Nefarious Crisis

"On behalf of galactic authorities, I hereby charge you with willful disruption of the space-time continuüm."

  

The Nefarious Crisis was the name given to the sequence of events caused by Dr. Nefarious' misuse of the Great Clock, several years before the initial formation of the Polaris Council of Planetary Leaders.

Mere Vengeance
The beginning of the Crisis was signaled with the abduction of Clank and Nefarious' coup over the Great Clock. With Clank in his possession, he attempted to use various Mnemonic Stations to uncover the key to the Orvus Chamber. When Clank escaped, Nefarious decided to let him go, knowing that he'll eventually lead him into the Chamber.

The Battle for Time
During the crisis, it is slowly revealed that Dr. Nefarious' intentions were to use the Great Clock in order to create a timeline where protagonists always lose to their antagonists, inevidably erasing good from history. In order to do that, he needed to acquire access to the Orvus Chamber, the main hub of the facility. Tampering with the Great Clock, and inevidably creating paradoxes throughout dimensions, he soon came to the conclusion only Orvus himself and Clank could access the chamber.

Old Enemies
"You again? You... should be dead!!"

Ratchet and Alister Azimuth attempted to locate the Clock through Clank, in hopes of getting there to stop Nefarious from entering the Chamber. They sadly failed, and Clank was left in the hands of the Valkyrie. Nefarious was ready to depart for the Clock when Ratchet and Clank confronted him. In an attempt to stop the transport from heading to the Clock, they defeated Nefarious and blew up his station. This signaled the end of the Crisis.

Aftermath
With Dr. Nefarious' defeat, the Great Clock was left to the capable hands of Sigmund, junior caretaker of the facility. His legacy would live on, however, as his tampering with the mnemonic stations of the faclity in an attempt to access the Orvus Chamber by himself caused numorous temporal anomalies throughout the universe, creating numorous paradoxes. The whole universe still suffers the aftermath of his actions til this day.