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Dark Aether Story
Key events in approximate story order. Uncertain dates are labeled — nothing here invents precision.
Wolfram Von List bonds with Kortifex the Deathless and turns occult research into an undead army. Allied operators answer by bonding with rival Dark Aether entities and eventually confront Kortifex in Egypt.
After the Soviet unit sent to close Projekt Endstation reaches the facility, Kazimir Zykov enters the Dark Aether to seal the breach from within. The site is buried, but Zykov remains trapped beyond it.
Requiem investigates a Dark Aether breach at the Morasko facility, launching the modern continuity.
The Die Maschine breach becomes an international arms race. Requiem responds to growing Outbreak Zones while Omega builds extraction, portal and inversion technology around refined Aetherium.
Aleksandra Valentina tears open a breach beneath divided Berlin while the Forsaken manipulates events from inside the Dark Aether. Requiem’s strike team defeats her and Klaus carries the warhead through the portal.
Requiem lures the Forsaken — the entity that was once Zykov — into containment, ending the Dark Aether crisis it spent the whole war chasing. The reward: the senior staff are arrested on the orders of Requiem’s own unseen Director, revealed as Edward Richtofen.
Five years after taking the fall, the ex-Requiem team breaks out of the Terminus blacksite prison while a Dark Aether outbreak swallows Liberty Falls, West Virginia. Behind both stands Richtofen’s Project Janus — and the search for Samantha Maxis runs through the whole campaign.
Black Ops 7 picks up after Reckoning with the story set inside the Dark Aether itself, where colliding timelines strand an eight-person crew in the wastes and a figure called the Warden commands the Shadowsmiths against them.