[quote=@Thayr]
I feel like I should ask...
The Dispatch-universe is pretty open-ended as far as prior events, right? Not much set in stone there?
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As far as we know. I’m not sure if concrete dates are given (so SOMEONE please correct me if I’m wrong), but all we know is that Mecha-Man has been around for about five decades, and at some point around fifteen years before the game is when Shroud killed Mecha-Man 2.

Edit: And Phenomaman worked at a Nordstrom before becoming a hero.