The Cthulhu Rising Mythos: Events:
A (incomplete) timeline of important Mythos events occurring between the present day and the Cthulhu Rising future.
2061:Arkham Sanatorium burns down. |
2083:Arkham Sanatorium rebuilt at a location close to the original. |
2183:Human Horizons Press offices burn down. Jonathan Monroe, author of a book the publishing house was about to publish, is arrested in connection with the fire. He later commits suicide while in police custody. |
2188:Prof Giles Sutton establishes the Sutton Institute, in Manchester, UK. |
2203:Professor Sutton and several other founding members of the Institute are killed in what is reported to be a freak boating accident off the island of Ponape. |
2214The Earth Children cult, an extreme offshoot of the Earth Isolationist Movement, grows in power. Eventually stories of kidnappings and holding members against their will pushes the Federal authorities to take action. A Waco style siege ensues. Federal troops storm the cult’s heavily defended compound in Texas, but the cult’s enigmatic leader, the Reverend Jebediah Stone, is nowhere to be found. |
2242:Attempts to create a digital copy of the Necronomicon by EnerTek Corp's R&D division on Earth end in disaster when a computer virus is somehow introduced into the corporation's computer networks. EnerTek suffers critical data loss. Cultists of Nyarlathotep responsible. The disaster is the cause of EnerTek's eventual collapse. |
2244The Crawling Chaos computer virus crashes the Global Stock Exchange network, causing chaos amongst the business community. It is attributed to a group of computer hackers called the Exiles who were worshippers of Nyarlathotep. |
2254:MiliSci HQ on Mars is totally destroyed, when an explosion rips through the complex. Explosion caused by certain alien devices taken to the complex from an undisclosed site (Mi-Go?). |
2258Military Sciences Division transfer the bulk of their activities to a top secret location, a space station code named 'Pandora'. |
2260:A Cenargo Corp. funded survey team on Mars discovers alien ruins at the bottom of the Coprates Chasma. MiliSci takes over the excavations. The find is classified as Top Secret. The area is sealed off to the public and the site is placed under heavy guard. Unknown to MiliSci, Cenargo has already taken certain items, including extensive photographic evidence of a set of stone tablet fragments inscribed with alien writings. |
2261Attempts to develop Slipgate / Teleportation technology using 9 dimensional space-time goes horribly wrong at a MiliSci lab in the Nevada Desert. A subspace rift is created, opening a gateway to an extra-dimensional pocket inhabited by servitors of the Great Old Ones, imprisoned for aeons. In the ensuing fighting, MiliSci manage to send a team in to shut the slipgate down, avoiding the need to nuke the site (adventures CR01/CR02). |
2262:A Colour Out Of Space attacks Mayfield, a colony in the Outer Colonies. It is eventually contained using a magnetic field generator, taken from an unused fusion reactor. MiliSci organise a cover-up. |
2263Professor Kitover, a MiliSci scientist, translates the Coprates Fragments and promptly goes insane and destroys his lab, including the Fragments. |
2267:Contact with Robinson, a colony in the Outer Rim Territories is lost. CMC S&R team dispatched. Upon arriving they discover the colony base burnt to ashes, with only one survivor, raving about how 'the stars swarmed on us and killed everyone'. MiliSci organise a cover-up. |
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