Timeline / Ratchet & Clank

"When you're deep in crunch, it's very easy to say 'people won't notice'. But the hardcore do, I promise you, they always do. They will YouTube it, they will wiki it, they will tweet it at you angrily, they will evangelize or eviscerate your work, I've had both done, I can give you a guess as to which one is better."

—Ratchet & Clank writer TJ Fixman (Tools of Destruction to Into the Nexus), "15 Years of Ratchet & Clank: A Lombax Story" panel at GDC 2018

This is a (work-in-progress) timeline of events that have occurred in the Ratchet & Clank universe. For clarity regarding past media, all spoilers will be unmarked. You have been warned.

Notes:

• The original Ratchet & Clank game released in 2002 stated that, via fictional magazine covers that be found in its gallery section, the first game occurs in the year of 5354, with the year itself being composed of fictional months ("Octogus", "Marchember", "Mayjune") with a single one of them having upwards to 95 days. However, due to this dating style not appearing in any of the following games (along with how the in-universe written language tends to portrayed as alien symbols in later games), combined with how a 2010 wall calendar based on the series dates everything in the same months and days as Earth's calendar, it may be possible that this dating style has been quietly dropped. While this infers that time in the Ratchet & Clank universe uses the same units of measurement that we do, the games here will not be dated by specific years.
• It can be assumed via in-game dialogue that all the games occur in relative real time, with Clank's awakening in A Crack in Time happening "over a year" since Dr. Nefarious began experimenting on him in Quest for Booty, parallel to the games' release dates. However, this may change as of Rift Apart due to the much longer Sequel Gap between it and Into the Nexus.
  • However, it is less clear as to when non-Insomniac titles such as Size Matters take place (Size Matters itself seems to occur after Up Your Arsenal but sometime before Tools of Destruction), and assuming that Insomniac's claim that all the games are canon is absolute, the same applies to the mobile games Going Mobile and Before the Nexus. For simplicity, the mobile games will not be listed here.
• While events will mostly be listed on a by-installment basis, individual events that occur before or parallel to the games' stories will be listed chronologically alongside the games they were revealed in. While on the topic, official lore revealed outside of Ratchet & Clank media will need to be sourced within this subpage. Any harder-to-find in-game lore, such as from pause screen info or A Crack in Time's space radio news broadcasts, will need to be given a more specific origin.
• If later Ratchet & Clank media retcons or revises previous information, the newer information will take hold unless the previously stated info is more in-depth and makes more sense in the context of canon. In the case of the 2016 movie and tie-in game, any clear information that does not contradict the original continuity (such as full character names) will carry over to said original continuity as detail.

Pre-series

Eons ago

• Technomites, tiny super-advanced aliens from the Solana planet of Challax, invented the technology that would come to be used by the Solana Galaxy in the coming eons. Eventually, the Technomites would fade into obscurity, eventually being considered only a children's fairy tale by the majority of the populace. (Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters)
• In the Polaris Galaxy, the IRIS Supercomputer, a powerful machine with an IQ of three billion, is built on the planet-like Kreeli Comet for an unknown purpose, with the squid-like Terachnoid race evidently assisting in its design. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time space radio commercial)
• The Fongoid race, a mammal-like species from the technologically advanced Polaris planet of Torren IV, are gifted the power to time travel by the Zoni, energy beings from another dimension who travel through time and space naturally. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
  • Adult Fongoid males eventually gain a strange verbal tic as a result of this excessive time travel. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time Galactic Trivia loading screens)
• After three thousand years' worth of the Fongoids' time travel, the countless time paradoxes created lead to the space-time continuum being worn thin and tearing, resulting in a spontaneous explosion that destroys eighty-three planets and moons, with the rest of the cosmos being put at great risk of a similar fate. Given how this event is heavily implied to be the "Erebus Supernova" mentioned by certain characters, the largest supernova in recorded Polaris history and one which resulted in a "time-space catastrophe", it and the aforementioned cataclysm will be treated as one and the same in this subpage. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, along with the same game's space radio news and Galactic Trivia loading screens)
  • Among the locales annihilated by this Erebus Supernova is the original colony of the robotic Valkyrie species. The survivors of this event begin a pilgrimage to the planet Vapedia, and once arriving at the planet three decades later, all male Valkyries are exiled for failing to ask for directions. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, along with the same game's Galactic Trivia loading screens)
  • As another side effect of the Erebus Supernova, rifts to an alternate dimension known as the "Netherverse" begin to appear within the Zarkov sector at the edge of the Polaris Galaxy. (Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus)
• To counteract the damage done to the space-time continuum by the Fongoids, the Zoni and their leader Orvus create the Great Clock, a giant mechanical construct situated at the edge of the Polaris Galaxy as well as the exact center of the universe (give or take fifty feet). The Clock's purpose is to thus act as a pacemaker for the universe, maintaining temporal stability across it via fixing paradoxes and other abnormalities. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
  • Orvus locks himself within the Great Clock to prevent anyone from misusing it for selfish gain. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time Galactic Trivia loading screens)
• The Fongoids are stripped of their time-travel ability in response to the Erebus Supernova, dismantle their technology and abandon their city on Torren IV for other worlds. From this point onwards, they live as a tribal civilization, divided into smaller, individual villages and abhorring most forms of technology. Exceptions in this regard are given to regular resupply ships, as well as an unknown form of travel between planets. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, along with the same game's Galactic Trivia loading screens)
• The Cragmites, an arthropod-like militaristic species from the Polaris planet of Reepor, begin invading other worlds across the Polaris Galaxy and beyond, draining many worlds of their resources in the process and even outright destroying some of them. With enough time, almost all of Polaris is conquered under the Great Cragmite Empire, with the worlds of Allied Polaris being the only major resistance to their might. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• Around the time of the Cragmites' campaign, a Cragmite warrior known as Bagogg crash-lands on the planet of Toranux. For years, he evades and fights off the Loki, the planet's indigenous species of spirit-like creatures. Once escaping the planet, he returns to Reepor and uses a class-three planet-smasher to blast Toranux into pieces, but unbeknownst to him the Loki survive within the planet's intact fragments, one of which eventually crashes on the large-yet-backwater world of Magnus. The tale of "Bagogg and the Loki" would eventually become a children's story among the Cragmites. (Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One)
• The Lombaxes, a feline-like species from the Polaris planet of Fastoon, begin a resistance movement against the Great Cragmite Empire's reign, starting a conflict that would be known as the "Great War". With the Lombaxes' technological ingenuity backing up the rest of Allied Polaris, the resistance movement gains equal footing against the Cragmites. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• A shard from the dimension-hopping Surinox Comet falls through Fastoon's atmosphere, eventually being discovered and reverse-engineered by the Lombaxes. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)
• The Center for Advanced Lombax Research brings together eight of Fastoon's greatest minds together to design the Dimensionator, a device powered by the Surinox shard that allows its user to open rifts to other realities. After their architects in Breegus Minor complete the Dimensionator model, the Lombaxes thus use this technology to banish the Cragmites to a dying star in dimension X2-49, effectively ending the Great War overnight. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)
  • The general populace of Polaris assumes the Lombaxes simply atomized the Cragmites using a weapon known as the "Lombax Secret", but hails them as saviors regardless. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• As a result of the Great War's conclusion, a power vacuum forms in the Polaris Galaxy, making it a hostile environment even with the Cragmites gone. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)

Modern history

• Lombax trillium miners on the Kreeli Comet discover and thaw out a Cragmite egg that was frozen during the Great War. Out of pity, the miners take him back to Fastoon and raise him as one of their own, christening him as "Percival Tachyon". (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• Despite being relatively peaceful at first, the young Tachyon eventually learns of his true origins, and begins scheming to bring back the Cragmites out of hatred for the Lombaxes. To this end, he constructs the first generation of the robotic Polaris space pirates, using them to steal and salvage technology from various locations across the galaxy. After enough resources are amassed, he banishes these pirates to Praxus Seven to prevent them from overthrowing him. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• Tachyon, whose intelligence has grown alongside his malicious ambitions, eventually returns to Fastoon. Having developed technology "light-years" ahead of what the Lombaxes utilize, the Cragmite asks the government of Fastoon to combine their technological progress with what his own, under the pretense of improving the security of the galaxy. General Alister Azimuth, a high-ranking member of the Lombaxes' science and military divisions, is among those present when Tachyon makes his request. Despite suspicion from the rest of Fastoon and the warnings from his colleague Kaden, the current guardian of the Dimensionator, Azimuth gives Tachyon full access to the Lombaxes' confidential research and resources, confident that his ingenuity will be the best option for maintaining peace across Polaris. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
• Having used Raritanium to buy the loyalty of the Drophyds, fish-like alien marauders from the planet Zaurik, Tachyon exploits the Lombaxes' technology to equip his army with weapons advanced enough to lay waste to Fastoon, with the intent to exterminate the Lombaxes from within. As hundreds upon hundreds of Lombaxes are killed in the purge, those lucky enough to survive take refuge within the Court of Azimuth building. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
  • Kaden refuses to take refuge in the Court of Azimuth out of a desire to protect his wife or at least not let her die alone. Unfortunately, Kaden's home is destroyed and his wife is killed by Tachyon's forces before he can even reach her in time. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
  • Aphelion, a Lombax ship with a sentient AI, is shot down by Tachyon's forces in the battle and left inactive as a result. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• With the hope that leaving Polaris will cull Tachyon's rage and dissuade him from harming the rest of the galaxy, the Lombaxes evacuate to an alternate dimension, with only Kaden and his surviving infant son staying behind, and the two eventually flee from Fastoon with the Dimensionator in tow. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
  • As punishment for enabling Tachyon his invasion, General Azimuth is barred from joining the Lombaxes and is forced into de-facto exile from his species, eventually settling on the now-junkyard world of Torren IV. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
• After hiding the Dimensionator on Rykan V, a planet the Lombaxes once used for scientific research and development, Kaden sends his son to the Solana Galaxy, specifically the desert planet of Veldin. Some time afterwards, Tachyon catches up to Kaden, killing him when he refuses to reveal the location of the Dimensionator or his son. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
• His actions having left Fastoon a ruined, abandoned world, Tachyon and his army then set their sights on the rest of Polaris, and work to conquer the galaxy and kill-on-sight any other Lombaxes which might've been absent for their initial attack. With the similarly abandoned Reepor as his capital, Tachyon conquers more and more of Polaris over the coming decades. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• Kaden's son, now named "Ratchet", grows up on Veldin and eventually begins working at a garage on his adopted homeworld as a mechanic and inventor. Struggling with loneliness, Ratchet dreams of one day leaving his adopted home planet to explore the stars. (Ratchet & Clank (2002), Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)
• The Agorians, a reptilian-like warrior race from Polaris, invade the Fongoid-settled planet of Morklon and its Erundai Outpost, located in the planet's scenic Gimlick Valley. The "Battle of Gimlick Valley" then promptly occurs between revered Fongoid chief Zahn Gribnak's weak and inexperienced Fongoid soldiers and the powerful Agorian forces of Commander Lornock Argos. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
  • In the original timeline, Gribnak's forces— unsurprisingly— are swiftly defeated by the Agorian forces, and promptly captured, imprisoned, imprisoned again after a brief pardon, and executed. Afterwards, Argos wrathfully destroys the Erundai Floodgate, laying waste to the outpost with only the Fongoid child Yurik surviving, and wasting the valley from a beautiful grassland to a decrepit swamp. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
  • In the altered timeline, however, a time-displaced Lombax and his "talking lunchbox" arrive as the battle is taking place, fighting back the Agorian invaders and personally defeat Argos himself, before requesting the Fongoids that they preserve Argos' ship for later use. As such, Gimlick Valley remains a peaceful vista for years afterward. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
• Angela Cross, another lombax who did not escape to their species' dimension, begins working as a geneticist for Megacorp in the Bogon Galaxy. (Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time space radio news)
• The Blarg, a fish-like race from the Solana Galaxy, begin suffering an overpopulation crisis on their home planet of Orxon, along with ruling corporation Drek Industries' pollution and intoxication of the planet's biosphere. (Ratchet & Clank (2002))
• The Zoni soul of Orvus' "son", XJ-0461, is created at the Great Clock. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)

The PlayStation 2 Ratchet & Clank era

The original Ratchet & Clank video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank (2002) video game occur.
• Under the pretense of simply giving his people a new home to live, Blarg dictator Chairman Alonzo Drek begins an operation to build a new planet from the harvested fragments of multiple existing ones, and sell homes on it to the Blarg migrants for profit, with the aim to repeat the process of pollution once the Blarg have settled on the new world. He later convinces superhero-turned-sellout Captain Qwark to be his new planet's clandestine spokesman.
• For the first time since the initial activation of the machine, Orvus leaves the Great Clock and, with XJ-0461's soul in tow, travels to the Solana planet of Quartu, where a Blarg-run robot factory known as Plant Z332 is located. (Ratchet & Clank (2002) instruction manual, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time Galactic Trivia loading screens)
• On October 26th, a sentient computer in this Quartu robot factory, out of disdain for Drek, stops manufacturing Sentry-bot minions for the Chairman and gives XJ-0461 life as a diminutive Drek Industries robot defect with a serial number of B5429671. The newborn robot immediately learns of Drek's plan to harvest the planet Novalis and steals a small escape shuttle with the intent to find any heroes or galactic authorities and alert them to the Blarg's schemes. Unfortunately, Drek's forces catch up with XJ-0461 and shoot his ship down, sending him on a crash course towards the planet of Veldin.
• While finishing up work on a homemade ship— which, to his dismay, he's found out he can't pilot without a Robotic Ignition System— Ratchet witnesses XJ-0461's ship crash and goes to investigate it, finding him unconscious among the wreckage and taking him back to his garage out of interest. Soon after XJ-0461 awakens, the two begin talking with one another, with the robot explaining Drek's plan to harvest Novalis and how it must be stopped. He and Ratchet thus make a deal: if he uses his built-in Robotic Ignition System to start up Ratchet's ship, Ratchet will escort him to galactic hero Captain Qwark so that they can alert him of Drek's plot. The two then fly off in the ship and properly introduce themselves to one another once in space, with Ratchet promptly giving the defect the nickname "Clank" for the noise he makes when colliding with the juddering ship.
• As Ratchet's ship leaves Veldin, Drek observes it from a window inside his flagship in the planet's orbit and deems it a potential threat to his plans, ordering Qwark to deal with it. Later, he meets with Novalis' elderly Planetary Chairman, Agnogg Buckwash, who speaks out against Drek's plan and is convinced Captain Qwark will stop him. Buckwash eventually exhausts Drek's patience, and he's taken away by Drek's lieutenant for torturing. Drek then sends his forces to attack Novalis, and the planet's rich inhabitants quickly evacuate on escape transports while the working people who can't afford such transports are forced to wait for Captain Qwark to rescue them.
• Because of his lack of piloting skills, Ratchet crashes his ship into the side of a cliff while landing on Novalis, completely destroying it. He and Clank survive largely unscathed but are now in need of a new ship in order to continue their mission, deciding to ask around for one to use. They notice that the area around them is under attack, but decide to traverse the area anyway. Clank then attaches himself to the back of Ratchet's harness, taking what will become a recurring role for him as a backpack of sorts for their various items.
• Ratchet and Clank explore the ruined city in search of their goal, fighting through Drek's Birdbots and Peckbots along the way. On the other side of a river, they run into Buckwash, who assumes they're here to cause him more harm and nervously hands over his Infobot, the only thing he has left. The Infobot shows them a commercial for Big Al's Roboshack in the planet Kerwan city of Metropolis, one that stars Captain Qwark. Clank takes note of this and decides they should head for Metropolis in search of the Captain. Ratchet points out to Buckwash that they don't have a ship to do so with, and realizing that they have no desire to hurt him, he arranges for them to borrow a courier ship.
• The duo then explore the planet's renowned waterworks, doing battle with more of Drek's minions and finding a man known only as the Plumber, who wasn't able to leave the planet because of a lack of Bolts. They buy an Infobot off him, allowing him to escape. The Infobot shows them footage of famed hoverboarder Skidd McMarx and his agent, Don Wonderstar, ejecting before their ship is shot down onto the planet Aridia, to which Ratchet and Clank gain coordinates.
• Ratchet and Clank head to Kerwan, landing in Metropolis. They face off with countless Blarg commanders and Robomutts to reach Al's Roboshack, where they meet Big Al and ask him about Qwark. Unfortunately, Al states that he hasn't seen the Captain since the filming of the commercial, but upon learning that Clank runs on sisterboards he's familiar with, he offers to upgrade him with a Heli-Pack at the cost of 1,000 Bolts. The offer is accepted, and Clank is fitted with the Heli-Pack, allowing him and Ratchet to glide and jump long distances both horizontally and vertically. This upgrade will go on to aid them in most of their adventures afterward.
• Using the Heli-Pack to their advantage, Ratchet and Clank continue their journey, eventually ending up chasing an Infobot on a train. Once they catch up to it, it shows the two a conversation between Drek and his lieutenant, who had been sent to the forest planet of Eudora to harvest its trees for Drek's new planet, along with several robotic lumberjacks. Ratchet isn't scared of the lieutenant, suggesting that instead of finding Qwark to take care of him, he and Clank go to Eudora and do so by themselves. Clank agrees, believing that they can "persuade" him to give up Drek's whereabouts.
• The two then meet a Qwark bot that tells them about the nearby obstacle course and informs them they'll get a reward from Qwark's trainer for completing it (with Clank briefly confusing him for the real Captain Qwark until Ratchet informs him otherwise). The two race through the course and reach the end, but Qwark's trainer, Helga, is so dissatisfied with their "pathetic display" that she makes them pay 1,000 Bolts for their reward instead of giving it out for free. Said reward is the Swingshot, which grapples onto various versa-targets to allow them to reach new areas. This device will continue to prove useful in their later adventures.
• Ratchet and Clank land on Umbris and traverse Qwark's hazardous challenge course, at the end of which they find Qwark. The Captain tells them to step into the Ring of Heroes at the end of a walkway so that he can "give [them] what [they] deserve". Ratchet is suspicious of the gesture, but Clank's naive nature leads him to pull the Lombax into the Ring anyway, at which point Qwark activates a trapdoor that plunges the two into a pit with platforms and bridges suspended over lava. Qwark soon reveals to them that he's the spokesman for Drek's new planet— an opportunity he's certain will be his comeback— and that he refuses to let them interfere with it. He then exits, leaving the job of killing the two to the Blargian Snagglebeast that resides in the pit. Qwark's trap fails, however, as Ratchet and Clank ultimately fell the Snagglebeast through a combination of constant gunfire and tricking it into falling into the lava repeatedly, where it eventually sinks for good.
• Ratchet and Clank find Qwark's tour shuttle, as well as an Infobot that shows them a message from a commando on the war-torn planet Batalia that needs assistance in fending off a Blarg attack, due to his battalion going AWOL. Clank wishes to help him, but Ratchet refuses, enraged both at Qwark for backstabbing him and Clank for roping him into finding Qwark and thus unwittingly dragging him all the way here to fall into Qwark's trap. He angrily declares that he's done being a hero and is now only interested in searching for Qwark so that he can get his revenge. Clank attempts to appeal to the Lombax's good side to no avail, so he decides to withhold the use of his Robotic Ignition System unless Ratchet agrees to help the commando. Begrudgingly, Ratchet gives in to Clank's "blackmail", as he describes it, and they use the shuttle to head for Batalia.
  • For some time after Qwark's betrayal, the two repeatedly bicker due to their now-conflicting goals and Ratchet's worsening attitude, but are forced to continue working together anyway out of mutual necessity.
• Meanwhile, Qwark returns to Drek's fleet to meet with him, and Drek is furious to learn that the Captain didn't see to Ratchet and Clank's demise directly. He berates Qwark for deviating from his specific plan and orders him to come back with actual results the next time he's sent to do a job if he wants to keep his spokesman status.
• Onboard the water tanker in Drek's fleet, the Chairman himself gives Qwark a new assignment— land on Gemlik Base and dispose of Ratchet and Clank using a loaned starfighter, as he believes the Captain is "too washed-up" to fight them on-foot. He also warns Qwark that their endorsement deal will be rescinded if he fails again, putting more pressure on the Captain. Qwark squeezes into a shuttle much too small for him and leaves for the base.
• Ratchet and Clank land on Gemlik Base and begin exploring, hoping to find a faster ship to catch Drek and Qwark with after seeing no sign of either on the base initially. After some combat and exploration, the duo is intercepted by Qwark, who takes off in Drek's loaned starfighter. Seeing this as an opportunity to finally get his revenge, Ratchet borrows a nearby jet fighter to give chase, with Clank joining him. In a heated fight with Qwark, the Lombax shoots the starfighter apart piece by piece, eventually causing what remains to plummet onto Oltanis. Qwark ejects before the starfighter crashes, however, with his escape pod also landing on Oltanis. Knowing he no longer has a deal with Drek after his second failure, he's forced to resort to a backup plan: selling phony Gadgetron items.
• Simultaneously, Drek's attack on Gorda City commences, and his minions steal its generators and demolish it with no resistance, leaving it a smoldering ruin.
• Back on Gemlik Base, Ratchet celebrates finally taking down Qwark and getting even, but Clank reminds him that his successful revenge mission hasn't done anything to help them find Drek. The two find a sleek new ship that Ratchet believes could be fast enough to catch up to Drek, along with an Infobot that shows them a report about the ravaged Gorda City. After seeing the destruction he could have prevented, a guilt-stricken Ratchet admits to Clank that the latter had the right plan from the beginning in stopping Drek, acknowledging his own selfishness in pursuing payback on Qwark above all else. When reassured by Clank that they still have time to stop Drek, he redirects his focus toward doing so, much to Clank's approval. They use their new ship to head for Oltanis.
• Upon landing in Gorda City, Clank is almost immediately struck by lightning, and Ratchet begs his inert companion to wake up, genuinely concerned for his well-being. Fortunately, Clank recovers, but with the city's generators gone, if he were to remain outside with Ratchet, his metallic body would only act as a lightning rod, making the journey potentially fatal for him. Therefore, Ratchet continues on alone while Clank stays behind in the ship for his own safety.
• While exploring, Ratchet runs into Qwark, who now operates under the name "Steve McQwark" and sells Ratchet a Gadgetron PDA as part of his scheme. He also finds a salesman whose hearing was damaged from the attack and buys an Infobot from him that shows an advertisement for the Ultra Mech Unlimited and contains coordinates to Quartu. He and Clank reunite soon after and head off to the planet.
• After learning that Ratchet and Clank survived Qwark's ambush, Drek quickly moves on from his now-former spokesman and tells one of his scientists that he and the others must now focus efforts on creating a new planet-destroying device that will be "foolproof" in comparison to the failed PlanetBuster Maximus.
• Returning to Quartu with the Hologuise, Ratchet and Clank get past the Sentry-bot guards, arriving in the room where Clank was manufactured. Ratchet fixes the computer responsible for Clank's creation, which Clank considers his mother. It informs them that there's still more to do and manufactures an Infobot that contains coordinates to Drek's fleet and a video in which Drek again announces that they've found their perfect orbit, this time elaborating that said orbit is taken by Veldin. Therefore, he showcases the Deplanetizer which, like its predecessor, has been created to destroy Veldin so that he can replace it with his new world. Infuriated over learning that his adopted homeworld is in peril, Ratchet doubles down on making it his mission to stop Drek, admonishing himself for taking this long to understand the threat the Chairman poses. Clank is elated by this declaration, certain that Ratchet has finally become the hero he "always knew was there". The two set off for Drek's fleet to figure out where exactly the Deplanetizer is above the planet so that they can prevent Veldin from being destroyed.
• Ratchet and Clank land on Drek's fleet, and they hop from ship to ship, destroy turrets, and sneak past Sentry-bots with the Hologuise to get into the Chairman's flagship and Drek's control room within. While they don't find Drek himself, they do learn the exact coordinates of the Deplanetizer from an Infobot in the room and head off to Veldin to stop Drek from using it.
• Returning to Veldin at nighttime, Ratchet and Clank battle through waves of Drek's forces on their way to the Deplanetizer, during which they find another platform that once again turns Clank giant. The two find Drek, who's decided to forgo any further minions and now pilots a large battle mech in an effort to deal with them himself. After a short fight, Drek shrinks Clank back to normal size and takes off for the Deplanetizer, with Ratchet and Clank following and battling him the whole way. Once they land on the Deplanetizer, Clank pleads with Drek to consider another way to make a new home for his people, and in response, Drek reveals his true intent to repeatedly destroy the new planets he makes to get richer and richer, which angers and disgusts Clank. As their battle continues, Drek presses the Deplanetizer's activation switch multiple times, causing Ratchet and Clank to scramble to turn it back off with the same switch each time.
• Eventually, Drek's mech is damaged to the point of catapulting onto the section of the Deplanetizer that pivots the laser, forcing Drek to dislodge himself before it hits him. This causes him to careen out of control and crash-land onto his planet. Ratchet and Clank notice the laser now points toward said planet instead of Veldin and take advantage of the situation, activating it and destroying the planet— and Drek— completely. However, debris from the planet rains down onto Veldin, with one such rock exploding in front of them, sending them flying off the Deplanetizer. Clank grabs a beam of the platform, and Ratchet grabs onto him in turn, but the Lombax's weight ends up damaging the servos in Clank's left arm, leaving it barely operable and forcing him to let them both fall. At the moment before impact, Clank uses his Thruster-Pack to fly into Ratchet horizontally, negating their downward momentum and allowing them to land in relative safety.
• After Ratchet thanks him for the rescue, Clank expresses worry about his damaged arm, but Ratchet insists he'll be alright and leaves. Believing that Ratchet's abandoned him, Clank begins to walk away sadly, but Ratchet comes back to get him, saying he still needs to fix his arm. Overjoyed, Clank walks with him to his garage, with Ratchet's act of kindness cementing the change of his personality for the better, as well as the duo's developing friendship. He and Clank also become roommates.
• Following Drek's defeat, Ratchet and Clank become instant celebrities in Solana for their heroics and attend parades, press conferences, fancy dress balls, a wiener roast hosted by Big Al, and the grand opening of the Groovy Lube business. (Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando)

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando video game occur.
• Qwark continues to sell bogus Gadgetron devices under the name "Steve McQwark", including the Personal Hygienator, which he eventually sells a million of; with his success, he's able to put funds into his comeback plan, resolving to engineer a new crisis in a new galaxy so that he can end it and return to his former glory.
• A defect in Qwark's Personal Hygienators causes irritation in sensitive body areas to anyone that uses them, which causes the authorities to come after him for his scam. He's ordered by the Galactic Court to pay a sum of 6 billion Bolts to those suffering from what becomes known as Personal Hygienator Syndrome, but is instead found fleeing to Pokitaru two days later, where he's arrested and placed in custody to await trial. Despite this, Qwark manages to escape by flushing himself down the toilet, disappearing from the public eye for almost six weeks. During this time, Qwark flees to the Bogon Galaxy, where he finds Megacorp CEO Abercrombie Fizzwidget and locks him in the supply closet of Megacorp HQ on the planet Yeedil, assuming his identity.
• Megacorp begins work on Experiment #13, an attempt at creating a domestic pet, but the creature turns out to be violent and attacks anyone near it, with it being recommended for disposal. However, Angela Cross begins work on a device known as the Helix-o-morph to fix its flaws. Before she can put it to use, Qwark— still disguised as Fizzwidget— pushes up the experiment's release date, forcing her to go rogue, disguise herself, and steal the creature to prevent disaster.
• About a year after Chairman Drek's defeat, Ratchet and Clank are interviewed by holo-vision series Behind the Hero about how their lives have been going since. The two describe themselves as busy in a "domestic sense" but unhappy that they haven't had any hero work available.
• In the Bogon Galaxy, Qwark-as-Fizzwidget watches the interview and decides that he's "found [their] man". Seconds later, Ratchet and Clank are teleported onto a ship, where a hologram of Qwark-as-Fizzwidget brings them up to speed on the situation involving Megacorp's experiment, hoping to get their assistance in retrieving it from Angela. Ratchet quickly and excitedly accepts, but Clank expresses his reluctance to participate in another adventure; Qwark-as-Fizzwidget foresaw this and prepared an apartment for the robot to retire to. Ratchet, meanwhile, is to undergo commando training in preparation for his mission.
• Two weeks later, Ratchet completes his training, becomes a certified Megacorp commando, and heads to a flying lab on the planet Aranos, where Angela has been tracked to. Easily tearing through Angela's outdated Megacorp security forces, he finds Angela herself, but is unable to stop her from escaping the flying lab with the Experiment. Having failed in his mission for now, Ratchet continues to battle through the security forces until he leaps off the lab and recalls his ship to pick him up.
• Concurrently, while traveling through space in her ship, Angela contacts the mercenary organization known as Thugs-4-Less to hire them so that they can replace her previous security, teling them to meet her on the planet Oozla. Later, with two Thugs-4-Less goons, she steals from the planet's Megacorp Outlet and has one of the goons deactivate the defenses as they leave by throwing the clerk into a large button on the wall behind him, leaving the outlet and everything around it vulnerable to the planet's mutated swamp life.
• Meanwhile, at his apartment on Endako, Clank is visited by an Infobot admirer with flowers, but she's scared off by the sudden arrival of Angela, who kidnaps Clank.
• After competing in the arena, Ratchet exits to find a picture booth. The Lombax stops to take a picture for Clank as a souvenir, but after doing so, the booth's screen transmits a video from Angela, who has strapped Clank to a table somewhere in Megapolis. She electrocutes the robot into unconsciousness while warning that the same fate will occur to Ratchet if he doesn't leave the Bogon Galaxy. Ratchet is angered by seeing his friend get hurt and ignores the warning, determined to rescue Clank as soon as possible.
• Ratchet finds the room where the still-unconscious Clank is being held, but is pushed off the ledge he's standing on by Angela, leaving them both trapped. Ratchet uses the Electrolyzer to free and repair Clank, who ventures out through a small air vent to grant Ratchet escape. With some Micro Bots around for assistance, he succeeds in opening an exit and decides to join up with Ratchet once again, no longer wishing to sit the adventure out.
• At the end of the tunnel, Angela confronts Ratchet and Clank once again and stands atop her ship while ordering them to hand over the Experiment. However, she clumsily falls to the ground, revealing her identity in the process. Undeterred, she once again demands the Experiment, but is told that they gave the Experiment to Fizzwidget. Angela angrily accuses them of putting the galaxy in danger and tells them to watch the nearby telescreen for more info if they wish to fix their mistake. Said telescreen shows them a commercial for the Megacorp Testing Facility on planet Dobbo. As Angela leaves, Ratchet questions her sanity, believing that the facility has nothing to do with the galaxy being in danger, but Clank suggests investigating the facility anyway, on the off chance she's not bluffing. However, they still lack a ship to get there with.
• At last, Ratchet and Clank arrive at the Protopet duplication room, joined shortly after by Angela, who was held up by the guards. However, before they can get in, Clank's Infobot admirer stops them, showing them footage of Qwark monologuing to himself about his plot to create a disaster in Bogon and ensure his comeback. Shortly after, she's shot down by Qwark-as-Fizzwidget, and with his secret out, he exposes his true identity and an additional wrinkle to his plot: turning the heroes into his scapegoats. He orders the guards to capture them.
• Qwark broadcasts to Bogon's citizens, pinning the blame on Ratchet, Clank, and Angela for the Protopet disaster and declaring that he's about to amplify the Helix-o-morph's signal to pacify every Protopet in the galaxy. However, his attempt to use it on a Protopet to demonstrate goes horribly wrong; the Protopet instead grows to gargantuan size and devours Qwark and the Helix-o-morph along with him, and Ratchet and Clank must do battle with the mutated creature in order to retrieve the latter device so Angela can fix it.
• The two succeed in bringing down the mutated Protopet, and Angela has found the real Fizzwidget and freed him. As Ratchet begins to lament the loss of the Helix-o-morph, the mutated Protopet spits out Qwark who, in turn, throws up the Helix-o-morph. Clank quickly figures out the simple reason the device malfunctioned: Qwark put the batteries in backwards. After the issue is corrected, they use it on the mutated Protopet, which not only turns it back to normal, but makes it completely docile. Now certain it works, Angela declares her intention to use Megacorp's HV transponders to amplify the device and cure the remaining Protopets of their hostility. Meanwhile, Ratchet notices Clank mourning his destroyed admirer and promises that he can fix her.
• Ratchet, Clank, Angela, and Clank's now-repaired admirer enjoy some downtime in Clank's apartment after succeeding in ending the Protopet threat; meanwhile, Qwark has started working at Megacorp in a more genuine manner this time— namely, as a test subject for the company's products. His latest device to test is the Crotchitizer, and... well, let's just say it doesn't end well for him.
• Qwark soon escapes Megacorp and hides in the jungles of the Solanan planet of Florana, eventually going savage after being surrounded by the local monkeys for an extended period of time. (Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal)

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal video game occur.
• Dr. Nefarious begins his plot to convert all organics into robots.

Ratchet: Deadlocked video game

• The events of the Ratchet: Deadlocked video game occur.
• Famous hero Captain Starshield, after saving the Solana planet of Calzon and briefly being stranded on the Kavorian Galaxy planet of Fractis, is informed of a distress signal from the Solana galaxy's Shadow Sector. Soon after setting a course for the sector, Starshield goes missing, a fate shared by several other heroes. (The Adventures of Captain Starshield promotional comic)

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters video game occur.

Following the events of Size Matters

• A new holo-film in the Secret Agent Clank series is released, the plot being about Secret Agent Clank needing to solve a mystery in order to clear Ratchet's name, while Captain Qwark writes his autobiography alongside his assistant. The film also features Klunk as the main antagonist. (Insomniac Games' Twitter)

Ratchet & Clank Future era

Events leading up to the Future trilogy

• Dr. Nefarious and Lawrence crash-land on Zanifar, a Fongoid-inhabited planet in Polaris' Breegus system. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
• Crippled with anguish over somehow being defeated, Nefarious begins trying to understand himself to figure out how he might rise again. This therapy leads to him going to Quantos' Zolar Forest for a spirit walk, and finding out about The Great Clock via the Fongoid culture there. Given a purpose, Dr. Nefarious begins plotting to take control of the Clock, mess with time and create a new reality "IN WHICH THE HEROES ALWAYS LOSE!" (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
• As part of a scheme to get knowledge of the master control "Orvus Chamber", Nefarious invites Orvus to Zanifar for a melding of minds. However, he then traps Orvus, demanding to know how to enter. With his refusal to talk, Nefarious uses one of his inventions, the Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler, to disperse Orvus's energy and kill him. However, in his last moment, he gets a scan of Clank, realizing he's the key to getting in. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
  • In the original timeline, this is all that happened. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
  • In the altered timeline, a Ratchet from the near-future, having observed these events, would throw a fusion grenade into Nefarious' face just after the event, damaging his cranium storage and eye. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time)
• Over a year before the events of Tools of Destruction, Emperor Tachyon comes into full power over most of Polaris. He then sets his sights on "Lombax rebel" Angela Cross. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time space radio news, interview with TJ Fixman on Ratchet-Galaxy.com)
• Max Apogee rescues Angela Cross from Tachyon's wrath, with the female Lombax's last known sighting being fleeing the Cerullean Sector of Polaris in the famed archeologist's ship. Details regarding what else occurs around this time are sparse, but it is known that Apogee's ship was found on autopilot with the planet Jasindu as its point of origin. It is thus strongly believed that this was used to throw the space pirates and Tachyon off their trail, and that the two used the Dimensionator to transport themselves to another dimension, presumably the one the Lombaxes originally escaped to. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time space radio news, Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #5)
• Ratchet invents electro-shock undergarments known as "stunderwear". Despite Clank finding it ridiculous, the garment sells extremely well on Umbris. (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction video game occur.
• Ratchet and Clank, while spending time in Metropolis, begin testing an experimental nuclear-powered rocket sled. However, Emperor Tachyon soon invades the planet, looking to finally destroy Ratchet, the "last" Lombax. When the two parties come face-to-face, Tachyon orders Ratchet to surrender and accept a swift execution for the city's sake, but he and Clank commandeer one of Tachyon's cruisers. After escaping Kerwan, the ship puts the two in cryosleep, and eventually crash-lands on the Polaris world of Cobalia.
  • Captain Qwark, also present for Tachyon's attack, is cornered at Kerwan's Planetary Defense Center. After fighting off a few Imperial soldiers, Qwark is subdued by Tachyon's forces, and brought to the emperor himself. The captain then decides to surrender to Tachyon as a confidant for his own safety, but also takes the opportunity to act as a spy within the Cragmite's forces.
• The Zoni, realizing that Clank is nowhere near ready for his destiny, take him to the Great Clock to be fixed, practically kidnapping him in front of Ratchet, Talwyn, Cronk, and Zephyr. Ratchet attempts to foil the effort, but he fails. He's deeply saddened by being separated from his best friend and later resolves to find him.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty video game occur.
• Many months after Clank's disappearance, Ratchet and Talwyn look to the IRIS Supercomputer to find a clue as to Clank's whereabouts.
• In their search, they run into Captain Slag once again.

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time video game occur.
• Ratchet and Talwyn, having gained a fondness for one another, spend some time together before Ratchet begins a more serious search for Clank. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries)
• Over a year after putting Clank in stasis, Dr. Nefarious accidentally slips out his hope that Clank's memory banks will lead him to the Orvus Chamber, with the listening Zoni retorting that the location is forbidden to all but Clank. The mad scientist thus reveals his deceptive nature to the Zoni, using a Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler device to backstab them. Unfortunately, the sonic wave blasts from the device damages the Great Clock's sensitive equipment, while also scattering the thousands of Zoni maintaining the machine across the galaxy. Clank is also awakened by this event, and attempts to escape from Dr. Nefarious, only to reach a dead end and be knocked out soon after. Dr. Nefarious leaves the Clock, ordering Lawrence to spy on Clank's progress so as to finally find the Orvus Chamber.
• As a result of the Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler damaging the Great Clock, time distortions and anomalies begin sprouting up all over the cosmos, putting galactic civilians in danger and at worst leaving the universe prone to more Erebus-like events.
• Traveling with Captain Quark, Aphelion is accidentally sent into a tailspin due to the time waves, crashing on a fongoid planet. Helping to fight off Lord Vorselon's forces (hired by Nefarious), Ratchet sees that something weird is going on, and rescues the fongoids, quark, and repairs Apelion thanks to the Zoni he finds in the area.
• Clank is fixed up by Sigmund, and given an orientation video about the importance of the Great Clock. However, on watching Sigmund watching Orvus's last recording, Clank begins to suspect that he might need to save his father in the past.
• Ratchet meets up with General Azimuth, gaining a new ally in his journey, and a new connection to his heritage.
• Realizing that Ratchet, Qwark and Azimuth still pose a serious threat to his plans, Nefarious hires the Valkyries to stop them.
• Clank destroys the Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler.
• Entering one final mental mindscape, Clank runs into The Plumber once again. He tells him that a true friend would understand Clank's new responsibilities, and advises him a mysterious line, "I wouldn't risk any more than six minutes."
• Clank and Sigmund finish the preliminary cleanup of temporal anomalies, reaching the Orvus Chamber. Unfortunately, Lawrence was right on their heels, knocking them both out and turning Clank over to Cassiopeia.
• Ace Hardlight is released from Zordoom Prison. (Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time space radio news)
• General Glahm is sent to the Vartax Detention Facility after the battle of Krell Canyon. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #2)
• Engaging in battle, Ratchet and Clank fight Dr. Nefarious for the 2nd time. The battle takes them onto a spaceship, where the villain is defeated once again. This time, however, the aftermath leaves Nefarious in such a damaged state that they can't stop the ship's collision course with his space station. To make matters worse, Lawrence leaves using the ship's escape pod. Fortunately, Azimuth returns to help them out, and they escape as the ship crashes into Nefarious' space station, causing it to explode.
  • Despite seemingly being left for dead and killed in the explosion of his space station, Dr. Nefarious is teleported to safety by Lawrence just before the destruction of said space station occurs. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #1, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One)
• Reaching the Great Clock, Ratchet drops off Clank to say goodbye, with the two sharing a brief hug. However, Azimuth refuses to accept the permanence of his actions and is consumed by his desire to save the Lombaxes and correct his mistake, causing him to snap and kill Ratchet with an energy blast from his OmniWrench in a fit of rage. Clank is left shocked and saddened as Azimuth makes a break for the Orvus Chamber, but Clank is just barely able to beat him there and shut him out. Alone, he is bombarded with all the advice and memories of the dangers of trying to use the Clock for personal gain and is forced to make a difficult choice: honoring his father's wishes or saving his best friend. However, he remembers the Plumber's earlier advice and realizes there's a compromise that will keep things stable without risk: not rewinding time by any more than six minutes. He does this, allowing him to go back in time to push Ratchet out of the way of the fatal energy blast.
• The two chase Azimuth to the Orvus Chamber, but unfortunately, Azimuth reaches the chamber first and begins rewinding time, with the duo fighting him in order to stop him from destroying the universe. Finally knocking him down, Ratchet tries to stop the process, but the lever breaks. When Ratchet spells out why his plan would destroy the universe, Azimuth realizes his mistake and uses his OmniWrench to stop it. He succeeds, but a stray blast of energy kills him in the process, leaving Ratchet as the last Lombax in this dimension.
• Clank changes his mind at the last moment and decides that he can't leave Ratchet yet, at least until the Lombax finds a family. He chooses instead to pass caretakership to Sigmund and leaves, missing what remains of his father's message: that he feels Clank should be free to follow his own path. As such, Clank rejoins Ratchet in Aphelion, and the two head off to their next adventure.
• Thanks to the complete restoration of the Great Clock, the flow of time returns to normal across the universe.

Following the Ratchet & Clank Future era:

Between the Future trilogy and WildStorm series

• Sometime after Nefarious' defeat, Ratchet and Clank retire from hero work and return to Ratchet's garage on Veldin in the Solana Galaxy in order to get away from the pressure of dealing with galactic threats. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issues #1 and #6)
• Captain Qwark, having survived being stranded with Snowball the war grok, settles down in Polaris while taking credit for Dr. Nefarious' defeat. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)
  • Snowball begins living on a war grok reserve on Sargasso. (Interview with TJ Fixman on IGN.com)
• Unicop, a show that Captain Qwark starred in, gets cancelled, causing his producer Cyrus to never want to speak to him again. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries #3)
• Artemis Zogg, the Minister of Defense for the Polaris Galaxy, runs for the Galactic President of Polaris while working on the Helios project, a contingency plan that would allow the government to teleport planets away and sustain them with an artificial sun in the event of a supernova, a black hole or other galactic disasters. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)
• Captain Qwark agrees to endorse Artemis Zogg to help his campaign. When meeting with Zogg, Qwark is also told about the Helios Project, the artificial sun and the Surinox comet shard that would be used to teleport planets. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)
• One month later, Cyrus visits Qwark and convinces him to run for galactic president himself by telling him about the publicity it would generate for him. Qwark proceeds to endorse himself instead of Zogg. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)
• Five months later, Qwark wins the galactic presidency and sends a cease-and-desist to the Helios Project as he declares the technology used to be too dangerous, citing the Tachyon incident. Zogg decides to retire until he is informed about the project's termination, and decides to take the project's technology for himself. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)
• Artemis Zogg, via the Surinox Shard's teleportation capabilities, begins stealing planets from the Solana, Bogon, and Polaris galaxies to place them in his own "Artemis Galaxy" to exact revenge on Qwark. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issues #1 and #2)
• Galactic President Qwark pleads ignorance as planets begin to disappear. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #3)

Ratchet & Clank WildStorm comic book miniseries

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank WildStorm comic book miniseries occur.
• Five months after Qwark's inauguration (and about a year after Dr. Nefarious' defeat), Ratchet and Clank begin repairs on a Skyburst 8000. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #1, interview with TJ Fixman on IGN.com)
• Three months after the duo arrive at the Vartax Detention Facility, General Glahm intentionally starts a fight with Ratchet to get them sent to the sector 9 airlock, where Cronk and Zephyr arrive to break them out of prison. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #2)
• Two weeks later, Ratchet and Clank, having decided to move to Polaris permanently, visit Galactic President Qwark at the presidential compound in Meridian City. (Ratchet & Clank WildStorm miniseries issue #6)

Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One video game occur.
• Sometime after the Artemis Zogg incident (and two years after Dr. Nefarious' last defeat), Ratchet and Clank

Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault video game occur.
• For the following three months after losing his chance at re-election, Captain Qwark begins managing the Starship Phoenix II ship along with Ratchet and Clank.

Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus video game occur.
• Inspired by Ratchet and Clank's adventures battling villains such as Tachyon, Neftin and Vendra Prog attempt to break into the Intergalactic Museum of History in Meridian City to steal the original Dimensionator. When the two realize that the museum is too heavily guarded, they settle with stealing a tourbot known as Docent 427.
• Following this, the two violently assault Pollyx Industries and kidnap Pollyx himself, forcing him to complete an imperfect replica of the Dimensionator. While Neftin escapes with Pollyx to whereabouts unknown, Vendra is captured, arrested, given a quadruple life-sentence, and put into cryosleep. ^note The mobile tie-in Ratchet & Clank: Before the Nexus portrays Ratchet and Clank themselves as responsible for Vendra's defeat and incapacitation, but— the dubious canonicity of the game aside— this was not referenced in Into the Nexus proper.
• Six months after her arrest and being put into stasis, the Nebuloux Seven prison ship prepares to take Vendra Prog to the Vartax Detention Facility, with Ratchet, Clank, Cronk, and Zephyr as her escorts. Unfortunately for the heroes, their attempt to wake her from cryosleep just before reaching the facility leads to her powers sabotaging the ship and hijacking its operations. And as such, Neftin storms the ship, causing the destruction of the ship, and the death of Cronk and Zephyr.
• While Ratchet is dejected with his failure to protect Talwyn's family, Clank insists to him that the only way to honor their memories is to hunt down Vendra and Neftin. As such, after checking in with Talwyn, they work to escape the planet and go after the two.
• Reaching the twins' home planet, they learn their goal to use the dimensionator to bring "Mr. Eye" to their dimension so he can be their new family.

The era of Rift Apart and beyond

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart video game

• The events of the Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart video game occur.
• Sometime after Into the Nexus, multiple dimensions begin collapsing into one another, causing rifts between them to appear. In the chaos surrounding this, Ratchet and Clank are separated across space and time, with Clank running into a female Lombax named Rivet.