Timeline

An in-progress timeline covering all major events in Mothership's lore. Mothership depicts a satirized, surrealist version of 90's and early 2000's culture, despite taking place much later in the 2030's.

Note that events on Earth prior to 2000 are converged with our own timeline, with the timeline's divergence happening on midnight of December 31st 1999.

2000

 * January 1st: The Y2K disaster occurs; Martians make direct contact with humans for the first time.
 * A brief war between the Martians and Humans devastates many major cities.
 * Mars issues an apology to Earth over a global PA system, and explains that midnight's invasion was accidental.
 * January 3rd: An emergency meeting is arranged between several major world leaders, and Mars' President Obadar. The meeting ends with a peace treaty being signed, and trade regulations being established between the planets.
 * Each Martian House is assigned control of a major city on Earth, and several Martian cities are put under the watch of world powers on Earth.
 * January 5th: A Martian Mothership is unexpectedly parked above Pale Pike in the center of Pale Springs, Washington.

2002

 * Conflict between Martians and Humans die down, and Martian immigration officially begins.

2036

 * November 16th: Mothership 2000 begins - The Journalist arrives in Pale Springs aboard a train, and joins the Pale Press.