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== [[TV Series Timeline Guide|Timeline]] of Major Events ==

Conflicts, particularly rebellions, were a common occurrence aboard ''Snowpiercer'' due to the drastic difference in treatment from that of Third Class and the Tailies.

===[[Year Two Rebellion]]===
The Year Two Rebellion occurred two years after ''Snowpiercer'' departed Chicago. According to [[Pike]], the Jackboots managed to lock the rebels out of the rest of the subtrain, but the rebels were able to compromise the door hinges (locks) and managed to open them. While stopping Wilford's EMP weapon, Pike, [[Lights]] and [[Strong Boy]] were able to use this to throw it off of the train.

===[[Year Three Rebellion]]===
The Year Three Rebellion occurred three years after ''Snowpiercer'' departed Chicago. According to Andre Layton, the Tailies fought like an army but had no idea what was in each car as they proceeded uptrain, as they had never been that far. It is unknown how successful this revolt was or how far exactly they made it uptrain, but they seem to know about the battery cars and sanitation due to sanitation duties and previous revolts. During this revolution, the Tailies used fertilizer bombs created by [[Lights]]. Only the Tailie War Council knew of the existence of Lights' cookbook containing recipes for bombs and other such weapons.

=== Failed Insurrection===
After Old Ivan hangs himself, Pike and several other Tailies lead a small insurrection, using the excuse of the dead body of Old Ivan to get the Jackboots to open the doors. The Tailies only made it one car, due to the jackboots responding to the situation quickly. The insurrection ended with Andre Layton talking down Pike and his fellow Tailies, with Pike as well as two other Tailies being put in the Drawers.

===First ''Snowpiercer'' War===
Following Pike's failed insurrection, [[Andre Layton]] began planning another one using his access as the new Train Detective to recruit others to their cause and gain access to other parts of the train. Layton was able to unite the Tailies and Third Class to overthrow Melanie Cavill's rule. The War exploded into a multifronted civil war when First Class's frustration with the disasters led to the discovery that Mr. Wilford was, in fact, a myth. Cavill was arrested and sentenced to death by lung of ice while the [[Jackboots]], under the leadership of [[Commander Grey]], [[Robert Folger]] and [[Lilah Folger]] worked to take full control of ''Snowpiercer'' for themselves.

The rebels, led by Layton infiltrated various sections of ''Snowpiercer'' for their weaknesses and managed to plant three of their own in the drawers to be resuscitated when the time was right while young [[Miles]] was in the Engine itself as an Engineer Apprentice. In this role, Miles helped to trigger the civil war by revealing the truth about Mr. Wilford's absence to [[LJ Folger]]. The [[Brakemen]], under the command of [[Roche]], chose to remain neutral and get out of the way of the rebel army when confronted with Layton and [[Bess Till]], a Brakeman who had chosen to side with Layton fully.

The first battle of the War in the Nightcar turned into a stalemate with both sides taking heavy losses and being forced to retreat. [[Pike]] was removed from the Drawers by [[Commander Grey]] and the Folgers and suggested that with enough pressure, Layton would fold which came in the form of a threat that Grey and the Folgers would kill everyone if they didn't surrender. After learning that [[Zarah]] was pregnant with his baby, Layton decided to surrender.

The War came to a head when Melanie managed to escape execution with the help of [[the Notary]], [[Jinju Seong]] and [[Javier De La Torre]]. Melanie then defected to Layton's side, knowing that the train wouldn't survive in the hands of the Folgers and believing that Layton might do a better job of leading the survivors of humanity than she ever did. Melanie presented the rebel army with a plan: as the Jackboot army was all in one place, separating part of the train would send them all to die in [[the Freeze]]. However, the plan required two safety switches to be flipped, one on each side of the separation, while Miles and [[Bennett Knox]] would handle the rest from the Engine. Melanie would be able to handle the switch downtrain while Layton agreed to go behind enemy lines in order to get the other switch. [[Martin Colvin]], not wanting the Folgers to be in power, secretly supplied [[Miss Gillies]] with a gun which she managed to hide in the subtrain. Till then recruited Roche to help Layton get behind enemy lines by taking him to the Folgers under the guise of a surrender.

In the [[Classroom (C0355)|Classroom car]], the Folgers held a ceremony where Layton officially surrendered to them before Roche, Grey and two Jackboots took him towards First to broadcast his surrender over the train's PA system. As they left, the Folgers made it clear to Grey that they were going to be in charge once the War was over. Once in the subtrain, Roche locked the door and confronted the Jackboots with the gun smuggled in by Miss Giles. At the same time, Melanie pulled the safety switch and Miles detached the rear half of the train from the seven cars. Seeing this, the Folgers realized that Third had never been the rebel army's target. In the subtrain, a fight broke out between Roche, Layton and the three Jackboots, but the two rebels were overpowered and Roche was knocked unconscious. Before Grey could execute Layton, [[the Last Australian]] arrived with [[Strong Boy]] and [[Z-Wreck]] whom he had rescued from the Drawers. The three overpowered Grey and his men, but Layton had them leave the Jackboots unconscious and flee with Roche uptrain for safety.

Emerging on the other side of the seven cars, Layton discovered that the last car in the seven held the revolution prisoners. Layton attempted to free his friends, but couldn't in time and was forced to abandon them to die with the Jackboot army. After Layton pulled the safety switch, Miles disconnected the seven cars and Bennett send them away onto a switch track, leaving the Folgers, minus LJ who had remained in First, Grey and the Jackboot army to freeze to death. Miles and Bennett then reconnected the rest of the train.

In the aftermath of the Jackboot defeat, Melanie officially handed over control of ''Snowpiercer'' to Andre Layton, ending the war. Melanie subsequently made a train wide announcement of the handover of power and Layton began planning for a new democratic government. Free of the Tail, the Tailies began running wild enjoying their new freedom with the Brakemen struggling to maintain some semblance of order. The War left 147 people dead in the detached section of the train, a number of others dead from the Nightcar battle and over a hundred wounded. ''Snowpiercer'' itself also suffered damage from the separation which left 37 Battery Cars offline even after the train was reconnected. The only known survivors on First's side were LJ Folger, [[Ruth Wardell]] and at least a dozen Jackboots who were in First when the Jackboot army was eliminated. After the fall of their leaders, the surviving Jackboots were no longer a problem and were disbanded by Layton.

The Tailies victory in the War and the overthrow of the old government was short-lived due to the arrival of ''[[Big Alice]]'' and the real [[Joseph Wilford|Mr. Wilford]] shortly thereafter.

===''Snowpiercer''—''Big Alice'' War===
{{Quote|It's gonna be a long, cold war.|Layton at the beginning of the war}}
Shortly after the victory in the First ''Snowpiercer'' War, the supply train ''[[Big Alice]]'' arrived while ''Snowpiercer'' approached its starting point of Chicago. Believing that they desperately needed the supplies on ''Big Alice'', [[Bennett Knox]] hid its arrival from [[Melanie Cavill]] who knew that the train likely contained the real [[Joseph Wilford|Mr. Wilford]] who would want ''Snowpiercer'' back. Despite an attempt to outrun ''Big Alice'', the other train latched onto ''Snowpiercer'' hacked into its systems and began bringing it to a stop. Melanie headed outside in an effort to break Wilford's control over ''Snowpiercer'', but was thrown from the train when Wilford shut down its systems and brought it to a halt in the middle of Chicago.

Cutting into the tail of ''Snowpiercer'', [[Alexandra Cavill|Alexandra "Alex" Cavill]], Melanie's believed-dead daughter, emerged to demand ''Snowpiercer's'' surrender on Wilford's behalf. The passengers reluctantly provided ''Big Alice'' with a list of items demanded by Wilford while Melanie, after recovering from her fall, used a small axe to cut Wilford's uplink into ''Snowpiercer's'' systems, restoring system control to the Engine. However, Melanie had drained ''Snowpiercer's'' batteries too much trying to outrun ''Big Alice'', meaning that ''Snowpiercer'' could never move on its own again. Melanie planted a bomb on the connecting mechanism of ''Big Alice'' and before boarding the other train, noticed that it was snowing outside despite the planet being too cold for snow.

Onboard ''Big Alice'', Wilford demanded that Melanie surrender ''Snowpiercer'' to him, but she refused as it was now [[Andre Layton]]'s train. On ''Snowpiercer'', Layton had the rebel army set up a border in the Tail and reluctantly declared martial law. Layton authorized [[Ruth Wardell]] to work on diplomacy, but later led a failed incursion into ''Big Alice'' to rescue Melanie, capturing [[Kevin]] as a hostage. In retaliation, Wilford stopped the trains and attempted to disconnect from ''Snowpiercer'', leave the passengers to die and then return to retrieve the train afterwards. However, the bomb that Melanie had planted earlier destroyed ''Big Alice's'' connecting mechanism as Wilford had overbuilt it, something that Melanie had warned him about before. As a result, ''Snowpiercer'' and ''Big Alice'' were left permanently connected. With no other choice, Wilford reluctantly started the trains moving again.

Wilford warned Melanie that even with the trains still linked, they could slow down and choke off ''Snowpiercer's'' power supply and ecosystems which Melanie pointed out will also negatively effect ''Big Alice''. Wilford explained that ''Big Alice'' had been through some tough times and the crew was used to living below zero so they would survive, but Melanie is undeterred. On ''Snowpiercer'', Layton and Roche interrogated Kevin using the promise of fresh food and learn from him that there was around a hundred people on ''Big Alice'' and that they were hungry, having no fresh food, just canned stuff. Wilford later traded Melanie for Kevin and subsequently compelled Kevin into committing suicide for betraying information about him.

At the same time, [[Bess Till]], promoted to Train Detective by Layton, investigated an attack on [[Lights]] in which two of her fingers were brutally amputated with an axe. Till later realized that Lights' fingers were severed in such a way as to mimic the W for Wilford that Wilford and his supporters flashed as a salute. Till and [[Roche]] came to believe that the [[Breachmen]], fiercely loyal to Wilford, were responsible. However, [[Bojan Boscovic]] insisted that he at least had nothing to do with it despite his loyalty to Wilford.

Upon her return to ''Snowpiercer'', Melanie revealed her discovery, although Alex had destroyed her snow sample. Melanie believed that it meant that [[CW-7]] was breaking up in the atmosphere and falling to Earth, meaning that the planet was warming and could potentially be recolonized in their lifetime rather than in a thousand years as all of their previous climate models had predicted. Javi launched a [[weather balloon]] into the upper atmosphere which proved that temperatures were rising. Needing supplies from ''Big Alice'', Melanie and Layton invited Wilford to a scientific summit in First Class Dining where Melanie revealed to the population of both trains their discovery. Wilford's scientists, the Headwoods, confirmed that Melanie's theory was in fact possible and she proposed a plan to use a research station in the Rocky Mountains to study the climate change and hopefully find a place that they could recolonize. This would require Melanie going for a month to man the station and in exchange, Wilford agreed to cease hostilities between the two trains. As he left, Wilford called off Alex's planned assassination attempt on Layton.

After the summit, the two trains began negotiating and trading with Layton offering food in exchange for the much-needed supplies to repair ''Snowpiercer''. After a harrowing journey on the stretch of track known as Neckbreaker, Melanie departed for the research station, having bonded somewhat with Alex and reassured her that if Alex chose, she had people on ''Snowpiercer'' that she could rely on. During this time, Wilford had the Headwoods work on lowering the temperature that [[Icy Bob]] could survive at, warning them to expect to have maybe half of the month to succeed in his request.

Three days after Melanie's departure, Wilford offered to have the Headwoods treat ''Snowpiercer's'' frostbite patients, of which there were 14, including Josie, the rest being from the failed incursion into ''Big Alice''. Layton became suspicious of the nature of the offer due to Josie's condition and suspected that Wilford had someone passing him that information. Layton ultimately accepted the offer and in turn invited Wilford and some of his crew to a night out on ''Snowpiercer''. However, Josie's condition was such that the Headwoods determined that she needed a more dedicated treatment on ''Big Alice'' which Josie accepted, both because it was her only chance of recovery and in the hopes of finding out some useful information while on the other train. Wilford, [[Sykes]], Alex, [[Oiler Bob]], [[Emilia]] and another passenger enjoyed a night out in the Nightcar while Wilford reconnected with [[Miss Audrey]], his former paramour. Emilia bonded with [[the Last Australian|Murray]], both having previously believed themselves to be the last Australian while Alex and [[LJ Folger]] bonded. ''Snowpiercer'' launched the first of its [[weather balloon]]s and after a tense moment when it reached the correct height, Melanie made contact, proving that she had in fact survived her journey to the research station. However, the crew lost contact with Melanie after launching the last balloon, leading to fears that she had perished.

As time went on, the situation on ''Snowpiercer'' began to spiral out of control due to the actions of Wilford loyalists. Things got worse when [[Miss Audrey]] defected completely to Wilford's side and the [[Breachmen]], aside from [[Bojan Boscovic]], were assassinated by Wilford loyalists which looked to the rest of the train like retaliation for the attack on Lights. At the same time, Layton had [[Terence]] assassinated by [[Pike]] for threatening Josie. Till managed to identify [[Eugenia]] as the murderer of [[Cherry Sherry]] and [[Pastor Logan]] as the mastermind behind the attacks, but Pastor Logan committed suicide after getting caught. People all throughout the train signaled to Wilford using red lanterns and Wilford had Icy Bob prepared.

On Wilford's orders, Icy Bob sabotaged ''Snowpiercer's'' port intakes, but the cold proved to be too much for even Icy Bob to survive unprotected. Healed of her injuries, Josie discovered that she had developed a cold resistance similar to Icy Bob as a result of the Headwoods treatment while rumors surfaced that the surviving [[Jackboots]] had rebuilt a command. After removing a railroad spike from the water intake, Boki realized that Wilford was in fact responsible for the events and switched sides completely to Layton. Due to damage to ''Snowpiercer's'' God module from the sabotage, Layton was forced to allow Wilford back onboard in order to fix the problem, but Melanie's modifications forced him to allow Wilford to orchestrate a manual restart of the Engine in order to fix the problem. With ''Snowpiercer'' now on Wilford's side, Layton lost control of the train and was arrested by the once again active Jackboots while Roche and his family were put into [[the Drawers]] on ''Big Alice''.

After taking control of ''Snowpiercer'', Wilford had a census performed which Alex, now completely disillusioned from Wilford, revealed was intended to help him cull the train's population in order to save on resources as Wilford had done with half of the crew on ''Big Alice'' following the Freeze. Wilford opened a carnival on ''Snowpiercer'' while Layton was forced to work in Compost on ''Big Alice'' and Josie's new abilities were tested by the Headwoods. Having learned that ''Snowpiercer'' had lost contact with Melanie, Wilford used it as an excuse not to go back for her. After Ruth refused to announce this to the trains, Wilford had her sent to Compost with Layton. However, Javi, now working under guard in ''Big Alice's'' Engine, received a radio message from Melanie that he hid from Wilford and managed to send a note letting Layton and Ruth know.

Working together, Layton and Ruth were able to kill their guard and escape and found Alex who directed them to a secret entrance into ''Big Alice's'' Engine. As Alex distracted Wilford, Layton and Ruth killed two Jackboots and helped Javi take control of the Engine and coordinate with Bennett to go back for Melanie. Bennett was able to overpower and capture Sykes while Layton and Ruth were smuggled back aboard ''Snowpiercer''. However, [[LJ Folger]] saw through Alex's deception and warned Wilford. Wilford and the Jackboots managed to break into ''Big Alice's'' Engine and Javi was mauled by [[Jupiter]]. Wilford overpowered Bennett's efforts to stop the train, leaving Melanie behind at the side of the tracks. Wounding Wilford, Alex managed to escape to ''Snowpiercer'' through the subtrain.

Linking up with Layton and Boki, Alex proposed separating the first ten cars of ''Snowpiercer'' at [[The Aquarium]], in effect creating a separate [[Pirate Train]], in order to go after Melanie and her data and resist Wilford outside of his influence. Boki confirmed that ''Big Alice'' would be able to handle powering all of the remaining cars, but it would hobble Wilford while leaving Layton's crew with a smaller, faster train to evade him with. Having captured Miss Audrey, Layton decided to take her along as a hostage due to her importance to Wilford while Zarah chose to remain behind due to the danger to her and Layton's baby. Wilford sent Josie to breach ''Snowpiercer's'' Engine so that he could retake control of the train completely, but Bennett made radio contact with Josie and redirected her to the Aquarium. An attempt by Boki to disconnect the cars was interrupted by a Jackboot attack while Wilford realized what Layton was up to. On Bennett's orders, Josie breached the Aquarium, destroying the entire car and apparently killing Boki and the Jackboots still in the subtrain but separating the first ten cars of ''Snowpiercer'' from the rest of the train. However, Ruth was left behind after being delayed from reaching the others in time by Kevin and leaving Layton with Bennett, Josie, Till, Alex and the captive Audrey and Sykes as his crew.

=== [[Pirate Train|Pirate Train]] ===
The Pirate Train returned to the research station for Melanie, but Layton and Alex only found her drives containing Melanie's data and a letter explaining that Melanie had sacrificed the last of her power to protect the drives and their vital data while she walked out into the Freeze to die after running out of resources. Melanie's data revealed several warm areas around the globe and Layton ordered his new crew to go and get their people back.

Over the next six months, Layton and his crew searched for a habitable location without success, eventually finding a survivor, [[Asha]], in a power plant in North Korea. Sykes became a member of the crew, claiming that she was simply doing her part as a prisoner of war, but showing a possible wavering loyalty to Wilford. It's also revealed that [[Martin Colvin]] had become an accidental stowaway on the Pirate Train. During this time, ''Big Alice'' and ''Snowpiercer'' became a "rolling gulag" under Wilford's rule, with First Class decommissioned for the time being and everyone forced to work. Due to ''Big Alice'' powering the two trains alone, the passengers were forced to live in freezing temperatures with low power. However, Wilford chose not to go through with a culling due to Layton having Miss Audrey as a hostage. In Layton's absence, a secret resistance against Wilford continued to operate, now under the leadership of Ruth Wardell who foiled a plot by Wilford to use an EMP weapon to disable the Pirate Train upon its return.

After detecting the detonation of the EMP weapon, the Pirate Train returned and lured Wilford's train into a game of cat and mouse in a railyard where the maze of tracks gave the smaller and nimbler Pirate Train the advantage. However, Wilford managed to damage the Pirate Train with a harpoon, forcing Alex and Bennett to disconnect the last four cars in order to prevent a derailment while Kevin captured several revolutionaries and tortured [[Strong Boy]] in the Night Car. After Wilford managed to avoid detection by going dark, an imprisoned Ruth had Pike set off ''Snowpiercer's'' fireworks from Hospitality as a signal, causing Wilford to make a run for it. However, ''Big Alice'' lacked the power to get out and was cut off by the Pirate Train and brought to a stop. After a failed attempt to negotiate Wilford's surrender, Wilford cut power to his train and threatened to let everyone freeze if they didn't reconnect. Bennett agreed and Wilford dispatched a Jackboot boarding party to retake the Pirate Train. However, Layton and Josie snuck off of the Pirate Train during the negotiations while Wilford was distracted with Miss Audrey and Bennett discreetly signaled Javi who secretly opened an airlock in ''Big Alice's'' Engine. As the Pirate Train came around from the other direction to reconnect, Josie created a distraction by pretending to breach ''Big Alice's'' Engine, giving Layton the chance to sneak aboard and overpower Wilford. Layton forced Wilford to call off the boarding party and publicly surrender the train to him. With both trains now under Layton's control, the Pirate Train reconnected, restoring full power to ''Big Alice'' and ''Snowpiercer''. With Kevin having tortured Strong Boy to death, [[LJ Folger]] killed him for his crime so that she and Oz would be seen as being on the right side of the revolution in history.

=== Heading to New Eden ===
In the aftermath, Wilford was imprisoned aboard ''Big Alice'', although he expressed confidence to Josie that Layton's leadership would eventually fail once again. Till and [[Doctor Pelton]] rescued [[Sam Roche]] and his family from the Drawers, but they discovered that Anne Roche had died at some point while locked up in them. Sykes, now trusted by Layton after her help on the Pirate Train, exiled Miss Audrey to Third Class and banned her from the Night Car on Layton's orders, stating that Miss Audrey had chosen the wrong side. Layton decided to hold a vote on going to the Horn of Africa which, according to Ruth, had possibly the worst stretch of track in the network. However, he had Asha lie that he had found her in [[New Eden]] to help get people to vote for going. With a nearly two-to-one vote in favor, Layton's council agreed with the plan and ''Snowpiercer'' and ''Big Alice'' set out for the Horn of Africa.

Wilford later enlists Alex's help with performing some calculations before revealing that he has created a map of the Pirate Train's course and ''Big Alice's'' hunt for it. Wilford explains that about three months into the search, he had thought that he'd caught a break, a track switch signal near Marseilles that ''Big Alice'' had followed and found no sign of them. However, Alex points out that the Pirate Train was on a different continent at the time which means it wasn't them. While Alex thinks that it could have been a malfunction, Wilford believes that it was Melanie and that she is still alive out there somewhere.

By checking out the power of various track switches, Bennett and Alex find a trail leading back to Neckbreaker where Melanie was last seen. The two theorize that Melanie could've reached a hanger on Neckbreaker and taken one of the automated vehicles stored there. However, they can't be sure that she's still alive as the vehicles are bare-bones and not equipped with supplies to support life. ''Snowpiercer'' is diverted to follow the course of Melanie's vehicle and, after passing through a toxic cloud of gas with Asha's sacrificing herself, Bennett and Alex pick up the vehicle's signal nearby. Melanie is eventually rescued

Three days after being rescued, Melanie awakens with Alex by her side. Melanie is happily reunited with her friends and especially Bennett. However, Melanie becomes concerned as she goes over the data on the Horn of Africa and consults with Wilford who reminds Melanie that the data doesn't support Layton's belief in New Eden and the track going there was unsafe eight years ago and will only have gotten worse over time. Layton dismisses Melanie's concerns and she observes the party as the trains pass the Pyramids of Giza. Returning to Hospitality, Melanie makes an announcement to the train, praising the unity that she has seen for the first time that was created by the dream of New Eden. However, Melanie betrays Layton and reveals the truth about his lie to the train. With the help of an enraged [[Javier De La Torre|Javi]], Melanie seizes First and the Engine, locking Layton and Bennett out.

As tensions rise with only twenty-four hours until the turn to the Horn of Africa, Melanie is confronted with the reality of her decisions and how far she is willing to go, especially with Alex angry at her and Ruth ultimately siding with Layton. Melanie makes a deal with Wilford, believing that a united front between their factions will force Layton to back down, but she remains uneasy with it. Layton later calls Melanie and together the two recognize that they no longer want the train to be ruled by fear or bloodshed which only plays right into Wilford's hands. Instead, Melanie pretends to accept Wilford's offer to use [[Liana Layton|Liana]] to force Layton to surrender in order to lure him into a trap. Together, Melanie and Layton exile Wilford on the [[Track Scaler]] with a supply of the suspension drug and stimulants, placing Wilford in the same position that Melanie was left in for six months.

=== Splitting in Two ===
Melanie and Layton subsequently make a joint announcement to the trains, offering everyone a choice: stay on ''[[Snowpiercer]]'' under Melanie or leave on ''[[Big Alice]]'' for New Eden. Melanie promises to no longer lead by fear but through science and truth. As everyone makes their choice, Bennett predicts that the train has a decade or two at most left and agrees to join Melanie when she promises to give him her all. The train was divided in Ag-Sec, Some cars of Snowpiercer went to New Eden with Big Alice. While Snowpiercer continue circling around the world in the main track.