Time-line
for the Space Outlaws series
(I have, for conventional sakes, written the
years in both our counting, and Imperial Counting, so the shortening for the
Imperial Time is PI (pre-Imperium) and IY (Imperial Year). The ones listed
later are known as IF (Imperial Fall) and NI (New Imperium) Hope this clears up
some issues. WARNING:
Contains spoilers for all the stories I’ve planned.)
300,000 PI (About a million years ago)
The C’tan create the Humans, as the Eldar
have rebelled, bringing with them 14 of their own kindred. Humans aren’t, as
the Eldar, taught culture, art, language and civilisation by the C’tan, hence
their very different architecture. (Eldar have a similar architecture to the
C’tan)
100,000 PI (About 800,000 years ago)
The humans have progressed so far in their technology that the C’tan
start to blend with them. The one to blend the mostly with the humans is a
C’tan calling himself Sigismund Eagleye.
50,000 PI (round 750,000 years ago)
The humans, just like the Eldar, rebel
against the C’tan, after they’d found out about that they’d been used more or
less as slaves. With the humans follows six C’tan, the most powerful called the
Emperor by the humans, who look up to him as a leader (it has been rumoured
that the Emperor’s true name was Sorn’henai, the C’tan word for Eagleye.). The
first Warp travelling is conducted, as the first engagement with deamons.
45,000 PI
The Deamonic Wars begins. Humans find
themselves assailed on all sides by Deamons from the four major gods of the
Immaterium. It is soon discovered that people with psychics attract deamons,
and as such, psykers are more or less abolished by most humans. Two of the
C’tan sell their lives to protect the humans from harm as deamonic hordes
attack them pilgrim humans.
43,000 PI
Humanity settles down on the place that was
to become the Imperium. 14 systems are originally colonized, as the humans
establish contact with the Eldar. The Eldar grant the humans the knowledge of
how to temper the psykers.
Deamon King Karzhan eliminates the other
three Deamon Kings and establishes himself as supreme ruler over all deamons in
the mortal realms.
41,000 PI
Karzhan launches a devastating attack against
the human Imperium and the Eldar, killing all Eldar C’tan and all but the
Emperor of the human C’tan. The weapons in control by the Eldar C’tan are taken
as trophies by Karzhan’s 14 Deamon Lords. The Emperor disappears without a
trace.
100 – 15 PI (Around 700,000 years ago)
The Emperor comes back. He leads a rag-tag
army of Eldar and humans. By his side, from 57 PI, is one of the first saints
of the Imperium: Hrodwulf Le’man. For each year that follows 15 PI, one Deamon
Lord is banished back to the Warp by the Human/Eldar alliance.
0 IY
The Emperor leads one final attack against
Karzhan’s mighty fortress on the old Imperial
capital:
the Moon Secondus 2 of the gas giant Secondus. From now own, the moon will be
referred to as Secondus, the gas giant forgotten in daily Imperial language.
Karzhan is banished back to the Warp forever,
but the Emperor is too grievously wounded to be able to lead his people. He can
never lead an army from the front again. The High Lords are established.
256 IY
Hrodwulf Yarrick dies of age, his finest piece of craftsmanship: the
Yarrickian Sword, being passed down to his firstborn son. A legacy that would
be kept until the days of the Outlaws of Terra.
1,000 – 4,000 IY
The Imperium begins to expand. The Eldar are off since long. New
colonies are settled and new races encountered. The Inquisition is founded, to
root out renegade psykers and heretics. The Cult of the Emperor begins to form.
Of the colonized planets, there are now
roughly a hundred. The art of terraforming is mastered to its full extent.
The Imperial Guard is also formed. The rules
of drawing its recruits from the planets of the Imperium are also formed, and
its directives.
As an elite force, to be used in conjunction
with the Imperial Guard, the Space Marine Legions are formed. These are from
the beginning numbered 14, but due to problems, they will dwindle in number.
The DNA used to form the Space Marine mutation is drawn from the Emperor
himself. A host of 140,000 so-called Space Marine families are chosen and
injected with the DNA. The mutations only show up once a generation, and are
what you call a dominating gene. However, meant to be alike from the beginning,
the Space Marine legions quickly show up great differences in abilities and
tactics.
6,000 IY
Cult of the Emperor is now firmly established
throughout the entire Imperium. The so-called Ecclesiarch is formed. Along with
the Ecclesiarch, comes the Sisters of Battle, the militant arm of the
Ecclesiarch.
The first legion to go renegade is the psyker
heavy Thousand Sons, whom, after years of prosecutions from the Inquisitions,
turn to the Chaos God Tzeentch. One of Tzeentch’s deamon Lords makes an
entrance as a direct cause of this. Deamon destroyed, and Thousand Sons
declared Excommunicate.
10,000 IY
A project named Terra is initiated.
Implementing humans upon the planet needed. There was already a race of
‘humans’ upon Terra. Imperial Scientists decided to wait, and study the
human-like creatures. It was obvious they’d evolved from apes. They hadn’t been
created by the Old Ones, like the Imperial Humans had. The first volume of
Codex: Terra is written.
234,937 IY
A huge workers revolution on the
heavy-industry world Moskva is conducted. The ruling politicians are thrown
over by the people. This revolution is felt throughout the entire Imperium.
Leading the revolt is a local arbiter, a so-called ‘narodnyj kommissarov’ in the Moskvanian tongue. The revolution lasts
for nearly two years.
234,940 IY
Moskva gets its new ruling system, which
makes it a much sounder place to live and work on. The Imperium catches eyes
for the way that the local arbiters led the workers. It is found out that the
narkoms (as they’re called) were politically trained, and knew what was
happening. Their leader, Michail Mishkin, is sorted out. He is informed of the
Imperium’s interest in founding the Imperial Commissariat, to retain discipline
and morale amongst the troops of the Imperial Guard, due to the all too
frequent time when regiments turn renegade. Mishkin accepts and he and a few
friends (amongst them coming Commissar-general Timoschenko) form the base
directives and edicts of the Commissariat. The first directive is that a
commissar should be taught his work from an early age, thus making the use of
the Schola Progenum throughout the Imperium. A uniform is also settled for. As
the Commissariat is tightly bonded with the Ecclesiarch, the ecclesiarchal
colour of black is chosen as the main colour for the uniform. Timoschenko would
later compliment it with red borders and a silver, winged skull, the skull
being a common emblem by the Ecclesiarch. The peaked cap and greatcoat hanged
on from their time as narkoms.
234,945 IY
Mishkin dies of a rare heart disease quietly in his bed, after months of
fighting his illness. Just weeks before the Imperial Commissariat has been
formed, but Mishkin never got to find this out. The message took a full month
to reach the galactic northern Moskva. By then, Mishkin had died. Timoschenko
takes over the hard work. He personally trains the first generation of
commissars, along with his remaining seven comrades.
234,949 IY
The first Imperial Commissars are issued out
to Imperial Guard regiments. The soldiers hate them, but in an Imperial
political view, they’re a great success. Two years later, the first
commissar-general is selected: Anatolij Vassilij Timoschenko. To have actual
command for a commissar will hereafter, prove extremely difficult to achieve.
600,000 IY (100,000 years ago)
The ape-humans are replaced with proper
humans. These humans learn much quicker than the ape-men, though the Imperial
humans also quickly resort to the primeval state.
Yet another Space Marine Legion is lost: The
Death Guard succumbs to something called Nurgle’s Rot. Becomes the notorious
Plague Marines, Nurgle’s vanguard.
696,000 IY (4,000 BC)
The Terran humans start to look up to the
coming visits of the Imperial ones. One very successful culture is given the
great honour of housing one of the most important Standard Template Constructs
by the Tech Priesthood: the Warp engine STC. It is hidden in something called
the Cheops Pyramid by Terrans.
700,000 IY (0 AD)
A strange child is born unto Terra. He’s
called King of the Jews by some people, and Messiah by others. The Imperial
investigators come to the conclusion that he is a child very much like the
Emperor, thus meaning he’s something of a demi-God. His psychic powers show up
early and he has a firm grip of them from the beginning, conducting ‘miracles’
with them.
Alas, just before the Imperials confront him
and present themselves, a deamon in disguises manipulates the ruling caste into
crucifying the C’tan. This happens roughly 33 years after his discovery. The
Imperial scientists have just lately been able to confirm that this Jesus Christ
was a C’tan.
701,250 IY (1,250 AD)
Deamon Prince Juijaeg is released from his chains inside the Warp and
goes rampart. As the combined efforts of the Dark Angels and the Blood Angels
Space Marines try to stop him, the Imperial Scientists seal the Warp gate to
Terra. Behind them they leave several STCs for the humans to use when the time
is ready: one for Warp-engines, one for star ships, one for Titans and on a far
off moon, the guidance to create Space Marines and their armour and weaponry.
The Dark Angels and Blood Angels manage to
destroy Juijaeg forever, with an immense psychic attack, but the two Legions
have been so dwindled in number, that they have to merge to be able to survive.
<Cross-reference: file G-Merge/soinfo5.htm>
Only a tiny hole is left in the Warp to
Terra, as a tracer beacon for coming humans, to find their true heritage.
The last page is written to Codex: Terra. The
Codex now numbers full 20 volumes with a thousand pages each.
701,491 IY (1491 AD)
Michael Titus Dante, commander of the 2nd
Company, becomes Grand Commander of the Death Angels Legion. A new organisation
is quickly established. However, to be able to quickly gain the size of the old
Legions, Dante has to take use of the Blood Angels’ degenerated bio-implants.
701,634 IY (1634 AD)
First Hive Fleet discovered. It’s code-named
Behemoth. Before being firmly confirmed as a threat, the Hive Fleet strips two
planets bare of their resources, leaving barren rocks. An army led by Warmaster
Goodfried is sent to intercept Behemoth and destroy it. The only regiment to
make it bake, although only numbering a hundred men, is the Moskvanian 4th.
701,771 IY (1771 AD)
Kevin Poole is born on the Hive World Ichar,
with the Space Marine genetic mutation. Also, Orks are for the first time
sighted on planets outside the Imperium, possessing a higher technology than
their savage counter-parts, which exists on nearly every Imperial planet and
colony. (These so-called Savage Orks are however on most planets either hunted
or used as slaves. On some Hive Worlds even as entertainment.)
701,776 IY (1776 AD)
Edmund Charleston, Edward McKenzie and Eddie
McGranth are born on the Hive World Ichar, all carrying the Space Marine
mutation, and McKenzie carrying psychic powers in his DNA.
701,784 IY (1784 AD)
Poole joins the Death Angels Legion as a Scout Neophyte.
701,789 IY (1789 AD)
McGranth, Charleston and McKenzie join the
Death Angels Legion. McKenzie is early picked out as a psyker.
701,802 IY (1802 AD)
A new Hive Fleet appears, much smaller, but
no less deadly. It’s code-named Kanker, (originally cancer, but a spelling
mistake led to this new spelling) which becomes aptly named, as the three
canoness sisters Kanker of the Sisters of Battle become infested by the Hive
Fleet as they try do destroy it.
701,819 IY (1819 AD)
George McKenzie, a powerful psyker and
younger brother of McKenzie in the Death Angels, turns out to be a Genestealer
half-breed, and joins the Genestealer cult that had sprung in the bow-wave of
Hive Fleet Behemoth.
701,820 IY (1820 AD)
Lieutenant Commander Kevin Poole is declared
Outlaw with his entire company: 8th Assault Company. He renames and
repaints his company’s armour, to symbolize his Outlawhood. The name he takes
is Berzerkers and the colour scheme is brass and dark red. Imperial
philosophers have later claimed this as an early warning sign on to Poole’s
coming treason.
Reasons to why Poole was declared Outlaw are
still now known, the Death Angels being very quiet as to why.
701,825 IY (1822 AD)
Hive Fleet Kanker infests the outpost planet
Volrath with Genestealers, the only humans remaining being an Imperial Guard
regiment. Imperial monitors have also detected a planet far away from the
ice-planet, in the very outskirts of the Secondus-system. Grand Commander Dante
leads an attack against this new planet, as it’s discovered to be a main ‘base’
for Hive Fleet Kanker. Dante is killed in this attack. His body is recovered
and brought to Ichar, where a new Grand Commander has to be chosen.
Eddie McGranth becomes the new Grand
Commander.
701,826 IY (1823 AD)
On the Day of the Feast of the Emperor’s
Ascension, Kevin Poole finds out the McGranth is the new Grand Commander, as he
is on Armageddon. His rage of this is so great, that he, instead of holding an
honorary speech to the Emperor’s glory, defies the same in a speech of hate and
bile.
In a matter of weeks, Armageddon is taken by
the Berzerkers, now swearing their loyalty to the Chaos God Khorne, giving that
god his own vanguard of Renegade Space Marines.
Kevin Poole’s takes the new name Kevlinn,
Lord of Berzerkers and assaulting a nearby Eldar Craftworld, Iyanden, stealing
their C’tan weapon. Kevlinn renames the weapon the Axe of Khorne.
McGranth leads an all-out attack against
Armageddon, in rage over Poole’s treason. However, this does not fare so well,
and McGranth suffers one of his first defeats at the hands of a truly hard
opponent.
701,860 IY (1860 AD)
Giant, carnivorous plants on the Death World
Radius kill Master Lexicanum Kieran DuVane. Epistolary Edward McKenzie is his
chosen successor.
701,973 IY (1973 AD)
A half-breed child is born in the Yarrick
family on the agri-world Callidus. He’s named Rolf, said to be a bastardisation
of the old Gothic tongue’s Hrodwulf. At about the same time, Master Lexicanum
McKenzie gives Commissar Amadeus Chomaki a strange prophecy <cross-ref: proph/so-qoute.htm>.
701,988 IY (1988 AD)
Rolf Yarrick comes home after a visit at a friend’s house, to finds his
family slaughtered. Although the barns and houses are put to the torch, young
Rolf Yarrick rushes into one of the houses and brings out the Yarrickian Sword.
Meets with Lord Kevlinn, who takes upon himself the reason for Yarrick’s
family’s death. As the Dark Lord leaves the young Yarrick alone, Rolf swears in
blood that he shall have his revenge.
Next day, he makes his way towards Vindaree.
701,990 IY (1990 AD)
After two years as PDF soldier, the
Commissariat gets eyes for the young man Rolf Yarrick, initiating him into the
political wing of the Imperial Guard. His new father becomes Amadeus Chomaki,
commissar-general. Chomaki now understands McKenzie’s prophecy.
701,995 IY (1995 AD)
Chomaki is killed during a battle against
Berzerkers. With his last breath, Chomaki makes Rolf Yarrick his successor as
commissar and general of the 27th Callidus regiment. Yarrick assumes
command brilliantly, and the Berzerkers are beaten from Kiitar, with help from
the Sister Sororitas.
Still, there were enemies surrounding the
Imperium on all sides…
702,000 IY (2000 AD)
During a six-day blitz, the Space Outlaws of
the Omega squadron, now legendary, destroys both Hive Fleet Kanker and the
Berzerkers grip on Armageddon, with the help of the Eldar Craftworld present
and the Callidussian army under Commissar-general Yarrick’s command.
702,020 IY (2020 AD)
Kevlinn comes back, and renames himself Lord
Kharn, in honour of the Deamon Lord possessing his body. He allies himself with
the Dark Eldarain, and makes pacts with the other renegade Space Marine
Legions.
702,032 IY (2032 AD)
Kharn tries to recapture Armageddon, but is
thwarted by Commissar-general Rolf Yarrick, now aged 57.
702,045 IY (2045 AD)
Commissar-general Rolf Yarrick marries his
first wife, Fiona McAllen. Grand Commander McGranth is chosen best man at the
wedding. With this wife, he would have two daughters whom he loved over all in
the world; however, he’d ruined the passing of the sword in his family.
702,101 IY (2101 AD)
Rolf Yarrick’s first wife dies of age. It is
now he understands, or accepts that he’s no normal human.
McGranth comes back from an Underhive mission
to root out Genestealers and informs McKenzie that he saw McKenzie’s brother
George, or Magus Grimjaw. McKenzie now starts his hunt for his brother once
again.
702,112 IY (2112 AD)
At this time, Kharn invades Armageddon once again, using deamonic
allies. He fought against the Imperial servants with an unholy zeal, but his
Dark forces were destroyed by the combination of Death Angels and Steel Legion
Imperial Guard.
McKenzie fought his brother for the first
time, as it appeared the Dark Lord had used Genestealers to undermine the Hives
of Armageddon. Grimjaw escaped.
702,121 IY (2121 AD)
Rolf Yarrick re-marries, and has one son and three daughters with this
wife, Irina Petrovska.
Just as his
first wife, Rolf outlived Irina, but instead of age, cancer stole Irina from
him. He would outlive all children of his two first marriages as well.
702,156 IY (2156 AD)
Rolf Yarrick marries his last wife, Rebecca Silberstein. He has three
children with her: Janet, James and Frederick Yarrick. Janet was born in
702,157 IY, James in 702,176 IY and Frederick in 702,186 IY. Rebecca dies in an
accident in 702,191 IY. James is sent to officers training and Frederick ends
up in the Schola Progenum, as his father is an officer of the Imperial Guard.
702,189 IY (2189 AD)
Rolf Yarrick loses his right hand in a close
combat with Kharn on Callidus. He has it replaced with a bionic one. One
problem occurs; he has started to age, and in time, he will become the age he
truly is.
702,210 IY (2210AD)
James Yarrick crippled by a grenade in
battle. His father, Rolf, tells him that the bio meds can patch him back together.
James says he doesn’t want to play with his child, if he cannot enjoy the
feeling of his own legs. He tells Rolf Yarrick to shoot him. The
commissar-general grants his son his final wish.
After this incident, Rolf Yarrick signs his
retirement and goes home to Callidus.
702,211 IY (2211 AD)
Sebastian Yarrick is born. He and his mother lived under the protection
of Sebastian’s uncle, Commissar Frederick Yarrick. This protection didn’t last
long; Frederick’s home is attacked by Berzerkers and he sends away Cecil and
Sebastian to Rolf, while he himself makes a last stand against the Berzerkers.
Rolf and Cecil and Sebastian move to Hades
Hive, Armageddon, and Rolf Yarrick goes back into service.
702,213 IY (2213 AD)
Underhivers kill Cecil and Rolf moves back to
Callidus, with Sebastian. McKenzie has a great sight of doom, but is unable to
tell the Imperial High Lords, due to his vow.
702,220 IY (2220 AD)
Sebastian’s best friend’s parents die in an accident.
Ishmael Grisham is sent to the Schola Progenum.
702,226 IY (2226 AD)
Rolf Yarrick confronts Kharn, at the age of
253 years. His age is beginning to show through, and he is defeated and killed
by Kharn. Sebastian doesn’t see it as such. He blames himself for not acting
when his grandfather needed him. McKenzie saves the soul from the eternity.
When the Schola Progenum hears of the great
Commissar-general’s death, they take in Sebastian into their society with open
arms. He meets his friend Ishmael again.
Seb and IG start a band; Imperial Eagles.
(Which are behind “Lament of a Hero”)
702,231 IY (2231 AD)
Sebastian is taken up as commissar cadet.
Instructor Hawksville mysteriously demands retirement after training Sebastian
and his other friends… Some have whispered about the ‘superglue incident’, now
a legendary prankster.
702,235 IY
Sebastian earns his Ordo Imperialis and
graduates as a commissar. As a gift, he’s given a wolfhound/chaos hound cross
breed puppy. He names it Cerberus.
702,241 IY
Sebastian, being a guitarist, is chosen by
Armageddon’s young planetary governor Luthor von Strab, to play the lead
guitars on a concert in the Infernus Opera House. Sebastian also meets a young
cadet named Karl Hossman, to be Chief Commissar of Armageddon, in time.
Sebastian also visits Volcanus Hive, and sees
the great monument of the Liberator of Armageddon. His feelings of shame are
overwhelming to him, and he falls to his knees weeping before the statue.
702,251 IY
Sebastian makes his study on Orks as he
travels through the Imperium, gathering information and fighting with many
Imperial Guard regiments. Afterwards, he returns to Armageddon. He’s invited to
yet another concert, but this time to celebrate Luthor von Strab’s youngest and
newly born son; Herman von Strab.
Sebastian meets Hossman again, who’s now
Chief Commissar of Armageddon. After the concert, they go out on a dinner, with
several other commissars from the Armageddon Commissariat, amongst them some
women, whom Sebastian has a hard time accepting.
702,256 IY
Sebastian goes back to Callidus, 30 years
after his grandfather died. He visits the tomb of his grandfather and confesses
he won’t rest until Kharn has paid for his insult upon the Yarrick family.
(OOT: Sebastian’s hair has already begun to grey)
Sebastian meets his friend Ishmael by
mistake, as he too visits Callidus to visit the grave of his father and mother.
They talk old memories, and write a few new songs together. IG writes the score
for a song, and Sebastian writes the lyrics for it, but Sebastian never got to
complete the lyrics…
702,261 IY
Sebastian goes to Armageddon to complete his
book on Orks and their culture, but is caught by Hossman, who needs a teacher
for Xenology and Imperial History on the Commissariat, to train the cadets.
Sebastian accepts and meets James Holt for the first time, now a 23 year old,
and wiry young commissar cadet.
Later records from this year and the
following will show that Sebastian was overwhelmingly popular amongst the young
men and (the few) women of the Armageddon Commissar Academy. Especially his
ability to play ‘an axe’, as the slang goes…
702,268 IY
Sebastian Yarrick, being out on a mission with the Moskvanian 39th,
is called to Armageddon. In the Moskvanian regiment, he’d met a new friend:
Zampolit Kotschergin, while training a new cadet (whom graduated quickly),
carrying the name Luigi Monstoni. (The Moskvanian regiments have their own
political officers, so-called zampolits)
When Sebastian gets to Armageddon, he finds
out Hossman has died to the same disease that took Mishkin: cancer in the
cardiac muscles. The funeral is held and Sebastian leaves before he gets to
know who’s to replace Hossman, so torn up is he by grief.
702,271 IY
Sebastian returns to Armageddon, with a new
Cadet: John McLaren, a tall, wiry and brown-haired young man. Sebastian also
works on his book as he teaches McLaren all the ethics of being a commissar.
He meets James Holt again, now not so wiry
anymore. Holt was chosen as successor to Hossman, and has, because of the good
living, put on weight and gotten himself a potbelly. But he’s become hearty in
his ways and the reason soon shows up, in Kristine Ruchswald. Ms Ruchswald is
Holt’s fiancée and Sebastian can do nothing but congratulate, although he
himself is a sworn bachelor.
At about the same time, IG has his back
broken by a huge Ork Warlord out in the border system Gideon. He has to retire
due to his injuries.
702,273 IY
The von Strab murders start, with Otto being
hit by a hit-and-run driver. Sebastian was walking with the man, as the driver
made his job. Once again, Sebastian curses himself for not doing his duty.
Next is Anton, who is killed by a bomb at a
banquet. Not much is left of the lord governor’s son. Luthor now assigns the
matter to Yarrick personally. Sebastian doesn’t speak a word that it was close
that he, Holt and McLaren was taken out with Anton, leaving the banquet just
minutes before the bomb went off.
Lastly, Villhelm was shot, but the assassin
seemed to have a double mission, as he obviously tried to shoot Holt as well,
as he and Ms. Ruchswald danced together. The assassin missed, (how the frekk
that was possible!) and killed Kristine instead. Sebastian had reacted when
Villhelm was shot, he’d ran to were the assassin was hiding, but was soon
joined by a grief-stricken and enraged Holt. Holt nearly kills the man, but
Sebastian stops him.
Next on the list was Luthor himself, who was
killed in a macabre way of food poisoning. Having eaten Cathayan fugu-fish, no
one would suspect murder. Except Sebastian.
In the mean time, Holt is almost driven mad
by his sorrow over his lost fiancée. This drives him to addiction, as he
soothes his raging mind with morphine. He starts to skip meals; he loses weight
and his personality changes nearly to that of a manic-depressive person. He
soon finds that his money won’t last long, as the morphine is expensive. His
addiction drives him so far as to blackmailing.
He knows who’s behind the murders: Herman von
Strab. Holt strikes a deal with von Strab; he won’t tell the Imperial rulers
what caused the murders if von Strab puts one million Imperial credits on his
account, every month! Von Strab accepts. Holt sends Sebastian and McLaren on a
long leave on the garden world Yorm. A few weeks later, Herman von Strab
becomes the new Lord Governor of Armageddon and the case of the murders is
quieted down.
702,274 IY
Sebastian comes back to Armageddon, and
becomes enraged over what Holt has done. Seb nearly conducts a summary
execution on a fellow commissar, but Holt tells him that von Strab has chosen
him as military advisor. This soothes Sebastian somewhat, but not enough. He
tells Holt to watch himself. Things can go very grim indeed for him.
702,281 IY
The fourth war for Armageddon begins. Kharn invades with the help of
Orks, and goes through the defences of Armageddon like a hot knife through
butter. Sebastian Yarrick is relieved from duty from his posting as military advisor
of the Planetary Governor. He is banished to Hades Hive, unarguably von Strab’s
wisest decision throughout the entire war.
The Death Angel 8th company prove
invaluable, although von Strab never ordered them to anything, Lieutenant
Commander Charleston acting independently.
Sebastian’s old friend Ishmael Grisham dies
while performing his duty. Sebastian is torn apart by sorrow, but he sustains
and comes out stronger from it…
702,282 IY
The Imperial reinforcements arrive in time to
save the Hive World Armageddon. Von Strab escapes the first attempt to capture
him, fleeing into the Ash Wastes. Sebastian has lost one arm and one eye, and
is one of the few survivors from the fighting around Hades Hive. He earns the
nickname Saviour of Hades Hive.
Holt hangs himself after a fussy series of
actions and happenings.
Kharn is chased off and Orkish Warlord
Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka disappears, believed dead, though this isn’t
confirmed.
702,283 IY
The last of the Orks are chased off. Seb and Charleston
stumble across a strange race of robots, living inside the big pyramid in the
Equatorial Jungle of Armageddon.
The pyramid is deemed dangerous to mankind
and is bombed.
After many amendments to his script,
Sebastian finally publishes his book on Ork mind and society.
702,287 IY
McKenzie has a horrible vision of doom, so
real and so tangible he almost loses his mind. He now knows that the end is
near, very near.
Sebastian wakes up on Armageddon one day, to
find his old pet Cerberus dead, of age. Having lost his last true friend,
Sebastian nearly has a nervous breakdown. He can only conclude that his life
has been one long theatre of pain and suffering. McLaren, newly chosen Chief
Commissar of Armageddon, tries to comfort the old man, as he passes by mistake.
O IF (2293 AD)
Kharn launches an all out blitz attack
against the cradle of the Imperium: Secondus. This attack consists of hundreds
of thousands of Dark Eldar, many thousands of Genestealers and the entire horde
that is Kharn’s Berzerker Legion. The Imperium in this sector is weakened by
Kharn’s attack against Armageddon, and Kharn takes out the Imperial defences
with ease. He finishes the day with killing the Emperor.
McGranth, McKenzie and Charleston flee
backwards in time, to the time of the Eds in our system.
Kharn manages in some way to follow them. Any
way, he comes back a deamon; Kharn Fleshtearer is released upon the mortal
realm again.
He finds out that Sebastian still lives, in
his prison caves, and is kept alive by the Orkish sub-species Gretchin.
2
IF (2295 AD)
Sebastian faces off after two years of
regaining his strength, and is killed easily by the huge deamon, who wants to
exact revenge to what the Deamonslayer did to him all those millennia ago.
Before Sebastian meets his maker, he finishes the song he never finished with
IG. He gives the lyrics to a young Gretchin: Mosgit.
The Gretchin who looked after Sebastian,
Mosgit, has learned human values and starts the Gretchin Revolutionary
Committee; the GRC.
Dark Eldar Archon Draconis is elevated to
Deamonhood, and picks the name A’mon Cha’k’ai.
223 IF (2516 AD)
The Outlaws reappear into the Secondus system. They battle against Kharn
and the deamon is banished forever more to the Warp. It has been considered a
miracle…
The human race begin to rebuild themselves,
but the numerous Ork warbands, smaller Berzerker hosts and the constant threat
of deamons, that have emerged due to Kharn’s immense influence, are slowing
humanity down, and the outer systems are never reached by the fact that Kharn
is dead.
398 IF (2691 AD)
A new threat shows itself: the so-called
Necrons. They attack with an efficiency not seen since the Hive Fleets. They
quickly destroy the half-hearted defences that the humans have. It is soon made
clear that they are lead by a former C’tan, who calls himself Metallix. The
humans name the threat a simple Iron Men. Metallix also encounters Orks in the
Gideon system. There he faces off against Ghazghkull Thraka, the Ork thinking
that the huge droid is some incarnation of the ‘Bale Eye’, because of Metallix’
digi-laser, black hull and powerful fists. Ghazghkull suffers a cruel defeat at
the massive hands of the Necron commander.
Metallix sidekick, Daimien, discovers a tiny
warp-hole and sends a squad through it.
435 IF (2728 AD)
The Outlaws and the Marine commanders once
again appear, heeding the call of the humans as they’re assaulted by the Iron
Men.