Welcome to the New Millennium: A Collaborative Timeline

22 June 2003: Russia has put pressure on other Central Asian countries to do more about the Tajikistan situation. The country is expected to spend significant amounts of money in the Caucuses in development to make sure their isn't a situation within Russian Borders.
 
You'd have to imagine that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if said country was also a minor enemy.

Yeah I figured. As things get worse, they'd definitely get closer and probably Israel would as well. Maybe bring up past general positive relations between Zoroastrians and Jewish.
 
July 15, 2003: New York City Mayor Kelsey Grammer holds a press conference. In what was widely expected to be announced as a candidacy for the Republican nomination for President, he instead announces that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Chuck Schumer.
 
Remember - there is currently a civil war in Saudi Arabia, and bin Laden controls most of the country.

I didn't do a good job of explaining that i feel, not sure whether it should be him or him puppeting some minor royal family member.
 
Remember - there is currently a civil war in Saudi Arabia, and bin Laden controls most of the country.

I must have missed that o_O

I'd figured the USA might get involved here though it all depends how willing they are to get rid of the House of Saud
 
February 8, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E13, titled The I in Team. In this episode, When Professor Walsh decides that Buffy is a threat to the Initiative, she decides to kill her by sending her on a dangerous mission. Riley discovers that Professor Walsh has tried to kill Buffy and begins to seriously think of leaving the organization.

February 15, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E14, titled Goodbye Iowa. In this episode, Professor Walsh tries to play up tensions between Buffy and Riley, the latter of whom becomes increasingly unstable as a result of a change in his medications. Buffy and Xander sneak into the Initiative to steal information, and leave with an injured Riley after a tense confrontation.

February 22, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E15, titled This Year's Girl. In this episode, Faith (Eliza Dushku) wakes from her eight-month coma and seeks revenge against Buffy. After failing to attack her, she switches bodies with Buffy using a gift left to her by Richard Wilkins III (Harry Groener), the now dead mayor.

February 29, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E16, titled Who Are You. In this episode, Buffy (in Faith's body) is abducted by the Council's team, while Faith (in Buffy's body) has ruthless fun at the expense of Buffy. After Faith and Buffy (as each other) rescue a group of people in a church that has been attacked by vampires, they switch their bodies back. Faith begins to feel remorse, and heads to Los Angeles.

April 4, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E17, titled Superstar. In this episode, Xander tries to adjust to life in the Initiative, which he has infiltrated as a double agent for the Scoobies. He begins to understand that he is being manipulated as a scheme to get him to turn on the Scoobies.

April 29, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E18, titled The Wild Things. In this episode, Buffy and Riley are too distracted by their burgeoning relationship to deal with a growing threat of ghosts throughout Sunnydale. Willow and Tara set out to exorcise the town, joined by Anya who is lonely without Xander.

May 2, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E19, titled What Measure Is A Man. In this episode, Professor Walsh imbues Forrest with the powers of a demon - trying to create her own equivalent to the slayer. While the Scoobies work to rescue Xander from the Initiative, Forrest soon turns irredeemably insane and goes on a spree about the town, forcing Riley to put him down.

May 9, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E20, titled The Yoko Factor. In this episode, Riley spars with Angel (David Boreanaz) when Angel visits Sunnydale; Maggie convinces Spike that she will remove his chip if he helps her get Buffy where she wants. Spike agrees and sets out to distance the Scoobies from each other.

May 16, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E21, titled Raising Stakes. In this episode, The Scoobies reconcile and uncover Professor Walsh's plan to create an army of mind controlled superpowered soldiers, with herself in control of all of them.

May 23, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S04E22, titled Trapped. In this episode, Professor Walsh imbues herself with the powers of the slayer and traps the Scoobies in the Initiative base - a last ditch effort after they foiled her slayer army idea. It takes the entire team working together to take down the Professor.
 
September 26, 2000 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S05E01, titled Buffy vs Dracula. In this episode, Buffy faces Count Dracula who has come to Sunnydale to make her one of his concubines. Dracula turns Xander into a Reinfield of sorts, before being defeated but not killed.

May 22, 2001 : Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuts S05E22, titled The Gift. In this episode, Buffy and the gang set out to rescue Dawn and fight Glory as the ritual commences. Also, Buffy finally realizes the meaning of "Death Is Your Gift". This episode marks the series finale of the television show, but the universe will continue on through it's spin-off Angel.

September 24, 2001 : Angel The Series debuts S03E01, titled Heartthrob. As Angel mourns Buffy's death, he battles a lovelorn vampire seeking revenge for the death of his beloved. As the episode concludes, Xander (Nicholas Brendon) appears at the Hyperion Hotel and offers to join up with Angel Investigations.

December 20, 2002 : Firefly debuts on Fox Network with S01E01, titled Pilot. The show is a space western series focusing around the exploits of the ragtag crew of outlaws on the ship called Serenity and stars Nathan Fillion as Captain Malcolm Reynolds.

May 7, 2003 : Angel The Series debuts S04E22, titled Not Fade Away. Angel and the rest of the group spend the day as if it were their last before moving to take out the Circle of the Black Thorn in a potentially suicidal confrontation.

May 23, 2003 : Firefly debuts S01E13, titled Heart of Gold. In this episode (also the first season finale), the crew of the Serenity help out Inara's former brothel as it comes under attack by a villainous rancher.

October 3, 2003 : Firefly debuts S02E01, titled Objects In Space. In this episode, the ship is invaded by the bounty hunter Jubal Early as he attempts to kidnap River and return her to the Alliance. This is all set against a backdrop of tension between her and the crew, and she eventually works with Mal to dispatch the bounty hunter.

October 10, 2003 : Firefly debuts S02E02, titled An Old Friend. In this episode, Captain William Sebassis (James Marsters) of the ship Spirit competes with Mal's crew for a protection contract on the edge of Alliance territory. Marsters as Sebassis will become a fixture on the show, which many believe began to hit it's stride in it's second season.

September 30, 2005 : Buffy the Vampire Slayer : The Movie debuts in theaters across the United States. It focuses on the rescue and resurrection of Buffy Summers from Glory's Hell Dimension where she has been trapped since Buffy's series finale. The film will go on to gross about twice it's modest budget.

February 10, 2006 : The New Mutants (by Joss Whedon) debuts with S01E01, titled Pilot. The show is a tentative spin-off Fox's X-Men movie series, and stars Eliza Dushku and Amy Acker as Wolfsbane and Magik, respectively.

May 19, 2006 : Firefly debuts S04E22, titled Downfall. In this episode (also the series finale), the New Browncoats unite in a final assault on the Alliance capitol - bringing democracy and freedom to the galaxy at large. Captain Reynolds retires at the end of the episode, giving control of the Serenity to River Tam.

May 23, 2008 : The New Mutants debuts S03E22, titled Epitaph. This episode serves as the series finale.
 
2004 Republican Primary (in order of poll numbers)
  • Senator/2000 nominee John McCain
  • Former HUD secretary/ 1996 VP nominee Jack Kemp
  • Senator Fred Thompson
  • Former Governor Gary Johnson
  • Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
  • Senator Wayne Allard
  • Alan Keyes

Do you already know who you want to win?
Or is it open to anybody
 
What suggestions?
June 21st 2001: Half-Life is released as an exclusive port for the Dreamcast after various delays of fixing the framerate and online functionality. Its considered a decent port of the game and helps boost sales of the Dreamcast to keep up in the console market, especially with the Sony Playstation 2 and the upcoming Microsoft Xbox (And much later the Disney Touchstone).

September 10th: 2001: Shenmue 2 is released to the Dreamcast to rave reviews. The game quickly became one of the fastest selling games in September, leading to Yu Suzuki considering making a third installment.

September 14th 2001: The Nintendo Gamecube is released to the public. Launch titles include Luigi's mansion, Tony Hawk's Pro skater 3, Wave race: Blue storm among others.

September 16th 2001: Super Monkey Ball is released for the Dreamcast. While considered difficult to complete, it was praised for its unique gameplay and controls. Just like Shenmue 2 and the exclusive Half-Life port, Monkey ball is considered a killer-app for the console.

November 15th 2001: The Microsoft Xbox is released in North America. The console was released with games such as Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Fuzion Frenzy, and the cream of the crop, Halo: Combat Evolved. The console was well received, however sales seem slow for the most part aside from Halo, due to criticisms of the Xbox Live subscription and the "rebirth" of the Dreamcast.

May 22-24, 2002: E3 2002 is held in California with massive hype. Sony begins the conference by stating that the PS2 has sold 30 million units, making it the winner of the console wars so far. During the conference, they announced the Network Adapter, an online adapter to rival the Dreamcast's modem. There were also games such as Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank, My Street, Primal, The Getaway, and the PS2 port of EverQuest. Next to follow Sony's conference was Sega, who announced that thanks to the increased support of the system, the Dreamcast as sold 20 million units, leaving Sega to state that "they will remain in the console business for a 'bit longer." They presented Crazy Taxi 3, a 3D Shinobi title, Toejam & Earl 3, three 2K3 titles, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Gungrave, Super Monkey Ball 2, and even a Sequel to NiGHTS into Dreams. They also announced to expand their relation ship with Valve with Dreamcast ports of Counter Strike and the upcoming Day of Defeat. Microsoft announced a subscription based online service called Xbox Live, along with Blinx the Timesweeper, B.C., Crimson Skies, Mech Assault and more. The Final Console contributor was Nintendo, Who announced a Game boy add-on called the E-reader, which allowed players to use cards to play classic Nintendo titles. The games they announced were major titles such as Animal Crossing, Donkey Kong Racing, Metroid Prime, a new Legend of Zelda title, Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's requiem, Star Fox Adventures, and the long awaited Super Mario Sunshine. 3rd party titles for other systems included Psychonauts, Final Fantasy XI, Myst Online, Rayman 3, The Sims online, Splinter Cell, Tekken 4, and Soul Calibur II. However, the most anticipated title of that event of ID software's long awaited Doom III. Overall, 2002's E3 was a major event that refined the advancement of online gaming, Sega's return to glory, and the ever growing gaming community. Things would get even more Intense in the following years once Disney entered the market.
 
January 19, 2004: A surprise win for Rumsfeld in Iowa. With Kemp and McCain splitting the moderate vote, Rumsfeld’s appeal to Evangelicals and the Christian Right put him over the top. Surprisingly, former presidential candidate McCain came in 3rd behind Kemp, despite leading in polls. Thompson earned a respectable 4th place, while Allard, Johnson and Keyes gained no delegates. Shortly thereafter, Allard dropped out and endorsed Rumsfeld, also a proponent of a federal ban on gay marriage. (Johnson will later leave for the Libertarians, Keyes will leave for Constitution)


January 27, 2004: A win for Kemp in New Hampshire. Though Kemp was expected to win, McCains margin of defeat was much larger than expected.


February 3, 2004: Mini Tuesday. Thompson win in South Carolina. Kemp win in North Dakota. Rumsfeld narrowly wins Oklahoma and Missouri riding the media coverage of his Iowa win. The McCain campaign begins to worry.


February 10, 2004: Kemp win in DC, Thompson win in Tennessee


February 17, 2004: McCain pours lots of money into a Wisconsin win and campaigns with close friend and former senator Bob Kasten. He is narrowly successful but has little money left for Super Tuesday.


February 28, 2004: Reports of Elizabeth Thompson’s mental health problems and her accidental overdose in 2002 that was covered up by her father are leaked to the press.


March 2, 2004: Super Tuesday. Jack Kemp places first in every state but Georgia, where Rumsfeld narrowly beats Thompson.


March 4, 2004: Thompson suspends his campaign, citing the toll of the media coverage on his daughter and his family as the reason. He states he wants to focus on his health and his family, and thanks his supporters. McCain announces the end of his campaign due to a lack of funds and endorses Kemp.


March 9, 2004: Rumsfeld’s campaigns heavily in the south and picks up many Southern donors. Dubya comes out in support for Rumsfeld, seemingly against the wishes of his father and brother. Rumsfeld wins heavily in Texas, Mississippi and Texas, and splits Florida with Kemp.


March 16, 2004: Rumsfeld wins his home state of Illinois


April 20, 2004: Reports of Nick Rumsfeld’s struggles with drug addiction and his admittance in 2001 to a rehabilitation centre are released to the press.


April 24, 2004: Thompson officially drops out and endorses fellow conservative Rumsfeld (After McCain’s campaign ended, Kemp became the new moderate candidate). He attacks the press for unfair coverage of Rumsfeld’s and his own families. Rumsfeld discusses his son's addiction and his own heartbreak over it, garnering sympathy and establishing himself as a law-and-order candidate who will stomp out drug use so that others won’t suffer like his son.


April 27, 2004: Rumsfeld pulls off a narrow win in Pennsylvania.


May 4 and 11, 2004: Rumsfeld wins in Indiana and West Virginia, Kemp and Rumsfeld neck and neck in national polls.


May 18, 2004: Rumsfeld wins Arkansas and Kentucky. Kemp wins Oregon.


Jun 1, 2004: Rumsfeld wins Alabama, New Mexico and South Dakota.


Jun 8, 2004: Kemp wins New Jersey


August 30 – September 2, 2004: During the primaries, the Republican party had been split down the middle by the increasingly moderate Kemp and the increasingly conservative Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld was a surprise to everyone. What had started off as an almost joke candidate, who was even behind the gaffe-able Gary Johnson in the polls, had become a national force. Despite being attacked for his dangerously war-hawkish positions, he had deflected them with charm and, at times, ruthless attacks against his opponents. 2004 had seen bitter primary after bitter primary, but Rumsfeld had come out on top in delegates and had managed to gain the support of McCain, Thompson and Kemp before the convention. The convention went over smoothly, though many Kemp supporters still virulently despised Rumsfeld. Thompson was the favorite for the VP slot, though passed up similarly to Howard Baker in 1976 because of his family situation. Instead, he was promised the State Department. To placate the hostile Kemp supporters, Rumsfeld's knew he needed an ally from their aisle. Though he would have preferred Kemp's close friends Gingrich or Lott, a ticket that conservative would alienate too many supporters. So moderate representative Watts was nominated, with Kemp accepting it as a victory for civil rights.

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January 15th 2003: In an attempt to expand its hold on the gaming market, Sammy agrees to acquire the stagnating company SNK and create SNK-Sammy holdings.

March 11th 2003: Nintendo has announced that they have fully acquired game developer Rareware after years of cooperation. Its believed that IPs as well as sequels to pre-existing games may be coming, perhaps even announced at this year's E3.

April 25th 2003: after about a year of waiting and so close to E3 2003, Valve's Counter-Strike is ported to the Dreamcast with exclusive content such as new modes and more weapons. It recieves average sales and reviews alike.
 
Rumsfeld winning the GOP primary? That's a little ASB, isn't it?

Though I wonder how this would affect drug policy and relations with Mexico down the line
 
Rumsfeld winning the GOP primary? That's a little ASB, isn't it?

Improbable, but not impossible. + Kemp would be boring. A surprise win in Iowa based off of Huckabee's win in 2008. Plus Rummy now seems horrible, but back then he wouldn't literally be the devil, by all accounts he could be charming. If you get Thompson to support him over Kemp (who I assumed had moderated significantly since the 90s), and he goes more heavily into gaining the support of the Christian Right, I see him coming out on top.
 
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