LEGION Timeline

[Nineswords]

Apologies to all if you haven't read LEGION by Dan Abnett yet that came out several years ago. As part of my ongoing analysis of the Alpha Legion, I'm piecing together a detailed timeline of all Alpha Legion actions. Having re-read LEGION and cross referencing with several other HH books, here's my timeline of events.

 

Timeline of Events

 

The events of Legion place the Ullanor campaign continuously with that of the Nurth pacification, which means the first mass Imperial casualties of the Heresy are in fact caused by the Alpha Legion, just shy of a year and a half before Horus’ actions on Istvaan III that mark the beginning of the Heresy.

 

Nurth, two years before the Heresy

• Alpha Legion forces are already present on Nurth, at the request of Horus
  
• Nurthene insurgent forces decimate local Imperial Army forces of the Geno Two-Five Chiliad, future Legion operative Peto Soneka’s unit is cut down. It is revealed they were bait to draw out Nurthene forces, so that the Alpha Legion could infiltrate a key Nurthene settlement Tel Utan
  

(Ullanor campaign underway at this point)

 

+ 5 weeks, Visages/Tel Khat

• Deceased Alpha Legion operative discovered by Imperial Army. Soneka attempts transports the body to another outpost west of Tel Khat for further examination, intercepted by Alpharius;
  

 

+3 days, Mon Lo Harbour

• Grammaticus’ infiltration into Mon Lo Harbour, subsequent disorientation and abduction by Alpha Legion forces in the House of the Hydra;
  

 

+3 days, Mon Lo Harbour

• Mon Lo emanates a continuous screaming sound; recorded warp activity around the harbour;
  
• Namatjira reveals that a formal meeting with the Alpha Legion will occur the following day;
  
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+1 day, Mon Lo Harbour

• 'The Great Welcome’ - a formal ceremony where Lord Commander Namatjira and the Imperial Army openly meets with the Alpha Legion for the first time;
  
• Evening: Namatijira discusses ideology with the primarch and 3 representatives of the Alpha Legion, Grammaticus’ botched infiltration of said meeting.
  

 

+ 3 days, Alpha Legion asset, location unknown

• Rukhsana’s ‘abduction’ and interrogation by Alpharius in the desert regarding the whereabouts of Grammaticus;
  

 

Short period later, Black Dawn

• Grammaticus presents himself to Soneka. Is escorted to CR583, where they are met by Ingo Pech and Thias Herzog;
  

 

Last day on Nurth

• Grammaticus’ explanation of The Black Cube. Convinces Alpharius to quit Nurth and meet the Cabal;
  
• Alpha Legion reconstitution policy and extraction of Imperial forces on Nurth;
  

 

+1 month after Nurth: The Great Triumph on Ullanor

• Horus Lupercal named Warmaster by the Emperor of Mankind;
  
• The Great Triumph happens 202 years after the beginning of the Great Crusade (source: Horus Rising) and just over 21 months before Istvaan III
  

 

+5 months after Nurth, 42 Hydra/Eolith Halting Site

• Alpha Legion’s meeting with the Cabal - twin primarchs, Soneka and Shere shown the Acuity;
  
• Destruction of Imperial forces by the Alpha Legion
  

 

 

Conclusions:

 

• We know that the Triumph of Ullanor occurred about 202 years after the beginning of the Great Crusade in the early 31st Millenium
  
• As noted by various cross references, Alpha Legion fire the first shots as it were, a year and a half (17 months) before Horus Lupercal reveals his treachery on Istvaan III.
  
• This would mean that that in those 21 months, Horus would have needed to be injured on Davin and planned the Heresy. Is this correct? ('Warp unreliable' time frames not withstanding!)
  

 

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=139810&d=1336474386

 

^^ Current visualisation

[sponsra]

Cool! Did you see this topic: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...howtopic=231656 ?

Maybe we could tie them together somehow ...

[Nineswords]

Hey Sponsra,

 

I knew there would be something like this somewhere, this thread you linked to missed the auspex sweep!

 

This is gold dust, but looking at some of the information in more detail, only events are mentioned which is fine, but the books do tend to detail transit time in between events which is a huge part of the overall timeline.

 

I'm going to give this a good look, and see where I can fit in and start expanding my file. Mind if I hijack your thread once I start a new illustrator file?

 

Thanks!

 

NS

[sponsra]

Mind if I hijack your thread once I start a new illustrator file?

NS

 

of course not, I just started it, there are other people who´s done all the work with the timelines :)