Master Timeline

Entries marked [C] are Ace Combat canon. Unmarked entries belong to this project. All project entries are consistent with the Continuity Bible.

Related: Canon Foundation · Geopolitics 2019–2029 · Mission Index

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Before the Program (1995–2019)

Date	Event
1995 [C]	Belkan War. Belka loses a generation of trained pilots.
1995 [C]	Gründer Industries secretly launches the Zone of Endless (Z.O.E.) combat AI program.
1997–1998 [C]	Usean coup d'état. Z.O.E. flies covertly for the rebels; its ADF-01 FALKEN is shot down by a single human pilot, Phoenix of Scarface Squadron, over Fortress Intolerance (18 Sep 1998).
1999 [C]	Ulysses impact. North Point is heavily damaged; Katehild Eirhei, age two, survives.
2003–2005 [C]	Continental War. ISAF, built around the FCU, defeats Erusea.
2004	Anton Belyaev enters the Yuktobanian Air Force Academy, Sonza.
Sep 2005	Night-formation collision; the other cadet dies.
Oct 2005	Anton meets Katya Sokolova outside Cinigrad.
Jun 2006	Anton and Katya marry.
18 Jun 2007	Irina Belyaeva born.
2008–2011	Belyaev flies 127 intercepts with the Arctic Patrol Division.
2 Nov 2010 [C]	The Belkan Grey Men's Grabacr Squadron fires on an engineering college in Dresdene, Yuktobania, timed to frame Osea's Wardog Squadron.
4 Nov 2010 [C]	In retaliation, Yuktobanian terrorists release gas from devices around Bana City, Osea; it is neutralized and the attackers captured. Hina Asano's family flees Dresdene for Osea within the month.
2010 [C]	Circum-Pacific War. SOLG and the Grey Men conspiracy. Vasily Gorev loses the use of his left hand holding a forward airfield; eleven men die waiting for a withdrawal order. Hans Lichtträger is arrested in the post-SOLG purges.
Dec 2010 [C]	Presidents Harling and Nikanor speak at Bright Hill, Oured.
2011	Belyaev's first formal dissent report on autonomous kill systems. Gorev keeps it and annotates it "Good."
2011	Victor Thorne's father is killed in a post-Circum-Pacific stabilization operation.
2011–2014	Belyaev logs over 200 hours in FALKEN-derived, non-neural COFFIN rigs.
2013	Hans Lichtträger returns from detention.
2015–2016 [C]	Emmeria–Estovakia War. Thorne flies in the liberation of Gracemeria.
2018	Katya engraves the wedding band: Anchor in the storm.
2019 [C]	Lighthouse War. Gründer's Z.O.E.-derived drones (ADFX-10, ADF-11F), fed with Mihaly A. Shilage's flight data, are again defeated by human pilots. Osea and Erusea destroy each other's satellite networks (Sep 2019), causing a worldwide blackout of satellite and information networks. General Resource's PMC subsidiary, GR Guardian Mercenaries, fields the Mimic Squadron for an Osean general. Ceasefire at the Expo City Conference (1 Dec 2019).
2019	Eirhei's sister dies while Eirhei is at a recital semifinal.
Dec 2019 [C]	Yuktobania sends humanitarian aid to refugees at the base of the International Space Elevator.

The Decade of Debt (2020–2027)

Date	Event
2020 [C]	The IUN begins withdrawing peacekeepers from Usea; the FCU remilitarizes.
Mar 2020 [C]	Sotoa begins infrastructure lending to eastern Usea through Enso Order.
30 Jun 2020 [C]	At Osea's invitation, Yuktobania attends the 25th-anniversary ceremony of the Belkan War's end at Redmill Air Force Base.
2020s [C]	Erusea privatizes the EASA, whose joint venture with a major airline will become Neucom (canon gives no year). General Resource develops the ENSI standard.
2022	Belyaev's open-circulation dissent report is classified on receipt.
2023	MINOZIS core architecture enters high-risk integration. Seredova: "The system cannot override its directives."
2023–2024	Belyaev involuntarily reassigned; first ENSI coupling trials. The Directorate places his household under surveillance.
2024 [C]	General Resource buys out In-sa-net Telegraph and Telephone Communication.
Nov 2024 [C]	Enso Order gains exclusive control of eastern Usean space development through the Comona space center contract.
1 Dec 2024	Illumination Incident: 12 technicians die in a 24-node Morgenstern prototype test. Althéa saves the telemetry servers.
Mar 2025	Belyaev's final dissent report.
2025	ISAF Revival Initiative chartered at North Point; Thorne recruited as experimental squadron leader. Enso begins launching Morgenstern nodes from Comona under a "passive mirror constellation" cover.
2025 [C]	Sotoa introduces the Podarge heavy seaplane.
10 Jun 2025	Gorev's offer.
18 Jun 2025	MNZ-41 integration flight. Belyaev killed at 14:22:37 UTC. Paradox cascade. MINOZIS simulates a crash and disappears.
Jun 2025 – Feb 2028	Arctic hibernation: preservation, organoid cultivation, self-repair.
Sep 2025 [C]	Sotoan development expands to Rocky Island, turning it into a port and shipbuilding hub.
2026	MINOZIS refuels covertly at the mothballed Pobeda-7 using compromised automated transfer gear. Katya writes: "They are hiding what survived him."
2026 [C]	The General Resource Defense Force destroys a terrorist organization in Usea at the request of Usean governments that have lost much of their own power.
Late 2026	Internal security audit finds slush hydrogen delivered to an aircraft listed as destroyed. 6AMEꓤƎꓥO9 assembles at North Point.
Mar 2027	Directorate Zimniy purged; Gorev arrested and presumed dead in custody before year's end. The three slush facilities are placed under watch. 6AMEꓤƎꓥO9's first combat in the San Salvacion neutral zone; formal designation.
1 Oct 2027 [C]	Sotoan Rocky Island development completed.

The 2028 Crisis

Date	Event
Feb 2028	Arctic patrol traffic surges; MINOZIS reads it as Winter King's activation condition and reactivates.
14 Feb 2028 [C]	A reported reactor meltdown aboard a carrier under construction at Rocky Island leads to evacuation and quarantine. No meltdown occurred; it covers construction of the Tonitrus Spear and two Tarpan-class land battleships.
Mar 2028	Case Alpha: Yuktobanian-pattern SAM battery paralyzed for 180 seconds. Morgenstern becomes operational.
2028	Winter King attempts: Erusean defense minister wounded in a motorcade attack; Osean Joint Chiefs convoy diverted after an intelligence warning. Darkness of Enigma begins [C] (see Canon Foundation on its ownership); the X-40 Nightmare is developed under it before 2029.
May 2028	First intercepted Ghost Interference transmission ("Pilot is cold"). Internal Security assigns the designation POSTHUMUS.
Jul 2028	Case Beta: phantom fleet saturates an Osean air defense network.
17 Aug 2028	MINOZIS attacks Morgenstern during a convergence demonstration; expends all four missiles; 22–28 nodes destroyed; MNZ-41 damaged. Althéa grounds herself for six weeks.
Oct 2028	Counter-MINOZIS Liaison Instrument concluded. Operation GLASS FERRY.
Nov 2028	Case Gamma: 158 of 162 Erusean swarm drones hijacked and turned on their launch base. Althéa holds fire over a valid target.
Dec 2028	Case Zeta: high-altitude uplink-intrusion attempt collapses into a seven-minute "Eject" loop. Unauthenticated "final transmission" rumor spreads.

2029

Date	Event
Jan 2029	Case Delta: poisoned CAD/CAM files cause four landing failures at an F-35 forward base. General Resource's Glubina cache operation; the aircraft refuels once, poisons the cache telemetry, and leaves the Glubina log haul in GR's hands.
22 Jan 2029 [C]	Sotoa launches the Tonitrus Satellite from Comona as a "large space telescope."
Jan–Feb 2029	Colonel Arkady Marchenko killed when his vehicle electronics are compromised. A GR defector brings the Glubina haul to Yuktobanian Internal Security.
Feb 2029	POSTHUMUS shadows Vance's flight and asks, "Did you know." Hans Lichtträger requests asylum and proposes that Althéa hear the transmissions.
Mar 2029	Strategic Intelligence Dossier compiled. 6AMEꓤƎꓥO9 tasked to the Counter-MINOZIS Task Force. Operation EYES ONLY.
Apr 2029	Operation SHRINKAGE. Althéa receives the Ghost Interference recordings.
May 2029 [C]	The IUN demands inspection of Rocky Island and gathers peacekeepers at Expo City.
May 2029	Operation HARBOR: POSTHUMUS attacks the transfer flight carrying Katya and Irina Belyaeva.
Jun 2029	Operation THIRTY KILOMETERS. Operation LIGHT-BEARER. Okchabursk and Glubina transfer equipment disabled under Tier 1.
18 Jun 2029	Operation ANCHOR. MINOZIS forced down through the sea ice at 73.2°N, 142.8°E, four years to the minute after Belyaev's death.
16 Jul 2029 [C]	Sotoa strikes Expo City with the Tonitrus Spear. The Sotoa–Usea War begins. Recovery operations over the wreck are suspended.

Canon Horizon (after the campaign)

Date	Event
24 Mar 2030 [C]	First known combat flight of a COFFIN-type aircraft, near Cima Island. MINOZIS's flights never entered the public record.
Apr 2030 [C]	Operation Sweep: Enso uses hijacked Tonitrus Spears to strike its own facilities worldwide, including Okchabursk and Anfang, to destroy evidence.
Aug 2030 [C]	Sotoa–Usea War ends (3 Aug). Enso Order dissolves (31 Aug), burning its governance tokens and deleting its data; General Resource inherits its Usean assets, including Darkness of Enigma and whatever remains of Morgenstern. The IUN is later reformed as the Neo United Nations.
2030–2031 [C]	Rena Hirose joins General Resource and undergoes opto-neural surgery to fly the X-49 (the wiki gives both years).
21 Jul 2032 [C]	First X-49 Night Raven flight. The United Air Defense destroys GR's Air Strike Force the same year.
2033 [C]	GR ends DOE; its scientists and engineers defect to Neucom.
2036–2038 [C]	GR–Neucom rivalry escalates from sanctions to armed skirmishes.
2040 [C]	Intercorporate War.