I put together a timeline like D12 did, though its much more focused on Black Technologies; So I'm not sure how useful it will be but it was a fun exercise none the less.  :D<br/>Let me know if you have any suggestions to add!<br/><hr/><br/><strong>-1100's-</strong><br/>An alien spacecraft crashes into what will become Harrow lake<br/><br/><strong>-1700's-</strong><br/>European settlers hear the native Indian tales about the spirits that inhabit the lake<br/>The tales become ghost stories as the settlers report strange lights and odd events in the vicinity of the lake<br/><br/><strong>-1800's-</strong><br/>Fort Harrow is built on the prominence that over looks the lake an the approaches into the valley Naming it Point Harrow<br/>The Ghost stories are still told and there are occasional new reports but they die out before the turn of the century.<br/>The Fort is decommissioned in the 1850's only some of the foundations and stone walls survive into the 1900's<br/>The Blake family emigrates form England to the U.S.<br/><br/><strong>-1900's-</strong><br/>The Blake's move to the newly incorporated Peninsula City and open a Car and Carriage factory and workshop (Blake Carriage Company).<br/>1911 - Edgar Blake (Cassy's great grandfather) buys a large area of land around Harrow Lake, including Harrow Point, and begins construction of the family estate on the prominence<br/>1913 -  Expand into Aircraft manufacture (Blake Car and Aero Company)<br/>1929 - After the great crash the company is reorganized and becomes Blake Engineering<br/>1939 - The company moves it focus almost fully into aircraft manufacturing and is renamed Blake Aircraft<br/><br/><strong>-1940's-</strong><br/>The company passes To Edward Blake (Cassy's grandfather)<br/><em>World War II</em><br/>The Company produces aircraft for the US Army Air Corps and then the US Air Force during and immediately after the war<br/>Edgar finds the remains of the crashed space craft and begins reverse-engineering what he can but is limited by the technology of the era.<br/><br/><strong>-1950's-</strong><br/>Edgar patents several 'breakthroughs' and propels the company to the forefront of material sciences and electronics and earns them first of several lucrative Department of Defense contracts primarily for the Air Force and NASA<br/><br/><strong>-1960's-</strong><br/>Company continues manufacturing aircraft and expands into other Aerospace fields as part of it's defense work and the space race.<br/>The company is renamed Blake Aerospace Technologies<br/><br/><strong>-1970's-</strong><br/>With the growing Meta-Human problems the government begins looking for ways to counter the threat that they pose several shadow projects are started Blake Technologies is awarded Project Golem (Goal to create power armor systems for U.S. military)<br/><br/><strong>-1980's</strong><br/>Expands into Non-Aerospace defense systems and is renamed Blake Technologies<br/>Patents the first exoskeleton used for heavy lifting by the military (Initial results for Project Golem)<br/>1988 - Patents an larger armored version of their exoskeleton AEGiS (Armored Exoskeleton Ground i System) for the Military and other Special Force units "Freedom's Ring"<br/><br/><strong>-1990's-</strong><br/>Project Golem is revised with a new specification for an unmanned response to Meta-Human threats<br/>Opens a new research division looking at AI and Man Machine Interface systems (Cybernetics)<br/>~Cassy is born to William and Amanda Blake<br/><br/><strong>-2000's-</strong><br/>Patents the Mark I ADAM System (ADvanced Autonomous Man-droid)<br/><br/><em>-Some Time Later-</em><br/>Cassy graduates collage Gains her powers over technology<br/>Patents the Mark II ADAM System (ADvanced Autonomous Man-droid)<br/><br/><br/>******************************************************************************************<br/>Minor edit.<br/>