TIMELINE

2056

• ALTERNATE (b): President Haines is negotiating with India to demand Abraham Michaels' return to stand trial. The UN council is meeting again this week to implore President Gaines to repeal the state of Martial Law, his Father joined up with Milos’ gang that he started hating us. Well, that and when his Father erupted and blew up all of Las Vegas. After Cuba took in The Progenitors nobody else is going to be willing to take the risk. The nuclear treaty has already been broken. Arthur is sitting on a bed in his Fathers old apartment building holding a bottle with some undefined alcohol. ... The announcer reports that another three of the notorious “Survivors” have been captured and executed today.
  This brings the count up to 279 out of 283 accounted for.

1. Brian Jaffe [missing] - headed for Alpha Centari
2. Jason Forrest [missing] - (The Ghost), known to be able to go totally incorporeal, possess people’s minds, and induce hallucinations of such a extreme level that psychosomatic wounds have been seen opening on his victims bodies in response to the trauma to their psyche.
3. Abraham Michaels [political asylum] - (The Doc) has sought political asylum with India. President Haines is negotiating with India to demand his return to stand trial. Abraham was lauded early on as a great hero when he performed a public ‘miracle’ by healing over 300 people of various maladies, injuries, and even re-growing lost limbs on several disabled war veterans.
4. Arthur Redford [missing] - reliable sources have tracked him down to the downtown slums of D.C.

2051

• ALTERNATE (b) : Due to "the Godlike Menace," President Gaines declares Martial Law in the United States.
  Now 87 years old, Arthur travels back in time to 2001 to watch the events of 9/11 unfold on TV from an old bar in Boston.

2020-25

• ALTERNATE (c): After about twenty years he ... The whole neighborhood had changed. Always a plush area, the neighborhood had evidently improved several more notches. There was no litter, no vandalism, and people moved with a purposeful air. ... It’s illegal for you to even own the old world currency.

where is your tattoo? Where is your mark? Angry now the man held up his right fist, as it burst into a blazing aura of golden red fire! Was this man a fellow survivor? "General Redford, Sir!"

2011

• ALTERNATE (b): President Milos Wiazowski signs Super Terrorist Registration and Dehumanization act. Officially an addendum to the renewed Patriot Act, this law allows the Government to collect and “tag” any Survivor of the flight 283 at will and, if they determine that the individual represents a threat to America, the government reserves the right to deny their status as homo sapiens and thus their human rights. Over the course of the next 3 three months, 79 Survivors are killed and 25 are captured. Only seven turn themselves in to voluntarily work with the government.

2005

October

• October 11: In giving "the Godlike Convocation," Milos Wiazowski announces the opening of King Farm as a gated community for the Survivors.
  Arthur races Dale Earnhardt Jr., a horse and a cheetah; unsurprisingly, he wins. The crowd's first response is silence, followed by a deafening cheer.
  Brian meets with Zaida binte Shouk at the U.S. Government's facility in Hopewell, NJ.
• October 9: Mandy and brother Mikky are two of the Engine #16 team that responds to an alarm in a Washington, D.C. restaurant. They save the only two people inside before the building collapses.

September

• September 29: John Roberts is ratified by Congress as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• September 23: President George W. Bush is expected to ratifiy the list of bases to be closed as part of BRAC 2005.
• September 18: Maggie Young's birthday party. Daniel Young returns early from a business trip and hits his wife, Julie, over the pressence of "freaks" in his home. Arthur's response is aggressive and Julie says that she no longer wants to talk to him.
• September 12: Michael Brown, head of FEMA since January, 2003, resigns after FEMAs poor response to Hurricane Katrina leads to allegations that he falsified his resume.
• September 11: Fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Main Cast, and attendants, return from a seemingly one-day jaunt to the disasterous possible future of 2056 to discover that they have missed nearly 4 months of time.

August

• August 29: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall a second and third time, on the Gulf Coast and in Mississippi, as a Category 4 Hurricane. Most of the city of New Orleans is flooded, thousands of lives are lost and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages accrue. FEMA and the Bush administration are widely criticized for their percieved failure to better prepare for and respond to the disaster; especially relevant are issues of race and class.
• August 25: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall just north of Miami, Florida, as a Category 1 Hurricane.
• August 10: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches.
• August 9: Though its landing is moved from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Edwards Air Force Base, California, due to inclement weather, successfully Space Shuttle Discovery returns safely home at 0511 PDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight."
  Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PA. and vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, claims that the Department of Defense had identified Mohammed Atta and 3 other 9/11 terrorists as members of Al Qaeda in 1999, through the actions of a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," but did not share this information with the FBI. article
• August 7: During a Congressional recess, President Bush appoints hotly contested nominee John Bolton as the United States' ambassador to the U.N., side-stepping the need to have him approved by the Senate.
  Saudi Arabia's King Fahd dies; the new king, King Abdullah, is seen as a moderate who will not make many changes to the country.
  Republican Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham propose a Bill to expressly prohibit cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. McCain states that the issue of torture is "not about who they are. It's about who we are." The Bill frustrates the White House and ammendments force it to be tabled until the Senate reconvenes in September.
• August 1: NASA's MESSENGER probe to Mercury makes an Earth flyby.

July

• July 26 - Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery return to flight mission STS-114. This is the first Space Shuttle flight in nearly two and a half years since the breakup of Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.
• July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.
• July 21 - A terrorist attack on London, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 Underground trains and a London bus. The bombs failed to explode properly, and only one injury was reported.
• July 19 - President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
• July 16 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released.
• July 10 - Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing 10 people, after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean. Dennis caused 2-5 billion dollars damage in the United States.
• July 7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, with three explosions reported on the London Underground and one on a bus. Over 50 deaths were reported, and over 200 injured. Al-Qaeda admits to the killing of Egypt's Ambassador, Ihab al-Sherif.
• July 6 - The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Olympic Games to London, defeating the favorite Paris in the final round.

June

• June 21 - Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) failed 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
• June 17 - A 6.7 aftershock,which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in California. (California earthquakes of June 2005)
• June 13 - Singer Michael Jackson acquitted of all charges of harming children (see 2005 trial of Michael Jackson).
• June 5 - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen area and to allow same-sex partnerships.

May

• May 31 - W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be Deep Throat.
• May 19 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith released, effectively completing the Star Wars movie saga begun by George Lucas in 1977.
• May 17 - Kuwaiti women granted right to vote.
• May 15 - A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving over 100 people missing.
• May 10 - A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate. The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
• May 4 - In one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
• May 1 - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, which leaves at least 25 people dead and injured more than 30 others. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.

April

• April 25: A passenger train derails in Amagasaki Hyogo Prefecture Japan killing 107 people and injuring another 456.
• April 20: At least 46 workers have been killed and several others injured in a blast at an explosives factory in Zambia. 56 hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
• April 19 - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
• April 15 - At least 21 people died and around 50 people were injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
• April 9: The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place.
• April 2: Pope John Paul II, dies.

March

• March 28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.
• March 21 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
• March 20 - At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
• March 19 - A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and injured about 12 other people. A time bomb explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40. A mine blast occurrs at the Xishui coal mine in Shuozhou and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine. The death toll is up to 59.
• March 1 - The US Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.

February

• February 22 - More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
• February 16 - The National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute.
• February 15 - More than 200 people are killed by a blast at a mine in Fuxin, north-east China.
• February 14 - A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut kills Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people were also hurt.
  Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at mosque in Tehran, Iran.
• February 12 - Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.
• February 10 - North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.
  Saudi Arabia holds its first ever elections for municipal authorities, in which only men are allowed to vote.
• February 7 - Athens Banner-Herald reports "Godlike charged with Murder."
• February 7 | ALTERNATE (e): Allowing himself to relax and slide forward in time to several weeks after they all awoke from their comas, Arthur snuck into his own bedroom, and looked down at his own sleeping body, blissfully unaware of his future self’s presence. Speeding himself up to almost max speed, he told himself a tale of the futures.
• February 6 - The Main Cast, Beth, Vivian, Julie, Julia Lee, Harley and Agent Vernon Marks have their "reunion" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Marks arrests Mandy for her crime in Georgia.
  In Jacksonville, the New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX, 24-21. The victory claimed the Patriots' third NFL league title in four years.
• February 5 - .
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• February 3 - The Washington Post reports Vigilante Strikes Again.
• February 2 - According to the government, the latest day on which The Survivors' status as "alive" would be reinstated.
• February 1 - The Washington Post reports "Mysterious Vigilante Stops Robbery".

January

• January 31 - Arthur seeks to save the life of Carrie Sellers (Survivor) by going back in time, changing history and abducting her. He places her in the care of a Washington DC doctor, a family friend.; Mandy Smith aids her new ladder in the DC, Park Monroe highrise apt fire in a Box Alarm.
• January 30 - The first Parliamentary elections in Iraq since the overthrow of the Ba'ath Party government led by Saddam Hussein take place.; Jack locates the abandonned Subway Station that he and friends had found years before. He soon brings Arhtur to visit the site.
• January 28 - Confirmation of Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State.; Mandy finds and begins her relationship with Engine 16.
• January 27 - Jack, Mandy, Brian, Harold, Beth and Arthur return from Ware Mt. to Washington DC.
• January 26 - Jack arrive in his van on Ware Mt.; A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.; Athens Banner-Herald reports " ??? ".
• January 25 - Brian returns from beyond Earth orbit, landing in St. Louis.; Shortly afternoon Mandy and Brian visit Athens, GA. Mandy Smith kills Jesse Trundel, Carrie Sellers goes missing. (It's worth noting, though, that Mandy's vision of the event showed it being nighttime when it happened. It is also worth noting that Carrie Sellers DIED the first time this event "happened", reconstructed by Arhtur later...); Arthur and Harold arrives around noon, Brian and Mandy arrived in the late afternoon (they came straight from the Athens, GA incident), Date you were all on Ware Mt., WV.; Joelle Millar (Director of Humanitarian Issues and Human Rights for the Brookings Institution) begins her diplomatic relations dealing with the Internally Displaced Persons Survivor Case of 17 year old Zaida binte Shouk (of the Darfur region of the Sudan).
• January 24 - President Bush meets with "March for Life" participants. President Bush preempts Television programs to air his full "American Gods" speech.; Brian leaps into orbit during the President's Speech and comes back down, causing a quake. During this speech broadcast, although no deaths are reportedly caused directly, more than 500 people are injured after towns up the New England coast (specifically Hartford, Conneticut located Lat: 41.76° North latitude, Lon: 72.69° West latitude) experience multiple earthquakes measuring as high as 7.4 on the Richter scale, the quakes are felt as far south as Maryland and Washington DC, North America. Simultantiously similar earthquakes shake the Indian Ocean Region (New England's Antipode) Lat: 41.76° South latitude, Lon: 107.31° East latitude in the Indian Ocean far to the west of Australia. For more see the antipode map.; Brian meets with his father a few hours later and then leaps again, only this time trans-Lunar. By the time he comes back, it's morning on the 25th.; Mandy Smith witnesses and intervenes (anonomously) in a robbery in a small convenient store in downtown Washington DC., setting herself on fire and severely injuring a street punk many rumors abound in the local area.
• January 23 - Johnny Carson dies. The Survivors depart for their individual homes.
• January 22 - Survivor - Ashton Sawyer dies of heart failure at 4:23am EST. The Survivors press conference near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. President Bush makes weekly radio address (about freedom, anti-terror and the beginings of his "American Gods" speech).
• January 21 - The Survivors leave Celera in Seattle by air under the power of "Godlike" Ashton Sawyer bound for the Celera facility in Washington DC. Late in the evening amatuer digital footage is taken of Brian Jaffe in Georgetown, Washington DC - apparently lifting a city bus. The footage is on-line before the night ends.
• January 20 - The Survivors wake up from their "comas", their location is Seattle Genetics an ally of Celera. The Seattle Genetics campus is located in Bothel, WA near Seattle. George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington D.C. for his second term as 43rd President of the United States.
• January 19 - President Bush attends "Celebration of Freedom" concert for military.
• January 18 - President Bush attends "Saluting Those Who Serve" event.
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• January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of planet Saturn.
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• January 12 - Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.

2001

• September 11: the events of 9/11 occur, spawning the Survivors of Flight AA 283.
  At age 87 (in 2051 - age 35 in 2005), Arthur was watching 9/11 in a old Boston Bar.

• September 11 | ALTERNATE (b): Milos is ambushed as he leaves for the airport that morning, on the freeway, Arthur raced down the road alongside him, and with several deft slashes, cut both right tires of the limo he was riding in. Immediately the limo went out of control and crashed into the guardrail. Several other vehicles lost control as well and caused a grand pileup. No casualties or major injuries. Only a massive tangle of cars that will take hours to clear up. Milos did not make the AA 283 flight.

• September 11 | ALTERNATE (c): Arriving back at Milo’s house, the night before the flight, Arthur kills Milos.

ARTHUR REDFORD's Personal Timeline

• ALTERNATE (d): Arthur spent almost five years shifting back and forth between the same twenty five years, trying to undo the damage he had done. After his last attempt, one which almost resulted in the total erasure of all the Survivors, Arthur finally came to his senses.

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The AMERICAN GODS