Timeline of the Valiant Universe
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This is a fictional timeline of the Valiant Comics universe.
[edit] 3500 BC
- Khanit, a nomadic tribesman, is chosen by Earth as its first Geomancer.
[edit] 3270 BC
- Ivar the Timewalker born.
[edit] 3268 BC
- Gilad Anni-Padda born in Anatolia.
[edit] 3266 BC
- Aram the Other born.
[edit] 3257 BC
- Gilad's first battle.
[edit] 3250 BC
- Kalam, son of Gilad, born.
[edit] 3219 BC
- Gilad and Aram, having battled Mesopotamian soldiers, are the sole survivors of their tribe.
[edit] 2614 BC
[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 is kidnapped by the spider aliens.
- 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
- Birth of Master Darque.
[edit] 1805 AD
- Birth of Sandria Darque.
[edit] 1840 AD
Master Darque first comes to New Orleans.
[edit] 1854 AD
- Turok and his fellow tribesman, Andar, discover a doorway to the Lost Land in the Dakota territories.
[edit] 1862 AD
- Buck McHenry born. (Solar #10)
[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
[edit] 1947 AD
- Birth of Toyo Harada in Hiroshima, Japan.
[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
- Toyo Harada uses his psychic powers to amass a vast fortune to fund the Harbinger Foundation.
[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
- Buck McHenry recruits his nephew, Geoff McHenry, to succeed him as Geomancer. (Solar #10)
[edit] 1986 AD
[edit] February
[edit] 19
- Geoff McHenry returns to his parents, after a year spent with his uncle, former Geomancer Buck McHenry. (Solar #10)
[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
- Geomancer Geoff McHenry is warned by the Earth of the coming of the "Sun Demon" Solar. (Solar #10)
[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
- Geomancer Geoff McHenry is committed to Kings County Hospital's psychiatric ward by his parents. (Solar #10)
[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
- Jack Boniface, now Shadowman, captures a serial killer that has been stalking New Orleans.
- Due to Ken Clarkson's repeated betrayals, Aric gives him a new arm made from the X-O Manowar armor to prevent future betrayals.
- Torque is slain by an Eggbreaker named Rock.
[edit] 31
- Gilad Abrams is reunited with Joe Nicoletti (see 1968) at the Harbinger building in Bolivar, Missouri. (Solar #10)
[edit] April
- Gilad is recruited by Geoff the Geomancer to fight alongside earth's heroes in the Unity Conflict.
- Solar battles Fred Bender—his greatest enemy.
- Archer and Armstrong are taken prisoner by the Sect and escape after a running battle through the Vatican.
[edit] 1
- With the help of Toyo Harada, Gilad has Geomancer Geoff McHenry released from Kings County Hospital. (Solar #10)
[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
- After recently relocating to California with Gayle Nordheim, Solar is convinced by Toyo Harada to go after the remaining spider aliens on the moon.
- 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
- Aric and Turok go dinosaur hunting in the tunnels beneath Central Park.
- 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.
[edit] 1994 AD
- Maxim Saint James found comatose at Louisiana State Hospital.
[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
- Toyo Harada starts the first Corporate War.
[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
[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
- John Stanchek manages to destroy Toyo Harada by transferring his mind into Harada's body. He takes control of the Harbinger Foundation's forces.
[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
[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).