//|| //^^\\ || || .|. COHERENT COMICS UNINCORPORATED PRESENTS // || \\ || || --X--------------------------------------------- //======================= '|` ACADEMY OF SUPER-HEROES // || \\ || || ASH Universe Timeline v2.0 // || \\__// || || Copyright 2006 by Dave Van Domelen ___________________________________________________________________________ SECTION FIVE: 2025 ___________________________________________________________________________ Last Updated: 6/3/08 While it is certainly possible that other stories will be written in this year, the main ASH title has moved on to 2026. JANUARY The January issue of _Para_ comes out, and is analyzed by STRAFE, revealing clues hidden within the pictures of the photoessay. [CSV #23] The revelation in _Para_ that Juliana Silvestri had spent the holidays in Khadam does not go over well with Scott "Scorch" Handleman, and tension develops between the couple. [ASH #38] On the 23rd, a bachelor party for Triton on the island of Ibiza is interrupted first by STRAFE and then by Whiteout and Oblivion. The photonics attempt to recruit Triton for their master Doublecross, but fail. Ibiza itself is heavily damaged by the fighting. [CSV #24] At the same time, Triton and Aegis emerge from a static gravity warp (that they had entered in 81 C.E.) and defeat the bachelorette party attendees on Ibiza before escaping. [CSV Annual #2] On the 28th, with the help of Netwalker, Lightfoot enters the net to seek out traces of Doublecross. This triggers a trap [ASH #38], but yields some useful information [ASH #39]. FEBRUARY Valentine's Day marks the wedding of Triton and Sultry. [ASH #39, CSV #25] At the wedding reception, the CSV learns the true fate of Montreal, and also learns that Rebus has an heir. [CSV #25] Devlin Marx buys the Cloisters in Manhattan and starts work on turning it into a casino, convention center and neutral ground. [Time Capsules #5] Triton and Aegis arrive in the hidden city of El Dorado on the 22nd. [CSV Annual #2] MARCH Investigation into the satellite debris bears fruit as a stakeout of a Brazilian biotech firm catches a number of photonics picking up a shipment of materials. As clues begin to mount, Triton lends some help to the cause in the form of modified Lunar Crabs (although he does not share all of his anti-photonic technology). [ASH #39] By mid-month, sensors determine the location of Doublecross's base: the heart of the People's Republic of China. Additionally, radio telescopes around the world are put to work searching for more of the mysterious orbiting reflectors, and they find a pattern. In only a day, they will align to reflect the Sun's light on Paris. [ASH #39] The Equinox sees Doublecross put his plans into motion, an attempt to use the focused sunlight to power a transformation crystal that will turn all the residents of Paris into photonics under his rule. Despite the valiant efforts of ASH, STRAFE and EUROPA, it appears that his plan will succeed, until the spirit of George Sylvester leaps from its hiding place in Scorch's body and grapples with Doublecross on the spiritual plane. Paris is heavily damaged, but George manages to force Doublecross to take the released energies into himself, destroying the photonic body. [ASH #40] In the aftermath of the "City of Light", George reveals he survived Doublecross's death by jumping into an abandoned photonic body created by Squadron (who had the ability to create photonic duplicates). Investigation of Doublecross's base in China shows that Squadron was killed by parties unknown (Mothflame, who escaped imprisonment during the confusion of the Equinox). The members of ASH contemplate what to do next, and how to deal with the "miraculous" revival of Channel. Solar Max and Grind have a talk about the future. [ASH #41] APRIL Robert Coulter and Spiral travel across the North American Combine on motorcycle. [Alluded to in ASH #43] The first "full" season of Paraball starts, with an 8 team league able to mostly play games against each other, rather than playing most of their games against Major League Baseball teams. [Alluded to in ASH #47] MAY Near the end of the month, the Professor dies, seemingly of natural causes. [ASH #42] JUNE The Professor leaves behind a number of obligations in his will, sending various members of ASH off on minor missions, resulting in the release of the Minotaur, a seemingly minor villain from the 1990s who turned out to be a demon pretending to be mortal. [ASH #42-44] The Minotaur starts to build a power base in the ravaged parts of Greece known as "Shattered Hellas" throughout this month. Contact find out what's going on while on a trip to seek out the Delphic Oracle again. [ASH #45] Robert Coulter is offered a place at the Academy, as well as a sort of probation for Spiral. [ASH #45] JULY Coulter and Spiral move in to the Academy. Q'Nos, the Minotaur, invades Crete and takes it over in a relatively bloodless assault, while his ally Simon Smith acts as an advance scout elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The Eurasian Union officially threatens the Moslem Confederation with stern measures if it invades Greece to fight Q'Nos, but unofficially gives the Moslems permission to go into Greece but no farther. [ASH #46] By late in the month, the Moslem Confederation Expeditionary Force advances into Shattered Hellas, facing stiff opposition. [ASH #47] AUGUST The North American Combine's Senate decides on how to deal with the situation in Greece, which is getting more savage. [ASH #47] The Moslem Confederation invasion into Greece is beaten back, costing the life of the leader of their supernatural strike force, but also stripping Q'Nos of much of his power. Meanwhile, this final battle is revealed to be a distraction, as the forces of Q'Nos annex Sicily. [ASH #48] For the next week or so, various islands around the world are invaded by Q'Nos's followers [ASH #49], an act that is revealed to be part of a plan to summon the World Serpent (aka Jormundgandr, aka the Leviathan, aka Q'Nos's mother). While ASH, EUROPA, the Righteous Flame and even the CSV wage a holding action against the revived monster, Peregryn enacts a desperate counter-ritual that banishes it from Earth, although he vanishes as well. [ASH #50] In the aftermath of this, it is revealed that Essay is pregnant with Peregryn's child. [ASH #51] SEPTEMBER Robert Coulter starts his new job as instructor at the Academy. Tina Li and Dan Tracey accompany a diplomatic mission to the Central Asian Confederation, one of the two breakaway republics to solidify out of the chaos in China. The Base of the Pillar, Righteous Flame member presumed killed by the Leviathan, arrives in Guam in a new form and asks for asylum. [ASH #51] Breaker and Grind help stop an assassination attempt against the Western Dragon. [ASH #52] OCTOBER A booby-trap planted in the evidence from the assassination attempt explodes in the faces of Breaker and Grind. [ASH #52] They escape with minor injuries, and continue to investigate the situation. [ASH #53] The Base of the Pillar, now named Geode, is given a cover story and new identity by DSHA. [ASH #53] Observations of Venus reveal it isn't quite where it is supposed to be. Merlion attacks on shipping in Singapore Harbor increase in intensity and frequency. The investigation in the Central Asian Confederacy is closed, with suspicious findings. [ASH #54] Breaker arrives in Singapore to help with the merlion problem, although ulterior motives on the part of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization are suspected. [ASH #55] On Venus, the lost city of Montreal's Moslem community celebrates the completion of a rotating mosque that will always point at Earth (and therefore Mecca). [ASH #55] NOVEMBER Strange new quakes rock Montreal. [ASH #56] Breaker helps the Assembly of Heroes successfully capture a Merlion for study, but the success is tempered by the intrusion of a PRoC spy. [ASH #56-57] Despite this, however, the merlion issue is successfully resolved. [ASH #57] On Venus, it's discovered that the planet now has a magnetic field, something it had previously lacked. [ASH #57] Giantess is prodded into insanity by a cyber-agent who is tracked back to the People's Republic of China by Netwalker, but then is revealed to be from the Central Asian Confederacy instead. With things looking far more complicated than before, Breaker resolves to go into China itself and see if the key can be found there. [ASH #57-58] She spends a couple of weeks infiltrating the civil service. [ASH #59] DECEMBER The sulfuric clouds of Venus suddenly vanish, replaced by normal water clouds and rain. [ASH #59] Both Grind and Breaker find that their infiltrations have been a little too easy for a reason, as they are captured. [ASH #59] The secrets of the three republics formed from the breakup of China are revealed. ASH makes a fateful decision regarding this secret. [ASH #60] Simon Smith begins gathering the shards of Eos's rainbow bridge in an attempt to forge a mystic pathway to Venus. Kaliban is dispatched as an ambassador to the court of Q'Nos to investigate rumors of the rebuilt bridge. [ASH #60] Peregryn awakens in a jungle on Venus and discovers all life on the planet contains fragments of the spirit of Leviathan, or that of Photosynth. [ASH #60-61] News of the changes to Venus starts to spread to the general public. [ASH #61] Timeslip arrives in 2025 from 2048. [ASH #61] Peregryn starts his journey to Montreal, having come to an accomodation with Photosynth. Meanwhile, both Q'Nos and Khadam establish beachheads on the planet. [ASH #62] The changes to Venus have become known to governmental agencies by late December, and everyone who is able to do so sends scouting parties or even invading forces. [ASH #63] Timeslip briefly abducts young Chris Kelsey and took him to a place where there was no passage of time, in order to prevent a catastrophe that would wipe Milwaukee from the face of the Earth. [ASH #64] Peregryn reaches Maxwell Montes and, on the last day of 2025, shatters the dome covering Montreal. This frees the Via twins, and Peregryn uses the power unleashed to also restore Photosynth to flesh and blood. [ASH #64] CONTINUED IN SECTION SIX: 2026