Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jun 22, 2019 10:25:47 GMT -8
MODERATOR NOTE: Original gameplay events added up to posts made 12/05/21.
Here is the timeline of events for our Firefly RPG! I've put dates where we know them but the show didn't really put dates so everything is listed in the order it happened. If I've missed anything or when a new plot is starting up, please reply with what you'd like me to add and between which two existing events below it should be placed.
Everything that happened on the show is canon. RPG takes place before the movie so the movie is not canon. Here is a great timeline of canon events including terraforming dates of planets and moons. I've only copied over the really main ones that might directly affect our RPG to the timeline below: firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline. This one has more details regarding the characters: signal.serenityfirefly.com/mmx/timeline/view.php.
***Canon events are in bold***
Events up to 2517
All events of the show (most of the show takes place in 2517).
2060
The Alliance is created.
2072
First wave of terraforming begins.
2075
Latest projections show Earth unable to support more than 5 percent of current population within three decades. GEA recommends a vast expansion of the Exodus Project and Alliance approves, remaining cities will be systematically dismantled to increase the size of the ark fleet tenfold. Pollution runs wild as ark fleet is considered the only priority.
2090
Loading of arks begins with cargo, fuel, and stored genetic samples.
2094
Boarding of the ark ships begins. Over the last five decades, Earth population has dropped to around one billion due to starvation, disease, toxic contamination, and criminal activities. Reproductive rates have dropped to near zero. Most of the Earth's population now lives in squalor. Although most ark ships will not depart until completely loaded (a process that takes years), survivors welcome the safe, sterile, climate controlled environments of the Ark ships after the horror Earth has become. A rich black market develops that sells positions in the boarding lottery, falsified medical certificates, and other items needed to gain quicker access to the arks.
2095
The Alliance declares global martial law.
2097
First ark ships begin to depart. Priority is given to those ships populated with the ancestors of those who will act as the terraforming and construction labor force upon arrival.
2101
The final Ark ship leaves Earth orbit. Ships at cruise velocity for 116 years, Earth time. Time dilation slows time aboard ship to 108 years, 10 months, 18 days.
2110
All telemetry data from Earth ceases. It is assumed that remaining Earth population is 0.
2164
As the Exodus fleet approaches, higher resolution imaging of the Verse becomes possible. Observers discover hundreds of planets and moons, many of which appear to be terraformable.
2190
Last person in the fleet who was born on Earth dies.
2218
Last member of the first “star generation” dies. No living member of crew has direct memories of Earth or the Solar System.
2436
Rimward expansion begins as worlds in Kalidasa and Blue Sun systems complete terraforming.
2444
PATIENCE is born.
2449
ADELAI NISKA is born.
2460
DERRIAL BOOK is born.
2477
JAYNE COBB is born.
2479
FRANK PICKETT is born.
2481
TEDDY "ZANE" WILDER, aka DR. ZED is born.
2482
MADISON HALEY is born.
2483
WENDY CARTER is born.
February 15, 2484
ZOE ALLEYNE WASHBURNE is born
2484
SALLY WHITEWATER born.
2486
HOBAN WASHBURNE is born.
September 20, 2486
MALCOLM REYNOLDS is born.
2489
DEX WILDER is born.
2489
JEBEDIAH COLTAN is born.
2490
SIMON TAM is born.
2491
The Alliance hears of an abnormally advanced eight-year-old girl on Verbena named WENDY CARTER. They offer her parents a large sum of money to "adopt" her. Her parents sign her over without hesitation. Her twelve-year-old friend and only person who really cared about her, FRANK PICKETT, tries to help get her away but they fail. WENDY is placed in the custody of Blue Sun where she starts her training and they start their experimenting.
2491
WENDY CARTER makes a deal with the main doctor who'll be overseeing her to cooperate if they'll allow FRANK PICKETT to visit her.
2493
BRIDGET/SAFFRON/YOLANDA is born.
Late 25th Century
INARA SERRA is born.
2497
KAYWINNET LEE FRYE is born.
2497
At 16, one of ZANE WILDER's science experiments accidentally caught fire. He had the opportunity to wake his parents and save them, but chose to let them parish as a casualty of the accidental fire.
2499
WENDY CARTER, now 16, and FRANK PICKETT's friendship had grown into love over the past several years. Knowing that WENDY planned to leave and go off with FRANK once she hit the legal age of 18, Blue Sun successfully manipulates the two of them apart. FRANK leaves planet and WENDY, with no place to go and nobody left who cares about her, starts to consider their offer to stay on and become an agent.
2500
Blue Sun knows WENDY CARTER plans to leave and with her 18th birthday looming only months away, they put her through another experimental surgery. When she comes to, she's told something went wrong and that her life will now be dependent upon a special pill developed only there. WENDY knows whatever they did had been done on purpose to keep her from ever leaving and maintain control over her.
2500
RIVER TAM is born.
2504
Rebel extremists murdered Ephriam Lancaster's wife and kidnapped DEX LANCASTER from Beaumonde and left him on the planet of Aberdeen.
2506
DEX LANCASTER meets bounty hunter Niles Wilder on Aberdeen and is taken under his wing as an apprentice
2506
The Miranda Project fails, killing 99.9% of the colonists, and resulting in the remaining tenth of a percent becoming Reavers.
2506
The Unification War begins.
2509
DEX LANCASTER returns to Beaumonde with Niles Wilder for a job. Niles Wilder assassinates Ephriam Lancaster and DEX kills Niles. DEX is charged and found guilty of the murder of both Ephriam Lancaster and Niles Wilder, being sentenced to prison for ten years.
May 2511
Battle of Serenity Valley
2511
The Union of Allied Planets wins the Unification War, and an armistice was signed ending the war.
2512
MALCOLM REYNOLDS hires KAYWINNIT LEE FRYE as the Serenity's mechanic
2516
JAYNE COBB and two others attempt to hijack Serenity. MALCOLM REYNOLDS offers him a place on his crew.
August 2516
INARA SERRA begins renting a shuttle aboard Serenity.
May 2517
DERRIAL BOOK, LAWRENCE DOBSON, SIMON TAM, and RIVER TAM book passage on Serenity.
May 2517
Serenity crew pulls the train job for ADELEI NISKA.
January 2518
The crew of Serenity raid Saint Lucy's hospital on the planet Ariel.
April 2518
INARA SERRA tells MALCOLM REYNOLDS that she'll be leaving the ship.
May 2518
Bounty hunter JUBAL EARLY infiltrates Serenity in flight to collect SIMON TAM and RIVER TAM. SIMON ends up shot in the leg and INARA earns herself a split lip when JUBAL backhands her for her attempt to use her wiles. They manage to outsmart him, leading to him outside the ship in his space suit where MALCOLM REYOLDS is waiting for him. MALCOLM shoves him off to float away into space.
DEX LANCASTER is released one year early from prison and is hired by the Alliance as a bounty hunter. DEX officially changes his name to DEX WILDER and is given the task to hunt down RIVER TAM and SIMON TAM.
DEX WILDER meets Captain MADISON HALEY of the Shadowheart on the planet Persephone and offers his services under his alias as a galaxy explorer, promising to help them with missions in exchange for food and shelter. He infiltrates the crew as a friend and with the help of the Alliance through secret meetings while away "scoping out other planets", campaigns to direct the Shadowheart to follow reported sightings of RIVER TAM and SIMON TAM.
May 15, 2518
WENDY CARTER arrives for her briefing on her next assignment, which happens to be tracking down SIMON TAM and RIVER TAM, and to get her next dose of pills at the Sea Siren Bar on New Melbourne.
May 15, 2518
Things go sideways when her only friend from childhood and first love, FRANK PICKETT, happens to show up at the same bar with a meeting of his own. Her Alliance contact clashes with FRANK and WENDY CARTER steps in to save him, killing the last Alliance man standing over FRANK with a gun. The sociopathic read she gets off him gives her no hesitation in taking him out in order to save FRANK, effectively turning herself into a fugitive.
May 15, 2518
WENDY CARTER quickly escapes with the data pad but not her refill. After overtaxing herself with her reading abilities, she manages to send a wave to the only person she's trusted for years, JAX, before collapsing in a seizure.
May 15, 2518
JAX finds WENDY CARTER and administers the emergency shot on hand for the occurrence of this rare incident. FRANK PICKETT finds them shortly after and takes them on board his ship.
May 15, 2518
WENDY CARTER and FRANK PICKETT have a private conversation. WENDY fills him in on what happened to her and how she believes SIMON TAM might be able to help her, if they can find him in the time she has left. Hurt and anger over the past bubbles up which leads to them learning about Blue Sun having manipulated the two of them apart all those years ago.
May 15, 2518
DEX WILDER receives new urgent instructions to put a hold on his search for RIVER TAM and SIMON TAM and to hunt down rouge agent WENDY CARTER instead. The truth behind the mission change is that with decades of dirt on the Alliance and Blue Sun, WENDY is a far greater threat to them, but the Alliance instead paints a dark picture of WENDY to DEX of a dangerous person who is a threat to their peaceful unification, leaving bodies in her wake.
May 16, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS is contacted by MONTY for a job. The crew heads to New Melbourne to pick up the shipment while some go off to do some shopping. ADELAI NISKA, who has been trying to track down MALCOLM and the crew, finally picks up on their location and sends a couple of his men to New Melbourne.
May 16, 2518
WENDY CARTER, sure that SIMON TAM is aboard Serenity, receives an anonymous tip from an Independent ally that she'll find them on New Melbourne. She's finally able to unlock the datapad she'd taken and sees information showing that HANDS OF BLUE had also had the same assumption of the TAM's being aboard Serenity with a plan to concentrate on hunting them down. HANDS OF BLUE also pick up on Serenity's location and head to New Melbourne as well.
May 16, 2518
Not wanting to put FRANK PICKETT and his crew at risk, WENDY CARTER sends a wave to RICHARD CAVANAUGH who owes her a favor. She devises a plan to get FRANK's ship landing on HERA where she sneaks away and CAVANAUGH takes her to New Melbourne.
May 17, 2518
As the Serenity crew is heading off the ship, INARA SERRA plans to use a planet-side communication station to start her arrangements for leaving the ship. She tells the crew she's going shopping. MALCOLM REYNOLDS, the only person who knows of her plans to leave so far, knows what she really plans to do and thwarts her plans by suggesting KAYLEE FRYE accompany her.
May 17, 2518
While MALCOLM REYNOLDS and some of the others are collecting the shipments, KAYLEE FRYE and INARA SERRA head out for some shopping. ADELAI NISKA's men ambush them with the intent of kidnapping INARA, NISKA having gathered enough information to know that hurting her would be what would hurt MALCOLM most. KAYLEE is knocked out and a message disc from NISKA is left in her pocket while INARA is injected with a sleeping drug, then thrown over the shoulder of one of the men. MONTY happens upon them in an alleyway and takes out the men.
May 17, 2518
The Serenity crew returns safely to their ship. WENDY CARTER shows up to warn them that BLUE SUN has been actively hunting down their ship just in time for the HANDS OF BLUE to show up right on her heels. The Serenity crew along with WENDY's help defeat the HANDS OF BLUE in a shoot out in the cargo bay.
May 17, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS agrees to let WENDY CARTER stay on board. The bodies of the HANDS OF BLUE are thrown out of the airlock in a deserted part of the planet. SIMON TAM helps make WENDY as comfortable as possible while she goes through the data pad they were able to unlock with the fingerprint of one of the HANDS OF BLUE.
May 17, 2518
KAYLEE FRYE discovers the disk in her pocket. MALCOLM REYNOLDS and some of the crew go to the bridge and watch the message from ADELAI NISKA stating that he'd taken the Companion and would be giving her to his men with the threat he'd be back for the rest of them. INARA is angered by the threat and greatly relieved that NISKA's men had failed in kidnapping her.
May 17, 2518
WENDY CARTER discovers the location of a doctor, EVAN NAKAMURA, on Newhall who used to work for Blue Sun located on a nearby planet. MALCOLM REYNOLDS has everyone assemble in the kitchen where WENDY informs them of her situation and they work out a plan to kidnap him and bring him aboard. They set course for Newhall.
May 17, 2518
With these newest developments, INARA SERRA has to postpone plans of leaving which starts to give her second thoughts about leaving Serenity, realizing how attached she'd become not only to MALCOLM REYNOLDS but to the whole crew.
May 17, 2518
The Shadowheart crew arrive back on Persephone to restock and open the parts shop owned by Captain MADISON HALEY and SALLY WHITEWATER, which is open for business for short periods of time when the crew returns planetside. MADISON and SALLY have an argument that leads them to admit their feelings for each other.
May 17, 2518
The Shadowheart crew pick up a job for a parts delivery at Chakram Saloon on the planet Santo. Hot headed SALLY WHITEWATER gets them embroiled in a bar fight and SALLY gets stabbed in the leg.
May 17, 2518
A couple weeks after getting stabbed in the leg, aboard the Shadowheart, SALLY WHITEWATER's leg had started to get infected and so they search for someone who can help. DEX WILDER picks up a reliable tip that WENDY CARTER is rumored to be on board Serenity and most likely in search of a retired Alliance doctor living on Newhall. The need for a doctor aligning perfectly, he slips Captain MADISON HALEY coordinates to Newhall.
May 17, 2518
Before disappearing again on one of his "missions" DEX WILDER tampers with the Shadowheart's oxygen that would eventually leave the crew no choice but to seek help from Serenity which would be crossing their path at the right moment, giving DEX a gateway to finding WENDY CARTER.
May 18, 2518
Nearing Newhall, the Shadowheart breaks down and the crew sends out a distress call. Oxygen running low, their distress call is picked up by the Serenity crew who'd also been nearing their destination of Newhall. They reach out via comms and discover common friends aboard their ships. MADISON HALEY and INARA SERRA had both been at House Madrassa together. Serenity agrees to detour and help them.
May 18, 2518
Life support running low, the Shadowheart crew had locked themselves in their escape pod to await Serenity's arrival. Once the ships lock on to each other, with comms down, WENDY CARTER uses her empath gift to locate the crew in the pod. They all go aboard Serenity. SIMON TAM helps SALLY WHITEWATER with her leg while the two crews get to know each other.
May 18, 2518
While the two crews mingle, WENDY CARTER takes RIVER TAM to INARA's shuttle in order for both of them to avoid being overwhelmed by the thoughts and emotions of the large number of people invading their senses. WENDY keeps RIVER distracted by looking through and trying on INARA's fancy clothing.
May 18, 2518
DEX WILDER, a crewmember of the Shadowheart, returns on the away shuttle to find his crew aboard the Serenity as he'd planned, though he feels guilty over learning how close his crew had come to death. His sabotage of the ship to lead Serenity to them had worked but he hadn't intended the malfunction to have gone so bad.
May 18, 2518
Having invited MADISON HALEY and her crew to stay, INARA SERRA asks to have a private word with MALCOLM REYNOLDS to inform him. They head for the spare passenger dorm were she lets him know and also brings up that MADISON's crew could be of assistance with their plan to get DR. EVAN NAKAMURA.
May 18, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS and INARA SERRA's talking leads to banter, as it usually, but this time, of the more dangerous, playful type. Some honest, genuine words slip into the conversation and the two find themselves being pulled closer to one another until finally, at long last, they kiss. With everyone else waiting for their return, they are unable to linger in the moment or talk about it.
May 18, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS calls a family meeting that includes MADISON HALEY's crew. DEX WILDER volunteers to go and get WENDY CARTER and RIVER TAM from INARA's shuttle so that he can get his first glimpse and meeting with the woman he's been tasked to find and turn in. Making things increasingly difficult, he finds himself instantly drawn to WENDY and she feels that same pull toward DEX.
May 18, 2518
RIVER TAM sets out for the kitchen and dining area, leaving DEX WILDER and WENDY CARTER to start to get to know each other. DEX begins to see that the dark picture the Alliance and Blue Sun painted of WENDY might not be true.
May 18, 2518
DEX WILDER and WENDY CARTER make their way from INARA's shuttle to the meeting in the kitchen, pausing for a short exchange. DEX, unaware that WENDY's empath abilities are on the fritz, making it hard for her to turn off feeling what others are feeling, reaches out to push a stray strand of hair out of her face and his hand inadvertently brushes her face. Suddenly struck with the mix of his attraction to her along with her own attraction toward him, she impulsively kisses him but pulls away quickly, apologizing before rushing through the doors to the meeting.
May 18, 2518
The Serenity and Shadowheart crews meet up in Serenity's kitchen and dining area where MALCOLM REYNOLDS and his crew update MADISON HALEY and her crew on their upcoming plan to bring DR. EVAN NAKAMURA onboard to help WENDY CARTER and possible RIVER TAM. SIMON TAM requests to accompany them in case WENDY needs medical assistance due to her waning health and to assess if this doctor could really be of help. It is decided that the people going on the mission will be DEX WILDER, SIMON, WENDY.
May 18, 2518
KAYLEE FRYE expresses her worry to SIMON TAM about him joining the away mission and SIMON gets upset, taking it as her saying he wasn't cut out for it when it was only her worrying and caring about him. He storms off and INARA SERRA steps in for a heart to heart with KAYLEE.
May 18, 2518
It is also discussed that while they are on their mission, KAYLEE FRYE will assist with the repairs of the Shadowheart.
May 18, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS and INARA SERRA are the last two remaining in the kitchen after the meeting. INARA has let down her walls, thinking things are going somewhere now with MAL but MAL has put his own walls back up and like usual, hurtful words are said, resulting in INARA putting her walls back up. They leave the room on bad terms.
May 19, 2518
While everyone else is distracted, RIVER TAM sneaks onto the away shuttle and hides, wanting to be at WENDY CARTER's side when she goes to see the doctor.
May 19, 2518
KAYLEE FRYE goes to talk privately with WENDY CARTER before her departure for some advice on SIMON TAM.
May 19, 2518
JAYNE COBB and DEX WILDER are the first two waiting in the cargo bay. They start to form a bond over guns.
May 19, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS asks to see the group once more before the departure. JAYNE COBB arrives first, the one MAL wanted to speak with. MAL tells JAYNE that JAYNE will not be accompanying them on the mission. JAYNE stomps away in a cursing rant.
May 19, 2518
DEX receives a message from his contact on his watch, which is secretly a communication device, requesting an update on obtaining WENDY CARTER. DEX steps toward a further corner of the cargo bay to secretly type a vague update before anyone else entered the cargo bay.
May 19, 2518
Unbeknownst to everyone, DEX WILDER's contact is ZANE WILDER, aka DR. ZED, who has taken DR. NAKAMURA's place in his home and is awaiting their arrival.
May 19, 2518
WENDY CARTER goes to see SIMON TAM in the infirmary. Not wanting him to risk being seen which would lead to the location of RIVER TAM as well, she locks him in and disables the keypad so he can't get out. WENDY gives her thanks for all that he's done and he figures out that she's planning to stay planetside while letting everyone believe they'd be bringing DR. NAKAMURA on board.
May 19, 2518
WENDY CARTER shows up in the cargo bay and she and DEX WILDER find themselves alone again in the cargo bay where they address their attraction for each other but also the fact that with WENDY running out of time, there was nowhere for a relationship to go. DEX is about to depart to the meeting when WENDY stops him. They share what they think is going to be their last kiss before he heads away to the kitchen.
May 19, 2518
INARA SERRA catches the tail end of WENDY CARTER and DEX WILDER's interaction from upstairs on her way to her shuttle. WENDY notices her and they chat until MALCOLM REYNOLDS and DEX WILDER reappear from the meeting.
May 19, 2518
DEX WILDER, MALCOLM REYNOLDS, and WENDY CARTER board the mission shuttle. MALCOLM inquires about SIMON TAM's absence. WENDY expertly lies and tells them that she talked him out of going.
Here is the timeline of events for our Firefly RPG! I've put dates where we know them but the show didn't really put dates so everything is listed in the order it happened. If I've missed anything or when a new plot is starting up, please reply with what you'd like me to add and between which two existing events below it should be placed.
Everything that happened on the show is canon. RPG takes place before the movie so the movie is not canon. Here is a great timeline of canon events including terraforming dates of planets and moons. I've only copied over the really main ones that might directly affect our RPG to the timeline below: firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline. This one has more details regarding the characters: signal.serenityfirefly.com/mmx/timeline/view.php.
***Canon events are in bold***
Events up to 2517
All events of the show (most of the show takes place in 2517).
2060
The Alliance is created.
2072
First wave of terraforming begins.
2075
Latest projections show Earth unable to support more than 5 percent of current population within three decades. GEA recommends a vast expansion of the Exodus Project and Alliance approves, remaining cities will be systematically dismantled to increase the size of the ark fleet tenfold. Pollution runs wild as ark fleet is considered the only priority.
2090
Loading of arks begins with cargo, fuel, and stored genetic samples.
2094
Boarding of the ark ships begins. Over the last five decades, Earth population has dropped to around one billion due to starvation, disease, toxic contamination, and criminal activities. Reproductive rates have dropped to near zero. Most of the Earth's population now lives in squalor. Although most ark ships will not depart until completely loaded (a process that takes years), survivors welcome the safe, sterile, climate controlled environments of the Ark ships after the horror Earth has become. A rich black market develops that sells positions in the boarding lottery, falsified medical certificates, and other items needed to gain quicker access to the arks.
2095
The Alliance declares global martial law.
2097
First ark ships begin to depart. Priority is given to those ships populated with the ancestors of those who will act as the terraforming and construction labor force upon arrival.
2101
The final Ark ship leaves Earth orbit. Ships at cruise velocity for 116 years, Earth time. Time dilation slows time aboard ship to 108 years, 10 months, 18 days.
2110
All telemetry data from Earth ceases. It is assumed that remaining Earth population is 0.
2164
As the Exodus fleet approaches, higher resolution imaging of the Verse becomes possible. Observers discover hundreds of planets and moons, many of which appear to be terraformable.
2190
Last person in the fleet who was born on Earth dies.
2218
Last member of the first “star generation” dies. No living member of crew has direct memories of Earth or the Solar System.
2436
Rimward expansion begins as worlds in Kalidasa and Blue Sun systems complete terraforming.
2444
PATIENCE is born.
2449
ADELAI NISKA is born.
2460
DERRIAL BOOK is born.
2477
JAYNE COBB is born.
2479
FRANK PICKETT is born.
2481
TEDDY "ZANE" WILDER, aka DR. ZED is born.
2482
MADISON HALEY is born.
2483
WENDY CARTER is born.
February 15, 2484
ZOE ALLEYNE WASHBURNE is born
2484
SALLY WHITEWATER born.
2486
HOBAN WASHBURNE is born.
September 20, 2486
MALCOLM REYNOLDS is born.
2489
DEX WILDER is born.
2489
JEBEDIAH COLTAN is born.
2490
SIMON TAM is born.
2491
The Alliance hears of an abnormally advanced eight-year-old girl on Verbena named WENDY CARTER. They offer her parents a large sum of money to "adopt" her. Her parents sign her over without hesitation. Her twelve-year-old friend and only person who really cared about her, FRANK PICKETT, tries to help get her away but they fail. WENDY is placed in the custody of Blue Sun where she starts her training and they start their experimenting.
2491
WENDY CARTER makes a deal with the main doctor who'll be overseeing her to cooperate if they'll allow FRANK PICKETT to visit her.
2493
BRIDGET/SAFFRON/YOLANDA is born.
Late 25th Century
INARA SERRA is born.
2497
KAYWINNET LEE FRYE is born.
2497
At 16, one of ZANE WILDER's science experiments accidentally caught fire. He had the opportunity to wake his parents and save them, but chose to let them parish as a casualty of the accidental fire.
2499
WENDY CARTER, now 16, and FRANK PICKETT's friendship had grown into love over the past several years. Knowing that WENDY planned to leave and go off with FRANK once she hit the legal age of 18, Blue Sun successfully manipulates the two of them apart. FRANK leaves planet and WENDY, with no place to go and nobody left who cares about her, starts to consider their offer to stay on and become an agent.
2500
Blue Sun knows WENDY CARTER plans to leave and with her 18th birthday looming only months away, they put her through another experimental surgery. When she comes to, she's told something went wrong and that her life will now be dependent upon a special pill developed only there. WENDY knows whatever they did had been done on purpose to keep her from ever leaving and maintain control over her.
2500
RIVER TAM is born.
2504
Rebel extremists murdered Ephriam Lancaster's wife and kidnapped DEX LANCASTER from Beaumonde and left him on the planet of Aberdeen.
2506
DEX LANCASTER meets bounty hunter Niles Wilder on Aberdeen and is taken under his wing as an apprentice
2506
The Miranda Project fails, killing 99.9% of the colonists, and resulting in the remaining tenth of a percent becoming Reavers.
2506
The Unification War begins.
2509
DEX LANCASTER returns to Beaumonde with Niles Wilder for a job. Niles Wilder assassinates Ephriam Lancaster and DEX kills Niles. DEX is charged and found guilty of the murder of both Ephriam Lancaster and Niles Wilder, being sentenced to prison for ten years.
May 2511
Battle of Serenity Valley
2511
The Union of Allied Planets wins the Unification War, and an armistice was signed ending the war.
2512
MALCOLM REYNOLDS hires KAYWINNIT LEE FRYE as the Serenity's mechanic
2516
JAYNE COBB and two others attempt to hijack Serenity. MALCOLM REYNOLDS offers him a place on his crew.
August 2516
INARA SERRA begins renting a shuttle aboard Serenity.
May 2517
DERRIAL BOOK, LAWRENCE DOBSON, SIMON TAM, and RIVER TAM book passage on Serenity.
May 2517
Serenity crew pulls the train job for ADELEI NISKA.
January 2518
The crew of Serenity raid Saint Lucy's hospital on the planet Ariel.
April 2518
INARA SERRA tells MALCOLM REYNOLDS that she'll be leaving the ship.
May 2518
Bounty hunter JUBAL EARLY infiltrates Serenity in flight to collect SIMON TAM and RIVER TAM. SIMON ends up shot in the leg and INARA earns herself a split lip when JUBAL backhands her for her attempt to use her wiles. They manage to outsmart him, leading to him outside the ship in his space suit where MALCOLM REYOLDS is waiting for him. MALCOLM shoves him off to float away into space.
~*~ The rest of 2518 and on, all non-canon, in order of occurrence ~*~
DEX LANCASTER is released one year early from prison and is hired by the Alliance as a bounty hunter. DEX officially changes his name to DEX WILDER and is given the task to hunt down RIVER TAM and SIMON TAM.
DEX WILDER meets Captain MADISON HALEY of the Shadowheart on the planet Persephone and offers his services under his alias as a galaxy explorer, promising to help them with missions in exchange for food and shelter. He infiltrates the crew as a friend and with the help of the Alliance through secret meetings while away "scoping out other planets", campaigns to direct the Shadowheart to follow reported sightings of RIVER TAM and SIMON TAM.
May 15, 2518
WENDY CARTER arrives for her briefing on her next assignment, which happens to be tracking down SIMON TAM and RIVER TAM, and to get her next dose of pills at the Sea Siren Bar on New Melbourne.
May 15, 2518
Things go sideways when her only friend from childhood and first love, FRANK PICKETT, happens to show up at the same bar with a meeting of his own. Her Alliance contact clashes with FRANK and WENDY CARTER steps in to save him, killing the last Alliance man standing over FRANK with a gun. The sociopathic read she gets off him gives her no hesitation in taking him out in order to save FRANK, effectively turning herself into a fugitive.
May 15, 2518
WENDY CARTER quickly escapes with the data pad but not her refill. After overtaxing herself with her reading abilities, she manages to send a wave to the only person she's trusted for years, JAX, before collapsing in a seizure.
May 15, 2518
JAX finds WENDY CARTER and administers the emergency shot on hand for the occurrence of this rare incident. FRANK PICKETT finds them shortly after and takes them on board his ship.
May 15, 2518
WENDY CARTER and FRANK PICKETT have a private conversation. WENDY fills him in on what happened to her and how she believes SIMON TAM might be able to help her, if they can find him in the time she has left. Hurt and anger over the past bubbles up which leads to them learning about Blue Sun having manipulated the two of them apart all those years ago.
May 15, 2518
DEX WILDER receives new urgent instructions to put a hold on his search for RIVER TAM and SIMON TAM and to hunt down rouge agent WENDY CARTER instead. The truth behind the mission change is that with decades of dirt on the Alliance and Blue Sun, WENDY is a far greater threat to them, but the Alliance instead paints a dark picture of WENDY to DEX of a dangerous person who is a threat to their peaceful unification, leaving bodies in her wake.
May 16, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS is contacted by MONTY for a job. The crew heads to New Melbourne to pick up the shipment while some go off to do some shopping. ADELAI NISKA, who has been trying to track down MALCOLM and the crew, finally picks up on their location and sends a couple of his men to New Melbourne.
May 16, 2518
WENDY CARTER, sure that SIMON TAM is aboard Serenity, receives an anonymous tip from an Independent ally that she'll find them on New Melbourne. She's finally able to unlock the datapad she'd taken and sees information showing that HANDS OF BLUE had also had the same assumption of the TAM's being aboard Serenity with a plan to concentrate on hunting them down. HANDS OF BLUE also pick up on Serenity's location and head to New Melbourne as well.
May 16, 2518
Not wanting to put FRANK PICKETT and his crew at risk, WENDY CARTER sends a wave to RICHARD CAVANAUGH who owes her a favor. She devises a plan to get FRANK's ship landing on HERA where she sneaks away and CAVANAUGH takes her to New Melbourne.
May 17, 2518
As the Serenity crew is heading off the ship, INARA SERRA plans to use a planet-side communication station to start her arrangements for leaving the ship. She tells the crew she's going shopping. MALCOLM REYNOLDS, the only person who knows of her plans to leave so far, knows what she really plans to do and thwarts her plans by suggesting KAYLEE FRYE accompany her.
May 17, 2518
While MALCOLM REYNOLDS and some of the others are collecting the shipments, KAYLEE FRYE and INARA SERRA head out for some shopping. ADELAI NISKA's men ambush them with the intent of kidnapping INARA, NISKA having gathered enough information to know that hurting her would be what would hurt MALCOLM most. KAYLEE is knocked out and a message disc from NISKA is left in her pocket while INARA is injected with a sleeping drug, then thrown over the shoulder of one of the men. MONTY happens upon them in an alleyway and takes out the men.
May 17, 2518
The Serenity crew returns safely to their ship. WENDY CARTER shows up to warn them that BLUE SUN has been actively hunting down their ship just in time for the HANDS OF BLUE to show up right on her heels. The Serenity crew along with WENDY's help defeat the HANDS OF BLUE in a shoot out in the cargo bay.
May 17, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS agrees to let WENDY CARTER stay on board. The bodies of the HANDS OF BLUE are thrown out of the airlock in a deserted part of the planet. SIMON TAM helps make WENDY as comfortable as possible while she goes through the data pad they were able to unlock with the fingerprint of one of the HANDS OF BLUE.
May 17, 2518
KAYLEE FRYE discovers the disk in her pocket. MALCOLM REYNOLDS and some of the crew go to the bridge and watch the message from ADELAI NISKA stating that he'd taken the Companion and would be giving her to his men with the threat he'd be back for the rest of them. INARA is angered by the threat and greatly relieved that NISKA's men had failed in kidnapping her.
May 17, 2518
WENDY CARTER discovers the location of a doctor, EVAN NAKAMURA, on Newhall who used to work for Blue Sun located on a nearby planet. MALCOLM REYNOLDS has everyone assemble in the kitchen where WENDY informs them of her situation and they work out a plan to kidnap him and bring him aboard. They set course for Newhall.
May 17, 2518
With these newest developments, INARA SERRA has to postpone plans of leaving which starts to give her second thoughts about leaving Serenity, realizing how attached she'd become not only to MALCOLM REYNOLDS but to the whole crew.
May 17, 2518
The Shadowheart crew arrive back on Persephone to restock and open the parts shop owned by Captain MADISON HALEY and SALLY WHITEWATER, which is open for business for short periods of time when the crew returns planetside. MADISON and SALLY have an argument that leads them to admit their feelings for each other.
May 17, 2518
The Shadowheart crew pick up a job for a parts delivery at Chakram Saloon on the planet Santo. Hot headed SALLY WHITEWATER gets them embroiled in a bar fight and SALLY gets stabbed in the leg.
May 17, 2518
A couple weeks after getting stabbed in the leg, aboard the Shadowheart, SALLY WHITEWATER's leg had started to get infected and so they search for someone who can help. DEX WILDER picks up a reliable tip that WENDY CARTER is rumored to be on board Serenity and most likely in search of a retired Alliance doctor living on Newhall. The need for a doctor aligning perfectly, he slips Captain MADISON HALEY coordinates to Newhall.
May 17, 2518
Before disappearing again on one of his "missions" DEX WILDER tampers with the Shadowheart's oxygen that would eventually leave the crew no choice but to seek help from Serenity which would be crossing their path at the right moment, giving DEX a gateway to finding WENDY CARTER.
May 18, 2518
Nearing Newhall, the Shadowheart breaks down and the crew sends out a distress call. Oxygen running low, their distress call is picked up by the Serenity crew who'd also been nearing their destination of Newhall. They reach out via comms and discover common friends aboard their ships. MADISON HALEY and INARA SERRA had both been at House Madrassa together. Serenity agrees to detour and help them.
May 18, 2518
Life support running low, the Shadowheart crew had locked themselves in their escape pod to await Serenity's arrival. Once the ships lock on to each other, with comms down, WENDY CARTER uses her empath gift to locate the crew in the pod. They all go aboard Serenity. SIMON TAM helps SALLY WHITEWATER with her leg while the two crews get to know each other.
May 18, 2518
While the two crews mingle, WENDY CARTER takes RIVER TAM to INARA's shuttle in order for both of them to avoid being overwhelmed by the thoughts and emotions of the large number of people invading their senses. WENDY keeps RIVER distracted by looking through and trying on INARA's fancy clothing.
May 18, 2518
DEX WILDER, a crewmember of the Shadowheart, returns on the away shuttle to find his crew aboard the Serenity as he'd planned, though he feels guilty over learning how close his crew had come to death. His sabotage of the ship to lead Serenity to them had worked but he hadn't intended the malfunction to have gone so bad.
May 18, 2518
Having invited MADISON HALEY and her crew to stay, INARA SERRA asks to have a private word with MALCOLM REYNOLDS to inform him. They head for the spare passenger dorm were she lets him know and also brings up that MADISON's crew could be of assistance with their plan to get DR. EVAN NAKAMURA.
May 18, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS and INARA SERRA's talking leads to banter, as it usually, but this time, of the more dangerous, playful type. Some honest, genuine words slip into the conversation and the two find themselves being pulled closer to one another until finally, at long last, they kiss. With everyone else waiting for their return, they are unable to linger in the moment or talk about it.
May 18, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS calls a family meeting that includes MADISON HALEY's crew. DEX WILDER volunteers to go and get WENDY CARTER and RIVER TAM from INARA's shuttle so that he can get his first glimpse and meeting with the woman he's been tasked to find and turn in. Making things increasingly difficult, he finds himself instantly drawn to WENDY and she feels that same pull toward DEX.
May 18, 2518
RIVER TAM sets out for the kitchen and dining area, leaving DEX WILDER and WENDY CARTER to start to get to know each other. DEX begins to see that the dark picture the Alliance and Blue Sun painted of WENDY might not be true.
May 18, 2518
DEX WILDER and WENDY CARTER make their way from INARA's shuttle to the meeting in the kitchen, pausing for a short exchange. DEX, unaware that WENDY's empath abilities are on the fritz, making it hard for her to turn off feeling what others are feeling, reaches out to push a stray strand of hair out of her face and his hand inadvertently brushes her face. Suddenly struck with the mix of his attraction to her along with her own attraction toward him, she impulsively kisses him but pulls away quickly, apologizing before rushing through the doors to the meeting.
May 18, 2518
The Serenity and Shadowheart crews meet up in Serenity's kitchen and dining area where MALCOLM REYNOLDS and his crew update MADISON HALEY and her crew on their upcoming plan to bring DR. EVAN NAKAMURA onboard to help WENDY CARTER and possible RIVER TAM. SIMON TAM requests to accompany them in case WENDY needs medical assistance due to her waning health and to assess if this doctor could really be of help. It is decided that the people going on the mission will be DEX WILDER, SIMON, WENDY.
May 18, 2518
KAYLEE FRYE expresses her worry to SIMON TAM about him joining the away mission and SIMON gets upset, taking it as her saying he wasn't cut out for it when it was only her worrying and caring about him. He storms off and INARA SERRA steps in for a heart to heart with KAYLEE.
May 18, 2518
It is also discussed that while they are on their mission, KAYLEE FRYE will assist with the repairs of the Shadowheart.
May 18, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS and INARA SERRA are the last two remaining in the kitchen after the meeting. INARA has let down her walls, thinking things are going somewhere now with MAL but MAL has put his own walls back up and like usual, hurtful words are said, resulting in INARA putting her walls back up. They leave the room on bad terms.
May 19, 2518
While everyone else is distracted, RIVER TAM sneaks onto the away shuttle and hides, wanting to be at WENDY CARTER's side when she goes to see the doctor.
May 19, 2518
KAYLEE FRYE goes to talk privately with WENDY CARTER before her departure for some advice on SIMON TAM.
May 19, 2518
JAYNE COBB and DEX WILDER are the first two waiting in the cargo bay. They start to form a bond over guns.
May 19, 2518
MALCOLM REYNOLDS asks to see the group once more before the departure. JAYNE COBB arrives first, the one MAL wanted to speak with. MAL tells JAYNE that JAYNE will not be accompanying them on the mission. JAYNE stomps away in a cursing rant.
May 19, 2518
DEX receives a message from his contact on his watch, which is secretly a communication device, requesting an update on obtaining WENDY CARTER. DEX steps toward a further corner of the cargo bay to secretly type a vague update before anyone else entered the cargo bay.
May 19, 2518
Unbeknownst to everyone, DEX WILDER's contact is ZANE WILDER, aka DR. ZED, who has taken DR. NAKAMURA's place in his home and is awaiting their arrival.
May 19, 2518
WENDY CARTER goes to see SIMON TAM in the infirmary. Not wanting him to risk being seen which would lead to the location of RIVER TAM as well, she locks him in and disables the keypad so he can't get out. WENDY gives her thanks for all that he's done and he figures out that she's planning to stay planetside while letting everyone believe they'd be bringing DR. NAKAMURA on board.
May 19, 2518
WENDY CARTER shows up in the cargo bay and she and DEX WILDER find themselves alone again in the cargo bay where they address their attraction for each other but also the fact that with WENDY running out of time, there was nowhere for a relationship to go. DEX is about to depart to the meeting when WENDY stops him. They share what they think is going to be their last kiss before he heads away to the kitchen.
May 19, 2518
INARA SERRA catches the tail end of WENDY CARTER and DEX WILDER's interaction from upstairs on her way to her shuttle. WENDY notices her and they chat until MALCOLM REYNOLDS and DEX WILDER reappear from the meeting.
May 19, 2518
DEX WILDER, MALCOLM REYNOLDS, and WENDY CARTER board the mission shuttle. MALCOLM inquires about SIMON TAM's absence. WENDY expertly lies and tells them that she talked him out of going.
