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                           SECTION TWO: 2022
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     Last Updated: 1/18/99

     As the ASH Universe has grown, especially thanks to the DEEP ARMAGEDDON
crossover and its fallout, the Timeline has become a bit unwieldy.  As a
result, it has now been broken up by year.  This file will cover the stories
that took place in 2022, which is where the Sourcebook's timeline left off.

SUMMER 2022

     Thomas Malfeas awakens from the coma he's lived his entire life in
[Warden #1].  He breaks out of the hospital in New York City and vanishes for
a few weeks.
     The first-ever graduate studies class starts at the Academy on August
15.  Fourteen students start the program, not all will finish.  [Academy #0]
     A few weeks into the term, Carlos Rodriguez, cousin to graduate student
"Essay" Rodriguez, dies of "burnout."  A number of the grads start to wonder
if the cases of burnout over the years really stem from a more sinister
cause.  [Academy #1]
     During a late-summer storm, flier Jen Kleinvogel rescues Carlos's
pregnant girlfriend Lana Smith from a suicide attempt.  [Academy #2]

AUTUMN 2022

     In October, the grads investigating the burnout cases started to attract
attention from their classmates, resulting in a slight rift among the
students, a rift encouraged by the real cause of the student deaths, a
Khadamite agent who had assumed the form of one of the students very early
on.  [Academy #3]
     The tensions of this split were aggravated when the students were called
out on a mission to Montana Sector to deal with some Pranir organleggers.
One of the students, Arin Kelsey, proves unable to handle the strain and
retreats into catatonia.  [Academy #4-6]
     As the snows of November started to fall, young Nate Walker encountered
a Khadamite Artificial Intelligence on the 'net and stumbled across the
components needed to revive the fictional Legion of Net.Heroes.  [Academy #7
and Legion of Net.Heroes 2022 #0]
     Paul Mahler, Academy graduate who had moved on to advanced training at
MetaPsych, returned about this time to help revive both Arin Kelsey and
JakZak Taylor (who had suffered a backlash from trying to use his powers to
divine the identity of the suspected killer).  Due to a combination of
psychic "leakage" and the muddled results of JakZak's divination attempts,
JakZak woke up convinced he was somehow the "burnout" killer, but Mahler and
Aaron Zander were able to determine that this was a false memory.  [Academy
#7-8]
     Throughout the late fall, Warden was active in New York City, wiping out
smaller paragangs and attracting the attention of both Bathory and the Onyx
Eye Tong.  [Warden #1-3]

WINTER 2022

     On Christmas Eve, with the help of information gathered by the Legion of
Net.Heroes [LNH 2022 #1], the mystery of the murderer was solved.  The
shapeshifting, power-absorbing killer was confronted by JakZak and the
original Solar Max, and apparently killed.  Unknown to most, he was instead
teleported up to the orbiting base of the pre-disaster supervillain known as
Devastator and his body taken over by the dimensionally-split mastermind.  A
few days later, as 2023 started, the twelve survivors of the graduate class
were granted their advanced degrees, splitting into the powerhouse team ASH
(Academy of Super-Heroes) and the more espionage-oriented STRAFE (Superhuman
Tactical Resources and Affiliated-Field Experts).  [Academy #8]

     Continued in SECTION THREE: 2023