Timeline

1908 - Tunguska Event, largest pre-nuke explosion in human existence. Grays arrive and embed themselves beneath the surface, using advanced tech to slowly convert subsurface into an alien city/life support system.

1908-2013 - More "asteroid" impacts across the globe as other Grays arrive on planet.


 * 1919 - Lake Michigan
 * 1930 - Brazil
 * 1932 - Spain
 * 1941 - Chelyabinsk
 * 1947 - Vladivostok
 * 1963 - South Africa
 * 2013 - Chelyabinsk (again)
 * 2020 - Grays reveal themselves on Earth, War for Terra begins.
 * Massive casualties in China, India, Russia, USA, Spain, Brazil, Southern Africa (the continent, not just the country).
 * CCP is effectively decapitated when the Three Gorges Dam is destroyed, wiping out everything along the river clear to Shanghai.
 * India also suffers massive casualties and then a short nuclear exchange with Pakistan.
 * Pakistan's gov't effectively ceases to exist.
 * India reduced to 1/5th its prior population but Western countries send massive amounts of aid.
 * 2023 - Decapitation strike on the Tunguska Floating City, north of Khazakstan.
 * Russian/Chinese forces jump the gun, are wiped out en route.
 * Western teams land a few survivors in proto-mecha, basically life support for the soldier inside because the interior of the floating cities are toxic to humans.
 * At the center of the city, a single Gray uses brain implants to control the city, the cyborg conversion facilities, the anti-gravity drives, the guns, the shields, everything.
 * Humanity seizes alien tech and digs in to their prize.
 * Russian and Chinese remnants demand access.
 * The West tells them to pound sand, they're not about to hand over advanced alien tech to governments that invade their neighbors and slaughter their own people.
 * 2035 - First interstellar colonization efforts begin by UK, US, and EU
 * All the above quickly summarized in Little Gray Man, in Mecha, from Cannon Publishing
 * 2250ish – Humans encounter first intelligent life outside of the Grays – the Mogwai, one jump past Rideau in the Star Kingdom of Windsor.
 * The Mogway colonized multiple planets in-system but hadn't traveled outside it.
 * 2280 to 2550 – Humans encounter several more kinds of intelligent life, including the Jotunn, giants from a system named Jotunnheim by the Yggdrasil.
 * Jotunn are physically powerful, straightforward, and have a rep as drunks, brawlers and brutes. They're actually less prone to irrational violence (humans) or cold, calculated viciousness (mogwai) but since everyone remembers that one bar fight where the Jotunn took on six sailors and won, they have a rep.
 * 2626 - Damien Xanthopolous, C/S Bellerophon, retires from the HARD Corps and founds Myrmidons Incorporated. Hires on several fellow cyborgs as a tiny but elite PMC.
 * 2628 - Mick Mitchell retires from the Royal Cardiff Commando, buys into the Righteous Work, is immediately attacked by pirates. Winds up sole shareholder of the corp, sells it all, and starts fresh with the Pandora's Hope.
 * 2634 - Present Day
 * May 1st - Dr. Fujimoto and her genies flee Montoya for parts unknown
 * May 22nd - The Urbicide