to the moon is launched.
  1969 July 20 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (Commander), Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. (Lunar Module Pilot) and Michael Collins (Command Module Pilot) successfully land on the moon in the Sea of Tranquility. The astronauts find trace evidence that the moon has evidently b
  1969 July 24 Apollo 11 returns safely to Earth.
  1969 November 17 Soviet cosmonaut Mikhail Kovar investigated the presence of a monolithic satellite orbiting the Earth, but his mission ended in tragedy as his spacecraft collided with the Monolith.
  1970 January 3 The Monolith leaves the Earth's orbital space and moves towards Neptune's second moon, Thalassa.
  1970 May 22 Ian Saul, an Australian SAS commando, and an elite company called the Iron Angels are assigned a Peace Operations mission in Iraq. Saul uncovers the ancient and long-lost Tablets of Destiny while investigating a subterranean weapons bunker; soon after, he
  1971 April 19 the Soviets launch the world's first space station, Salyut 1.
  1971 June 26 three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovoslkiy, Vladimir Volkov and Victor Patsaev, dock with the station and spend 23 days aboard the station, but their mission almost ended tragically: all three men nearly died after a sudden loss of cabin pressure before their
  1971 July 10 the Monolith re-enters Earth's orbital space and remains there. It becomes known that deceased cosmonaut Mikhail Kovar is actually Zodiac, and that the Monolith is a space station of highly advanced alien technology.  Zodiac proclaims to be Earth's protec
  1971 December 15 Zodiac forms the Protectorate, a team of the Earth's greatest heroes that the U.N. has sanctioned.
  1973     Modern awareness of demonic possession and similar phenomena begins
  1975     Purgatory Prime is established. It’s purpose is to act as a facility for the incarceration of super-powered criminals.
  1975     A strange microwave signal comes from Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Avatar and Zodiac investigate and uncover an ancient alien city within one of the planetoid's catacombs. The city seems to be uninhabited, save for a nandroid (nanotechnological android
  1975     Old Glory resigns having developed both a physical and a psychological addiction to the Tyrian Formula. The Tyrian Project is brought to a close.
  1975     Fairly soon after Purgatory Prime was first built, a metalloid alien leaves its confines by phasing through the concrete and steel, becoming the first prisoner to successfully escape from the facility.
  1975 April 30 Fall of Saigon.
Stitch in Time 1977 June 16 Sid Carstan of the The Lambert and Sons Stockbrokers offices disappeared from his office
  1977 August 16 Elvis Presley dies at his Memphis home, Graceland. Owing to the nature of his career and the effect he had on his fans, it has been surmised that Elvis was a metahuman of no small power.
  1979     The Board introduces new agents, the Draughtsmen. The new agents are specially trained and equipped to handle the more dangerous villains that often elude or defeat more conventional law enforcement officers.
  1980     Moonchild, age 27, disillusioned by the effects of the peace movement, the deaths of millions in Vietnam, and so on, is joins a government agency.  She is later transferred to the Nighthawks under the name “Moonbeam”.
  1980     November, a sour economy and the Iran hostage crisis turned an election deemed too close to call into a rout for Ronald Reagan. Reagan is elected President in a landslide victory.
  1980     Mt. St. Helens erupts under mysterious circumstances.
  1981     Widespread awareness of Spontaneous Human Combustion begins.
  1981 March 30 Pres. Reagan is shot as he is getting into the presidential limousine. The driver took him to a private hospital rather than the designated Bethesda Naval Hospital, quite possibly saving his life.
  1981 July 12 Mark Wallace, a member of the Draughtsman, is badly wounded by the supervillain Soldier Six. Wallace undergoes experimental cybernetic surgery and becomes the superhuman Echelon.
  1982 May 25 Tommy Champion is born in Milford, Nebraska.
  1982 July 10 Alexander St. John-Smythe is born in London, England.
  1983     Old Glory is spotted for the first time since 1975, the first of several sightings to occur throughout the '80's. initially, they are regarded much like Elvis sightings but soon enough photo evidence is accumulated to show that he is indeed active in th
  1983     Col. Alexander Bryan Takes over as head of Project Brightstar, an experiment designed to increase human intelligence and resistance to interrogation techniques.
  1983 October 25 American forces invade Grenada
  1983 November 3 John Wolfe is born in Drumheller, Alberta.
  1983 November 7 Echelon is accepted into the Protectorate.
Playing God 1983 December 4 Animal testing of a brain enhancement formula E-ph3 is nearing completion, Several mice and rats escape the facility and are not recovered.
  1984     The establishment of the civilian Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the disbanding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Security Service by an Act of Parliament recognizes the differences between security intelligence activities and
  1984     Also lost in the raid were Elizabeth and Jane Leonard, wife and daughter of Col. Sam Leonard, as well as Col. Alexander Bryan. The three were killed by Metatron, son of Autocrat and member of the Royal Elite, in a hostage situation botched by the interfer
Playing God 1984 January 24 Colonel Samuel Leonard and Colonel Bryan () discuss the development of a new formula E-ph3 to be tried on human subject in the next few weeks. The project is called Brightstar
Playing God 1984 March 4 Unofficial testing of a modified formula dubed E-ph4 is administered to a human subject F12 by a Major Clark by order of General Patrick.
Playing God 1984 March 10 Subject F12 aka Mary Clancy undergoes a profound enhancement of her mind, but seems to slip into a comma, it is also determined that she is pregnant.
Playing God 1984 March 12 Colonel Bryan is kiddnapped by the royal elite after visiting Sam Leonard an old army buddy dying of cancer.
  1984 May 21 Col. Samuel Leonard, a terminal cancer patient, is recruited for Project: Think Tank.
Playing God 1984 May 21 Sam Leonard agrees to an experiment to stay alive
  1984 July 23 Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.  A son is born to Onuki Takao, a senior member of Japan’s most powerful political party, and his wife Masako, a telepath. The child, named Katsuyari, is ultimately given over to the Royal Elite.
Playing God 1984 July 23 Onuki Takao sees his son and makes a call to the royal elite wondering if he has don’t the right thing.
Playing God 1984 July 30 Dr. Arachno is injected with E-Ph4 an experimental mutagentic compound
Playing God 1984 August 15 John and Margaret Moore are the proud paernts of Jonathan Moore, who was injected with E-Ph-5 while in the womb
  1984 August 15 a child, Jonathan,  is born to John and Margaret Moore. Unbeknownst to the parents, a nurse has injected a compound into the newborn. The compound is E-ph5, the final result of the Brightstar Project. The child will later be known as Harbinger…
Playing God 1984 August 23 Colonel Samuel Leonard becomes Think Tank armed with a variety of weapons is deployed for its first trial.
  1984 August 23 the effectiveness of the weapon system, dubbed ‘Think Tank’ after the name of the project, is demonstrated to the Military. The decision is made to use the weapon in the Protectorate’s attack on the Royal Elite’s arctic base in Greenland.
  1984 August 29 Zodiac and The Outsider head out to investigate the presence of alien ships on the outer rim of our solar system.
Playing God 1984 August 30 The Protectorate attacks Autocrat, Think tank kills Autocrats son Mastodon, after Dr. Bryan and Leandards wife and daughter are killed by Mastodon. Lioness is given an injection of an experimental mutagen after being termianlly injured during the fighting.
  1984 August 30 the Royal Elite’s arctic base is destroyed, but not without cost. Protectorate member, Lioness is critically injured. Only an injection of an experimental serum kept her from dying. The serum spliced genetic material from several felines that increased he
Playing God 1984 September 4 Think Tank escapes confinement and wanders after the death of his wife and daughter, many casualties are left in the wake of his departure.
  1984 September 9 Zodiac and The Outsider return from meeting the Da’aglanaari ships. The meeting reportedly did not go well, presumably for reasons involving cultural ignorance. The Da’aglanaari departed without giving any indication of their plans.
  1984 September 11 Echelon is suspended from active duty on the Protectorate Roster for his actions in the attack on the Royal Elite base.
  1984 September 14 Dr. Rebecca Conrad, a.k.a. Trinity, is sworn in as the newest member of the Protectorate.
  1984 December 12 Angelina Clancy, illegitimate child of Mary Clancy, is born. Mary Clancy, a test subject in the Brightstar Project, had been injected with the experimental compound E-ph4 before it was determined she was pregnant.
  1984 December 15 Minshadow aka Angela Clancy is born and and later turned over to the Lockwood orphanage in downtown Chicago IL.
  1985     Thousands of ships descend upon the planet, dozens landing in each large city and thousands establishing a base in Antarctica.  The Da’aglanaari kidnap prominent people, steal famous artworks and objects, and trash tourist attractions.
  1985     Responding to the crisis, governments unveil their secret weapons, and many metahumans come out of the closet.  Several teams of metas are sent to attack the ground base in Antarctica to attempt to retrieve the kidnapped people.  Worldwide clerics of vari
  1985     The Da’aglanaari invasion of Earth.
  1985     Oddly enough, older construction, such as cathedrals, appear to hold up better than newer monuments, probably due to the man-made materials involved in the more recent construction.
  1985     Finally, frustrated by our inability or unwillingness to comply, the Da’aglanaari armada breaks away from the meeting and sweeps in to assault Earth. Nothing is safe, nothing is sacred.
  1985     Often they set up temporary bases in or near famous landmarks, complete with a scintillating field of force that provides them some sort of protection, but appears to be somewhat damaging to the surroundings.  Some monuments actually crumble after a few h
  1985 May 5 The Da’aglanaari appear on the outside of our solar system and request a meeting. Their language is barely comprehensible, but they are urgent and insistent. Due to the difficulties in translating their apparent demands, the end result roughly translates
  1985 May 14 Echelon attempts to intercept the Da’aglanari fleet by himself, and gets captured. The Da’aglanari augment his cybernetic structure by implanting helions, quark-sized energy bodies, into his system.
  1985 May 19 Now under Da’aglanari control, Echelon returns to the Monolith and disables it so the Da’aglanari armada can reach Earth. He is later captured by the Protectorate, but the damage is done.
  1985 July 4 Given the massive effort by Earth’s military and metahumans, the tide begins to turn.  The Da’aglanaari fall back to defensive positions, then, on July 4th, leave the planet altogether.  They pause at the edge of the solar system, then send a message whic
  1985 July 5 Echelon, facing trial for treason, sees that his teammates on the Protectorate are skeptical of mind control story. Rather than fight to clear his name, Echelon chooses to flee into deep space.
  1987     Widespread awareness of UFO abduction begins.
  1987     The second successful escape from Purgatory Prime occurs. The villain known as Livewire escapes by overloading the power systems.
  1987 June 12 The Dictator makes his first appearance with his creation Imperious Maximus. He uses the massive drone in an attempt to assassinate Pres. Ronald Reagan. This is the second attempt on Pres. Reagan’s life while in office. The attempt fails and the Dictator
  1987 October 31 Halcyon, a hero possessing light-based powers, temporarily drops out of the public eye after an encounter with a villain known as the Black Priest.
  1988     Widespread awareness of Crop Circles begins.
  1989     Omni-Man, an extremely skilled, ex-NASA engineer turned super-villain, is finally captured and sentenced to serve time in Purgatory Prime. Omni-Man, who uses super-chemistry to transform objects, has a lucrative career as a supervillain before his captu
  1991 December 26 The Soviet parliament passes its final resolution, acknowledging the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  1991 December 31 All residual functions of the first Communist state ceased: The USSR no longer existed.
  1992     The Badass Five, consisting of Mofo, Dangerous, Street Assassin, the Chain, and the leader Kickass, commit their first crimes as a group. While they succeed in terrorizing the population with the violence of their crimes, the crimes themselves do not have
  1993     Omni-Man is released from Purgatory Prime. Having reformed, he now works as a consultant for the Board.
  1994     In an unexpected move, Parliament increases funding to the Ministry for Metahuman Affairs. The increase in funding is for the sole purpose of setting up recruiting and training programs for metahumans. In return for training, participants are asked to aid
  1994 May 17 Richard St. John-Smythe, Duke of Gloucester and his son, Alexander, are involved in a road accident. Richard falls into a coma while Alexander miraculously survives the crash without a scratch.
  1995 April 3 Echelon returns from deep space. He proclaims his innocence (and his intention to become Earth’s premier hero), but no one believes him.
  1995 April 21 Tired of being treated with disrespect by the general public, Echelon challenges Avatar to a fight. Avatar ignores the challenge, and Echelon responds by destroying Lincoln Center in New York City. Fearing that his former teammate will embark on a campaig
  1995 May 11 Hellhound steals the Zero Prison Projector. Avatar tracks down Hellhound, and throws both the Hound and the Projector into a Babylonian Hell.
Playing God 1996 Febuary 29 Jonathan Moores parents are killed and Autocrat takes him up as his own.
  1997 August 15 John Wolfe is touched by the Inuit gods and bonded to fifteen tornaq (spirits) to serve as a bridge between the modern world and the world of the Inuit. Takest the name ‘Permafrost’.
  1999     After two decades of research, Dr. Janos Kaminski perfected his theories involving intrinsic gravity fields. After hearing of Kaminski’s success, the Dept. of Defense bought the patent to the research and prototype and used it to re-form the Tyrian Projec
Stitch in Time 1999 May 7 Dr. Winston of the University of Southern California is found murdered
  1999 September 21 Under mysterious circumstances, the Nike sponsored superhero Pumice suffers a complete mental breakdown.
  1999 September 22 Tommy Champion is struck by lightning and gains the powers of Omega.
What Doesn't Kill Me Only Makes Me Stronger 2000 January 5 Crane Research loses a lucrative contract to JayTech Software due to aledged sabatoge
Making An Impression 2000 January 11 Knockout stops a bank robery in New York city
In All His Glory 2000 January 12 Old Glory Returns to active duty.
Outside Interest 2000 January 17 San Diego's Gala Gallerie finds a man with his hands shattered screaming, reports were that some guy broke his hands the morning before.
Trouble Abounds 2000 March 23 shoot-out in Chinatown a drug-related altercation between rival Asian gangs
  2000 March 28 Tommy Champion makes his first public appearance as a metahuman in Omaha Nebraska, saving City Hall from an attack by the supervillain Soulkiller. Tommy's powers attract considerable interest.
Escape 2000 may 2 The third successful escape from Purgatory Prime occurs. Ullyses Kirkpatrick,better known as Abattoir, a serial killer who had undergone a grueling experiment that transformed him into a nightmarish killing machine. Abattoir escapes with the aid of Harbin
A Burning in the Mind 2000 May 19 Jason Garner is killed in an explosion at his twin brothers residence in Dallas Texas.
Connections in the Mists 2000 May 23 Jason Garner has his wake, his brother Jacob is depressed.
To Live by the Sword 2000 May 24 A speech from Ecuadors president is preluded by the destruction of a factory
The Generallisimo 2000 May 24 The leader of Santa Domingo(Ecuador) visits the US on the day of its independence
An Orchid is Born 2000 June 2 Jane Orcrest casts a spell to call a demon Daxrathas, but gets more than the bargains for and becomes Orchid, also a new moon on this night
Natural Selection 2000 June 3 Serena also known as Vamp makes a deal with Autocrat in a desacrated church early in the morning
Horror Show 2000 June 9 Tri-Delta Sorority members are murdered two leave campus, two others are found with acid burns
Thunderstruck 2000 June 23 Alex St. John-Smythe displays an usuasal electrical based meta power while sparing with a Lieutenant Johnson of the British military.
Who Am I 2000 July 5 Sarah Stiner aka Knock-out, shows off her costume to her room mate
Egoland 2000 July 12 Tommy Champion arrives in Los Angeles, sponsored by Nike. He is christened Omega. Tommy almost immediately finds himself embroiled by scandal
A New Day 2000 July 13 Omega trashes his hotel room, and later in the day rescues a diabetic.
Three Fights and a Contest 2000 July 14 Halcyon's secret Identity is discovered by Omega, later Halcyon goes to the Hospital after being beaten up by Omega
Naked in the City 2000 July 15 El Brazos de Fuerza is beaten by Omega in a test of strength, Omega gets his boots.Omega has sex with Bandita. Omega gets attacked by Chain.
Land of Big Explosions 2000 July 17 The rest of the Dictators Gang is arrested by Omega.
In Search of the Good Fight 2000 July 19 Omega Fights Sandstone and has a conversation with the Black Priest
In Search of the Good Fight 2000 July 19 Omega fights Brickyard and later learns about the black preist from Halcyon..
Bar Room Blitz 2000 July 22 Knock out and Maestro (aka Alexander St. John-Smythe) fight the Maytrons of mayhem in a local bar, and meet for the first time
Interlude 2000 July 23 Maestro has a conversation with Weaver in the park
Strange Attractors 2000 July 25 Research facility hires several security consultants.
Paranoia,The Destroyer 2000 July 31 Omega stops a bank robbery and meets Blur. Stops a would be rape at a UCLA. Talks with undercover adgents Alexi and Avery Stone.
A Working Relationship 2000 August 1 Jack Morgan and Shinobi meet in the park.
Propagating Farces in Spacetime 2000 August 3 Jacob Garner attracts the attention Shinobi and Jack Morgan and bugs a car
In the Game 2000 August 5 Permafrost and Omega prevent the Terra Pax from stealing the launch codes for America's nuclear arsenal, and capture the Porter. They are named as sponsored superheroes by Nike.
One Big Soap Opera 2000 August 10 Maestro learns about his powers and fills out his visa forms to be a student in the US
Pygmalion 2000 August 14 Howard Higgins is murdered by Orchid
Jewelry of Pain 2000 August 15 Meta human murders people at Jefferson Hospital, killing most of the doctors and nurses and patients
Wrong Numbers and RoboKitties 2000 August 16 Switch obsesses about a person named Shreck who was in Poland
One Hell of a Day 2000 August 16 Jacob stops a bank robbery
  2000 August 17 A 3800 year old alphabet has been found intact on Six global continents. Translations and grammar suggest a global human culture thrived in antiquity.
Chivalry Isn't Always Enough 2000 August 23 The Yeomen, enforcers for the Royal Elite, attack a medical complex in London, England, killing a physician and Catherine Iverson, a woman acting as a surrogate mother for Colm and Susan McEachnie. Despite the efforts of Alexander St. John-Smythe, the qua
What's Your Sign? 2000 August 24 Knockouts meeting with the Protectorate is cut short when Mastadon and Baroness attack a political rally at Central Park. Knockout and Zodiac deal with the situation.
Ghoulies & Ghosties 2000 September 7 Alex St. John-Smythe reviews his fight with the Yoemen and prepares to leave to New York
  2000 September 8 Alex St. John-Smythe, arrives in New York City to begin his studies at Juilliard.
Gaining Perspective 2000 September 8 Knock-out works out at Micke Musselman's gym
Totem, Icons and Slanderous Mascots 2000 September 13 Old Glort and Totem fight, Totem leaves in the middle fo the fight.
Gaining Perspective 2000 September 17 Knockout takes a walk in the park with a date
Gaining Perspective 2000 September 28 Knockout has a audition in La for a movie with Blur
Land of the Midnight Son 2000 September 28 Old Glory head to Canada to meet up with Totem to stop Abaitor
Beautiful People 2000 September 29 Omega and Knock-out have the Photo shoot for People magazine
Searching For Beginnings 2000 September 30 Jacob meets with sythe of the canadian shield
Gaining Perspective 2000 September 30 Knockout goes to a bar, and after fights four armored opponents, but is blinded and they escape.
Tri-Colour Freedom Farce 2000 October 3 Jacob stops three would be seperatists from disrupting a funeral.
To Protect and to Serve 2000 October 4 Avatar is captured by the royal Elite and converted to there cause by Brainchild and Harbringer
Breaking Away 2000 October 6 Knockout is turned down by the Protectorate
With Killer Style! 2000 October 6 Permafrost is Kidnapped by Orchid and hack, and given to the Black priest
Knocking on Heaven's Door 2000 October 6 Omega stops a prono ring, and has a fight with several Protectorate members.
City of Cheese-Steaks 2000 October 7 Omega is accused of the murder of Howard Higgins, Permafrost diappears
An Deireadh 2000 October 11 Irish heros join forces even though they are bitter rivials to stop the royal Elite from destroying their homeland
Road Rage 2000 October 12 Knockout is attacked by Hack in a Cab, but manages to somehoe make him leave.
Never Cry Beowulf 2000 October 19 Old Glory and Totem Bury Abaitor in and old mine shaft in the Yukon
A Pair of Jacks 2000 October 24 Jack Morgan and Conduit sabatoge a reasearch facility in Poland
Two Things are Inevitable 2000 October 26 Conduit breaks into an IRS building left a CD with a program in the drive. After his escapade attacked a draughtsman and escaped.
Out for the Count 2000 October 27 Orchid kills a punk and drives another insane, later drink Panamimes blood, but doesn't kill him
Through the Valley 2000 October 31 Jacob kills vampires in a club
Old Friends 2000 November 12 Conduit has a meeting with Eric from MI 6, a british agent he encountered earlier in the year
Special Delivery 2000 November 15 Jean-Claude Molet escapes from would be assassins and meets switch in one of his identities.
Nexus and Next World 2000 November 24 A metahuman falls out of what appears to be a gaping, black hole in the skies over New York and slams into Fifth Avenue, not far from the Empire State Building. The metahuman is rushed to St. Mary’s Metropolitan Hospital and does not regain consciousness
Darkness Falls on New Orleans 2000 November 24 Jacob fights vampires in New Orleans
Leaving on a Jet Plane 2000 December 17 A commercial plane from Chicago to Los Angeles crashes in the Rocky Mountains, killing all aboard. NTSB and FAA are unable to find any equipment failure, leading to the conclusion of pilot error, though rumors of metahuman involvement continue
Land of Sugar and Banana Republics 2000 December 22 A mysterious explosion levels a small town in Columbia. The only witness, Generallisimo Juan Hernandez, claims it to be the work of an American metahuman, but refuses to divulge details, citing suspicions of anti-Hispanic conspiracies.
  2001 Febuary   The Black Priest frees Hellhound from a Babylonian Hell.
Toy Soldiers 2001 March 6 Mindshadow breaks into Purgatory Prime freeing several prisoners, and killing thirty officers.
Toy Soldiers Epilogue 2001 March 8 The DOD and other military review the event of Mindshadow breaking into and out of Purgatory Prime.
Needle in a Haystack 2001 March 9 Manuel Cortez looks for and finds hints of Mindshadows past.