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Ironhaven is Founded
The nation of Ironhaven is founded. It was built upon innovation and competition. Ironhaven was a bustling steampunk utopian nation until suburban sprawl happened in the mid-1940s. Though, the Capital was conservative and refused to change. -
Wixham & Co. is Founded
Wixham & Co. is founded. They started buying up all competitors and their zeppelins. They wanted to monopolize travel. The Wixham Family were the ones that founded Ironhaven back in 1803 and wanted more control. -
Mighty Zeppelin Crashes
Mighy Zeppelin crashes off the coast of Luena. 23 lose their lives. The country would look at this as the Titanic of their country until the Unstoppable went down in 2036. -
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Suburban Sprawl Takes Over
Throughout this time, suburban sprawl was being mass-produced. Developers demolished hundreds of buildings for single family homes. Nearly all steampunk related things were bulldozed for wooden boxes. It was marketed as "Get out of the noisy city and magic for paradise" When it was just a asphalt maze of wooden boxes. -
XX Industries is Founded
XX Industries is a multiple industry company that primarily works in the food industry. They were started selling lemonade but have since expanded into a giant. They bought Smart and began to expand to the ocean-travel industry in the 2030s. -
Mass Protests Happen In Response of Sprawl
People were getting fed up from the suburban sprawl and started mass-protesting. Though, the cops began to actually start firing at the crowd, killing 12. In response, a few mages in the crowd began using magic to flip cop cars over. -
Single Family Zoning and Parking Minimums is Abolished
Finally, the government of Ironhaven passed a bill that abolished single family zoning laws and parking minimums. people began to convert suburban houses to businesses and some shops and restaurants were built in suburbs. Parking lots were almost entirely bulldozed and only small parts remained. -
Ironhaven First Takes Notice of Vampires
Ironhaven starts to notice them starting to show up. They were always around, at this time was when they began to become more noticeable. The government started trying to figure out a way to mitigate them. At this point their population began to rapidly increase. Though, it has flat-lined a bit due to the governments actions to mitigate their growth, they are still steadily growing in population, not anything concerning, but there's no sign of it slowing down. -
Incon is Founded
Incon is a company that primarily builds different things. They have a shipyard, plane building yards, and a construction subsidiary. They primarily build buildings and planes though, with the exception of some ships here and there -
Smart(R) is Founded
Smart is a company originally founded on Earth. It came to this world in 2030 with a bunch of other settlers. They specialize in home electronics.
They started out selling AC Units on Earth, before expanding to more home electronics and appliances when they came here. -
Alex Wixham is Born
Alex Wixham is the founder of Alex Line. He attempted to rebel against his family with the Phoenix but rejoined their strict traditions after its maiden voyage. He would later rename himself to Lord Wixham. -
Alex Line is Founded
Alex Line is founded by well, Alex Wixham to attempt to compete with his family. Though, Alex rejoined Wixham & Co, Liam Wixham would join Alex Line as a lead designer in 2036 -
Ironclad Launches
The Ironclad launches, this zeppelin is what really triggered Alex Wixham to start Alex Line and build the Phoenix. It was the largest ship at the time until it was beaten by the Unstoppable in 2030. -
R.M.V Phoenix Launches
The Phoenix is the first ever vehicle to be powered with the help of mana engines. It still had the help of steam though. It was designed by Alex Wixham also built it as an attempt to rebel against his famalie's monopolistic company Wixham & Co.
However, after the ship's maiden voyage, Alex Wixham would rejoin his family and their strict traditions and even tried to scrap the Phoenix but failed when he forgot to sign the paperwork. The Phoenix continued its service for years. -
The First Hydrogen Powered Factory Opens
A factory is opened that runs entirely on hydrogen. It's met with a lot of attention. -
Liam Wixham is Born.
Liam Wixham is Alex's only child. He would start a hobby in designing ships. When he turned 10, his family pushed him to build the next Wixham & Co zeppelin. He tried to make it different but they made sure it didn't break traditions. He came up with a 4 stacker ocean liner but scrapped the plans and sold the plans to XX Industries due to something happening with his family. XX Industries would heavily modify the plans and then the Murantic was built in 2038 -
Unstoppable Launches
The ship M.S Unstoppable launches. It's launched as a large ferry for colonists. It wouldn't be converted too a full-blown ocean-liner until 2034.
The Unstoppable would be the new largest ship in the world. It unknowingly beat the Ironclad in size and became Wixham & Co's first competitor after 200 years. -
Liam Wixham Launches the Dolphin
The Dolphin is a high-speed houseboat. It was mainly a way at testing the waters for Mana turbines as they were still a risky venture. It was heavily modified during cunrstruction and most of its Edwardian architecture was removed and all airship related stuff was also removed. The wing mounts were all that remained.
The boat however would sink in 2041 after the experimental turbines exploded due to pressure, blowing the stern deck clean off, sinking the boat in only a minute -
Unstoppable Sinks
The ocean-liner Unstoppable would sink after colliding with an underwater base. 398 people would lose their lives including Sam Braddock. -
Wixham Family is Attacked by Vampires
Liam Wixham barely escaped. Wixham & Co. was abandoned and Liam became acting CEO. he would then absorb it as Alex Line and it was dissolved. This is what caused him to sell the deckplans for his ship to XX Industries. After this he ended up moving into his Dolphin houseboat and lived alone in there, selling bottles and cans he finds for cash. -
Smart(R) is Bought Out by XX Industries
Smart is bought out by XX Industries for the equivalent of 4 billion dollars. Smart still existed and operated, though, it was just a subsidiary after that. -
Smart G3 Neo Released
The G3 Neo releases and its the last ever product under Sam Braddock's influence after 42 years. From the OG PowerPC back in 1998 to this. -
Unbeatable Launches
Unbeatable is the 3rd Unstoppable class ship. It's far longer, wider, and taller then Unstoppable and Untouchable. Though, It's not as popular since its sister ship well.... we all know what happened to it.... -
M.T.S Bronzeclad II Launches
It's backstory is too large for the description so that will come later. The Bronzeclad II was the first vehicle powered entire by mana engines and turbines. It was the new largest super-liner in the world. It would being Alex Line back into tense competition with all the new shipping lines. The ship would be very popular and was all over the news during its sea trials and maiden voyage. It was also the fastest ship in the world, it was a 4-screw ship that pushed it to 42 knots. -
Unstoppable Wreck is Discovered
Jake Pineman was trying out a submersible he created. He was live-streaming it on his channel. He was testing it out right where the Unstoppable went down. He was traveling right above the seafloor when he discovers a section of wall. It was later identified as a wall from the Unstoppable. He continued moving over chunks of metal until being stopped by a large red wall. He decides to surface but as he does, the red turns to white, then white with green stripes and windows.