#The Call of Duty Brainrot in keeping everything together and how it connects.

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//I know CoD can get written off a lot, but with the new universe I actually have a lot of theories and such on how things are done and how things crossover. I'm already putting together a small timeline of this Universe and how the games go. I'll put all of it under a read more if interested.

So the New Timeline I've figured out for main story goes CoD WWII, CoD World at War, CoD Vanguard, CoD Black Ops, CoD Black Ops Cold War, The Rumored Black Ops Gulf War, Modern Warfare (2019), Modern Warfare II (2022), and Modern Warfare III (2023).

The Dark Aether storyline in Vanguard already confirmed that there is some Overlap with the Chaos Storyline that was started in the beginning of Black Ops 4 before shifting to the Aether Saga once again where the Heroes end up nuking the already established Multiverse with a Singularity. I also think though its not confirmed, that also included things from other untethered Call of Duty games and previous Modern Warfares leading to the one 'Perfect' world. Or so those Zombie Heroes though, leading into the Dark Aether Storyline.

Now the Zombies and the Ghost Ship during Warzone around Black Ops Cold War Season 2, effectively taking place in the Modern Warfare timeframe. The ship leaving Rebirth Island back in the 80s to lose itself in a storm after some of the Nova Six gas gets out only to arrive around 2021, we can see that a lot of rust set in. A ship like that doesn't just get lost for decades without someone finding it so I think it must of gotten tugged into a Dark Aether breach, spending an untold amount of time there because we find a strange computer onboard the ship. Now reason why I mention the Dark Aether here and breaches is for two reasons: during Season Three Cold War a nuke gets detonated in Kravchenko's old facility on Mount Yamantau which we learn borders Kastova in this universe, and an intel you can recover from one of the factions that mention the dimensional fabric was damaged cause of a nuke that was detonated by a rogue faction called Perseus ((perpetrators being Wraith and Knight, two Operatives from that faction)) and around that time there was a storm off the coast, roughly around where the Gulag is.

Now how is Verdansk still standing after a nuke was dropped on it? Good question, considering everything I think this could end up being a retcon but a couple things stand out to me on how they could do it. Mauer Der Toten mentioned using a Nuclear Device to neutralize a Quarantine Zone in the middle of East and West Berlin, but we also were introduced to a Nuclear Bomb in Cold War that only targeted humanoids rather than leveling buildings and infrastructure. Could be that one of those types of nukes was dropped effectively sterilizing the infection while leaving the buildings intact for the most part, the fallout ending up being next to nothing because it canceled out both the gas an Aetherium in the air.

Now someone could ask, is it possible they could just strike it out of canon? Its entirely possible, if they didn't add that little detail into canon bio for Roze a Multiplayer Operator in Modern Warfare II specifically mentioning 'The Fall of Verdansk'.

Then we get to Vanguard, specifically when we hit the Warzone series on Caldera. It got slowly nutty when they introduced Attack on Titan things into Vanguard and I could kinda see and get it, then it got extremely batshit around Season Three when Kong and Godzilla were introduced onto Caldera, then the Terminator in Season Four, and then the return of Raul Menendez from Black Ops 2, Seraph from Black Ops 4, Gabriel Rorke from CoD Ghosts and Al-Asad. Al-Asad after Modern Warfare (2019) just drops off the radar and we don't hear from him but then in comes the other three and some could write it off as non-canon events there, but I'm starting to think Caldera was like something out of Twin Peaks, where it could of been an anomaly, where remnants of forgotten worlds found themselves after somehow finding a way out of the Dark Aether because the Perk Machines weren't something that was just made for the Dark Aether storyline, they were found and fixed up and brought into this new timeline, much like the Wunderwaffe DG-2 in Shi No Numa in Vanguard, now we see weapons like the EM1 from Advanced Warfare too. There are elements from previous timelines that get trickled into this new timeline and I think we're starting to see it slightly with the introduction of the Black Cell shadow faction because the operator 'Arthur' is straight up wearing a modified FTL Rig from Infinite Warfare.

That's not even getting to some of the leaks I've heard of content and things coming to Modern Warfare III, apparently around Season Three we could be seeing the return of the Atlas Corporation from Advanced Warfare, and I think with some of the cosmetics and gear we've seen in the shop during Modern Warfare II can set it up, some of them wearing Exo-Suits of similar design of the Atlas Corporation. Cause we have seen some call back to certain cosmetics that drop that come back later in the Warzone storyline part of Call of Duty: The Cultist looking skins for Ghost, Horangi, and Konig ended up being a shadow faction that unleashed Hellish forces in Al Mazrah and Vondel.