Timeline

Prelude
~8,000 BCE: An agent of the Dark Spectre named Rita Repulsa is sent to Earth in order to claim ancient treasures left behind by the Morphing Masters: The Power Eggs, hidden away in a cave on the American continent, and the Zeo Crystal, protected in a palace constructed on Earth’s moon. Zordon of Eltar, a decorated war hero and technology wizard, was dispatched by the United Planetary Alliance to defend Earth, its inhabitants, and the treasures of the Morphing Masters. Armed with a set of Power Coins minted by the Exalted Machine Ninjor, Zordon elected a team of seven First Nations warriors to take on the mantle of the First Power Rangers.

During their struggle against Rita, two Rangers gave their lives and Zordon was cursed, trapped inside a Time Warp, forever lost to his Rangers. The remaining team managed to trap Rita inside of a capsule, and banished her to the rogue planetoid Nemesis. The Green Power Coin was trapped with her, and the Grey Power Coin was gifted by the remaining Rangers to the Grey Ranger’s surviving family.

0 Hour: Mystic Knights
~1300-1350: A man who would come to be known as Raynald Evynwood traveled deep into the Carpathian Mountains seeking audience with the Devil through the Scholomance. His quest for power was motivated by the tragic deaths of his family, and he hoped to restore them to life and bring order to an orderless world through total domination. The Dark Spectre masqueraded as the Devil, speaking through a fissure in the Morphing Grid, and promised Evynwood marvelous secrets and power over death in exchange for his service. The Dark Spectre was unable to grant Evynwood power, however, until the Heir of Bast, the leader of an ancient and unknowable cult called the Order of Re was killed.

Evynwood tracked the Order down to their meeting place under the Great Sphinx of Giza, and murdered their leader. But he was deceived by the Dark Spectre, and was cursed by vampirism as a crude approximation of the promise the Dark Spectre had made. Furious, Evynwood cast a spell that sealed the fissure, silencing Dark Spectre’s voice in the Old World for good.

Unwavering in his quest, and gifted with true knowledge of the nature of the universe, the vampire Evynwood cast a spell to draw a meteor forth to Earth that carried within it the bacterial form of the intergalactic locust species called Cliathan, or Stingwingers. He imbued their queen with his dark powers, knowing that a threat of this scale would get the attentions of the United Planetary Alliance, and he hoped they would send an agent imbued with Morphing Grid technology. Feeding on such an individual would grant him enough power to take true mastery over death, and return his family to life. Using the profane knowledge bestowed upon him by the Dark Spectre, Evynwood created a Sacred Crystal Machine called the Black Knight, a magical mechanical suit that could only be operated by someone of his vampiric bloodline, to function as his bodyguard and general.

Istandar Audisyn of House Zaril-Noven of Triforia was sent to Earth to protect its people from the invasive species. However, once she uncovered the presence of True Evil on the planet in the form of the Vampire, she elected five brave warriors from across Europe to take on the mantle of the Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog. The Knights donned zordanium weapons and armour forged by the legendary blacksmith Gylys Gray, and entered into pacts with new Patrons, unfathomable beings who reside within the Elemental Spectrum of the Morphing Grid. Henceforth, they and their descendants could be gifted these amazing powers should they hold their mystic weapons and speak their sacred phrases. In return they must answer the call to action to defend Earth and its people from the threats of the Dark Spectre.

The Mystic Knights defeated Evynwood, captured the Black Knight armour, and destroyed the Cliathan Queen and her thralls. Audisyn uncovered the location of another fissure in the Morphing Grid, located in what would one day become Washington State. She assigned its protection to the Mystic Knight of Fire, leaving the Knights with their weapons against orders from the United Planetary Alliance. Unlike any world known to the United Planetary Alliance, Earth’s Morphing Grid is truly alive, which means Dark Spectre’s powers are muted on Earth, forcing him to only communicate through the few fissures that exist. Additionally, this strange Order of Re seem to be safeguarding the Living Grid, at the behest and through the power of their mysterious silver-skinned champion.

Mystic Knights: Lost Generation of Heroes
~1600s: The descendants of the five Mystic Knight Houses reconvened in the New World to fulfill their ancestors’ promise of finding and defending the fissure in the Grid. Led by an enigmatic newcomer to Earth, the group soon found themselves responding to a threat to Earth and its people.

The Knights assisted Alpha 5, an automaton created by King Lexian of Edenoi in constructing a Power Chamber in what would one day be known as the California desert. This Chamber allowed Zordon of Eltar to once again communicate with the world from his cursed place in the Time Warp, and at last re-discover five of the original Power Coins.

A fort was constructed on the site of what would later become the Honourable Wilfred Gammon Institute, enabling the Knights and their descendants to keep a watchful eye over Earth’s most vulnerable fissure. A chamber is constructed under the fort to house their secrets. This generation of Knights mysteriously vanished.

Darkest Hour: Mystic Knights
1940s: After the Mystic Knight of Forest, Alwin Baus, aligned himself with his countrymen in Nazi Germany, a new generation of Mystic Knights banded together to defeat him and the regime he stood for. Baus used his position to justify his cruelty, making use of Dark Powers and blasphemous research in an attempt to bend the Morphing Grid and its denizens to the will of him and his Führer.

Baus succeeded in breaking the Earth-Grid barrier using the power of the stolen artifact known as the Lost Tiki of Auric. Baus sent the consciousness of Doktor Hardt, a physicist and member of the White Rose Resistance, into the Morphing Grid. However, the trip proved to be one-way, as Baus never succeeded in retrieving him.

The remaining Knights sieged Baus’ castle, destroyed his research and his laboratory, and reclaimed the Lost Tiki of Auric. Defying United State’s Governmental Orders, the tiki was returned to Mysterio Island from whence it came. Baus’ laboratory assistant, Doktor Hardt’s young son named Rein, was acquired by the US through Project Paperclip and later found himself employed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).

1958: NACA is disbanded, and is succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - Power Rangers in Space
1993-98: Unwitting Japanese Astronauts accidentally released the seal on Rita Repulsa’s capsule on the rogue planetoid Nemesis. After 10,000 she was free, and immediately set her sights on completing her Decamillennial task of conquering Earth and plundering its prizes. Relocating to the moon, Rita began her assault, but Zordon was ready and waiting for her. He and Alpha 5 elected a new five-ranger team using his remaining Power Coins to defend Earth and its people from his age-old archenemy.

As the situation continued to escalate, the Dark Spectre sent Lord Zedd to replace Rita in her conquest of Earth. Armed with the colossal evil Zord Serpentara, Zedd was confident that he could bring Earth to its knees. When the task proved to be more than he could handle, Dark Spectre failed to intervene against the encroach of King Mondo and his Machine Empire, allowing them to chase Zedd and Rita into outer-space.

In light of the revelation that we are not alone in the universe, and that at least some space aliens mean Earth harm, NASA is disbanded in 1994. It is succeeded by the National Aeronautics Space Administration and Defence Agency (NASADA), with a renewed focus on defending America and her interests from intergalactic threats.

In 1995, the Rangers visited Edenoi to assist King Lexian’s people from the onslaught of his son, Count Dregon. Lexian’s grandson, Dex, took up the mantle of the Masked Rider, champion of his people, in order to help the Rangers in liberating his planet. Cast out once again, Count Dregon set his sights on Earth in petty revenge for the Ranger’s involvement. Dex pursued his uncle, and after a brief campaign ended his reign of terror for good. After fathering a child with his adopted sister, Dex abandoned his Masked Rider powers and disappeared into the cosmos.

Two explorers relocated the Lost Tiki of Auric in 1994. Armed with a key that unlocked its full potential, the tiki became the Exalted Machine Auric the Conqueror. He fought alongside the Power Rangers until one of the Machine Empire’s minions swallowed him, sending him into a Morphing Grid-adjacent pocket dimension. Destroying the monster collapsed the dimension and sent Auric, in his tiki form, careening into the Morphing Grid, forever beyond the reach of the Rangers, and separated from his key.

By 1998, the Dark Spectre had grown tired of waiting for Earth to fall. He summoned the full extent of his forces and laid siege to Earth, mounting smaller invasions against other United Planetary Alliance planets in order to prevent aid or support. Zordon, at last freed from his Time Warp, was promptly captured by the forces of Dark Spectre and held captive. However, his time spent within the Time Warp, a Morphing Grid-adjacent demiplane, had permanently altered his body and mind. Zordon now possessed power and wisdom far beyond what he could have ever acquired in his natural life time, though Dark Spectre waylaid this power by holding Zordon in a containment tube.

A seemingly loyal subject of the Dark Spectre named Darkonda manipulated his master into creating a group of Anti-Rangers called the Psychos. After fooling him into pouring almost all of his power into them, Darkonda betrayed the Dark Spectre, delivering a planet-destroying bomb into his heart, killing in him orbit over Earth.

Zordon of Eltar ordered the Red Ranger to destroy the tube that contained him, which allowed Zordon to expend all of his power at once. The act killed Zordon, but sent a wave of powerful Z-energy across the galaxy that eradicated or purified all of the Dark Spectre’s forces.

But the Dark Spectre is not so easily defeated: His corpse particulated and rained down on Earth, taking hold in the bodies of eleven unborn children. Each child was doomed to some day be awakened to the Dark Spectre’s wicked influence, and would receive a portion of the Histrionic Spectrum of the Morphing Grid as their birthright and mantle. Until their transformations, these so-called Changelings would appear perfectly human, and so they went undetected for years.

With the world seemingly safe and their mentor dead, the Power Rangers disbanded.

Power Rangers Colossi
2006-07: The Power Rangers Colossi, a new five-Ranger team arrived on scene in Truth Hill, Massachusetts. Armed with new weapons and Zords, they battled terrible monsters under the control of the Changeling of Creation, the Dark Lord Organoth. The Rangers’ presence had inadvertently awakened the Changeling, though they remained ignorant to that fact. Their leader was an 18-year-old University freshman by the name of Clayton Highland, who, through misadventure, had managed to find the abandoned remains of Zordon’s Power Chamber. A low-powered blast of Morphing Grid energy from a Forge Cannon left Clayton permanently changed: More ambitious, less feeling, boundlessly intelligent and capable of manipulating Morphing Grid technologies.

On October 16th, 2007, the Dark Lord Organoth appeared in the middle of the city, 300 feet tall and clad in gray armour. The Rangers’ total arsenal was unleashed upon him, but they rapidly lost control of the situation. Four city blocks were totally demolished in the ensuing battle, and hundreds of lives were lost. In the end, the rangers did destroy Organoth, but the cost of lives impacted even them: Dawn Highland, Pink Ranger and sister of Clayton, gave her life to seal the final blow against the Dark Lord. Clayton held Blue Ranger David McFarlane responsible for her death, and never forgave him.

Power Rangers: the Great
2010-13: Another new team, the Great Rangers, appeared near the campus of the University of Truth Hill, MA. They defended the city from an onslaught of horrifically mutated creatures manipulated by the Changeling known as the Blight Witch Unerva. Harnessing the power of Corruption, Unerva proved to be a ruthless opponent to the Rangers. Meanwhile, the ravenous spirit of the Dark Lord Organoth found a new human host and began the process of dominating her mind and body. The Rangers managed to cast the Dark Lord’s ghost out of her body, and burned down a hospital in order to trap his spirit in the wreckage.

Clayton Highland returned with new, vast powers as the White Nightmare Ranger. Terrorizing the new Ranger team, he desperately tried to locate their mentor, who he correctly surmised was David McFarlane, to complete his revenge. However, the Rangers set aside their differences in order to team up against Unerva. The final battle was a tremendous struggle, and ultimately, Clayton chose to push the boundaries of his powers in an effort to destroy her. He rendered himself nearly entirely in pure white light from the Morphing Grid, and escorted Unerva over the river before exploding, destroying them both.

Whether or not Clayton intended to sacrifice himself isn’t clear, but he did plan for this possible eventuality. A robot, created by David to replace Dawn, had been co-opted and completed by Clayton. Code-named Miranda White, Clayton taught her everything he knew about the Morphing Grid, and programmed a contingency for her to follow in the eventuality of his death: If he pushed his Morphing Grid concentration to a ratio of 3:1, then arguably 3/4 of his mind would still be stored in the Morphing Grid post death. If Miranda entered the Grid, she may be able to re-collect the fragments of his mind and, in effect, bring him back from the dead.

With the world seemingly safe once again, the Great Rangers departed to the planet Eltar. The Mechanical Turbo Rangers, a team of living machine hybrids created by Zordon to protect his home world had become the de-facto rulers of the planet after his death. They had become tyrants, infected by the inevitable Machine Empire virus, and were soon to set their sights on other worlds. In order to bring the suffering of the Eltarans to an end, and to prevent the creation of a New Machine Empire, the Great Rangers designed new powers and ventured forth into the darkness of space.

11th Hour: Power Rangers
2014: Miranda White, assuming the identity of a woman who perished in Organoth’s attack on Truth Hill, began working as a teacher at the Honourable Wilfred Gammon Institute. She was given the primary directive by her programmer, Clayton Highland, to enter the Morphing Grid and reassemble the remaining 75% of his consciousness that was now surely trapped there. To this end, she was to continue Zordon’s abandoned experiments on the fissure on this site with the goal of opening a traversable portal into the Morphing Grid. Her secondary directive, if at all possible, was to seek revenge on David McFarlane letting the original Dawn Highland die.

Ms White’s first step was to establish a base of operations on the school grounds. Following Zordon’s old research, she uncovered the underground chamber that had been constructed by the Mystic Knights prior to the construction of the school. Having since been converted into a Cold War-Era Bunker, this place served perfectly for being isolated and well-hidden. Reusing the same reclaimed Forge Cannon that had previously been employed by Clayton and later David, Ms White created a set of Ranger Powers merely for practice.

The Changeling of Sickness awakened near Gammonsburg, Washington, and was drawn to the nearby vulnerable fissure. Believing that she was the Horseman Pestilence foretold of in the Bible, she caused the Trumpets of Revelation to sound over the campus of the school to signal her arrival and initiate the End Times. Her actions awakened the Changeling of Hatred in BC, Canada, and the Changeling of Hunger in Roraima, Brazil, and drew them to the school campus as well. Together, they tore open vortexes into the Morphing Grid and began weakening its power in hopes of dampening any resistance they might receive from Power Rangers. The Changelings took on the monikers of the Horsemen, Riders in White, Red, and Black, and waited for their Rider in Pale, Death, to assist them in completing their work.

A group of inquisitive students stumbled upon Ms White’s secret bunker, and stole her Morphers. Having now bound the powers to themselves, Ms White reluctantly accepted her new role as mentor to a team she never asked for. The situation both on campus and in the Morphing Grid rapidly worsened under the stealthy assault of three Changelings, and so the new team, called the 11th Hour Rangers, had their work cut out for them.

But they were not alone. Answering the call of their ancestor’s promise, four school teachers took up their birthright mantles of the Mystic Knights: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. The Mystic Knight of Forest was missing, but after uncovering the Mystic Knights’ history, the Rangers assisted them in uncovering the truth: the 11th Hour Rangers’ very own Ranger Green, Holly Thorn, was the long-lost heir to the Mystic Knight of Forest bloodline. She took on the mantle and entered into her role, as well as entering into a romance with her teacher and fellow Mystic Knight, Darren Miller.

The stories of strange happenings on campus reached across the United States, albeit largely in smaller publications. NASADA’s attempt to suppress information in the name of diminishing public panic did not prevent the truth from reaching the ears of Breckon Talbot, an immensely troubled teenage girl from Kingdom Come Ranch, NY. Her home compound had been burned to the ground by fire from her hands when the abuse she suffered at the hands of her family and church proved too much. She came to Gammon hoping to find answers, and was planted as a student there by her adopted father, ex-FBI agent Steven Waters.

Stranger still was the case of the local priest who preached of the Horsemen, the End Times, and the coming of the Dragon. Knowing more than he should, this Father Francis Donnovan, found himself under investigation by the Rangers. When it was discovered that he was inspired by visions and dreams, the Rangers wrote him off as a mystery rather than a threat. They continued to rely on him for insights in helping combat the Horsemen.

The 11th Hour Rangers sought help from any venue that they could. US Senator Cassandra Murphy, ex-Great Ranger and sister to current off-world Great Ranger Sky Murphy, was by contrast to expectations very little help at all. When approached, she forwarded the 11th Hour Rangers to the old Great Rangers’ base of operations, the Old Auditorium, and asked never to be contacted again.

11th Hour Ranger Yellow, Alair Enright, had trouble fitting in everywhere she went. But when she found herself at odds even with her Ranger teammates, she turned to advice from her tribe elder. The Elder quickly deduced that Alair was a member of the Rangers, and so gifted her the sigil of their great ancestor’s power: the Gray Power Coin. Armed with this, Alair was able to enter into a demiplane ruled by the ancient, sentient, and immensely powerful Zord Titanus. After proving her worth, Titanus merged Alair’s body with her Yellow Morpher, giving her access to her Ranger Yellow Powers even in her mortal form. More than that, the Grey Morpher was now accessible to her, allowing her to become the Mighty Morphin Gray Ranger.

King Lexian came to Earth in search of his missing grandson, Dex. After finding the Ecto-Accelerator had been abandoned, Lexian briefly assumed the mantle of Masked Rider while searching for his missing great-granddaughter, Emi Hattori, who had been put up for adoption. After discovering her as a student at Gammon, Lexian gave his life to protect her from the Red Rider. He passed the mantle onto her in his dying breath, never even knowing that she was the 11th Hour Ranger Red. When Emi found out of her alien heritage, her status as a Queen, and of the plight of her people on their dying world, Emi elected to venture to Edenoi, allowing classmate Sarah Bella Richards to take on the role of Ranger Red.

However, Emi wasn’t the only alien on campus. The nature of the Changelings still wasn’t understood by the people of Earth, let alone by members of the intergalactic community. The United Planetary Alliance had failed to respond to the Changeling threat due to a lack of disturbances in Earth’s atmosphere: No atmospheric disturbance, no alien threat. Countess Ydena of House Zaril-Noven of Triforia was dispatched nonetheless to investigate the nature of the threat and evaluate its origin. When she could stand idly by no longer, she revealed herself to the Rangers as the Rose Ranger and fought beside them. She was shocked to discover that the Mystic Knight weapons her grandmother had helped forge were still in use on Earth.

David McFarlane, along with ex-Great Ranger Michael Kwan, had been abandoned on Earth by their former team, for lies and irresponsibility, respectively. Enraged, the two continued to work together, attempting to understand and seek answers for the changeling threat. Their misguided exploits led to a run-in with the Russian Mafia that nearly cost them their lives. Shrapnel from the ensuing fight left Michael in a wheelchair, and he discontinued working with David afterwards. Now truly alone, David spiraled, concluding that the true problem were the Power Rangers themselves. He robbed 11th Hour Ranger Blue, Trenton, of his Morpher, and used it to become the Blue Nomad, Ranger without a team, and assaulted the school campus with his new Zord, Goliath II. David trashed the Bunker, shot Breckon, murdered Steven Waters, and attempted to take the lives of the Mystic Knights and the Rangers alike.

The 11th Hour Rangers destroyed David’s Zord and brought David out of the wreckage to face justice. Ms White appeared, sending the Rangers back to the bunker if they would listen, or incapacitating them if they wouldn’t. Now face to face with David, she revealed her plan to him: By violently severing his connection with the Morphing Grid, she would be able to generate an explosion of energy powerful enough to open the fissure into a portal. With a nod of her head, David erupted into a torrent of Blue Light, and for a brief moment a maddening cascade of dancing lights tore the night sky asunder. Ms White disappeared inside. While the portal became invisible thereafter, it remained open and more vulnerable than ever.

Short a mentor, Ranger White, Daniel Park, elected to take on the responsibility himself. Having been trained by Ms White, he was the best person suited for the job, though he was still very out of his depth. Fellow student and Ranger-enthusiast Lillian Grace Chilton took over the role of Ranger White, fulfilling a life-long dream.

Breckon Talbot spent some time in the school’s infirmary recovering from her injuries. When she learned of her adopted father’s death, she snapped. For the first time, the troubled girl took on the mantle of the Changeling of Death, the Pale Rider. A panic-stricken Trenton, the only Ranger in the room, grabbed her to try to bring her to her senses. Instead, he was transported into her demiplane, the Theatre of Death. He was followed by Karren Spicer, the Mystic Knight of Water, in hopes of bringing him back. The two encountered an aspect of the Dark Spectre there in the Boneyard, in the guise of Satan. Against all odds, Trenton and Karren managed to fight him off and return to Earth. With the voice of Dark Spectre silenced inside of Breckon for now, she had access to her newfound Changeling powers without being accountable to the evil nature that normally accompanied it.

The Rangers fought long and hard to finish off the White, Red, and Black Riders. The White Rider was defeated inside her underwater boil-like base in the Pacific Ocean, the Red Rider was buried inside in cavernous home in a re-activated volcano, and the Black Rider was killed on her floating-island perch. The mountain of rubble generated from the fall of her island base, along with the on-campus wreckage of Goliath II, put the Gammon school administration in a difficult financial spot. Two NASADA representatives, Cassie Chan and Ashley Hammond, both ex-Zordon-era Rangers themselves, responded with financial aide. They hoped that their interest in the school’s well-being would be the cornerstone in cooperation to come.

While the 11th Hour Rangers were cleaning up Earth, the Great Rangers were cleaning up Eltar. The fascist Mechanical Turbo Rangers had all but been defeated, due in part to the help of the Phantom Ranger. Abandoning his post in Aquitar, he teamed up with the Great Rangers to save the Eltaran people, which proved to be a boon to team morale after two Rangers lost their lives. Before they could destroy the last Mech Ranger, Yellow, she escaped the planet by beaming her consciousness towards Earth’s moon. There, the dormant body of Serpentera rose slowly to life, now imbued with the angry tyrannical consciousness of a vengeful artificial intelligence.

Leaving the Phantom Ranger in charge of Eltar, and taking command of his interstellar Zord Artillatron, the remaining Great Rangers flew from Eltar to confront Serpentera. The 11th Hour Rangers, the Mystic Knights, Masked Rider, the Rose Ranger, and Death joined forces to defeat Serpentera and her legions of Machine Empire drones. After a dramatic, mid-air battle, the behemoth crash-landed just outside of the town of Gammonsburg, lifeless.

Whatever strange force was inhabiting and speaking through Father Francis was silenced when Serpentera was destroyed. However, not long after, Michael Kwan began speaking in tongues...

The day belonged to the power rangers, though their victory was far from permanent.