LONDON CHAMPIONS TIMELINE

Part 2


Timeline Part 1
Index of Game Notes   Session 1.1


1965 :

A US walker-tank proves itself ineffective in the Vietnam environment.

Severe race riots in the Watts district of Los Angeles.

A number of western politicians are found to be in the pay of Viper, and dismissed.

The USA invades the Dominican republic.

Only Checkmate prevents war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.


1966 :

The first primitive powered armor is deployed in Vietnam by the US.

The Watchmen are formed; they are an independent group of US supers in opposition to the (as they see it) corrupt Guardians. Superpatriot is a founder member.

A flying humanoid 'mothman' sighted several times in the USA.


1967 :

Six-day war between Israel and Arab nations.

Biafra secedes from Nigeria.

The first evidence that US use of defoliants etc. is actually triggering superhumans among the south-east-Asian population.


1968 :

The first hand blasters are introduced.

Student riots in Paris.

The USSR invades Czechoslovakia. Soviet and Czech superhumans battle in the process.

More than 70 apparitions of the Virgin Mary occur in Egypt.

Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated.

Fighting between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

The Watchmen assist the Biafran side in heir attempted secession from Nigeria.


1969 :

The first Chinese space station is launched.

The Woodstock festival occurs.

The Guardians attempt to force the Watchmen to leave Biafra.

Troops are sent in to police Northern Ireland.


1970 :

Nigeria and Biafra reach a peaceful compromise and they become two independent states.

Demon attempt another ritual in the Bermuda triangle. Again they are stopped, but this time a member of the Guardians is sucked through a dimensional portal and lost.


1971 :

The Vietnam war spills over into Laos and Cambodia.


1972 :

The end of US involvement in Vietnam.

Arab terrorists kill two Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.

On 'Bloody Sunday' UK troops kill thirteen Catholics in Londonderry.


1973 :

The Watergate scandal forces Nixon from the US presidency. The papers involved included references to attempts to force the Watchmen into US government service.


1974 :

An IRA campaign to bomb London is foiled by the Knights of Pendragon.


1975 :

The first medical prosthetics are introduced.

The Khmer Rouge come to power in Cambodia after US forces leave. They rename the country Kampuchea and seal its borders.

SALT talks include discussions on the disarming of orbital stations. By this time all superpowers have elite forces based in orbit which can reach anywhere in the world within an hour.


1976 :

The super-thief Masquerade steals the Mona Lisa; after a few days he returns it, with a note on improving its security.

North Vietnam takes control of South Vietnam.

Anti-Apartheid violence in South Africa, particularly at Soweto.


1977 :

Dr Draconis takes over Vietnam.

A small asteroid on a collision course with the Earth is diverted into a safe orbit. Mining operations on it begin.

A Chinese research team announces the discovery of the genes for superhuman powers in so-called 'junk DNA', with more powerful superhumans seeming to have more active 'supergenes'. However they are unable to directly translate specific genes into specific superpowers.


1978 :

Vietnamese military action forces the Khmer Rouge from power in Cambodia. Vietnam takes over the country, making it part of what becomes known as Greater Annam. The Khmer Rouge leadership escape and remain a thorn in the side of the Annam government.


1979 :

The USSR invades Afghanistan.

The Shah of Iran is forced from power; the Ayatollah Khomeni takes power.

Staff at the US embassy in Tehran are taken hostage by the new regime; they are freed by the Guardians.

Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident releases radioactivity into the atmosphere.

Demon perform another unsuccessful ritual in the Bermuda triangle. This time, using the timings of the last three rituals, the next ritual is predicted for 1987.


1980 :

Iran goes to war with Iraq after Iraq invades.

The superhuman known as Imperial Lion appears for the first time in Birmingham.

A Danish Euro-Politician resigns after several massive scandal.

The first solar power satellite system goes on line, beaming power to a receiver array in Siberia.


1981 :

Inner city riots in the UK.

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary appear in Yugoslavia for several years.

The AIDS virus is identified.

The Danish Euro-Politician is found to have been framed by the KGB, but he has already vanished into seclusion.

The Solidarity trade union is formed in Poland.


1982 :

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, sparking conflict with the UK, which retakes the Islands. The Knights of Pendragon are involved in the fighting.

Several companies introduce a relatively quick and simple genetic test for active supergenes.

The superhuman Durak smashes his way across much of Russia, but then vanishes mysteriously. The Soviet superhuman Red Shield appears for the first time to fight him.


1983 :

The Knights of Pendragon split over irreconcilable differences, many of them arising from the Falklands conflict.

The USA invades Grenada.

A group of superhumans calling themselves the Annihilators appear when they steal millions of dollars of bullion from a Soviet depository, killing hundreds in the process. They go on to commit terrorist acts all across Europe with the intention of causing anarchy.

IRA car bomb at Harrods kills five and injures eighty.


1984 :

The miners strike occurs in the UK.

The British government form the Special Tactical Operations Group (STOP), a branch of the Metropolitan Police, to combat superhuman and other 'unusual' threats in the absence of a UK superteam.

Toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India kills 2000. Superhumans from Checkmate are able to heal many of the injured.


1985:

Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in the USSR.

US space forces begin to turn the mined-out asteroid in Earth orbit into a prison for super-criminals to be known as Project Safeguard.

Anglo-Irish Agreement signed.


1986 :

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffers a meltdown; radiation is spread over a wide area. A number of superhumans are created in the process.

A superhuman crimefighter calling himself the Arachnid appears in London.

Construction of the Channel Tunnel begins.


1987 :

Gorbachev demands reforms of Soviet Communist Party. His views are supported by Red Shield, a Soviet superhuman, who changes his codename to Glasnost.

The Military Metahuman Limitation Treaty (MMLT) limits the numbers of superhumans which can be used in a conventional army.

Despite providing a distraction, Demon are prevented from performing another ritual in the Bermuda triangle.


1988 :

Palestinian uprisings in Israel.

The first supercriminals are incarcerated in the Project Safeguard orbital prison.

A huge earthquake occurs in Armenia.

The Watchmen disappear in central America.

Reports of a huge lizard-man arrive form South Carolina. They stop after a UFO sighting in the area.


1989 :

An allosaur appears in Bristol and rampages through the town until being stopped by several superhumans.

The USSR pulls out of Afghanistan.

Sweeping economic reforms in many former Soviet Bloc nations.

Chinese government forces massacre pro-democracy students at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Berlin wall torn down.

The USA invades Panama.

Europe begins to partly fund Project Safeguard, in order to make use of its facilities.


1990 :

Poll Tax riots in the UK.

Collapse and division of the USSR begins.

East and West Germany reunite.

Iraq invades Kuwait. US forces deploy in Saudi Arabia. The Guardians are also present.

Sweeping reforms announced in South Africa. Nelson Mandela released.


1991 :

Iraqi forces are driven out of Kuwait. Saddam Hussein is captured by the Guardians.

The superhuman Malachite takes over the Azores, renaming them the Malachite Isles.

A coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in Moscow fails. Mikhail Gorbachev resigns and is replaced by Boris Yeltsin. The superhero General Winter appears in Moscow for the first time.

The Annihilators attack a number of European financial centres, causing havoc on the stock market.

Yugoslavia splits into a number of republics. Ethnic violence occurs on a massive scale.


1992 :

Spain and Portugal attempt to remove Malachite from the Azores. They fail. Several superhumans are killed.


1993 :

The Guardians are sent to capture Colombian drug barons, at the request of the Colombian government.

IRA terrorists bomb Warrington.

The electrically-powered superheroine Molinya appears in Moscow for the first time.

The UK's first commercial fusion reactor, at Sizewell B, goes on line.

The Annihilators take control of Serbia, and then the rest of the former Yugoslavia. Foreigners are forced from the country, and the borders are closed.

Islamic terrorists bomb the World Trade Centre, New York.

The Channel Tunnel is completed.

The Waco siege ends in violence when government forces, aided by the Guardians, storm the compound there.


1994 :

The superhuman known as the White Spider appears in Liverpool.

The superheroine Napalm appears in Moscow for the first time.

Nerve gas is released over a Japanese mountain resort. Eight die.


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