Rifts Timeline (Part 4)

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 7839

81 P.A. (2367 A.D.)

Arr'thuu, future King of New Camelot, is born. 83 P.A. (2369 A.D.)

An ancient dragon named Melastirth arrives in the First City of the Lizard Men. He preached of the Cult of Dragonwright (a pleasant little organization brought to you by your friends the Splugorth) and a Lizard Man by the name of Stleet Otter-Eater strikes down their leader and proclaims the Cult to be dominant. Stleet proclaimed High King of the Kingdom of Lagarto.

A group of newcomers arrives in Newtown who were extremely rich and completely unknown. Two years later, a deal would be struck to form UltraTech Incorporated.

85 P.A. (2371 A.D.)

The Battle of Humari in South America between the Arkhon and the New Empire of the Sun. Over 20,000 Incas died, twice that injured, while the Arkhons lost 12,000 soldiers and 200 combat vehicles. The Arkhons decided not to try any further major attacks. Smart move...if a bit late.

The Coalition establishes a small Psi-Battalion under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Carol Black. It will go on to have an excellent record of success and a fair acceptance by CS citizens.

87 P.A. (2373 A.D.)

The Republic of Japan reappears on Earth after three days in a dimensional pocket turns out to be nearly 300 years. Within the first six hours, nearly 10,000 are dead or missing and 32,100 injured. Welcome to Rifts Earth!

90 P.A. (2376 A.D.)

Doctor Reid and his Rangers first arise around this time, both in form and in rumour. Reid is cyber doc who ran an illegal Chop shop in the Chi-Town Burbs (the slum area around the mega fortress capital city of the Coalition). He found he had to run for his life, and soon set up shop out in the western territory of the North American. A fan of Western, he dresses the part. Has become something of a hero amongst the locals out there, who are plagued by vampires. Reid and his gang go out and kill vampires. Morganna has not met the guy, but has.....a bad feeling about him, despite his good reputation.

91 P.A. (2377 A.D.)

The Colombians destroy all major vampire cities and nearly drive out the Vampire Intelligence that is responsible for the Vampire War, but the creatures manage to survive.

94 P.A. (2380 A.D.)

Victor Lazlo, famous 20th century parapsychologist, is rifted into the New German Republic.

"Tanr, a fan of Lazlo, smiles at the memory of her meeting the man back in Africa....ti had been quiet a meeting!

In what is later called the Anticosti Island Incident, an unknown submarine was detected and driven into shallow waters and depth charged into submission. It was a Kittani minisub and it was discovered that they were delivering weapons to an anti-Coalition group. The Emperor, livid over this gaping hole in the integrity of the Coalition, creates the Naval Advisory Committee.

95 P.A. (2381 P.A.)

The Emperor orders that a Navy be created, the most powerful Navy known, and that it be fully operational by 105 P.A. under the auspices of Admiral Travis Fisher. Which...is interesting and chilling, considering that some of the ships to be brought into this navy are submarines that carry nuclear missiles, for use against the Splugorth....just in case. It was a little itchy for a while there, a while ago with what happened with Prosac and his cronies......

97 P.A. (2383 A.D.)

A sudden explosion of Weapons Manufacturers catch dominant force Northern Gun off guard. For the next few years they struggle to maintain their supremacy, capped off by the founding of Wellington Industries by their ally Manistique.

98 P.A. (2384 A.D.)

Glitter Boy Mark V introduced into mass service by Orbital Colonies.

100 P.A. (2386 A.D.)

Wellington Industries is founded when archaeologists discover a Pre-Rifts weapons manufacturing complex. Manistique enjoys a boom.

Morganna and her family pop into orbit after the ship called the SDF 3, they had been atempting to rescue from aliens called the Invid. They had been successful, just , in driving the buggers off, when the SDF 3's mighty engines, some type of skip drive, gives it's last performance. Extremely damaged, it rips the entire rescue fleet and themselves to orbit above here, and then the SDF 3 people, the Robotech jokers, and everyone else had to hotfoot it down to Earth to escape the fire that they drew form the orbiting Earth forces. We land in what had been designated an emergency landing sight back on both the Robotech Earth and Morganna's Earth.....but it turned out to be the city of Ixion, the city of the Cyber-Horsemen. All in all, it was a pretty surprising day all around for most......

A peaceful relation was finally worked out, and thus begins the end for some people not friendly to non-humans.

Erin Tarn's book "Traversing Our Modern World" released.

Most of Clan Skellian, a True Atlantean clan, are reassembled in Manoa in South America after nearly 300 years of searching for them all.

Coalition troops seize Port Horus in Lone Star, exterminating resistance and setting up a base for the forerunner of the CS Navy. The Emperor makes a speech soon afterwards declaring the intention to build the most powerful Navy in the model of the old American Empire.

The Coalition makes a deal with Golden Age Weaponsmiths to turn over all salvage from Norfolk, Virginia at no cost in exchange for recognition and an exclusive contract.

101 P.A. (2387 A.D.)

The Coalition dispatches troops to Minnesota in reconnaissance for a planned attack in future years.

Morganna, curious as to the status of this world, beyond what the Cyber-Horsemen tell her, goes out with a small band of her children to see the lay of the land. It is quickly apparent, by an encounter with a small troop of Coalition soldiers, that it's eevn worse that what the centaurs had told them. Morganna found them having burned and slaughtered a D bee (dimensional being.....aliens from the Rifts). Some were still in the process of killing the last few children......

That was one patrol that never made it home. The troops soon found out the nature of Morganna and her children.

"Which I'll tell her about later," Morganna smiled.

Soon it became apparnent that while not ALL Coalition troops are out to kill every D bee they find.....something had to be done.

Rugen,goes about seeing if he can find out groups opposed to the Coalition, especially factions within the Coalition. We hit paydirt with the Fifth column inside.

Iron Heart Armaments forms when an industrial group signs an agreement with the people of New Kenora, forming Iron Heart Armaments. They are condemned by the Coalition but New Kenora turns into a boom town within the year. For a while.

In May, Erin Tarn disappears while exploring Mexico.

"Which turned out to be due to me being teleported by an accident by Rift to that other world called Wormwood," Tarn shuddered, remembering the demon invaded place. "I was happy to get back home after a few years there, and pray that those folks succeed in driving off those horrid monsters!"

The city of Newtown is admitted to the Coalition after two years of waiting. UltraTech Incorporated picks up a number of contracts from the Coalition and the city thrives.

102 P.A. (2388 A.D.)

First known deployment of Skelebots (robotic soldiers of rather...inferior articial intelligence) by the Coalition. The program is alternately applauded and derided by Member States and the Coalition is wary of using them, but the experiment is conducted anyway.

Whispered rumors of various dark dealings with the water and food that Coalition citizens eat start to leak. Measures by Coalition officials to stop the leaks fail.

Suspicion builds.

Prosac nearly hits the roof when it is found that key "water treatment" facilities have been tampered with, rendering them inoperative for their intended purposes. Oh, the water is safe to drink, it just doesn't....agree with Prosac's wishes.

ARCHIE is supposedly destroyed by a band of adventurers with the aid of his old idea man, James T. Maryland is inundated with ARCHIE robotic creations and ARCHIE of course still directs them. And that lasted until I met Morganna's group.....

Late in 2388, Plato in Lazlo releases a Planetary Edict based on premonitions of powerful psychics. The first of these threats, the Devourer, manifests in the form of The Mechanoids (cybernetic creatures bent on the destruction of all humans) when ARCHIE experiments with a shifter and accidentally release Mechanoids into the complex. They quickly establish a beachhead in the Cyberworks complex.

"Oops," Morganna quips, looking down at the toaster.

ARCHIE sighs and gets back to his task (almost over).

I learned the hard way that posting Shemarrian warrior robots above my facility was NOT a good idea....after I had been able to expell and destroy every last Mechanoid unit. I and my idea man would NOT play second to some aliens. We were to rule Earth alone.

But, in an effort to increase security around the facility without revealing the true nature of it, I failed to take into account how the neural circuitry of the AI part of the robot warriors would be effected by long term exposure to the small ley line nexxus above. Something struck a responsive cord within the Shemarrian warriors, and suddenly my loyal robotic units suddenly gained a real mind of their own....and I'm suddenly pulled form my #@!^ holding unit and placed under "arrest." My idea man, Hagan Lonovich, is killed trying to escape....and then I'm brought out to meet Morganna.....

IN one fell swoop I go from potential ruler of the world to a knickknack for show!

Rugen takes over the operations of Cyberworks, and the funds from the sale of the robotic products are chenneled into Morganna's and Ixxions' purse.

Naturally, they shift the most advanced items for examination and use for themselves and their allies....

On the 10th of April, 102 P.A., a ship called The Quester under Professor Augusto Cudbury sets off from Lazlo on a South American expedition. His last report is dated September 103 P.A. and no subsequent messages have been received.

Colonel Lyboc receives visitors from Newtown proposing Operation Phoenix Rising. Lyboc pitches it to the Emperor, who subsequently adopts it. People are going to regret it badly accepting this proposal....

In an attack by the True Federation of Magic, Jason Prosek and a number of troops are killed and Joanna Prosek, wife of Karl, is presumed dead. There is a week of official mourning.

103 P.A. (2389 A.D.)

Erin Tarn resurfaces in England and subsequently travels down to Africa and watches the Gathering of Heroes to battle the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. She meets Victor Lazlo who was rifted ahead in time from the late 20th century.

In Africa, four terrible powers of evil emerge in the form of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (demons styled after the Biblical figures...but only are imitations....else how did humanity defeat them, eh?). Their only purpose is to unite and bring about universal destruction. They can't be bargained with, reason with, and so forth. A call for heroes is sent out and they arrive en masse to fight the Four Horsemen, the second of the Horrors outlined in the Planetary Edict of Distress.

Morganna, Rugen, and hirlings hearing the need of help in Africa, get over there ASAP via travel by ley line teleportation.

The "Goddess" Isis is struck with an experimental biowizard microbe sent by Set. She does not remember her Divine origins and is quite unaware that she was a warrior goddess. The microbe is experimental and its duration is unknown. These leads to all sort of headaches for a group that Morganna and Rugen, her husband, had hired for this crisis with the Horsemen.

"Let's see," 179 butts in, looking up at the ceiling and smiling. "After a rather randy member of the team had....something...with that 'goddess' he found out soon that it had been a rather bad idea. He mutated into a lion headed humanoid....and when Isis and the rest of those wastes of space got booted out by me......"

The smile that 179 is a bit bitter, for some reason.

"Took a bit of doing, and turns out it had something to do with what Flagg was doing with the Dark Tower that gave me the go ahead.....in compensation for the chaos it was causing......." the Rule sighs. "If you knew a thousandth of what I and Morganna have seen that these yahoos do....you'd not be surprised at my sentiments for most of them. They left Eath when the chips were down....when the magic was at all times low, and then come back when it's at record levels?! Uh uh, not going to happen. Their chance passed them by, and they don't get a second one from me. Rifts Earth is off limits...and any worship of these "gods" does nothing for them or can they do anything for their worshiper....just like back in the day of low magical tide......when they had abandoned ship so long ago. Shameful if you ask me.

"Oh and as for that randy fellow....he got a bit out of line, and now is a nice little loin pet for the goddess. Oh the joys of a 'goddess' scorned. The 'goddess' took him to a private little place in the Asral plane, so I wasn't able to do anything for the poor slob...."

"Just like the good old days," 179 sighs sadly, looking way at something only he could see.

Tarn looks aghast at Morganna, who nods sadly. Archie winds it up.

The Horsemen are defeated in various heated battles. Losses are high, but the demons are defeated and killed.

The Fifth column gathers strength....and a position to pounce at the right moment of weakness on Prozac's part.

UltraTech Incorporated relocates its Juicer creation facilities to Fort El Dorado after the Coalition bans them from the city. Fort El Dorado becomes a major Juicer hangout.

First reports of skeletal-imaged raiders and bandits in and around North America. They are assumed to be D-Bees and the Coalition deploys its troops more densely in order to compensate for them. Actually, it turns out to be Coalition forces out on maneuvers in new armor and equipment. They were killing two birds with one stone. They field tested the new equipment, and generated fear to justify increases in deployment....to allay suspicion in what will happen next.....

In Lone Star, the Coalition declares Mutant Rats to be a hazard and orders their termination. In a freak accident, a rift opens and about 1,000 of them are rifted to Lone Star City, where they take up residence and breed wildly. Oops.

104 P.A. (2390 A.D.)

The missing Arkhon fleet reappears, provoking a massive space battle. The Arkhons fight off the Earth space fleet but retreat to Mars upon discovering their Faster-Than-Light drives were burnt out. They make the best of their situation.

The New German Republic begins to field test its secret Navy, which it hopes to use to defeat the European problem within a decade.

Los Alamos is offered membership in the Coalition, but it declines. Because they are outfitted with Naruni products, the Coalition wished them to get rid of it all and they would not, earning them the quiet ire of the Coalition.

By the end of the year, tests on Operation Phoenix Uprising are complete and it is given the green light to go to fully operational status. The Emperor officially announces a cure to the Juicer condition.

Curious things like robotic centipedes and such start to show up in various places. The odd thing is they are all clockwork inside, but have intelligence.

With each appearance of these centipedes there is a disappearence of various Coalition patrols...along with other groups on patrol in various...remote locations.

Mind Bleeders are discovered by the Splugorth of Atlantis and are bred for sale. They begin to appear in places previously unknown for them to appear, including North America.

105 P.A. (2391 A.D.)

By the early part of the year, word has spread about the cure available for Juicers. The cure was to allow the juicer to live beyond the destined six year point of death, and live a long and highly augmented life. This is a trick. Most flock to Newtown, deserting old posts and rallying under the new agreement for the cure. Many will come to regret this.

One of Morganna's groups under hire finally discover just WHY all those centipedes are showing up....as well as other groups are disappearing. A mad mage known only as Halister, from Toril - a world in another dimension. The mad mage had somehow gone and increased the magic levels of his world to something like that found on Rifts Earth. He had also turned the whole order of things upside down....but that's a longs story. Morganna's group is currenlty giving weaponry and military advice to a brave but odd mix of dragons, dark elves, elves, and many other races battling the forces of the displaced forces of the Underdark.....don't ask me....I wasn't told the details.

"The leader of the forces I support is a drow...a dark elfin lass called Liriel Baenre....interesting and vibrant woman!" Morganna said. "and she has a real hatred of the leader of the forces of dark...as she put it with a wintry smile....her father....Gromph Baenre....."

Morganna just smiles, and it becomes clear that for the time being she will not reveal what she knows of the stuation.

Tarn swears she's hears of those names before....she just can't place them.

The Juicer cure is revealed to be a fraud after a misunderstanding with two Juicers. The so-called Juicer Army of Liberation rises to do battle with the Coalition, who they blame for the fraud. They soon take over the city of Newtown and the CS is paralyzed by indecision and shock (suckers).

After studying Newtown UTI facilities, it is discovered that the Phoenix Treatment was in fact a plot to gain control of a Juicer army by an alien race. It eventually turned a Juicer into something of a zombie. Still highly dangerous and quick....but without any of the old person inside....just a walking corpse supported by nanites. The Juicers defeat the aliens and the Coalition claims they were pawns of the aliens. Thousands of Juicers return, embittered by the failure.

Then "proof" that the leaders of the Coalition knew all along the detrimental side of the "cure" is found. There is even proof that the D Bees that had so long been the whipping boy of the Coalition had tried to WARN Prosac of the risks....what the aliens were up to....then the reste of the dark plot that Prosac and his cronies had been up to came to light...when some type of data disk stolen by the Disruptor....a hacker under the Fifth Columns pay.....showed itself.

Prosek and those who were fingered on that disk .....only a few made it to trial. The rest were waylaid and lynched by enraged Coalition citizens......

It wasn't pretty.

Now, the Coalition is kind of flopping about trying to decide what to do with itself....but it is certain that all hostilities with non-humans have halted. And if it should start again.....

  1. Veritech fighters will come on out of Ixion and clean every last Coalition military stronghold.

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