Mega Man Timeline

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The Mega Man series was created by Keiji Inafune of Capcom, Inc. and made its original debut on December 17, 1987 with the release of Mega Man. Since then, the series has branched off from the Mega Man Classic series to the Mega Man X series, Mega Man Legends series, Mega Man Battle Network series, Mega Man Zero series, and finally the Mega Man ZX series. The games in the series stretch over numerous consoles, and there was once a saying that went "any major system has a Mega Man game."

The time period into which the games is set spreads over a very long range of dates and, of course, depends on which particular series you are talking about. For example, "Ra Moon," the computer that Mega Man meets in Super Adventure Rockman, landed on Earth at some unknown date in the distant past and the Mega Man Legends series takes place in a extremely distant time period (perhaps sometime between 8001-9000, known in Egyptian mythology as the Halcyon Days, which will be explained later).

Contents 1 The Timeline of Events 1.1 Ancient Times 1.2 Unknown Dates 1.3 20th Century 1.4 21st Century 1.5 22nd Century 1.6 23rd Century 1.7 24th Century 1.8 25th Century 1.9 4th and 5th Millenniums 1.10 6th Millennium 1.11 9th Millennium 2 FAQs 2.1 Where exactly do these dates come from? 2.2 Aren't some games missing from this timeline? 2.3 Is Legends (DASH) connected to original time line? 3 References

[edit] The Timeline of Events

[edit] Ancient Times

• ca. 19,750 B.C. : Ra Moon comes to Earth.

Humanity is blessed with knowledge, yet cursed with war.

• ca. 19,701: Ra Moon is sealed away.

Notes: The exact year of the arrival and sealing of Ra Moon is unknown, but it is known that "he" arrived very early in the development of Earth, most likely in what historians would call pre-history (thousands of years ago). While others have assigned a date of XX,XXX B.C. to his arrival and sealing (or in some cases 19,7XX B.C.), the estimates here have been provided to provide a sense of the time during which the events most likely took place.

[edit] Unknown Dates

• Sungod/Sunstar is sealed away.

• The Intergalactic Police Force is formed.

[edit] 20th Century

• 1958 : Thomas Light and Albert W. Wily are born.

• ca. 1970 : Mikhail Sergeyevich Cossack is born (he seems to be in his early-40s by the events of Mega Man 4).

• 1986 : Thomas Light and Albert W. Wily receive PhDs, most likely in Electrical Engineering (they would be 28 years old).

• ca. 1995 : Dr. Light and Dr. Wily found Light Labs to use computer and electronic technology to benefit mankind.

• 1998 : Mikhail Sergeyevich Cossack receives his PhD from Vruer University, most likely in Electrical or Computer Engineering.

[edit] 21st Century

• 2000s : Light Labs begins research and development in the field of robotics and simple artificial intelligence, developing beneficial robots, such as the mettool construction robot and the Sniper Joe police units.

• ca. 2002 : Kalinka Cossack is born (she is 9 years old by the events of Mega Man 4).

• 2005 : With advances in research in artificial technology and robotics, Proto Man is created based on the design of the Sniper Joe, but with a far more advanced AI and advanced weapons system. However, before Light Labs could finish testing him, Proto Man's sense of independence led him to go w:AWOL.

• 2006 : Light and Wily decide to create a pair of robots with the "failure" of Proto Man, and thus, Rock and Roll are created. They believe that the two of them will be happy together and provide a mutual support that will overcome any sense of independence. Rock was to serve as a lab assistant while Roll would be a housekeeper. Then, the team went on to construct what became known as the Industrial Series: Cut Man, Guts Man, Ice Man, Bomb Man, Fire Man, and Elec Man (with Time Man and Oil Man being added in Mega Man: Powered Up!).

• 2007 : Dr. Light wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for his creation of the Robot Masters. Additionally, he wins the LIT Manual Design Contest, which his partner Dr. Wily participated in and only won a runner-up status in.

• December, 2008 : (Mega Man) Out of jealousy for his partner, who won the Nobel Prize and the Manual Design Contest the previous year, Dr. Wily "revolts" by reprogramming all of the Industrial Robots in the lab (failing to reprogram Rock and Roll, but considering them just a "lab assistant and housekeeper"), and then fleeing to his new fortress called "Monstropolis." Knowing that the armies of the world won't be ready to stand against Wily's new robot legions, Rock volunteers to be converted into a fighting robot, who soons becomes know as Mega Man. Mega Man defeats the Robot Masters (who are eventually reprogrammed by Dr. Light) and overcomes Dr. Wily, bringing him to justice (or so he thought).

• 2009 : (Mega Man 2:The Enigma of Dr. Wily) Six months after his defeat, Dr. Wily builds eight brand-new Robot Masters (all of his own design) and leads a second attack on the world. Once again, Mega Man is called into action, and he manages to successfully defeat Wily and crush his army of robots for a second time.

(Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge) Dr. Wily revives eight of the Robot Masters from his previous two assaults as well led by a brand-new robot known as Enker (the first of the Rockman Killers), but Mega Man had already faced these foes before and, as such, Wily fell again.

• 2010 : (Mega Man 3:The Death of Wily?!) Mega Man 3 is the first game to be referenced with a year of 20XX instead of 200X. Dr. Wily is trusted by Dr. Light once again and works at Light Labs. The two endeavor to create a peacekeeping robot known as Gamma, but the energy crystals required to power Gamma are found on mining planets that are protected by powerful Robot Masters. Mega Man is called upon to retrieve these crystals, but Light gives him the newly-created Rush, the "robo-dog." In the end, Wily steals Gamma upon the return of the crystals and announces that he was behind the Robot Masters. Mega Man goes after him and ultimately defeats him and, upon his defeat, his skull castle is destroyed and it seems that he dies in its explosion/collapse. The AWOL Proto Man also makes an appearance, seemingly helping Wily (but some have interpreted him as helping Mege Man by "training him").

(Mega Man II) Dr. Wily breaks into the Chronos Institute and steals the Time Skimmer, traveling 37.426 years into the future (to the year 2047). Wily kidnaps Mega Man, reprograms him, and names the new robot Quint. Upon his return to his present time, Wily builds another army of robots led by previous Robot Masters and Quint, but Mega Man manages to defeat them and Quint (and ultimately Wily).

While Wily is visiting the future (the year 2047), he first experiments with the technology available during that year. He first creates a robot known as Rockman Shadow (R-Shadow for short), but he discards this prototype, finding him unuseful. He later turns his attention on reprogramming the real Mega Man.

• 2011 : (Mega Man 4:A New Ambition!!) A year after the Gamma Incident, the world had been living in peace and thought that Wily was gone for good. However, Dr. Light received a letter from a mysterious Russian scientist named Dr. Cossack, claiming to be the greatest scientific genious in the world and having been far too long overlooked, challenging Light and Mega Man to a "contest" of sorts. Cossack's new army of Robot Masters began to make their move, so Mega Man, with his newly equipped Mega Buster went after Cossack. In the end, it turned out that Cossack's daughter Kalinka had been kidnapped by Wily (who was very much alive and, it appears, hiding in Russia), but luckily Proto Man "betrays" Wily and rescues her. Mega Man heads to Wily's citadel and defeats him once more.

(Mega Man III) Dr. Wily has been making a bid at control of the world's oceans, and with an army composed of previous Robot Masters led by a new Rockman Killer named Punk. Mega Man, having already encountered these foes, once again manages to overcome them and counters Wily's ambitions.

(Mega Man 5:Blues' Trap!?) About two months later, Proto Man went to Light Labs and kidnapped Dr. Light, leaving behind his signature yellow scarf. Then, an all-new army of Robot Masters under his command began to attack the cities and the Space Port near Light Labs, so Dr. Cossack, who had become Light's new colleague at Light Labs, armed Mega Man with the new robotic bird, Beat, and sent him after Proto Man. However, when he confronted him, the real Proto Man showed up and revealed the fake to be a robot called Dark Man, and upon its defeat, Dr. Wily showed up and challenged Mega Man to come and get Dr. Light. Mega Man defeated Wily and freed Light, but when Wily's castle collapsed, Proto Man had to save them from being crushed by the building.

(Mega Man IV) A new army, led by the Rockman Killer known as Ballade makes its attack, but once again Mega Man foils Wily's plot and destroys the revived Robot Masters.

(Super Adventure Rockman) A powerful energy signal is detected in the Amazon, and Dr. Wily goes to investigate. In the ruins of an ancient temple, Wily comes upon an ancient supercomputer that calls itself Ra Moon. Ra Moon has the power of shutting down robots and other electronic devices (sort of like a virus), and thus United Nations attempts to stop Dr. Wily prove futile. Roll is one of the robots affected, and as such, Light sends Mega Man to the Amazon to put a stop to Wily's plans. Fortunately, Mega Man gets help from the Industrial Robot Masters (from Mega Man), who provide useful tips and give him items as he progresses. He encounters various Robot Masters from Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3, and once he makes it into the temple he finds that Wily is powerless to stop Ra Moon. Ra Moon transforms into a powerful fighting machine, but with Wily's help, Mega Man upgrades and can perform a Double Rock Buster attack that manages to defeat the supercomputer, thus putting a stop to his "virus."

(Mega Man V) 3 months later (near the end of 2011), a mysterious band of robots from outer space, known as the Star Droids, come to make a bid for domination of the Earth. Rock and Roll were pleasantly walking through a field when Terra, the leader of these robots, attacked and quickly defeated him. Thus, when he awoke in Light Labs, Light informed him that his Mega Buster was not strong enough to defeat these extraterrestrial visitors. Light then gives him an upgrade known as the Super Arm and a robotic feline called Tango. However, upon the defeat of the Star Droids, Mega Man discovers that they were really created by Dr. Wily, but their technology was indeed from outer space. Wily had discovered an ancient "alien" robot known as SunGod and had used his design to construct the Star Droids. However, when Wily woke up SunGod, he refused to obey Wily and attacked him. However, he did intend to battle Mega Man since Mega Man was a powerful robot and, in the end, Mega Man proves victorious.

• 2012 : (Mega Man 6:Greatest Historical Battle!!) One year later, peace had finally begun to settle over the world. To celebrate the new era, the mysterious billionaire Mr. X held the First Annual Robot Tournament, inviting the greatest engineers from all around the world to show off and compete with their greatest creations. Mr. X was the founded of the X Foundation and the Robot Union, a force designed to counter the evil desires of Dr. Wily. However, at the final round of the tournament, Mr. X revealed that he had reprogrammed the final eight contestant robots and was going to use them to lead his new army of robots to make a bid for world domination. Mega Man was called into action yet again, but this time he had the ability to combine with Rush to form Jet Mega Man and Power Mega Man. When he defeated Mr. X, he found that Dr. Wily had simply been impersonating the real Mr. X (who had most likely been kidnapped). Thus, Mega Man had to chase Wily down to his new skull compound and defeat him, but once he did, he managed to bring him into the authorities, who tried Wily and had him imprisoned...

• 2013 : (Mega Man 7:Confrontation of Destiny!) Six months after Dr. Wily's imprisonment, four robots that had been hidden away in his lab activated and broke him out of prison and began to wreak havoc in the city. Mega Man went to investigate and, upon his arrival, met up with the mysterious Bass and Treble, a robot and his dog who appeared to be after Wily as well. After defeating the four Robot Masters, Mega Man returned to Light Labs, only to find that Wily attacked the Robot Master Museum and stole Guts Man. Then, four more Robot Masters attacked. In the attack, Bass was damaged (by Shade Man), so Mega Man sent him to Dr. Light for repairs. However, when he returned to the lab, the lab was badly damaged, and Dr. Wily appeared on the screen to mock them and announce that Bass and Treble were his creation. Mega Man set out for Wily's lab to get his revenge. In the end, he defeated Bass and Treble and crushed Wily, but when he attempted to kill Wily, his programming, which adhered to Asimov's "laws of robotics", prohibited that action. Bass interfered in the end, and Wily managed to escape...

(Mega Man: The Power Battle) Mega Man, Proto Man, and Bass take on Robot Masters from Mega Man through Mega Man 7 and, in the end, take down Dr. Wily, each with their own motives.

• 2014 : (Mega Man 8:Metal Heroes) Two powerful robots battle each other in outer space and, in the process, damage each other and go careening to Earth. They land on an island that is occupied by Dr. Wily and, as such, Wily harnesses one of them and uses its extraterrestrial powers to make a new batch of Robot Masters. Mega Man, who was battling Bass in the city, is summoned by Roll (really by Dr. Light) to go to the island to investigate. He finds Dr. Wily salvaging the robot and, in the process, discovers the second robot in a crater and sends it to Light Labs to be repaired. Mega Man defeats the four Robot Masters that attack various places on the globe and, when he returns to Light's Lab, he finds that the robot is undergoing repairs. Then, while talking to Light, the robot breaks free and heads out into the desert. Mega Man follows him, fights him briefly, and then Proto Man intervenes and tells him that Wily's new fortress, "Wily Tower," is up ahead. Mega Man goes ahead and is captured by Wily, but the robot saves him and introduces himself as Duo (a member of the Intergalactic Police Force). Duo explains that the other robot contained "Evil Energy" within it and that Wily was using that energy to make his robots more powerful. Mega Man needed to defeat the other four to open the entrance to Wily Tower. He did so and managed to defeat Bass and Treble and, in the end, Dr. Wily. Mega Man was injured in the process, but Duo saved him and left him out in the desert, where Proto Man was there when he awoke and told him that Duo said "Thank you..."

• 2015 : (Mega Man & Bass) In the Japanese Rockman & Forte manual, Dr. Wily is noted to be 57 years old. Roughly one year after Duo's visit to Earth, a robot calling himself the Robot King appeared and began to recruit other robots to form a new Robot Army. He believed that robots were not meant to simply serve humans, but rather that they were superior and therefore should be the "masters of the Earth." Dr. Wily was ousted from his own newly completed skull compound and sought refuge at Light Labs and, as a result, Bass was sent alongside Mega Man to put a stop to King's rebellion. When King attacked the Robot Master Museum, Proto Man attempted to stop him, but King cut him in half with his axe and Mega Man and Bass sent him to the lab and confronted him. King withdrew, claiming not to have time for them, and left them to his subordinates. Once his army of Robot Masters was defeated and the "Hatches" that locked his fortress were unlocked, the two made their way through his fortress and confronted him. None of their attacks appeared to phase him, so the newly repaired Proto Man came again, charged up his Big Bang Attack (even though it would severely damage his internal systems), and destroyed King's shield. Mega Man and Bass managed to defeat King and, upon his defeat, Dr. Wily appeared on the screen and asked King what was wrong with his "brain washing." He remotely repaired King and then King fled to another room and combined two previous war machines into a giant battle machine, but was defeated again and begged the two to stop Wily's ambitions. Mega Man and Wily then went to Wily's floor of the castle and put a stop to the madness. In the end, Mega Man was sad that an innocent robot was destroyed, but then he received a letter from King and found out that everything was alright. Bass, however, was mad that Dr. Wily had plotted against him, but Wily claimed he wanted to find out if King was stronger than he was. Proto Man teleported in, saw plans for a "King II" on Wily's computer, and then destroyed it, leaving the two to quarrel amongst themselves...

(Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters) Mega Man, Proto Man, Bass, and Duo return to take on more of Wily's robots (from Mega Man through Mega Man 7) to achieve various goals and for their own reasons and, in the end, Wily is once again defeated.

• 2016 : (Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future) Humans and robots live together in harmony in Symphony City. However, R-Shadow and the Dimensions come from the year 2052 and begin to attack the city's citizens in order to draw out Mega Man. Mega Man, who had been once again battling his nemesis Bass, had to put aside his differences to investigate this new enemy: Who was R-Shadow and why did he look exactly like him? Wily sent Bass to go and fight the Dimensions because they were attacking the region near his new fortress. R-Shadow claimed to be Quint, the robot designed by Dr. Wily six years ago. Was he there for revenge? When Mega Man and Bass defeated the Dimensions and brought R-Shadow down, he revealed the truth: he was actually a prototype of Quint. Dr. Wily had experimented with future technology during his visit to the future and first designed R-Shadow, but then discarded him in favor of his project to reprogram Mega Man. Although R-Shadow seemed to "die," Dr. Light managed to repair him and reprogram him, thus making him a member of the Light Labs team.

• September 18, 2016 : Dr. Light completes the capsule of Mega Man X, realizing that his work on X would not be completed within his lifetime (he was nearing 60 years of age). Light knew that X was a "new breed" of robot which possessed the ability to make his own decisions, and this ability brought with it serious implications. X could be both a blessing and a danger- he did not have to follow Asimov's "laws of robotics." Thus, during his construction of X, when X asked him why he called him X, he answered that "X is a variable of unlimited potential."

• ca. 2040 : Dr. Thomas Light and Albert W. Wily die, most likely of "old age" (they would have been 82 years old).

• 2047 : Dr. Wily visits this year by using the Time Skimmer. At first he experiments with the technology of the mid-21st century, designing the prototype which he calls R-Shadow. However, he later discards R-Shadow in favor of his project to kidnap and reprogram Mega Man into Quint.

• ca. 2050 : Dr. Cain is born (the exact date of his birth is unknown, but he appears to be in his late-60s to early-70s by the events of Mega Man X and Mega Man X2).

• 2052 : R-Shadow creates an army of futuristic robots known as the Dimensions and travels back to the year 2016 with the intention of confronting and destroying Mega Man.

• ca. 2055 : Dr. Mikhail Sergeyevich Cossack dies, most likely of "old age" (he would have been 85).

• 2078 : Dr. Cain receives his PhD in Archaeology.

[edit] 22nd Century

• April 8, 2116 : Dr. Cain's archaeological team searches for fossil records relating to mesozoic plant life, but is unsuccessful. Thus, he decides to change locations. According to his journal: "Still nothing. Tomorrow I'll move my dig to a new site and maybe have better luck."

• April 9, 2116 : Cain's team finds something: "I got some odd readings...It looks like something metallic is buried below the surface." (From the Journal of Dr. Cain)

• April 10, 2116 : "I can't believe what I've found! The lab that belonged to the famous robot designer, Dr. Thomas Light." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain)

• April 13, 2116 : "I found it! There's a warning on the capsule, but it should be safe to open..." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain)

• April 14, 2116 : "I met "X." Light gave him the ability to think and make his own decisions..." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain)

• April 15, 2116 : "Light was a genius! I may be able to replicate his design..." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain")

• November 22, 2116 : "With X's help I have completed my first "reploid." His strength and intelligence seem limitless." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain") A Reploid is what Dr. Cain calls a "replication" of Dr. Light's work. The Reploid that he is referring to having created here is Sigma.

• January 3, 2117 : "The new reploids have been running off the assembly line for several weeks..." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain")

• February 16, 2118 : "Three reploids went "maverick" today and injured two people...Council has decided to set up a group of "Hunters" to destroy any maverick before it can cause injury. The reploid Sigma has been assigned to lead. Sigma contains my latest circuit designs. His systems should be immune to problems..." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain")

• May 16, 2118 : "Sigma and his Hunters have been able to prevent further injury. Everyone is starting to breathe easier. I'm worried about X. He seems unsure of his place in life. Given time, I'm sure he'll find his way..." (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain")

• 2118 : The Maverick Hunters discover the ruins of another laboratory dating to the 21st century. Inside, they discover a capsule that contains a robot, and upon opening it, the robot goes "maverick," taking out several members of the team. Sigma is called to see if he can neutralize the maverick and, after an intense battle, he takes him down. The only way for Sigma to defeat the maverick is to destroy a crystal on his forehead, and upon doing so, it releases a vapor into the air. At the moment, no one thinks anything of it, but later, this seems to be the origin of the Sigma Virus (which is later renamed the Zero Virus after its true origin). Dr. Cain repaired the robot when he was taken back to the Hunter HQ. The robot turned out to be Zero and, although it wasn't known at the time, he was the creation of Dr. Wily (who Bass and Treble was a prototype for). Zero soon became a member of the Hunter team.

• June 4, 2119 : "My worst nightmare...Sigma went maverick! X wants to join Zero, the new leader of the Maverick Hunters, and go after Sigma. I'm doubtful, but I won't stop him. Something has to be done!" (From the "Journal of Dr. Cain")

(The Day of Sigma) Sigma went "maverick," most likely because of his exposure to the Zero Virus, but possibly due to some faulty system design, and being the leader of the Hunters, he took a large portion of them with him. Then, believing that Reploids were destined to be the masters of the Earth, he launched a large-scale attack against Able City, where Hunter HQ was located, greatly damaging it with warheads.

(Mega Man X) Although X was by nature a pacifist, he had to do something, so he set out to stop the ambitions of Sigma and the maverick Hunters. Fortunately, he found capsules that contained the artificial intelligence of Dr. Light that explained X's purpose and, at the same time, provided system upgrades for him. X managed to defeat the rogue Hunters and, along with Zero, find the secret base of Sigma. In their battle with Vile, one of the powerful ex-Hunters, Zero sacrificed himself to destroy Vile's ride armor, but provided X with a stronger "buster." In the end, X managed to destroy Sigma and bring the unrest to an end...

• December, 2119 : (Mega Man X2) Six months after the original Maverick Revolt, a group of mavericks break away from the control center and occupy an abandoned production factory. The Maverick Hunters are mobilized, under Mega Man X, to contain the crisis, but the plot thickens. A new maverick uprising begins to develop under a group of mavericks that identify themselves as the X Hunters, and X is faced with a new wave of mavericks to face. Dr. Cain, of course, tells X that he has no choice and must once again stop the chaos that was developing. However, the X Hunters also had the pieces of Zero, X's former partner. X manages to collect them before they could reconstruct him and program him against X. X manages to defeat the mavericks and penetrate the X Hunter fortress at the North Pole, defeating Serges, Violen, and Agile, X returns to Hunter HQ and is informed by Dr. Cain that something is located in the location of Morph Moth's stage. He goes there and finds a copy of Zero, constructed by the previously-defeated Sigma, but the real Zero blasts him away with his buster (having just been repaired by Dr. Cain), and Sigma reveals himself. X then fights and once again defeats Sigma, restoring peace and order for a second time...

It is speculated that Serges (the so-called leader of the X Hunters) was actually a reincarnation of Dr. Wily, who had is artificial intelligence placed inside the reploid body of Serges, which would explain how he was familiar with Zero's design. However, Capcom has never given any official word on this.

• Early-2120s : (Mega Man Xtreme) A hacker named Techno (from a group known as the Shadow Hunters) has hacked the Mother Computer and sent the world's networks on a fritz. X, with the help of Dr. Cain and Middy, volunteers to be sent into cyberspace to put a stop to the threat. X defeats the mavericks that are revived from the past and, eventually, defeats the Shadow Hunters (Zain and Gemeel), but upon defeating Techno, Middy (who shared the same CPU) dies. In the end, however, order is once again restored.

• ca. 2125 : (Mega Man X3) Cain Labs creates Dr. Doppler, a Reploid scientist who would head up a "utopian" community where humans and Reploids could live in peace named Doppler Town. However, not too long after his creation, Doppler inspires a revolt and forms the Doppler Army, attacking Maverick Hunter HQ! The anti-virus that he was creating to counter the Sigma Virus was found to be a placebo, and with HQ and Cain Labs under attack, X and Zero were called into action. X and Zero defeated the mavericks in charge of Doppler's army and Cain pinpointed the location of his hidden lab. When they confronted and defeated Doppler, they found out that he was not responsible for the revolt- Sigma was. Doppler had been infected and had built a new body for Sigma, so X and Zero go after him. Sigma has a powerful new "Kaiser Sigma" body, but in the end he is defeated. However, he turns into a pure viral form, yet Doppler comes with an anti-virus to save them.

• ca. January 1, 2130 : Repliforce v. 3 is initiated by Cain Labs. General, Colonel, Iris, and all Repliforce personel are created.

• 2130 : (Mega Man Xtreme 2) When Reploids begin to lose their DNA Souls, Dr. Cain traces the source of this epidemic to Laguz Island. There he finds that a group called the Soul Erasers (Berkana and Gereth) are behind the plot, and after defeating the eight guardians of the island, he confronts them, and ultimately Sigma, foiling the plot.

• ca. June 1, 2130 : Repliforce v. 3 is deemed "ineffective and potentially dangerous" by Cain Labs. X is made commander of unit #17 and Zero is made commander of unit #0 of the Maverick Hunters.

(Mega Man X4) After the Repliforce is deemed to be ineffective, the Sky Lagoon, a floating city, falls onto the city below and kills thousands. X and Zero are sent to investigate and find Colonel on the scene searching for his sister (Iris), and although this seems to be a legitimate claim, the Council finds this suspicious and after that point considers Repliforce to be a group of mavericks. Behind the scenes, a mysterious cloaked figure (Sigma) tries to convince the General to work for him, but at first the General refuses. In the end, the Repliforce rebels against the humans, wanting to form their own society. X and Zero are called by Dr. Cain to put a stop to the uprising and must fight the Reploid leaders of the Repliforce. Then, once the revolt is stopped on the basic level, they have to fight the Colonel, Iris (which greatly saddens Zero, since there seems to be a love interest between them), Double (a new Hunter that was working at the HQ, but who turned out to be a spy), and then the General. However, Sigma was behind the plot and was up in space with them, planning to use a satellite weapon to attack the humans, but Zero and X defeat him and, with the help of the damaged General, blow up the satellite/space station.

• Early-2130s : Dr. Cain resigns his command of the Maverick Hunters and leaves Cain Labs out of his guilt for the failure of the Doppler Project and the Repliforce as well as the fact that his first creation, Sigma, seemed to be the cause of the ongoing "Reploid Wars" (at the time). He creates a Reploid named Signas, with the most advanced CPU of all existing Reploids, to assume command of the Hunters.

• ca. 2135 : Dr. Cain dies of "old age" (he would be 85 years old).

• 2140 : (Mega Man X5) Ten years after the battle with the Repliforce, the world thought a new age of peace might exist. People had begun to expand into outer space due to a boom in population on Earth and colonies began to spring up orbiting the planet. However, the largest colony, Eurasia, was taken over by an unknown group of Reploids, lead by Dynamo, and its gravitational device was altered so that it would head on a direct course to Earth (the colony will hit the Earth in just 16 hours!). A large energy readout of the colony returned a signature that it was infected with the Sigma Virus, so the Maverick Hunters saw no other solution except to alter the colony's path by hiting it with the Enigma laser canon. Yet, the laser required four pieces, each of which was being held by a Maverick, so Mega Man X and Zero were called into action by Signas, the Hunter's new commander (created by the late-Dr. Cain), and assisted by a navigator named Alia. When they recover all the pieces and use the laser on the colony, it hits it and only destroys part of it! Thus, Douglas (the Hunter engineer) tells them that they must recover four parts of a space shuttle (a relic from the past) that the Mavericks have if they want to have one more chance to put the colony off of its course. X and Zero collect the parts and Zero flies the shuttle into the colony, but not only does the shuttle not destroy the remainder of the colony, but Zero goes careening down to the Earth to an unknown location. X goes after him when Alia pinpoints the location, and, upon finding him, he notices that he has gone "Maverick." The two fight each other in a room reminiscent of one of Dr. Wily's 21st century labs (with a "Dr. W" neon sign on the back wall), and in the end X overcomes Zero. It is revealed that Sigma was behind the whole plot, and X manages to defeat him, but Sigma's final form is very strong, so Zero sacrifices himself to save X...All that X finds of Zero is his signature "Z Saber," which he carries with him away from the battle...

(Mega Man X6) Three weeks after the crash of the Eurasia colony, the Earth's surface is badly damaged and the Sigma Virus is rampant. As such, humans have been forced to live underground and Reploids have been sent to the surface to attempt to make it liveable once again, with the Maverick Hunters, under the command of Signas, cleaning up the world of Maverick resistance. Gate, a Reploid scientist who was once a former colleague of Alia, stumbles upon the crash site of the colony, finding something unusual. After that, a strange set of Maverick outbreaks occurs, and when X is called to investigate, he sees a purple virus-like form of Zero appear to help him. However, this virus later starts to infect mechaniloids and Reploids, and becomes known as the Zero Nightmare. Around the same time, a powerful Reploid named High Max appears and claims to be investigating the source of the Nightmare, along with a Reploid scientist named Isoc, but X doesn't trust High Max and challenges him. High Max, however, proves too strong and X cannot damage him with his X buster. High Max and Isoc declare that they will stop the eight Mavericks that are on Gate's "research" team and, in the meantime, create a new "Utopia" for Reploids to live in (which seems reminiscent of what the Colonel and General did during the Repliforce Incident). X goes off to the Nightmare zones (which are disorienting and filled with viruses) and defeats the Mavericks, outraging Gate and making him challenge X to a dual (thus allowing the Hunters access to his hidden laboratory). Before going to the lab, X defeats the incarnation of the Nightmare and finds Zero, who was believed destroyed after the last encounter with Sigma. Signas and Lifesavor (the Hunters' medic) are reluctant due to the Nightmare Incident, but Zero is allowed to come back onboard. X and Zero go to Gate's lab, and High Max, the "indestructable Reploid," is ultimately destroyed while Isoc is "erased" (Alia comments that it is reminiscent of the "Erasure Incident" prior to the Repliforce's revolt). X and Zero manage to defeat Gate himself, and upon his defeat, Gate reveals the truth: at the wreckage of the colony, he discovered the "DNA" of Zero, and thus he used it to create the Zero Nightmare. This, however, was not the end of it. He also found the badly damaged body of Sigma, and he had been slowly reconstructing him ever since the combination of the pure "DNA" of Zero and the presence of Sigma (both of which had the pure original virus of Dr. Wily) made him go Maverick. X and Zero rush of to the location of the reconstructed Sigma and battle him, and although he was not fully complete, he puts up a good fight. In the end, the Hunters prove victorious, defeating Sigma and removing Gate from the wreckage of his lab. Alia and Gate manage to reconcile their past before Gate succumbs to his terminal wounds, but the threat was averted...

Note : It is generally assumed that Isoc, although not directly stated by Capcom, is a reincarnation of Dr. Wily. Many people believe that Dr. Wily had his artificial intelligence somehow put into the "body" of this Reploid, which explains Isoc's obsession with Zero and how Isoc can "stop" Zero from moving when he confronts him and how he claims to "know his systems inside-and-out." Additionally, Zero says that he does not fully understand how he was repaired, but when he talks to Dr. Light's artificial intelligence (via one of the capsules), Light tells him that he does not know who repaired him. However, many believe that either Isoc or Dr. Wily himself in another form repaired Zero. Either way, someone with knowledge of Zero's systems repaired him.

• ca. 2170: (Mega Man X7) Many years have passed since the Eurasia and Nightmare incidents that left the Earth's surface in ruins and raging with viral outbreaks. Since then, Reploids have worked diligently to clean up the world and make it inhabitable for humans once again. With the Earth cleaned up once again, humans have repopulated the surface and ushered in a new age of technology. Next Generation Reploids begin to be developed- Reploids which have the ability to copy the DNA of other Reploids and, thus, adapt to their environments. Over time, the Maverick Hunters begins to be seen as an ancient institution that is no longer "with the times," so a faction called the Red Alert Syndicate is created under the command of a Reploid named Red. Yet, when one of their recruits named Axl goes AWOL and defects to the Hunters, Red issues a challenge- they release eight mavericks imprisoned by them upon the world, stating that whichever group manages to defeat them is obviously superior. In the end, it is revealed that Sigma is behind the plot, having been drawn to Red Alert after realizing the power of the Next Generation Reploids (such as Axl). Once again, the Hunters face Sigma and in the end he is defeated.

• ca. 2175: (Mega Man X8) A few years after the Red Alert incident, Next Generation Reploids are being produced in large quantities and technological development has really taken off. One major project is the Jakob Project by which an orbital elevator, called the Jakob's Tower, is created. This elevator/tower stretches from the Earth all the way up to outer-space, making space travel far easier. Next Generation Reploids have been used in the construction of the tower because of their powerful bodies that are able to withstand great pressure and which are considered "maverick proof." However, an explosion at the tower and the appearance of a crab-like mechaniloid brings X, Zero, and Axl to the tower's base where Vile (defeated in Mega Man X and Mega Man X3) appears and kidnaps the program director, Lumine. Who is Vile working for and what's going on? The Hunters don't have time to find out because eight new mavericks appear at various spots around the world to keep them occupied. However, it appears that Sigma is once again up to his "same old tricks-" but is he? This time he plans to use these so-called Next Generation Reploids' abilities against them- he has placed his DNA within their copy chips, meaning that they can go maverick at will. Sigma plans to wipe out the world ("scorch it") and repopulate it with his "children." Of course, the Hunters plan to stop him and a major confrontation results on the Moon where the Hunters defeat Sigma, but Lumine appears, finishes him off, and declares that he "will rule in his place." X, Zero, and Axl battle Lumine in an intense fight and in the end prove victorious.

Note: In light of the fact that Sigma is destroyed on the Moon in Mega Man X8 and there are no Reploids around for his "virus" to infect, it is generally considered that he "dies" at this point. Therefore, most people believe that he will not appear in any other games that take place chronologically after Mega Man X8 (especially since he is not seen in Mega Man X: Command Mission).

• 2176-2200: Thanks to the Jakob Project, humans and Reploids have been able to develop more efficient space-traveling technology. The rapid population growth on Earth has furthered the need for colonial expansion into space, just as it had earlier in the century, so space technology becomes far more important towards the century's end.

[edit] 23rd Century

• 2202: "An unheard-of mineral substance known as Force Metal was extracted from the debris of the small planet 2202XA8" (From the manual of Mega Man X: Command Mission).

• ca. 2210s: (Mega Man X: Command Mission) Several years after the discovery of Force Metal, technology based on it has revolutionized the field of Reploid Engineering. Giga City, an island in the middle of the ocean, has been built for the sole purpose of mining and smelting the material. Peace had existed for decades and the world was peaceful until a rebellion began to rise on the island. Epsilon, the leader of the revolt, was branded a Maverick by the Government, and Colonel Redips of the Maverick Hunters' Far Eastern Division dispatch X, Zero, and Shadow to investigate. Shadow betrays the team and X and Zero are separated when part of the ruins they enter at collapses. They eventually meet up, come in contact with a group known as the Anti-Rebellion Resistance led by Chief R. X and Zero eventually meet up with Reploids such as Spider (a bounty hunter), Steel Massimo, Cinnamon, and Marino. In the end, X, Zero, and Axl recover the Supra-Force Metal from Epsilon after defeating him and hand it over to Redips, who offers and escort fleet back to Hunter HQ. However, when the fleet arrives at the Resistance HQ, it opens fire and destroys Chief R and others in the process! Then, Redips appears on the monitor and declares them all "traitors." X, Zero, and Axl head over to the Eastern Division HQ where Redips reveals himself to be Spider ("Redips" backwards is "Spider!"). Redips is a Next-Generation Reploid who used his copy-chip to change DNA (the ability was greatly enhanced by the power of force metal). Redips retreats to up the Babel Orbital Elevator and, in the end, despite changing into a large and powerful form using the Supra-Force Metal, X, Zero, and Axl defeat him (one of the previous "Mavericks," Ferham, comes and takes a Supra-Force Metal off of Redips to make him easier for the team to destroy). In the end, Ferham takes the metal and jumps off the elevator, detonating herself and destroying the substance to ensure that it won't ever end up in the wrong hands again...

• ca. 2210s-2220s: The Maverick Wars continue.

• ca. 2230s:

Dr. Weil is born.

Fefnir, Harpuia, Leviathan, and Phantom are created (the Guardians).

Cyber Elf technology is invented. Cyber Elves are pure energy with artificial intelligence. They were invented for the sole purpose of ending the Maverick Wars. Their creators designed them to amplify the power of Reploids and to combat the effect of the Maverick Virus. Key in this development was the creation of the Mother Elf, which Mega Man X used in order to permanently destroy the effects of the Maverick Virus and thus end the Maverick Wars.

• ca. 2240s-2250s: Neo Arcadia is built as a major city-state at the end of the Maverick Wars as a place where humans, Reploids, and Cyber Elves can live in peace.

• ca. 2260s: The Mother Elf is stolen by Dr. Weil, who turns it into the Dark Elf and instigates the Elf Wars. This four-year period is so violent that it destroys 90% of the planet's Reploids and kills 60% of the planet's humans. During this time Zero's original body is destroyed (though not completely) and his "soul" (Reploid DNA and AI) is transfered into a "copy" body while Dr. Weil uses his "remains" (the original body) to construct Omega. The Dark Elf and its baby elves attempt to control the Reploids, so X and Zero fight against them and, in the end, go up against the powerful Omega, defeating it with the Final Strike attack. Dr. Weil is punished and banished (Weil is given regenerative armor before his exile so that he will survive and "suffer" psychologically and his crimes are downloaded into it as data so that he won't forget them) as is Omega and Zero seals himself for a period of 102 years (according to Mega Man X5 it was to "cleanse" his Reploid body).

[edit] 24th Century

• ca. 2350s:

X seals the Dark Elf after having fought in the Elf Wars a century ago (he seals the Dark Elf at Yggdrasil using his own body as a seal).

Ceil is born (14 years prior to Mega Man Zero).

Copy X is built (8 years prior to Mega Man Zero).

• ca. 2360s:

(Mega Man Zero): While Ceil and her companions are fleeing the Neo Arcadian forces they come accross the ruins of an ancient laboratory where a Reploid named Zero is sealed up, having been in stasis for just over 100 years. The world that Zero is brought into is one drastically different to the one from a century earlier- Reploids and humans are both living under constant oppression at the hands of a maniacal ruler who can call them "Maverick" at a whim...But who is this ruler? Is it...Mega Man X? Zero fights X's forces, led by the four Guardians- Fefnir, Harpuia, Leviathan, and Phantom and then learns the truth from Ceil: X is not the real X, but rather is a "copy." Copy X was created when the real X went missing some time ago. Zero goes to confront and defeat Copy X and, upon doing so, is almost destroyed by the large explosion that results. Then, the real X appears in the form of a Cyber Elf and tells Zero that he must continue the fight and protect the peace as he rests for a while.

(Mega Man Zero 2): One year has passed since Zero defeated Copy X and ever since then he has been wandering around in the desert in disrepair, fighting off wave after wave of Pantheons (X-like Mavericks). In Neo Arcadia, the remaining three Guardians (Phantom having been destroyed trying to prevent Zero's assault on Area X) have assumed control in the place of Copy X, unbeknownst to the humans who had revered Copy X (whom they thought to be the "real Mega Man X") as a savior. Ciel tries to solve the Energy Crisis that seems to have started much of the problems of the 24th century, but a Reploid named Elpizo believes her efforts to be futile and makes an assault on Neo Arcadia from which he is the only returning survivor. After that, Elpizo returns and believes that the only thing that will stop the madness is the Dark Elf, the very thing that started the Elf Wars in the first place. Using some of its unsealed power, Elpizo breaks into the temple at Yggdrasil, destroys the real X's body and unseals the Dark Elf. However, Zero comes to the rescue, stopping Elpizo from unleashing the Dark Elf's power on the world and defeats him once and for all. Elpizo appologizes for everything that he's done and the Dark Elf turns him into a Cyber Elf (saving him). Elpizo then tells Zero that the Dark Elf isn't evil and then he leaves. X appears (in his Cyber Elf form) and tells Zero about the true nature of the Dark Elf, who was created to be a savior for Reploids and Humans during the Maverick Wars but was manipulated by a man named Dr. Weil. After this the Dark Elf leaves and a voice calls for Omega to come into action...

(Mega Man Zero 3): Two months after Elpizo's defeat a spaceship crashes and emits energy similar to that of the Dark Elf which prompts Zero to go and investigate. However, while Zero is out investigating Ciel and a couple resistance members are captured by a huge Reploid named Omega that not even Fefnir and Leviathan can take down. While Zero halts his investigation to deal with Omega, a new Copy X assumes command of Neo Arcadia and Dr. Weil introduces himself (he seems to be back from his exile). Weil launches a missile at a densely-populated area so Omega can capture the Dark Elf and Zero goes to battle and defeat Copy X, but Dr. Weil betrays Copy X and detonates a bomb held within his body that goes off when he tries to access his Seraph form. Weil assumes control of Neo Arcadia and uses Omega and the Dark Elf to seize control of the Reploids. Zero manages to defeat Omega's Dark Elf-enhanced form, defeating him twice, but out of Omega's remains emerges a Reploid that looks exactly like Zero. Weil then informs Zero that he is merely a copy and that Omega occupies his true, original form. X reappears and tells Zero that what Weil says is true: they battled Omega in the past and sealed him long ago. Then, before Omega is rejoined with the Dark Elf, the Guardians come and do further damage to him. Zero decides that he must finish him off, regardless of whether or not he occupies his original body. Omega explodes, knocking Zero "unconscious," and he sees visions of X. X tells him that he is out of energy and can no longer remain in the human world. X is confident that Zero will carry on the battle to protect peace and fades away. X is then believed to have "retired into cyber space." The Guardians also die in the explosion. The Dark Elf brings Zero's unconscious body back to the Resistance HQ and, with Weil's curse broken, the Dark Elf becomes the Mother Elf once again and flies away...

(Mega Man Zero 4): Not long after Zero's battle with Omega, humans begin to leave Neo Arcadia, which is under the dictatorship of Dr. Weil. Humans who oppose Weil's rule are labeled as Human Mavericks, so a caravan departs under the guidance of a journalist named Neige. The caravan is attacked by Variants (of the Neo Arcadian Foot Soldiers) and Ciel and the Resistance come accross them along with Zero. The caravan explains that they are heading to Area Zero, the last known inhabitable area outside of Neo Arcadia (Area Zero is the remains of the Eurasia Space Colony that fell to Earth in Mega Man X5, in this case leaving behind a climate control center that made a region of vegetation). Soon after this, Zero learns of a plot from Kraft, Weil's second-in-command, to destroy Area Zero. Known as Operation Ragnarok, Weil was going to use an orbital sattelite to destroy all inhabitable areas and force humans to live under his rule. Thus, Zero sets out to defeat his Maverick leaders. Yet, these prove to merely be a distraction as Weil could simply use the sattelite's cannon to destroy Area Zero. Yet, Kraft rebels against Weil (he is in love with Neige) and fires the cannon upon Neo Arcadia! Zero puts an end to Kraft and the Resistance is dispatched to deal with the survivors. Weil then teleports directly into the sattelite to manually crash it into Area Zero, but Zero teleports in an makes his way to Weil. Weil reveals to Zero that he is indeed human, although Zero doesn't understand how he could have lived for well over a century. Weil reveals that over a century ago the humans who exiled him gave him a regenerative suit so that he would live through his exile and not die or get sick. Therefore, he tells Zero that he will not be able to destroy him. Moreover, should he ever manage to kill him or harm him he will be considered a "Maverick." In the end, Zero decides that he doesn't care about justice, he only cares about protecting the ones he loves. Zero battles and takes down Weil, but Weil somehow merges himself with Ragnarok. In the end, however, Zero destroy's Weil's core, causing a chain reaction that blasts the sattelite to flaming pieces. On Earth, Ciel, the Resistance, and the survivors see the explosion and realize that Zero did not escape. Ciel promises to make the world a peaceful place for humans and Reploids but deep inside she believes that Zero is still alive somewhere. In the end, Zero's helmet is seen glistening in the sun in the desert...

• ca. 2370: After the fighting of what can be termed as the Second Maverick War comes to an end, Ciel and her research team begin doing research in an area known as the Outlands- a generally uninhabitable area outside of Neo Arcadia. The team comes across the remains of Dr. Weil's core from when he had merged with Ragnarok a decade earlier, and when the team comes into contact with it they begin to experience severe migraines. This core, which Ciel calls the W Core, begins to turn members of Ciel's team maverick, mainly a Reploid named Serpent. Serpent ends up destroying the research team and Dr. Ciel, so Alouette, a young Reploid raised by Ciel, assumes command of the Resistance (who later become the Guardians).

• ca. 2371-2400: In order to ensure that the violence of the First Maverick War, the Elf Wars, and the Second Maverick Wars do not recur, a truce between humans and Reploids is agreed upon. Furthermore, Reploids agree to have lifespans and humans begin to have mechanical parts integrated into their bodies. In essence, the difference between "man and machine" become negligible as humanoids emerge. The ones who do not choose to follow this truce are branded Mavericks. Also during this period nations emerge, such as Innerpeace.

[edit] 25th Century

• ca. 2450s: (10 years prior to the events of Mega Man ZX) Serpent emerges as a hero to society as he is able to solve most of the world's energy crisis using technology unearthed in the Outlands. Thus, Serpent founds Slither, Inc., which becomes prevalent in most major cities of Innerpeace. At the same time, Maverick Raids become more widespread, reaching beyond the Outlands and into the supposed safety of the cities (Vent and Aile lose their parents in the raids and Giro takes them under his wing).

• ca. 2460s: (Mega Man ZX) Giro Express is hired to deliver a package to the Guardians, but during the delivery the team falls under attack by Mavericks. Giro, Vent, and Aile are split up during the attack. They wake up in a forest near their rendezvous point where the Guardians, under the guidance of Prairie (a.k.a. Alouette), have fallen under attack from Mavericks as well. Thus, they find that the package contained a substance known as Biometal (in this case, Biometal Model X), which can link with them and essentially transform them into Mega Man X. They use the Biometal to defeat the Mavericks and save the Guardians who were under attack. Then, the Guardians believe that they are trustworthy and give them a small test that they can complete to have access to their HQ (a flying battleship that hovers above one of the major cities at which Slither, Inc. is headquartered). Vent and Aile find that Giro is located near an old highway area (from the original Mega Man X) and set out to investigate, but Giro too has been transformed (using the Model Z Biometal). A power forces Giro to battle them and they defeat him, and then a lightning-like attack strikes him to the ground. Serpent reveals himself, along with other Mega-Men (those capable of Megamerging, or using the Meta-Encapsulated Granule Awareness System) and claims that he has the power to make the world go Maverick with his Model W Biometal, although it won't matter to Vent and Aile. They too are struck to the ground and left for dead, but Giro, realizing that he will soon die, tells Model Z to lend them its power, although Z at first refuses because if Giro transforms he will die. In the end, Z agrees and Giro dies. The result is the merging of Model X and Model Z into Model ZX. What happens next is a series of events which can be summed up in a quest to regain the rest of the Biometals- it is revealed that Ciel created the Biometals all those years ago in order to stop the power of the original W Core (what remained of the consciousness of Dr. Weil after he merged with Ragnarok in Mega Man Zero 4). The Biometals were essentially created by downloading the "DNA" and AI of past "legends," such as Mega Man X, Zero, and the four Guardians. However, Serpent found these Biometals and wanted to keep them away from the Guardians, so he created Pseudoroids (Reploids with regenerative power, thanks to the W Core's regenerative effects) that could wear the Biometal and split them in half, each containing part of the password that could unlock the W Core. In the end, Vent and Aile face down Serpent in order to stop him from causing the world (of which everyone is humanoid or mechaniloid) and learn that Serpent had been with Prairie's sister's (Ciel) research team and had found the W Core, which had in turn made him turn maverick and destroy everyone around him. They learn that Prometheus and Pandora, two Reploids, were simply "using" Serpent as a means to unlock the Core's true power (they needed someone to use the core and become maverick in order to unleash its true potential, but they were not willing to do so themselves). However, Vent and Aile defeat the two and then make their way into Slither, Inc. HQ and battle Serpent himself, who admits that all of the maverick incidents which Slither "stopped" were actually created by him using the W Core! The Core "fed" off of the power of human suffering and needed to absorb the Cyber Elves created by the destroyed Reploids and Humanoids. Thus, realizing that their parents were killed in the attacks ten years ago, Vent and Aile attack and defeat Serpent in a fit of rage. However, Serpent tells them that they are simply using "rage" to drive their attacks, thus empowering the Core. He then merges with the W Core, and thus all of the Biometals tell them to fight with courage, not rage and hatred. In the end, they do so and defeat Serpent, severing him from the Core and destroying Slither, Inc.'s Headquarters. After the explosion, they see the spirit of Giro, who tells them to continue to fight for justice and then they meet up with Prairie and the rest of the Guardians and promise to continue to work with them...

[edit] 4th and 5th Millenniums

• 3001-5000 A.D.: Elysium is created as a Utopian society. The Elder System is shut down and the Master System replaces it.

[edit] 6th Millennium

• 5001-6000 A.D.: Carbons are created.

Most of the humans die from unknown causes.

The last human, Master, dies on Terra (lived on Elysium for 3,000 years).

Trigger attempts to shut down the Master System according to Master's wishes. Yuna remains neutral after first having opposed Trigger. Trigger creates Data to protect his memories and the Master's genetic sample from Mother II (Sera).

Trigger and Sera battle on Terra and Trigger is reset to his original form. Yuna seals Trigger and Data on Nino Island and Sera with Gatz on Forbidden Island.

Note: The events listed here take place during this time period because they are mentioned in Mega Man Legends or Mega Man Legends 2 as having taken place 3,000 years before their present time period.

[edit] 9th Millennium

• 8001-9000 A.D.: (Mega Man Legends) The Earth (referred to as Terra) has been flooded and, as such, the population exists on a series of small islands. An energy crisis exists once again and in order to fulfill the energy needs refractor crystals are mined from ancient ruins by explorers (or miners) called Diggers. The ultimate goal of these Diggers is to find a massive energy source called the Mother Lode. These Diggers are often assisted by assistants that use computers to track enemies via radar. Rock Volnutt is a digger searching for the Mother Lode along with the Casket family, but their airship, the Flutter, experiences engine trouble and crashes on Kattelox Island. The family consists of Roll Casket (Rock's "sister"), Barrell Casket (their "grandfather"), and Data (a monkey that only Rock is able to understand). On Kattelox the Caskets come into contact with the Bonne's, a group of Pirates who are also seeking refractor crystals (and ultimately the Mother Lode). The Bonne's are led by Tiesel Bonne and consist of his siblings, Tron (a mechanical genius) and Bon (a giant baby). The Bonne's also use Servbots to do their bidding. In repairing the Flutter, Rock finds that the ruins on the island are connected to something called the Main Gate. Inside, Rock finds a robot called Mega Man Juno, a third-class aristocratic unit from Elysium. Juno reveals that Rock is actually Rockman Trigger (a.k.a. Mega Man Trigger) and tells Rock that the island needs to be purged so that it can be more easily controlled. He also claims that the island's population is made up of carbons. He then tells Rock that he (Rock) is suffering from memory loss and electrocutes him to reinitialize him. The Bonnes help him escape the electrocution and then set him up for a final confrontation. In the end, Juno is defeated, mainly because he is a "Third Class Aristocratic Unit" whereas Rock is a "First Class Irregular Hunter" (or "Purifier Unit"). Even with his physical body gone, Juno transfers his memory to Elysium and the Carbon Purification Process is still continuing. Surprisingly, Data gives a new set of commands which halt the process of Purification and delete Juno's memory from Elysium. He then informs Rock that he is indeed Rockman Trigger and that he contains his previous memories within his systems. He promises to return them to him when the time is right. The people of Kattelox Island proclaim Rock and the Caskets as heroes and they fly off in the newly-repaired Flutter with the Bonnes trailing behind in a boat with a large refractor crystal they excavated from the Main Gate.

(Mega Man Legends 2) One year after the events on Kattelox Island a press conference is held between Barrell Casket and his old rival (and friend) Von Bleucher that Mega Man and Roll watch from the Flutter on T.V. Von Bleucher claims that his new ship, the Sulphur Botton, is capable of landing on the Forbidden Island, a feat which has been met with extremely limited success and which Von Bleucher and Casket themselves tried 30 years ago. Upon their last attempt they saw a mysterious girl and then lost consciousness and awoke on an island of eternal winter. This seems to be the case with nearly everyone who attemps to land on the Forbidden Island. What's more, the island is surrounded by a thick and nearly impenetrable cloud. Von Bleucher claims that the Mother Lode is located on that island and that with his new ship he will be able to find it and end the world's energy problems. After they talk, a reporter stands up and begins to question them about the people who travel to the island and go missing. She also tells them that the Mother Lode isn't on the island, but if it were or one were to find it, a horrible disaster would occur. When Barrell gets a look at her face he says..."Matilda...?" (the same name as Roll's lost mother)...but then she runs and jumps out of a window and then is seen riding away on what appears to be a reaverbot. Meanwhile, Data sets fire to the interior of the Flutter while cooking, but Rock manages to save the ship. However, rather than focusing on "interior decorating," they begin to focuson on a more important task- building a ship that can penetrate the clouds surrounding the Forbidden Island. They begin their journey on the island of Calinka. In Yosyonke (a town on Calinka) Rock and Roll learn of a man named Joe has a craft that looks just like the one in the blueprints left behind by Roll's parents. Joe, a man in fragile condition, has gone to excavate some ruins and hasn't come back, so Rock goes after him. Rock finds him injured and brings him back to town. Unfortunately Joe has had amnesia for the past ten years and cannot remember anything about his past life. He was a high-ranking Digger who was badly injured and taken in by a barkeeper whom he married. He does, however, have a picture of Roll's family (which he is seen throwing away). He does let them use his ship, the Dropship and later helps them battle pirates. Rock and Roll go on to engage the Bonnes and other pirates in their usual confrontations, eventually meeting another adversary named Glide who uses his Birdbots in combat. Eventually Rock's past is revealed to him. 3,000 years ago the last remaining human on Earth, named Master, ruled over Elysium and all of its people. In those days Rock was an Irregular Hunter as revealed to him by Juno. Master created all of the Units, Reaverbots, and the ruins on Terra. He also created the people on Terra, which he referred to as carbons. He shared a close bond with Rockman Trigger (a.k.a. Mega Man Trigger) that Sera was very envious of. Eventually the Master realized that the summary execution of the carbons was wrong and asked Rockman Trigger to destroy the Master System that he had created in order to protect himself. Without the life-sustaining power of Elysium Master eventually died, leaving his genetic code with Trigger. Trigger had fought a rough battle to take the system down. Yuna, the Mother Earth, eventually understood Trigger's perspective and remained neutral in the conflict. Sera, however, came to Terra to personally deal with Trigger. Outside of Elysium both were weakened and fought to a stalemate. Yuna seized the moment and locked the two in stasis fields on separate islands. Trigger had to reset his system in order to heal, but in doing so he would lose his memories. Thankfully Data was there for him to download them into. Many years later (roughly 3,000 years later) it was Barrell Casket that came upon this stasis field in the ruins of Nino Island. When he touched the field it melted and a baby and mechanical monkey appeared. He decided to raise the baby as his own, along with his granddaughter Roll. The story of Roll's parents is also revealed somewhat. They went to the Forbidden Island in search of the Mother Lode but never returned. Yuna found Matilda, hurt and dying, and took pity on her. She used her powers in order to repair her body, but in doing so she expended far too much of her own energy. As a result, the only way to save herself was to merge with Matilda, essentially "borrowing" her body. In doing so, she was no longer recognized as the Mother, having lost her original shell (but she no longer had to stick to the parameters of the system). In the "present" time, Rock unlocks Sera from her stasis field and Sera tries to perform the Carbon Reinitialization Program and recover the Master's genetic code from Trigger's original shell. In the ensuing battle, Sera's original shell is destroyed, but her programming is moved to a recreation of Yuna's body. In doing this, Sera is no longer part of Elysium and the system begins to shut down. This causes the Old System, called the Elder System, to begin reactivating...

NOTE: The Mega Man Legends series takes place sometime during the 9th Millennium, but how do we know this? The Japanese title of the series is Rockman DASH, which stands for Digouters Adventure Story in Halcyon Days. The Halcyon Days in Egyptian Mythology is a prosperous period, a golden age, calculated by them to take place during the Ninth Millennium A.D., or sometime between the years 8001 and 9000 A.D.

[edit] FAQs

[edit] Where exactly do these dates come from?

Some of the dates are explicitly explained, such as the Ancient dates and the Halcyon Days. We do know specific dates such as Dr. Light's reception of the Nobel Prize for the creation of the Robot Masters in 2007 from the Rockman Perfect Memories sourcebook. The first two Rockman/Mega Man games take place in the 200X time period (between the years 2000 and 2009), but Mega Man 3 takes place in the year 20XX, which is generally recognized as a decade change. We also know that Dr. Wily is mentioned as being 57-years-old in the Japanese Rockman & Forte instruction manual, and since Wily and Light are both supposed to be roughly the same age, we can calculate their birthdates and the approximate date that they graduated college. It is harder to calculate when people like Dr. Cossack and Dr. Cain were born, but we can approximate these dates from their approximate ages (based on their appearances in the games). We do not know exactly when Mega Man X was sealed in his capsule, but the approximation of the year 2016 is a fair calculation as this is roughly when the Wily Wars comes to an end. This would concur with the opening of the capsule- the copyright date on Cain's computer is 2114, and since his computer is most likely not brand-new, 2116 is a fair date (we know that X was supposed to have been sealed for a century). With the Journal of Dr. Cain we can figure out some of the exact dates in the X series, but after the first two games it gets hazy. This is why I use the term circa with the rest of the events in this timeline. While some games do say "three months later" (for example), we don't know exactly what year they are in (aside from them saying 21XX, 22XX, etc.). However, the author has done his best to provide you with the best possible estimation of when these games take place time-wise.

[edit] Aren't some games missing from this timeline?

Yes, some games were left out of this timeline. The main reason is that some games are canonically questionable and therefore their place in the timeline is also questionable at best. The best examples of these games would be Mega Man PC and Mega Man 3 PC (there was no Mega Man 2 PC!). The Mega Man Battle Network series was also left off, primarily because it takes place in what can be described as an alternate universe. The first four games in the series take place in the 200X time period whereas Mega Man Battle Network 5 takes place in 20XX.

[edit] Is Legends (DASH) connected to original time line?

Chronologically, yes and no. To many at first glance, the Legends series' looks more like a alternative Mega Man dimension, along with EXE. But according to Rockman Perfect Memories, it is part of main timeline. However, any events that occured in the Legends/DASH series have no relevence to the events in the Original, X, Zero, and ZX series.

[edit] References

1. Rockman Perfect Memories Forum (March 17, 2006) - San Sidera's Reply #26: "Re: Rockman Timeline"
2. MegaMan Timeline (Archive)- Quickman's Post on June 26, 2006
3. Wikipedia
4. Mega Man X Instruction Manual - Journal of Dr. Cain
5. Mega Man X: Command Mission Instruction Manual
6. Rockman Perfect Memories, ISBN 4-5751-6354-6