Timeline (Xenogears)

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The following is a timeline for Xenogears, adapted from the game's script and other sources, such as UltimateGraphics' and tsbnovil's translations of Perfect Works.

Due to much of this being from unofficially translated sources, there will be errors, and it should not be taken word for word. Also, many events that aren't listed in Perfect Works' timeline in the beginning do not come with clear dates. Citations and notes are added for unclear dates, clarifications, and contradictions to help with future corrections.

While there are many similarities between the two, please do not put events from Xenosaga here, as it is a separate timeline.

Anno Domini Era

A.D. 2001

The Zohar.

• As humanity enters the beginning of the third Millenium, anxieties lift after a prediction left by a "rare prophet" that "the Messiah would appear at the end" did not come to pass.
• On Earth, a mysterious object is unearthed from stratum that was approximately 3.9 billion years old. Despite this, the object has an artificial appearance, including the shape of an eye.
  • Before it could be carbon-dated, a research institution puts forth the hypothesis that the object is an "artificial" panspermia, making it the origin of terrestrial life. The hypothesis leads to a confusing wave of additional theories and arguments, further clouding speculation.
• The object is carbon-dated as over 15 billion years old, meaning it had been present at the birth of the universe. This revitalized a new wave of theories, some of which wondered if its source was from the realm of "God".
• Due to its strong magnetic properties, it was given the name MAM ("Magnetic Abnormal Matter") out of convenience.
• Research on MAM is conducted on a national level until problems arose with the budget, halting any progress.
  • One group of voluntary researchers privately continues their research of MAM, eventually giving it another name: the Zohar.

A.D. 2510

• The Space Emigration Project begins, with the goal of emigrating humanity into space. The newly founded Executive Committee aims to complete the project in fifteen years.
• T.C. (Transcend Christ) is adopted, and the length of a year is shifted to 365 days.

Transcend Christ Era (New Era)

T.C. 0016

• After sixteen years of development, a fleet of immigrant ships depart Earth.
• Afterward, for unknown reasons, Earth becomes a "forbidden land" and is re-named "Lost Jerusalem."

T.C. 0294

• The Immigrant Fleet finds a planet suitable for life in the M24 Small Sagittarius Star Cloud. Naming it Neo Jerusalem, they eventually settle on it.

T.C. 0295

• Numerous interstellar nations band together to form the Galaxy Federation Government.
  • The Executive Committee is reorganized and later intergrated into the Galaxy Federation Government. The first chairman is elected.
  • Neo Jerusalem becomes a new starting point for humanity as they continue their exploration through the stars.

T.C. 47xx?

• Frontier skirmishes, ethnic conflicts, and widespread space pirate attacks lead to an outbreak of interstellar war.

T.C. 4743

• Due to the efforts of a group of archaeologists, MAM is rediscovered in a storage room of a ship belonging to the Pilgrimage Fleet, a wandering religious sect.

T.C. 4744

• Analysis of MAM resumes.

T.C. 4750

• Due to research on MAM, the theory of phenomenon phase shift is born.

T.C. 4751

• The main research group supervising MAM research commence Project Zohar, which centers around using MAM to prove and master the theory of phenomenon phase shift.

T.C. 4752

• Interstellar strife intensifies.

T.C. 4765

• Due to an unknown accident, the planet that is hosting Project Zohar is completely annihilated.
  • MAM is found nearby floating in space and recovered.

T.C. 4766

• Kadomony is installed directly into MAM's eye, nearly completing work on the Zohar.
  • The nature of Kadonomy's inner workings, having been produced by an "over-technology", is unknown.
  • Having been constructed to be contained within the Zohar, Kadonomy is surmised to be made of the same material.
• In order to stop an intensifying interstellar war, System Deus is completed after being under development for some time.
  • The Zohar is installed as Deus's main power source, with Kadonomy serving as the Deus system's control.

T.C. 4767

Abel sees the Original Elhaym.

• Three months after the Zohar is made Deus' main power source, a series of experiments are conducted to test the connection between the Zohar and Deus on a space station orbiting the planet Miktam04β, which was undergoing terraforming.
  • During the tests, the Zohar begins to examine "infinite potential phenomena".
    • Requiring more power, the Zohar connects to a higher dimensional space and, in the process, 'synchronizes' with the Wave Existence.
      • Falling through the Path of Sephirot to a four-dimensional world, the Wave Existence is forced to materialize itself within the Zohar, becoming bound to it.
    • Now trapped in the Zohar, the Wave Existence makes contact with a young boy named Abel, who was there for unknown reasons.
      • Abel's "desire to return to his mother" is passed on to the Wave Existence, who embodies these human traits as "the mother's will".
      • Wanting to escape its "'cage of fleshly existence'", the Wave Existence realizes it needs to be released by Abel, since he was the one who gave it a 'will'.
    • The Wave Existence is split into the three parts: will, power, and body.
      • Its will is incarnated through a newly evolved Kadomony, becoming the original version of Elhaym, as well as an embodiment of the Persona, Kadomony's central element.
      • Its power is channeled through the Zohar into Abel, enabling him to be reborn over and over again as the Contact until the Wave Existence is freed from the Zohar.
      • Its body stays trapped in the Zohar.
• At some point, Deus goes out of control and invades the surrounding colonies, resulting in innumerable causalities. The military manages to place Deus in suspended animation, but at a great cost.
• All three core components (Kadamony, Zohar, and Deus) are individually disassembled and sealed off from one another.
• In order to investigate what caused the accident, the interstellar ship Eldridge is requisitioned by the military to transport the cores, as well as the 1.2 million survivors, to another planet far away.
  • Shigeyoshi Inoue is made the Eldridge's captain.
  • Abel is one of the survivors that boards the Eldridge.

Xenogears Intro

The Eldridge crash.

• At an unknown point, Deus, referred to as 'Omega 1', unexpectedly activates inflight.
  • Kadomony's Persona, which is referred to as 'Alpha 1', is activated.
    • An operator confirms an "exon replacement", which marks Kadonomy's shift to "Deus Control Mode".
  • Kadomony accesses Razael, the Eldridge's mainframe.
  • The bridge crew tries to contain Deus with different methods, but Deus gains control.
  • Deus takes control of 98% of the Eldridge's weaponry. Ship machinery begins to act like like living creatures, attacking passengers and crew.
    • After activating space displacement mode, Deus plots a course to Lost Jerusalem.
  • Captain Inoue calls the engine room to order the activation of the emergency sealing system, but the engine room is already overtaken.
  • Deus fills the monitor screens in the bridge with the repeating text: "You shall be as gods."
  • Realizing that the ship was a loss, Captain Inoue orders all crew and passengers to evacuate.
    • The ship's weapon systems shoot down departing spacecraft.
• As a last effort to stop Deus, Captain Inoue uses a manual override to activate the bolts of the Spinal Shaft system holding the Eldridge's sections together, effectively dismantling the ship and sealing its fate.
  • The ship is taken out of space displacement mode as it becomes unable to maintain mass balance.

• 

  The Eldridge.

  The Eldridge begins to break up as it is caught in the gravity of a nearby planet. Only blocks with emergency navigational ability are able to survive the landing intact.
  • The Babel block of the front hull later becomes known as Babel Tower.
  • The 2nd block of the front hull, a large scale plant, later gets used as a part of Shevat.
  • Unspecified remnants are later used to construct the first base of Solaris.
  • The central block, containing Deus' physical body, as well as Raziel, fall into the ocean.
    • This area eventually becomes known by the central block's name: Mahanon, and would later be blocked off by the Gazel Ministry using Gate technology.
  • Kadomony separates itself from the Zohar's main body and lands on a nearby coast. Despite a successful landing, a section of its essential parts, the Anima Relics, are scattered across the globe.
  • Several vessels aboard the ship are later excavated by future civilizations, such as the Excalibur (No. 1), Excalibur (No. 2), and the Land Cruiser that would eventually be incorporated into the Yggdrasil IV.
• The only known survivor of the Eldridge is Abel, who survived due to being the Contact.

Est. Calendar

0000

The mother of humanity arises naked from the wreckage.

The mother of humanity's remains resting in the supercomputer Kadomony.

• System HAWWA activates, transforming Elhaym into the mother of humanity, also called 'Original Myyah'. Stepping from Kadomony, she begins the first steps to resurrect Deus.
  • Using the original parts of Animus, she creates Cain, the first human, and the twelve members of the Gazel Ministry.
    • The Gazel Ministry's task was to search for the Anima Relics, while the immortal Cain was to manage them.
• The mother of humanity, in order to follow the two conflicting objectives within her, creates the first incarnations of Elhaym and Myyah. She then lays her body to rest inside Kadomony.
  • Elhaym, known as the Antitype, inherits the will of the 'Mother' and would be born the same time as the Contact, after which she would seek him out.
  • Myyah Hawwa inherits the role of the "Weapon", focusing on shaping humanity to become parts for Deus by any means necessary.
    • Instead of being reincarnated with a new body like Elhaym, Myyah would 'awaken' in another female host each time she died.
  • The last incarnation of Elhaym would awaken as the last host of Myyah on the day of resurrection and merge with Deus, as the two of them would be needed to complete its final form.

• 

  Xenogears - Lonely

  Abel and Elhaym meet.

  A newly created Elhaym finds a seven year old Abel, and the two develop a relationship of mother and child.
• Cain and the Gazel Ministry use Kadomony to mass produce a prototype of humanity. The population expands at a massive rate, then slows.

0010

• In order to control the growing population and shape them for Deus's resurrection in the future, Cain and Myyah encourage the belief and eventual worship of Cain being an advent of god.
• Abel spreads an opposing philosophy of free will. This, combined with Elhaym's presence and influence, presents an outside threat to Cain's goals.

0011

Elly dies while protecting Abel.

• Cain carries out his plan to kill Abel.
  • Elhaym attempts to admonish and persuade Cain in order to save Abel's life, but Cain counteracts her plan.
  • As Abel and Elhaym flee from Cain, Elly uses her body to shield Abel from Cain's attack. She tells Abel to live before she passes away in his arms.
    • Myyah silently observes and does not intervene.
    • Abel's final fate is unclear.
    • Due to this event, Cain's views on the fate of humanity begin to shift.

0012-5999

• At two unknown points of time, Myyah "resets" humanity for unstated reasons.
• Worship of Cain slowly expands over time.
  • Cain and the others use remnants of the Eldridge to construct a base of operations, creating the first version of what would become the Holy Empire Solaris several centuries later.
    • This base is used for research on humans and reforming them, in order to prepare for Deus' revival.

6000s (Zeboim Era)

60xx

• The 'Third Anonelbe' of humanity reaches an intellectual peak, leading to a modernized civilization.
  • Due to inborn genetic damage, the average life span was around 30 years, and many were unable to have children.
  • According to Kim, the era was marred by rising crime, a slipping economy, urban blight, religious extremism, and a totalitarian government.

6053

Myyah's incarnation during the Zeboim Era.

• Twin sisters awaken as Myyah M0611 and M0612.

6054

• Joey Balboa, who would go on to be called Big Joe, is born.

6055

• The first known reincarnation of Abel, Kim, is born.
• The first known reincarnation of Elhaym is born.

6071

• Kim is granted admission to the Federal University, and enters the Department of Medicine.

Kim.

6074

• Kim takes the exam to become part of the faculty for the Biochemistry section of the Department of Science, where he begins research on molecular machines.
• Elhaym begins working at the Federal Hospital as a nurse.

6075

• Kim enters Graduate School and earns his Master's Degree.

6077

• Kim presents his research thesis on a way to reconstruct defective genes with molecular machines, and proposes creating a nanomachine pseudo-colony.
  • Due to the prospect of creating artificial life, Kim's proposal is branded as heresy.
  • Expelled from the Institute, Kim abandons his research.
• Having been driven out of the academic community, Kim re-enters the medical department to become a doctor.

Myyah, standing next to the Zeboim Head of State.

6078

• Myyah and the Ministry judge that this era's humans are unfit for becoming parts for Deus, and set out a plan to cull the population once again, this time using a global nuclear war.
  • To this end, Myyah becomes a close advisor to Zeboim's Prime Minister.

6078-80

• Relations between Zeboim and other countries slowly worsen as a result of Myyah's manipulations behind the scenes, leading to the possible threat of a large scale war.
  • In order to deter this, the anti-government organization Ravine resists Zeboim's military.

6079

• Kim becomes a Federal Government Doctor. He and Elhaym meet at the same hospital.

Zeboim Flashbacks

Zeboim flashbacks.

6081

• Ravine blows up Zeboim's central electrical facility, causing a 50% blackout in the capital city.
  • Despite Kim's hospital having a backup generator, six people die, one of which is a young girl under Kim's care.
• Elly finds out through her physical exam that she is unable to have children.
• Myyah takes notice of Kim's thesis and, seeing its potential to evolve humanity, meets up with Kim, offering to sponsor a facility to allow him to continue his nanotechnology research.
  • Kim accepts and resumes his research, while also continuing his work as a Federal doctor.
• The Ravine group also acquires Kim's thesis. Seeing nanotechnology's potential for creating dangerous weapons, they try contacting Kim as well.

6082

• After repeated attempts, Ravine manages to finally recruit Kim into their organization.
• Big Joe is at the height of his career, with a WWW Heavy Weight Championship and five hit movies, on top of being awarded the Wimbledon Grandslam, a baseball triple-crown, and a Pulitzer Prize.
  • At the Awards' ceremony to recieve the NBA's player of the match, Big Joe slips when he goes to shake hands, hitting his head and damaging his brain. Afterwards, he becomes convinced he is Elvis.

• 

  "This, this is the new spirit vessel that will break the curse."

  Emeralda is created at the end of the year, on the day of the Thanksgiving Festival.

6083

• Realizing Myyah's true nature, Kim transfers Emeralda to a research facility prepared by Ravine.
• Myyah uses the military to attempt to seize Kim's research, and sends special forces to his facility.
  • While Kim escapes to the central isolated room where Emeralda is kept, Elly shuts herself in the entryway.
  • As Kim tries to undo the the door, Elly pleads for him to live, and sacrifices herself to stop the military invasion. She dies when the lab's hazard safety system is triggered, releasing high amounts of radiation into the entryway.
  • Kim seals himself in with Emeralda. His final fate is unknown.
• Big Joe, in order to resurrect himself and extend his lifespan, decides to enter cold sleep.
  • His body enters cold sleep too quickly. Scientists were unable to revive him, so he was left in a frozen state.
  • Despite the war, Big Joe's 'funeral' was a large affair, due to his many fans.
• Full scale nuclear war breaks out.
  • Due to heavy bombings, nuclear fallout, and biochemical weapons, more than 90% of the entire human population is lost.

6084

• Dust fills the stratosphere, and nuclear winter sets in.
• A number of above-ground genetic research laboratories are destroyed, allowing surviving animals to escape.
  • One of these is the demi-human ancestors of the Chuchu race.

608x?-8999s

• A large shift of tectonic plates sinks the remains of the Zeboim civilization to the ocean floor.
• Nuclear radiation and the shifting plates affect and hasten the evolution of animals, according to Isaac Balthasar's later studies.

9000s (Before the Great War)

9088

• Adoriel, a person who had the rare ability to use Ether, starts the Nisan Sect from her own house.
  • As word of Adoriel's abilities spread, what started as a local doctrine grew into a religion.
  • Future successors were expected to have levels of Ether ability comparable to Adoriel's.

• The Nisan Sect's influence slowly spreads, starting with the region between current-day Aveh and Kislev.

9164-9496

• Cain and the Gazel Ministry determine that humanity has reached the final stage needed for Deus' resurrection.
  • Holy Empire Solaris is founded, with Cain as the emperor, Myyah as supervisor, and the Gazel Ministry as "the brains", and governing support. All three wish for Deus' resurrection, but have different goals.
    • Cain wishes for humans to be reformed in order to be freed from their fate of being parts for Deus. He waits for the appearance of the Contact, and secretly wishes for Deus' destruction.
    • Myyah's core wish is to cultivate the best genetic material for Deus' resurrection, having reset humanity three times already in order to attain this goal.
    • The Gazel Ministry wish to rule the surface, as well as to invade other star systems using the revived Deus as their weapon.
  • Solaris's people are manipulated and brainwashed into being loyal to Cain.

• Over the course of centuries, Solaris begins to invade the surface, in order to slowly expand their own power and secretly begin the M Plan (or 'Malakh Plan').
  • Kidnapped people are experimented on with gene manipulation, remaking them into parts for powerful biological weapons called Malakh, or Angels, which would serve as Deus' weapons, as well as parts for Merkava, Deus' mothership.
  • During these invasions, the Gazel Ministry continue their search for the Anima Relics.
  • The third objective is to wait for the reappearance of the third element needed for Deus' resurrection: the Mother, Elhaym.

9226

• Shevat is founded atop of Babel Tower, which was formerly a part of the Eldridge.
  • Governed by a council of Elders, Shevat researches the technology within the Babel Tower, expanding their own scientific knowledge.
  • Shevat at some point becomes aware of Solaris's activities, and takes a vigilant stance towards them.

92xx?-949x?

• Taura Melchior is born.
• Gaspar is born.
• Issac Balthasar is born, possibly in the Terrane area.
• At an unknown point in time, Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar came under Shevat's employ as the Three Sages, and are sent out around the globe, usually to keep an eye on Solaris' activities, while remaining aloof and uninvolved in any government.
• Melchior discovers a part of Kim's thesis in Zeboim's ruins and uses it to revive nanotechnology, as well as add to it with his own indepedent research.

9301

• The country of Nimrod is founded near the present day Aveh-Kislev border. While small compared to its warring neighbors, it slowly began to expand in size and influence.

9440

• Kusel Laodicia becomes Nimrod’s fifth King, establishing the Laodicia Dynasty over what was now the second largest country, with Shevat being the first.

9453

• Wanting to secretly use the nearby growing Nisan Sect as a way to stabilize his authority, Kusel Laodicia recognizes it as Nimrod's official religion.
  • Nimrod aids the expansion of the Nisan Sect with economic aid, with the ulterior motive of using it to expand their domain.
• With Nimrod's help, the Nisan Sect reaches its zenith, and is well on its way to becoming a nation.

9457

• Bishop Penuel receives the Nisan Bishoporic's investiture and at some point becomes Cardinal.

9458

• Penuel establishes the Penuel Convent.

9465

• Karellen is born an illegitimate child to Elazaru, who dies later that year.

9469

• Roni Fatima is born.
• Rene Fatima is born.

947x-948x?

• Karellen enters Nimrod's Laodicea Military Corps, eventually rising to the rank of leader.

9475

• Lacan is born in a frontier town the eastern edge of Ignas, near present day Lahan.
• The second known reincarnation of Elhaym is born to the bishop of the Ashura Monastery, the second daughter of three sisters.
  • Due to a congenital condition, Elhaym's health is poor during her childhood.

9481

• Both of Lacan's parents die. Lacan goes on to live by himself.

9482

• Elhaym manifests a rare talent for Ether, making her a potential candidate to become the next Mother of the Nisan Sect.
  • Elhaym is adopted by Cardinal Penuel and is moved to Penuel's monastery.

9483

• Elhaym's health worsens, and she is sent back to Ashura Monastery near the eastern edge of Ignas, where she attends the clinic to recover.
  • Lacan and Elhaym meet.
  • Months later, before Elhaym leaves to return to the Penuel monastery, Lacan hands her a sketch of herself.
• Elhaym's name is possibly changed to Sophia at this time.

9486

• Zephyr is born as Shevat's third Queen.

Graph of the early Nisan Sect's structure of power. (scanned & translated by UltimateGraphics)

9487

• Nimrod's aid begins to come with caveats, as Emperor Kusel Laodicia seeks to gain the authority in the placement of missionaries in every diocese.
  • Kusel conspires to have the next Mother to be his dynasty's own priest, in order to test how effective the Nisan Sect's influence could be in uniting the people.
  • In order to rig the selection process in their favor, Nimrod forces oppress the other dioceses.

• The Nisan Vatican, including the Head Bishopric, undergoes an interior reformation.
  • As a result of the upheaval, the authority to choose the next Mother falls to Cardinal Penuel.
    • Nimrod switches tactics to conciliating Penuel to try to win him over.
  • Due to support from other cardinals, Nimrod's influence is temporarily halted, but a number inside the church still are against Penuel being the one to select the next Mother.

9488

• Penuel selects Elhaym as his candidate for the position of Mother. Elhaym's name is possibly changed to Sophia at this date.
  • Sophia secretly feels responsibility for the infighting in the Nisan sect, and wishes for death so that the conflict would stop.
• Kusel makes and carries out a plan to assassinate Sophia and the Penuel faction.
  • Kusel forms a special Corp of Monastery Soldiers, and elects Karellen, who was known for his mastery of many weapons as well as his cold and cruel demeanor, as its leader.
• The attack on Penuel Monastery occurs.
  • More than half of the members of the Penuel Faction are killed, including Cardinal Penuel himself.
    • The remainder of the faction, as well as Penuel's niece, Jacquelinde, manage to escape.
  • When Karellen goes to assassinate Sophia, she smiles and thanks him, leaving Karellen unable to complete his mission.
    • Karellen flees with Sophia, serving as her protector.
• Due to the attack, the loss of the Head Bishopric, and the ongoing machinations of the Laodicia dynasty, the Nisan Sect undergoes a schism between the remains of the Penuel faction and the Diocese.

9490

• The Penuel Faction moves to the present location of Nisan and begins the process of rebuilding, forming their own separate sect.
• The Laodicia Dynasty collapses. Kusel Laodicia is murdered.
• The Nisan Church continues its decline.

9493

• Having left his hometown, Lacan gets caught up in a localized uprising against Solaris and meets Karellen, who was working with Sophia against Solaris at the time.

9495

• 

  Nisan Cathedral.

  After being missing for seven years, Sophia reappears in the city of Nisan along with Karellen and Jacquelinde.
  • After the Church Assembly quickly reassembles, the remains of the original Nisan Sect realign with the Penuel faction.
  • Having inherited the role as leader of the Penuel convent from her uncle, Jacquelinde sponsors Sophia as the new Mother.
  • Sophia renames the reunited group the Nisan Orthodox, and works on pulling all the parts of the faith together, with her serving as the center.
  • Jaquelinde becomes Sophia's assistant adviser.
  • The Monastery Corps is formed, with Karellen serving as their leader.

• Construction begins on Nisan Cathedral.

9496-9500 (The Solaris War)

9496

• Lacan and Sophia reunite at Ashura Monastery.
• Solaris begins an all-out invasion of the surface, in turn accelerating the M Plan.
  • Soylent facilities are established all over the world in order to process more kidnapped people into parts for Malakh or Merkava.
• The full scope of Solaris' plans are discovered, slowly uniting the previously warring surface nations together under the name Anti-Solaris, with the goal of "toppl[ing] Solaris".
  • Seizing this opportunity to strike at Solaris, Shevat's Elders ally with Anti-Solaris. Shevat becomes the core and defacto leader of the Anti-Solaris Alliance.
  • Shevat declares revolt against Solaris.
• The Shevat-Solaris War breaks out days later.

9497

• Many war refugees from around the world head for the neutral zone of Nisan.
• Nisan becomes caught up in the war's outbreak as its forces fight to protect the Church. Despite Sophia being against it, Monastery Corps members are drawn into joining the Alliance's surface army.
  • Lacan's post, The Mobile Reconnaissance Ground Corps, specializes in "many things". It is tasked with searching for Anima Relics and "preparing behind the battle lines".
  • Karellen leads the Church Near-Assault Corps, which is responsible for the Church's defense. Despite a greater part of it being drawn in by Shevat's war efforts, they still keep up with their original duty.
  • Over time, those who originally agreed with Sophia join the Alliance, overriding her decision.
• Lacan meets Roni and Rene, who are now chiefs of a caravan group that previously traded with surface powers. Together they form a partnership for the Alliance called the Supply Corps, which is tasked with supplying weapons and materials.

9497-9499

• Over time, the Supply Corps's partnerships with the surface military strengthen it to become a mobile Corp in its own right, with a military might comparable to Nisan's Monastery Corps.
• Jacquelinde meets and forms a close bond with Rene.
• Karellen begins studying under Melchior at an unknown point in time, becoming one of his best students (at least, according to Karellen himself).
• Cain, feeling that humanity should be entrusted with their own future, removes himself from the forefront, leaving both Myyah and the Gazel Ministry to manage governing Solaris themselves.
  • As a consequence of Cain's absence, Myyah's governing power over Solaris is on par with Gazel Ministry's, making her the "hidden ruler" of Solaris.
• At some point, four members of the Gazel Ministry align with their own Anima Relic, becoming more powerful.
• The Shevat Elders' agenda shifts from initially wanting the surface's freedom from Solaris, to wanting to rule the surface themselves.

Sophia's unfinished portrait by Lacan.

9499

• Nisan takes in wounded soldiers, who are nursed by the Kahal, Sophia's followers.
• Sophia's devoted rescue and gathering of refugees and soldiers increases Nisan's influence, growing it to a size comparable to Shevat.
  • Sophia, who heads the Healing Corps, comes revered as the "Holy Mother". "Sophia's will" becomes a symbol for the surface army.
  • Nisan's influence over the Alliance grows to a scale similar to Shevat's.
• Shevat's Elders send a 13 year old Zephyr to Nisan as an emissary. Despite her short stay, Zephyr was treated with the same level of respect as Sophia.
• At some point, Zephyr goes to the front lines and lends her strength to the Defensive Corps, "giving it a more Mobile Corps nature".
• The Three Sages participate with their knowledge and expertise.
  • Balthasar used his expertise in Gear mechanics to build and repair Gears for the surface army.
  • Gasper led soldiers and fought on the front lines.
  • Melchior is implied to have used his nanotechnology towards healing.
• Inspired by Sophia and Nisan, the Anti-Solaris Alliance closes in on Solaris' initial lead in the war, slowly wearing down Solaris' power.
• Solaris builds Soylent System facilities all over the world.
• As an means to turn the tide of battle, the Gazel Ministry constructs and deploys Merkava, dealing a heavy attack on Shevat and Nisan, returning the war's progress to a standstill.
  • Myyah disapproves of Merkava's construction, feeling that humanity was still insufficient for Deus's revival.
• Solaris lands a surprise attack against Shevat, killing the Imperial family save for Zephyr.
• Excalibur (No.1) and Excalibur (No.2) are excavated and refurbished by Shevat to combat the Merkava.
• Opposition grows between Myyah and the Gazel Ministry.
  • As more surface dwellers displayed Ether abilities during the war, Myyah felt these humans had the potential to make better parts for Deus.
    • Myyah theorized that these humans, if aligned with an Anima Relic, would make for more powerful weapons than the Gazel Ministry, who lacked these abilities. This makes the Gazel Minstry useless to her.
    • The Gazel Ministry believe they are the proper candidates, as they're focused on carrying out Deus's "true goal" of destroying "the hostile power in space".
• At the end of the year, at Karellen's urging, Lacan begins painting Sophia's portrait.
• Karellen borrows Kim's partial thesis from Melchior.
  • Karellen completes work on a nanoreactor, which he hopes will save people's lives and help Sophia.

9500

• Shevat receives intel concerning Solaris' search for Anima Relics, and forms a special task force to do their own search. Headed by Roni, the force includes Karellen and Lacan, who are accompanied by Sophia.
  • Lacan learns of the Zohar's existence.
• Despite being aligned with their respective Anima Relics, four members of the Gazel Ministry lose their lives after being defeated by Lacan and his friends.
• The remaining eight members of the Gazel Ministry work out a secret trade with the Council of Elders in Shevat.
• Myyah is captured and held captive in Shevat.
• Sophia dies while ramming the Excalibur into the Merkava to save her people.
• The Shevat-Solaris War ends.

Karellen vows to create God.

• Due to Sophia's death, Lacan and Karellen are changed forever.
  • Karellen loses his faith and vows to "create god with [his] own two hands". He disappears to begin Project Noah.
  • Lacan resents being powerless to stop Sophia's death, and begins his search for the Zohar.

9501

Lacan meets Myyah in Shevat.

• Roni discovers an ancient vessel in an Ignas battlefield. In order to possibly use it for any future battles with Solaris, he orders his companions in the caravan to begin repairing it.

• Lacan sets free the imprisoned Myyah from Shevat. Desiring the Zohar, he goes to the Land of Bethlehem.

Grahf.

• Lacan and the Zohar make contact. The incomplete contact gives rise to Grahf.

• Having become Grahf, Lacan awakens the Diabolos (Deus's first stage mobile terminals), and they proceed to annihilate the surface. Due to this destruction, 90% of the population is lost. This is known as the Day of Collapse.

• The remaining members of the Gazel Ministry are killed.
• Roni and the others as well as the survivors band together with all their power to resist the Diabolos. Having become the core, Original Weltall is placed in suspended animation, barely escaping destruction. Rene Fatima dies shielding his brother in the battle.

• Afterward, Lacan, as Grahf, disappears to parts unknown.

9502

• Nisan is re-founded by those who escape the Day of Collapse.
• Jacquelinde gives birth to her and Rene's child, Isolde, who she raises as the Nisan Sect's Second Mother.

9505

• Zephyr, along with the Three Sages, restores Shevat.

9506

The SOL-9000 computer.

• Karellen learns the truth about humanity from Myyah and joins her in reviving Deus.
• Karellen makes contact with Emperor Cain and creates a chair to extend his life sentence as he went against his intended goal. Karellen also revives eight members of the Gazel Ministry as computer data in the SOL-9000.

9510

• Roni Fatima founds the desert kingdom Aveh. It will become part of the Aveh-Kislev War in about 500 years at the time of Xenogears.
• Lacan dies without anyone knowing. Leaving only his will behind, it moves into people who become Grahf.

9511

• Karellen visits Shevat, and gives life extension treatments using nanotechnology to himself Zephyr and the Three Sages.
• Planning to rule behind the scenes, Solaris established the Ethos Church organization.

9513

Nortune, Kislev.

• Kislev is founded.

9698

• Solaris begins the first invasion of Shevat.
• Due to Karellen of the Special Corps, Limiters are placed in the surface dweller Lambs.

9701

• The second invasion of Shevat by Solaris.

9715

• War breaks out in Ignas. Kislev issues Aveh a declaration of battle lines.

9959

• Karellen initiates the fifth stage of the Malakh Plan. He comes into contact with Myyah's 996th incarnation.

9965

• Jesiah "Jessie" is born as Jesiah Blanche.

9969

• Due to a secret plot influenced by the Ethos church, Rico Banderas is born as a demi-human to Kaiser Sigmund and Anne. Meant to succeed Sigmund as the ruler of Kislev, he was banished along with Anne in order to hide the full truth of his demi-human birth.

9970

• Hyuga Ricdeau is born.
• Sigurd Harcourt is born.

9975

• Unable to locate the current incarnation of the Contact, Myyah cooperates with Karellen to clone an artificial Contact of Cain using the emperor's DNA. The clone, Ramsus, gains awareness before even being born and develops an inferiority complex soon thereafter.

9978

• Jesiah enters Jugend Military Academy.

9979

• Because of the Ethos Church's doctors, Rico's mother Anne is overwhelmed and dies from a wasting illness.

9981

• Fei Fong Wong is born to Khan and Karen Wong in Shevat.
• Elhaym Van Houten is born to Erich Van Houten and Medena Van Houten in Solaris.
• Bartholomew Fatima is born to king Edbart Fatima IV and the queen Mariel Fatima in Aveh.
• Sigurd's mother Shalimar sends Sigurd to Bledavik, Aveh to work in the palace, and made him promise not to reveal his identity to the king.
• Sigurd's mother Shalimar dies. At the funeral, Sigurd sees his father Edbart IV for the first time. Afterwards, he enters the Aveh palace as the Heir's appointed Guardian.

9982

• Due to a germ experiment at a Soylent facility, a plague breaks out in Solaris' Third-Class citizen level. This epidemic resulted in the death of Hyuga's entire family.

9983

• Marguerite Fatima is born.
• Billy Lee Blanche is born in Solaris to Jessie and Racquel Blanche.
• Sigurd is kidnapped as a Solaris test subject.
• Rico forms a criminal gang of boys and begins to plot against the government in the center of the capital, Nortune.
• The Ethos begin the 44th Salvage Plan, an independent investigation project into ancient ruins that lie below the Aquvy region.
  • These ruins are from the Zeboim civilization, which sank to the bottom of the ocean 4000 years ago.
  • Over time, the artifacts, weapons, and resources from these ruins would enable the Ethos to eventually form plans to rebel and break away from Solaris in pursuit of world domination.

9985

Fei being experimented on by Myyah as Karen.

• Myyah awakens in Karen Wong, and uses her new position to try and awaken Fei as the Contact by conducting a series of "spiritual fusion" experiments on Fei while Khan is away. To deal with them and other torturous things he didn't like, Fei forms a separate persona, planting the seeds that will lead to the creation of Id.
• With Fei found, Myyah tells Karellen to abandon 10-year-old Ramsus, so he is left in a waste collection facility.
• 10-year-old Ramsus kills Second level 15-year-old Kahran Bekker and merges with him. After taking Bekker's identity, he enters Jugend.
• In Jugend, Kahran Ramsus meets a girl, who will go on to be the next incarnation of Myyah.
• Halfway through the year, Hyuga and Sigurd enter Jugend with Kahran Ramsus recommendation.

Karen's Sacrifice

Karen regaining control of her body to protect Fei.

• Ten months after Myyah awakened in Karen, she contacts Grahf and stands by passively while he attacks Khan, who finally decides to intervene, triggering a spontaneous release of Fei's power. Karen regains control momentarily, long enough to throw herself in front of her son to save his life, and is mortally wounded in the process. Fei recedes into the "coward" personality, shielding himself by displacing the tragedy and horror of these events onto his alter-ego, Id, who remains the dominant personality for the rest of his teenage years under Grahf's destructive tutelage.
• Grahf takes Fei, whom Id had completely taken over, and began traveling with him for about a decade, always trying to keep one step ahead of Khan, who was tirelessly searching for them.
• Myyah reawakens in a new host body of Kahran's associate, and begins to use her relationship with Kahran Ramsus in order to gain power within the Gebler faction on Solaris.

9986

• Maria Balthasar is born to Nikolai and Claudia Balthasar.
• Nikolai is abducted by Solaris for the M Plan.
• The Elements are started. Jessie, Ramsus, Hyuga and Sigurd take positions.

9987

• After Nikolai refuses to work on the M Plan, Solaris abducts Maria and Claudia, forcing him to work.
• Minister Shakhan cooks up a coup d'état. Bart and Margie are locked away.
• Margie's parents, Elvira Fatima and Francis Revane, Holy Mother and Bishop respectively, were murdered in Shakhan's quest for the Fatima Jasper.
• After a month, Sigurd escapes out of Solaris. After coordinating with Maison, he rescues Bart and Margie from Aveh.
• Rico's assassination attempt on Kaiser Sigmund fails, and he is imprisoned in Nortune.

9989

• Bart boards the Yggdrasil and begins to use a whip.

999x

• At an unknown point in time, the Ethos hire the Thames for a large scale job. While the crew is unaware of the details, it will later be found out to be the 44th Salvage plan.

9990

• Before accepting a position as a Gebler commander, Jessie flees with Billy and Racquel from Solaris after learning the dark truth of the M plan.
• At the end of the year, Claudia Balthasar dies during an experiment on Seibzehn, sacrificing her life for Maria to escape on Seibzehn.
• Due to the efforts of Nikolai and Isaac Balthasar, Maria escapes Solaris riding on Seibzehn and lives with Isaac.

9991

• Rico becomes Battling King.
• Karellen plans the third invasion of Shevat.

9992

• Hyuga takes the post as director of strategy for the third invasion of Shevat, planned by Karellen. Hyuga fights Gaspar and meets Yui, falling in love with her.
• Jessie enters the surface gorilla Corps led by Gaspar.
• Primera Blanche is born to Jessie Blanche and Racquel Blanche in the Aquvy area.

9993

• Jessie runs and disappears from his family's place to fight back against Solaris and Gebler.
• Grahf turned Fei/Id loose on civilizations such as Elru in order to cause chaos and destruction, as well to strengthen his abilities. Elru is totally subdued by Solaris. Ramsus is mortally wounded by Id. Ramsus helps Dominia Yikzor join the Elements.
• At the end of the year, Margie becomes the Nisan Mother.
• Big Joe's cryonic reactor is unearthed during one of the Ethos' excavations into the Zeboim ruins. Thinking it was trash, the Ethos chucked it into the ocean.
  • At some point, Big Joe's reactor drifts onto the shores of Billy's Orphanage. It was discovered by a group of children, who managed to unlock it while playing with it, releasing Big Joe's frozen body. The sand's warmth awakens Big Joe, scaring off the kids.
  • Big Joe dives into the ocean, and swims to Ignas.

9994

Jessie's plastic surgery.

• Margie meets Chu-Chu in Bledavik and takes her back home but they both end up captured by a subordinate of Shakhan.
• Elly enters Jugend Military Academy.
• Citan marries Yui and Midori Uzuki is born.
• At the end of the year, Jessie meets Shevat's engineer, Joshua Black. After Joshua's death, Jessie has plastic surgery and changes his surname to Black. Billy, Primera and Racquel also change their surnames from Blanche to Black.

9995

• Bart's Gear Brigandier is completed. Decorated in first battle.
• Due to a Reaper/Wel attack planned by Isaac Stone, Racquel Black dies.
• At Isaac Stone's urging, Billy enters the Ethos Church monastery.

9996

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Khan speaking to Grahf and Id.

• Khan Wong fights Grahf again to rescue Fei (as Id) after finding the two. Then, Grahf possesses Khan, who could change back into himself sometimes.
• Khan seals Id in deep dormancy in Fei's subconscious. Due to no personality being at the forefront, a third "artificial" personality of Fei is created with no memories of his prior fifteen years.
• Khan, disguised as Wiseman, brings the wounded Fei to Lahan.
• According to a secret directive from Emperor Cain, Solarian Hyuga Ricdeau goes to the surface and takes the name "Citan Uzuki". After that, joining his family in Shevat, he moves with them to Lahan Village.
• Maria goes with Balthasar to Shevat.

9997

• Due to a slave generator accident, Bart and Sigurd lose their left eyes and both wear an eyepatch.
• At the end of the year, Jessie Black returns to Billy.

9998

Elly overdoses on Drive.

• Due to an overdose of Drive, Elly's power as the Antitype briefly awakens, heavily wounding five of her fellow classmates. Two were killed and three were injured but revived.
• Erich Van Houten accepts the post of Soylent System director.
• Billy becomes an official Etone and opens the orphanage.

9999

• 

  The unnamed planet of Xenogears.

  Grahf manipulates Gebler to have Elly and her squad retrieve the new Weltall gear from Kislev and have them crash in Lahan Village. Gears from both countries end up fighting on the day Timothy and Alice were to be married.
• While Fei tries to fight back in Weltall, Grahf has a Kislev gear kill Timothy. As a result, Id briefly awakens and destroys the village killing many of the inhabitants, including Chief Lee and Alice, and the gears.
• Citan and Fei go to Dazil meeting Elly in Blackmoon Forest.
• After directly meeting Grahf, Fei and Citan are captured by Kislev forces who are ambushed by Bart.
• Crashing into Stalactite Cave, Fei and Bart meet Isaac Balthasar and cooperate to get out.
• Fei takes part in the Aveh fighting tournament while Bart rescues Margie and Chu-Chu.
• In Gebler HQ, Fei meets up with Elly again who helps them all escape to Nisan with a stolen gear.
• The group comes up with a plan to reclaim the throne of Aveh. Bart will storm the castle, Fei and General Maitreya will hold back the groups by the Kislev border, and a third group will hold back the troops near Nisan.
• Elly and her squad attack Fei on the way due to being on Drive.
• Bart and his troop are ambushed by Shakhan and Myyah, they escape with the help of Maison.
• At the border, Grahf gives "The Power" to Vanderkam and his gear, Dora.
• Seeing his acquaintances killed, Fei turns into Id again who kills Vanderkam, attacks everyone else, and causes the Yggdrasil to sink.
• Fei is sent to a prison in Nortune where he meets Rico, Citan becomes its temporary doctor.
• Several of Rico's subordinates, including Heinrich Clive and Leonardo Sniper, are killed by Id.
• After killing Redrum, whom they believed was responsible for the murders, Fei, Rico, and Citan return the bell he had to its original owner.
• Fei rises through the prison's ranking system to become the new 'Champion', earning his freedom.
• Rico fails to assassinate Sigmund and is captured.
• Dominia Yizkor attacks the power reactor in the eastern sector of Nortune with Elly just as Fei and Citan rescue Rico who helps them get Weltall.
• Fei and Rico successfully save Nortune from Dominia, Elly then diverts the Hecht that Dominia was piloting away from Nortune, Grahf saves her from being crushed.
• Having become wanted by Kislev, Fei, Elly, and Citan escape on the Goliath with and Rico and Hammer.
• Bart shoots down the Goliath (not knowing his friends were on it) which crashes into Yggdrasil. While Citan, Rico, and Hammer are rescued, Fei and Elly end up on the Thames.
• Bart receives Yggdrasil II from Shevat.
• Elly is kidnapped by Dominia and brainwashed by Myyah to sabotage Yggdrasil II. She is stopped by Citan.
• Fei is defeated by Ramsus causing Billy to arrive at the Thames to treat him at Ethos headquarters.
• Elly and the others help Billy kill Bloody, a gigantic Wels then attacks them only to be defeated by Renmazuo.
• The Ethos Headquarters is assaulted as Ethos members loyal to Solaris initiate a 'purge' on Ethos members who have tried to use the organization for their own gain.
  • Verlaine tries to kill Billy, but is stunned by Jessie. Jessie explains what is happening to the party, and Verlaine reveals Billy would have become an agent like him if he hadn't fallen away from Ethos. Before he can say anything further, Verlaine is killed by Bishop Stone and two assassins.
• Karellen ambushes the Thames.
• Following Stone to Zeboim, Elly discovers Emeralda, only for her to be taken by Stone, Tolone, Seraphita, who give her to Karellen.
• Karellen surgically grafts Stone to Alkanshel.
• Grahf gives "The Power" to Bishop Isaac Stone and Alkanshel. He is killed by Jessie's Buntline Gear.
• After battling Seibzehn at the top of Babel Tower, Fei and his friends are guided by Maria to Shevat.
• The Gazel Ministry sends Nikolai Balthasar to attack Shevat.
• Chu-Chu removes her limiter restoring her ability to grow.
• Nikolai kills himself by having Seibzehn destroy Achtzehn.
• Gaspar Uzuki removes the limiters within Fei and his companions.
• Despite using the energy of the gate and obtaining "The Power" from Grahf, Shakhan is killed by Bart and his new Omnigear, Andvari, and the Ignas Gate is destroyed.
• Bart declares that Aveh will become a democratic republic.
• The Ethos Gate is destroyed by Billy using the laser of Ft. Jasper which reflected off a mirror on Babel Tower.
• Fei and his friends defeat Emeralda and Crescens, who was sent by Karellen but joins them, and destroy Sargasso Gate.
• With all three gates destroyed, Solaris phases back into sync with the world allowing Fei and his friends go there.
  • Fei encounters Samson, who looks like his old friend Timothy. Samson tries helps Fei on his mission, but is incinerated by the Solaris ID security system.
  • Fei reunites with Citan and Elly.
  • Fei is accidentally introduced to Elly's family as they try to search her father's quarters for the Army Cardkey.
  • Erich Van Houten reports Fei as Elly argues with him. Realizing his presence would bring trouble to Elly's family, Fei leaves.
  • Elly reconciles with her family, and her father trusts her with the Army Cardkey.
  • When the Imperial Guard comes to take Elly, Erich covers for his daughter so that she can escape.
  • Fei, Elly, and Citan reunite, and go further into Solaris.
  • To fool Karellen and the Gazel Ministry as well as to question Id safely, Citan has Fei captured and imprisoned in a special chamber and overwhelms him mentally until Id shows himself.
  • Satisfied that Fei will not be the one to destroy humanity, Citan removes the limiters on the party and helps them free Elly.
  • Citan and Jessie destroy the Etrenank Gate.
  • As the party navigates out of Solaris, Hammer shows up with Erich and Medena Van Houten, having rescued them earlier.
  • As they leave Solaris, Hammer takes Elly hostage and demands they leave without her, as he intends to give Elly over to Karellen.
  • Medena manages to get Elly away from Hammer, but is shot and killed by Hammer in the process.
  • Grahf and the Executioner appear and battle the party. Erich tries to buy the party time to leave by intervening in his Gear.
  • The Executioner explodes Erich's Gear, killing him. Elly's anger begins to awaken her power, but she is knocked unconscious by a burst of Ether from the Executioner.
  • Fei is overwhelmed and transforms into Id. He uses Weltall-Id to destroy Solaris.
• Fei's friends think about freezing him in carbonite, but Elly frees him and escapes with him.
• Karellen gives Ramsus the Anima Relic Zebulun which turns his gear, Wyvern, into Vendetta. He uses it to attack Fei and Elly.
• Taura Melchior revives Fei and Elly of their wounds from Ramsus, removes their limiters, gives Fei a bracelet to control Id, and upgrades Weltall to Weltall-2.
• Citan reveals that he obtained an Omnigear named Fenrir from Solaris and left it with Gaspar for emergencies.
• Elly and Emeralda go to the Mass Driver Facility and use it to fire a special warhead from Melchior into the atmosphere which disperses special nanomachines all over the planet that removes the limiters on the world's population.
• Bart uses Yggdrasil IV to destroy Ft. Hurricane. This leads to Aveh and Kislev signing a peace agreement.
• Due to a virus that Karellen disperses at the same Melchior's nanomachines are released, a portion of the population mutate into Wels.
• The Ministry, unsatisfied with the Wels as parts for Deus, enact the M Plan.
  • The Wels feel innately compelled to gather in Soylent System facilities around the planet, where they would fight and merge into larger entities.
  • After a battle with a Sufal at one facility, Elly gives it some of her blood and convinces the Wels there to not give up on their humanity.
  • Fei and his friends destroy all the Soylent System facilities on the planet.
  • The party takes all the mutated people to Nisan. Others come later, seeing Elly as the next coming of Sophia.
• Billy's gear, Renmazuo, aligns with the Anima Relic Joseph turning it into El-Renmazuo.
• The Elements attempt to stop Fei and his friends by combining their Gears into the G-Elements, but are defeated.
• Rico's gear, Stier, aligns with the Anima Relic Gad, turning it into El-Stier.
• Having been surgically grafted into the structure of a massive Wel-Gear by Karellen, Hammer tries to kidnap Elly but falls into a ravine and dies.
• Emperor Cain is assassinated by a manipulated Ramsus.
• With Cain dead, the Gazel Ministry use the Gaetia Key turning enough of the planet's population into Wels to have Mahanon rising from the sea.
• Solaris and Gebler cease to exist.
• Not wanting to see Elly cry again, Fei argues with Elly to get her to stay behind in Nisan, but fails. His friends convince him to confess his true feelings. The two reconcile, and make love.
• Elly stays behind in Nisan as the group goes to defeat a form of Deus. After fighting Deus, the group is beaten and captured by Grahf.
• Wiseman convinces Elly to go to Golgoda in El-Regrs after she is blackmailed by Karellen.
• After killing Mugwort and Rattan, Elly is kidnapped by Karellen.
• No longer having any need for them, Karellen deletes the Gazel Ministry's data, killing them.
• Two weeks after the Ministry's demise, Deus absorbs the Anima Relics within the Omnigears of Fei's group.
• Ramsus kills the girl that Myyah currently possessed, she awakens in Elly and merges into Deus with Karellen.
• Merkava absorbs the Wels and releases Seraph Angels to terrorize the planet.
• Fei enters a state of suspended animation and is frozen in carbonite, he creates a fourth persona that can't feel anything. But Id awakens, breaks free, and goes to the Land of Bethlehem to make contact with the Zohar.
• After merging all his personalities and learning about his past lives, Fei meets the Wave Existence who turns Weltall-2 into Xenogears.
• Grahf sacrifices himself to temporarily stop the Zohar. He and Khan Wong die as a result.
• Convinced by Citan that his life has meaning, Kahran Ramsus decides to no longer pursue Fei and leaves with the Elements.
• Thanks to Kim's reawakened memories, Emeralda's body changes into a teenage form.
• Merkava is destroyed, but Deus summons a beam that destroys most of the planet, including Shevat which remnants crash near the south pole.
• Deus and the Zohar are destroyed, causing all gears except Xenogears to stop working.
• With Elly now no longer under Deus's control but still a part of its body, starts moving it far away from the planet to keep the Wave Existence's release from destroying the planet.
• Fei, using Xenogears, chases after Elly so that she doesn't sacrifice herself yet again for everyone's sake, breaking the cycle of tragedy between all their incarnations.
• Fei argues with Karellen. Wanting Fei to prove his determination, Karellen summons a form of Myyah as the Urobolus. Fei succeeds in defeating it, ending the last instance of Myyah Hawwa.
• Karellen follows the Wave Existence to its home dimension via the Path of Sephirot.
• Fei Fong Wong and Elhaym come back where everyone is waiting.