Updating the Big DIY Timeline

[Octavulg]

The Big DIY Timeline is rather out of date at this point, and kind of sparse to boot. So I went through various timelines, and created this monstrosity.

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Space Marine Foundings

Events in the Imperium

Events involving Chaos

Events involving the Eldar

Events involving Orks

Events involving Necrons

Events involving the Tau

Events involving the Tyranids

Octavulg-Approved Ur-Timeline

 

The Imperium and the Space Marines

The Horus Heresy Ends	014.M31	C:SM 5e at 14 says the death of Horus was seven years before the Second Founding.
2nd Founding	021.M31	Date is given as 021.M31 in the Final Liberation Game Manual at 76 and in C:UM at 13. Seven years after the death of Horus (C:SM 5e p 14). The Legions are broken up and just over 400 chapters are created (C: GK at 7). Most of these chapters still serve today (BRB 6e at 168).
Corax Disappears	P: 022.M31	IA: RG says about a year after the Second Founding.
Rogal Dorn Dies	P: 025.M31	IA: IF says “soon after” Corax disappeared. Fighting a Black Crusade that never materialized.
Jaghatai Khan Disappears	P: 84.M31	IA: WS says about 70 years after the Siege of Terra. Fighting Dark Eldar
Guilliman Falls	P: 121.M31	IA: UM says Guilliman lead for the next hundred years after the Codex was pronounced.
Russ Disappears	P: 662.M31	IA: SW says Bjorn is awoken to tell the tale once every 1000 years. Assuming they do it on the anniversary of Russ’ disappearance (as opposed to some other event), that would point toward this being the year in question.
Abaddon’s First Black Crusade	781.M31	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC, C:CSM 6e at 22. Abaddon recovers Drach’nyen (C:CSM 6e)
Vulkan Disappears	P: 800.M31	IA: S says he disappeared some thousand years after his Legion was founded.
3rd Founding	001.M32	Founded on the first day of M32 per WD97 at 39.
The Ecclesiarchy	E: 200.M32	BRB 6e at 169. The Cult of the Saviour Emperor has been growing in power. In this millenium, it is declared the state religion of the Imperium. A few centuries later, an Ecclesiarch is a High Lord, and 300 years after that the post is permanent.
Veneris II	E: 400.M32	BRB 6e at 169. Veneris II becomes the first Ecclesiarch to serve on the High Lords of Terra.
The Beast Arises	544.M32	Orks rampage across the Imperium, at great cost to the Space Marines. BRB 6e at 168.
The Beheading	546.M32	BRB 5e at 124. The Grand Master of the Assassins kills all the High Lords. The Imperium descends into anarchy.
Reunited	646.M32	BRB 6e at 169. Over fifty Space Marine leaders convene and create new High Lords.
Abaddon’s Second Black Crusade	597.M32	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC
The Ecclesiarch	E: 700.M32	BRB 6e at 169. The Ecclesiarch becomes a permanent member of the High Lords.
4th Founding and the Astropath Wars	P: 888.M32	IA 10 at 114 suggests a founding during the Astropath Wars, which took place in 888.M32 (BRB 5e at 124).
Abaddon’s Third Black Crusade	909.M32	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC
The War of the Sun and the Moon	M33	C:DE 5e at 20. Commoragh’s Solar Cults fight the city’s noble houses for control for several centuries, ultimately losing.
The War of the Confessor	077.M33	BRB 5e at 124. The Adeptus Ministorum adds many key shrine worlds to its holdings (BRB 6e at 169).
5th Founding	P: About 220.M33	220 or 221.M33 is the founding of the Howling Griffons (C:CSM 3e Rev at 63). The number is not recorded. The Dark Angels geneseed was not used in this founding per C:DA 6e at 22.
6th Founding	E: Mid-Late M33	The Dark Angels’ geneseed was not used in this founding per C:DA 6e at 22.
Abaddon’s Fourth Black Crusade (The Devastation of El’Phanor)	001.M34	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC
7th Founding	E: Late M33/Early M34	If this founding was in M33, the Dark Angels geneseed would not have been used per C:DA 6e p 22.
The Pale Wasting	Early M-34	BRB 6e at 169. A score of Space Marine chapters and an unknown number of others are lost against a great threat from beyond the Ghoul Stars.
8th Founding	E: About 400.M34	Mid-M34 per IA 10 at 64. However, this will compress the next several foundings incredibly. Since this period is the Nova Terra Interregnum, it is possible that both the Ur-Council and the High Lords created Foundings in this period, and that they were later renumbered.
The Howling	401.M34	BRB 5e at 124. The Black Templars kill an alien psychic, burning out a billion astropaths and causing the loss of millions of ships. Entire sub-sectors slide into anarchy.
9th Founding	E: About 530.M34	-
10th Founding	E: About 660.M34	IA 9, p 54 says mid-M35. This compresses the next eleven foundings into 500 years or less (vs. 3000 for the previous seven). This has thus been completely ignored.
11th Founding	E: About 790.M34	-
12th Founding	E: About 920.M34	-
The Moirae Schism	M35	BRB 6e at 170. A heretical faction of the Machine Cult that believes in prophetic messages within the Astronomican arises. It takes two millenia to fully wipe it out, and Space Marines, Titan Legions and Forge Worlds are all swept up in the schism.
The Coup of High Commoragh	M35	Commoragh’s Solar Cults fight the noble houses for control for several centuries, ultimately losing. C:DE 5e at 20
Explorators Discover Tiamet	M35	C:Ty 4e at 24. Explorators discover what is now recognized to be a world infested with Tyranids. The world is bombed several times, but the denizens are never wiped out. This likely introduced Genestealers to Ymgarl.
13th Founding	E: About 050.M35	This is the only founding for which the Adeptus Mechanicus does not possess original geneseed records (C:UM at 8). The Armageddon 3 Website included a communique from 013.M36 referring to the Exorcists as being in training following their founding. IA 10 at 124 seems to claim late M35/early M36, which carries the same problem. The highly-flawed IA: Emperor's Shield claims a founding date of M40 for the Exorcists, moving them out of the 13th Founding altogether. All of this has thus been ignored, since I refuse to have the 13th Founding within a century of the 21st (let alone AFTER it, as it might end up being).
Beginning of the Nova Terra Interregnum	E: 100.M35	The Ur-Council of Nova Terra rejects the Ecclesiarchy, assuming rule over most of Segmentum Pacificus. Billions die in the war. BRB 5e at 125 says that this period lasted for over nine hundred years (as does BRB 6e at 170), and if it goes much past 975.M35, it runs into the Age of Apostasy. And the Imperium can’t be split in half twice at the same time.
14th Founding	E: About 180.M35	-
15th Founding	E: About 320.M35	-
16th Founding	E: About 460.M35	-
17th Founding	P: 598.M35	The Tiger Claws are founded at 598.M35 per C:CSM 3e Rev at 7.
18th Founding	E: About 700.M35	-
The Thaxar Wars	745.M35	The Dark Eldar reveal the location of a Chaos base to Imperial forces, including the Adeptus Astartes, prompting the inconcuslive and costly Thaxar Wars, which last six years. After the eventual Exterminatus, the Dark Eldar swoop in and take what remains. C:DE 5e at 21
Discovery of the Tau	789.M35	C: TE 4e at 4. The Tau are encountered by the Imperium as barbarian tribes on their home world. Warp storms cut the planet off shortly thereafter.
19th Founding	E: About 800.M35	-
20th Founding	E: About 900.M35	-
The Cataclysm of Souls	975.M35	BRB 5e at 125, C:DA 6e at 23. A civil war against the High Lords and Ecclesiarchy,the likes of which had not been seen since the Heresy. Lead by the Ur-Council of Nova Terra. One of their members may have been a Fallen (C:DA 6e).
The Hrud Rising	980.M35	C:DA 6e at 23. An uprising of Hrud across the Imperium. The Ultramarines and Dark Angels were involved.
21st Founding	991.M35	Goes horribly wrong in 991.M35 per BRB 6e at 170. "On the cusp of M36" (IA 9, p 106). Cursed Founding. Largest founding since the Second (???). Took place before the Age of Apostasy, which began within the first century or two of M36.
The Kabals Ascendant	M35-M36	The Kabal system slowly supplants the noble houses of Commoragh, under the rule of Asdrubael Vect. Vect begins his conquest of the other Dark Eldar cities of the Webway. C:DE 5e at 20
Hive Fleet Ouroboris	M36	C:Ty 4e at 24. Hive Fleet Ouroboris attacked the Helican sector at some point prior to this, and was fought off by an Imperial Crusade.
The War of Recovery	104.M36	BRB 6e at 170. A war to recover STC patterns from xeno-held human colonies in the Mortuam escalates over the course of a century. The Mechanicus are eventually victorious.
The Age of Apostasy Begins	200.M36	BRB 4e at 98. Goge Vandire assumes multiple High Lordships and begins his reign of terror.
End of the Reign of Blood. Formation of the Sisters of Battle and the Ordo Hereticus	288.M36	???
The Plague of Unbelief	310.M36	BRB 5e at 125. A plague of heretical rebellion strikes the Imperium. Most notable among these is Bucharis, Cardinal of Gathalamor, who creates an empire stretching from Bakka to Fenris (a Fallen was his lieutenant – C:DA 6e at 36-37). He comes into conflict with the Space Wolves, and is eventually brought down by sparking a loyalist rebellion against his rule (???).
The Green Death	437.M36	An Ork invasion of an Ecclesiarchal system is corrupted by Nurgle, allowing the Death Guard to conquer it. C:CSM 6e at 23
The Black Crusade of Jahar the Lacerator	599.M36	C:Gk at ???
Abaddon’s Fifth Black Crusade	723.M36	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC
The Great Degeneration	836.M36	C:CSM 6e at 23. The aftermath of the violent xenocidal Quietus Campaign sees the Annihilators chapter fall into blood psychosis, then to Chaos.
Abaddon’s Sixth Black Crusade	901.M36	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC
Approximate end of the Age of Apostasy	P: 001.M37	BRB 5e at 125.
Wrath of the Chaos Sun	010.M37	BRB 6e at 170. The star Maxil Beta explodes, and worlds for hundreds of light years succumb to possession and mutation. The Grey Knights, a dozen other chapters and countless other forces are involved.
The Great Cull	020.M37	BRB 6e, p 170. The High Lords begin a “systematic extermination” to ensure that “such a corruption of faith can never occur again.”
The Ecclesiarchal Purges	321.M37	C:CSM 6e at 17. Saint Basillius the Elder leads efforts to purify the Segmentum Solar of impurity. The Inquisition, Ecclesiarchy and several Space Marine Chapters all cooperate in the effort.
The Abyssal Crusade	321.M37	BRB 5e at 125, C:CSM 6e at 23: In the wake of Warp Storm Dionys, which swept across the galaxy, mutation is rife. Saint Basillius finds thirty Space Marine chapters whose home worlds lay in the path of the storm wanting. The “Judged Chapters” all undertake a penitent quest into the Eye of Terror.
The Occlusiad Begins	550.M37	BRB 5e at 125. For ten years, the northwestern fringe is ravaged by rogue Tech Priests who can snuff out stars. Their leader, the Blind King, is killed when his ship, hidden in the warp, is discovered by the Imperial Navy.
22nd Founding	About 555.M37	The Dark Hunters are described as founded in the "dark days of the Occlusiad" (C:SM 5e at 26). The Occlusiad War is from 550.M37 to 560.M37 (BRB 5e at 125). Their founding number is not specifically mentioned, but there's only one option.
The Lost Crusade	754.M37	BRB 6e at 171. Menials across the Imperium take ship for Terra, hoping for a better life. The majority of their ships are lost in the Warp.
Abaddon’s Seventh Black Crusade (The Ghost War)	811.M37	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC
The Tau Expand	893.M37	C: TE 6e at 28. The first alien races join the Tau Empire. The first, the Poctroon, are wiped out by virulent plague, but the Nicassar survive to this day.
The Destruction of Shaa-dom	984.M37	The city of Shaa-dom is the last Dark Eldar enclave not under the control of Asdrubael Vect. It is destroyed when an Imperial battleship crashes into its heart, destroying its ruler and releasing hordes of daemons into the city through the resulting Warp rift. C:DE 5e at 22
Abaddon’s Eighth Black Crusade	999.M37	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC
23rd Founding	Late M37/Early M38	Late M37 per IA 9 at 74, Early M38 per IA 10 at 132. "The Sentinel Founding, created to aid the Imperium's defences in numerous ill-starred and vulnerable regions of the galaxy (IA 10 at 132)." "Generally believed to have been one of a series of linked foundings around this period designed to repair the power and reach of the Imperium's Space Marine forces which had suffered considerable losses in the preceding millenia."
Judgment of Basillius	112.M38	BRB 6e at 171. The survivors of the Abyssal Crusade return, having purged over 400 worlds. The Master of the Vorpal Swords declares Basillius to be a false idol. Basillius is executed, and his worship stamped out.
The Dominion of Fire	Mid-M38	C:CSM 4e at ???
Abaddon’s Ninth Black Crusade	573.M38	C:CSM 6e at 23: Abaddon invades Antecanis, near the naval fortress of Cancephalus. Cancephalus and Antecanis are drained dry by the seventeen year war that follows, leaving the sector vulnerable.
Grim Harvest	666.M38	BRB 6e at 171. The remains of the Lost Crusade exit the Warp near Terra. The Inquisition launches a cover-up of the twisted, wrecked fleet of abominations.
Hive Fleet Collossus Appears	Late M38	C:Ty 4e at 25. The ships of what are probably the Zoats appear in the Segmentum Tempestus and Ultima. They can communicate with the Imperium, and claim to be fleeing their oppressors.
The Kroot	844.M38	C: TE 6e at 28. The Tau ally with the Kroot.
Abaddon’s Tenth Black Crusade (The Conflict of Helica)	001.M39	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC. Abaddon apparently took a millenium off.
Second Sphere	018.M39	C: TE 6e at 28. The Tau begin their second phase of expansion.
Stingwings	053.M39	C: TE 6e at 28. The Tau absorb the Vespid.
The Redemption Crusades	131.M39	BRB 6e at 171. A great, Primarch-like hero appears in each Segmentum. Their crusades push the borders of the Imperium to their greatest extent in 500 years. They disappear 50 years later.
The Zorastra-Attila Wars	P: 176.M39	C:Ty 4e at 25. Hive Fleet Collossus is declared Xeno Horribilis. The aliens attack the Imperium, and war rages for 50 years.
Abaddon’s Eleventh Black Crusade	301.M39	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC.
24th Founding	E: M39	-
The Fall of the Emperor’s Swords	198-485.M40	C:CSM 6e at 24: The Alpha Legion manipulate the hive gangs from which the Emperor’s Swords recruit, seeding them with subconscious triggers. When the Alpha Legion attacks the Chapter’s home world three centuries later, the chapter disintegrates into factions, many of which join the Alpha Legion. The Chapter and their home world are destroyed.
The Thieves of the Ice Mists	616.M39	The Dark Eldar’s Haemonculi kidnap Space Wolf recruits, performing cruel experiments on them in a base in the north of Fenris itself. C:DE 5e at 22
25th Founding	M40, latter half	Date per IA 9 at 94. Establishes chapter number 888 (WD 98 UK at 38).
The Macharian Conquests	995.M40	BRB 5e at 125. Solar Macharius conquers a thousand worlds, which fall into chaos and infighting after his death. It takes seventy years and a hundred Space Marine chapters to restore order.
Abaddon’s Twelfth Black Crusade (The Gothic War)	139-160.M41	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC.
The First Armageddon War	444.M41	C:CSM 3e Rev at IBC; C:CSM 6e at 24: Angron invades Armageddon, and is met by the Space Wolves and Grey Knights.
The Tears of the Emperor	500.M41	BRB 6e at 171. Visions of the Emperor weeping sweep the Imperium.
26th Founding	738.M41	Date is given as 021.M31 in the Final Liberation Game Manual at 77 and in C:SM 3e at IBC.
The Damocles Crusade against the Tau	742.M41	The first real contact between the Tau and Mankind. C: TE 4e at 8. The retreat of the Imperial forces ends the Second Sphere Expansion: C:TE 6e at 29.
The Silent King Returns	744.M41	C:N 5e at 24. The Silent King, ruler of the Necrons, returns to the galaxy and begins awakening Tomb Worlds.
Hive Fleet Behemoth arrives	745.M41	C:Ty 4e at 6. This is the first recognized attack by Tyranids.
The Constantinus Iconoclasm	746.M41	C:CSM 36e at 24: Sergeant Constantinus of the Sons of Guilliman leads a rebellion on the world of Nova Terra, which draws the support of other renegades. The whole sector becomes involved, and the rebellion is ended only by Constantinus’ assassination.
The Blood Star Campaign	748.M41	BRB 6e at 172. Increased daemonic activity in the Scarus Sector involves several chapters. Three Chapter Masters die before the threat is ended.
The Great Exodus	750.M41	BRB 6e at 172. A strange phenomenon in the Argos system draws six Eldar Craftworlds. Both phenomenon and Craftworlds disappear, but all suns within sixty light years are extinguished, creating the Deadhenge. The Imperial Fleet’s rescue operation saves only a small part of the population, and the area is now a haven for pirates and salvagers.
The Zombie Plague	757.M41	C:CSM 6e at 24. The zombie plague appears for the first time after Typhus invades the world of Hydra Minoris.
Chapter Losses	765.M41	According to C:SM 3e at 45, at this point 13 Astartes Chapters have been lost in the Warp, 21 to irrecoverable battle losses, 9 to gene-seed failure, 4 to Inquisitorial purge and 16 to “other circumstances.” This timeline is imperfect (among other things, it suggests the Great Crusade lasted for several millenia), but the information remain interesting. These numbers seem low, but may not count chapters which turned traitor but are still extant, or where an Inquisitorial purge was ineffective.
The Fourth Quadrant Rebellion	780.M41	C:DA 4e at p 25. A full quarter of the Segmentum Solar rises in rebellion. Chaos cult activity is involved per BRB 6e at 173.
Green Tide Over Ultima	797.M41	BRB 6e at 173. Countless Ork invasions rage across Segmentum Ultima.
The Black Crusade of Furion	E: 800.M41	Belial slew Furion, which earned him a promotion to Master per C:DA 6e at 56
The Irgax Offensive	883.M41	BRB 6e at 344. Space Marines from half a dozen chapters and scores of Imperial Guard regiments fight a Chaos Space Marine attack. A single Dark Eldar attack on the world of Kyobin collapses the Imperial defense across the whole sub-sector.
The Necrons Appear	897.M41	BRB 6e at 174. The Necrons destroy a Sisters of Battle outpost, leaving no survivors. This is the first known Imperial contact with the Necrons.
The Badab War	901-912.M41	More than a dozen Space Marine chapters are eventually involved in the attempted secession of the Astral Claws (BRB 5e at 127).
Second War for Armageddon	941.M41	BRB 6e at 175. Ghazgull invades for the first time, but is repelled by the Salamanders, Ultramarines and Blood Angels.
Hive Fleet Kraken arrives	993.M41	BRB 6e at 175.
Hive Fleet Leviathan arrives	997.M41	BRB 6e at 175.
Third War for Armageddon	998.M41	BRB 6e at 175. Ghazghull invades for a second time. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The Sons of the Maelstrom	980999.M41	C:CSM 6e, 25. Thirty-six Space Hulks emerge from the Maelstrom, establishing control over the space lanes of Chogoris, Kaelis and Sessec.
The Great Awakening	982999.M41	BRB 5e, p 129; exact date per C:CSM 6e, 25. A wave of psychic energy awakens the powers of many latent psykers. Warp rifts and daemons cause the loss of a thousand worlds.
The Night of a Thousand Rebellions	992999.M41	BRB 5e, p 129; exact date per C:CSM 6e, 25. Countless planets are struck with rebellion, and contact is lost with large portions of Segmentum Pacificus.
Abaddon’s Thirteenth Black Crusade	995999.M41	C:CSM 3e Rev, IBC; exact date per C:CSM 6e, 25.

 

Unincluded Black Crusades: Black Crusade of Vulkarth, The Host of Tallomin, The Tide of Blood, The Crusade That Killed Dorn, the Blackstar Crusade (M34 per WD246 p 60).

 

I'm trying to keep things that are generally relevant to DIYers. So, basically, large events that chapters could be involved in or big events that would prompt a reaction by a chapter.

 

If anyone can think of anything else that should be on this, I'd be happy to add it. If anyone can find the citations I'm missing (marked with ???s) that would be wonderful.

Edited June 2, 2013 by Octavulg

[Brother_Kovasir]

This is amazing. Thanks for the hardwork Octavulg! I will try and make good use of it. ;)

[Uaronain]

Amazing work! Where do you find the time! This needs to be pinned or added to the DIY guide.

[Octavulg]

Updated with some Nid events.

 

No, I don't know why GW decided to spell all the Hive Fleet names wrong.

[Ecritter]

I like it ... even though when I mentioned that all those foundings were in M35, I recall you saying it was stupid and wrong.

[Veteran Sergeant]

Games Workshop has never been the best with continuity or the timeline making sense, lol. 1000 modern Chapters, but only 40 or so at the time of the 2nd Founding, and it takes them almost 1000 years to get around to the 3rd.

But remember, this is the same game that had Codex: Grey Knights retcon the 2nd Founding to be approximately 400 Chapters, and then turn right around and publish the list that has only approximately 40 in the 6th Edition BRB.

[Octavulg]

Ecritter

It IS stupid and wrong. It's just also unfortunately correct.

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Veteran Sergeant

The foundings thing more bothers me because basic division gives you the spacing you want. So all you have to do is NOT put them stupid places. This is, evidently, too much for GW writers.

[Octavulg]

Updated with some Dark Eldar events.

 

Suggestions for things that should be added and information to fix missing citations very welcome.

[Lysimachus]

Could we get this post stickied? Or get the other timeline updated from here? Several times I've needed to check stuff and had to come looking for it again!

[Conn Eremon]

Octavulg, would you be so kind as to change the font color of the 'Events in the Imperium' to something other than white?

 

I realize you might be running out of font colors, and that it is perfectly legible on B&C's normal skin, but when on the B&C website through a mobile device the background is automatically, permanently white. It also automatically changes the normal white font to black, so it's all good. But you appear to have given those events a non-standard white font color, which it retains on the mobile version and is quite difficult to read.

 

EDIT: However, However, However, However, However. Sometimes I hate myself.

Edited May 2, 2013 by Cormac Airt

[XKhalilX]

octavulg, so basillius lived to be around 1000 years old??? ive read he was executed when the vorpal swords returned, and ive also read that his preserved body was sent out and destoryed in space. so which is the official fluff on basillius at the time of the vorpal swords returning?

[Octavulg]

Added some dates and events from C:CSM 6e.

 

Lysimachus

Glad you like it. This is ostensibly intended to replace the current Timeline altogether. The problem is that I can't update it if it's in a post that isn't mine (and, of course, the other issue that new stuff keeps coming out. GW's on a bit of a timeline kick right now).

 

Cormac

Octavulg, would you be so kind as to change the font color of the 'Events in the Imperium' to something other than white?

 

It's bone. I think.

 

I realize you might be running out of font colors, and that it is perfectly legible on B&C's normal skin, but when on the B&C website through a mobile device the background is automatically, permanently white. It also automatically changes the normal white font to black, so it's all good. But you appear to have given those events a non-standard white font color, which it retains on the mobile version and is quite difficult to read.

 

Problem is that, well, I can't use the standard font color (how boring! And Imperiocentric). Blue is Eldary. Yellow is Chaosy. Green is Necrony and Orky. Red is inherently Chaosy or AdMechy. Or possibly Space Mariney. Not Imperial, at any rate. Purple would be Imperial, but works well for the Nids (it's so Zergy). Plus, the hex code for bone and Chaos yellow are one digit apart, and that amuses me.

 

I'm not wholly opposed to changing it, but it doesn't seem like there are tons of alternatives available.

 

EDIT: However, However, However, However, However. Sometimes I hate myself.

 

Oh my God, you're secretly me.

 

XKhalilX

octavulg, so basillius lived to be around 1000 years old??? ive read he was executed when the vorpal swords returned, and ive also read that his preserved body was sent out and destoryed in space. so which is the official fluff on basillius at the time of the vorpal swords returning?

 

I dunno. The BRB said he was executed. C:CSM 6e backs that up.

[Conn Eremon]

Problem is that, well, I can't use the standard font color (how boring! And Imperiocentric). Blue is Eldary. Yellow is Chaosy. Green is Necrony and Orky. Red is inherently Chaosy or AdMechy. Or possibly Space Mariney. Not Imperial, at any rate. Purple would be Imperial, but works well for the Nids (it's so Zergy). Plus, the hex code for bone and Chaos yellow are one digit apart, and that amuses me.

 

I'm not wholly opposed to changing it, but it doesn't seem like there are tons of alternatives available.

Well, there's always a shade of grey, which would certainly be thematic to the Imperium. I don't know. Damn it, man. I'm an entitled nerd not an interior decorator.

 

But seriously, just thought I'd let you know. Do as you wish, though if you wish not to make any changes then be aware that the mobile crowd will be slightly misrepresented.

Oh my God, you're secretly me.

From a different time, though. It's why we can never meet in person. Time paradox and all.

[Octavulg]

Added a bunch of Tau events from the new Codex (and did some general housekeeping and updating). Edited June 2, 2013 by Octavulg

[Disruptor_fe404]

Nicely done. And I was just wondering when the 4th Founding was.

[Draakur]

This is so incredibly useful - thank you for this! So this is all official canon (or as close as can be called canon in 40k), yes?

[Olis]

This is so incredibly useful - thank you for this! So this is all official canon (or as close as can be called canon in 40k), yes?

 

What can be sourced has been, by the look it. I say 'by the look of it' mainly because this is Octavulg's baby, rather than any of the Mods, so none of us had any input.

[Draakur]

Yep ok, all good. What a terrific resource. Thanks =)

[Octavulg]

Draakur:

 

There's a source for everything in that timeline except a few of the founding dates.  And those are pretty clearly marked.  Wouldn't be a point to it otherwise, IMO. :)

 

And you all had input, Olis.  In the sense that you were all free to provide me with sources for things and I'd add them. :P

[Dosjetka]

Rejoice, for Octavulg returns! :D

[Draakur]

Draakur:

There's a source for everything in that timeline except a few of the founding dates. And those are pretty clearly marked. Wouldn't be a point to it otherwise, IMO.

And you all had input, Olis. In the sense that you were all free to provide me with sources for things and I'd add them.

Yep gotcha. Cheers.

[baldur27]

This is really helpful. Would it be possible to add in which segmentum each event took place? that way if I wanted to make a cursed founding chapter in the Segmentum Tempestus for instance, I could just cross reference the events and time to know what would be relevant to my chapters history. Just a suggestion, I have no idea how much work that would involve.

[Olis]

And you all had input, Olis. In the sense that you were all free to provide me with sources for things and I'd add them.

I stand corrected, brother. And welcome back. :D

[Octavulg]

baldur27:

This is really helpful. Would it be possible to add in which segmentum each event took place? that way if I wanted to make a cursed founding chapter in the Segmentum Tempestus for instance, I could just cross reference the events and time to know what would be relevant to my chapters history. Just a suggestion, I have no idea how much work that would involve.

Possible. But glancing over it quickly, most of the events are Imperium-wide. Even those that aren't are big enough that they'd stil have an Imperium-wide impact.

Dosjetka/Olis:

You say that as though I haven't all molded you all in my image such that my presence is constant, whether I'm actually here or not.

(EDIT: It's nice to be back. :))

Edited January 20, 2015 by Octavulg

[Akuro Adennyciia]

Might add in a note on the end of the moirae schism, plus any info specifically relating to it.