Timeline of the Valiant Universe

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This is a fictional timeline of the Valiant Comics universe.

Contents

[edit] 3500 BC

  • Khanit, a nomadic tribesman, is chosen by Earth as its first Geomancer.

[edit] 3270 BC

[edit] 3268 BC

[edit] 3266 BC

  • Aram the Other born.

[edit] 3257 BC

[edit] 3250 BC

  • Kalam, son of Gilad, born.

[edit] 3219 BC

[edit] 2614 BC

  • Gilad and Aram are briefly reunited in Egypt.

[edit] circa 2589 to 2566 BC

  • Reign of Khufu, during which he constructs the Great Pyramid.

[edit] 210 BC

  • Death of General Cheng, first incarnation of the Immortal Enemy.

[edit] 385 AD

[edit] 399 AD

  • Aric's parents, Rolf and Inga, slain by Roman soldiers in Dacia. Aric swears vengeance on the Romans.

[edit] 408 AD

  • Aric returns from the Unity Conflict to his original time. He is soon betrayed and his lover, Deidre, is killed.

[edit] 409 AD

  • Aric uses the X-O armor to place himself in suspended animation, ordering the "good skin" not to awaken him until 1992.

[edit] 1192 AD

  • The Geomancer Tashi Khatuna creates the Book of the Geomancer.

[edit] 1802 AD

[edit] 1805 AD

[edit] 1840 AD

Master Darque first comes to New Orleans.

[edit] 1854 AD

[edit] 1862 AD

[edit] 1895 AD

  • Maxim Saint James becomes the first Shadowman.

[edit] 1912 AD

  • Geomancer Buck McHenry seemingly disappears, not to be seen by his family again until 1985. (Solar #10)

[edit] 1940 AD

  • Gilad meets Neville Alcott at Dunkirk. Alcott loses the use of his legs while trying to save Gilad.

[edit] 1947 AD

[edit] 1968 AD

  • During the siege of Khe Sahn, Sergeant Gilad Abrams meets PFC Joe Nicoleti, the last time they meet for many years.

[edit] 1977 AD

[edit] 1984 AD

[edit] July

  • Obadiah Archer is accepted to a temple in Ladakh, where he becomes the best fighter and archer in the world.

[edit] 1985 AD

[edit] February

[edit] 19

[edit] 1986 AD

[edit] February

[edit] 19

[edit] 1987 AD

[edit] 1989 AD

  • Joe Nicoleti (see 1968) becomes the trainer for Toyo Harada's "Eggbreakers"—an elite strike team made up of young harbingers.

[edit] 1990 AD

[edit] September

[edit] 27

[edit] 1991 AD

  • A cartel named Omen Enterprises is formed by a secret group of corporations to fund the H.A.R.D. Corps.

[edit] January

  • After destroying his universe, Phil Seleski slips into our dimension, meets the Phil Seleski from our world, and accidentally creates his childhood hero, Doctor Solar.

[edit] March

  • During a battle between the spider alien fleet and Solar, Aric the Visigoth, a prisoner of the spider aliens since 408 AD, escapes with one of the X-O Manowar armor suits possessed by the aliens.

[edit] April

[edit] 17

[edit] June

  • Peter Stanchek and Kris Hathaway assemble a group of renegade harbingers.

[edit] November

  • Solar defeats an alien warrior clad in Manowar class X-O Armor. Leaving the armor on one of the moons of Saturn, Solar goes on to destroy the alien fleet.

[edit] 1992 AD

[edit] March

  • Due to Ken Clarkson's repeated betrayals, Aric gives him a new arm made from the X-O Manowar armor to prevent future betrayals.

[edit] 31

[edit] April

  • Solar battles Fred Bender—his greatest enemy.

[edit] 1

[edit] May

  • After a 10-day recovery period, Aric is forced to defend himself and Ken Clarkson against an attack of spider aliens. Aric also discovers that the X-O armor has changed, somehow evolving while he slept for the last fifteen centuries.

[edit] August

  • Aric and Solar battle the spider aliens, destroying them and the X-O armor's seed, ensuring that another suit of X-O Manowar armor cannot be created for 2000 years.

[edit] November

  • Geomancer Geoff McHenry sneaks past the security at Project: Rising Spirit, and interferes with their latest experiment. In the process, the hero known as Bloodshot is released into the world.

[edit] December

  • Returning to base with a stolen Harbinger data disk, the H.A.R.D. Corps agents are trailed and their headquarters destroyed by the Eggbreakers and Harbinger Foundation troops.

[edit] 1993 AD

  • Bloodshot goes after a member of the cartel that sponsors OMEN Enterprises and crosses paths with the H.A.R.D. Corps.
  • The H.A.R.D.Corps discovers a nest of spider aliens in the Pacific Northwest.
  • Master Darque tranforms Fred Bender into a being of pure necromantic energy, renaming him "Doctor Eclipse."
  • The Immortal Enemy reappears in the body of a man named Juan Caldone. Having the ability to leap from one body to the next, he takes possession of Gilad.
  • Geoff the Geomancer forms the Secret Weapons team to tackle Doctor Eclipse.

[edit] 1994 AD

[edit] June

  • The Chaos Effect hits Earth. Maxim Saint James regains consciousness.

[edit] 1999 AD

  • Jack Boniface killed in a confrontation that leads to the destruction of Master Darque. Earth's heroes gather to mourn the fallen Shadowman.

[edit] 2003 AD

[edit] May

[edit] 2020 AD

[edit] March

  • Obadiah Archer marries Harbinger Charlene DuPre. Together, the two found a movement dedicated to world peace, known as the "Archies."

[edit] 2025 AD

[edit] February

  • Archer dies while saving Armstrong's life. Armstrong disappears.

[edit] 2028 AD

[edit] June

  • Bloodshot is slain while defending one of the Lunar Colonies from the renegade harbinger Ax.

[edit] 2055 AD

[edit] August

  • Lucinda Mendez, niece of Geoff McHenry, is chosen to be Geoff's successor in the line of Geomancers. Her training begins that year.

[edit] 2056 AD

[edit] December

  • Kris Hathaway, former member of the harbinger underground, writes a message to Magnus, the son she never knew, and entrusts it to the Geomancer for delivery in 4002.

[edit] 2062 AD

  • Aric sends the X-O armor away, to keep it from falling into Toyo Harada's hands. Aric is slain by Harada. Though Harada is dealt a mortal blow by Aric, he survives by transfering his consciousness into another body.

[edit] June

  • After years of extending her life, Solar allows Gayle Nordheim the death she wishes. Solar splits into two beings: one leaves to explore new planes of reality, while the other slips quietly into seclusion and is not seen again for more than a millennium.

[edit] 2430 AD

[edit] Summer

  • As the Harbinger Wars enter their third century, the H.A.R.D. Corps and the various corporate armies have taken defensive positions. The remnants of mankind are huddled into corporate city-states all over the world.

[edit] 2900 AD

[edit] Fall

  • Japan, one of mankind's last strongholds, has completely isolated itself from the rest of the world. It is now covered by a single, contiguous structure, an electronic network that controls virtually every facet of daily life.

[edit] 2987 AD

[edit] December

  • John Stanchek, direct descendent of Pete Stanchek, founder of the Harbinger Resistance, becomes the leader of the renegade harbingers. Like Toyo Harada and Sting, he possesses the Omega Power.

[edit] 2989 AD

[edit] November

  • H.A.R.D. Corps forces begin a mass exodus from earth in their remaining ships. Without H.A.R.D.Corps to maintain order, the remaining city-states fall into chaos.

[edit] 2990 AD

[edit] February

[edit] 3050 AD

[edit] August

  • Due to an unprecedented power surge, the island-wide network that encompasses Japan becomes freewill and begins thinking and acting independently. The Japanese people name their mechanical keeper, "Grandmother."

[edit] 3216 AD

  • The first Rai is slain by the Anti-Grannies. Grandmother choses a homeless vagrant named Sho Shugino to be the next Rai.

[edit] May

  • Sho Shugino, the second Rai, takes the Blood of Heroes from a group of Anti-Grannies. Bloodshot's blood is given to Grandmother for safekeeping.

[edit] 3975 AD

[edit] April

  • The baby Magnus is caught by Solar and delivered into the care of robot 1-A.

[edit] 3988 AD

[edit] April

  • Ana Kawainui recruits Rokland Tate as her successor in the line of Geomancers. She tells Tate of the coming of Unity and begins training him in the mysteries of Geomancy.
  • Erica Pierce discovers the Lost Land. She decides to use it as a base from which to launch Unity, her plan to unite all timelines and to make time outside of the Lost Land "unreal."

[edit] 3992 AD

[edit] March

  • During a holiday on Mars with 1-A, the 16-year-old Magnus gets his first taste of battling Freewills when he saves the governor's daughter from a kidnap attempt.

[edit] 4000 AD

[edit] August

  • Magnus makes his first appearance in North Am, destroying H-8, the robot Chief of Police, and frees 1000 people whose minds have been enslaved to power the central computer.

[edit] 4001 AD

[edit] March

  • Rentaro Nakadi, the 41st Rai, retires when his son, Tohru reluctantly agrees to become take his place as Grandmother's champion. Tohru places his son, Takashi, in Grandmother's care.
  • Solar, after a period of seclusion lasting hundreds of years, reappears to humankind just in time to stave off another attack by the spider aliens.
  • The robots 1-A and Grandmother fuse and become the Grand One in order to save Earth from the spider aliens.
  • After the spider aliens are defeated, Japan is stranded in space orbiting the Earth.

[edit] References

  • Darque Passages #1 (Voyager Communications), 1994).
  • Eternal Warrior #1 (Voyager Communications, 1992).
  • Rai #0 (Voyager Communications, 1992).
  • Secrets of the Valiant Universe #1 (Voyager Communications, 1994).
  • Secrets of the Valiant Universe #3 (Voyager Communications, 1995).
  • Shadowman #0 (Voyager Communications, 1994).
  • Shadowman #26 (Voyager Communications, 1994).
  • Shadowman #29 (Voyager Communications, 1994)
  • Valiant Voice #2-#10 (Voyager Communications, 1993-1994).
  • X-O Manowar #0 (Voyager Communications, 1993).
  • X-O Manowar Yearbook # 1 (Voyager Communications, 1995).