1979 * Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, Benjamin Grimm, Roger Biggs and Jonothan Wedge are launched into space to fix a prototype telecommunications satellite. The mission goes awry when a strange celestial object passes through the team's shuttle, exposing them all to intense radiation. Biggs and Wedge are killed by the radiation, which surprises nobody familiar with that particular running gag. Richards manages to successfully repair the satellite anyway, but on the way down the pilot, Grimm, begins exhibiting painful growths. The shuttle crashes in a desert in Nevada. All four survivors continue to survive, but begin to exhibit unusual abilities. This aspect of the mission is kept quiet by NASA, as well as all involved governments. The Fantastic Four are formed, but are told to act covertly. In Grimm's case, this means a total withdrawal from his former life. * Reed Richards develops materials that can be worn by 'metahumans' without interfering with their powers. In this way, the Human Torch can flame on without burning his clothes to a cinder, for example. * The U.S. development of the Gamma Bomb reaches the test phase. Teenager Rick Jones interferes with the test, spy Igor Rochmanov(sp?) fails to abort the test when project leader Bruce Banner goes to get the punk off the test grounds. The Incredible Hulk is born. The Gamma project is labeled a failure. The Russians decide not to develop their own gamma bomb after all. * Miya is born. 1980 * Namor, who had been living as a bum in New York since the end of World War Two, is reawakened by the Human Torch. A war with Atlantis is barely averted. * Tony Stark embarks on a campaign to clear such devices out of a foreign land that had seen much war lately. Wheather this was out of genuine humanitarian desires or for publicity becomes moot when Stark triggers a landmine on accident. A great deal of shrapnel finds it's way into his chest cavity, but he survives, and forges the Iron Man armor to keep himself alive. 1981 * The Avengers are formed. The origional roster includes Thor, the Hulk, Ant- Man, and Iron Man. * Namor frees Steve Rogers, A.K.A. Captain America, from his icy tomb. Rogers has been in suspended animation since the end of World War Two. * The Avengers are revised. The new roster includes Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp Girl, Iron Man, Giant Man, Captain America, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Sometime later, Chelsea Taltos will declare her distate for the Scarlet Witch's outfit. 1982 * Reknowned surgeon Steven Strange succumbs to frostbite on a hiking trip in the Himalayas. He is recovered by Mordo, desciple of the Ancient One. Strange undergoes training by the Ancient one and regains the use of his hands. * Victor Von Doom, a scientist and witch, rises to power in the east European nation of Latveria. 1983 * Steven Strange becomes Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth Dimension when the Ancient One dies. He successfully repels an invasion from the Dark Dimension led by Dormammu. Mordo, filled with jealously, declares a vendetta against Strange, and vanishes. 1985 * A strange assassination attempt made on Eric Lensherr is thwarted by his friend Charles Xavier and an unnamed black man with an M emblazoned on his face. Xavier goes on to found the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, and the X-men. Lensherr becomes fed up with humanity and declares that he intends to take a different path to mutant safety. * College Freshman Peter Parker is bitten by a spider that had been irradiated by an experiment at a display on campus. Spider-Man is born. Later, Maria insists that she is not Spider-Man. 1986 * Galactus appears. His ship, although stationary beyond the orbit of Neptune, looms large in the sky. Galactus touches down on top of the World Trade Center North Tower, and begins assembling a device intended to make his consumption of the planet Earth more efficient. The Fantastic Four and Avengers ignore secrecy and confront Galactus head-on, but are stopped by Galactus' herald, the Silver Surfer. The Surfer is swayed by the words of the blind sculptor Alicia Masters, and Galactus surrenders when confronted with the Ultimate Nullifier, a powerful weapon of his own devising. The world at large gets it's first view of superpowers, with mixed but largely favorable results. * With the general acceptance of superpowered individuals comes the general knowledge of mutants, as well. Mutants are far less easily accepted than the heroic individuals who saved the world from Galactus. * Supervillains begin commiting crimes openly. Fortunately, superheroes are there to keep 'em down. * Ororo Munroe, A.K.A. Storm, joins the X-men. * Peiotyr Rasputin, A.K.A. Colossus, joins the X-men. * Wolverine battles the Hulk in Canada. * Rogue permanently absorbs the powers of Carol Danvers, A.K.A. Ms. Marvel. 1988 * Wolverine joins the X-men. * Rogue, formerly part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, joins the X-men. * Apocalypse awakens and battles the X-men in New York. The mammoth Celestial- made space ship unimaginatively named "Ship" almost crash-lands on Manhattan Island. Apocalypse is defeated and disappears. * The Kree/Skrull war briefly visits Earth. * The first attack of the Phalanx occurs. 1990 * Eric Lensherr apears as Magneto, declaring war against the nations of the Earth. This marks the beginning of a series of battles between him and the X- men. Anti-mutant sentement rises. * Dr. Leonard Samson succeeds in physically deviding Bruce Banner from the Hulk. The new, completely mindless Hulk goes on a really impressive rampage. * Bruce Banner marries Betsy Ross. * Dr. Leonard Samson succeeds in reunifying the Hulk and Bruce Banner, as well as causing Bruce's multiple personalities to come to grips with each other. This leads to a new, green, intelligent, unexpectedly rational Hulk. * Phoenix rises. Things get ugly for the X-men. The Shi'ar Empire gets a new ruler. 1991 * The nation of Genosha, located just off the southeastern coast of Africa, begins the interment of mutants in specially made concentration camps, with the aid of 'Sentinel' units designed by the Brand corporation, a U.S.-centered arms company. * Magneto is reduced to infancy by Eric the Red. Moira McTaggart goofs with his genetic structure, intending to make him more goodnatured, before returning him to adulthood. Magneto breifly allies himself with the X-men. * The Secret Wars occur. The Beyonder discovers our universe and creates a patchwork world out of pieces of various planets from all over the galaxy. He has good and evil heroes from Earth duke it out. Spider-man gets a new, mysterious black suit. Spider-woman appears. Maria later insists that she isn't Spider-woman, either. 1992 * The hammer of Thor is passed to Eric Masterson. * Magneto regains his sense of self and reforms Asteroid M. He steals nuclear weapons from a Russian nuclear submarine he had sunk earlier and threatens the Earth with them. Anti-Mutant sentiment rises. A lot. * China follows in Genosha's steps by forming mutant internment camps and purchasing Sentinel legions. Other nations consider doing the same. Some of the more notable nations considering this are: The United States of America Germany France Russia Japan And, really, every other nation that thinks they can afford it. 1993 * Miya Does Something, and gets kicked out of her home. The game is on. ^_^