Post by Fritz on May 31, 2006 17:58:40 GMT -4
As some of you might remember, three years ago I released the semi-famous Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline.
More recently, I've been working on a supplement and expansion based on the Ghostbusters New York, Extreme Ghostbusters, and GBI fan fics written by myself and many others.
This is the working version:
www.ectozone.com/gbtimeline/gbi.html
After too long an amount of time, I'm wanting to put some work into this thing, to get it into shape, and more inclusive of the variety of teams in GBI.
This is the working list of items to be added on the revision scheduled for June 13. Items preceeded by an asterisk (*-) are already on the Timeline, and included for reference purposes.
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1960's or 70's
Andrew Williams' father serves in Vietnam; his hand is shot off, and replaced with a prosthetic.
1976
November 14. Mark Lucas born in Tampa, FL
1977
July 11. Mick Nielson born in Redbank, NJ
1980
October 23. Damon Lucas born in Tampa, FL; he is the younger brother of Mark Lucas.
1981
June 14. Julie Madison born in Belmont, MA
1982
Kyle Peterson is born 1-13 in North Carolina
1983
*-Ghostbusters Inc./Ghostbusters New York formed
1984
*-Ghostbusters International first commissioned.
1985
Kevin Kemarly is born 11-19 in Onarga, near Chicago, Illinois.
1986-late 1988
*-GBNY shut down by court order.
1991
*-GBNY deactivates
Mid 1990's ()
College student Mick Nielson is involved with the Shadow Chasers. At some point during this period, they encoutner Valeck, Viceroy of the Night, Heirophant of the Winged Harbingers
1996
Bill Malkin, Dave Mallozzi, and Tim Mabes encounter the Jersey Devil while on a camping trip in the Pine Barrens of South Jersey. They become interested in the paranormal, and form the Jersey Devil Paranormal Society Club.
1997
*-GBNY reactivated.
*-Nightsquad forms; Vincent Belmont hired by GBNY
1998
*-GBI officially reactivates; Louis Tully becomes CFO.
Rich Roy founds New Jersey's first GBI franchise, the JerZee Ghostbuster (JZGB)
2002
May. The Jersey Devil Paranormal Society is recruited into GBI by Rich Roy, the CEO of JZGB. They become Ghostbusters New Jersey (GBNJ)
2003
February: Tim Mabes leaves GBNJ; Rob Wurm is hired as his replacement.
Louis Tully goes on a leave of absence, and Rich Roy of JZGB becomes Director of Ghostbusting Operations of GBI
New Years Eve, 2003:
Kyle Peterson becomes an official Mobile Agent of GBI.
2004
Dr. Cedric London (parapsychologist), Rob Statler (engineer), Salina Duran (cryptozoology), Andrew Williams (monster hunter), and Brian Roig (a non-Hermetic sorcerer from the fringe Order of Ra) form Ghostbusters Doom Patrol. Erin Cummings is hired as Client Administrator. In their first case, they encounter madman Adrik Thorsen.
The Gem of Odin surfaces in Onarga; Kevin Kemarly, Ryan Price, Josh Kanosky, and Andrew Thomas form the Onarga Ghostbusters.
Due in part to Rich Roy's workload with GBI, JZGB is closed and it's operations merged with GBNJ.
Early Summer 2004:
Western Nnorth Carolina Ghostbusters officially open for business, albeit on a part-time basis. Kyle tries in vain to get Deven, his supervisor/mentor, to join up.
Just before Halloween 2004: a Ghostbusters International strikeforce, spearheaded by GBNJ, is formed to defeat the Baccardio entity. While they are victorious, Baccardio manages to escape...
Mick Nielson (formerly of Shadow Chasers, and Damon and Mark Lucas join GBI, and become Ghostbusters: Tampa Division. Julie Madison joins the team.
2005
Tampa Division aquires their own ECTO-2 (not to be confused with the helicopter long used by GBNY)
Brian Roig's old friend Jason Riddle appears, just as reanimated Iraq War corpses attack a bar in Philadelphia. Tim Bondo is a witness, which I mostly mention because he's cool. CJ is apparently killed by Adrik Thorsen.
2006
Dr. James Ferguson, a friend of Tampa Division's Damon Lucas, is believed deceased after an incident in Pompeii; he resurfaces soon after, in accordance with a prophesy that Rome would rise again. An outbreak of zombie attacks related to the incident is seen worldwide.
(some events related to Kyle Stevens' "United Darkness")
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Not as much as I'd like. So this is where you come in...
Want to be included? Give me the info. Extremely useful information...
--Birthdates. But be sensible--if your character has multiple PhDs and you're only 19 in "real life", your character should probably be at least 5-10 years older than the "real" you. Sure, Egon got his first degree at age 12, but he's an exceptional case.
--When did your team form? When did members join or leave?
You get the picture...
A couple of caveats:
--Just because you aren't on here doesn't mean you "don't exist" or your team will not be acknowledged.
--Events that are contradictory to the Timeline will not be included on it. One big one: According to the Timeline, GBI is totally inactive between the years 1986-1988 and 1991-1997. Anybody who says "We became an official franchise in 1996" will not have that event cited. I can't stop you from putting it in your stories or your website, but it will not be cited in the Timeline.
--If for whatever reason you want me to remove any reference to you, let me know. Anything above will go in the Timeline June 13th unless you tell me otherwise.
I thank you for your time and consideration, and hope to be hearing from you soon.
--Dr. Fritz V. Baugh
Official Historian
PS...I'm just wondering what kind of hell I'm going to catch for this...
More recently, I've been working on a supplement and expansion based on the Ghostbusters New York, Extreme Ghostbusters, and GBI fan fics written by myself and many others.
This is the working version:
www.ectozone.com/gbtimeline/gbi.html
After too long an amount of time, I'm wanting to put some work into this thing, to get it into shape, and more inclusive of the variety of teams in GBI.
This is the working list of items to be added on the revision scheduled for June 13. Items preceeded by an asterisk (*-) are already on the Timeline, and included for reference purposes.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1960's or 70's
Andrew Williams' father serves in Vietnam; his hand is shot off, and replaced with a prosthetic.
1976
November 14. Mark Lucas born in Tampa, FL
1977
July 11. Mick Nielson born in Redbank, NJ
1980
October 23. Damon Lucas born in Tampa, FL; he is the younger brother of Mark Lucas.
1981
June 14. Julie Madison born in Belmont, MA
1982
Kyle Peterson is born 1-13 in North Carolina
1983
*-Ghostbusters Inc./Ghostbusters New York formed
1984
*-Ghostbusters International first commissioned.
1985
Kevin Kemarly is born 11-19 in Onarga, near Chicago, Illinois.
1986-late 1988
*-GBNY shut down by court order.
1991
*-GBNY deactivates
Mid 1990's ()
College student Mick Nielson is involved with the Shadow Chasers. At some point during this period, they encoutner Valeck, Viceroy of the Night, Heirophant of the Winged Harbingers
1996
Bill Malkin, Dave Mallozzi, and Tim Mabes encounter the Jersey Devil while on a camping trip in the Pine Barrens of South Jersey. They become interested in the paranormal, and form the Jersey Devil Paranormal Society Club.
1997
*-GBNY reactivated.
*-Nightsquad forms; Vincent Belmont hired by GBNY
1998
*-GBI officially reactivates; Louis Tully becomes CFO.
Rich Roy founds New Jersey's first GBI franchise, the JerZee Ghostbuster (JZGB)
2002
May. The Jersey Devil Paranormal Society is recruited into GBI by Rich Roy, the CEO of JZGB. They become Ghostbusters New Jersey (GBNJ)
2003
February: Tim Mabes leaves GBNJ; Rob Wurm is hired as his replacement.
Louis Tully goes on a leave of absence, and Rich Roy of JZGB becomes Director of Ghostbusting Operations of GBI
New Years Eve, 2003:
Kyle Peterson becomes an official Mobile Agent of GBI.
2004
Dr. Cedric London (parapsychologist), Rob Statler (engineer), Salina Duran (cryptozoology), Andrew Williams (monster hunter), and Brian Roig (a non-Hermetic sorcerer from the fringe Order of Ra) form Ghostbusters Doom Patrol. Erin Cummings is hired as Client Administrator. In their first case, they encounter madman Adrik Thorsen.
The Gem of Odin surfaces in Onarga; Kevin Kemarly, Ryan Price, Josh Kanosky, and Andrew Thomas form the Onarga Ghostbusters.
Due in part to Rich Roy's workload with GBI, JZGB is closed and it's operations merged with GBNJ.
Early Summer 2004:
Western Nnorth Carolina Ghostbusters officially open for business, albeit on a part-time basis. Kyle tries in vain to get Deven, his supervisor/mentor, to join up.
Just before Halloween 2004: a Ghostbusters International strikeforce, spearheaded by GBNJ, is formed to defeat the Baccardio entity. While they are victorious, Baccardio manages to escape...
Mick Nielson (formerly of Shadow Chasers, and Damon and Mark Lucas join GBI, and become Ghostbusters: Tampa Division. Julie Madison joins the team.
2005
Tampa Division aquires their own ECTO-2 (not to be confused with the helicopter long used by GBNY)
Brian Roig's old friend Jason Riddle appears, just as reanimated Iraq War corpses attack a bar in Philadelphia. Tim Bondo is a witness, which I mostly mention because he's cool. CJ is apparently killed by Adrik Thorsen.
2006
Dr. James Ferguson, a friend of Tampa Division's Damon Lucas, is believed deceased after an incident in Pompeii; he resurfaces soon after, in accordance with a prophesy that Rome would rise again. An outbreak of zombie attacks related to the incident is seen worldwide.
(some events related to Kyle Stevens' "United Darkness")
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not as much as I'd like. So this is where you come in...
Want to be included? Give me the info. Extremely useful information...
--Birthdates. But be sensible--if your character has multiple PhDs and you're only 19 in "real life", your character should probably be at least 5-10 years older than the "real" you. Sure, Egon got his first degree at age 12, but he's an exceptional case.
--When did your team form? When did members join or leave?
You get the picture...
A couple of caveats:
--Just because you aren't on here doesn't mean you "don't exist" or your team will not be acknowledged.
--Events that are contradictory to the Timeline will not be included on it. One big one: According to the Timeline, GBI is totally inactive between the years 1986-1988 and 1991-1997. Anybody who says "We became an official franchise in 1996" will not have that event cited. I can't stop you from putting it in your stories or your website, but it will not be cited in the Timeline.
--If for whatever reason you want me to remove any reference to you, let me know. Anything above will go in the Timeline June 13th unless you tell me otherwise.
I thank you for your time and consideration, and hope to be hearing from you soon.
--Dr. Fritz V. Baugh
Official Historian
PS...I'm just wondering what kind of hell I'm going to catch for this...