BAA LO Chronology

[Guren]

[T] Battle Angel Alita Last Order Chronology
[T] Note: the mentioned episodes contain facts and events published up to “Battle Angel Alita Last Order” volume 10.
[T] To the chronology already published in the Battle Angel Alita Perfect Edition, the author added another chronology with the events and facts happened up to “Battle Angel Alita Last Order” volume 10. This way, these contents become a guideline to easier understand the period in which the “Battle Angel Alita Another Stories” episodes happened and the Battle Angel Alita world structure.


[T] Before the Geo Catastrophe.
[T] A.D. 1066 - Victor Byron is born.
[T] A.D. 1088 - Victor Byron joins the First Crusade (Battle of Antioch).
[T] A.D. 1808 - Vilma Fachiri (Caerula Sanguis) is born in the Transilvania region, Hapsburg Empire.
[T] A.D. 1912 - fall of the Chinese Qing Dynasty.
[T] Era Sputnik 0 (A.D. 1957) - the human race first artificial satellite, the Sputnik, is launched.
[T] E.S. 5 (A.D. 1961) - Gagarin does the first manned spaceflight in history.
[T] E.S. 13 (A.D. 1969) - with the Apollo 11, the human race lands for the first time on the Moon surface.
[T] E.S. 31 (A.D. 1987) - human race first manned Mars exploration.
[T] E.S. 33 (A.D. 1989) - Vilma and Byron meet in Hong Kong.
[T] E.S. 40 (A.D. 1996) - a permanent manned base on the Moon surface is built.
[T] E.S. 44 (A.D. 2000) - a permanent manned base on the Mars surface is built.
[T] E.S. 50 (A.D. 2006) - a quantic simulator, the “Pendragon”, is activated by the research team of Collin Farrell at the Armaden laboratory in North America.
[T] E.S. 53 (A.D. 2009) – experimental colonization begins on Mars;
- Pendragon precognitive ability is accidentally discovered , the U.S. Department of Defense shows interest into it;
- Collin Farrell and the research team resign from Armaden and the “Wave Funcion Convergence Observation Plan ” financed by the U.S. Department of Defense begins;
- “Merlin”, a precognitive third generation machine, is built.
[T] E.S. 54 (A.D. 2010) - “Merlin” predicts a planetoid impact; however, the government does not pay notice to it;
- Collin Farrell and his research comrades act to prepare for the catastrophe.
[T] E.S. 55 (A.D. 2011) – due to a super magnetic storm caused by a giant explosion on the Sun surface, many communication satellites are destroyed and an ifrastructure paralysis occurs;
- “Geo Catastrophe”: the planetoid “Ixchel” collides and humanity is in danger of extintion.


[T] Impact Winter– Civilization Reconstruction
[T] E.S. 56 – in the “Impact Winter” 1/10 of the population is wiped out;
- John Farrell, the son of Collin Farrell, Merlin's designer, is born.
[T] E.S. 66 – Vilma Fachiri comes to Noth America together with Victor Byron and his clique.
[T] E.S. 70 – Vilma meets the boy John Farrell (age 13);
- the Farrell Shelter is destroyed and the Farrells struggle to reach the Bloodly Shelter.
[T] E.S. 107 – John's nephew, Arthur Farrell, is born.
[T] E.S. 126 – John Farrell dies (age 70);
- Arthur Farrell (age 19) meets Vilma;
- Arthur's fiancée, Haruka (age 18), is murdered by Byron;
- Merlin reactivation is successful, it predicts a brilliant future for humanity;
- Vilma duels with Victor Byron and wins;
- the Impact Winter ends, the sun raises for the first time in 71 years.


[T] The Badlands Reclamation Era
[T] E.S. 127 – Arthur Farrell (age 20) changes Merlin name to “Melchizedek” and launches the plan for humanity's revival;
- space history (Era Sputnik) is established.
[T] E.S. 133 – Arthur chooses “Star City (presently the Scrapyard, formerly Kansas City)” as capital.
[T] E.S. 140 - due to global warming and the radical rising of the seas, the Bloodly Shelter sinks under water.
[T] E.S. 156 – a chemical rocket is successfully launched in satellite orbit.
[T] E.S. 169 – reconstruction of a manned artificial platform in satellite orbit.
[T] E.S. 172 – successfully sent a manned landing module on the Moon, once again.
[T] E.S. 173 – Vilma awakens after a temporary state of apparent death;
- the anti-space development movement becomes an organization and attempts Arthur (age 66)'s assassination.
[T] E.S. 178 – Radha dies (age 71).
[T] E.S. 184 – the riots of the anti-space development movement reach their peak.
[T] E.S. 188 – the orbital elevator prototype is completed.
[T] E.S. 190 – one part of Melchizedek is integrated to the orbital elevator.
[T] E.S. 191 – a pharmaceutical artificial hybernation study is secretely performed on living humans and as soon as many dead result, is exposed. A storm of uprisings and political purges occurs.
- Arthur Farrell dies (age 84);
- Vilma is entrusted with the “Fata Morgana”;
- Tiger Sauer is born on Earth.
[T] E.S. 200 – reconstruction of an artificial colony on the Moon.
[T] E.S. 207 - successfully sent a manned landing module on Mars, once again.
[T] E.S. 218 – the orbital ring system “Jacob's Ladder” is completed.
[T] E.S. 219 – the population forced space emigration begins.
[T] E.S. 221 – a nuclear fusion rocket using helium 3 is realized.
[T] E.S. 230 – the L1 lunar orbital tower “Luna Scalae” is completed.
[T] E.S. 234 – the first total cyborgization is completed.
[T] E.S. 235 – reconstruction of a colony on Mars.
[T] E.S. 242 – the first colony on the orbit of Venus is completed.
[T] E.S. 243 – the Mars colonies declare their independence one after the other and become colonopoleis.
[T] E.S. 244 – first large-scale war among Mars' colonopoleis.
[T] E.S. 250 – a part of the space colonies on Venus orbit declares the founding of the “République Vénus”.
[T] E.S. 263 – a colony on Jupiter's satellite Galileo is completed.
[T] E.S. 300 – a part of the colonopoleis of Jupiter's satellite Galileo forms the “Jupiter System Union”.
[T] E.S. 301 – a part of the colony of the Earth-Moon system declare the formation of the “Earth Orbitary Federation” and clarify their political position.


[T] The Era Before The Terraforming Great Wars
[T] E.S. 316 - the Jupiter System Union starts expanding into the troposphere.
[T] E.S. 347 - the orbital elevator is improved and “Ketheres” and “Tiphares” are completed.
- the Earth Orbitary Federation moves the capital from Star City, on the surface, to the space city Ketheres.
[T] E.S. 350 – in Tiphares, experiments for the construction of a closed society with a thought towards starships begin.
[T] E.S. 357 – the construction of five starships begins. The construction of a satellite producing antimatter begins.
[T] E.S. 365 – Ping Wu is born.
[T] E.S. 369 – Aga Mbadi is born.
[T] E.S. 370 – Yoko is born on Mars.
[T] E.S. 373 – Yoko meets Erica and Gerda (see Battle Angel Alita Last Order Phase.01)
[T] E.S. 377 – the five starships are completed.
[T] E.S. 380 – the creation of the starships antimatter fuel rises political pressure.
[T] E.S. 383 – Enceladus Incident. The terraforming war breaks out.
[T] E.S. 386 – During Operation Maulwurf, Yoko is captured and punished by being thrown alive into Earth's atmosphere;
- Melchizedek goes berserk and four interstellar ships are destroyed while are journeying towards Venus (Camlann Tragedy);
- in a nanotechnology laboratory of the République Vénus, “Methuselyzation”, the technology for perpetual youth and longevity, is completed.
- Ping Wu (age 21) steals the “Methuselyzation” technology and divulges it on the net.
[T] E.S. 387 – LADDER is founded, the terraforming wars stop.
- with an aerial bombing by the Federation army, the Grunthal is annihilated.
- cease of communications between Tiphares and the Earth.


[T] The Era of The LADDER Rule
[T] E.S. 390 – first disaster in human history of nanomachines running out of control, “Gray Goo”.
[T] E.S. 392 – the decay of Star City on the surface continues, it arrives to a point that is called “Scrapyard”.
[T] E.S. 394 – Mbadi (age 25) becomes LADDER interplanetary investigator.
[T] E.S. 396 – a large scaled improvement project for Ketheres, Tiphares and the orbital ring system begins.
[T] E.S. 400 – the large scaled improvement project for Ketheres,Tiphares and the orbital ring system is completed;
- adoption of the Unanimous System as the law-abiding technology of the Earth Orbitary Federation, imposed to all the citizens;
- inTiphares, the MIB Factory System is started, the brain chip is mandatory for all the citizens;
- LADDER begins the G.E.N.E. Project inTiphares.
[T] E.S. 401 – with the new technology, LADDER obtains peace and security. At the same time is involved in the restriction of newborns.
[T] E.S. 405 – Earth Factories, Deckmen and the Public Security System are brought into the Scrapyard.
[T] E.S. 426 – Aga Mbadi founds ORDER, an interplanetary investigation force, and becomes its commanding officer.
[T] E.S. 429 – the underground Coliseum business begins in the Scrapyard.
[T] E.S. 448 – the first motorball circuit is built in the Scrapyard.
[T] E.S. 455 – the karateka Don Fua founds the Electromagnetic Karate.
[T] E.S. 466 – the Tipharean Dr. Warez (age 35) is hired by LADDER and goes to Ketheres.
[T] E.S. 469 – Mercury is covered in Gray Goo (the unprecedented great disaster “Warez Hazard”)
[T] E.S. 473 – Aga Mbadi defeats Dr. Warez on Pluto, but all the members of the ORDER force die.
[T] E.S. 474 – LADDER declares the total abolition of nanotechnology research. At the same time it adopts the “extinction protocol of the new generation” that does not recognize the right to live to children under age 10.
- Aga Mbadi founds NEW ORDER, LADDER force, and becomes its director.
[T] E.S. 491 – the Zenith of Things Tournament (ZOTT) 1st edition opens;
- Ping Wu, the hacker “Weasel”, is defeated in a mortal combat against Trinidad and takes refuge at the Robo-Asyl.
[T] E.S. 494 – Vilma, now named Caerula Sanguis, creates the SNS.
[T] E.S. 496 – Qu Tsang joins the SNS and becomes the ship Guntroll's captain.
[T] E.S. 501 - the Zenith of Things Tournament 2nd edition opens. During the quarterfinals, a big explosion destroys the grounds;
- half a year later, the ZOTT finals are held on temporary grounds.
[T] E.S. 511 – because of the improvement and expansion works of the Ketheres Onion Frame, the Zenith of Things Tournament 3rd edition is postponed.
[T] E.S. 521 - the Zenith of Things Tournament 3rd edition opens.
[T] E.S. 522 – on the outer boundary of the Scrapyard, the Hydro-Wall is constructed.
[T] E.S. 531 - the Zenith of Things Tournament 4th edition opens.
[T] E.S. 532 – the series “Space Hero Mbadi”, by Oleg Zaccagni, begins its publication and it becomes a big bestseller.
[T] E.S. 533 – Desty Nova is born on Tiphares.
[T] E.S. 541 - the Zenith of Things Tournament 5th edition opens.
[T] E.S. 543 – the TV drama serial “Space Mbady”, by Vesta Studios, begins airing.
[T] E.S. 545 – the series “Space Hero Mbady” ends with the 25th novel called “Mortal Combat on Pluto”.
[T] E.S. 551 - the Zenith of Things Tournament 6th edition opens.
[T] E.S. 556 – although reluctantly, the TV drama serial “Space Mbadi” ends.
[T] E.S. 560 – Molnev (age 15), Zappa (age 15), Aref (age 15) and other two graduate from the SNS are dropped off on the Ceres asteroid.
[T] E.S. 561 – Nova escapes from Tiphares;
- the Zenith of Things Tournament 7th edition opens.
[T] E.S. 562 – Hugo is born in the Scrapyard.
[T] E.S. 563 – Kaos is born in the Scrapyard.
[T] E.S. 570 – Ido is exiled from Tiphares.
[T] E.S. 571 – the “Adam scandal” comes into light in the motorball (“Ashen Victor”);
- Ido meets Carol (“The Holy Night”);
- the Zenith of Things Tournament 8th edition opens.
[T] E.S. 572 – during a motorball race, Jashugan and Esdoc are involved in a big accident;
- Hugo's older brother is killed by Clive Lee.
[T] E.S. 573 – Ido opens a medical clinic in the Western Region;
- Jashugan becomes the champion of the year in the Top League.
[T] E.S. 574 – Nova gives Makaku the Maggot Body.
- Hugo meets Vector and has his brother's hand transplanted.
[T] E.S. 575 – the Ground Investigation Bureau (GIB) is formed on Tiphares;
- Daisaburo dies in an accident on Ceres.
[T] E.S. 576 – Bigott deploys one thousand TR-55 on the surface as preparation for the TUNED project.


[T]The Battle Angel Alita Era
[T] E.S. 577 – Koyomi is born in the Scrapyard, she is picked up by the Kansas's bar owner;
- Yoko is excavated by Ido from the Scrapyard rubble. He gives her the name Alita (Battle Angel Alita Battle 1);
- Makaku is killed by Alita;
- Molnev hears the voice of God and founds “The Phenomena”, predecessor of the Starship Cult;
[T] E.S. 578 – Hugo dies;
- Alita fights Jashugan to the death in the motorball. Jashugan dies;
- a bounty is put on Zapan's head;
[T] E.S. 579 – renewal opening of the bar “New Kansas”;
- Alita starts living alone;
- mortal combat between Alita and Supersonic Finger (“Supersonic Finger”);
- “Den” awakens, journeys to the Badlands.
[T] E.S. 580 – Kaos leaves the border with Jasmine;
- Ido dies;
- Alita defeats Zapan in his Berserker form;
- Alita is scouted for the TUNED.
[T] E.S. 581 - the Zenith of Things Tournament 9th edition opens;
- Nova's base “Granite Inn” is completed.
[T] E.S. 582 – Ido is revived by Nova;
- the Luna King Crater Karkinos research laboratory where the “Equinox Experiment” is held explodes due to Jetan G's violent acts;
- Molnev, now Cannibal Spring Legs Jack, kidnaps Jetan G in Luna City and names him Whophon.
[T] E.S. 585 - “Den” founds the Barjack. In the same period, “Radio Kaos” begins;
- at the Scrapyard south border, the construction of “Barjack City” begins.
[T] E.S. 586 – Deckman 50 escapes and AR-01 dispose of it (“Homecoming”);
[T] E.S. 587 – Buick becomes the Barjack war correspondent;
- Vector merges with his opponents and almost siezes civil power;
- Toji achieves the record of destroying a 120-story skyscraper in the All Space Karate Tournament;
[T] E.S. 588 – Figure arrives in the Scrapyard;
- Ido opens a clinic in Farm 21;
- Whophon awakens, siezes control of “The Phenomena” and changes its name to “Starship Cult”.
[T] E.S. 590 – Alita meets Figure;
- Lou starts her job as a TUNED operator;
- Koyomi joins the Barjack;
- the TUNED mass production is started (Sechs, Elf and Zwölf are born);
- end of the Barjack War, political purge of the Ground Investigation Bureau;
- Alita dies in an explosion, Nova returns to Tiphares;
- Whophon massacres almost five hundred spectators at Luna Crystal Castle (Crystal Castle Tragedy). Becomes wanted;
- Zappa Terracotta begins working as chief head executive officer of the asteroid Ceres.
[T] E.S. 591 (A.D. 2547) Battle Angel Alita Last Order to present – Alita is revived at Tiphares by Nova hands;
- due to Nova's intervention, Tiphares is in an anarchy state;
- Kaos and Vector join hands, a plan for the construction of the Tower of Tiphares is announced;
- the formation of the New Barjack fails, Koyomi does her first photograph (“Barjack Rhapsody”);
- the Zenith of Things Tournament 10th edition opens;
- Alita is entrusted with the “Fata morgana” by Caerula.

[HumanRage]

You sir, deserve a statue in your honor !

[Guren]

There's always the "donate" button on my blog...


A big thank you also goes to Sergio who proofed everything and helped fix stuff.

[AR-99]

My prayers have been answered! Guren I cannot thank you enough for doing this! I would kiss your feet if I could! Thanks also to Sergio for the help!

Viz translated it as John being Arthur's grandfather but it is down as nephew. John would have been 51 when Arthur was born.

[Pablolein]

OMG! This is so great!!! Thank you Guren, this is really amazing!

[Martin]

so cool, thanks!!