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AI Created
Humans create humanoid drone robots with AI to fill jobs as construction laborers and servants. -
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Nebuchadnezzar Construction Begins
The hovercraft transport ship Nebuchadnezzar, later to be captained by Morpheus, is constructed in the United States. -
AI Evolves
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B166ER Homicide
In the first case of a machine rising up against its owners, the butler robot B166ER slaughters two humans, leading to B166ER's eradication and a backlash against robots and AI. -
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Robot Riots
Rioting and violence against machines prompts robots to flee major cities and establish their own community — known as Zero One — in a remote part of the Middle East -
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Zero One Rises
Zero One thrives, creating superior vehicles, computers and weaponry. The Machine World creates new and better AI and decimates the economies of many human nations, which now lack the machine-based labor that made them strong. -
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Second Renaissance
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UN Rejects Robots
United Nations officials refuse to accept the robot civilisation of Zero One as a sovereign nation. A trade blockade of robot goods leads to war. -
Nukes & Counterstrikes
Zero One survives a nuclear attack -- its inhabitants are impervious to the heat and radiation and casualties are quickly replaced. Counter-strikes launched against humans. -
Operation Dark Storm
As cities fall beneath the might of mechanized forces, desperate military leaders attempt to block the main source of energy for the robot city: the sun. Operation Dark Storm destroys the atmosphere and fills the sky with choking black smoke -- but does not stop the machines. -
Rise of the Machines
Machine forces overtake human armies and capture survivors and civilians for experimentation, determining that human bio-electricity can be harnessed to replace the sun's energy. -
Matrix v1.0
Machines with the help of the Architect create the Matrix, a perfect, dream-like world set in 1999, to extend the lives of the comatose human batteries, which fails. -
Matrix v2.0
The Architect creates the second Matrix, a dream-like world set in the 20th century, to extend the lives of the comatose human batteries. This is also met with failure. The Oracle, a program created to study certain aspects of the human psyche finds the solution to the problem, and the final version of the Matrix is installed. -
"The One" Appears
The first human known as "The One", locked in bondage inside the Matrix, learns he can manipulate the world through thought and manages to break free. Seeks sanctuary in the underground human stronghold of Zion. -
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Resistance Movement
Zion resistance movement created, although The One later dies under unexplained circumstances. The Architect realizes the consequences of the unequal equation of the final version of the Matrix, and sets ups the prophecy with the help of the Oracle, who prophecies the return of “The One.” -
The One v2.0
The second human known as The One is freed from the Matrix. -
Osiris Sacrifice
The Osiris, another human rebellion ship, discovers machines drilling through the Earth above Zion. Crew members send a message through the Matrix to their compatriots shortly before being destroyed. -
Matrix 1st Reload
The Machines starts digging towards Zion. The One is led to the Architect and offered the choices: Return to the Source or bring about the annihilation of all mankind. The second One chooses the door to the Source. Zion is completely destroyed. The second One chooses 23 individuals from the Matrix and starts rebuilding Zion. The Matrix is reloaded. -
The One v3.0
The third human known as The One is freed from the Matrix. -
Matrix 2nd Reload
The Machines starts digging towards Zion. The One is led to the Architect and offered the choices: Return to the Source or bring about the annihilation of all mankind. The third One chooses the door to the Source. Zion is completely destroyed. The third One chooses 23 individuals from the Matrix and starts rebuilding Zion. The Matrix is reloaded. -
The One v4.0
The fourth human known as The One is freed from the Matrix -
Matrix 3rd Reload
The Machines starts digging towards Zion. The One is led to the Architect and offered the choices: Return to the Source or bring about the annihilation of all mankind. The fourth One chooses the door to the Source. Zion is completely destroyed. The fourth One chooses 23 individuals from the Matrix and starts rebuilding Zion. The Matrix is reloaded. -
The One v5.0
The fifth individual known as The One is freed from the Matrix. -
Matrix 4th Reload
The Machines starts digging towards Zion. The One is led to the Architect and offered the choices: Return to the Source or bring about the annihilation of all mankind. The fifth One chooses the door to the Source. Zion is completely destroyed. The fifth One chooses 23 individuals from the Matrix and starts rebuilding Zion. The Matrix is reloaded. -
Morpheus Born
Morpheus born in a Matrix womb; freed in childhood. -
Trinity Born
Trinity born in a Matrix womb; freed in early childhood. -
Oracle's Prophecy
The Oracle prophesies that Morpheus will discover the second coming of The One. -
Neo Saga Begins
Trinity and Morpheus discover Neo, a hacker in the Matrix. They free him and do battle with Agent Smith, a program designed to rid the Matrix of humans who detect its flaws. Neo attempts to delete Smith, but instead creates a computer-virus. -
Architect Encounter
Now living in Zion and working with the rebellion against the machines, Neo encounters The Architect, the artificial intelligence program that created the Matrix. The sixth One chooses to return to the Matrix, and in the real world discovers the full extent of the power of The One. -
Truce
The Architect reveals that the Matrix places rebellious humans in Zion, which it then targets for destruction, thus eradicating "bugs" in its system. He states that Zion has been destroyed five previous times — suggesting the Matrix may be much older than he thinks. The Smith virus threatens to take over the entire Matrix and machine-city. The Machines attack Zion. Neo travels to machine city and offers to remove the Smith virus in exchange for peace. He succeeds. -
Tensions Rise
Fearing the inevitable end of Neo's Truce, Zion begins to make preparations to abandon the city of Zion. -
You Are Here!
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