User:PsiSeveredHead

I'm the sysop of this site, and better known as Kimera757 at wikipedia.

Basic timeline
This isn't canon, but I guess it's close.


 * ~1450: Raszagal is born, based on her age (1046) in Brood War (about year 2500). Within a hundred years, the Rogue Templar are banished from Aiur. A brief civil war on Aiur breaks out (noted in Maps of the Month).


 * 1998: StarCraft the game is created. Dr. Frederica Wallis became aware of this after visiting Braxis. (This is actually mentioned in the Maps of the Month, July 1999.)


 * ~2200: Terran science, especially involving genetic engineering and cybernetics, explodes. This creates the conditions for civil war between corporate factions (which are in favor of the new technology) and "humanist" and religious factions.


 * 2229: The United Powers League is formed by the humanist faction, which won the war, controlling 93% of Earth's population. The UPL ends racial separation, destroys religions, and enforces English as the sole language. It also unleashes Project Purification to destroy its enemies, which include people with genetic mutations; 400 million people are killed and many others imprisoned. Project Purification may have lasted until ~2300.


 * ~2270: The UPL begins exploring space using warp travel and cryogenics; about forty years after the foundation of the UPL the Earth has colonized other planets within the solar system. Doran Routhe works on his colonization project, using prisoners of the Purification, four deep sleeper ships, and ATLAS. The project goes awry.


 * ~2300: The population of Earth reaches 23 billion. Routhe's prisoners emerge in the Koprulu Sector. The Protoss detect the emergence of the Terrans and watch silently "for two hundred years".


 * ~2440: The Zerg discover humanity. It takes the Zerg Swarm sixty years to reach the Koprulu Sector.


 * ~2360: The colonists of Tarsonis develop second-generation subwarp engines after over sixty years and discover Umoja and Moria nearby.


 * ~2485-2490: The Terran Confederacy defeats the Kel-Morian Combine in the Guild Wars, which takes four years. (Dated from the intro of "Rebel Yell".)


 * ~2492: The Terran Confederacy discovers xenomorphs on or near Fringe Worlds.


 * ~2497: The Confederacy destroys Korhal IV with a lot of nukes. Mengsk establishes the Sons of Korhal; in one of his first missions, he rescues Sarah Kerrigan, an amnesiac Ghost, from a Confederate facility on Vyctor 5, and his forces also kill a number of strange xenomorphs in the facility...

(Dated from Mengsk's comments in the StarCraft Episode I mission the Jacobs Installation, which occurred in late 2499, when Mengsk said he saw Zerg in a Confederate installation "more than a year ago".)


 * 2499 (December 8th): Protoss destroy Chau Sara.


 * 2499 (December 12th): The game of StarCraft starts on Mar Sara.


 * ~2499: The UPL, somehow witnessing the alien attacks, reforms into the United Earth Directorate. It studies the Protoss and Zerg "for months" and eventually launches an Expeditionary Force.


 * ~2500-2501: StarCraft: Brood War ends. (Kerrigan at the www.blizzard.com/broodwar website have gained a year in age from her listing in the original StarCraft manual; Fenix gained two and Zeratul gained none.)


 * Late 2502: Nova kills Cliff Nadaner as part of her graduation mission.


 * 2505: StarCraft: Ghost supposed to start, four years after the Brood War. Since Ghost has not been released (and never may be) this is still subject to change.

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