Timeline

About 5000 BC	The first spirit gods become independently sentient.
About 4500 BC	The first inhabitants of the land where the Euphrates meets the sea settle. They call their new home Sumer.
About 3500 BC	Two mysterious factions wage war on each other and sink the island later known as Atlantis.
About 3000 BC	Sumer's "Heroic Age". Gilgamesh, the first historically recorded New One, is the most famous of these heroes.
About 2600 BC	New Ones move into the Egyptian pantheon. The first historically "combined" pantheon of New Ones and spirit gods.
About 2000 BC	In the lands that will be known as Greece, a band of New Ones takes initiative to organize followers of their own. Over the years, they take control of the entire peninsula.
About 1790 BC	Hammurabi begins he reign in Babylon. His rewriting of legends and laws is the first recorded time that a single mortal engineered a massive powershift among the gods.
About 1400 BC	Moses leads the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt.
About 1000 BC	The Vedic age of India ends as detailed in the Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita, highpoint for such gods as Shiva and Vishnu and the hero Krishna.
About 800 BC	A group of New Ones follow the Greek lead and found a pantheon in Italy.
500 BC	After Apollo kills Gaea over the Delphi shrine and Ragnarock leaves many dead, the gods agree upon a treaty known as the Concordat. They all retreat to pocket dimensions and leave the Earth to its own devices.
March 15, 44 BC	A crowd of Roman senators assassinate Julius Caesar.
33 AD	A man is nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone would be nice to each other for a change.
August 9, 378 AD	Roman troops meet the Goths at Hadrianople. Most of the Roman army is killed.
Around 440 AD	Attila the Hun terrorizes Europe.
1915	Cornelius Owen, future Defence Department powermonger, is born to a wealthy Boston family. Harvey Hauptman is born in working-class Cleveland.
1953	Wes Hickman is born in Spokane, Washington. He is raised by two very patriotic parents. Russel Pozen, an aspiring pediatrician, discovers his Omega ability to transmute the elements from solid, liquid, gas or plasma state into any of the other states. Lead into liquid lead, air into solid air. He decides to use this power as a Red-Smasher and dresses up as American Warmask.. Eventually he uses his powers on a human being, reducing him to a fine red smear inside of a cloud of gas. Startled and shocked by this, he decides to join the army, where he loses his right hand and believes that his powers are gone.
1954	Daniel Carter is born. He grows up on westerns, war movies, and especially comic books.
1959	Allen Covenant is born to a Wrigley Field grounds keeper and a high school music teacher in Chicago.
1962	Cornelius Owen, now a high ranking Defense Department official, forms SIRECOM (Special Intelligence Resources Command), a special multi-agency (CIA, NSA, DoD, etc.) group tailored to handle and employ Omegas. One president objects to proposed sphere of operations, but tragedy befalls him and a more sympathetic executive takes office.
1971	Wes Hickman joins the army, as a member of Bravo company, 1st of the 390th infantry Platoon. He is sent to an unnamed conflict in Southeastern Asia. Anne Benson is Born. In one very important respect, she takes after her maternal grandfather, dear old Otto Blume…
1973	Wes Hickman is injured by shelling. Both of his arms are badly wounded. The event triggers his Omega, which allows him to survive. He is returned to the States, and given into the care of SIRECOM. Two mechanical arms are created for him, and as he recovers, he is indoctrinated into the SIRECOM program. Plans are laid for a new team of Omegas who are to help contain and train emergent psis. The team is to be codenamed Seekers.
1974	Dan Carter extreme violence gets him discharged from the army (he did some nasty things to his fellow troops). After some mysterious missing time, is hired by SIRECOM and becomes a useful agent. Fresh out of College, Jarvin Tazakles and Javier Hugo form DYNAMAX, a genetic research lab that seeks to understand the nature of the Omega. The outfit seems benevolent at first…
1975	Jarvin Tazakles meets Cornelius Owen. Recognizing a useful alliance, Tazakles begins (W/o Hugo's knowledge) to design and build devices for SIRECOM. In return, Owen provides Tazakles with 'Guinea Pig' Omegas to experiment on.
1976	Beth Anderson goes to work for DYNAMAX. Although she rises high in their Experimental Genetics division, she never gets in to examine Tazakles' "Black Labs."
1977	Daniel Anderson, son of Thomas and Beth Anderson, is born. He will help found a group of Omega's called the Colony. Dan Cheng, close friend turned enemy of Allen Covenant, mysteriously disappears. Undersecretary of Defense Cornelius Owen retires. He still takes a large hand in running SIRECOM. Dan Carter is Owen's main control over the agency.
1979	Jarod Kincaid expresses his Omega while involved in an industrial accident, saving the lives of several men as a river of molten steel pours over him, shielding them and changing him.
1980	The Andersons adopt Eric, a boy who they had been fostering. The Omega crimelord known as the Fix plots to start a reign of terror. She is stopped by SIRECOM's elite Omega team Defcon One, but at the cost of agents Cheryl Logan and (apparently) John Soul. The Fix is imprisoned in Fort Deliverance.
1985	Allen Covenant gets a job as a professor of para-psychology at Antioch College. One of his students, Eldin Vincent, hypnotizes another student named Issac Warner into summoning and bonding with the Sumerian god of war, Nergal. The ritual goes awry and Issac slaughters numerous people before Allen exorcises Nergal.
1991	Beth Anderson, a geneticist at DYNAMAX LABS, discovers just how the company is getting its knowledge of Psionic abilities and Omegas. She is killed, as is her husband, in an incident that looks like a gas explosion. The three DYNAMAX agents who came to kill them have their minds ripped out by the emergent powers of Danny Anderson, who then mind controls one of them to help himself and his brother escape. The other two are so consumed by the fire that all of the Anderson's are considered dead.
1992	Allen Covenant takes his leave of Antioch and is hired by Dynamax Labs as a Omega specialist.
1992-93	The Colony begins to take shape as Danny Anderson begins recruiting Omegas, mostly runaways or misfits, with his telepathy and telling them of a place they can retreat to. The actual bases are built underground in the outskirts of Chicago and Detroit.
Summer 1994	Eric Anderson goes into a coma for a month: When he awakens, he's very different… Anne Benson, out of college and trying to start a career, suddenly and unwillingly gets "triggered." Dan Carter and SIRECOM investigate the report of a new Omega in the DC area and both Anne and Harvey find themselves on the run. Allen Covenant discovers the abuses in Dynamax and flees with his ex-students Bob Warskoviak (Threll) and Issac Warner.

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