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| Godzilla 2000 Millennium (1999) |
- Millennium Continuum
- Megaguiras Continuum
- GMK Continuum
- Kiryu Continuum
- Final Wars Continuum
- Shin Godzilla Continuum
- AniGoji Continuum
Millennium Continuum
This timeline only includes events detailed in
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)/ゴジラ2000 ミレニアム.
60 Million BC: An
alien craft lands in the sea off the coast of Japan. Deprived of sunlight, the
craft and its occupants fall into a state of hibernation.
1954: A gigantic creature dubbed Godzilla begins periodically attacking Japan’s
power centers. In the ensuing decades, the Crisis Control Intelligence (CCI)
is formed to develop new weapons (such as “full metal missiles”) in the hopes
that they will stop Godzilla.
1999: A 60-million-year-old
deep sea rock formation is “awakened” by exploratory submarine searchlights
(having crashed to Earth in the ancient past, it had been inactive until now
due to lack of sunlight). The rock-encrusted saucer flies to the surface where
it is soon confronted by Godzilla. After analyzing and then driving Godzilla
back into the sea, it stations itself atop a building in Shinjuku and begins
scanning Japan’s computer databases. Although the CCI’s attacks on the
regenerated saucer fail, a scientist named Shinoda is able to discover that
the aliens intend to terraform the Earth and to use Godzilla’s regenerative
cells (Regenerator G-1) to manifest physical bodies and then take over the
planet. When Godzilla returns for another battle, the saucer manages to
extract some of his DNA, and soon gives birth to a colossal mutated form
(dubbed Orga), which soon display some of Godzilla’s characteristics. In the
end, when Orga tries to swallow Godzilla by wrapping its maw around his head,
he destroys it with an atomic blast before Orga can complete the cellular
absorption of its intended victim. Godzilla then proceeds to lay waste to
Tokyo.
Megaguiras Continuum
1954: A gigantic creature (dubbed Godzilla) appears in the Pacific,
probably created from repeated nuclear testing in the region. It attacks Tokyo
and then disappears. The capitol of Japan is then reestablished in Osaka.
1966: Godzilla reappears and attacks the Tokai Nuclear Power Plant (north of
Tokyo). Scientists reason that Godzilla is attracted to nuclear energy sources
and recommends banning nuclear energy. The development of a replacement,
“plasma energy”, begins.
1996: Godzilla appears a third time
and attacks a plasma reactor in Osaka. Plasma energy is in turn banned to
prevent another visit. However, the formation of a new anti-Godzilla project
named G-Graspers is begun.
2001: The G-Grasper project
develops a new weapon called the Dimension Tide, which can manifest miniature
black holes. During a ground test, a wormhole is opened, admitting a
prehistoric dragonfly called Meganuron. The Meganuron deposits an egg before
returning to the wormhole. The egg eventually ends up in Tokyo’s sewer, and
after it hatches a queen Meganuron (Megaguiras) the waterways below Shibuya
become backed up, causing massive flooding and necessary evacuation. Out at
sea, Godzilla encounters one of the hatched Meganuron dragonflies and destroys
it. Detecting this episode, the G-Graspers take this opportunity to lure
Godzilla to the island of Kiganjima in order to test out the new
satellite-based version of the Dimension Tide weapon. Just before the
satellite fires, Godzilla is swarmed by Meganuron dragonflies, which begin
siphoning off his energy. Perhaps due to Meganuron interference, the Dimension
Tide fails to destroy Godzilla. The surviving Meganurons return to their queen
under Shibuya and bequeath her with the cellular energy obtained from Godzilla
on Kiganjima, mutating her into the colossal monster Megaguiras. Godzilla
eventually arrives in Tokyo as well (drawn to the area by a secret plasma
energy facility) and after a fierce battle destroys Megaguiras. The G-Grasper team then
fire the Dimension Tide weapon and, despite his interception of the beam with
his atomic breath, Godzilla disappears from sight after a massive explosion.
However, a few weeks later signs of Godzilla are detected underground.
GMK Continuum
1954.03.01: Atom bombs are detonated at the Bikini Atolls. Radiation
fallout causes death and disease to abound in the waters around Japan.
1954.11: Several ships off the coast of Japan are
destroyed. A giant creature is reported rampaging through Odo Island. A
scientific expedition led by Dr. Yamane sights the creature and determines
that it is a remnant from a prehistoric age reawakened by the atomic bomb
testing in the Pacific, and dubs it Godzilla (after a legendary sea divinity
worshipped by the island natives). Depth charges are dropped in Godzilla’s
suspected domain. This results in Godzilla coming ashore the Japanese
archipelago through Tokyo Bay and briefly attacking Shinagawa. The army
prepares for another attack by constructing towers bearing up an electric
fence (charged with 200,000 volts) around the coastline. When Godzilla soon
returns once more, the electric fence is unable to hurt Godzilla in any way.
The creature then employs “atomic breath” to destroy the electric towers (as
well as the army artillery soon called into the battle). In the end, a large
section of Tokyo is destroyed, incurring many casualties. Despite his fears
for its misuse, a biochemist named Serizawa agrees to allow his secret
super-weapon, the “Oxygen Destroyer”, to be deployed against Godzilla.
Locating Godzilla’s precise undersea location through radiation detection, the
Oxygen Destroyer is employed to destroy Godzilla (as well as instantly killing
all life in the device’s effective range). In the process, Serizawa also gives
up his life in order to ensure the Oxygen Destroyer’s successful operation and
to bury the secret of his weapon’s destructive power forever. (Godzilla)
1998: Giant monsters begin appearing around the globe,
causing havoc and destruction. (GMK Giant Monsters All-Out Attack)
2004: Godzilla destroys an American submarine off the
coast of Japan. At Mt. Myoko, ancient “guardian creature” later dubbed Baragon
awakens from underneath the mountain. At the same time in Lake Ikeda, an
insectoid monster later dubbed Mothra appears from the sea. Godzilla attacks
the Bonin Islands and then disappears. The guardian creature Ghidorah awakens
in a cavern below Aokigahara forest near Mount Fuji. Godzilla appears from
Yaizu harbor and attacks Baragon, eventually destroying the guardian monster.
Later, Mothra and Ghidorah confront Godzilla at Yokohama. After Mothra is
disintegrated, her energy revives Ghidorah into King Ghidorah (the
"Thousand-Year-Old Dragon"). King Ghidorah’s lightning attacks are somehow
absorbed and redirected back at the Guardian monster, disintegrating it. The
energy of the Guardians then forces Godzilla back into the sea. The JSDF uses
a submersible to pursue the creature. After it is swallowed, it fires a drill
missile through Godzilla’s hide from within. When Godzilla attempts to use its
atomic breath attack, it explodes, leaving behind only a still-beating heart
at the bottom of the bay. (GMK Giant Monsters All-Out Attack)
Kiryu Continuum
1954.03.01: Atom bombs are detonated at the Bikini Atolls. Radiation
fallout causes death and disease to abound in the waters around Japan.
1954.11: Several ships off the coast of Japan are
destroyed. A giant creature is reported rampaging through Odo Island. A
scientific expedition led by Dr. Yamane sights the creature and determines
that it is a remnant from a prehistoric age reawakened by the atomic bomb
testing in the Pacific, and dubs it Godzilla (after a legendary sea divinity worshiped by the island natives). Depth charges are dropped in Godzilla’s
suspected domain. This results in Godzilla coming ashore the Japanese
archipelago through Tokyo Bay and briefly attacking Shinagawa. The army
prepares for another attack by constructing towers bearing up an electric
fence (charged with 200,000 volts) around the coastline. When Godzilla soon
returns once more, the electric fence is unable to hurt Godzilla in any way.
The creature then employs “atomic breath” to destroy the electric towers (as
well as the army artillery soon called into the battle). In the end, a large
section of Tokyo is destroyed, incurring many casualties. Despite his fears
for its misuse, a biochemist named Serizawa agrees to allow his secret
super-weapon, the “Oxygen Destroyer”, to be deployed against Godzilla.
Locating Godzilla’s precise undersea location through radiation detection, the
Oxygen Destroyer is employed to destroy Godzilla (as well as instantly killing
all life in the device’s effective range). In the process, Serizawa also gives
up his life in order to ensure the Oxygen Destroyer’s successful operation and
to bury the secret of his weapon’s destructive power forever. (Godzilla)
1961.07: The nation of Rolisica conducts atomic bomb tests
near Infant Island. Thought to be uninhabited, Infant Island is actually
inhabited by primitive villagers, a giant moth-like creature named Mothra, and
two tiny women (“Shobijin”, or tiny fairies) who communicate with Mothra
telepathically. Fortunately, the island villagers are immune to radioactivity
due to their consumption of an indigenous berry juice. When the existence of
this juice is reported by shipwreck survivors, an expedition is sent to Infant
Island to further investigate. A Rolisican fortune hunter named Clark
discovers (and eventually abducts) the Shobijin, and features them in a Tokyo
entertainment show. A new Mothra larvae (in caterpillar form) hatches and
voyages to Tokyo in pursuit of the Shobijin. There, it wreaks massive damage
to the city, despite the efforts of the military. Mothra eventually forms a
cocoon near Tokyo Tower in order to transform into its winged (“imago”) form.
Clark meanwhile secretly travels back to Rolisica. After emerging from its
cocoon, Mothra follows Clark to Rolisica and there wreaks further havoc. Clark
is eventually killed by the police. An anthropologist named Chujo carries out
a scheme to signal Mothra (using a traditional Infant Island emblem painted
onto an airfield) and returns the Shobijin to her (after which Mothra then
returns back to Infant Island with her charges). (Mothra)
1965.08:
The Frankenstein monster (whose mutated heart had been transported to
Hiroshima from Germany at the end of the war) grows into a deformed boy who
scavenges food around the area. Three scientists (Dr. James Bowen, and his
assistants Sueko Togami and Kenichiro Kawaji) discover the boy and proceed to
feed him while keeping him under observation. They are stunned to find out the
boy’s origin. They study his unique ability to regrow himself and resist the
effects of radiation. Frankenstein eventually grows to colossal size and
escapes into the wilderness where it feeds on livestock. In the city a debate
rages on whether to kill the monster for public safety or study it. Around the
same time a gigantic underground creature (dubbed Baragon) emerges from some
mine excavations and causes great destruction, for which Frankenstein is
blamed for. When Baragon attacks some humans (including Dr. Sueko),
Frankenstein comes to their rescue. However, vibrations from their epic
struggle cause a sinkhole to appear, which sucks both creatures into a
bottomless chasm. (Frankenstein Conquers the World)
1966:
In the ensuing years more giant monsters appear and the AMF (Anti-Megalosaurus
Force) is established to fight them. (Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla)
1966.07: Sometime in the past, two scientists in Kyoto
(Drs. Paul Stewart and Akemi Togawa) had discovered and raised a
strangely-mutated, fur-covered boy, whose biology is apparently the same as
the Frankenstein creature discovered by Dr. Bowen in 1965 (Frankenstein
Conquers the World). This second Frankenstein eventually disappears near Mount
Fuji. However, before his disappearance, some of Frankenstein’s flesh had been
torn off while he was in Lake Biwa. This flesh remnant soon regenerates a full
body and grows into yet another colossal Frankenstein creature. Unfortunately,
in contrast to Stewart’s kindly Frankenstein (dubbed Sanda), this sea-borne
Frankenstein (dubbed Gaira) is violent and feeds on humans. When Gaira attacks
ships at sea and then comes ashore in Tokyo, the JSDF employ their new Type 66
Maser Cannons against it, which drives it back into the water. However, before
it falls, Sanda appears, apparently coming to the other Gargantua’s aid. After
taking his brother (clone) to Mount Fuji in order to care for his wounds,
Sanda soon sees evidence of Gaira’s violent nature. When Gaira goes on another
rampage, Sanda is forced to attack his brother. Their fight eventually takes
them out to the open sea where they are bombed by JSDF jets. This causes a
sudden volcanic eruption which engulfs the Gargantuas and apparently destroys
them both. (War of the Gargantuas)
1970.08: While en
route to Jupiter, an unmanned space probe (the Helios 7) encounters an
immaterial alien intelligence (later identified as a colony of
“Astro-quasars”) which repurposes the probe in order to make its way to Earth.
The probe lands off the coast of Sergio Island, a landmass in the South
Pacific populated by primitive villagers. The “space amoeba” emerges from the
probe capsule and merges with a cuttlefish, enlarging it to colossal
proportions. The island natives soon begin to fear the monster cuttlefish
(dubbed Gezora) as an angry sea god, especially after it begins to murder
curious onlookers. Eventually a resort development corporation sends a
scientific team to investigate the reports of this monster. The science team
manages to destroy Gezora with fire, but the space amoeba then transfers its
consciousness into a land crab (and enlarging it, after which it is dubbed
Ganimes) and again attacks the island dwellers. After Ganimes is destroyed
with explosives, the space amoeba takes possession of one of the island
visitors (an industrial spy named Obata) and informs him that they plan to
take control of the Earth. The space amoeba also mutates a turtle (Kamoebas)
which it uses to attack the remaining survivors who, by this time, have
deduced the nature of the space amoeba and that it and its host creatures are
vulnerable to ultrasound waves. The scientists use a swarm of bats to cause
Kamoebas and a second Ganimes to attack each other, resulting in their mutual
destruction in a volcano eruption. Obata then sacrifices himself when he
throws himself into the volcano in order to destroy the threat of the space
amoeba once and for all. (Yog, Monster From Space)
1987:
Additional Kamoebas creatures are sighted. (Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S.)
1998: The Japanese government recovers the bones of the
original Godzilla from 1954 from the bottom of Tokyo Bay.
(Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla)
1999: Japanese
scientists extract DNA from Godzilla’s remains. (Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S.)
1999: Apparently in response to the theft of Godzilla’s
bones/DNA, a new Godzilla attacks Tateyama. Unaffected by maser weapons, it
destroys much of Tateyama. Afterwards, the bones of the original Godzilla are
used to begin construction of a robot defense against the new Godzilla, whose
computer also uses Godzilla’s own DNA. (Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla)
2003: The robot mechanism Kiryu (Mechagodzilla, partially
controlled by pilots in Flight Heron aircraft and armed with an Absolute Zero
weapon) is completed. Almost immediately, Godzilla approaches Tokyo once again
and Kiryu is deployed. However, Godzilla’s roar causes the “soul” of the
original Godzilla’s DNA to awaken inside Kiryu, sending it on a brief
uncontrolled rampage. Fortunately, in their second encounter, Kiryu is able to
force Godzilla to retreat back into the sea, avoiding the necessity to kill
him. However, Kiryu itself is greatly damaged.
(Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla)
2004: Mothra is
sighted over Hawaii, as it flies from Infant Island to Himago Island in order
to lay an egg. Later, two female Shobojin fairies appear to the now-elderly
Professor Chujo and explain that the original Godzilla’s bones (currently used
in Kiryu’s superstructure) must be returned to the sea or Mothra will side
with Godzilla against mankind - Mothra promises to defend Japan against
Godzilla in Kiryu’s stead. However, the Japanese government does not trust
Mothra and refuses to dismantle Kiryu. Soon, the carcass of a dead Kamoebas is
found, apparently killed by Godzilla (Godzilla also destroys an American
submarine in the area). When Godzilla next attacks the Japanese mainland
(drawn by Kiryu’s imminent repair), Chujo’s grandson appeals to Mothra for
help, and she quickly arrives to engage Godzilla in battle. Unfortunately, she
is defeated and the JSDF sends Kiryu into battle against Mothra’s wishes. On
Himago Island, Mothra’s larval twins hatch and soon arrive in Japan, and with
the help of Kiryu manage to seriously injure Godzilla. When Kiryu is ordered
to destroy Godzilla, the original “soul” of Kiryu’s DNA awakens once more, and
instead carries its living incarnation out to sea. Both Godzilla and Kiryu
then descend into the depths of the Japan Trench, returning the original
Godzilla’s bones to their resting place. However, a laboratory still retains
DNA samples of Godzilla and the 1987 Kamoebas. (Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S.)
Note: Promotional materials for Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla also reference several monsters not seen in the films themselves: Rodan, Maguma, Varan, Manda, Dogora, Baragon, Gorosaurus and a Giant Octopus.
Final Wars Continuum
12,000 BC: A cyborg monster dubbed Gigan is created by the
extraterrestrial Xiliens and sent to Earth in order to conquer it. Earth’s
insectoid protector, the giant monster Mothra, subdues Gigan and forces it
into a form of suspended animation. Nonetheless, Xilien genetic material in
the form of the M-Base gene is distributed into Earth’s ecosphere, embedding
itself in both human and animal DNA.
1954: An atomic bomb
test creates the giant monster Godzilla. In the ensuing years, additional
radioactive events (and other episodes of careless scientific experimentation)
cause additional giant monsters to surface around the world, with many of them
carrying the Xilien M-Base gene. In response, the Earth Defense Force (EDF)
establishes a team of superhuman mutants (the M-Organization) to fight these
monsters (although unbeknownst to them at the time, these super-soldiers also
carry the M-Base gene). The M-Organization eventually defeats all of the
monsters except for Godzilla, who somehow returns again and again over the
following decades.
2004: In the Antarctic, Godzilla is
finally defeated when he is trapped and frozen in an ice chasm by the crew of
the flying warship Gotengo. An EDF surveillance base is established on the
site.
20XX: A mummified Gigan is discovered near Hokkaido by
the EDF. This alerts the Xiliens, who head back towards Earth to attempt
another invasion of Earth. Around this time, the Shobijin (representatives of
Mothra) contact the M-Organization and gift a soldier named Ozaki with a
special sword-shaped charm, warning him of important events about to
transpire. When the Xiliens arrive on Earth, they use the M-Base genes
implanted in dormant giant monsters to awaken these creatures and order them
to attack cities around the world. Rodan attacks New York City, Zilla attacks
Sydney, Anguiras attacks Shanghai, King Caesar attacks Okinawa, Kamacuras
attacks Paris, Kumonga attacks Arizona, and Ebirah attacks the Tokai area of
Japan. In short order, the Xiliens subdue their monsters once again, posing as
Earth’s saviors and warning the government of the (untrue) approach of a
runaway planet named Gorath. When the Xiliens’ true intentions are exposed,
their impulsive leader the Controller simply orders the monsters to resume
destroying the planet. After the Controller also takes control of
M-Organization (through their M-Base genes), the luckily-immune Ozaki and the
crew of the Gotengo escape and head to the Antarctic in order to release
Godzilla from his ice-prison. When Godzilla is freed, he immediately attacks a
resurrected Gigan and defeats the cyborg. This prompts the Controller to send
for Monster Zero from deep space. In the meantime, Godzilla eventually
destroys all of the remaining monsters under the Xiliens’ control. However,
when the Gotengo attacks the Xilien mothership in Tokyo, the crew is captured.
Meanwhile, Mothra arrives in Tokyo, as well as Monster Zero and a repaired
Gigan. While Godzilla and Mothra face off against Monster Zero and Gigan, on
the Xilien mothership Ozaki breaks the Xiliens’ mind control with the
sword-charm gifted by the Shobojin, forcing the Controller self-destruct his
mothership. Finally, after Mothra defeats Gigan, Monster Zero transforms into
an even more powerful form, the three-headed Kaiser Ghidorah. After a fierce
battle, Godzilla eventually defeats Kaiser Ghidorah (with the aid of mutant
energy transmitted to him from Ozaki and the Gotengo) and then departs back
into the sea.
Shin Godzilla Continuum
1954: Nuclear waste containers are dumped into Tokyo Bay. The
containers are eventually broken open and fed upon by a prehistoric undersea
organism. The organism first becomes immune to radiation, and then is
eventually able to feed on and store it.
1999: A scientist
named Goro Maki leaves Japan in disgust after his wife dies from radiation
poisoning.
2005: While abroad, Maki theorizes the possible
existence of “Godzilla”, the creature born from radioactive waste from the
1950s. He believes that Godzilla might be able to evolve in “real time” while
converting water and oxygen into nuclear fission materials for its own use.
2016:
Maki returns to Japan and then in Tokyo Bay sacrifices his own life to be
consumed by Godzilla. His abandoned boat is soon discovered and his Godzilla
notes are recovered. Triggered into further evolutionary processes by Maki’s
advanced genetic material, Godzilla soon attacks Japan, but after evolving
through several additional forms is eventually (temporarily) defeated when its
blood is chemically frozen by injecting a coagulant down its throat (just as
small humanoid shapes begin to sprout from its tail, yet another evolutionary
form).
AniGoji Continuum
Tens of thousands of years ago: The planet of the Exifs is destroyed by
a giant monster named Ghidorah from another dimension of space. Survivors of
this apocalypse develop into a cult which worships Ghidorah, believing that
their planet’s fate is an ultimate, inevitable form of universal truth. The
Exif cultists go out into deep space and find other advanced planetary
civilizations under attack from giant creatures, especially a kind later known
by humans as a “Godzilla”. They decide that the destiny of these other races
is to be destroyed by Ghidorah, just as their own had been. By convincing the
victims of Godzilla that the Exif’s god (Ghidorah) is their only salvation,
the Exif cultists are able to make native human sacrifices to Ghidorah,
drawing the creature out from its other-dimensional home so that it will
consume the planet and its Godzilla protector.
1999: On
Earth, giant monsters begin to appear around the world and attack, causing
death and destruction. These eventually include Kamacuras, Dogora (from
space), Kamoebas, Anguiras, Rodan, Hedorah (a Chinese bioweapon gone awry),
Gabara, Megalon, Gezora, Ebirah, Daghara, Griffons, Orga, Manda, Maguma,
Ganimes, Varan, Baragon, Megaguiras, Gorosaurus, Kumonga, Meganula and King
Caesar.
2030: A giant monster soon dubbed Godzilla appears.
Godzilla begins exterminating all of the other monsters (as well as
humanity).
2031: Godzilla survives the impact of 150
American nuclear warheads.
2035: The Exif arrive on Earth,
claiming to know mankind’s destiny. They ask for refuge and promise to guide
mankind through their troubles in some way (although in reality, their main
objective is to search for a human leader by which they can gain converts to
their worship of Ghidorah, and eventually gain enough volunteered human
sacrifices for the monster’s summoning).
2036: A group of
scientifically-advanced Bilasalodo refugees arrive on Earth, also offering
help against the monsters (although they have a secret plan to develop their
“nanometal” technology into such an advanced form that a nanometal city
(“Mechagodzilla City”) will eventually consume the entire planet and convert
all its inhabitants into a single Bilasalodo machine intelligence).
2037:
The Earth protector monster Battra detects a meteorite named Gorath heading
towards Earth. It awakens before its appointed time in order to prepare a
defense against it. Unfortunately, Battra soon encounters Godzilla and is
killed. However, Godzilla itself then disappears for five years.
2039:
Humanity joins with the Exif and Bilasalodo to form the United Earth, an
organization designed to fight back against giant monsters. The advanced
warship Goten is launched and defeats Manda. The Moguera defeats Biollante.
The French military destroy Zilla and its spawn.
2041:
Predicting that Gorath will destroy the Earth in 2042, United Earth scientists
devise a plan to flee the planet.
2042: Godzilla resurfaces
and destroys Gorath with its atomic breath (which can reach interplanetary
distances). Plans to flee Earth are abandoned and all resources are devoted to
construction of a giant Bilasalodo robot dubbed Mechagodzilla (which,
unbeknownst to humanity, the Bilasalodo plan to use to take control of Earth
after Godzilla has hopefully been destroyed).
2043: The
United Earth forces begin Operation Great Wall, a plan in which Godzilla may
be trapped in the Himalayas with a Bilasalodo nanometal enclosure.
2044:
Operation Long March is initiated to force Godzilla to remain on land so that
it can be tracked. At the same time Operation LTF (Let Them Fight) is
implemented, a plan in which the Bilasalodo mentally control certain monsters.
One monster, Gigan, is eventually enhanced with Bilasalodo cyborg parts.
2045: Although Gigan is finally completely destroyed by Godzilla, Operation Great
Wall is a success and Godzilla is trapped in the Himalayas for a time.
2046:
Godzilla begins consuming molten magma, and eventually gains the power to
break out of his molten prison. He makes his way to Japan where he destroys
the Bilasalodo base at Mount Fuji just before Mechagodzilla is ready for
launch. Mankind decides that fleeing to another planet is their only option
for survival. Construction of space arks is begun.
2048: A
coalition of 15,000 humans, Exifs and Bilasalodo take off on two space arks
and head into deep space hoping to find habitable planets. Mothra appears and
manages to injure Godzilla slightly, but is later killed while protecting her
egg (which is safely transported to Japan and guarded by a race called the
Houtua).
2070: 22 years after launching from Earth, one of
the space arks, the Aratrum (now carrying 4000), arrives at planet Tau-Ceti E.
Finding it uninhabitable, the leading council decides to return to Earth in
the hopes of defeating Godzilla using some new tactical approaches.
On
Earth, the surviving head of Mechagodzilla begins generating nanometal around
itself, and eventually forms an entire city around itself forged of the
material.
Ca. 21250: Due to relativistic time dilation
effects, 19,200 years have passed on Earth by the time the Aratrum returns to
the planet. They discover that Earth’s biosphere has become toxic in order to
accommodate a still living, much larger Godzilla, as well as its offspring and
smaller variant forms. A landing party led by a brash young captain named
Haruo manages to kill Godzilla’s offspring (“Godzilla Filius”) with EMP
technology, but Godzilla himself (“Godzilla Earth”) soon appears and destroys
most of the combat troops. (GODZILLA: Planet of Monsters)
The remnants of the landing party make contact with the Houtua,
who protect Mothra’s egg. The Houtua lead the humans, Exifs and Bilasalodo to
Mechagodzilla City, the now-dormant city created by Mechagodzilla’s head unit
long ago. After reactivating the city, the Bilasalodo present a plan to lure
Godzilla into a trap to destroy it using the same tactics that had worked on
its smaller progeny Filius, but enhanced with Bilasalodo technology to take
into account Godzilla Earth’s larger size. However, it is soon revealed that
for the Bilasalodo’s plan to work, the humans must be consumed by nanometal in
order to become “one” with the Bilasalodo’s logic system. After Haruo leans
from his Exif ally Metphies that the Bilasalodo plan to use the nanometal to
eventually assimilate the entire planet, he decides to attack the Bilasalodo
base during the operation. The entire plan unravels and the nanometal city is
destroyed by Godzilla. (GODZILLA: City On the Edge of Battle)
With all of the Bilasalodo from the landing party dead, the Exif
begin to actively promote their worship of Ghidorah amongst the humans, and
soon gain desperate new followers. Through their ritual self-sacrifice,
Ghidorah eventually arrives above Earth through a singularity and destroys the
Aratrum. It then heads to the planet’s surface and attacks Godzilla, who is
unable to counter Ghidorah due to its extra-dimensional (“magic”) nature. When
Haruo learns that his Exif friend Metphies is functioning as Ghidorah’s “eye”
on this plane, he confronts his mentor but becomes mesmerized by Metphies’
power. Fortunately, the Houtua call out to Mothra’s unhatched egg, summoning a
Mothra mental spirit which breaks Haruo free of Metphies’ mental control.
Haruo then gouges out Metphies’ eyes, rendering Ghidorah vulnerable to
Godzilla’s attacks. Godzilla soon drives Ghidorah away and then goes back into
a dormant state. With most of their craft and gear destroyed, the human
survivors settle down into a pre-technological state of society with the
Houtua, believing that as long as they avoid the development of technology,
they will be safe from Godzilla’s wrath. Fearing that his hatred of Godzilla
will negatively impact the peaceful community established with the Haruo, he
takes his own life in a suicide attack against Godzilla.
(GODZILLA: The Planet Eater)
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