Summer and Fall, 1992: Metallia campaign. Winter, 1993: Metallia killed. Dark Kingdom established in Manchuria. Queen Serenity officially takes both Endymion and Sailor Mars as consorts. CPS established as the Dark Kindom's second service. Initial treaties with China, US, Japan, Former Soviet Union, and developing world. Dark Kingdom Militia founded as third service, mostly using American veterans as cadre and senior leadership. Sailors and Endymion run through first BCT class. Spring, 1993: First Hond III rolls out. Black Moon campaign. Fiore officially added to Queen Serenity's consorts. Sailor Venus Marries Kair in _massive_ state wedding. Summer, 1993: June 14, Mercury submits draft Constitution. Hond IIIs upgraded to Hond IIIA, with strap-on LA armor panels. Ami joins Korean army, assigned to US Army as a KATUSA Fall 1993 and winter, 1994: October 12, Draft Constitution, complete with FIXMEs, put up for ratification. Saturn and Chibi-Moon meet for the first time. Death Busters/Phaeroh 90 mess. Chibi-Moon reunited with Saturn after Black Moon Campaign. Rhino I and Rhino II ground-attack aircraft begin to roll out. Spring, 1994: Queen Nehelenia campaign Febuary 23, Constitution, complete with FIXMEs, ratified. Ami comes back from her time as a KATUSA, complains about Constitution. April 7-April 14, initial occupation of Rwanda Ami vanishes off to Cephiro, returns with Umi. Queen Galaxia campaign June 14, Dark Kindom announces annexation of Rwanda Summer, 1994: Hond IIIs upgraded to Hond IIIB with the addition of LA band-tracks. Fall, 1994: September 11, Mongolia annexed. Mercury proposes first Constitutional amendment, to replace the FIXMEs with state names. Shot down in both House and Senate. Winter, 1995: November 12, CPS intervention in Chechnia November 14, Militia intervention after attacks on CPS personnel leave six Youma personnel hurt, two humans and fourty Chechen children dead. December 7, Russian government sells off the easternmost half of the former Soviet Union to the Dark Kingdom. Spring, 1996: The great regauging announced, which will standardize the Dark Kingdom, and anyone who does rail traffic with them, on a 3 meter track. First rail cars capable of carrying Hond IIIs produced. Summer, 1996: Last Dark Kingdom team participates in the Olympic Games until 2048. DK CPS Special Agent appointed Chairman of the People's Republic of North Korea. Fall, 1996: Complaints raised in the U.N. about religious suppresion in Chechnia. October 15, U.N. issues a public comdemnation of Dark Kingdom policies. October 16, Queen Serenity tells U.N. `Not a member, fuck off.' Winter, 1996: U.N. attempts to enlist DK, QS calls U.N. `hypocrits and murderers,' admits to running counter-terror teams in Africa since 1994, and drops enough evidence to destroy three megacorps and six national governments. DK annexes Zaire, Liberia, Congo and Somalia. Takes over military, police, and social services in Libya, Tunisia, Ethiopia. Spring, 1997: Body Armor, Metallic, begins to replace the ad-hoc mix of outside-sourced body armor employed by the Dark Kingdom Militia DK Airborne units begin restructuring into teleport-trained Rapid Strike Brigades. Summer, 1997: Bright pink Hond IIICs seen on maneuvers in Siberia. Fall, 1997: Hond IIIDs seen on Maneuvers in Sibera. Winter, 1998: Hond IIIEs go into production. Spring, 1998: Hond IIIC/Es and D/Es replace IIICs in civil defence units. Summer, 1998: Fall, 1998: Winter, 1999: Hond IIICs begin appearing for sale outside the DK. Spring, 1999: Peace talks begin between North and South Korea. Summer, 1999: October 15, Korean War ends after fourty-eight years. Fall, 1999: Iran joins the Great Regauging, doesn't otherwise admit closer ties to DK. Winter, 2000: LA Mask, Multi-purpose, Protective issued to all Dark Kingdom citizens. Spring, 2000: LA fabrication techniques mature enough for use as body armor. Summer, 2000: Initial Segmi prototypes fielded. Fall, 2000: Winter, 2001: Son of former president and former head of the secret police elected President of U.S., with the election decided, with many irregularities, by the state run by his brother. DK offers to pay for another ballot and provide security for U.N. voting inspectors. U.S. doesn't officially respond. Spring, 2001: Test-type Segmi fielded. Summer, 2001: Fall, 2001: September 11, Terrorist attack on U.S. kills approx 3000. Dark Kingdom Schoolteacher Nakayama Mariko spends several hours in custody after stopping the attack on UA175 September 12, 2218 local, DK Airborne militia soldiers teleport into Afganistan. September 13, U.N. and U.S. make diplomatic noises about the `inappropriateness of collective punishment' and `local autonomy' -- Queen Serenity laughs at them on global TV. Initial Issue of Segmented Body Armor, LA, begins with troops in Afganistan. Winter, 2002: U.S. President makes speeches about `Dark Kingdom threat' and incoherent claims that they are working with `Iraq, Al Quaieda, and other terrorist organizations' to undermine world peace. Seems surprised no one believes him. Spring, 2002: Kair killed on Camp Sigmund, Afganistan. U.S. makes claims of impending DK retribution, which doesn't materialize. Segmi fielding reaches civil-defence units. U.S. starts making noises about Iraqi `weapons of mass distruction.' Summer, 2002: Afganistan officially annexed. DK Serial Numbers officialy become hexadecimal numbers. Airborne eradicated in Milita restructuring, Rapid Strike Brigades merged into 16,000 soldier Assault Groups Fall, 2002: Chinese government gives up control of Tibet and western desert areas to DK in exchange for `unspecified goods and/or services' Winter, 2003: U.S. starts agitating for invasion of Iraq. DK tells Iraq `Surrender now.' Iraq officially replies `we have no weapons of mass distruction and have done nothing wrong recently.' Spring, 2003: Febuary 12, Queen Serenity addresses Iraqi people in Arabic `The U.S. wants to invade you. We won't let them. Surrender now, or we will take your country and destroy your government.' Iraqi government responds approximately `Bollocks.' March 1, DK First through Fifth Assault Group 'port into Iraq. That evening DK Hond IIIEs arrive via rail at the Iran/Iraq border. Summer, 2003: DK training brigades report Iraqi populace half-trained. Skirmishes between DK and US forces on the Iraq/Saudi border. Fall, 2003: DK Assault Groups redeploy from Iraq. DK helicopters are first seen using color-change coating in the wild. Winter, 2004: U.S. makes claims of torture and murder by DK forces in Iraq, citing reports of over five hundred thousand dead. QS replies `Rape is a capital crime in the Dark Kingdom. They had some adjustment issues.' U.S. president reelected, balloting again plagued by irregularities, lack of observers, accountability, recountability. Spring, 2004: Iraq annexed. Summer, 2004: U.S. steps up agitation about Dark Kingdom threat Fall, 2004: DK starts issuing Adaptive Cloth to replace the older camoflage fabric coverings on Segmi. Winter, 2005: DK fields Adaptive Cloth on select Hond IIIEs. Spring, 2005: Summer, 2005: Fall, 2005: U.S. President proposes modern `Monroe Doctorine'. Congress ignores him. Winter, 2006: Spring, 2006: Summer, 2006: Fall, 2006: Winter, 2007: Spring, 2007: Summer, 2007: Fall, 2007: Winter, 2008: Spring, 2008: Summer, 2008: Fall, 2008: --- Log: 2007/Jun/10: Decided I really should write things down since they writhe around a lot . . .