Sasai Arasaka establishes the financial corporation.
Big Picture
The major events that shaped the dark future.
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1915 CE
Arasaka Corporation is founded
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1960 CE
Sasai Arasaka dies, Saburo Arasaka becomes CEO
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1989 CE
The Gang of Four secretly takes control
Political eventWhile established in the 1950s, the members of the Gang of Four is able to bypass most influence from the president and congress as of the election of president George H.W. Bush in 1989.
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1990 CE
1994 CE
First Central American Conflict
Military: WarUnder The Gang of Four, the DEA released a bioweapon to take out drug production globally. This also caused issues for agriculture throughout Central and South America, leading to international condemnation. USA responded with targeted strikes up until The Collapse.
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1991 CE
Biotechnica develops CHOOH²
Technological achievementCHOOH2 will soon replace all petrolium-based fuels.
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1991 CE
EEC defies USA restrictions on aid to Soviet
Diplomatic actionAs a result, the soon to be reformed Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics becomes a close ally of the EuroTeatre and will come to accept the Eurodollar but not the US dollar.
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1992 CE
1 January
Eurodollar brought to market
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1993 CE
Aldecaldos leave Los Angeles
Population Migration / TravelAfter forming to survive Los Angeles becoming a warzone of gang violence and oppressive police, the Aldecaldos leave for Mexico City as an early Nomad clan.
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1993 CE
The first commercial flying car
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1993 CE
9 September
New York Detonation
Disaster / DestructionA small nuclear device detonates in Central Park. Thew initial death toll is limited to only 15,000 thanks to the ground-level point of origin. Drug cartels are blamed in Gang of Four led propaganda.
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1994 CE
Stock Market Crash of -94
Financial EventAfter years of financial manipulation by The Gang of Four to make the US economy seem stronger than it was, the market finally collapses. The world-wide recession hits North America and Europe the hardest. The American manipulation is revealed and retaliatory sanctions permanently cripples the US dollar.
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1996 CE
2008 CE
The Collapse
Disaster / DestructionThe US is under martial law and the constitution suspended. The nations economic crisis spirals out of control.
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1998 CE
2001 CE
Draught of the 90s
Disaster / DestructionGlobal warming results in a draught that destroys all crops in vast swaths across the planet. The American mid-west is hit especially hard and most farmers are forced to abandon the area.
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1998 CE
February
Los Angeles earthquake
Disaster / DestructionThe 10.5 earthquake results in 35% of the city under water and 65,000 dead. Many times that are left homeless.
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1998 CE
October
Coronado City is renamed Night City
Political eventFollowing the murder of Richard Night, what has already been the colloquial name for the city he envisioned is made official.
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Night City -
1999 CE
2000 CE
The Wasting Plague
Plague / EpidemicAt least 14 million people die and many more suffer from the pandemic before a vaccine is found. It's unknown if the virus was artificially created.
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2003 CE
15 January
Second Central American Conflict
Military: WarIn a desperate attempt to shift attention the Gang of Four manipulates the USA to invade Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela to hunt drug cartels and terrorists.
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2004 CE
August2006 CE
February
First Corporate War
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2005 CE
Los Angeles Restoration Project Completes
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2008 CE
February2008 CE
March
First Orbital War
Military: WarA brief, but expensive war as USA attempts to take down Soviet stations. EEC quickly joins to aid its Soviet allies. Tycho Lunar Station uses its mass driver to drop rocks on Alice Springs in Austraila, killing 25,000, and Colorado Springs in America, obliterating the city and the American military command.
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2008 CE
April2010 CE
August
Second Corporate War
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2012 CE
2013 CE
Chicago Bioplague
Plague / EpidemicDemolition of abandoned research buildings inadvertently unleases a bioengineered strain of Ebola in Chicago. The virus had covertly been developed by the Gang of Four and forgotten when the conspiracy were dealt with. Initial and conservative estimates lace the death toll around 17,000. Others say the true number is probably ten fold that or more.
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2013 CE
NetWatch is Granted Authority
Diplomatic actionThe corporation is nor regulated by a US and EuroTheatre treaty on NET security. Over time, the treaty is ratified by almost all nations.
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2013 CE
15 April
Alt Cunningham is abducted
Life, DeathAlt is kidnapped by Arasaka after a Samurai concert in order to steal the secrets of Soulkiller. Johnny Silverhand gathers a team to free her, but she has fled into the subnet and being disconnected kills her biological body. Having killed the head of Arasaka America, Silverhand goes into hiding with the Aldecaldos.
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2016 CE
February2016 CE
November
Third Corporate War
Military: WarA mostly NET-based conflict.
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2020 CE
2022 CE
Chicago Reconstruction Project
Construction beginning/endThe Storm Technology corporation enlists nomad clans to help rebuild Chicago. The project dramatically ends with a bioweapon used by Arasaka during the Fourth Corporate War to deny Militech the city.
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2022 CE
2025 CE
Fourth Corporate War
Military: WarAfter being hired by the CINO and OTEC corporations, Arasaka and Militech espectively made the conflict personal. After the original corporatios made a deal, the megasorps escalated the war to world wide atrocities.
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2022 CE
9 June
Release of DataKrash
Disaster / DestructionAfter the death of Rache Bartmoss, the DataKrash virus is triggered. As a result, nearly 80% of the NET becomes actively hostile. This combined with the spread of R.A.B.I.D.S will eventually bring down the first NET.
Additional timelines
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2022 CE
29 September
Seven Hour War
RevolutionThe O'Neil 2 space station revolts agenst the ESA and declares independence. Using clever tactics, and a couple of orbital strikes, they are successful and ounds the Highrider Federation.
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2023 CE
20 August
Night City Holocaust
Disaster / DestructionA nuclear device is detonated in Arasaka Tower in Night City. It starts the period known as the Time of the Red and makes the center of the city unlivable for decades. 15,000 die in the blast with upwards another 100,000 more from complications such as radiation.
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2024 CE
Militech is nationalized
Financial EventTo reign in CEO Donald Lundee and end the Fourth Corporate War, NUSA President Elizabeth Kress nationalizes Militech and reinstates Lundee as an officer in the army, answering to her.
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2024 CE
The old NET is declared off-limits
Disaster / DestructionNetWatch gives up on trying to contain the DataKrash and R.A.B.I.D.S viruses. Instead they create the Blackwall to isolate the NET from users and huts down anyone who tries to break through this defense.
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2025 CE
2053 CE
7 November
US State of Emergency
Political eventPresident Kress keps te nation i a functional dictatorship after the Fourth Corporate War.
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2053 CE
4 July
New United States of America is Formed
Political eventA new constitution is ratified and the United States of America formally beomes the New Unied Sates of America.
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2062 CE
Haiti Completely Devastated
Disaster / DestructionIn a series of extreme storms, the entire population of the nation is evacuated. Several end up settling in the quickly expanding Night City's Pacifica district which needs labor for its ambitious blans as a tourist trap.
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2064 CE
8 November
Rosalind Myers is Elected President of the NUSA
Political eventMyers is the first president to replace Elizabeth Kress in half a century. As the former CEO of Militech, she brings with her discipline and poise.
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2069 CE
January2070 CE
June
Unification War
Military: WarThe NUSA, following through on President Myers' campaign promises, set out to put all states back under complete federal control for the first time in nearly a century. In the end, the war results in the Arvin Accords giving both sides a way to save face. Texas remains fully independent and Night City is given special independence status. More: Unification War
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2074 CE
Earthquake in Italy Kills 98
Disaster / Destruction
