Godzilla: Nova Wars

Timeline

65 million years ago - Cretaceous Ghidorah attempts to scorch the Earth clean of life, as he has done to other planets in the past. Ghidorah's presence. Earth of life created Mothra and Battra, the first of Earth's kaiju. The two insectoid demi-gods are defeated in their larval stage but after growing into their imago forms they manage to drive the young Ghidorah off-world. Knowing that the King of Terror will someday return stronger than before.

12,000 years ago - The Xiliens sent Gigan and the Seatopains Sent Megalon to earth in order to pave the way for them. The evil beasts were stopped, however, by the combined might of Mothra, Battra, and King Caesar meanwhile The Elias, a race of physically diminutive humans that possess powerful mental abilities and advanced technology, They use the knowledge within to further advance their civilization but when they try to alter Earth's climate and environment to better suit them, they incur the wrath of Battra. Mothra attempts to stop her twin and the battle between them destroys the Elias. The only survivors, Moll and Lora, are taken in by Mothra. She brings them to her home on Infant Island where they become her priestesses, the Shobijin. A select few humans join them and form a peaceful village isolated from the rest of the world. Mothra provides them with a special water that greatly prolongs life.

1030 AD - The alien monster Megalon Awakens again in medieval Japan and attacks Okinawa. One of the Emperor's royal guards, whose name has since been lost to time, performs a secret ritual that transfers his soul into a giant stone statue that comes to life as King Caesar. The knowledge of this ritual and how it was acquired have also been lost. Caesar defeats Megalon, who retreats to hibernate underground. King Caesar places himself into a deep slumber as well, waiting to be awakened by the sacred prayer that calls him to aid Japan again.

Approx. 1500 AD - The legend of Gojira begins on Odo Island. The natives form a tradition of sending out virgin sacrifices to appease the wrathful sea serpent, though this practice is abandoned by the 20th Century.

1933 - American movie director Carl Denham leads an expedition to find the legendary Skull Island, somewhere west of Sumatra. Following a fragment of an old map, the film cast and the crew of the SS Venture stumble upon the island and actress Ann Darrow is abducted by the natives as a sacrifice to their god, a 7-and-a-half meter tall primate named Kong. Denham and scriptwriter Jack Driscoll lead a party into the jungle to rescue Ann and discover a land out of time inhabited by dinosaurs and other strange creatures found nowhere else. Upon rescuing Ann, Kong chases after her but the crew subdues him with bottles of chloroform. Denham has the ape taken back to New York and put on display as ‘King Kong: The Eighth Wonder of the World’. Kong escapes, "abducts" Ann again and climbs to the top of the Empire State Building with her. Driscoll rescues Ann while military biplanes shoot down Kong.
Although historians generally agree that the ‘Age of Monsters’ began in 1954 with Godzilla, King Kong is still recognized as the first recorded kaiju to appear outside of myth and legend. Following his death, Kong's body is taken to the American Museum of Natural History for study. Public access to the remains is strictly forbidden.

1934 - In the wake of Skull Island's unveiling, universities and private organizations worldwide fumble to dispatch research teams to investigate and catalog its wonders, fighting for exclusivity and justification to be first on the island. Only a handful of the two dozen expeditions successfully make landfall, and - of those - half are woefully unprepared for the terrors that await them.

1935 - After a year of disastrous excursions and tragic loss of life, a properly prepared, jointly managed and fully financed effort is finally organized by the three biggest interested concerns to systematically explore and document Skull Island, Project Legacy. Carl Denham leads the three-month expedition which, though it suffers its own share of setbacks and attrition, is a far cry from the earlier ill-founded attempts. New species and behaviors are discovered every day, including pterosaur and ankylosaur specimens that are, years later, realized to be offshoots from the ancestors of Rodan and Anguirus. Most interesting of all, however, is when a scout team sent to survey Kong's former lair in the highlands is chased out by the new king of the island, a therapod even larger than the V. Rex, with a row of plates on its back and the ability to spit a burning chemical mixture from its mouth. The specimen is named Dracosaurus Rex by Dr. Howard Woods, the great-grandfather of Steven Woods, though it is retroactively changed to Gojirasaurus after 1954. The project heads soon realize that Skull Island is too new, too strange and above all, too dangerous to explore and study in so short a space of time. Project Legacy is expanded to a long-term initiative with annual expeditions, the long term goal being to establish a permanent base of operations on the island.