MechCombat:Timeline
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'''1931:''' The first evium, an alloy of mercury and gallium, is synthesized. Rockefeller and Ford, now close friends, use one of Ford's factories to produce a working prototype car that runs off of a curio. | '''1931:''' The first evium, an alloy of mercury and gallium, is synthesized. Rockefeller and Ford, now close friends, use one of Ford's factories to produce a working prototype car that runs off of a curio. | ||
| - | '''1932:''' Henry Ford dissolves his oil empire, selling its various parts to competitors, and joins Rockefeller and Curie at Standard | + | '''1932:''' Henry Ford dissolves his oil empire, selling its various parts to competitors, and joins Rockefeller and Curie at Standard Curios. The Model E goes into mass production. It runs off of a curio and is affordable for many people. The United States of America signs a military contract with Standard Curios that would have them crafting tanks, airplanes, and powered armor, all powered by curios. |
| - | '''1933:''' Standard | + | '''1933:''' Standard Curios creates its first powered armor. It is nine feet tall and can hold a man inside of it. The United States of America military commissions 141. |
| - | '''1934:''' With the help of a battalion of Standard | + | '''1934:''' With the help of a battalion of Standard Curios' powered armor, the United States of America occupies western South America in a matter of weeks, incorporating Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the Falkland Islands into the newly-rechristened United States of the Americas. The curio is licensed to several other manufacturers, including Lockheed, Mercedez-Benz, and Mitsubishi. Marie Curie dies. |
'''1935:''' Fiat reverse-engineers the curio device and begins manufacturing their own variant. Mussolini acquires the technology from Fiat and uses it, along with stolen documents from the United States of the Americas' powered armor plans, to create a new Italian army. | '''1935:''' Fiat reverse-engineers the curio device and begins manufacturing their own variant. Mussolini acquires the technology from Fiat and uses it, along with stolen documents from the United States of the Americas' powered armor plans, to create a new Italian army. | ||
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'''1936:''' Italy occupies most of Europe with the help of its new curio-powered military. East of France and Belgium up to the Russian border is now Italian lands. Russia attempts to acquire curio technology through peaceful negotiations with Italy but fails. Other powers (namely Canada, France, Portugal, and Britain) acquire curio technology and begin development of their own military forces. | '''1936:''' Italy occupies most of Europe with the help of its new curio-powered military. East of France and Belgium up to the Russian border is now Italian lands. Russia attempts to acquire curio technology through peaceful negotiations with Italy but fails. Other powers (namely Canada, France, Portugal, and Britain) acquire curio technology and begin development of their own military forces. | ||
| - | '''1937:''' Aggressive imperialism, driven by desire to find and make use of the ingredients necessary for evium, begins, prompted by the expansionist steps taken by Italy and the United States. The Dominion of Canada occupies the Alaska territory, and the United States of the Americas, occupied with its new South American states, lets Canada annex it. John D. Rockefeller dies, bequeathing his industrial empire to Eve Curie. His children, upset by this betrayal, sue Eve Curie. The American courts find in favor of the Rockefellers. The rights to the curio remain with Standard | + | '''1937:''' Aggressive imperialism, driven by desire to find and make use of the ingredients necessary for evium, begins, prompted by the expansionist steps taken by Italy and the United States. The Dominion of Canada occupies the Alaska territory, and the United States of the Americas, occupied with its new South American states, lets Canada annex it. John D. Rockefeller dies, bequeathing his industrial empire to Eve Curie. His children, upset by this betrayal, sue Eve Curie. The American courts find in favor of the Rockefellers. The rights to the curio remain with Standard Curios' patent, of which Eve is no longer a part. |
'''1939:''' An Egyptian physicist reverse-engineers the curio and discovers he can get a similar effect with a different alloy of phosphate and mercury, but curios crafted with this alloy put out less power, are less durable, and have a shorter lifespan. Egypt does not wait for further experimentation and immediately puts the Egyptian curio into mass production. The alloy is called "sehkmetium", after the ancient Egyptian goddess of war. | '''1939:''' An Egyptian physicist reverse-engineers the curio and discovers he can get a similar effect with a different alloy of phosphate and mercury, but curios crafted with this alloy put out less power, are less durable, and have a shorter lifespan. Egypt does not wait for further experimentation and immediately puts the Egyptian curio into mass production. The alloy is called "sehkmetium", after the ancient Egyptian goddess of war. | ||
