Category:Timeline

Year 34- N'zoth is imprisoned once more along with the other old gods of azeroth. At great personal cost, the races of azeroth have bought themselves peace. The alliance and horde reform to better coexist, in the hopes of a more prosperous and peaceful future.

Year 37- A series of attacks in northern EK's lordaeron holdings kill hundreds, no information as to who is responsible. Alliance fear its the horde but remain silent for now.

Year 39- Horde forces are captured deep behind alliance lines. Diplomats meet in Stormwind to try and call the horde to account. High Chief Baine bloodhoof, leader of the horde council. stresses he knows nothing of this and promises an investigation.

Year 66- No major events happen in the years previous, nothing changes on the horde investigation, Baine is old and retires to his family. Orcish high chief takes up the mantle. Rokgar Brokefist assumes command of the horde council.

Year 67- Alliance 9th fleet harbor in northrend is attacked and utterly destroyed. Horde is found to be responsible. And the alliance once more gather for war.

Year 68- Alliance forces are attacked several more times, but no major losses, Alliance armies and fleets rally in all major areas, and look poised to utterly destroy the horde who is vastly outnumbered and outgunned.

Year 70- New tech such as radar and magical detection is widespread in the alliance and even some is in the horde. And its this that detects the launch of an unknown missile. It is launched from stonetalon. horde territory. And its destination is ironforge. The dwarven king orders a mass evacuation in fear of its potential. 85% of the civilian population escapes before it hits, and ironforge is wiped off the face of azeroth in a wave of mountain shattering fire.

The alliance is stunned. and the horde start to fracture, many within shocked and disgusted. The council is dissolved after they threatened to arrest the high chief. Who reasserts himself as warchief. Tho the blood elves are long since part of the alliance, they maintained a watcher membership in the horde out of honor, they close there embassy in orgrimmar and withdraw all there people from kalimdor. The orcish forces rapidly seize control of the tauren and troll capitals to ensure they don't break away or rally against them. And the orcish army prepares to invade ashenvale and once and for all take northern kalimdor. The orcs show there new secret allies. The Centaur and quillboar become shocktroops in the new hordes army. Secretly being recruited and trained without anyone knowing.

Year 71- The alliance, thinking this cant be the only weapon they have....deploy there own. They leak information of a massive alliance army in ashenvale, making the orcs and there allies gather at the border in a vast horde. And the alliance deploy it. It strikes the northern barrens, dead center of the horde army and wipes them out. 120k orcs, centaur and quillboar are killed instantly. and crossroads is nearly wiped off the map when the blast wave hits it. shattering half its buildings and killing many civilians from falling buildings and debris.

Year 72- The warchief of the horde is found dead in orgrimmar. having apparently been killed by one of his own. The council reasserts its-self and the war comes to an end. Meetings begin to take place in stormwind. Over the next several years there is back and forth negotiations. But neither side can truly give much ground. And the past is too harsh. The words of Varok Saurfang return. There is no bridging the gap between the horde and alliance. So it must come to an end. And they begin talks on what end that would be.

Year 75- An idea, casually mentioned starts to gain weight...If we cant share this world....why try....why not have our own...

Year 80- Work begins. The brightest minds of the horde and alliance gather in stormwind and begin working on the greatest joint project in history. They have no idea how long it will take. And portals are a no go as proven on outland. A more....practical solution is required. One aided and supported by magic, but which will have to have a more...tech based foundation. Tech which currently does not exist....so work begins on how to make it exist.

Year 97- Word reaches the factions that a region of northrend has gone dark. Vanguard forces encounter void forces and battle erupts, It would appear one of the old gods has started to break free. The combined minds, still working on the current project, turn there minds to dealing with the old gods also.

Year 102- Battle rages across all continents by this point. Each imprisoned old god is breaking free as one. a concerted plan to overwhelm the world, and no matter what victory is achieved, its only short therm. The races are working together like never before, combining forces and tactics, and the lines hold, tho many people are dying each day.

Year 105- A plan is set in motion. With the return of such foes as C'Thun and Yogg-Saron, and n'zoth seemingly the one who set it all in motion. And imprisonment impossible. They have one choice left.

Using knowledge learned, stolen or rediscovered in titan archives, they develop what they hope is a means of first, destroying the physical body of the old gods, then absorbing its essence, extracting the void energies they are made of and what they use to spread there corruption. Containing it....and then destroying it. They decide to begin with Yogg-Saron. A major offensive is launched and they drive deep into his lair. Destroying him with massive losses. And they deploy the device. Yogg-Saron notices what is happening and he panics, striking back and killing many. But he fails to prevent it. His very essence. All that he is, was and ever will be, is trapped in a magical device and with one blast....destroyed utterly.

Year 107- The other 2 old gods are stunned naturally. and attack with all there might. Hundreds of thousands die. But the horde and alliance concentrate everything on C'thun. Eventually repeating the act and destroying him utterly. But not without cost. N'zoth withdraws, digging in and laying traps and wards to defend himself, and the world breaths a sigh of relief, they gather and prepare for the final strike.

Year 110- The combined armies attack, and they drive into n'zoths lair. It takes months of costly fighting to penetrate his fortress. But they do. and only with massive loss of life do they deploy the device and put and end to the old gods on azeroth once and for all.

Year 111- The cost of the war is staggering. Estimated death tole is 1.7 million world wide. nearly a 3rd of the entire global population is wiped out by the old god war. But its over. The rebuilding starts. And more effort is thrown to the grand project. Less out of wanting to get away from each other...more about being afraid to be in one place and possibly wiped out by a threat unseen.

Year 186- Every few years, a new titan lab or facility is found. And new tech thrown towards the grand project. Finally. after over a century of work. They make a breakthrough and work begins on a prototype. It will be completed in 10 years...they hope.

Year 198- The project completes its first prototype. All leaders of every people on azeroth, including some of the smaller races, are present for its launch. The craft has a crew of 200 drawn from the greatest minds of the time. And it is decided that this will be what travels the stars, mapping worlds and finding homes for all who want them. It is called the AZS Pathfinder. It launches to much fanfare and enters orbit. Sending back pictures and video to the planet for posterity. And sets off. scanning the entire solar system before exiting the system and heading into deep space. Back home. work begins on more but smaller craft. The resources needed to create ships able to life entire peoples will not be found on azeroth alone. And work begins to exploit the materials of the entire system.

Year 381- The azeroth system is fully industrialized and many stations and outposts fill the regions between the worlds, and among the asteroid belt. In orbit of azeroth a massive shipyard is constructing no less then 10 ARK Ships. One for every race of the horde, plus some in the alliance who have elected to settle there own worlds also. Each ship is able to take 500k people. Tech and magical breakthroughs have enabled them to live comfortably and with enough food, water and space to bridge the great distance. and using the new engines developed, the closest world, already earmarked for the entire lordaeron population, is within only a 2 year trip. It was widely decided that the closest worlds will be given to people more closely tied to the alliance. Or who are neutral by nature. The further away worlds already singled out for the races of the horde and who feel closely tied to them in some way.

Year 450- The first 10 ark ships are finished. and they set off. more follow over the years, as race after race decide to have more space to grow. People such as the centaur and even the furbog eventually decide to leave as the planet can only truly hold so many. And better to own than to share is still a strong motivator. Each ship funded by a coalition of races dedicated to serving the greater interests of all. It is shockingly expensive but all are too interested in having a true home to care and all are willing to give to get a home in return.

Year 590- Raids along the Azerothian and Orcish border spark rising tensions as the aggressor remains unknown, Further attacks are reported then all contact is lost, losses are already in the thousands in just the first months, but its not until a sudden surprise patrol of human light warships encounter a raid in progress that the truth comes out. the forsaken are murdering people and taking the bodies home to be resurrected as part of the forsaken. A ban they had implemented on them when the grand project was announced. The draenei denounce the forsaken and demand they stop there murder. As all other races start to gather there military forces.

Year 595- A small independent colony of Blood elves is attacked and wiped out, surviving video evidence proves its the forsaken once more. The blood elves declare an open state of war with the forsaken, followed rapidly by the azerothian humans and the orcs and tauren. There fleets begin moving towards the forsaken frontier.

Year 596- Forsaken counter attacks along the front blunt the offensive as to everyone's surprise, the forsaken ark was not used to found there capital. It was instead retrofitted into a Dreadnought class vessel. And it dwarfs the ships of the other powers. It engages the vanguard of the coalition forces and destroyed 6 ships before the rest withdraw. The invasion is put on hold until they can Analise what happened.

Year 597- A renewed assault begins, dedicated to diminishing the forsaken fleet, the forsaken fleet is caught off guard by the pair of flanking strikes on there lesser worlds, and over 19 forsaken warships are lost, 11 badly damaged and forced to withdraw, and 6 captured. Coalition losses are 7 ships lost, 5 badly damaged.

Year 597- Several battles occur over the year, most were clear coalition victories, 2 were brutal losses due to the sudden arrival of the forsaken flagship. Losses were mounting as the forsaken core worlds were too well fortified and defended by the flagship. And the coalition were putting more and more pressure on the other races to join there efforts, then the worgen fleet obliterated the forsaken rally point over there second largest colony. They went on to devastate the orbital infrastructure and the resourcing operations in the system, blockading the planet and bombarding all military assets.

Year 598- The tide was turning, with the worgen having ripped a hole in the forsaken lines, the rest of the coalition broke defensive position after position, taking the outer worlds and stations and surrounding the forsaken capital. Then the forsaken unleashed its super weapon. Long range inter planetary torpedoes were launched by the hundred. Intercepted torpedoes were crammed full of a new version of the blight. And all were targeted to the worlds of not only the coalition, but everyone. This was too much. The draenei unleashed there armada. The draenei fleet crossed the boundary of the forsaken home system and utterly destroyed the amassed forsaken fleet, pounding the flagship until it was a drifting wreck spinning into the great dark beyond, a powerless hulk. The draenei fleet demanded the unconditional surrender of the forsaken....which was refused. The draenei finished taking position....and bombarded the forsaken homeworld until all signs of life and civilization were gone. They then proceeded to head outward, and did the same to every single captured world under coalition occupation. The coalition looked on stunned and horrified by the utter and total extinction of the forsaken. And the draenei fleet withdrew to there homeworld once more. One message broadcast before the flagship, The DNS Velen's Word, jumped.

"Evil can know only two outcomes. Defeat or destruction."

The coalition scouted for any survivors or remaining forsaken warships, and in the course of the next few years, none were found. The forsaken were gone. And there worlds were left alone and abandoned, for fear of any remaining blight.

Year 600-A service was held at a gathering of the coalition races, commemorating the fallen and the missing, and honoring the sacrifice of all who joined to stop the forsaken. But there was a coldness to the celebrations. None could forget that this war was different, that this war directly ended what could be classified as an entire species. And a ban was declared and agreed upon by all races that necromancy be forever outlawed. Anyone breaking the decree would answer to the collective might of the old races. And the draenei sent a representative to also sign. The orcs and azerothian humans decided on one last gesture, a small fleet entered the former forsaken home system and deployed a beacon. With a simple message forever broadcasted.

"Here lay the Forsaken. Once son's and daughters of many nations. Now nothing more than memory. May they never be forgotten. As a lesson to future generations. And as a warning to evil."

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