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Monolith Timeline

From F.E.A.R.

The Monolith Timeline consists of the Dark Horse comic book, the Alma Interviews, F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon, the DC Digital Comic, the Armacham Field Guide, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin and F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn. Unlike the Vivendi Timeline, which ends with the original game's expansions, the Monolith Timeline is considered canonical because it includes the latest games in the series. While it is unclear if these two storylines actually conflict — for example, the fates of characters who died in the Vivendi games are unknown in the Monolith version — it has been stated by Monolith Productions that F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin completely disregards the events of both F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.[1]

Contents


[edit] Backstory

  • 1950–1959 — Armacham buys the Rammelmeier Industrial Compound in the Auburn district from the U.S. government in order to gain access to an old underground military complex located beneath the property.[2]
  • 1964 — Armacham Technology Corporation is officially founded and begins taking defense and aerospace contracts.[3]
  • 1973 — Armacham Technology Corporation starts the bioengineering program Project Icarus.[4]
  • 1979 — Alma Wade is born.
  • 1982–1983 — Harlan Wade tells the rest of Armacham Technology Corporation that his daughter Alma, age 3, might possess psychic abilities.[5]
  • 1986–1987 — By age 7, Alma Wade has "progressed from frequent nightmares to periodic hallucinations and debilitating empathic episodes."[6] During this time, Harlan Wade begins planning Project Origin.[7]
  • August 24, 1987 — Alma Wade is transferred from Still Island to the Vault in Auburn.[8] She enters the Vault and is put into an induced coma two days before her eighth birthday.[9][10]
  • 1987–1988 — Armacham Technology Corporation starts Project Origin.[11]
  • 1994–1995 — Alma Wade, age 15, is removed from the Vault in order to give birth to Project Origin's first prototype, and wakes up temporarily.[12]
  • 1995–1996 — Alma Wade, age 16, is removed from the Vault a second time, and wakes up again while giving birth to Project Origin's second prototype.[13]
  • 1997 — Paragon Fitness and Training Manual copyrighted by Dr. Harlan Wade, PhD.[14]
  • 2002 — The U.S. Army creates the F.E.A.R. unit in order to combat "paranormal threats to national security."[15]
  • 2005–2006 — Paxton Fettel, age 10, establishes a telepathic link with a comatose Alma Wade, age 26,[16] culminating in the first Synchronicity Event. As a result, Project Origin is permanently shut down.[17] Alma's life support is disconnected, and she dies six days later.[18] However, even after her heart stops, her psychic signature does not vanish.[19] Around the same time, residents of Fairport report nausea and other unusual physical symptoms after spending time in the Auburn district; as a result, people begin leaving and avoiding the area.[20][21]
  • 2025–2027 — The second Synchronicity Event occurs when Paxton Fettel, age 30, establishes a telepathic link with Alma Wade, even though she is already dead.[22]

[edit] Present Day

As noted above, the games in the series take place sometime in the 2020s; all of the in-game events happen during a span of about two days. The following section outlines the events that occur during the series in chronological order.

[edit] Continuity Errors and Mistakes

  • Terry Halford says that Alma entered the Vault when she was eight years old.[23] However, Harlan Wade had previously revealed that she was put in the Vault two days before her eighth birthday, as noted above.
    • This might not be an actual mistake on Monolith's part, since it is entirely possible that Halford was estimating.
  • According to the Armacham Field Guide, Project Origin was "conceived almost 30 years ago."[24] Since the guide appears to be written during the events of the series, this is impossible. Information in the games indicates that the project was started no later 1988, when Alma was still 8 years old, while the game takes place no earlier than 2025, when the Point Man (who was born when Alma was 15 years old) is supposedly 31 years old. This is a difference of at least 37 years.
    • It is possible that the real-life writers of the guide forgot that the game is supposed to take place in the future.

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Dave Matthews of Monolith Productions: "[TimeGate] took the story in a direction that we didn't intend... We look at Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate as an alternate universe, a 'what could have been', and because of that it doesn't necessarily diminish the story that we were trying to tell. F.E.A.R. was about Alma, F.E.A.R. 2 is about Alma, and we wanted to continue the story the way we originally intended." (News: Ports and expansions "killed off a few" F.E.A.R. fans - ComputerAndVideoGames.com)
  2. ↑ Rodney Betters: "The UTM coordinates from Wade's laptop are right smack in the middle of the Rammelmeier industrial compound in Auburn. Place has been shut down for years. [...] Turns out Armacham bought the site from the government back in the '50s. Get this. There used to be some kind of underground military complex in that area. I don't think Armacham was interested in what was on the property. They wanted what was under it." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  3. ↑ News broadcast (radio): "Since it was founded in 1964, Armacham Technology Corporation has become a leading aerospace/defense contractor..." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  4. ↑ Rodney Betters: "There's a reference to something called Icarus. Says here that it was a bioengineering program that started in 1973." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  5. ↑ Armacham Field Guide, page 14
  6. ↑ Datanet - Project Origin - Evaluation report (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
  7. ↑ Armacham Field Guide, page 15
  8. ↑ Datanet - Alma Wade - Transfer notice (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
  9. ↑ Harlan Wade: "We put her in there two days before her eighth birthday." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  10. ↑ Rodney Betters: "There's an email from Wade about the "subject" being in an induced coma." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  11. ↑ Rodney Betters: "Says here Alma was 8 years old when Origin started up." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  12. ↑ Terry Halford: "Her own father stuck her in a suspension tank in an induced coma, knowing she'd probably never wake up again. Well, she did, right after she gave birth to the first prototype. She was 15." (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
  13. ↑ Terry Halford: "The second prototype was born a year later. She woke up for that one too. She didn't like them taking her babies away from her." (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
  14. ↑ Datanet - Paragon Program - PARAGON manual (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
  15. ↑ F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon
  16. ↑ Armacham Field Guide, page 20
  17. ↑ Rodney Betters: "I figured out what a synchronicity event is. There was an incident when they lost control of Fettel. He just suddenly started freaking out. He was only about 10 years old at the time, but I guess he killed a few people. In the investigation, they discovered that there had been a telepathic link between Fettel and Alma even though she was in a coma. They concluded that she was influencing him. That must have been why they pulled the plug on Origin." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  18. ↑ Harlan Wade: "She died six days after we pulled the plug. (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  19. ↑ Terry Halford: "Well, her heart shut down, but her psychic signature didn't. Not many people can just refuse to die." (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
  20. ↑ Alice Wade (voicemail): "We're still collating data, but it's pretty clear that whatever happened to Auburn wasn't because of the usual socioeconomic factors. The downturn was actually a symptom of people avoiding or leaving the area for other reasons, which we'll summarize in our presentation. One more thing: from what we can tell, it all started about 20 years ago." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  21. ↑ Alice Wade (voicemail): "It's a bunch of news articles I dug up about Auburn from the last 25 years. There's a surprising amount of corroboration of the physical symptoms that old woman told us about. Seems a lot of people over the years reported feeling uncomfortable or nauseated after spending any amount of time there." (F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon)
  22. ↑ Armacham Field Guide, page 26.
  23. ↑ Terry Halford: "Alma Wade was eight years old when they put her in the Vault." (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
  24. ↑ Armacham Field Guide, page 7

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