User:Broadside/Sandbox:HasbroTimeline
1309
The earliest known Commander of Cobra is inspired by the writings of Cobra agent Dante Alighieri, whose Divine Comedy serves as an allegory for Cobra and its dealings, to expand the organization's pursuits into newly discovered lands and new areas of science and learning. Inferno
1320
Dante completes and publishes the Divine Comedy. Cobra Commander sadly has his old friend poisoned for risking revealing Cobra to the world, concluding that the virtuous future Dante had envisioned for Cobra would never come to be. Inferno
1800
Following the deaths of his family at the hands of the Dire Wraiths, Rom K'atsema of Elonia joins the Solstar Order to take the fight to them. On his homeworld, he discovers a mysterious ore, anathema to the Wraiths, that forms itself into a symbiotic armor around his body. The Solstar Order uses this ore to found the "Space Knights of the Solstar Order". Cold Fire Revolutionaries #1 timeline
Shortly afterwards, the Dire Wraiths discover Earth, drawn to Shockwave's supplies of Ore-13 to amplify their powerful dark magic. The New Colossus Using their shapeshifting talents, Dire Wraith scouts begin infiltrating the worlds' governments and militaries, preparing for an eventual encounter with the Space Knight. Earthfall: Part Three
1999
A genius psychologist serving in the United States military murders his family and deserts the army, taking with him a cache of explosives and ordnance. Over the seven years that follow, he goes on to build a fortune on pyramid schemes as a Wall Street broker. G.I. Joe: Origins #1
2006
General Clayton Abernathy -- codenamed "Hawk" -- forms the Joint Services Special Counterterrorist Group, a secretive counter-terrorism unit whose members are taken from the most elite members of the military and legally declared dead for secrecy. One of his first recruits is Sergeant Conrad Hauser, given the new name "Duke", selected for his heroic defense of a supply convoy in Trucial. In or Out? At around the same time, the former psychologist who deserted the army has his finances ruined by the collapse of one of his pyramid schemes; visiting a Las Vegas plastic surgery clinic, he has his face reconstructed in order to build a new life, but is recognised by his former military ally Snake Eyes. The man blows up the clinic to erase the evidence of his new identity, but Snake Eyes survives, notifying Army CID. Dubbing himself a Chimera, the man returns home to murder his new family before attempting to finish Snake Eyes off, but he is foiled by Duke and fellow team member Scarlett, who were in the process of recruiting Snake Eyes to their team from a Las Vegas hospital. G.I. Joe: Origins #1 Revolutionaries #1 timeline
Chimera, along with allies from an anti-government group in Montana, successfully executes a series of terrorist attacks before relocating to an abandoned, underground military facility in the Nevada desert. Origins #3 Hawk's team manage to track him to the base, and -- thanks to the intervention of Snake Eyes -- manage to kill Chimera; however, the terrorist had the last laugh, having set up two countdowns -- one to "Operation Poison Gas", the release of a nerve toxin in 10 major cities, and one to "Operation Poison Pen", the release of financial information that would trigger a subprime mortgage crisis. Only having time to stop one, Duke had Breaker stop Poison Gas, with Poison Pen going off as planned. Origins #5
In the aftermath of their first mission, the team takes the abandoned base Chimera was operating out of as their headquarters, and is informally named "G.I. Joe" after Joe Colton, with his blessing. Origins #5 Secret Raiders
G.I. Joe agent Mainframe, bed-bound after an injury in the field, discovers consistent references to "Cobra" in various terrorist communications. Unable to convince his superiors of his theory that Cobra is a major player driving the happenings of the terrorist underworld, Mainframe goes AWOL in order to investigate Cobra alone. As a parting message, he warns the Joes to "beware Rangoon". Origins #7
2008
Following a mission to Rangoon gone wrong, Snake Eyes goes AWOL from G.I. Joe, though he retains back-channel communications with Scarlett. G.I. Joe #6
2009-10
Duke leads a G.I. Joe mission to intercept an illegal arms shipment in Istanbul, but the explosives on the ship are detonated by a crew member with a Stinger missile. Duke asks the last surviving crew member who hired them, and is given one word: "Cobra". One Word Cobra is displeased by the risk to their security that allowed the American military to find out about the arms deal; in an attempt to appease them, Cobra's arms supplier Laird James McCullen, aka "Destro", demonstrates the use of the M.A.S.S. device that he has been commissioned to create by teleporting Cobra assassin Emil Zartan to the home of arms dealer Nico Mandirobilis to kill him; however, the teleporter is incomplete and Zartan dissolves into dust in the process. The Origin of Zartan Part 1 Meanwhile, to visit payback on the American special forces that sabotaged the arms deal, Destro has a machine containing remote-controlled, spider-like robots sink a ship in the Atlantic to act as "Trojan horses"; however, when the machine is brought back to the Pit, Destro recognises one of their number as Ward Michaelmas, a physicist thought dead years prior, and concludes that there must be more to the unit than he had thought.[1] G.I. Joe #2
Though the Joes manage to stop Destro's robots from escaping the Pit's GPS blind spot, they manage to transmit workable data about the area surrounding the Pit and the Joes' Broadcast Energy Transmitter. Meanwhile, the Baroness arrives to kill Destro for failing to fulfil his promises, but Destro manages to knock her out and lock her into an inescapable bedroom in Castle Destro; using the B.E.T. data to improve M.A.S.S., the Laird promises the Baroness a demonstration of its capabilities. G.I. Joe #5 Though Stalker's team of G.I. Joes and Snake Eyes both track down Mandirobilis, they are foiled by Destro, who teleports onto the arms dealer's ship and shoots him dead; however, on return to the castle, Destro experiences the same molecular degradation did, and has to be sealed into a metal containment suit to survive. G.I. Joe #6
[GI Joe v1-2, Cobra]
2011
[Cobra Civil War; Cobra Command; Cobra v2/Cobra Files; Deep Trouble; Target: Snake Eyes; GI Joe v3; Special Missions]
2014
[GI Joe v4]
References
- ↑ Technically, G.I. Joe issue 2 says that Michaelmas was declared dead "five years ago", but... there's no way whatsoever to square that detail with the establishment of the Hasbro Universe, especially since The Iron Klaw establishes that the invasion of Nanzhao took place after All Hail Megatron. As such, we're assuming that that's been retconned out.
