Timeline of the Valiant Universe

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This is a fictional timeline of the Valiant Comics universe.

Contents 1 3500 BC 2 3270 BC 3 3268 BC 4 3266 BC 5 3257 BC 6 3250 BC 7 3219 BC 8 2614 BC 9 circa 2589 to 2566 BC 10 210 BC 11 385 AD 12 399 AD 13 408 AD 14 409 AD 15 1192 AD 16 1802 AD 17 1805 AD 18 1840 AD 19 1854 AD 20 1862 AD 21 1895 AD 22 1912 AD 23 1940 AD 24 1947 AD 25 1968 AD 26 1977 AD 27 1984 AD 27.1 July 28 1985 AD 28.1 February 28.1.1 19 29 1986 AD 29.1 February 29.1.1 19 30 1987 AD 31 1989 AD 32 1990 AD 32.1 September 32.1.1 27 33 1991 AD 33.1 January 33.2 March 33.3 April 33.3.1 17 33.4 June 33.5 November 34 1992 AD 34.1 March 34.1.1 31 34.2 April 34.2.1 1 34.3 May 34.4 August 34.5 November 34.6 December 35 1993 AD 36 1994 AD 36.1 June 37 1999 AD 38 2003 AD 38.1 May 39 2020 AD 39.1 March 40 2025 AD 40.1 February 41 2028 AD 41.1 June 42 2055 AD 42.1 August 43 2056 AD 43.1 December 44 2062 AD 44.1 June 45 2430 AD 45.1 Summer 46 2900 AD 46.1 Fall 47 2987 AD 47.1 December 48 2989 AD 48.1 November 49 2990 AD 49.1 February 50 3050 AD 50.1 August 51 3216 AD 51.1 May 52 3975 AD 52.1 April 53 3988 AD 53.1 April 54 3992 AD 54.1 March 55 4000 AD 55.1 August 56 4001 AD 56.1 March 57 References

[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

• 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

• Aric the Visigoth is born in Dacia.

[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 "slays" Gilad in northern Italy.

• 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

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

[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

• Turok leaves the Lost Land, appearing in Colombia.

[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 transforms 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

• 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

• 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 transferring 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

• 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).