Now that it's well after noon, and no one will mistake this for an
April Fool's gag ...
Timeline
Project A-Ko: Generations
(This timeline incorporates Project A-Ko and various elements of the
Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman storylines, notably including Elliot S.
Maggin's novel "Superman: Last Son of Krypton".)
1938 Kal-El born on Krypton.
Krypton explodes, but various people escape the explosion in
various ways; Kal-El is rocketed to Earth by his father, Jor-El.
Due to time dilation, a three hour trip for Kal-El takes twelve
years for the rest of the universe.
1945 Bruce Wayne is born.
1947 Steve Trevor is born.
1950 Lex Luthor is born.
Kal-El arrives on Earth; due to the intervention of a passing
Albert Einstein, he is adopted by Johnathan and Martha Kent, and
given the name Clark.
Lois Lane is born.
Bruce Wayne's parents are murdered.
Princess Diana of the Amazons is "born".
1956 First construction at the future site of Graviton City, a French
possession in the South Pacific, originally slated for nuclear
testing.
1959 Kara Zor-El is born on Argo.
Dick Grayson is born.
1960 Barbara Gordon is born.
1963 Clark Kent first adopts the Superboy costume, in December.
1966 The incident wherein Lex Luthor loses his hair and much of his
soul, developing a psychopathic hatred of Superboy in the process.
1968 Deaths of Johnathan and Martha Kent, shortly before the eighteenth
anniversary of Clark's arrival on Earth.
1970 First formal appearance of Superman, in Metropolis.
The Batman begins activities in Gotham City.
1972 Steve Trevor crashlands on Paradise Island, prompting Princess
Diana to be sent into the World of the Patriarch to champion
Amazon values -- and to return pilot Steve Trevor, who crashed on
the island -- as Wonder Woman.
First meeting of Superman with Wonder Woman.
Death of Dick Grayson's parents; Dick is taken in as the ward of
Bruce Wayne.
1973 First appearance of Robin.
1974 First meeting of Superman with Batman and Robin.
1973 Argo's population dies of Kryptonite poisoning, but Kara Zor-El is
sent to Earth. Due to time dilation, the journey takes two years,
objectively, and minutes subjectively.
1975 Kara arrives on Earth, and is placed in an orphanage by Superman.
1977 Public debut of Supergirl.
1978 Barbara Gordon begins her career as Batgirl, recieving training
from Batman and Robin.
First meeting of Batgirl and Supergirl.
1983 Lois Lane breaks off her relationship with Superman.
Dick Grayson retires as Robin.
Lex Luthor's relationship with Misa Daitokuji, wife of Japanese
financier Hikaru Daitokuji, begins.
1984 Wonder Woman finally realizes that Steve Trevor is a bondage
enthusiast and masochist, and gently breaks off her relationship
with him.
1985 The Crisis. Supergirl gives her life to save the universe. In
the aftermath, Clark and Diana finally admit their attraction to
one another, and are married shortly afterwards, setting up
civilian identities in Los Angeles as Kent and Himeko Magami.
Barbara Gordon retires as Batgirl.
1986 Eiko Magami is born.
Biiko Daitokuji, actually the daughter of Lex and Misa, is born.
The Second Princess of the Third Queen of the Lepton Kingdom of
Alpha Cygnae is born on a starship, having been conceived in vitro.
Hikaru Daitokuji learns of his wife's infidelity, and arranges an
attempt on Lex Luthor's life ... which fails dramatically. Lex
goes into hiding, allowing people to believe that he's dead.
The starship carrying the Princess crashes on Earth, destroying
Graviton City, yet miraculously not killing anyone on board the
ship.
The Princess is found and adopted by Gendou and Yui Kotobuki, of
Graviton City, and given the name Shiko.
1988 Superman, realizing that he must be a full-time parent to Eiko,
retires. The Magami family moves to Graviton City.
1989 Misa Daitokuji dies of alcohol poisoning.
Barbara Gordon is shot by the Joker, paralyzing her from the waist
down.
1991 Eiko, Biiko, and Shiko begin kindergarten. Biiko torments Shiko,
until Eiko rescues her, earning Shiko's eternal admiration. As
the year progresses, Biiko and Eiko's struggles become more
personal, involving Shiko less and less except as an object which
they contest over.
Eiko's superhuman strength manifests for the first time, witnessed
by Shiko and her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Kotobuki persuade
(blackmail) Eiko's parents into letting them accompany the Megami
family as they move out of town.
1992- Eiko and Shiko live around the world. During this time, Eiko's
2000 powers of superhuman speed develop, and she recieves training in
armed and unarmed combat from her mother and from Bruce Wayne,
her godfather. The Kotobuki family is able to spoil Shiko rotten,
living off of (extorting from) the Megami family's generosity.
Biiko recruits her henchmen, and discovers her natural talent for
mecha design. Her father discovers it as well, and begins to
steal the designs for use by the Daitokuji Zaibatsu, which becomes
a major contractor for the United Nations Space Defense Force.
1996 Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon marry.
1997 Kara Grayson is born.
2002 Eiko and Shiko move to Graviton City. Events of Project A-Ko 1,
2, and 3.
2003 Events of Project A-Ko 4.
Shiko's insistence that Eiko and Biiko stop their feud (her
condition for remaining on Earth) stops the fighting for a total
of two months, before Shiko gets bored. The fights never build
to their previous intensity, however.
Eiko develops the ability to fly on her seventeenth birthday,
further alienating Shiko. <"Flight">
Shiko spends Christmas on Alpha Cygnae to punish Eiko for
"ignoring" (not devoting every waking moment to) her. Eiko and
Biiko begin to grow closer. <"A Gift">
2004 The developing friendship between Eiko and Biiko is cut short when
Biiko discovers her true parentage, as well as Eiko's. <"Daddy
Dearest">
The fights resume.
2005 Luthor makes his continued existance known to Clark (and,
incidentally, to Diana). <"Old Friends">
During their high school graduation, Shiko announces that she will
be leaving Earth, and never returning. This prompts a huge fight
between Eiko and Biiko which wrecks most of Graviton School for
Girls. Shiko then announces that she has changed her mind, only
to be angrily rejected by both Eiko and Biiko, who inadvertantly
reveals her feelings for Eiko. <"For Hate's Sake">
Shiko leaves Earth, never to return.
Biiko flees Graviton City for parts unknown.
Eiko starts to look for her.
2018 The so-called "Machine Weapon Incident" prompts the United Nations
Space Defense Force to cease all use of humanoid mecha.
2061 First permanent lunar colony established.
2075 Earth Alliance is formed as a political and economic association
for the colonization of Mars.
2080 A Johns Hopkins medical study confirms the existance of telepaths.
2099 A terrorist attack destroys the dome of the Mars colony, killing
the civillian population.
c.2100 The Lepton Kingdom of Alpha Cygni disintegrates in civil war,
caused by issues of cloning and an idol singer. All known members
of the royal family are liquidated within months of the war's
beginning. Sic transit molestia mundi.
2107 The United Nations dissolves.
2122 Earth Alliance formally assumes the role of Earth's governmental
structure, although some nations remain outside its jurisdiction.
2150 New colonists begin to make the Mars colony a viable settlement
once more.
2155 Humanity's first contact with the Centauri. The Centauri claims
of being the ancestors of humanity are not taken even remotely
seriously.
2161 Psi-Corps is founded.
2165 Earth's first extra-solar colony is founded on Proxima Centauri 3.
[Note: Despite the name, the Centauri are *not* native to the
Centauri (Earth nomenclature) star system.]
2200 First request by the Mars colony for independance from Earth is
pointedly ignored.
2230 Earth becomes involved on the side of the Non-Alligned Worlds in
the Dilgar War.
2245 Earth's first contact with the Minbari goes *remarkably* poorly.
2247 The Minbari stop just on the brink of wiping out the human race
when certain things are discovered. [Watch Babylon 5. I'm not
going to tell you *all* JMS' secrets.]
2249 The Babylon Project is proposed by the Earth Alliance, and agreed
to by the Narn, Centauri, Minbari, and Non-Alligned Worlds, all
of whom show a marked lack of knowledge of how *jinxed* the name
"Babylon" is.
2250 Babylon 1 destroyed before completion.
2251 Babylon 2 destroyed before completion.
2252 Babylon 3 destroyed before completion.
2254 Babylon 4 completed ... and disappears without trace.
2256 Babylon 5 completed, largely thanks to Minbari investment, given
in exchange for the right to choose the station's commander, one
Jeffrey David Sinclair, a fighter pilot with minimal experience in
space station command. Nobody finds this suspicious, but perhaps
they're all too happy over the fact that the station doesn't seem
to be going anywhere.
2257 The Vorlons begin to move once more, sending an ambassador to
Babylon 5.
2258 Eiko visits Babylon 5, still searching for Biiko, whom she
maintains is still alive. She is instrumental in saving the
station from an attack by an automated Lepton dreadnought.
2260 She finds her.
Chris Davies.