Year:2003

This is a brief summary of various events in the PPC, Real World Time and HST-wise, during the year 2003.

March

 * 12th: The PPC Board is relaunched.

June

 * 21st: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix released.

September

 * Team Phoenix founded.
 * Agents A. Gallowglass and Lena Montrose transfer to the Pirates of the Caribbean division of the DMS.
 * Seth Emerian recruited to the Department of Mary Sues.

October

 * Around the 31st: In the real world, the Thalia Weaver incident.

November

 * Thalia Weaver leaves the PPC Board.
 * The 2003 Mary Sue Invasion takes place. Makes-Things is critically injured, and Luke Celinus loses his eye.

December

 * The last Lord of the Rings movie is released. This is widely heralded as the end of an era. As if.

Not specified

 * Trojanhorse recruited.
 * Jasmine Sims travels back in time to this year from 2030 and joins the Black Cats.
 * Soulshadow recruited.
 * Intern Nea Forrest is partnered with Agents Ekwy Fields and Milano Cricket.
 * In the middle of the year, the Tangled Webs fiasco.
 * In the middle of the year, Agent Acacia Byrd retires. Jay is briefly repartnered with Rhus Radicans.
 * Agent Ethan Fox snaps.
 * Agent Bulldog snaps on a mission.
 * Kayleigh Leonard recruited.
 * Agent Jay Thorntree retires.
 * James Murphy is transferred to the Department of Operations and sets up his store; later in the year, a customer nicknames him "Big Murphy", and his brother "Small Murphy", which eventually become more well known than their actual first names.
 * The Great Consolidation. Several departments, such as Godplayers, Rampant Sexism, and Wrecked Music, are closed down and folded into the new Department of Floaters.