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" Kolya — Spoilers for System Shock 1 and 2

This timeline by Zygoptera is a modified version of that originally posted by Fixer at TTLG.com. More detailed information on the events of System Shock 2 can be found in the chronological System Shock 2 audio logs. Other information is available from theSystem Shock 1 manual and SS2 manual.

Some information in this timeline was gathered from the short backstory written by Ken Levine. "

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Events Prior to System Shock 1

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2023 The first two megacorporations employ mercenaries to destroy each other's offshore soda bottling facilities. (SS2 soda objlook)

2031 The Hays-Bishop bill is passed, allowing corporations to form governments if their employees made up over two-thirds of the population in a given region. (backstory)

2049 Anatoly Korenchkin born. (backstory)

2059 The last remnants of the United States of America are absorbed by the TriOptimum Corporation. (backstory)

2061? Corporate Computer Protection Conference adopts Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics protocol. (SS1 manual)

2062? Bulgarian hacker underground develops Decoy software. (SS1 manual)

2065? Dr. Titania Omolu and her colleagues at the WEC Cybernetics Cartel in Chicago begin work on SHODAN. Among those on the project are Morris Brocail, an engineer from TriOptimum. (SHODAN refers to Brocail as one of her creators; the rest of this is non-canon.)

2067? RazorFinger cracking group develops ICE Drill software. (SS1 manual)

2069? Citadel Station becomes operational.

2069? Citadel computer staff, exploiting bugs in the station's operating system, develop Turbo Booster software. (SS1 manual)

2070 Yatsumora Cyberchannels Corporation develops Pulser software. (SS1 manual)

2070 BloodCat, one of the most notorious cyberspace thieves of all time, uses a prerelease version of the Fake ID software to penetrate the accounting node of National Business Machines Corporation. (SS1 manual)