McNerney Hall

McNerney Hall is a residence hall on the campus of Ferris State in Big Rapids, MI. It was also the first dorm stayed in by the founder of Dozerfleet, beginning in August of 2006 and continuing until May of 2007. This stay occurred just four months after Dozerfleet Productions acquired its name, after absorbing the remains of Cormorant Entertainment in April of 2006. The hall was part of the same building as Brophy Hall, and contained mostly criminal justice students.

August 2006
Dozerfleet Productions set up operations in McNerney Hall Room 116 in the afternoon of Thursday, August 24th of 2006. The founder later that evening watched Snakes on a Plane at the Big Rapids Cinema in town, foregoing the chance to be part of the Meijer Madness event being held at that same time. Monday, August 28th, marked the first day of classes, and began with Marketing 321 with Pat Bishop in room 202 of the College of Business building. The class met Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

It continued in the afternoons with an acting class, taught by instructor Katherine LaPietra. Tuesdays and Thursdays were marked with COMM 121 speech classes in the morning taught by instructor Tracy Busch, and English 250 classes around noon, held by instructor Bernadette Fox.

September 2006
Dozerfleet got a MySpace page on September 1st, followed by the founder getting Facebook on September 5th. On September 10th, Gray Champion villain Verdabbin was officially replaced with Eqquibus. The paper "Snakes on a Marketing Strategy" was released to the marketing class on September 13th, and events on the evening of September 15th inspired another paper titled "The Stoplight System is Dead" for English class.

The 1996 Huffy Snake Rock bike that portrayed Ackro in When Bikes Argue suffered a terminal rear axle collapse on September 21st, resulting in the entire bike being sent to the dumpster. On September 27th, "Introducing the Movlune Lava Clock" was chosen as a topic for marketing class. The following day, "The Rock vs. Center Ice" was presented in English class.

October 2006
Facebook vs. MySpace, decorated as a slideshow to look like a parody of Freddy vs. Jason, was chosen on October 3rd in speech class as the next major project. It was then compiled on the 15th, and presented on the 17th. Also on the 3rd, vandals smashed a window to the laundry room of McNerney Hall, leading to "The Great Broken Glass Laundry Caper" being written for English class.

Jawknee was first proposed in October from McNerney 116. The Every Ape and His Brother collection was made official around this time as well, with music parodies being written from Room 116 for an album titled Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!!. "Doughboy," "Lower!!!," "Phantasmic," "Ridiculous," "They'll Claw You Open," and "The Hundred-Acre Woodland Massacre" were all drafted in this month.

On October 6th, the Flying Flamingo Casino event happened. The main camera for Dozerfleet stopped functioning after this event. However, the founder got to meet the band members of Unlisted, who would later become guest stars in the trailer for The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff in the summer of 2020.

On October 30th, Dozerfleet hosted a screening in the lobby of the film Unlocking the Mystery of Life. It was also roughly around this time that the founder of Dozerfleet was first exposed to Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers, which would inspire the Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers Story Pack for DzMD, as well as Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers in 2017.

November 2006
On November 7th, a DNA Homology paper was released for English 250 class. On November 9th, issues with failing hardware in the HP Pavilion operating at the time as Dozerfleet Main guaranteed that Despair Gerosha and all projects happening inside its continuity would have to be revised and reworked at some point in the future - when better hardware was available. It became dangerous to run The Sims 2 on that device. The evening of November 11th marked the first-ever performance of "Doughboy" live - at the Rec Center for the Midnight Madness 2006 event.

December 2006
"Defining 'Jump the Shark' " was released in English 250 class as a research paper on December 4th. On December 7th, "Santa: A Feasibility Study" was released for speech class. The new Dozerfleet laptop, a Dell Inspiron 6000 operating as "Dozerfleet Portable," was a late Christmas present on December 31st. It allowed for the creation of Classic Gerosha, and for Ciem to be pursued as a project.

January 2007
Work on Ciem began almost immediately, as in beginning on January 1st. The Dozerfleet Database was born for the first time ever as a major component of Dozerfleet operations on January 15th, going by the name "DozerfleetWiki" on WikiSpaces. One day earlier, on the 14th, the old Dozerfleet Main tower officially went kaput. The StretchSkeleton Cheat Accessories Kit was completed in a non-HTML format on January 20th, from Dozerfleet Portable.

Philosophy class began on January 9th of 2007, and was held in the Starr Building. The first paper to be written was of thoughts on the Baghavad-Gita, and that paper was finished on January 18th. A fluff sociology class began on January 10th, also held in the Starr Building.

February 2007
On February 7th, Every Ape and His Brother began a new album: Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante, after wrapping up Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!!. The first Elefante track lyrics to be written were for "Cadmium," a parody of "Lithium" by Evanescence. February 20th marked the release of a paper detailing the brutal pragmatism present in the film Hollow Man 2.

March 2007
March 12th saw the arrival of the Snakes on a Plane Paraphernalia Pack. March 27th saw a paper made about how Boethius' worldview is prevalent in the film Novocaine. That film's visuals would later inspire Path of the Ming-Cho.

"Cadmium" was later followed up with "The Bison's Apocalypse" and "Let the Elements Shine Down."

April 2007
By April, the famed site Snakes on a Blog noted Dozerfleet's pitch for Snakes on a Plane: The Animated Series, and found it quite hilarious.

May 2007
The final day of regular classes before finals was April 17th. By early May, most students had either finished finals, or already evacuated the campus. May marked the final month in which Dozerfleet operations of any kind were performed inside of McNerney 116. After this, all further operations were moved into one or another room of either North or South Bond Halls.

Earth-G7
At some point in the 2050s, Ciem gets taken out of retirement to bring about the end of Affadidah's crumbling regime in the wake of his death. McNerney Hall was one of many locations visited in the quest to find a 1-gigaton bomb and disable it.

Earth-G7.2
In keeping with the main timeline, the timeline of Centipede + 49 would feature the campus of Ferris State - and Big Rapids as a whole - as a map. McNerney Hall would be an intended destination. However, Candi and her new allies would see a militarized version of it, brought on by Affadidah's regime.

This hall was in consideration for inclusion in The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff; but was ultimately rejected on the grounds that it would be too similar to the build for North Bond.

Further viewing

 * McNerney Hall on Google Maps