SBM In Game History (Yerba Area Only)

[Benjamin]

1776: Presidio of San Francisco founded by Juan Bautista de Anza, Carlos DeLarosa (Nosferatu antitribu), and Saulla Garcia (Lasombra). Sabbat become the first settlers of the domain.

1777: Pueblo San Jose is established under Spanish rule

circa 1784: Garcia embraces father Junipero Serra granting him access to the entirety of California’s Mission system. This move begins the mistrust between Garcia and DeLarosa.

1788: A delegation of Tzimisce from the Russian American Company demands Alta California be turned over. Both Carlos DeLarosa and Saulla Garcia refuse. San Francisco is attacked and held. Scattered attacks continue for the next few decades.

1803: Purchase pact ends the encroachment of the Tzimisce in San Francisco and San Jose. Garcia is spared retribution as he was able to prove he was only acting in defense.

1804: Camarilla learn of the fortress under San Francisco presidio. Invasion plans begin.

1806: Feud begins between DeLarosa and Garcia, both Cainites cut off support for one another.

1810: Camarilla moves into position, Nosferatu forces infiltrate Alcatraz as an intelligence collection point. Gangrel take Angel Island and muster forces.

1821: First Mexican Empire declared, Camarilla forces flood into the Presidio from their staging points on the Islands. The Presidio is overrun in less than three nights. DeLarosa is slain in the conflict. Domain of San Francisco established. Surviving Sabbat forces fall back to San Jose or Fort Ross.

1822: Junipero Serra publicly paints Garcia as weak because he was unable to stop the invasion of the Camarilla.

1824: Garcia expands San Jose and begins war with Camarilla controlled San Francisco. San Francisco barely holds against combined Lasombra/Tzimisce forces.

1825: Camarilla under Ventrue Prince Charles Alexander begins to expand influence down the peninsula. Garcia scrambles to stop the advance.

1827: Garcia is reported slain.

1828: Camarilla begins to lose ground.

1830: The domain of San Francisco is little more than the Presidio and the port. Camarilla holds on by a thread.

1832: Sabbat forces surround San Francisco. Camarilla loses contact with the city. The fort is presumed lost. The Sabbat, now led by Father Serra, are unable to take the fortress but hold the fort in check for over a decade.

1841: The Sabbat assault weakens for unknown reasons.

1842: Camarilla forces land at Tomales. Camarilla expand their domain into what is now Marin. A badly battered San Francisco is finally given relief. Prince Alexander begins to repair his position.

1845: Camarilla reinforcements cross into New Mexico under the banner of Fremont’s Volunteers. War breaks out between Mexico and the U.S.

1849: Gold discovered in California; San Francisco becomes the dominant domain on the west coast.

1850: San Jose incorporated becomes southern end of the Domain of the Bay. Arguments with Sacramento break out, Prince Karen Ethell (Tremere) fears Alexander is consolidating too much power and appeals to the tower. The tower agrees but does not see a point in splitting up the bay. Capital is moved first to Benicia then to Sacramento.

1853: Prince Alexander is slain on a surveying trip near Mt. Diablo. Praxis is up in the air.

1854: Vannevar Thomas declared Prince of San Francisco. All disputes are quelled. Peace prevails over the Bay.

1855: Rampant development around the bay commences.

1861: Invasion of San Jose begins under Bishop Junipero Serra (of Clan Lasombra). Sabbat has early success and takes back much of the south before pushing into the east bay. The Sabbat are latter routed from san Jose but remain firm in the east.

1863: Sabbat captures San Quentin, Sabbat numbers increase via shovel heads.

1865: Camarilla retakes San Jose and the East Bay

1866: Prince Karen Ethell lodges complaint about the growing power and influence of Domain of the Bay. The tower agrees that the domain should be divided east and west.

1880: Emperor Norton becomes prince of the East Bay after taking Praxis from Kevin Lavant. Norton expands the domain into Fremont.

1906: Great quake and fire occurs, San Francisco burns to the ground. Many kindred are slain in a matter of hours. San Jose is heavily damaged but is spared most of the death.

1910: Domain of the South Bay is split from the Peninsula, creating the Domain of San Francisco and The Domain of the South Bay lead by prince Thomas Fallon (of Clan Ventrue). This move angered Prince Vannevar Thomas and seen as a way to keep his prominence at a minimum.

1917: US entered World War One, the Ventrue of San Jose become exceedingly wealthy.

1918: November 11 Armistice enacted. World War one ends Ventrue lose revenue source.

1920: Prohibition begins. Ventrue, Toreador, and Gangrel form a three-way business alliance in the Santa Clara Valley. Toreador produce illicit alcohol, Gangrel transport it through the wilderness to San Jose, and the Ventrue distribute it throughout the United States. This once more connects the Ventrue to a massive source of wealth and also elevates the local Gangrel, many of whom end up buying land.

1921: Brujah, Nosferatu, and Tremere begin to become dissatisfied with Thomas Fallon’s blatant favoritism of his business alliance. Kosume DeAlba (of Clan Tremere) attempted negotiations with Prince Fallon on behalf of the fledgling alliance.

1923: Diplomacy breaks down, Prince Fallon banishes Kosume DeAlba to the North Bay saying “Go back to the miserable bark teepee you crawled out of Indian swine”. Opposition to Prince Fallon’s rule begins to simmer with a now galvanized resistance.

1925: Prince Fallon courts the rising Hart family, and begins to personally groom Brooke Hart for the embrace.

1927: First Brujah riot occurs, the Tremere and the Nosferatu refuse to participate. Prince Fallon struggles to contain the discontent violence. With the assistance of Emperor Norton Prince of the Domain of the East Bay, Fallon manages to put down the rebellion 35 days later. Retribution against the Brujah is excessive.

1928: Fallon places Selina Solomons (Clan Brujah) under house arrest. No direct reason is given. Prince Fallon appears paranoid. Tremere, Brujah, and Nosferatu alliance is once more galvanized.

1929: Stock market crashes, Great Depression begins.

1930: Firmino Columbo (of Clan Nosferatu) hatches a plan to overthrow Prince Fallon. The plan accounts for the lack of elegance and subtlety expected of the Brujah Contingent. During this time it is believed that Firmino reached out to the Sabbat for assistance - while a popular conspiracy it was never confirmed.

1933: Firmino’s ghouls stalk Brooke Hart and kidnap him outside of a garage in San Jose. He is beaten to death latter the same night and embraced into Clan Nosferatu. The plan goes off without a hitch. Prince Fallon frenzies and expends the cities resources to search for his protege. Meanwhile the Tremere and the Nosferatu lead the police to the two ghouls. After the “body” is found and a confession signed the Brujah quickly instigate a lynch mob amongst the mortals. In the ensuing chaos, the Tremere and the Nosferatu storm Prince Fallon's haven and kill him. Firmino Columbo sizes praxis and becomes Prince of the South Bay. Selina Solomons is freed from house arrest.

1934: Firmino dismantles Fallon's Tri Clan trade deal and moves it into the sole control of the Nosferatu. On the surface he claims control has been turned over to the mortals. Matalise Hansen (Clan Tremere) becomes suspicious of Firmino’s motives.

1935: Matalise begins to quietly investigate Firmino’s activities.

1937: Matalise’ investigation pays off. Using a scrying ritual, Junipero Serra Archbishop of the Bay Area is detected residing within the Fallon house. Tremere prepare to act.

1938: Matalise and a team consisting of a Malkavian, two Brujah, and a Gangrel storm the Fallon house while Serra is believed to be present. They find the two in Firmino’s office and a fierce fight ensues. Matalise, the sole survivor of the assault, summons the primogen and claims praxis over the city. She publicly reports that Serra is dead.

1941: U.S. enters Second World War. Matalise’ rule is challenged by race riots running rampant in the city. Young kindred begin to rebel against her claiming she slandered Firmino.

1942: Sabbat invade the South Bay led by Rufus Henry Ingram, Serra’s eldest childe. He writes a letter claiming the invasion is retribution for his Sire's needless death, publicly claiming in a letter to both San Francisco and the East Bay that “Serra and Firmino were discussing an issue of mutual concern to both sects” and “Matalise’s interference was a flagrant disregard for the banner of truce that the two cainites were meeting under. If you truly do not wish open war you will let us exact our justified vengeance on her head”.
The letter succeeds in dissuading both Norton and Thomas from sending reinforcements. However, Prince London of the North Bay sends his forces to counter the Sabbat threat.

1943: San Jose falls to Rufus Henry Ingram. The already reclusive Emperor Norton of the East Bay retreats into his mansion on Mt. Diablo and is never seen or heard from again.

1944: Anarch Revolt begins.

1945: World War Two ends.

1946: Anarchs rush the still-fragile Sabbat holdings in San Jose and Rufus Henry Ingram is quickly routed. San Jose Joins the Free State. Emboldened, the Anarchs also rush the now disorganized East Bay absorbing it into the Free State, however the Sabbat remain in control of Richmond.

1947: Gang Warfare erupts in the South and East Bay. Prince London plans to invade the Free State by destroying the Sabbat holding in Richmond. The Sabbat repel London and the Anarchs hold the east and south.

1948: MacNeil holds convention in L.A. The Status Perfectus is agreed upon and the council dissolves.

1949: Barony lines are agreed upon. Selina Solomons becomes Baron of San Jose.

1951: Selina Solomons begins rebuilding San Jose, seeking to turn it it to a center of social and technological progress. She first reforms the government to work together as a kindred republic and through massive popularity is elected the first Chief Executive. She uses her influence in the public school system to bring about one of the most efficient public education systems in the U.S.

1952: City planning changes to focus on sprawl and urban development. San Jose begins to transition from an agricultural town to a full sized city.

1955: San Jose becomes wealthiest city in the bay.

1957: Selina Solomons is re-elected. Continues campaign of growth and reform.

1959: Selina Solomons negotiates a non-intervention pact with Vannevar Thomas.

1963: Selina Solomons steps down as Chief Executive. Grundtal VanHoof (of Clan Malkavian) is elected to replace her. He wins on a similar platform to Selina Solomon’s policies. The defeated Benjamin Cruthird (of Clan Brujah) is bitter about the political defeat.

1964: Benjamin leads a revolt of local Brujah and Gangrel against the VanHoof government. The government collapses later that year. The South Bay is left in a state of anarchy.

1965: H.B. Beaver (Childe of Rufus Henry Ingram) leads a Sabbat crusade in the northern Anarch free state. While the main portion of the free state repels the invasion, the now split San Jose Republic falls back into Sabbat hands.

1970: The wealth left behind by the Anarch Republic is depleted. San Jose visibly begins to fall into a state of decay. Prince London urges an immediate invasion of Richmond and San Jose. The severely battered Prince Thomas refuses.

1972: Palo Alto falls to H.P. Beaver.

1977: Moffett Field becomes Moffett Naval Base.

1989: Magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes the west coast. Years of neglect and mismanagement lead to near complete destruction of San Jose. The sprawling suburbs become raging fires that last for almost seven nights. When the ash settles the entirety of the south bay lies in ruins. H.P. Beaver spends a great deal of his own personal fortune to rebuild the city in his image. The new San Jose becomes a maze of concrete and glass, choked in smog; a mockery of its former self.

1991: H.P. Beaver reorganizes San Jose, Alviso, Santa Clara, Campbell, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Milpitas into one city known as Yerba Sur.

1992: Construction of downtown Yerba Sur is completed. Construction of Caine Tower begins. Kosume DeAlba returns to the South Bay to lead a Camarilla resistance. He sets up his headquarters in the upper levels of the sewers with the help of Brooke Hart.

1993: Kosume DeAlba dispatches his ghoul Christopher Palaky to the construction site of Caine Tower to plant a bomb in the base of one of the pillars. The bomb goes unnoticed for two months until it is detonated prematurely. The pillar is damaged and construction is set back about a year. Christopher was never caught and the operation was blamed on the same organization as World Trade Center bombings in New York.

1994: Prince Jack London is impressed by Kosume DeAlba’s infiltration of the south and begins to fund him via General Vallejo (Ventrue). The two kindred meet face to face four times a year to deliver funding and discuss plans. DeAlba begins to sabotage the city’s infrastructure with the help of Brooke Hart.

1995: Brooke Hart is able to drive the Sabbat Nosferatu from the sewers. H.P. Beaver begins to tout Yerba Sur as the New Capital for the Sabbat in the U.S.

1996: Caine Tower is completed. H.P. Beaver convinces the Apple corporation to headquarter in the western suburbs. H.P. Beaver arranges civic policy to give the company and its employees preferential treatment in the city.

1997: Word leaks to Kosume DeAlba that Sabbat dignitaries from Mexico City will be present for a Palla Grande rite in 1998. Battle plans are drawn to storm Caine Tower during the festivities. Prince London commits two teams to Kosume’s effort.

1998: Kosume DeAlba leads the charge personally against Caine Tower; using a combination of thaumaturgy and rituals, four teams breach security undetected. Sentries did not detect the presence of Camarilla loyalists until the second-to-last line of security had been breached. The Sabbat inside scrambled into defensive position and quickly outmanned the invaders six to one. Teams two and team four were completely annihilated; team three suffered heavy casualties (only two survived) and team one barely managed an escape with the surviving members of team three.

1999: Kosume DeAlba has his support reduced, and is forced to lay low in the sewers. To complicate the matters the Week of Nightmares occurs bolstering Sabbat activities and weakening the standing of the Camarilla. DeAlba falls back to Palo Alto.

2000: Sabbat forces flow into the city seemingly by the hundreds. Yerba Sur becomes a Sabbat stronghold seemingly overnight. H.P. Beaver begins to invest heavily in Cainite-related infrastructure. The airport is doubled in size, the port is dredged, the naval base expanded.

2001: 9/11 occurs throwing H.P. Beaver’s plans into a tail spin. Security around the city’s transportation tightens. The plans for the airport and port expansions still go forward, however plans to make them opulent expressions of Sabbat power wither on the vine.

2002: Increased security and a very large Cainite population make Yerba Sur ripe for hunters. Hundreds of mortal hunters flood into the city and begin to attack Sabbat packs all over the city.

2003: Iraq invasion begins. The Naval base at Yerba Sur becomes a hotspot for protests. Kosume DeAlba reaches out to the Brujah of San Francisco for aid. Still upset with the 1998 setback, Kosume DeAlba receives minimal support save for one elder, Allen Schneider (Brujah). Allen embraces two of the protesters: Maximillian Anderson and Alexi Strouse. Allen’s presence begins to draw more support to Kosume Alba's cause.

2004: Protests continue albeit only the truly radical remain. Kosume DeAlba begins to regroup.

2005: First North City riots occur and are put down violently by H.P. Beaver. Kosume DeAlba sees an opportunity in the unrest within the decaying city.

2006: Kosume DeAlba relocates his base of operations to the suburbs of West City.

2007: Rapidly inflating housing costs put strain on North and South City. Kosume DeAlba tries to instigate another round of violence, but it fails to take hold.

2008: Real estate bubble pops, the foreclosure crisis sends West Yerba into a tail spin. Thousands relocate to city center's various districts. Many from North City are forced out of their apartments to make way for the slightly less poor. Alpine Park becomes the largest homeless encampment in the world.

2009: City Center is listed Worst Real Estate Market in the U.S. Thousands of poor and homeless flood the streets and infrastructure projects grind to a halt, save H.P. Beaver’s pet projects which continue with opulence and grandeur.

2010: Second North City riots occur. Angry mortals storm city hall and set it ablaze; rioters target Caine Tower the next day but are repelled by security forces.

2011: Sabbat packs begin to flee the city. H.P. Beaver desperately appeals to Richmond for assistance.

2012: Kosume DeAlba once more appeals to San Francisco and the North Bay. London once more sends two teams of volunteers, Vannevar Thomas sends one team.

2013: A Sabbat defector begins to feed information to the Camarilla, including information about extreme tensions between H.P. Beaver and the Sabbat of Richmond. Kosume DeAlba Begins to plan a second assault on Caine Tower, the defector urges patience.

2014: H.P. Beaver tries to reclaim his standing by hosting a blood feast at Caine Tower. Kosume DeAlba acts quickly and frees the captured mortals while they are in transit. H.P. Beaver looks like a fool.

2015: H.P. Beaver attempts to lead a hunt against Kosume DeAlba. Kosume DeAlba leads the Sabbat pack directly into an ambush. The Sabbat are overwhelmed and the domain plunges into open war. The Tower senses H.P. Beaver’s weakness and sends Archon Ivan the Fourth to Yerba to oversee the war.

2016: With full Camarilla support Prince London and Prince Thomas commit more kindred to the cause. Sabbat hold on the South Bay weakens as pressure begins to build in West Yerba. Third North City Riots occur at the same time, this time spurred by Allen Schneider and Alexi Strouse. The riots provide much needed cover as Kosume closes in on City Center.