Ultramarines Timeline

[Brother Pariah]

Top post updated!

 

I had a bit of a problem with this:

705.M41 The Corinthian Crusade ends.

According to the Index Astartes Ultramarine article, the Corinthian Crusade started in 698.M41 and lasted for 7 years.

Where does it say that it started in 698, exactly? I couldn't find it. Thanks.

[Seahawk]

746.M41 The Scouring of Ultramar: Recognizing that the Tyranid invasion of Ultramar is but the first of many yet to occur, Commander Dante sends three companies of Blood Angels to assist the Ultramarines in scouring the remaining beasts from the eastern sectors. Upon their return three years later, the three companies are much reduced in number, but wealthy in invaluable Tyranid-hunting doctrines that are swiftly passed on to the rest of the Chapter. (Codex: Blood Angels, p. 14)

[Brother Pariah]

I assume that's the 2010 Codex?

 

Currently reading Ian Watson's Space Marine, and there is Ultramariney goodness to be had there. I will post something when I have more details, but it appears that we can flesh out the Second Tyrannic War a bit.

[Seahawk]

Yea, that's the new codex info. I figured it was relevant.

[Brother Pariah]

992/M41 Lacrima Dolorosa Crusade. The Space Wolves, Blood Angels, Ultramarines, Blood Drinkers, and Imperial Fists gather information on the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Kraken by boarding and destroying several bio-ships. The Imperial Fists, at least, deployed their entire Chapter, along with battleships. (Space Marine, 1993, p. 201-203, 247-248. Page numbers are from the 2010 printing. The Crusade took place after "years of planning" and the destruction of the Lamenters, yet obviously before the battles of Ikkyo and Iyanden, so 992/M41 seemed like the best fit to me.) Edited April 3, 2010 by Brother Pariah

[Chaptermaster Graymantle]

It seems the actual Deran II Campaign is not listed, just events leading up to it.

The Campaign took place just after the Battle for Macragge.

See my earlier post here:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...t&p=2298301

[Brother Pariah]

It seems the actual Deran II Campaign is not listed, just events leading up to it.

The Campaign took place just after the Battle for Macragge.

See my earlier post here:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...t&p=2298301

 

How does 746/M41 sound? That would make it part of the general clean-up of the "Scouring of Ultramar."

[Chaptermaster Graymantle]

Well, I always figured it was set in 745, but logic dictates that the Splinter Fleet would need time to actually reach Deran II as well, so 746 sound right.

[Brother Pariah]

Yeah, before the latest BA Codex came out, I would have stuck it in 745 also.

[Brother Pariah]

"...six years since Rufus Quintus had been appointed to the post of Praefectus orae Tarentus." (The Chapter's Due, p. 13)

 

66 years of peace. (The Chapter's Due, p. 13)

 

"Rufus Quintus had served as a combat sergeant in the veteran's company of Captain Agemman for over a century... until [he was injured at] Ichar IV." (The Chapter's Due, p. 15)

 

"Indomitable... was lost with all hands six months ago." (The Chapter's Due, p. 17)

 

"[M'Kar was] trapped in the Indomitable for sixty years, bound to the warp core with eldritch wards and set adrift in the heavens on an unknown course." (The Chapter's Due, p. 42)

 

Marneus Calgar lead the 1st Company against the forces of M'Kar and trapped the Daemon Lord. (The Chapter's Due, p. 96)

 

The Golbasto Facility, an isolated research outpost, was set up 53.9 Terran years ago to study the effect of various growth exacerbators on basic foodstuff crops. (The Chapter's Due, p. 43)

 

Two years ago, Magos Szalin reported from the Golbasto Facility promising results with a new viral agent he named the Heralitus strain. (The Chapter's Due, p. 43)

 

934.M41 Ardaric Vaanes, battle captain, 4th Company of the Raven Guard declared Excommunicatus Mortis. (The Chapter's Due, p. 123)

 

"Nearly half a century had passed since [black Reach]." (The Chapter's Due, p. 139)

 

"[Dreadnought] Brother Barkus... had served the chapter faithfully for nearly a thousand years...." (The Chapter's Due, p. 200)

 

"Uriel remembered scrambling along this tunnel in the dark, and the thrill of exploration returned to him, though a hundred and sixteen years separated him from that young boy." (The Chapter's Due, p. 256)

 

"It took another six months to completely purge the taint of the bloodborn from Ultramar..." (The Chapter's Due, p. 316)

[Brother Pariah]

4th century of M41: Sergeant Varthion's Deathwatch squad destroys a xenos warhost hundreds of times their number in defence of the Warp Gate at Watch Fortress Erioch. (Deathwatch Core Rulebook, p. 168)

[Chaptermaster Graymantle]

Top post updated!

 

I had a bit of a problem with this:

705.M41 The Corinthian Crusade ends.

According to the Index Astartes Ultramarine article, the Corinthian Crusade started in 698.M41 and lasted for 7 years.

Where does it say that it started in 698, exactly? I couldn't find it. Thanks.

Sorry I didn't answer this before. - Didn't see it.

The reference to this war is under the section about Ancient Galatan on p 25.

It doesn't explicitly state that the Corinthian Crusade started in 695.M41, however what it does say is:

"During the seven year Corinthian Crusade in 698.M41, ~"

It is safe to assume that the reference to the Corithian Crusade is the starting year, not the ending year as it is common to reference the start of a war (and I hardly think they squeezed 7 years into 1 year).

So it would be 698.M41 to 705.M41.

 

Also to ref the start of the Corithian Crusade:

698/M41 Captain Idaeus, forges his Power Sword before the Corinthian Crusade. These are later passed on to Uriel Ventris, as part of Idaeus' last command at Bridge Two-Four, in 999/M41. (Ultramarine Omnibus; Chains of Command.)

 

Corinthian Crusade. Calgar elected leader of Marine force including Ultramarines, Lamenters, Marines Errant, Angels of Absolution, and Silver Skulls on a 7 year crusade. Ork empire of Charadon suffers series of heavy defeats, delaying the invasion of Waaagh Argluk by 30 years. (Codex: Space Marines, 1998 p. 36)

 

Final stages of the seven year Corinthian Crusade. Ancient Galatan is slain in battle, but the Orks could not defile the Banner of Macragge. (US WD 263, p. 21)

 

Dreadnought Severus returns to Corinth during the Corinthian Crusade. (US WD 255, p. 16-17)

 

 

I guess there may be some irregularity whether the Crusade started or ended in 698.M41, but if it didnt start in 698, then why would it say that Idaeus forged his sword before the Crusade? Why would Calgar be elected leader of the Crusade in its last year?

 

Does the US WD 263 article on p. 21 actually say "Final stages of the seven year Corinthian Crusade"?

Edited October 27, 2010 by Chaptermaster Graymantle

[Brother Pariah]

Thanks, Chaptermaster Graymantle.

 

I don't have the magazine at hand at the momembnt, but I'm pretty sure that the quotation is accurate. The Corinthian Crusade has been a bit ambiguous in its position in the timeline for years as a result.

 

Never mind. It appears that I simply inferred that 698/M41 represented the final stages. I feex in next update.

Edited October 31, 2010 by Brother Pariah

[Dominicus]

At one point in that timeline, you said Calgar was elected to be a leader of a Marine task force, but then you say he was a 14-year old prisoner rescued from Hive Fleet Locust?

Sorry,but this timeline is kinda all over the map.

[The Emperor's Champion]

At one point in that timeline, you said Calgar was elected to be a leader of a Marine task force, but then you say he was a 14-year old prisoner rescued from Hive Fleet Locust?

Sorry,but this timeline is kinda all over the map.

Because things that happened in 1st edition often have little relevance to the 2-5th editions. They're only included for the sake of completeness.

Edited February 6, 2011 by The Emperor's Champion

[Brother Pariah]

Maybe one of these days I'll try to distill it down into something that's actually internally-consistent.

[The Emperor's Champion]

That'd have to be a sub-version of the full timeline, just because we'd be guessing blindly at what existing timeline entries GW will bother taking into consideration each time they add to the fluff.

I'm sure the timeline will only get more and more contradictory as we go along...

[Seahawk]

I mean, they only have 10,000 years to fit in events. Clearly there's just not enough space, requiring some impossible overlaps :cuss

[Pulse]

GW for you. They seem to employ retards.

[Seahawk]

Heresy - Captain Lucretius Corvo, a captain and Legion champion, led forces against the Word Bearers Legion on Astagar. During this desperate siege, Corvo's forces held out for six days against many times their number, and in one last, desperate counter-attack he and his chosen band managed to destroy the Traitor Warlord Titan Fellghast and break the siege. For this action, Corvo was awarded a Laurel of Defiance by his Primarch, a sacred object that is still enshrined on the Fortress Novum to the present day. (Imperial Armor Volume 9, 2010, p.116)

 

M31 - Roboute Guilliman himself gives the Novamarines guardianship of the world of Honourum, a site that had once marked the northward extent of the Ultramarines Legion's advance into the galactic north of the Segmentum Ultima. (Imperial Armor Volume 9, 2010, p.116)

 

537.M38 - During the Chaos attack on Corilia during the 9th Black Crusade, the Mortifactors abandoned the Lamenters in defense of the planet. During six weeks of combat they suffered horrendous casualties until the Ultramarines and White Scars led a battle group that broke through the Chaos fleet to relieve Corilia. (Imperial Armor Volume 9, 2010, p.108)

 

134.M41 - The Jorun Retaliation. A Taskforce comprised of the entirety of the Howling Griffons Chapter, with supporting companies from the Ultramarines and Sons of Orar, destroyed the forces of the treacherous General Jorun of the 15th Heraklon Ironclads, an entire Imperial battle group that had turned traitor. (Imperial Armor Volume 9, 2010, p.126)

 

698-705.M41 - The Corinth Crusade. One of the most famous Space Marine actions of the mid-41st Millennium, the Corinth Crusade was concerved of and led by the legendary master of the Ultramarines Marneus Calgar. The crusade comprised the combined forces of Ultramarines, Angels of Absolution, Lamenters, Silver Skulls, Scythes of the Emperor, and the Marines Errant (and assorted Imperial Guard regiments). During this highly successful Crusade, the Marines Errant were singled out for particular honor for the rescue at great risk to themselves of the embattled Ultramarines 3rd Company. The Ultramarines had become trapped on the dust moon of Lhak after the destruction of their strike cruisers above the planetoid, and fighting off fearful odds the Marines Errant battered their way through the encircling horde of freebooters and rampships to extract their progenitor-kin from the surface. In recognition of this deed, Marneus Calgar award the Marines Errant one of the Ultramarines' own sacred relic blades as a s sign of the mutually shed blood of the two Chapters in gratitude. (Imperial Armor Volume 9, 2010, p.76)

 

701.M41 - Corinth Crusade. At the outset of the Corinth Crusade, the Ultramarines called for allies to aid them in their holy task of scourging the mighty Ork Empires of the Charadon region. Mindful of the ancient debt they believed they owed the Ultramarines for their intercession many years before during the disastrous Siege of Corilia, the Lamenters answered Marneus Calgar's call. After a terribly pyrrhic victory, the Lamenters took the almost unprecedented step of refusing the honor of an Iron Halo in reward for their efforts from Calgar's hands." (Imperial Armor Volume 9, 2010, p.109-110)

Edited October 20, 2011 by Seahawk

[Captain Idaho]

Do we have a timeline for the outbreak of the Heresy? The Ultramarines lost the Frigate Argo to failed Gellar fields and a freak Warp storm. This occured at just before the attack on Istvaan, when the Loyalists were due to make their attack.

[Seahawk]

It's only an old source but yes, it's on the timeline.

[Captain Idaho]

Not sure on that source for a rough timeline of the Heresy and battle of Istvaan. Final Liberation is a little dated!

[Seahawk]

Everything before 4th is, at this point. Since it's all we have to go on...*shrug*

[Seahawk]

I'm working my way through the omnibus and other books now, hunting for anything we may have missed before. As it turns out, there is

 

021.M31 - An Ultramarines captain named Sasebo Tezuka had been given command of the newly created Mortifactors and led them to the world of Posul, where he established his fortress monastery and earned many honors in the name of the Emperor before his death. (Warriors of Ultramar, 2003, p.9)

 

 

995.M41 - After the Battle for Ichar IV, apothecaries recover the body of Techmarine Servano Tomasin from the wreckage of a Land Raider and graft on bionic legs and right arm. A rampaging carnifex had ripped it apart, the flooded the interior with bio-plasma, detonating its ammo spectacularly. The carnifex was killed in the blast, but the explosion sheared Tomasin to the bone and, rather than lose his centuries of wisdom, the chapter's artisans designed a completely new artificial body around the bloody rags of remains. He is killed (Ultramarines Omnibus: "Chains of Command," 2001, p.16)

 

 

I'm sure there will be more to come.