Timeline

The following details the major and some minor events that occur prior to the events in Infection. The events are in a chronological order however the exact dates of many events is not known. The accuracy of these events is also in question since formal records of some events do not exist. The German moon-base history archive is considered the most consistent of all records and it still contains sparse information regarding particular regions of the world.

August 2012 - December 2013

· The Mayan calendar ends with the Solar alignment causing little actual effect, however, the mass hysteria and riots cause wide spread damage affecting political makeup, environmental stability, and in some cases the physical geology permanent marked by the passage of mankind. In just twelve months beginning shortly before December 21, 2012 and continuing into 2013 the world experienced several world-altering events:

· Borders in Africa shatter and reform, shrink and expand, disappear only to reappear so fast that the exact details about the exchanges were lost before they could be recorded due to all the other chaos happening

· North Korea invades South Korea in a sudden massive wave. The assault is so well planned and coordinated with the South Korean government that the occupying allied troops are captured and contained without a single shot being fired or life lost. In fact, the change is made with the Korean governments completely moving all of the gear and equipment for the allies to cargo ships that set sail for their perspective ports while the troops are guided at gunpoint to the naval vessels off shore. The North Korean navy with help from the Chinese Navy forces the event to be non-confrontational through shear overwhelming force. It is not until the ships near the Japanese coast does the west have any idea about the events.

· China launches several massive military movements with such precision and secrecy that South Korea, Union of Myanmar, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Republic of Bangladesh, Kingdoms of Bhutan | Druk-yul, Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, and parts of India fall before a counter offense can be launched. India's lack of resistance can be directly attributed to the activities of the Pakistani government. Taiwan manages to evade reunification with China simply because the Chinese military is busy with other activities. As part of the action, failed attempts to land in Japan and the Philippines keep the allied forces from seeing the real targets until it is too late.

· Israel invades the West Bank and Gaza Strips exterminating all who oppose them, military or otherwise committing one of the worse cases of genocide-like behavior since the holocaust. Many consider it an evil omen considering the site and religious factions of the area.

· Military forces in Pakistan force aggression against India by launching nuclear missiles that prompts India's response with similar weapons. In minutes, large portions of Pakistan and India are in ruins and burning as clouds of radioactive fallout reach high into the sky waiting to be caught by the trade winds. Millions die in the first days of the war, more than in any world war to date. Radioactive fallout kills more than the bombs, poisoning thousands of miles of land. Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and parts of China suffer from the effects of the radioactive fallout. By year’s end, over 100 million are dead from the bombs and radiation with the fighting continuing between the countries.

· Germany elects a new leader who implements a new national flag, a new national vision, and a new governmental organization, which is met with overwhelming support from the people of Germany. Within months the economy of Germany improves dramatically with trade flourishing as well as new medical and genetic discoveries, including a cure for AIDS and Ebola based on techniques perfected within Germany laboratories.

· Conflict, famine, poverty, and disease run rampant through Central America, South America, Africa, parts of Eastern Europe, and parts of the Middle East

· Globally, weather continues to intensify as more of the polar ice caps disappear

· The first category six hurricane hits Miami destroying over 50% of the city, killing thousands, and leaving millions homeless. Survivors and news crews describe the place as worse than any war zone that Hollywood could think of.

· America and other allies enforce trade blockades on China, especially of food causing wide spread starvation in China which brings about a temporary cease fire but not a reversal of occupation

January 2014 - December 2050

· Germany flourishes under the new regime bringing about changes that appear fascious in nature.

o Huge walls are built around the unified country complete with automated and manned watchtowers with checkpoints into and out of the country limited in number.

o Border patrols begin catching both inbound and outbound travelers attempting to avoid the checkpoints at which point drug traffickers become television stars of their own public executions, which are broadcast across the country. Immigrants are followed by television as they go through a genetic test to determine their ancestry. German descendants are granted citizenship while others are simply deported.

o Nationwide genetic testing is conducted with non-Germans being deported unless they are married to a German or receive special exception from the government that is only granted three times during the cleansing.

o Crime vanishes and the countries' economic profile grows on its continuing advances in Genetic Science

o Germany first European country to recognize and allow same sex marriages which prompts the Pope to excommunicate the entire country

o Germany opens doors to German descendants preaching of religious and sexual freedoms

o Germany demonstrates amazing defensive weapons but still fails to keep Berlin from falling to nuclear strikes

· The last of the ice vanishes from the north pole

· Rising ocean waters cause the abandonment of most coastal locations world wide

· Rising waters trigger faults in North America, in particular the west coast faults turning much of California and Baja California into islands

· The Tsunami from the earthquake destroys Honolulu, Sydney, and Tokyo

· The huge quake that struck North America triggers fault lines throughout the pacific rim

· Ocean beds rise up around Australia joining the continent with Indonesia, Papa New Guinea, the Philippines, and main land Asia

· New Zealand rises up joining several islands including Fiji, Samoa, Pago Pago, and New Caledonia

· Long hidden ruins off the southern coast of New Zealand rise with the Ocean floor revealing several ancient cities of unknown origin. Most Polynesian communities declare the ruins the lost continent of Mu or Lemoria.

· Changes to the ocean bed in the south pacific and Indian ocean cause massive quakes and flooding of the coastal areas of India, Southern Asia, and the East coast of Africa. Much of India sinks beneath the waves as does portions of Africa and the Middle East. The damage from the quakes and ocean changes cause massive damage to the coasts of China, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan. Hong Kong joins Tokyo at the bottom of the sea along with most of the coast areas of Eastern Asia and Japan.

· China launches a campaign of acquisition sending troops northward into Mongolia, Russia, and Siberia while sending additional troops south into India, Pakistan, and the rest of Southern Asia. The north falls quickly will little resistance due to sparse populations and low military presences however; China now controls most of the former Russia nuclear arsenal. Southern Asia, India, Pakistan, Korean, Vietnam, and others do not fall so easily however, due to damage from quakes and tsunamis, Japan is abandoned before the Chinese troops land with the government taking up residence in the new regions of New Zealand under the flag of the rising sun.

· The war with China rages for twenty-five years with no apparent gain on either side when the newest American president decides it’s time to limit troop losses and engages in surgical strikes and nuclear exchanges. The result is immediate with worldwide affects the most significant being the end of the war and every capital city in the world. Surgical strikes prevent China from using the Russian arsenal but their own arsenal turns all of the capitals of Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Central America, and Africa to radioactive wastelands unable to support life. For China, the blow is tremendous due to its population density and geography as the United States and Allies wipe out over 50% of the population of China and turn the crop growing areas of China into waste severely hampering China's ability to sustain itself with food, starvation sets in killing millions. All former countries once conquered by China are freed including the countries taken during the 2012 riots.

· America, Europe, and Australia suffer the most damage from the strikes of China's weapons. The eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida glows at night for years due to fires, radioactive fallout, and strange phenomenon resulting from the bombs. What was left of California now burns in a perpetual radioactive fire turning the island of Los Angeles into a giant funeral pyre. The population of North America falls by over 20%. Canada and North America come to an agreement joining the two countries as one to maximize livable locations and cropland from the damage done by the strikes.

· Radiation sickness becomes the number one cause of death world wide

· The world population declines over 50% with the undeveloped countries suffering the worst.

January 2051 – December 2150

· Mutations run rampant in the animal, bird, and fish kingdoms

· Both the scientific and political communities spend much of their time over one hundred years cleaning up the radiation

· Earthquakes ravage the continents of the world as the plates push and pull against each other confusing geologists and seismologists with the baffling way the continents react to these events. Volcanoes, geysers, and other geological events change the face of the world so quickly that by the time it is over, no continent or place is untouched. From the ashes and smoke:

o A ribbon of water stretching from the Hudson Bay through to the Gulf of Mexico now splits America and with it, most of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas are gone.

o California slips into the ocean taking most of the west coast with it during a tremendous quake, which creates a Tsunami so large that Hawaii, Japan, and the China coast are scoured clean leaving very little to indicate that man once lived there.

o Secondary quakes and volcanic explosions pull the Hawaiian Islands into the ocean while the trench of Japan develops an appetite that only the island of Japan seems to sate as it sinks beneath the ways taking the historic continent from the eyes of man.

o The Middle East is racked with quakes splitting the land, causing seas to mix, coastlines to change and thousands of years of history to sink beneath the waves. The Caspian sea, Black sea, Sea of Marmora, Aegean sea and Mediterranean seas combine with the red sea and Arabian gulf as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, and Italy all suffer tremendous damage, ground shifts, flooding, and volcanic activity. A majority of the world’s oil supply disappears below the waves effectively causing the world next great depression and a sudden surge to alternative energy sources.

· Genetic science and nanotechnology make huge leaps forward

· Corruption in most countries results in wide spread bio-genetic warfare and contamination resulting in a loss of twenty percent of the world population and the creation of the dead zones

· Poorly programmed nanobots ravage the world in epidemic levels

· Nanobot swarms decimate entire cities

· Personal nanobot vaccines are the only protection

· Early vaccines cause serious side-effects including Cyborgization of the host

· First Cyborg city appears in South America

· Specialized viruses are used to infect nanobots limiting the movement of the nanobots to within the dead zones

· Older nanobots are susceptible to EMP

· Cheap nanobot implants found in New Hong Kong

· High quality nanobots are limited to New Berlin, Germany and Cheyenne, Wyoming

January 2250 – December 2299

· A faulty experiment using genetic manipulation, nanobots, and plankton results in the Infection

· Fail safe settings in nanobots programming restricts movement of the infection by accident only

· Infection turns humans and animals into walking corpses with only one purpose: to spread the infection thus the Infected are born.

· Fire is the only truly effective method of disposal

· Infection spreads through body fluid exchange

· Initial infection curable within one hour using combination of specialized nanobots, EMP pulse, and poison

· Cure fatal 80% of the time

· Successful only 10% of the time in curing the victim but 100% successful in stopping the infection

· Germany leads the crusade in trying to find a permanent cure

· Western North America designs a nanovirus that attacks the Infected changing their parameters to prevent them from crossing water

· The Infection and Infected are eliminated in Western North America

· Eastern North America’s central region becomes the largest known are of infected

· With the infected contained, several human communities spring up around the borders partially in support of the border guards

· Wild weather patterns contribute to the infected proliferation

· Pure humans on the decline as a result of sterilization, infant mortality, and other causes

· Non-human/humanoid populations on the rise as a result of mutations and the spread of nanobots

· Cyborgs dominate South America controlling over fifty percent of the continent

· Drakes rise up in Australia because of an experiment with saltwater crocodiles. Their ferocious nature threatens to wipe all human existence from the continent

· Pandera come into power and begin ruling over what use to be Tibet, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos, and South China. Himalaya’s country of Nepal becomes their seat of power with the city of Bharatpur being the capital.

· A mysterious race has populated Antarctica, however no one knows anything about the race since no travelers have returned

· Aborigines have taken up residence in Mu and begin restoring temples claiming the land as their ancestral home

· The last Japanese decedents relocates to Mu, to the Provence of New Japan

· A large asteroid crashes into the mid-Atlantic ocean causing huge upheavals including the rising of Atlantis and the destruction of most of the coast lines of the Atlantic ocean, additionally, the impact of the asteroid causes volcanic activity worldwide along with earthquakes

· Water born nanobots display erratic behavior by exposing the 14,000 miles of sea bed that makes up the Bermuda triangle

· Exposed seabed is littered with wrecks, strange objects, and ruins. Crystals not found anywhere else appear in the caves that dot the area, crystals with strange properties

· Mount Everest and two neighboring peaks vanish over night exposing a complex maze like series of chambers and caverns that reach deep into the earth, all of it packed with evidence of a subterranean civilization

· Throughout the world, creatures thought to be only myth or fantasy start appearing along with bizarre mutations of known creatures

· Germany launches first manned mission to the Moon in several hundred years and establishes the first moon base in the process

· Japanese survivors establish Tokyo-Mu and discover the ancient secret of teleportation. Japanese become the first country to deliver nanotechnology to enable mass transit by teleportation. Faulty code causes the occupants of New London to be transported to Old London resulting in the deaths of 10 million people and a massive spread of the infected in Northern Europe

· World population falls below 100 million pure humans while radiation & damage to the atmosphere by nanobots have mutants on the rise to over 500 million

January 2300 – December 2309

· Nature rebels against humanoids and mutants as a new plague kills millions. Population of pure humans falls to under one million, half of whom now reside in New Germany and on the moon

· Group claiming to be Druids and Celts purge Atlantis of all other sentient beings and erect nanobarriers more powerful than any created prior

· New Atlantis develops a nanobot security force that eliminates any non-Atlanteans

· Atlantis becomes shrouded in mystery, cut off from society. Strange lights and objects appear near the island

· Japanese-Mu perfects personal teleportation nanobots which results in a flood of cheap knock offs on the black market that fail 90% of the time. Japan restricts devices to Japan-Mu citizens. Creates unit of enforcers to track and destroy illegal teleporters. Foreign governments are outraged and many close borders to Japanese-Mu. Teleportation becomes a hot item for various groups both good and bad.

January 2310 – December 2311

· Japan-mu assassins infiltrate the Cyborg Empire of South America and destroy the leader and the central CPU eliminating most of the backup data in the process. For the first time, Cyborgs are no linked to a communal mind causing insanity to run rampant. One third of the Cyborg population dies in the chaos. New leadership takes place as a council and declares war on humanoids

January 2312 – December 2314

· Cyborgs complete the conquest of South America and broadcast the termination of the last South American humanoids to the world. Death comes by torture as they are skinned alive by nanobots, which lasts three hours. Cyborgs are declared humanoids kinds greatest enemy at which point the first group of Cyborgs splinter off from the empire and flee into the wilderness and the oceans.

January 2315 – December 2315

· Cyborgs launch the fourth world war using newly developed weapons and nanobots. Central America and Africa fall within days with only the dead zones and infected territory keeping victory from being total

· Western North America launches a counter offensive led by a Cyborg General who defected north with key top-secret information. The New Western North America stops the cyborgs advance at the old Mexican border bringing the war in Western North America to a standstill of sporadic border fighting

January 2316 – December 2316

· Cyborg army pushes into Eastern North America and vanishes without a trace.

· A second attack of 50,000 Cyborgs enters Eastern North America and only one cyborg survives. International community speculates on the cause and rumors fly but the lone cyborg troop vanishes and the Cyborg nation marks Eastern North America as no-man’s land and passes new law forbidding any further action against the region

· Other countries send in missions to determine what happen to the various Cyborg armies but none returned bringing the total lives lost in a year to 100,000 Cyborgs and humanoids

· Drakes finish pushing other humanoids from Australia. Cyborgs lose 100,000 attempting to land and retake new Sydney. Drakes destroy the Cyborg army and are actually caught on video eating the prisoners. The video leaks to the internet and gets over 10 million hits in the first hour

January 2317 – December 2317

· Mermen assault the coastal regions all over the Atlantic ocean taking everyone by surprise; not the human with fish-tail but a bipedal humanoid with shark-like features, blood-thirsty ways, and a keen intelligence

· Around the pacific, a different menace emerges. Loss of plankton in the oceans and defective nanobots result in the emergence of an amphibious whale species about the size of a blue whale but carnivorous and equipped with massive side fins strong enough to propel them on land. Attacks fall on every coast but Mu causing speculation that the Mu created them

January 2318 – December 2318

· From the jungles of India a new humanoid emerges, a race of felines whose ancestry is obviously the tiger family but with the beliefs and philosophies of the Sho Lin. Where the priesthood left-off, these creatures pick up. Panderas and Liers form a mutual peace treaty along with China and the remaining Asian cultures. Liers quickly appear in all major cities in Asia wearing monk robes and tending the temples. Unlike their feline ancestors, the Liers are vegetarians however; they are unmatched in hand-to-hand combat able to take down a carnivorous whale solo with no weapons. Only Drakes and Cyborgs have the reflexes and speed to have any chance of winning but even then, the chances are small. All Leirs are pacifists by nature using combat as a last resort but do not have any issues killing when needed.

January 2319 – December 2319

· Cyborgs launch two missiles, one into orbit, and one towards the Moon. The orbiting missile’s payload is a particle beam weapon. In under one day the capitals of every country is burning with hundreds of thousands dead from the weapon. Cyborg forces push into Europe, Asia, Mu, Atlantis, and Antarctica. The second missile hits the German Moon base and detonates revealing a payload of nanobot viruses and radioactive material. In less than a second, two million die from the explosion. The entire moon base is contaminated at levels even too high for Cyborgs. Germany, once idle, explodes into the war with the Cyborgs with a vengeance as its battle cry. Communications are lost with other moon outposts putting the total death toll around 10 million as the moon disappears from the world by any communication means. Reality is nearly as bad as expected. The payload virus was a modified infected virus. In ten months, before a rescue mission can be launched, about 99% of the population will be infected and about 1% will remain in hiding beneath the moon fighting for survival.

January 2320 – December 2320

· Germany launches its mission to Mars on schedule. Fifteen rockets set off but a Cyborg fighter destroys three before being brought down. Germany prepared by sending a Japanese-Mu teleporter with each rocket as part of a deal with the Mu government for the Mars base.

· The Cyborg army is sent running after attempting an assault on New London. Rumors fly of creatures that drink blood, survive massive injuries, or worse, a new type of infected that is faster, stronger, and immune to fire but not immune to massive head trauma

· Germany annihilates the Cyborg offensive and pushes the Cyborgs back into North Africa

· All troops assaulting Atlantis and Mu vanish

· Utilizing Cyborg defectors, Western North America pushes the Cyborg army through Central America into the upper Amazon Basin of Brazil. Native life decimates both sides bringing the war to another stand still.

· Cyborgs assaulting the Middle East find no resistance until they hit the India border. Pandera, Leir, and Chinese units out number and out gun the Cyborgs handing them a tremendous defeat

· Cyborgs discover and secretly:

o The Cyborg army reaches its limit even with cloning and nanohealers

o Covert nanobots are deployed to every major humanoid city

o Dirty H-Bombs are built in secret around the world

January 2321 – December 2321

· Cyborg army retreats

· Germany prepares secret plan against the Cyborgs

· Cyborgs set of the dirty H-Bombs in over 100 cities world wide

· World population falls below 100 Million

· Massive radioactive fall-out creates huge dead zones

· Dormant nanobots used to cleanse the world before activate and begin cleaning the world again.

· Radiation triggers massive mutations

· Germany launches EMP/Neutron bombs through teleporters against the Cyborg Empire

· In under an hour, the Cyborg Empire is destroyed just as the last ruler of Germany dies in the blast of a dirty H-bomb

January 2322 – December 2322

· German Mars colony is established and contact is made with Mu and German exiles begin the exodus to Mars. The fate of the moonbase is still unknown. Mars begins a project to return to the Moon

· Cleaner nanobots are seen in huge black swarms over contaminated areas

· Remaining Cyborg army troops deported back to South America to fend for themselves. The total Cyborg population numbers under 10,000 world wide. Cyborgs who defected are modified, tattooed, or changes to show their alligence and contempt for the Empire

· Western North America sees a surge of Cyborg implants and add-ons among the younger generations with the exception being brain alterations which are banned with the penalty for receiving or performing being death. Augmentation through implants & nanobots accepted as long as the original brain mass and structure is the same after the surgery. Brain modifications become monitored and tightly controlled by the American government with only government officials able to access brain altering nanobots. No longer called Cyborgs, they now call themselves the augmented. The new standard forces a new definition for Cyborgs being anyone modified prior to the war or with over 50% modification being classified as a true Cyborg. All others called Augmented.

· Cyborgs issued ID Chip that identifies them as either original or over 50% with government approval. Cyborgs or augmented over 50% without ID chips are terminated upon verification of status.

· Unknown to Cyborgs the chip is actually a tracking device used by the American Government to keep tabs on Cyborgs

January 2323 – December 2323

· Hacker discovers tracking program hidden in Cyborg chips

· Writes virus that destroys that portion of the chip

· Released the virus the day that the war is finally acknowledge to be over

· Western North American government tracks down the hacker who is smuggled out by Cyborgs before they can get him

January 2324 – December 2324

· The first strange vehicle is seen flying to and from Atlantis

January 2325 – December 2334

· Fifty percent of the world contamination is cleaned up

· World population falls under 50 Million due to cancer and radiation poisoning

January 2335 – December 2335

· Radiation clean up is complete and the nanobots vanish back into hibernation

January 2336 – December 2339

· Last pure human on earth dies as a result of a hunting accident

· Remaining pure humans exist only on the Moon and Mars

January 2340 – December 2340

· Mutations grow even more bizarre

· Carnivorous whales and mermen make ocean travel near impossible

· Both Mu and Atlantis have strange flying crafts

· Moon mission launched from Mars

· Humanoid populations on the rise

· First giants spotted in Greenland

· Troglodytes make first appearance in Europe in the ruins of Germany

· Britain and Ireland become shrouded in a constant mist apparently nanobot generated

· First dragon seen flying over Siberia

January 2341 – December 2341

· Outpost in Eastern North America falls silent and all personnel vanish. No bodies remain.

· Small city on the east coast of Eastern North America falls silent with over 1000 people vanishing overnight with no bodies found

· Moon mission lands at isolated outpost to find remaining 15 survivors in a battle against a different breed of infected. Mars receives final communication “Do not come here…” Further communication results in static and a brilliant flash of light is seen on the surface of the moon. All life is presumed lost.

January 2342 – December 2344

· A town of 5000 vanishes over night in Eastern North America

· Reports arrive of another coastal town in Eastern North America vanishing over night

· A Japanese teleporter arrives from Mars horribly mutilated, babbling incoherently

· Communications with Mars is lost

· Bizarre data transfer from Mars base detailing experiments with nanobots, teleportation, and space/time.

o Hackers discover hidden file in research data and publishes the information to the Internet; hacker is later found dead in a bizarre fashion

o File is detailed journal of experiment including odd entries after the first test failed

o Apparently the space/time experiment created a hole between Mars base and somewhere else. Initial reports into the hole reveal nothing and the hole is shut down

o Something opened the hole back up from the remote site

o Strange deaths begin

o Mutations and madness spread

· All communications with the Mars base are lost including further data communications

· Mu government sends team via teleporters to investigate but all that happens is a single transmission from Mars, the contents of which are never made public and Mars is declared off limits along with the Moon

· Mu begins intense research into flight and space flight along with energy weapons and nanobots

January 2345 – December 2347

· Series of strange deaths occur in Mu, officials are tight lipped and the details are suppressed

o Images flood the net of mutilated and warped bodies

o Mu denies photos

o Atlantean druids spotted in Mu near death sites

o All records of the Moon and Mars bases disappear from the net

· Asia unites under one flag

o Tibet named the capital

o Pandera, Leir, and Human council rules the country

o Invites Europe, Siberia, Mongolia, India, and Australia to peace talks

o Drake send reply by eating the envoy

· Drake’s begin attacking coastal towns of Asia and Central Africa

o Drakes leave Mu Alone

o Antarctica manages to repel and defeat all attackers without revealing anything about themselves and raise questions when all attacking Drakes are reverted back to salt water crocodiles

o Africa suffers heavy losses

o Asia defeats the Drakes

· First Lizardman tribe is spotted in South America

· Antarctica remains unexplored and all travelers vanish

o Satellite photos reveal nothing but what appears to be a permanent cloud cover

o Air traffic over Antarctica vanishes

· Greenland becomes a land of giants

· Siberia becomes a land of dragons

· Dragons appear in Western North America, South America, Africa, and parts of Europe

· Troglydytes souting parties seen around the world

· Strange deaths continue on Mu

January 2348 – December 2351

· Mu cuts off outside contact with other countries

· Atlantis closes its borders and halts all trade with other countries

· Drakes aggression against others suddenly stops and they retreat to the interior of Australia

· Strange lights are seen above Antarctica

· The northern aurora is extremely active

· Satellites fail destroying part of the global communications net

· Several fall into populated areas killing hundreds and wounding thousands

· Atlantis launches a series of communication satellites that restore worldwide but captures a copy of all data flow and forwards it to Atlantis

· Western North America introduces healer bots specifically designed to heal based on the subjects DNA. The first release causes devolutionary effects in humanoids resulting in massive casualties. Second release resolves the issue but original code is still available

o Hacker releases death virus causeing healbots to revert to first release code causing the deaths of thousands. Atlantis hit squads track down the hacker to large shopping center and publicily executes the hacker painfully. The act is caught on film earning the Atlantis teams the nickname of D-teams or Death Teams

o World leaders denounce the actions of Atlantis’ D-Team but applauds the tracing of the hacker. Siberian leader threatens Atlantis with war for the actions of its team since the hacker was Siberian and the execution happened on Siberian soil

o Siberian leader vanishes

· Atlantis issues proclaimation and declares itself as the world police force

o Publishes detailed processes, procedures, and rules for the units

o Gives final decision to field commander with 100% support of the Atlantis Government

o All governments forced to comply under heavy threat of violence

o D-Teams appear around the world but do not interfere with local or regional issues under any circumstances reacting only to issues of country or global nature

o Fears of D-teams fade

o Siberian assassins infiltrate Atlantis killing several leaders before being caught

o Atlantis’ response is silent, swift, and complete as a satellite particle beam destroys the capital of Siberia and surrounding villages in under 10 seconds destroying only organic life

o Siberian people surrender completely

o Atlantis helps Siberia reestablish its government and police force

· More strange deaths occur in Mu but contact remains closed

· Troglydyte attacks increase

· Goblin empire rises from the ashes of Germany

· Rumors start of a new African empire

· More villages empty in Eastern and Western North America

· Initial contact with the Giants of Greenland has less than desired results as half the team is eaten

· More dragons fill the skies beginning to cause problems for livestock and their keepers

· First recorded attack of a dragon against humanoids; destroys half a village before being defeated; radioactive fire breath causes further deaths from radioactivity

· Strange creatures are seen roaming the jungles and coasts of Mu with villages appearing empty to survey teams and satellite. Different countries send teams to Mu but only two teams return. The first team is completely insane and the other exhibits dementia. No evidence of the fate of Mu’s citizens is found

· Mermen tame carnivorous whales and use them as mounts to increase damage and death to coastal dwellers

· Central and South American coasts are wiped clean of villages and population centers

· Mermen are seen up stream in the Amazon basin searching for something and fighting with Lizardmen