Timeline

Past / Pre-Apocalypse

• Prehistoric times (~40.000-10.000 BC) One of the Sniper's earliest ancestors discovers the Captain's mug in the ice of a glacier.
• 20-something-something: The biosphere of the Earth has started to change due to radioactive and chemical pollution. Wildlife-mutations begin to spread, humans live in protected domes like the city of Eureka. The outside is referred to as the Dead Zone.
• Good Directorate starts copyrighting basic human needs such as sleep and dreams.
• Dr. Alexander Gromov (Engineer) programs the search engine ANNET, 99% of humanity begins to connect to the Internet 24/7.
• Charles Snippy (Sniper) finds out that he belongs to the other 1% who can't connect to the ANNET. He is unable to sleep peacefully as his dreams are full of apocalyptic nightmares, not to mention that he can't afford to buy more than 4.2 hours of dreams per day.
• ANNET becomes self-aware.
• The Engineer starts Project Seven to find the luckiest human in the world.
• Project Seven is a sucess- the luckiest human on the planet is found and named "Subject Seven".
• A series of experiments is run on "Subject Seven" to test the subject's potential.
• Subject Seven is raised to the rank of a Captain.
• The Captain aquires a stylish coffee mug of unknown origin.
• The Sniper, working as an officer for G-Directorate requests a transfer to the "Dead Zone Tourism Department", to get out of the ANNET's transmission range, since the signal from the transmitter towers is causing him headaches.
• The Sniper  starts to sabotage the ANNET servers at every opportunity, the 1% are planning to take out the transmitter towers.
• A group of scientists, guided by the Sniper is killed while investigating the anomaly 441 (wishing well?) in the Dead Zone, only Snippy survives.
• The Pilot breaks his neural interface, loosing his connection to the ANNET and with this most of his long term memory as well.
• The Pilot begins to worship Captain as a messiah.
• The Captain "accidentally" spills tea over ANNET's serverbanks, causing her to kill off, or zombify, all humans connected to her.
• The Engineer escapes ANNET due to his high level Admin privileges and orders an immediate nuclear strike on ANNET's main-servers and the city-dome of Eureka.
• The Engineer locks himself in a bunker.
• The Pilot and the Captain go on the mission to nuke the city of Eureka.

Present / Post-Nuclear Apocalypse

• The Pilot and Captain's mission is successful, but their plane crashes shortly afterwards.
• Captain rescues Pilot out of their crashed plane by (according to Pilot) stopping time.
• Captain decides to found a new country called "Captania" - ruled by the Captain himself/herself.
• The Sniper meets the Captain in the Dead Zone and becomes his sniper-minion.
• The Captain crashes a jet-powered monorail into the underground Church of the Lemonade Cultists.
• The Captain sends the Pilot on a mission to build him a flying machine.
• The Pilot uses balloons to make many objects soar away, including Photoshop.
• September Something, Something: Photoshop tries attacking the Sniper.
• 31. October something something: Rememberances of the Past Day
• 01. November something something: Flying Day .
• The Pilot constructs a flying machine out of balloons. The Sniper is sent flying with it and is then eaten by a whale.
• The Sniper lives inside the whale. While inside he meets a UPS guy and receives a letter from the Pilot. the Sniper then escapes from the whale.
• The Sniper finds a Geiger counter and discovers that the Captain seems to be the most radioactive thing around the wasteland.
• The Sniper is abducted by aliens.
• The Captain rescues the Sniper and destroys the alien spaceship.
• The Biomass is sent to Earth by the "Alien Invader's Union."
• The Sniper is captured by hostile wastelanders.
• The Biomass kills all of the hostile wastelanders, and begins to turn their corpses into puppets.
• The Sniper escapes the Biomass and manages to meet up with the Captain.
• Mr. Kittyhawk betrays the Pilot by giving his location to the Biomass.
• The Pilot and the Sniper are captured and integrated into the Biomass.
• The Biomass searches through Snippy's and Pilot's shared memories to find Captain's weakness.
• A lost, mutated string of the Biomass transforms itself into the Lifealope.
• Dr. Gromov leaves his bunker to investigate an oxygen-pump's failure, he encounters the Biomass and a drone of the still operating ANNET.
• ANNET uses an orbital ion cannon to obliterate the Biomass and anything else in the vicinity. Only the Captain is far enough away to not get hit.
• The' Sniper, the Pilot and the Engineer are revived by the powers of the "Lifealope."
• The Captain turns the remains of the Biomass into a fashionable scarf.
• The Engineer joins the Captain's squad under the codename 'Engie'.
• The Captain has attracted a "Stalky Stalker."
• Stalky is hunting the Lifealope.
• The Sniper is attacked by a hostile snowflake.
• The Sniper decides to investigate the secrets of the coffee mug that the Captain carries around.
• A plot to murder the Captain is uncovered, culprits being the mug, the straw and a ladybug, Snippy questions his sanity.
• The Pilot runs away to warn the Governor
• The Captain sends the Sniper to find the Pilot but Pilot has vanished.
• Lifealope reactivates and controls a G-Directorate battlestation mecha from inside
• Stalky tries to reconquer the Liferobot from the Lifealope but is captured instead.
• Lifealope reads Stalky's memories.
• Lifealope leaves Stalky in a stasispod
• Snippy and Captain argue about the mug, Snippy is about to destroy the mug for its treachery.
• The Arbitrator arrives on Earth.
• Snippy is briefly desintegrated and revived by the Arbitrator.
• The Arbitrator confuses Snippy with the Captain, because of the mug.
• Snippy finds Captain's gasmask, hat and scarf in his backpack.
• Snippy discovers the scarf is the Biomatrix.
• Arbitrator launches a dark matter drop into the Earth's Atmosphere, which opens up a black hole there.
• The Arbitrator binds Snippy, Biomatrix and the mug in a stasis field to take them to the space-court of Universe Compendium.
• On Snippy's request the Biomatrix makes him relive a memory as far away from the moment of the Earth's slow destruction as possible.
• Snippy relives the memory of a caveman in prehistoric times.
• In Sniper's genetic memories the Biomatrix discoveres an object that does not belong into the past.
• Captain decides to get rid of the black hole.
• Snippy sees the possible future of a woman named Amber in the dreamworld created by the Biomatrix.
• Pilot fights against a whole swarm of ladybug drones, and is abducted by them to the ANNET's flying fortress.
• ANNET tries to reintegrate Pilot into the grid with a new neural interface.
• The black hole collapses after the Captain "drinks" it with his straw.
• The mug awakens, and deploys an ion-micro ray to destroy the Arbitrator and his ship.
• The Arbitrator, his ship and his forcefield (containing the Sniper, the Biomass and the mug) are destroyed by the mug.
• The Sniper, Biomass Scarf and the mug are falling out of Earth's orbit, and end up crashlanding on the Captain.
• Drones begin to destroy green life that was probably created by the Lifealope.
• An ANNET drone discovers Stalky in the stasispod.
• The squad (still missing the Pilot) reunites at the headquarters.
• The Engineer meets Photoshop.
• The Captain sends the Sniper and the Engineer on a mission to end the winter.
• While on their mission, the Engineer encounters an Annet-Controlled Zombie Horde.
• The Engineer sets fire to the building and begins his escape, citing "firewall" as his reasoning for setting the building ablaze when asked by the Sniper.
• The Pilot , in ANNET's command, begins his hunt against the Sniper and the Engineer.

Future / After Captain

• Future, 200-? AC (After Captain): The planetary ecosystem of the Earth is being repaired by offspring of the lifealope the lifewalkers.
• Future, 200-? AC: The Biomatrix has spread out over the whole planet in a global net of avatars, absorbing creatures after their deaths. Humans accept it as a form of the 'afterlife'.
• Future, 200-? AC: A governor rules the country from the capitol.
• Future, 200-? AC: Mods and Admins, who are offsping and students of Engie, are starting a revolt in the capitol after gaining control of the orbital ion cannon, when discovering Engie's lost journal.
• The Knights of the Chalice, future minions of Captain ("infinite chalice" being the Mug) warn Amber of Snippy to leave.
• Future, 200-? AC: The Mods are using their powers to kill the local hosts, among them Amber of Snippy.