Timeline of the Arc 3 Universe | 2140s

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Events within the Timeline of the Arc 3 Universe that transpire between 2140 and 2149.

2140

• Two of Atlas International's subsidiaries, Atlas Continental Energy and Atlas Research Systems, develop Artificial-Space Energy, an artificial and eco-friendly replacement to the F-Space Energy being developed by the Mirage Corporation. However, the Mirage Corporation's F-Space Energy remains the world's number one choice due to its superior energy output. Atlas International nonetheless continues developing A-Space Energy in the event F-Space Energy becomes obsolete.
• Atlas Continental Energy cuts off all F-Space Energy in Atlas-controlled areas, replacing it with A-Space Energy.
• Roxanne Summers graduates from high school at the age of 17. She soon comes out as a lesbian.
• Roxanne Summers is scouted out by Vega shortly after her 18th birthday and becomes a member of Techno, a life-long dream of hers. She gains the callsign Rox, a shortened version of her first name.
• Chloe Palmer graduates from high school at the age of 18. She enrolls at Midnight City University to earn a doctorate in robotics engineering.

2141

• Atlas International establishes Lunar City on the Moon, becoming the first megacorporation to form a city-state on a celestial body outside Earth.
• Nakata Hayashi recommends the brother duo Biggs and Wedge to Techno.
• Samantha Reed graduates from Midnight City University with a medical major. She takes a scholarship with the Atlas Graduate Sponsorship Program and becomes a combat medic for the Midnight City Security Force.
• Elisa May is promoted to the rank of executive officer.

2142

• Danielle Greer meets Stratus while hanging out at the New Elpis Nightclub. He offers her a job with Techno after bonding over their love for music and technology. Danielle accepts his offer, becoming the Techno operative "Rhythm" and rising to become Stratus' second-in-command as a Tech Agent.
• Rhythm creates the Beat Drop blaster.
• Renee Lynch graduates from Midnight City University.

2143

• Rox is promoted to Recon Agent Lead and given Demi's former seat on the Techno Inner Circle.
• Atlas International begin plans to expand their reach further into the galaxy and establish more galactic mega-cities.
• A Techno mission gone sour as a result of Siren and Vendetta's clashing leadership styles puts them at odds with each other.
• The Mirage Corporation develops an interest of whether direct human harnessing of F-Space Energy was possible or not. A research project called Project X is formed from this interest, and a synthetic body titled Subject X undergoes construction to be used as a placeholder subject to prevent initial human exposure to the experiments.
• P.A.R.A.D.O.X. is established. Melissa Anders and Elisa May are appointed as the group's Director and Deputy Director respectively.

June

• Gwendolyn Tennyson graduates from high school and later enrolls at Midnight City University.

9th

• Rebecca Chambers graduates from Midnight City University with a doctorate in biomedical sciences.

July

2nd

• Siren's leadership is called into question following another mission gone bad. The leaders of Techno's Inner Circle, with help from former member Demi, gather at Techno Headquarters to decide on a vote to see whether or not Siren can maintain leadership within the group with changes to her style or be demoted to a lower position within Techno.
• Vendetta and Demi vote in favor of demoting her, while Stratus and Vega vote in favor of her retaining her position with some changes. Rox is left as the deciding vote.
• Siren interrupts the meeting despite Vendetta telling her not to, and she catches Rox voting to demote her. As a result of Rox's vote, the majority decides that Siren be demoted from her position.
• Siren becomes furious at this, blaming Rox since she knew her stance on the matter, and attempts to attack her. Siren is quickly detained by Vendetta and Vega, and Vendetta quickly revokes Siren's position within Techno entirely.
• Vendetta forces Siren to leave the premises, who begrudgingly complies.
• Demi returns to the Mirage Corporation Headquarters following the meeting.
• Echo, Delta, Joker, Ketch and Gerlock all defect from Techno out of loyalty to Siren.

August

22nd

• The Mirage Corporation finishes the construction of Subject X and prepare to undergo F-Space experimentations on it. Details of the project are soon leaked to various hackers and criminals, who seek to obtain the test subject for their own needs.

24th

• Cyber Kat is recruited into Techno by Vendetta and Envoy. She placed in a team comprised of herself, Amber Summers and Phantom.
• While undergoing Project X experiments in the underground labs, the main Mirage Corporation Headquarters is attacked by a militant group comprised of mercenaries hired by the various hackers and criminals seeking to gain further profit from the Mirage Corporation's research.
• The events of the original timeline originally occur at this point in time, though after this section of the timeline plays out and is placed within a Timeline Loop, it is subsequently altered, causing different events in the main Arc 3 timeline play out instead.
• During the attack, the F-Space Energy in the Central Vault is suddenly depleted, as Blackout's actions to purge the energy in the loop that sustains the new history affects it.
• An explosion triggered during the raid destroys the Mirage Corporation Headquarters. Demi is among the casualties of the destruction.

25th

• Techno is informed of Demi's death. Vendetta deeply mourns the passing of his sister.

September

15th

• The Mirage Corporation is forced to declare backruptcy. Atlas International buys out what is left of the Mirage Corporation and its assets. Siren witnesses a news report of this in Neomuna and storms off, only to be approached by The Dealer, secretly the leader of the Twilight Collective. The two quickly form a deal and establish the Forsaken.

22nd

• Siren recruits her loyalists that abandoned Techno to join the Forsaken.

October

2nd

• Techno is fully acquired by Atlas International and reworked into a P.A.R.A.D.O.X. counter-terrorism task force. They are subsequently relocated to Midnight City. Construction of Techno Tower in the Los Angeles District begins.
• Lady Klara Riley of the Neon Raiders forges an alliance with Siren and the Forsaken, promising to further support their efforts in exchange for assisting the Neon Raiders with a coordinated attack on the Drifters.

3rd

• The Son, Sif and Freyja arrive at the Arc 3 universe after determining that Jessika Hudson was in fact the current reincarnation of Sophia, The Daughter.
• The three Nexus beings locate Jessika and the rest of the Drifters at an abandoned warehouse in Neomuna. After some convincing, The Son is able to regain Sophia's trust.
• Jessika tells the Nexus beings of the Drifters and their individual histories.
• The Drifters' warehouse is attacked by a joint strike team comprised of the Neon Raiders and the Forsaken. The Nexus beings help the Drifters fend off their attackers.
• With the outcome of the battle swaying in favor of the Drifters and their allies, Siren and her forces decide to cut their losses and abandons Klara and the Neon Raiders, leaving them to the mercy of the Drifters and Nexus beings.
• Klara is ultimately killed by her niece Scarlet Riley. The surviving Neon Raiders escape and regroup under the leadership of Dominique "Cataclysm" Tam.
• The Drifters disband and go their separate ways after defeating the Neon Raiders. Jessika and Sally leave with the three Nexus beings, Casey Dawson and Marina Dawson leave to accept their adoptive father's invitation to return to him, and Emily Sanders and Scarlet leave for parts unknown.

5th

• Samantha Reed accepts Melissa Anders's offer to join Techno as their own medical officer.

6th

• Gideon is selected by Melissa Anders to help assess and train Techno members.

9th

• Casey and Marina return to Jaxun Blackburn III, who apologizes for trying to force the twins into continuing his family's business. Jaxun promises to support their futures and allow them to shape it however way they wanted.

11th

• Jaxun Blackburn III lets Casey and Marina enroll at Midnight City University during the university's fall break period. Casey decides to major in augmentation, while Marina decides to major in artificial intelligence.

19th

• Samantha Reed meets with the senior members of Techno in Midnight City. She soon chooses the callsign "Pulse" for herself.

20th

• Siren learns of Techno's relocation to Midnight City. She subsequently finds an abandoned warehouse nearby the site of their new base in the Los Angeles District and illegially acquires the building for the Forsaken's usage as a listening post. Ketch is placed in charge of the facility.

November

10th

• Construction for Techno Tower is completed. Members of Techno begin to settle into the building. Rox leaves for Paradise Island to visit family and pick up belongings from Techno's former apartment.

12th

• Rox finishes collecting her belongings from the former Techno Headquarters and messages Vendetta that she would be leaving New Elpis shortly to head to Midnight City.
• Abigail-Ignotus arrives in the Arc 3 universe after being displaced from her original universe. She lands near Rox, who rushes to her aid.
• After a brief conversation regarding Abigail-Ignotus' sitation, the two are ambushed by Delta and Joker, who were sent by Siren to kill Rox while she was separated from the rest of the team.
• Abigail-Ignotus and Rox managed to defeat Delta and Joker, knocking them unconscious. Rox steals a radio from Delta and the two girls flee New Elpis in Rox's hovercar.
• Rox calls Vendetta to inform him of what happened, explaining that she would be joined by Abigail-Ignotus.
• A P.A.R.A.D.O.X. unit tipped-off by Vendetta arrests Delta and Joker, who were still unconscious by the time the unit arrived to arrest them.
• Rox and Abigail-Ignotus formally introduce themselves to one another, beginning the start of their close relationship that would develop further over the course of the next couple days.
• Rox and Abigail-Ignotus stop at a hotel for the night during their trip to Midnight City.

13th

• Rox and Abigail-Ignotus arrive at Techno Tower in Midnight City.
• Rox explains some of the Arc 3 universe's recent history to Abigail-Ignotus as they work to transport Rox's belongings to her suite.
• Rox gifts Abigail-Ignotus the spare room in her suite.
• Stratus contacts Rox and Abigail-Ignotus, introducing himself to the latter. He informs Rox to bring herself and Abigail-Ignotus to the nerve center for a debrief.
• Rox brings Abigail-Ignotus down to the nerve center, where she introduces her to the other Techno Inner Circle Heads.
• The Inner Circle Heads discuss Siren and her motives, and Rox reveals the radio she took from Delta.
• Stratus modifies the radio to visually tell the team where the other radio it was connected to was located at on the nerve center's monitor, believing it would point them in Siren's direction.
• Stratus contacts the other radio while disguising his voice at Delta's. Ketch responds on the other radio, and the location of the other radio appears on the map at an abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of the Los Angeles District.
• Techno devises an operation to assault the warehouse and acquire intel from it to deduce Siren's location. Stratus and Vendetta work to give Abigail-Ignotus a Techno outfit, callsign and weapon. Abigail-Ignotus chooses the callsign Soteria.
• Soteria undergoes training in a virtual reality combat simulation before the mission.
• At nightfall, Techno arrive at the abandoned warehouse. Vendetta guides Rox and Soteria to knock out the patrols outside the warehouse, including the patrol commander Gerlock.
• Vega and Stratus link up with Vendetta, Rox and Soteria in a Techno van, delivering additional supplies for the raid.
• Techno breach the warehouse after blocking all of the other exterior exits with door wedges and neutralizing the security cameras outside of the building.
• Techno corners Ketch in his office, though in the struggle, Soteria unintentionally unleashes the cosmic powers she was hiding to incapacitate Ketch after he attacked her.
• Soteria flees the building out of fear and posts up outside. Rox finds her, and comes to learn of Soteria's origins.
• After much talk, Rox helps Soteria overcome her worries and reassures her everything was going to be alright. Once Soteria recovered, the two admitted their love for one other and officially start a romantic relationship.
• The other Inner Circle Heads learn of Rox and Soteria's relationship, congratulating them.
• Stratus finishes securing all digitial information from Ketch's computers regarding the scale of Siren's operations.
• Soteria reveals her origins to the others, who accept her like Rox did. Techno returns back to Techno Tower to analyze the intel.
• A P.A.R.A.D.O.X. clean-up team arrives to arrest Gerlock, Ketch and the other mercenaries incapacitated by Techno during their mission.
• Through the intel they collected from the warehouse, the team learns that Siren was in command of the Forsaken and was being paid by an unknown individual. Siren's base is soon discovered to be within Neon City.
• Per Techno's request, Melissa Anders comes to an agreement with 501st Council member Konstantin Köhler to allow Techno to temporarily operate in Neon City to stop Siren.

14th

• Techno assaults Forsaken Headquarters in Border District, Neon City during a kill/capture mission against Siren.
• Echo and Siren are killed during Techno's operation, the former having been crushed to death by debris while the latter perished while attempting to kill Techno using a bomb vest.
• Abigail-Ignotus legally adopts the name Paige Bishop and becomes an official member of Techno.
• The Forsaken is disbanded following Siren's death. The Dealer observes the aftermath of Techno's mission from a distant rooftop, visibly grinning over the outcome.

16th

• Helena Maxton, the fusion of Heather Mason and Lena Oxton, is sent to the Arc 3 universe by Sophia, where she meets Casey and Marina.
• Jaxun Blackburn III is convinced by his adopted daughters to adopt Helena Maxton, allowing her to obtain citizenship within Midnight City.

18th

• Helena Maxton enrolls at Midnight City University after breezing through her entry exams using her heightened intellect. She decides to major in biotechnology.
• Paige Bishop is granted citizenship in Midnight City by the Atlas Council. She designates November 14th as her official birthday.

19th

• Paige Bishop undergoes specialist training from Captain Gideon.

2144

July

• Paige Bishop proposes to Rox, who gleefully accepts. The two are wed in the lounge of Techno Tower, attended by numerous Techno agents and high-ranking officials from Atlas International.

2145

• Helena Maxton conceptualizes her own research institute called Nightfall.

2146

June

• Helena Maxton and Chloe Palmer graduate from Midnight City University, the former graduating ahead of her class. Using grant money obtained from her research, Helena establishes Nightfall Headquarters.