Mission Critical/Timeline

This is a backstory timeline, extrapolated out of the narrations and the descriptions as well as the sequel novel. It is intended to give to the player a simple understanding of the game universe.


 * 2048	UNSEC moves an asteroid in Earth's orbit
 * 2050	Earth is populated by 8.5 billion humans
 * 2055	Tal-Seto jump points are discovered. Turing Processing Cores are invented
 * 2060	UN Security Council poses a ban to 'life-emulating technology'
 * 2063	General Assembly makes the ban permanent with Resolution 1212
 * 2082	The Alliance of Free States declares their secession from the UN
 * 2110	Dr. Alan Paho launches CATALYST
 * 2111	UN attacks after a tense peace. Secession War begins
 * 29/12/2114	USN Bunker Hill-class light cruiser" Lexington" is commissioned
 * 2121	Lexington is blasting into action at four gravities during the battle for Delta Pavonis V
 * 2130	"Why we fight" holovid is published
 * 2131	Beth Erenor Kalb creates three paintings on Lexington's history
 * 15/2/2134	Final crew manifest for Mission 161
 * 20/2/2134	James Poole donates a display miniature of Lexington to the command. In reality it hides a bomb.
 * 22/2/2134	Departure of mission 161
 * 18/3/2134	Nuclear Plant Casualty Drill
 * 19/3/2134	Lexington makes an FTL jump
 * 21/3/2134	Poole grills Olivar about the upgrades
 * 23/3/2134	Rumors among the crew that the mission is about an Earth-type world
 * 24/3/2134	Nuke emergency drill
 * 28/3/2134	Magrath and Aguilar try to guess their locations
 * 4/4/2134	Lexington makes another FTL jump
 * 8/4/2134	Tension on the ships is getting worse
 * 15/4/2134	Journal entry
 * 20/4/2134	Poole and Narang had a heated argument
 * 1/5/2134 08:00	Another Jump
 * 4/5/2134	Quan notes that Poole runs around the ship nervously
 * 5/5/2134
 * 14:07	Meeting in the General Quarters
 * 14:36	Acceleration warnings
 * 15:10	Secured from GQ
 * 6/5/2134	Poole seems to know about the battle
 * 7/5/2134	Gaiser and Slocum have a big fight about Gaiser's pony tail.
 * 16/5/2134	Quan learns of Poole's affair with Falcon. Player may spot evidence of motive, to copy unsecured codes.
 * 22/5/2134	Sixth FTL jump
 * 28/5/2134	Lexington arrives at Persephone system
 * 10/6/2134	One of the coolant pumps in Section B goes out
 * 11/6/2134	Poole is caught by Quan hanging around the Weapons Bays
 * 15/6/2134	Poole is followed by Quan and then goes to Dahl's room
 * 16/6/2134	Poole is suspected by Quan to be either an Alliance Special Ops or a UN agent.
 * 17/6/2134	Quan realizes that Poole is not an Alliance Special Ops
 * 18/6/2134	Quan determines that Poole is definitely a UN agent
 * 19/6/2134	Lexington closes to Persephone
 * 22/6/2134	Poole is getting uptight and nervous
 * '''22/6/2134
 * 22:30:14	Multiple beam and missile hits cause a criticality one fault in the primary power reactor coolant system
 * 22:31:21	Main data cores overloaded by enemy energy pulse; Transfer to secondary cores failed; General systerm failure. Autonomic functions delegated to system nodes
 * 22:31:22	DCS sensors detect an enemy energy pulse around the main data cores. The backup systems did not trip; Contact with the main system is lost. Autonomic ship functions have been delegated tolocal nodes
 * 22:31:24	Autonomic functions took over by small systems
 * 22:31:45	Beams and missile hits cease.
 * 22:45:07	Internal sensors detect an impact and subsequent decompression in Deck 2 Stateroom 2B. A Warning is issued
 * 22:51:40	Deck 2 under Damage Control Condition Z
 * 10/2134	The Alliance relief fleet arrives at Persephone and wins the UN fleet, which bombards the installation
 * 2141	Washington treaty between UN and Alliance
 * 2187	A human colonly ship is launched
 * 2234	Starhome's atmosphere will be breathable
 * 2281	UN controls 20 billion and 20 worlds
 * 2284	First sentient ELFs on Prometheus B
 * 2295	Player arrives to the future

Alternate timeline
This timeline is triggered after sucessful completion of the game
 * '''22/6/2134
 * 20:30	Player's memory from the future returns to the present
 * 22:30	Battle of Persephone begins once more, but this time Lexington emerges victorious defeating Dharma with the help of HYPE
 * 2138	Lewis Tyrell is arrested by the Alliance
 * 2295	Player arrives to the future once more
 * 2300	Player narrates his memories