DtB Timeline

This is a draft timeline page for the Darker than Black Wikia. It will be divided in to four sections:
 * 1) Historical - Events prior to the start of the series
 * 2) The Black Contractor - events set during the first anime series
 * 3) Manga/OVA/Gaiden - Events set between the first and second anime series, including the OVAs and manga
 * 4) Gemini of the Meteor - Events set in the second anime series

Historical
50 years ago: Unknown time ago:
 * The Syndicate is formed in response to the appearance of the Mikata Documents.
 * Heaven's Gate appeared in South America.
 * Yin's Mother is killed saving Yin from being run over by a truck.
 * Mao loses his human body in an explosion while he is possessing a black cat.

10 years ago:
 * Hell's Gate appeared in Tokyo, the moon and stars vanished and were replaced by a false, moonless sky. Contractors and Dolls appear for the first time.

5 years ago:
 * Hei, Amber, Bai and Havoc take part in Heaven's War.
 * Solar Maximum coincides with Hoshimi speaking aloud and the disappearance of Heaven's Gate.
 * Jupiter Ring is destroyed in South America.
 * Bai and the Heaven's Gate both vanish.
 * Amber betrays Hei and the Syndicate and forms Evening Primrose.

Over 3 years ago:
 * Shihoko Kishida gets close to Huang and Isozaki in order identify the person who covered up the death of a Syndicate operative. She subsequently kills Isozaki.
 * Isozaki's Wife has her memory erased.
 * Huang resigns from the police and is recruited by the Syndicate.

3 years ago:
 * Shihoko Kishida infiltrates The Fraternal Order of the Holy Gate in preparation for the assassination of Alma.

The Black Contractor

 * Hei arrives in Tokyo.




 * Havoc is found in Romania by November 11, April and July. She is transported to Japan, but enroute to PANDORA is kidnapped by Hei and subsequently killed by November 11.
 * The Meteor Fragment is stolen. Hei infiltrates PANDORA to smuggle it out.
 * Three weeks later, Amber is spotted in Tokyo by April, who is then injured in explosion.


 * Amber meets with Yin and Hei.
 * Amber meets with Mao, November 11 and Robert Schroeder.


 * The EPR is framed for an attempt to bomb the American Embassy as part of plot by the Syndicate to access the embassy.
 * EPR acquires a number of Dolls to use in a surveillance network.
 * The Saturn Ring is destroyed by Hei during the Tokyo Explosion incident.

Gaiden

 * Hei leaves Tokyo with Yin, heading to Okinawa to catch a boat off of Japan. Yin is abducted by a Syndicate cell, but is rescued by Hei.
 * Hei arrives in Hong Kong where he establishes contact with Qin and uses him to lure out operatives trying to take Yin. He is rescued by Amagiri and EPR remnants.
 * Robert Schroeder shows his anti-Contractor weapon to Sawasaki. Goro Kobyashi sends Mina Hazuki and Sawasaki to Hong Kong in search of Izanami.
 * Hei, Yin and Qin rest at EPR's hideout. Xi-Qi abducts Yin, whose awakening powers kill most of the EPR Contractors.
 * Hei and The Dog attempt to rescue Yin. Xi-Qi is killed, Yin's powers awaken. Yin asks Hei to kill her but he refuses. Yin's awakening stops.
 * Hei returns to Hong Kong and starts drinking, he is recruited to the CIA by Orielle.

Gemini of the Meteor
GotM takes place 13 years after appearance of Hell's/Heaven's Gate.


 * During the Tokyo Explosion incident, the Pavlichenko family witness a large number of stars falling, before a meteor crashes near their camp site in Siberia.


 * April infiltrates the Pavlichenko home posing as Bella, a scientist.

2 years After Tokyo Explosion

 * August 7 and July arrive to support April.
 * Tanya becomes a Contractor and leaves with the Russian military.
 * The FSB raids the Pavlichenko home. Suou and April flee
 * April kills Mao's cat body and Goran, before being killed by Hei.
 * Mina Hazuki, Genma Shizume and Yōko Sawasaki arrive in Russia to monitor the Pavlichenko household.
 * Tanya's friends have their memories modified by Russian Intelligence.
 * Hei tracks down Suou and saves her from the Russian Military and Genma.
 * Mina, Genma and Yōko use the Anti-Contractor device on Hei, causing his power to transfer to Suou.