The"McBrega/Strangers in Moscow" Timeline (Stories by Oculus. Timeline by Carpdime)

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The"McBrega/Strangers in Moscow" Timeline

A timeline of events depicted in the McBrega/Strangers in Moscow stories by @Oculusfluffy.

Timeline by Carpdime

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Introduction

  • The “McBrega” and “Strangers in Moscow” story series written by @Oculusfluffy depicts the origins of Fluffy Ponies set against a world with an alternative history (where advances in genetic engineering happened a hundred years earlier and Hasbio does not exist).
  • Please note that is an unofficial timeline that was not written by Oculus, even though they were generous enough to answer my many questions for which I am grateful. So please excuse any mistakes or inaccuracies that may have crept in!
  • There is also a Character Summary that I have put together.

Links to the Stories in Order

  • The links to the stories themselves are below:
  1. Getting my first fluffy pony
  2. McBrega
  3. The Fluffies of the Moscow Metro
  4. Playing Video Games with Martin
  5. Headlines from Another Time
  6. Strangers in Moscow - Part 1
  7. Strangers in Moscow - Part 2
  8. Strangers in Moscow - Part 3
  9. Strangers in Moscow - Part 4
  10. Strangers in Moscow - Part 5
  11. Irving vs Fievel
  12. Roy vs Wayne
  13. McBrega v Belyayev

The Timeline

  • Year 1763:

    • Bioengineering advances:
      • In London, Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel collaborate to pioneer the field of genetics.

  • Year 1800:

    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Dmitry Belyayev, sponsored by the Tsar of Russia, studies the domestication of dogs as a means to research the domestication of foxes.
      • Dmitry never finished his work but his descendants, Isaac Belyayev and his brother continues the research.

  • Year 1880:

    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Isaac Belyayev, a descendant of Dmitry, continues genetic research with his brother on the domestication of foxes.
      • Isaac and his brother successfully maps the entire fox genome and was able to domesticate the fox.
      • After their success with the fox, the Belyayev brothers commence research in the domestication of a horse. This is due to their interest in horses. They succeed in domesticating a horse that could be kept indoors. They name the domesticated horse “Dandies” or “Fancy Dandy Horses”.
      • Isaac wants to continue research to introduce speech for the “Dandies” but his brother is more interested in releasing their domesticated horse “as is” to the market.

  • Year 1890:

    • Belyayev family:
      • With the disagreement between the brothers on what to do with the “Dandies”, they part ways. Isaac converts to Judaism, immigrates to America to avoid persecution of the Jews in Russia at the time, as well as to continue his experiments to introduce speech to Dandies.
    • McBrega family:
      • The parents of the future “McBrega brothers” arrive in America from Scotland and Ireland as children.

  • Year 1905:

    • McBrega family:
      • The parents of the future “McBrega brothers” meet and marry.
      • Henry McBrega is born, eldest of the McBrega brothers.
    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Fievel Belyayev’s grandfather develops the “Porse” which is based on Isaac Belyayev’s work. Porses are docile, capybara like and don’t sell very well.

  • Year 1906:

    • McBrega family:
      • Maurice McBrega is born, middle brother of the McBrega brothers.

  • Year 1907:

    • McBrega family:
      • Irving McBrega is born, youngest brother of the McBrega brothers.

  • Year 1920:

    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Concurrent development of the fluffy pony bio-toy by Fievel Belyayev and Irving MrBrega:
        • Fievel Belyayev:
          • Experiments with “Alex” the Dandy, the fourth descendant of the original “Fancy Dandy Horses” brought by Isaac when he migrated to America.
          • Alex has a more advanced mind which allows him to speak in “fluffy talk” and has intelligence to recognize materials such as metals, plastics as well as differentiating between different colors.
          • He also recognizes himself in the mirror.
        • Irving McBrega:
          • Has a large collection of taxidermized animals that he studies as part of his development of his bio-toy.
          • Develops a bio-animatronic bird:
            • He created his own feathers for the bio-animatronic bird as well as using a bio-lathe to craft each of the bones. He then assembles the parts into a man made wing.
            • Using the organs and muscles of a road-kill bird, he attaches it to the bones he created.
            • Using a brain grown from the cells of a passenger pigeon, he completes the bio-animatronic bird, animating it with a jolt of electricity.

  • Year 1925:

    • McBrega family:
      • Maurice McBrega:
        • Studies bioengineering at UCLA
    • Bioengineering advances:
      • The “living teddy bear of Princeton” created. A bio-toy bear that shows human like intelligence:
        • It was later discovered that the brain of the “living teddy bear” was grown out of a human brain from a victim from The Free Congo State.
      • Other universities are known to be researching a bio-toy rodent.

  • Year 1928:

    • Entertainment events:
      • Release of the “Steamboat Fluffy” cartoon, featuring a Teddy Bear and a Fancy Dandy Pony sailing down the Mississippi.
    • Bio-engineering advances:
      • The World Fair hosted many demonstration of living bio-toys:
        • Bio-toys are effectively “organic robots” that can use food as fuel as they have digestive systems.
        • The World Fair showcases extinct species brought back to life using bio-animatronics created with the bones and DNA of the extinct animals as the basis of the creation. Examples include:
          • Tasmanian Tiger
          • Dodo bird
        • Demonstration of a “Living teddy bear” bio-animatronic, a completely new species that could be made to sing and dance.

  • Year 1929:

  • The McBrega brothers go their separate ways:

    • Henry McBrega:
      • Joins the Navy to see the world.
    • Maurice McBrega:
      • Goes to New York, working at Afton’s Automat as an animatronic technician.
    • Irving McBrega:
      • Continues his research on bio-toys.

  • Year 1938:

  • World Events:

    • The “Big War”, aka WW2 begins. Also known as the “Good War” by the Americans and “Great Patriotic War” by the Soviets.
    • Henry sees action in the navy during the Big War.
    • Fievel Belyayev and Irving McBrega meet for the first time in America as they are both working with the American armed forces, doing research for the Navy and the Marines respectively.

  • McBrega brothers:

    • Henry McBrega:
      • Fighting in the Big War in the Navy.
    • Maurice McBrega:
      • Continues working in New York.
    • Irving McBrega:
      • Helps the allies in researching bio-bots. Working in the same biotech division as Fievel Belyayev.

  • Fievel Belyayev:

    • Helps the allies in researching bio-bots. Working in the same biotech division as Irving McBrega.

  • Bio-engineering advances:

    • The Allies conduct in biobot research as a means to help win the war, but the war is over before the majority of the research is finished.
    • Some of the concepts developed by Irving and Fievel were implemented during the war.
    • Irving McBrega, working in the biotech division of the US Navy:
      • Develops and presents the “Intelligent Missile” which makes use of an artificially grown pigeon brain. The brain is kept alive by a simple life support system and could be controlled like an animatronic.
      • The animatronic brain is superior to an animal brain because it was controllable and designed as a bespoke unit that is optimized for its task (the brain was used to control guided missiles).
    • Fievel Belyayev, working as a researcher for the US Marine Corps:
      • Develops a fluffy pony that could speak English.
      • The fluffy pony speaks with an imperfect, lisp laden English which is unfamiliar to the Axis enemy.
      • It was imagined that the fluffy pony could be used to relay messages to resistance groups and for espionage.
    • The German Nazis:
      • The Nazis experimented with creating an improved dog.
      • They took the cells of the brains of the concentration camp inmates and used it to grow brains that they inserted into bio-animatronic dogs. The dogs were smart and loyal at first but then they started rebelling. Some of them defected, and reported to the Allies on the human experiments the Nazis did during the war.

  • Year 1945:

    • World Events:
      • The “Big War”/WW2 is over. The Allies are victorious.
    • McBrega brothers:
      • Henry McBrega:
        • Stayed in the navy and was involved in the “Formosan War” in Taiwan which happened about 5 years after WW2.
      • Maurice McBrega:
        • After the war, he wanted to open a restaurant in Hollywood but encountered difficulty in finding a location. He settled for opening a restaurant in San Bernadino, Califonia which was easier to find a location.
      • Irving McBrega:
        • Develops a bio-animatronic toy based on horses (instead of bear or rodent). The design of which was inspired by Fievel’s work on a naturally bred fluffy ponies.
    • Bioengineering advances:
      • During the war, the Axis forces used cadavers and robbed graves to create “zombie” soldiers to augment their regular forces.
      • In addition, human experimentation was conducted by the Axis forces.
      • The “5th Geneva Convention” was agreed to prevent the atrocities related to human experimentation from happening again:
        • The “Sanctity of Life” convention restricted experiments, abuse and trade of the human form, including living humans and the human genome. This was an important agreement that prohibited human bio-animatronics but did not cover non-human animals.
        • The use of human material is now prohibited, forcing Irving McBrega to find alternate ways to develop a suitable brain for his biotoy without resorting to human brains.
      • Suzy the early fluffy:
        • Irving McBrega approaches Fievel Belyayev and buys a fluffy named Suzy so that he could study its brain. Suzy part of the herd that Fievel kept on his research farm in developing the fluffy pony. She was a descendant of Alex, who in turn was a descendant (4th) of the “Fancy Dandy Horses” that Isaac Belyayev had brought over from Russia when he moved to America. Suzy was a blue female fluffy, suffering from osteoarthritis but has an intelligence and charisma that Irving desired to study.
      • Bio-bots research done during the war is commercialized.

  • Year 1946:

    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Irving McBrega:
        • Using the brain matter from Suzy who died when she was ran over by a car, Irving finally has the final piece of his bio-animatronic puzzle, a brain of an intelligent fluffy pony from the results of Fievel Belyayev’s breeding.

  • Year 1950:

    • World Events
      • The Formosan War (Korean War)
    • McBrega brothers:
      • Henry McBrega:
        • After the Formosan war (which he only participated in the tail end of), he was stationed in Taipei where he visited a Cat Cafe owned by chef Wing Han Tsing. From there he got the idea for the future “McBrega diner”.
      • Maurice McBrega:
        • Hears of the Cat Cafe concept from Henry after he returns from the Formosan War.
      • Irving McBrega:
        • Finishes development of a bio-animatronic fluffy pony toy.
    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Irving McBrega debuts a bio-animatronic fluffy pony toy.

  • Year 1952:

    • McBrega brothers:
      • The brothers band together and open their first “McBrega diner” in San Bernardino. The concept combines a restaurant with entertainment provided by the fluffy pony bio-toy developed by Irving McBrega.
      • Instead of just selling the bio-toy, they market it as entertainment within their diner.
    • Belyayev family:
      • Fievel Belyayev:
        • Learn of McBrega’s opening in San Bernardino.
        • Fievel’s farm is raided by Agent Hiedler of the FBI for unknowingly harboring workers who were spies for the Eastern Bloc.
      • Wayne Belyayev:
        • Wayne Belyayev is born, son of Fievel and Miriam.
    • Turner Family:
      • Nolan Turner’s father commits suicide due to debts incurred from trying to break into the bio-toy business.

  • Year 1953:

    • America:
      • Will Kroc
        • Will Kroc is an unsuccessful wood lathe salesman.
        • Will Kroc visits his first McBrega restaurant run by the McBrega brothers. He meets Tina the McBrega fluffy and is served and entertained by Tina.
        • He meets the 3 McBrega brothers and sells them lathes which they use as bio-lathese for creating fluffies.
        • Will Kroc proposes to the brothers his idea to franchise the McBrega diner.
    • McBrega restaurant:
      • Currently there are 6 McBrega restaurants:
        • 5 smaller McBrega outlets that do not produce the bio-toy fluffy on premise.
          • 1 outlet in Phoenix Arizona. Has the trademark “Golden Arches” that Maurice McBrega thought up.
        • The single main restaurant in San Bernardino continues to produces all the fluffies.
      • Franchising was tried by the brothers before Will Kroc’s proposal but they had failed.
      • Wait staff and entertainment:
        • At the restaurants, the fluffies are dressed in uniforms and are “programmed” take the orders from customers.
        • Fluffies also provide entertainment by singing.
        • Human servers are dressed in a similar uniform as the fluffies to serve the food.
      • Food served at the McBrega diner:
        • Spaghetti
        • Burger
        • Fries
        • Ice cream
        • Milk
        • Cola
        • Root beer
      • Fluffies are for sale from the restaurant for $50.
    • Other fast food restaurants at the time:
      • B & W
      • Marble Castle
    • Fluffies for sale at the time:
      • McBrega fluffy:
        • Sold and created from the restaurants.
        • Bio-toy fluffies do not eat much and is docile for most of the day.
        • The fluffies are robot-like, can only do a few specific things and can’t really learn.
        • Price is $50 (premium price).
        • Creation process:
          • A fluffy can be created within 1 day all in-house. Previously it took 1 week.
          • Production is split between roughly 5 stations each working on a different part by a different technician.
          • One of the stations uses a bio-lathe that Will Kroc now supplies.

  • Year 1954:

    • McBrega restaurant:
      • McBrega franchising begins:
        • Will Kroc signs a franchising contract with the McBrega brothers:
          • “Kroc shall receive one and nine-tenths percent (1.9%) of net profits generated by franchisee(s), with one-half of one percent (0.5%) of said net profits paid to the McBrega brothers: Henry, Irving & Maurice.”
      • Will Kroc’s first McBrega franchise opens in Des Plaines, Illinois:
        • Nolan Turner meets Will Kroc and is hired as a fry cook in the first franchise.
        • Bio-toy manufacturing was not setup on day one and no fluffies were for sale on the day.
      • Will Kroc recruits his friend Jeb Berenstain to start marketing and selling the McBrega franchising business to potential franchisees.

  • Year 1955:

    • McBrega restaurant:
      • McBrega expansion continues around Chicago and the upper MidWest.
      • Will Kroc’s franchising recruitment is set back by a lack of capital.
      • Will Kroc attempts to renegotiate higher cuts for himself and the McBregas in the franchising contract but is rejected by Henry McBrega.
      • Nolan Turner (former fry cook) has been promoted to the head of the Des Plaines franchise.
      • Jeb Berenstain informs Will Kroc that Irving McBrega sourced material from Fievel Belyayev to create his fluffy pony bio-toy.
    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Scientific America publishes story about “Further Development in Bio-engineered Equines” which showcases fluffy babies, a concept that the McBrega’s rejected.
    • Will Kroc and Fievel Belyayev meet for the first time:
      • Will Kroc and Jeb Berenstain visit Fievel’s farm and witness the fluffy pony breeding naturally in a farm environment.
      • Will ends up buying Marty from Fievel.
    • Fluffies technology advances:
      • Fievel’s Belyayev’s fluffies:
        • Pros:
          • Able to breed naturally.
          • Can speak in fluff speak.
          • Can learn and is much more versatile and pet-like compared to the bio-animatronic McBrega fluffy
        • Cons:
          • Fievel does not believe it is ready for market due to the following shortcomings:
          • Stuck with the mental capacity of a 5 year old.
          • Talks with a lisp.
          • Minds are not as advanced as humans.
          • Too short a lifespan at 5 years.
    • Will Kroc proposes to the McBrega brothers to repalce their current McBrega bio-animatronic fluffy with Fievel’s biological fluffy. This is in order to boost production numbers to keep up with market demand. The McBrega brothers refuse, disagreeing with Will Kroc on philosophical grounds.

  • Year 1957:

    • Fievel Belayayev:
      • Spent the last 5 years defending himself against accusations that he was a Russian spy. He was forced to spend a lot of his funds from the grants he received from a local university to pay off his legal bills.
      • Fievel resents and is jealous of Irving McBrega’s success which was built on the knowledge gained by Irving when he studied Fievel’s fluffies.
    • Jeb Berenstain:
      • Leaves McBrega corp and founded his own bio-toy company: “Jeb Bear’s Pizzeria” which features the “Jeb Bear”.

  • Year 1959:

    • Russia:
      • Senator Nelson, then a diplomat on a mission to the USSR was gifted a Dendy. A Dendy is the Russian line of fluffies which are distinct from the American fluffy.

  • Year 1961:

    • McBrega restaurant:
      • Will Kroc approached by Gerry Vannevar, an expert corporate financier, who advises Will Kroc to take control of the franchises and undermine the McBrega brother’s control by owning the land on which the franchises stood.
      • Months later, Will Kroc is the CEO of “Franchise Realty Corporation” a company he sets upin order to wrest control of the McBrega organisation away from the McBrega brothers.
      • Will Kroc, Gerry Vannevar and Nolan Turner approach Fievel Belyayev to provide his “Marty” fluffies as a new product line to sell at McBrega restaurants:
        • Fievel hesitantly agrees. He is desperate to get funding to continue his research despite his reservations about the readiness of his own fluffy product.
        • Fievel also sees the co-operation with Will Kroc as a way to get back at the McBrega brothers for “stealing” his work.
      • Shortly after, Fievel Belyayev’s fluffies were distributed to all McBregas except the original restaurant still operated by the McBrega brothers.
      • Will Kroc’s “Franchise Realty Corporation” is renamed the “McBrega Corporation” with branding that steals Maurice’s Golden Arches design.
      • Will Kroc and the McBrega brothers agree on a deal to officially sell the McBrega name and business to Will Kroc:
        • $3.7 million. A million for each of us after taxes. And one percent of the company’s profits in perpetuity.
        • The 1% of profits was agreed to only verbally and was never honored.
      • Will Kroc becomes Founder and Senior Chairman of the McBrega corp.
      • Gerry becomes the CEO and president of McBrega corp.
      • Fievel Belyayev becomes Chief Research Officer of McBrega corp.
    • Will Kroc:
      • Will Kroc’s personal finance improves greatly. He lives in a new home with his personal fluffies Tina and Marty.
    • McBrega competitors:
      • Fluff’s R Us
      • Fluffy King
    • Bio-engineering technology:
      • Gene therapy breakthrough pioneered at Princeton.
      • Many forms of human cancer are eradicated due to gene therapy.
      • Herme’s, a fluffy experiment in the new McBrega R&D department now headed by Fievel Belyayev, becomes the first fluffy to receive gene therapy that removes its genetic deficiencies.

  • Year 1962:

    • McBrega family:
      • Roy McBrega is born, son of Irving McBrega.

  • Year 1963:

    • McBrega corp:
      • Possible international expansion into British Columbia (Canada).
      • Surrounded by his support team of Nolan Turner, Jeb Berentstain, Gerry Vannevar, May (his personal assitant) , Will Kroc reveals the company mascot “Marty McBrega” designed by Walt Iwerks, an artist and cartoonist. Marty McBrega is an orange fluffy who wears red shoes.
      • McBrega expands into the entertainment industry by acquiring companies in the entertainment and media industry.
      • The first McBregaLand opens in Cleveland Ohio.
      • McBrega corp goes public and lists on the stock exchange.
    • McBrega brothers and original diner:
      • The McBrega brothers continue to run their original San Bernardino lab/cafe, expanding their capability to sell custom made designer fluffies.
    • Fluffies for sale:
      • The Marty McBrega fluffy.

  • Year 1969:

    • World Events:
      • Russian Cosmonaut, Sergei Leonov lands on the moon:
        • Using the kerosine fuelled N1 launcher.
        • The LK lander only allowed one person on the moon.

  • Year 1970:

    • McBrega corp:
      • Fievel Belyayev falls out with Will Kroc over the treatment of fluffies at the controversial McBrega fluffy mills. Fievel sells all his McBrega shares, leaves McBrega and campaigns against McBrega’s business practices and ill treatment of fluffies.
    • Fievel Belyayev:
      • Begins his campaign for fluffy education and welfare shelters.

  • Year 1971:

    • McBrega family:
      • Maurice McBrega dies of a stroke.

  • Year 1975:

    • Fluffy technology:
      • Russia:
        • The Russian Politburo takes an interest in the success that America has had with McBrega fluffies:
          • They take over the breeding programme of the “Fancy Dandy Horses” or Dandies from the Russian branch of the Belyayev family.
          • They manage to produce a Russian made “Dendy” fluffy who is able to speak.
          • However, because Dendies were left to breed with the more primitive “Fancy Dandy Horses”, they retained some of the more “primitive” characteristics compared to American fluffies.
        • “Shaffer” and “Boop” type Dendies cross breed, producing a unique Dendy. Laika was an example of this cross breed Dendy who was adopted from the pound by Fyodor Devushkin when he was around 38 years of age.

  • Year 1977:

    • Marty the fluffy:
      • Will Kroc’s fluffy Marty dies after living 20 years.
    • Bio-toys for sale:
      • The McBrega corp fluffy:
        • Includes the Marty McBrega fluffy that features in cartoons, games and merchandise.
      • Jeb Bear:
        • A bio-toy bear produced by Jeb Berenstain’s bio-toy company after he left McBrega to start his own bio-toy company.
    • Belyayev family:
      • Wayne Belyayev:
        • Wayne Belayayev works privately on creating replacement body parts for fluffies using a bio-lathe installed in his secret lab below a barn in the Belyayev farm.
        • After an argument with his father Fievel, he leaves the family farm.
        • Wayne Belyayev joins Jeb’s biotoy company, hired personally by Jeb himself as a favor for his friend Fievel (Wayne’s father).

  • Year 1980:

    • Wayne Belyayev:
      • After an unsuccessful stint at Jeb’s biotoy company (fighting with his colleagues, smoking pot, talking endlessly about unrelated topics and causing a nuisance with his music), Jeb fires Wayne.
      • After leaving Jeb’s biotoy company, Wayne goes solo, starting his own business creating custom biotoys himself.

  • Year 1983:

    • Russia:
      • Mikhail Ivanovic was born.
    • Roy McBrega:
      • Is interviewed by Gerry Vannevar and joins McBrega corp.
      • Roy McBrega proposes solutions to the company’s problem which is related to bad quality control and poor management of their fluffy suppliers.

  • Year 1984:

    • Russia:
      • Barbara Devushkina was born.

  • Year 1985:

    • Russia:
      • Lyudmila Poyarkova’s research in making fluffies suitable, domesticated pets is cancelled. She begins research on the feral fluffies living amongst the Moscow Metro.
    • Fluffy bio-toy market:
      • Interest in bio-toys has crashed recently, mainly due to market saturation with too many competitors.
    • Wayne Belyayev:
      • Wayne becomes broke as a result of the bio-toy crash, his private custom bio-toy business suffers. He becomes divorced.
    • Fluffy technology:
      • Many of the farms that used to supply fluffies to McBrega corp have gone rogue.
      • Control of the product has been lost by McBrega corp, with factory farming techniques adopted outside the control of McBrega corp. Will Kroc and the McBrega corp perhaps had no knowledge or ability to control this.
      • Independent breeders have adopted their own breeding practices aimed at increasing profits and output. Some have spliced hamster DNA, causing population issues and fluffies being regarded as an invasive species in some areas.
      • Dragonixia and Federalchemical breeds with longer legs have been difficult to control as they are faster moving and have retreated to wooded areas like the Yosemite.
      • Roy McBrega proposes a new McBrega fluffy product, returning to the old, manufactured, bio-toy ways of producing fluffies to counter the problems posed above:
        • Starts with stem cells in a petri dish.
        • The dish is bathed with a ray of light, jumpstarting the process of life.
        • The dish is immersed in a vat of liquid for a few hours, during which a blastocyst is formed.
        • Flesh and tissue starts forming in a structured manner, the husk of a fluffy is the end result.
        • The husks are all clones of the original Marty McBrega.
        • The organs are first hand checked and are then attached to the husk.
        • Any organ or husks that fail inspection are rendered back to biological matter and recycled.
        • The brain of the fluffy is grown separately, being based on Martin (Will Kroc’s personal pet fluffy) and Gadget (a fluffy that Nolan and Fievel raised on the farm). The brains are then processed by a Dream Maker specialist to ensure that the brain remains docile and loyal.
        • The next step is the major differentiator of the McBrega fluffy product that Roy is proposing:
          • A chip is inserted into the fluffy brain which interfaces between the brain and the bioport.
          • The chip allowed the fluffy to play games directly using the McBrega Entertainment System (MES) and other McBrega approved accessories.
          • The MES is McBrega’s first generation gaming console analogous to the NES in the real world.
          • The chip assured the loyalty of the fluffy to its owner. The fluffy is also coded with a passphrase that allowed the owner to keep the fluffy loyal.
          • The manufacturing process could make use of the bio-matter of feral fluffies and other invasive species (including fish and plants) as raw materials.
      • The new McBrega bio-toy proved to be popular and more desirable compared to old fluffy products in market surveys and research with children.
    • Roy McBrega:
      • Roy creates his own fluffy named “Suzy 2” using a blemished husk that was to be discarded from the McBrega factory. The husk was a clone of the original Gadget but her vocal chords and brain were from another fluffy.
      • Roy handcrafted Suzy 2 personally himself, he decided to also name it Suzy 2 as it was his version of the successor to his father’s (Irving McBrega) “Suzy”.

  • Year 1989:

    • November:
      • Berlin wall comes down in Germany

  • Year 1990:

    • Fievel Belyayev:
      • Wanting all his life to find out what happened to the Belyayevs family that stayed in Russia, he decides to go to Russia.
      • Before leaving, he meets with Samuel Adams. He had co-founded the Association of Welfare for Fluffy Ponies (AWFP) with Samuel Adams after leaving McBrega.
    • McBrega corp:
      • January 31: McBrega opens their first outlet in Russia at Pushkin Square, Moscow.
        • The opening was attended by:
          • McBrega chairman Nolan Turner.
          • The Russian manager of the first outlet (and future head of McBrega Russia), Khamzat Degtyarev.
          • Senator Nelson who was a former diplomat to the USSR in the late 50s where he was gifted a fluffy pony (Dendy).
          • 6 year old Barbara Devushkina is in attendance as a customer and receives a McBrega fluffy she eventually names Old Major as well as a MES console.
        • The McBrega fluffies are currently imported from America but the Russian operation is looking to open local manufacturing shortly.

  • Year 1991:

    • Russia:
      • December: Dissolution of the USSR
      • Dendy feral population grows out of control as measures originally introduced to control their population have become defunct.

  • Year 1992:

    • Russia:
      • Dendy pet shop in a local shopping center:
        • Run by Nikita (the grumpy man).
        • Shop was previously a store owned by the Children Department of USSR.
      • Mikhail is 8 years old:
        • For his birthday, he gets his first Dendy, Martin, bought by his father (Onegin Ivanovic) and presented to him by Sergei Leonov (legendary Cosmonaut and presenter of the show that ran after “Fluff Tales” called “Новая реальность”, or the New Reality TV show.
    • McBrega corp:
      • Nolan Turner is the Senior Chairman of McBrega, taking over from Will Kroc. He oversees international expansion to over 100 countries.
      • Roy McBrega is the head of R&D at McBrega corp.
    • TV Shows playing at the time:
      • American
        • Fluff Tales:
          • Characters:
            • Marty the Fluffy
            • Widget
            • Dr Bounderby
            • Robofwuff
        • Star Crusaders
        • Street Turtles from Venus
        • Modifyers
      • Russian:
        • Ну, погоди! > Well, Just You Wait!
        • McBrega show hosted by Sergei Ivanovich Leonov shown after Fluff Tales, show is called Новая реальность, or the New Reality TV show:
          • Showcasing different McBrega fluffies and Dendies.
    • Fluffies and consoles for sale during the “electronic pet console war”:
      • TekBoi Mega Genesis:
        • An next gen 16 bit system to rival the 8 bit MES.
      • McBrega Super McBrega Entertainment System (SMES):
        • The next gen system to replace the aging MES.
      • MrBrega Marty:
        • One of the first “console fluffies”
        • Could fly an inch off the ground.
        • Has a bioport that can be connected to a TV. The fluffy can make Fluff Tale stories on TV.
        • Marketed by Sergei Leonov.
        • Sold together with the McBrega Entertainment System (MES).
          • MES was similar to the NES, connected to a regular TV like VHS.
      • Nintendo:
        • Nintendog.
      • Sony:
        • Orangutan.
      • Dendy:
        • Original Dendies from Nikita’s shop
      • Dendy v2:
        • The new bioported Dendies are created in partnership with McBrega who are looking to supplement the limited supply of McBrega fluffies with local Dendies.
        • The Dendies are sourced from feral populations and manually fitted with an artificial bioport.
        • As a result of their feral nature, they do not have the same attachment and loyalty as the manufactured McBrega fluffies from America.
        • New Dendies are sold from Nikita’s shop.
        • They are not interested in playing games, prefer playing blocks.
        • Has a bioport like the McBrega Marty:
          • Dendies are compatible with McBrega games, accessories and TV. Games available are similar to those on the genuine American MES console.
          • The second player cable is plugged into the bioport of the fluffy .
          • A controller is available for fluffies to use, designed for fluffies without bioports so they can also play games with their owners.
          • The bioport is fitted manually to the Dendy.
          • Using the bioport, the Dendy can control the video game character deftly on the connected TV screen.
        • Games:
          • Fluff Tales
          • Simone Sisters
          • Herd Masters
          • Marty travels around the World
          • Polybius
          • Shazam
          • Rocky IV
          • Dancie Game (DMighty Action XDR)
          • Proclaim and Prosper
          • Diablocraft
          • The Wegend of Fwuffy (on the SMES)

  • Year 1994:

    • Russia:
      • Food cost rises due to inflation has Russians buying fluffy kibble as human food.

  • Year 1995:

    • Mikhail Ivanovic:
      • Mikhail kills his first Marty (Marty 1) when he was 12 years old.
      • Mikhail’s father dies after he sees Marty 1 dead and attempts to physically punish Mikhail. His father dies from the damage to his brain caused by his alcoholism.
      • Mikhail and his mother live in Ukraine for a year with Mikhail’s grandfather (mother’s father).
      • Mikhail meets Yakiv when he lives in Ukraine.
    • Fluffy technology:
      • McBrega:
        • The McBrega64 is revealed at the E3 electronics show, 1995.
      • Emotional support fluffies are trained to provide support for patients.
      • TecBoi:
        • TecBoi has the “Exodus” console with a game called “SimSim”. The Exodus is 2nd in popularity behind the McBrega64.
        • The game “SimSim” was the sequel to the older sim games created by Simax. The older sim games include:
          • CitySim
          • TowerSim
          • FarmSim
          • Earth Sim
    • Belyayev family:
      • Fievel Belyayev:
        • In Russia, he finds out about his side of the family as well as about the origins of the Russian Dendies. He intends to publish a book about his findings when he returns to America.
        • Fievel dies whilst taking a flight in Russia. The pilot of the plane he was flying on put the plane on autopilot and let his fluffy play with the controls, causing an accident.
        • With his death and the loss of his research in the flight, his findings are lost.
      • Wayne Belyayev is in a hospital receiving breakthrough treatment for HIV. He is supported by his mother Miriam and an emotional support fluffy.

  • Year 1996:

    • Wayne Belyayev:
      • After recovering from HIV after his successful treatment, Wayne becomes a new man:
        • He receives financial aid from his mother. He also receives financial advice from Samuel Adams.
        • He takes over from his father Fievel (who died in a plane accident in Russia) in managing the Belyayev farm.
        • He expands the farm to include a trauma center funded by AWFP:
          • The trauma center helps to repair the bodies of heavily injured fluffies and animals.
    • Fluffy technology:
      • Replacement parts for fluffies and other animals could now be manufactured.
      • McBrega fluffies:
        • Under Roy McBrega’s direction, McBrega fluffies were designed and manufactured with planned obsolescence built in, limiting their lifespans to around 5 years.
    • Old Major:
      • Fyodor Devushkin and his daughter Barbara Devushkina, take Old Major (Barbara’s McBrega fluffy to Wayne Belyayev for medical assistance. Wayne is introduced to the Devushkin family via Samuel Adams, a friend of Fievel Belyayev.
        • Old Major was a clone of Will Kroc’s Marty but he had planned obsolescence built in.
        • Old Major’s bones and flesh were deteriorating and he suffered diseases more associated with old age even though he was only around 6 years old (Dendies at the time lived for around 15 years).
        • In addition, his brain chip had caused brain swelling.
        • Wayne proceeds to revitalize Old Major, essentially modifying and circumventing McBrega corp’s built in controls and obsolescence.

  • Year 2000:

    • Fluffies for sale:
      • Russia:
        • The Carpdime breed is introduced into Russia. Previously only available from McBrega as an import from America.

  • Year 2001:

    • McBrega family:
      • Roy McBrega:
        • Has undertaken designer surgery to improve his body.
        • Has a cocaine habit to control the stress he experiences.
      • Irving McBrega:
        • Is sick with a degenerative disease. Despite replacement organs and the latest in medical advances, his health is still deteriorating.
      • Henry McBrega and Irving McBrega eventually pass away in the same year.
    • Russia:
      • A metro Dendy called Malchik was stabbed to death by 22-year old model Alexandra Romanova.
    • McBrega corp:
      • Russia:
        • McBrega restaurant at Pushkin Square expands to adjacent shop spaces to provide McBrega themed entertainment and services.
      • McBrega America:
        • McBrega has become aware of modders (such as Wayne Belyayev) circumventing their planned obsolescence. They intend to commence legal action against Wayne Belyayev and AWFP who have been sponsoring such efforts (particularly against Wayne and the Belyayev farm).
    • Mikhail Ivanovic:
      • Was in Ukraine during 2001 when Malchik was stabbed.
    • Barbara Devushkina:
      • Living in America at the time.
    • Medical Technology:
      • Human organs can now be manufactured on demand to replace diseased organs.
    • Fluffies and consoles:
      • McBrega:
        • McBrega64 is still dominant.
        • Upcoming “CubicFluffy” console to replace the previous conole. Cntains a newly designed biological bioport on the McBrega fluffy.
          • Games include:
            • Fluff Tales series
      • TecBoi:
        • Exodus (current system) and previous Genesis system is still in second place and popular due to the SimSim games.
        • TecBoi is due to release the Dreamcat which is their first biotoy.
    • The law case McBrega vs Belyayev:
      • McBrega corp wants the Belyayev farm and AWFP to stop their word fixing and modding biotoys.
      • McBrega wants to copyright the name “Fluffy Pony”, claiming the creations of the Belyayev family were not fluff ponies but rather “Advanced Fancy Dandies”.

  • Year 2002:

    • Mikhail Ivanovic:

      • Goes to University and starts dating Yakiv.
      • Mikhail fails and drops out of college. He is introduced to Mir Daycare by Yakiv. He starts working there as a daycare staff.

    • Ruling in the legal case “McBrega vs Belyayev”:

      • Samuel Adams facilitates a meeting between Nolan Turner (Senior Chairman of McBrega corp) and Wayne Belyayev:
        • During the meeting, Nolan Turn provides Wayne with the findings of an independent research group that were able to demonstrate that once sexual organs were introduced to manufactured McBrega fluffies, they were able to breed and were very much like their naturally bred cousins.
        • In addition, the offsprings of these manufactured fluffies who were modified to be able to breed were no longer under the control of the McBrega corp.
      • As a result of the evidence of the research presented by Wayne (that he obtained via Nolan Turner), a ruling was made in favor of the Belyayevs:
        • “This revelation that biotoys have the ability to innately use reproductive organs if given the chance casts a different light on their existence. I understand that they are manufactured as artificial creatures. But they still have a basis in living material, and living tissue. Seven decades ago, a war was fought to preserve the Sanctity of Life. Not just Human Life, but also Life in general. Life should not be commodified and made cheap. I recognize McBrega’s interest in maintaining their integrity as a company, but if their product has the capacity and capability of becoming an animal, then it should be recognized as such. In addition, if the owner of such animals as pets wishes to convert their store bought McBrega biotoy into a full-fledged animal, then they should have the right to do so. McBrega may own the likeness of Marty McBrega, but they do not own his genes.”

    • Fluffies for sale:

      • McBrega:
        • The “McBrega CubicFluffy” console floundered in sales against their competitor “TecBoi DreamCat” due to the games “SimSim 2” and “Days into Dreams” that were huge hits for TecBoi.
      • TecBoi:
        • The Dreamcat, which was TecBoi’s first cat bio-toy product was a big success. With games such as “SimSim 2” and “Days into Dreams” accounting for its success.
      • Jeb Bear Pizzeria:
        • A Jeb Bear biotoy.

    • McBrega corp:

      • Nolan Turner stepping down as CEO/Chairman and Roy to take over.
      • Losing the case has also cost the McBrega corp a lot of lost reputation as other biotoy companies are also suffering from potential increased costs of having their products classified as animals.

  • Year 2005:

    • Russia:
      • Memorial statue of metro fluffy Malchik unveiled at the State Darwin Museum 4 years after the killing. Attended by Ivy Novozhilova who is a fluffy rights activist.

  • Year 2010:

    • McBrega Russia:
      • Khamzat Degtyarev is the president of McBrega Russia.
      • The Russian operation now sources materials locally and produces custom made fluffies from the “McComplex” in Russia that opened in the 1990’s.
      • There are McBrega restaurants in 60 Russian cities. McBrega Russia is spending $135 million for further expansion.
      • Russia is leading the world with the number of new McBrega restaurant openings.
      • Denise Heineken is the president of McBrega Europe.
    • Fluffies for sale:
      • McBrega Russia custom fluffies:
        • Made to order, customers can choose any breed they want.
      • McBrega Dendies:
        • Continues to be sold by McBrega and is a popular choice for Russians.

  • Year 2012:

    • Fluffies and consoles:
      • McBrega PiiU
        • Games include:
          • Fluff Tales series

  • Year 2013:

    • London:
      • March 1: British Museum exhibit opens celebrating the 250th anniversary of Darwin/Mendel’s achievements. Also on display are the subsequent discoveries that lead to the domestication of the silver fox and bio-engineered animals such as the glowing fish and fluffy pony.

  • Year 2014:

    • World Events:
      • March 21: Russia annexes Crimea.

  • Year 2015:

    • Russia:
      • Amongst growing number of feral fluffies due to discarded pets. Internet vigilantes announce a fluffy hunt starting Jan 20 to cull stray fluffies.
      • Family pets are caught up in the killings with Dendies and McBrega fluffies equally targeted by poisonings and shootings.
      • Laws to protect fluffies as animals are not strictly enforced.
    • Mikhail Ivanovic:
      • In the Army he learns of Youtube and decides to make videos.
      • He buys an old MES and a Dendy he names Marty 2.
      • Starts creating YouTube videos with Marty 2:
        • Review videos he records:
          • Fluff Tales > One of the games Mikhail likes the most.
          • Some bad games
          • Herd Masters
          • Polybius > bad arcade game
          • Shazam > hastily created movie tie-in game
          • Rocky IV > Recreated the famous stair running scene with Martin 2 at Pushkin Square near the first Russian McBrega restaurant.
        • Other videos:
          • Dendy subculture
          • Statue of Malchik
          • Metro fluffies of Moscow.

  • Year 2017:

    • Russia:
      • Domestic violence is decriminalized in Russia.

  • Year 2022:

    • World Events:
      • COVID is still a threat in 2022.
    • Events of “Strangers in Moscow” stories:
      • Old Major had received gene therapy to fix his built in McBrega genetic flaws a little while back. He also has had replacement organs and hip.
      • Barabara is working with an e-zine news outlet back in Moscow.
      • Barbara is currently renting an apartment in Podsolnukh Towers, Moscow.
      • Barbara visits Gorky park after an interview with the Russian President:
        • Encounters a homeless man who owns a “QuickHorn” breed Dendy.
        • Barabara meets Mikhail Ivanovic in Gorky Park as she recognises him from his Youtube videos.
      • Barbara puts Old Major into Mir Daycare where Mikhail works and also where Martin attends.
      • Martin and Old Major is involved in the Z propaganda at daycare and Old Major is put in sorry box after he speaks out in support of Ukraine.
      • Barbara visits Mikhail at his home to gather information for a news piece she is working on related to video games and Dendies.
      • Feb 22: War in Ukraine begins.
      • March 2: Barbara’s news outlet where she works closes in protest of freedom of speech restrictions in Russia.
      • Youtube and PayFriend suspends payments to Mikhail due to sanctions against Russia.
      • McBrega is scheduled to close its doors permanently. Homer and Rita (a university student couple) plan to go to McBrega one last time before it closes permanently.
      • Sunday, the 13th of March. 2022: Homer and Rita go to the McBrega restaurant at Pushkin Square one last time. At the same time, Mikhail and Barbara have the same plans. They run into each other on the metro.
      • International companies leaving Russia:
        • Visa’s operation in Russia is suspended.
        • Internet Cafe at Pushkin Square.
        • Japanese DuoGlo clothing shop.
        • FluffyMart.
      • Most of the McBrega fluffies working and entertaining at the restaurants have been shipped back to America and Europe, leaving the less elegant local Dendies to entertain.
      • A gaming parlor had replaced a video game arcade that used to be at Pushkin Square. Homer, Rita, Barb and Mikhail share the only empty gaming cubicle.
      • Going home that day, Old Major dies of old age.
      • Barbara holds a funeral for Old Major and then visits the daycare to find out more about Mikhail who has been suspended due to anger issues at work.
      • Barbara visits the Ivanovic home and finds Mikhail’s mother there. Mrs Trevelyana’s (Mikhail’s neighbor) son Alec has died in the war as a Russian solder in Ukraine and Mikhail is missing.
      • Barbara contacts Yakiv Simonic and gets some insights into fluffy intelligence as well as background information about Mikhail.
      • She meets with Dr Pavlova who was Mikhail’s therapist assigned to help him get back to work at the daycare. Dr Pavlova had encouraged Mikhail to write a journal as a form of therapy to resolve his unresolved anger issues.
      • It was revealed that when Mikhail was 12, he killed Martin 1 in a rage and his father had died at the same time after becoming enraged at Mikhail killing Martin 1.
      • It clear his head, Mikhail has decided to take Martin 2 with him on a 2 week long ride on the “Trans-Siberian Railroad” from Moscow to Vladivostok. He intends to record a let’s play video on the SMES game “The Wegend of Fwuffy”.
      • At Vladivostok, Mikhail encounters the new restaurant chain that replaced the McBrega restaurants that have closed. The Russian replacement for McBrega utilizes less well trained Dendies and locally sourced foods instead of western food.
      • On the return trip to Moscow, he completes the game with Martin 2.
      • Returning to Moscow, Mikhail finds himself visiting Gorky Park once again.
      • Mikhail’s and Fyodor’s death and the dream meeting in Gorky Park:
        • At Gorky Park, Moscow, Mikhail is killed when he sees hooligans abusing some fluffies and he tries to intervent.
        • In his dying moments he sees Fyodor Devushkin (Barabara’s father, who was assasinated earlier in the day), Sergei Leonov (who died in a ski accident years before) and his father (who died many years ago, the same day Mikhail killed Martin 1).
        • The ghost of Fyodor talks to Mikhail about his own past. Fyodor too had a fluffy called Laika.
        • The ghost of Sergei Leonov tells him about his own life and also the original Laika fluffy (the one that went to space) that he knows.
        • Mikhail’s father shows up and Mikhail realizes the reality of his own death.
        • Martin 1 also shows up and Mikhail reconciles with the death of Martin 1.
        • It turns out Fyodor was assassinated by a bomb in his penthouse. He was targeted as an oligarch, yet another oligarch who has been killed since the beginning of the Ukraine war.
      • Back in the world of the living, Barbara is on the run, trying to escape those who killed her father. Barbara finds Mikhail’s mother and the two of them take Martin 2 (Mikhail’s fluffy who is still alive) to the Russian border with Georgia to escape the Russian authorities who are cracking down on dissidents.
      • Barbara manages to escape Russia and returns to the New York branch of her news outlet, together with Mikhail’s fluffy, Martin 2, who she has adopted.
      • In New York, Martin 2 attends a local daycare and learns to speak English.
      • In America, Barbara meets up with Wayne Belyayev at the Belyayev farm after her escape from Russia:
        • She shows Martin (2) to Wayne. Wayne discovers that Martin is a unique mix of Dendy, Fancy Dandy Horse and McBrega bio-animatronic fluffy. Wayne takes interest in Martin as it is not something he has encountered before.
      • On the final sentence of the story, Roy McBrega calls Wayne Belyayev during Barabara’s visit. His intentions are unknown.
    • McBrega corp:
      • McBrega also runs a fluffy shelter funded by the Marty McBrega House Charities. However they reach capacity towards the middle of 2022.
      • McBrega Russia foods:
        • Burgers
        • Spaghetti
      • McBrega is the largest restaurant chain in the world. It feeds 1% of the world’s population, and remains to be a major distributor of the world’s fluffy ponies.
      • May 20: McBrega Russia to shut down after 32 years:
        • Due to the Ukraine war, McBrega will sell all Russian assets to a Russian buyer.
        • 62,000 employees and 800 restaurants in Russia will be affected.
        • Barbara Devushkina comments on the closing.
        • McBrega was sold and re-branded to “Пушисто, и точка” or “Fluff, period”:
          • Menu is replaced with locally sourced produce.
          • Entertainment is provided by local Dendies who are not as well trained and do not know how to sing.
      • September: McBrega re-opens in Ukraine after partial stability returned to the capital. In an interview, Alessia, a member of the anti-bomb squad is interviewed with her fluffies.
    • Russia:
      • February 22: Russian begins military operations in Ukraine.
      • New hospital is opened in Moscow that also provides vet services for fluffies.
      • March 22: Fluffies are used in Russian ‘Z’ propaganda as reported by BBC Russia journalist Prokhor Zakharov.
      • Barbara Devushkina writes the article “Anya of the Moscow Metro”.
    • Bioengineering advances:
      • Scientists in America identify the “Campbell” morph of the Mutagen breed which is a studied example of feral fluffies experiencing atavism in adapting to the wild environment.
      • Yakiv Simonic’s studies on fluffy intelligence gives insights into how the fluffy brain is different from other animals. His philosophical stance is that fluffies should not be considered stupid, simply different.
    • Fluffies technology:
      • Russia:
        • Russians are calling for McBrega fluffs to be discontinued and focus put back on Dendies.
        • Bioported Dendies breeding in the wild with strays result in Dendies that don’t have bioports.
        • McBrega fluffies have a more advanced, biological based bio-port which the Dendies lack due to outdated tech from the 90s.
      • America:
        • There is a push by high court judges to overturn the rulings of the “McBrega vs Belyayev” court case due to pressure from McBrega and TecBoi.

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I’m really floored by the level of effort you put into this, @Carpdime ! There are some events that I imagined would take place a little different, but for the most part you got a lot of the timing on the events right! I really appreciate this piece, and look forward to readers using this timeline to better understand the big work I undertook this year.

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