Timeline (some spoilers)

[mhaldo]

So let me get this straight.
(Megaman battle network), (Hikaru is light in Japaneses), he has his brother in a sort of world, so decides to make a robot form (Megaman), a more present one, the first megaman, so he has him for a while, but notices he's always controlling him so makes a new robot, x, so the whole cataclysm shizz happens, which Dr. Hikaru (Light) had expected, so he had left capsules and set x on a sleeping chamber for 100 years before it even started, Dr. Kane, wakes x up and then zero comes in and the whole Megaman X series go on with Axl, then, zero notices that
sigma lived on his virus, so he sets himself up for a long sleep where somehow some weil and friends snatch his body and do things you dont want to know about, and somewhere in between, X died, and maybe even Axl, then, Megaman Zero goes on, but zero somehow dies and Seal tries to get him back and creates biometals but slither inc. takes over and then theres megaman ZX and eventually, you see legends fits like a glove...

"No it doesn't, the glove doesn't fit..."

Shut up O.J.

[Professor Fann]

Eh, not quite.

I found that paragraph a little hard to read, so I'm going to offer my own explanation.


Battle Network is not the series that started it all.

First it was the Classic series - MM1 to MM8, possibly also MM and Bass.

Then it was X series, and then Zero series, and then now ZX series, and who now how and what series of events, the Legends events.

Batle Network and Star Force should not be considered as part of the major Megaman canon. But they both form an alternate pathway, so Star Force does occur after Battle Network.

[ReaperEX]

Right on the button.

Dr. Light and Wily created Protoman, then the 6 first bots and then Roll and Megaman (correct me if that's not the right order).
That started it all, after 8 years maybe of fighting Wily, Megaman disappeared, and X was created by Light.
One Hundred years pass, and X is awaken by (forget his name). That scientist replicates X's design and mass-produces it. This creates a problem as "free-will" can get out of hand. X becomes a Maverick Hunter, and teams up with Zero and later on Axl.
Once again, X disappears and Zero is in Cryogenic sleep. In Megaman Zero it's said X died in a war, aka the Elf Wars. A few hundred years pass, and Zero is awaken by Ciel. They are apart of a resistance because Ciel screwed up on making the X clone (stupid idiot). So, that insues, and later Weil is "reborn" (we never heard of him until Zero 2). So, in a climatic battle Zero is destroyed along with Weil...
In the years between Zero and ZX, Ciel creates the Models using metals with the souls of the previous warriors encrested into them. She disappears, probably dead, and thus begins ZX.
In ZX, Prairie claims to be Ciel's sister, who's a reploid (it would explain how she's survived). In an accident Vent/Aile activate Model X, one of the metals Ciel found with X's soul in it. Vent/Aile join the guardians after fighting their colleuge Giro. After fighting the usual 8 bosses, they face Serpent. Serpent is destroyed, and Vent/Aile return to the guardians.
I'm not too sure on the ZX Advent events, and I'm not sure how Legends fits into everything...

Megaman Battle Network and Ryusei no Rockman are their own little story. I'm not going to put that tho

[Professor Fann]

I agree with Reaper except ...

X is awakened by the Dr Cain.

Zero is awakened by Ciel circa (but not exactly) 100 years after the Elf Wars.

A matter to whether the souls of the warriors are really in the Biometal - I dispute.

[ReaperEX]

Thank you for filling in those parts.

The souls in the biometals? Well I'm not sure if my memory's correct but I think ZX did say something about it, either that or I read it somewhere.

[Professor Fann]

There was something on that, but now that this is brought up I am not sure either.

[rioku]

Its not my place to say, considering I haven't played the series,l but side with their "soul" being inputted into the bio metal theory.

In Megaman Zero it's said X died in a war

I thought he simply sacrificed his body, thus becoming dormant or something like that? that's why we started to get weaker when elf piss,....erm..elephant pea-ELPIZO!-elpizo destroyed X's body.

[ReaperEX]

Hmm good point. I remember clearly though in a cutscene it was said X was killed in the war, but then how was his body in Z2? Maybe it was Copy X's body, or X was revived after the elf wars and was used to seal the Dark Elf. I'm not really sure, only a guess.

[Professor Fann]

.... Those who read the Complete Works and such, or Wikipedia before its history was deleted, would have know this. I did.

X and Zero were involved in the Elf Wars, which lasted 4 years, and they defeated Omega with the Final Strike. Omega sealed, Weil banished, Zero isolated himself in sleep, and X oversaw the construction of Neo Arcadia, its ruling and perhaps on a side note, getting rid of certain Mavericks.

8 years before Z1, he used his body to seal the Dark Elf inside him while he was free to use the advanced capabilities of the Cyberspace to manifest himself. True, Elpizo destroyed his body to release Dark Elf, so in a way he'd be vulnerable to the disadvantages of ... power shortage.

In short, he was alive all the time until Z4 per se.

[rioku]

Ok, then I was right. the only thing that had me was the definition of "death" in this situation.

[Professor Fann]

Probably indeed.

Any more other doubts?

[ReaperEX]

None here, I forgot that part in the Zero stuff. Thanks Sets.

[Professor Fann]

That is very nice.

In the meantime, support the ZX series.

Who knows where we'd go...

[rioku]

easy. into another friggin series that supoposedly happends before the legends series(and I've heard by some that the legends series won't even go along with the time line, though I believe it does.)

[Professor Fann]

Hmm ... we'd just have to see and let things happen on its own. After all, with ZX and ZXA having ruins and symbols closely resembling the Legends series bit by bit increasingly, exciting events might just occur.