Imperium Asunder

>M31
Dismayed by death of the Emperor and the incapacitation of their father by Aodhan (subject to change), the XVIII legion retreats to Amaranth and its surrounding worlds. Sending a group of delegates to the Council of Titans, the Scions are silent on most issues discussed.

>M32

>Unyielding
The Undying Scions begin a war of conquest to reunite worlds in the western Ultima segmentum. The campaign finishes with the destruction of two entire battle companies of Iron Hearts upon the world of Sarco Primaris, whose original name has been excised from Vigilant records.

Good start? Should I go back to before the Heresy a bit?

I was counting on that.

They also have the psychic knowledge to effectively vet psykers for the position of marshal.

I had a thought: how would you guys feel if Sarco attacked the craftworld whose titan crippled him in the first place and took it's avatar's sword for himself? In times of dire need, dreadnoughts of the Undying Scions take up the weapon of their father to slay their enemies.

Question, if they are illegal operatives, why are they called the lawbringers?

Also, If they are funded by / under the pervue of the !UN why dont we name them after that instead.

Wouldnt they need to be founded shortly after the Crusader States are formed, if not what stops chaos from running rampant up until the 40k era?

>We should totally run this in a Dark Heresy campaign.
Im in.

They were being funded / ru

Cut off the post!

They were being run by the !UN as said, we hadn't come up with a name for it apart from the Council of Titans (not the original one) but I think something like the High Senate or something would work for them.

>illegal
No. They aren't illegal, they just break the law.

>founding
They SHOULD have been founded way back. But they weren't, thus the need to break the law in order to do their jobs properly. If they'd been around since the beginning, there wouldn't be so many problems.

There are a handful of mentions in the HH books, I think in Fulgrim, where they mention signs of ageing in the primarchs. It's REALLY scant so there's not much to go on, but from what I gathered they do gain physical age markers like wrinkles, etc. We don't have any evidence to go on from canon about what a Primarch would look like after 10,000 years, but I imagine they'd be at least slightly more aged, unless they spent that time in the warp or in stasis.

Alexios spends his later centuries never leaving his library, and barely ever talking to anybody, so he ages faster than most. He sort of lets himself go. Plus, I just think it looks neat. I've toyed with the idea of him just somehow having an old man body right from the beginning, but I like the idea of him being an a weak shadow of his former self when Anders kills him.

Been doing some brainstorming for a proper antagonist to the Eldar Empire, like their Abaddon sorta shit. Lemme know what you guys think:

Nissea squinted through the heavy vapours, their scent catching in her throat, rich and sickly-sweet, leaving a faint burning sensation in her lungs. It seemed to spread through her as her misshapen kin led her across the cracked wraithbone floor, warming her blood and deepening her breath. Her vision was still blurry, scattered at the edges with shots of errant flicker-fire, but she could make out enough to know that she should be afraid.

The chamber was lit by the pale blue glow of a nearby magnetar, the dense, coruscating surface of the star swirling overhead, its light interrupted by criss-crossing beams of elegant, carefully-crafted wraithbone. They were psychic fangs, chords upon which the minds of the Seers plucked, their songs resonating through the tumult of the Warp and returning as visions of past and future. Nissea knew this place – she had been somewhere very much like it, long ago, at the centre of the Seer Court on Lugganath.

This was most certainly not Lugganath.

Her kin – her real kin – hung, limbs splayed grotesquely, throughout the chamber, like insects caught in the web of some immense predator. The silk upon which their slender bodies were borne was barely perceptible even to her eyes, visible only by the way the light refracted along its lengths. It shivered occasionally, and they shivered with it, glassy eyes wheeling in their skulls, barely cognisant of the world around them. There was not one mark upon their bodies, not even the slightest incision, and yet the threads seemed to reach into their innermost cores, plucking not upon but through them, twisting nerves and searing brain cells with even the lightest tremor.

The Voidseer’s escorts brought her to the end of the platform, where a figure sprawled across an ancient throne. Silently thankful that she no longer had to shuffle upon her shattered ankle, she looked up at the creature.

Her heart was still for a second. He was stunning. It came to her instantly that he was her utmost ideal – the pinnacle of beauty, the pinnacle of perfection. This was no daemon, even if her void-trained eyes could sense the eddies of the Warp twisting and bunching about him. He was Eldar, like her, young and healthy, unmarred by the mutations and horrors she had seen in this place – perfectly unmarred. His cheeks were soft and full, his features androgynous even by Eldar standards, the eyes set above his cheeks gleaming brightly. As she drank in his image, she realized that the threads strewn throughout the chamber lead back to his fingers, disappearing under his perfect skin. Each errant flex of his muscles, every lazy tap of his digits, sent the Eldar around her into silent screams, their bodies cavorting and straining against their bonds.

Still, she could only stare.

He smiled down at her, leaning forward just very slightly, and she felt the tumult between agony and pleasure pass through the bodies of her kin, peaking into a single coalescent pearl of sensation, streaming through him. He barely seemed to register it.

“What… what are…” Her voice shook. The wet, frantic sounds of the chamber slapped across her ears, and she was momentarily aware of the bodies convulsing around his throne. Eldar, mon’keigh, stranger things – twisting and gasping in exaltation. One of them, a mon’keigh male, had torn his genitals loose of their moorings, his thighs slick with blood and gore, and still he scraped frantically at himself, his tongue arching in his mouth, eyes bulging, throat dry and hollow from screams long spent. “…What are you…?”

He shifted back once again, his eyes remaining on her. The silk shivered all around her as her kin writhed in their bonds.

“I am the first Prince.” He said, his voice a song beyond any Harlequin’s, a sculpture and sculptor in her mind, massaging her thoughts to little more than ooze. “And the last. It is my death that was the birth of our one True God.”

She shook her head. It was all she could do.

The Prince lounged back in his throne, exhaling faintly, and she felt a spark run up her spine.

“You know that there is only one true Prince of our people. You know that there is only one true bearer of love unconditional for us.” He said, her voice ringing in her ears. “And you know that you kneel before Her.”

Her shoulders fell. She felt herself bow her head.

Very good point.

I'm thinking the Jade Empire has a number of off the books programs, most of which have cool names, dedicated to various secret tasks.

>Obsidian Order
These are the dudes who support extraterritorial inquisitorial initiatives. They funnel gear and support to things like the Lawgivers, as well as covert Astropathic and Astrological stations beyond the borders of the Empire.

>Smoking Mirror
These guys coallate the data acquired through covert means. They keep tabs on prospective threats as well as the capabilities of various xeno powers.
They do r&d work on xenos tech. Recently, they've been gathering everything they can on the Tyranids. They've also been keeping an eye on Necrons since the 9th crusade.

>Peachwood Organization
These are the daemonhunters and warp investigators. They're distinct, but a shadow organization of the white-side Librarius and Firewall specialists.

Basically, the last Eldar to be sacrificed by the Old Empire, the soul that completed Slaanesh, that gave it its coherent image in the Warp. Slaanesh incarnate pretty much.

11/10. The puppetmaster bodyhorror stuff is perfectly eldar in tone. Eldar who worship Slaanesh DO exist in OU, hell they even exist in the tabletop game. So, it seems canonically plausible to me.

When does Xun disappear into the firewall looking for the Emperor?

Thanks.

Yeah, it always weirded me out a bit that GW never expanded on that Codex: Magical Realm would be great.

Xun pulls a Russ?

>the incapacitation of their father by Aodhan (subject to change)

He'll 100% regret that later if he does it.

>10,000 years later
>"I want to go fight Sarco."
>"Oh wait I can't he's completely fucked."
>"...Shit. I didn't think this through."

When we were talking about final fates of the loyalist Primarchs, Xun came up with this great idea where he becomes obsessed with the nature of the Ascendant Emperor, trying to figure out how godhood works scientifically, whether the Emperor really is a GOD or some sort of displaced psyker mind without a body, and whether or not the Emperor actually controls the firewall and its occasional openings. Eventually he determines the date of an opening in the Firewall, goes in, and is never seen again.

It was one of my favorite ideas from this project. It seemed so poignant.

M36 - M38?
I think it has to come after a major period of turbulence in the Firewall. If I recall, there's that crusade where the Firewall goes down and the Sky Serpents piss everyone off by making a beeline for the psychoconductive world of Prospero, while everyone else plugs the breech.

Xun and Co get the firewall back up and return to the Empire with the libraries of Prospero in tow.
If I recall, the Fists go after Ryza and Grain.

Anyways, I'm thinking Xun locks himself up for a few centuries before vanishing with members of the Librarius, so it depends on which crusade that is.

Less a Russ, than a BEAR WITNESS TO MY ASCENSION!!!

He's got a plan and he's pretty sure that he can help the Emperor and possibly ascend himself. The Empire's Librarius is convinced he's been sucessful and has miracle data to support it. They end up obsessed with completing his plan and claim to have been in contact with Xun, who serves to translate for the Emperor.

If they're right, they can be doing all sorts of weird rituals to unify humanity with the Emperor.
I think the crazier they are, the cooler/grimdarker it is if they're right, but in setting, it should be ambiguous.

>>>name still doesnt make sense...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>irony
I really wanted you to get it without saying it

What I wrote up for him, and thought it got a good amount of support was that the firewall starts to collapse, or at least weakens - and he goes to investigate, he is last seen around the area and suddenly the firewall goes back to being at full capacity, the implication being that he died to fuel it some more, or perhaps sacrificed himself some other way. But its vague enough that he just disappeared into and it was always going to re-stabilise.

It was designed to be vague, but with obvious implications.

Raydon the Vague

Ah, that works too. That can explain why he runs off with work unfinished.
Empire still claims it was that he was going to ascend and claims that he did just that.

Quite.

I like 40k stories to be open ended, reported second hand by investigators/chroniclers/inquisitors/battle reports/interrogations.

It lets you say something outright, but still leaves enough wiggle room for it to be a lie/wrong.

Ahh, pretty cool.

Massive changes to the Early M41 segment of the Eldar timeline, by the way. Also getting a rough starting point of Aodhán's relationships with the other Primarchs up on the wiki. If you got suggestions, go for it.

So in the centuries after the Emperor's death, as M32, 33, 34 roll by with one insane war after another, Alexios begins to seclude himself more and more. A mind that old begins to not think much of 'lesser' beings. Even during the heresy he spent more time in his New Constantine command palace than on the battlefield.

He establishes his Codex Chapters by M31-32, with chartered objectives to conquer and rule. They fill in the remaining worlds in their territory, those not yet conquered or colonised in the Crusade. Some got more planets than others. Some failed miserably and were eaten by xenomonsters. They all have their own heraldric identities but the same command structures, similar cultures, etc. Each chapter answers only to Alexios.

With his Codex in place, Alexios is free to work on other topics. Unlike his brothers, Alexios never truly wanted to be a warrior. Alexios secludes himself to work on a new codex in ~M35 and doesn't come out again until after Xun has vanished into the firewall.

He comes out with what he calls the Theologia Euangelion, or 'Gospel' in low gothic. It claims that the Imperial Truth was true, there were no gods, until the Emperor became one. Now there is one true god and you better follow him. The book is written in the sort of cryptic, kabalistic language that only a primarch can devise. Alexios has seventy servitors transcribe his script exactly, and gives one to each of his seventy chapters. Then he disappears again into his library, and isn't seen again until the XIth crusade draws him out.

Naturally there's some religious upheaval in Imperium Minorum for a while.

>Theologia Euangelion
>Euangelion

Get back in the titan Alexios.

"NNNN- NO! FATHEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR!"

Actually, this reminds me, I was thinking

>The Enlil Initiative
One of the sects of Peachwood and Smoking Mirror, upon reviewing the data from Kor and the Nids have expanded research on Hybrid Engines, combining sanctified bio-engines with warp-tech to produce a new generation of knights.

>Imperial Instrumentality Project
Peachwood and Smoking Mirrors attempt to open a pathway for human ascension and union with the Emperor. The theory involves constructing bounded Gellar fields to generate something like anew infinity circuit, but with a link to the Emperor Ascended.

In the last thread someone was talking about rune encrusted silver bullets that can banish demons for the !Inquisitors to use.

The question is, WHO would be most suited to creating such a thing. Im thinking the Serpents since they are pretty invested into warp studies, anyone other contenders?

I kinda don't want it to be them for the write-faggotry im working on, but can't find a viable alternative.

Oramar might have such a thing, but it would be more for daemon control and far more sinister.

The Eldar?

Oramar is a traitor as well isn't he?

I think its outside the Eldars ability to be honest, I mean if they could do it they would have.

But realistically, yeah, I think the Serpents are your best bet, since that's totally their thing.

In that case can you make a name of two for me to use.

and what kind of rank would be in charge of a research / vault facility?

P.S don't make names/characters you are attached to...

...The Imperium makes stuff like this in-canon all the time. You could get rounds with weird anti-daemon shit all over them in that actual Inquisitor game.

Most definitely. Any particular location you'd want it, since the organization would be different depending on whether it was a covert facility or not.

Very covert. My idea is that its a step further.

A weapon, tested only once, but found to destroy a demon utterly (like not banish but kill). Naturally Chaos goes "NOPE" and destroys the facility and the prototype ammunition is lost (recovered in story).

Thats where the story comes in, a Hawk who has recovered the ammunition and goes looking for a weapon that can fire it. So he can go hunting demon-primarchs.

its essentially the s1 plot from supernatural in 40k

Hmm. A subsection of Peachtree would be all over that.

They'd probably do that sort of work on an asteroid in a remote system. The dudes in charge would probably be a mixture of astartes and human. Any Astartes in charge would be a librarian, though there might be a few security personnel from the Dim Mak, though the Dim Mak is a mix of astartes and human. The titles themselves are probably fairly generic, like Commander, though for something like this, the guys in charge are eprobably pretty senior scholars.

Something like Administrator Enxian Tzot, 3rd Chamber 2nd Degree Peachwood Organization. The Peachwood Organization itself is classified, so it would just be known as part of the Threefold Gate, the Legion Librarius.
A human scholar like Nine Bat would have the title of magos, and would simply be described as a scholar attached to the Threefold Gate.

Both passed civil service exams and so are ranked in the Imperial Bureaucracy as various levels of Zong Jun. The ranks are denoted by combinations of calendaric animals and numbers, like a Crane 3 clearance, or what have you of the Ministry of xxx. In this case, their cover is probably something like design or astrologic monitoring, in which case, they'd probably be on record as Ministry of Sight or the like.
Titles, when not pulled from Aztec or Chinese stuff would probably be things like
Master, Magister, Lord, Provost, Magos, Adept Superior, etc etc.

I think im going to need a diagram to understand your society / rank structure.

Cudos on detail though.

Oh, and facilities themselves likely have innocuous cartographic names, Mictlan Yang IVb 27-3. Bigger things and chambers within Peachwood probably use code names derived from the calendaric and occult systems:
Mercury Throne
19 Reed
Celestial Mantis

These names are chosen randomly, similar to how the covert program names are chosen in the real world, but these names are also chosen to be auspicious, since that actually matters in the 40k universe.
Project names are usually similar, a code name and then an explanatory name to let you know what the fuck is actually going on.

Jade Feather
Warp Tunneling Interface
A project to create point to point 'tunnels' through the warp.

Lol. I'm going to have to get that to you tomorrow. It's really late here.
But it is meant to obscure what is actually going on to a large extent, since everyone is paranoid thanks to [redacted]

Just saiyan, Aodhán would support this. Not the science side of stuff, that's boring, he'd like the idea of someone putting a daemon-b-gone bullet between [REDACTED]'s eyes.

The Emperor sort feels like a vaguely racist suburban dad trying and failing to keep up the times in this setting.

>wake up, roll out of bed, work is a nightmare
>Malcador's left like fifty messages
>first thing I see, before I even get my coffee, is that dumbass Anders boy getting tazed at some occupy whatever street thing
>fuck
>Oramar's on his phone with that eldar skank of his. By my own vastly powers, I'm no racist, but I know those sorts are always up to no good
>He's just copying his brother, he'll grow out of it
>Speak of the devil, here comes the pretty boy, checking himself out in the mirror. Atheist non-gods above, he better get that football scholarship. He'll catch an STD before he catches a grade above C
>Speaking of STDs, that sounds like Xun sneaking out the window. Probably off to frolic with his filthy new age wicca bullshit friends
>I can't believe one of my sons is a fucking Buddhist
>Ahhh, at least Alexios has always got a coffee ready. Too bad he always burns it.
>Why can't they be more like [redacted]?
>my feet hurt
>I just want to browse /pol/ and complain about degeneracy in peace.

The warmaster is certainly on the hawks hit list.

So far its.
1. Warmaster
2. Traitor Primarchs
3. Renown Traitors
4. Traitors who have scored important hits / committed certain crimes against the hawks
5. General traitor marines
6. Cultists
7. Xenos
8. Xeno-Sympathisers

* WIP
** May vary depending upon Strike-Captain and political climate.

What are your thoughts on ?

Pretty cool. Quite a parallel to Aodhán's weapon of choice, which is which is
>implying implications warhammeronline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_of_Khaine

I think in canon the Wailing Doom of an Avatar is just inert iron when the Avatar itself slumbers, but, really, who cares? A rad dreadnought with the Wailing Doom (which can be a spear or a hammer sometimes, by the by) is a cool image.

Perhaps Sarco installed some piece of technology that makes the wailing doom vibrate at high speeds and mimics the effectiveness of a power sword.
STANDING HERE

>Gilgas and House Morgoth
It is the midst of civil war in the Imperium of Man. Brother is pitted against brother, man against man, Astartes against Astartes. It is a red day, a bloody day, a good day for the death god Khorne. The slaughter of the galaxy pleases him, the endless flow of blood and flesh and bones into his kingdom of war. He makes himself known to the warriors, the heroes, the murderers, the brutes who revel in combat and martial honor. Hordes of barbarians flock to his banner and the ideal of war. And greatest among these pilgrims of blood are the knights of House Melkor, and Baron Gilgas of Morgoth. In the west lies their home in the Villis Sector, a thriving world of gold and green, where the three houses of Melkor, Streltsik, and Johansson conduct their battles for Morgoth's manors. Though they fight one another, they bear no ill will for they are as much friends as foes. Their rivalry is of a professional and political nature, but their battles strengthen the bonds between them, bring out their similarities.

One day, an omen passed Morgoth. While Houses Streltsik and Johansson were away on campaign the soothsayers of House Melkor breathed rage and lashed out at all things living. In their berserk state they rambled about tides of blood, about the glory of war and death, of the falsehood of the three houses' honor. Baron Gilgas himself had to strike down the holy men himself, and to him they whispered the name of Khorne and his thirst for blood. For days Gilgas mulled in his study about the meaning of the soothsayers' ramblings, pondering their madness, and what Khorne was. After eight days he emerged, and when his knights asked about his findings he only answered with,"We must go to war. Khorne demands that blood be spilled."

More after work.

Theme song for Khorne.
youtube.com/watch?v=uX3Gw82f6GU

Or maybe just Warp shenanigans. It could have been just a trophy at first, but as legends of it being borne into battle and sparking to life spread, it started to actually do that, the blade igniting in prelude to a future conflict. Maybe it's hung over a huge Segmentum map and wherever the first bead of fire drops, the Unyielding Vigil take it as a sign that there is something the must fight for there. If you want an extra serving of grimdark: it's not just regular Warp shenanigans, the blade is in fact possessed. The entity within (daemon? c'tan? something else?) is using the Scions as a way to gather the artifacts that house its dismembered body parts so it can once again despoil the stars.

Oh hey Sassy, do you mind if I add the Icaran Ronin and Knight House Rosier to the Realm Guard wiki? I also mentioned something called Jhokanin Void-Men, which I have no idea about really, they're just a name right now.

Go ahead. I don't have a monopoly on RG&M. It's there for everybody to use.

>Void Men

Perhaps something like the Solar Auxiliae? Specialize in boarding actions and operations on airless worlds. They have ties with Explorator fleets and are the dudes you send in when a wreck is discovered.
Stick them out in the Storm Kingdoms?

Rad. Added.

It seems we think alike. I went with the boarding actions/airless world route.

Forgot muh name.

House Rosier saves me the trouble of making a Slaaneshi House.

How is it that when I iqdb this pic, I get my favorite Strike Witches futa?

That image is actually more like why the Warp Raiders and Negators are heretics.

For Kor you want filthy blueberry muffins.

I'm currently in transit, so it'll be a bit before I can do a diagram, but the basic idea is that Xun merges legion and civil command via the Civil Service Examination System. It's similar to the Tetrarch administrative system Gorillaman was implementing, but basically the sole path to authority is via the exams. Astartes and humans have to take them. Promising humans are augmented. Mechanicum adepts also take them. Brb.

The Warp Raiders and Negators are also heretics, but I'm supposed to be relentlessly mocking the Paladins of Kor, not them.

Huh. Has anyone noticed that the insignia of the Tau is sort of like an upside-down peace symbol?

Realm Guard related question/idea:

Cadia is gone. Even before the heresy broke out, it was churned into a mega-colisseum by the constructo-machines of Rubinek & Friends. Now it's probably some sort of arenaworld where Champions of the chaos gods fight to decide who is most worthy. (that could actually be its own cool realm guard idea, now that I think about it)

So what is our settings' equivalent to Cadia in terms of loyalist Imperial Guard? That is, a world that churns out hundreds of regiments highly disciplined generalist soldiers who don't really have a gimmick like other famous regiments. You need a regular old soldier, you call !Cadia.

>high pop fortress world
>preferably neutral
>dangerous training worlds nearby

Grogan seems to function as a bulwark in my ad hoc timeline.

How are the realm guard regiments organized? Are they deployed and raised at the behest of the Council, or does each state raise their own regiments from a shared recruiting pool?
Like Argon is a Jade Empire prison world, so are all Argon Apemen regiments automatically under Jade Empire command? Or are they under central command? Or does the Jade Empire hand them out to the other states?

>How are the realm guard regiments organized? Are they deployed and raised at the behest of the Council, or does each state raise their own regiments from a shared recruiting pool?
>Like Argon is a Jade Empire prison world, so are all Argon Apemen regiments automatically under Jade Empire command? Or are they under central command? Or does the Jade Empire hand them out to the other states?
Argon Apemen and Silverbacks are Jade Empire formations because they're in their borders. Generally, if they come from your realm, they are your Realm Guard.

In theory, anyone in the Empire can do anything simply by working hard enough, but in practice, Astartes have a huge advantage since they're designed to be good at everything. The head of state was Xun, but after he vanishes, power descends from the First Captain at the head of the Chaotai.
There are various ministries that have personnel at all levels of governance, a holdover from the Legion Command structure. Xun designs it to be similar at all levels so that operations can proceed more or less autonomously, but synergies with the whole, with each instantiation of the governance framework being tailored to the specifics.

So there's a vertical hierarchy like chapter company squad or sector cluster system and a horizontal one, like Librarius, Mechanicus, Astrotelepathica, Logistics etc etc.

Right, but when it comes to the question of !Cadia, is there any reason we would expect all the states would have forces from !Cadia?
Unless there's something set up from an old treaty, I suppose.

They could be from a world not claimed by any of the crusader states, in the GREY STARS or tempestus.

I really like that idea. The Undying Scions may not be religious, but I like the idea that as the years go by they slide farther into superstition, which might also lead to their victimization at the hands of the necrons.

>Eldaraboos
>Tauaboos
>Eldar have clay
>Emperor is dead
>Warmaster rules Terra
>marines in commoragh
>Necron Marines

These threads are the most heretical shit on Veeky Forums

Fite me

Don't worry brother, not all of us are heretical.

It's just gonna take time to sort the rest of them out.

House Melkor left Morgoth in a campaign of slaughter to carry out their master's will, confused by his invoking the name of an unheard-of being but loyal to his word. They set out and burned worlds, sang praises for Gilgas, and slaughtered entire cities. With the death and the blood and the taking of skull they found enlightenment. The meaning of Khorne and war came to them, and their praises to their baron turned to prayers to their new god. They reveled in the bloodletting, the gruesome battles, the destruction of worlds and systems, and even as their numbers dwindled they celebrated their comrades' deaths as tributes to the blood god. Soon enough, the other houses of Morgoth returned, and found the Villis Sector in ruins. They met House Melkor on their patron forgeworld of Hauser, and on its brown fields they waged a fierce battle. Chainswords clashed, cannons burst, and metal rained from the skies. With the might of two houses against one, Streltsik and Johansson pushed Melkor into the forge-hives and beat them blue.

In this hour of darkness the knights of Melkor had doubts. They considered surrendering, giving in to their kin. Gilgas alone stayed true to Khorne, and left the safety of the hive to fight the two houses by himself. In this moment of selfless death, Khorne bestowed upon his knight the daemon blade named the Ruinmarch. With this arcane weapon, and the blessing of the blood god, Gilgas slaughtered both House Streltsik and Johansson, and executed his own knights for cowardice. For the destruction of an entire sector, and for betraying his two closest allies, Khorne commended Gilgas and gave him the greatest gift of any warrior of Chaos: Daemonhood. Gilgas became one with his throne, the metal of his knight became his flesh and the armor rejected the trickery of sorcerers and cowards, its cannon spouted thunder and fire, and the Ruinmarch became his left hand.

>I'm listening to Imagine Dragons as I type this.
Talk about contrast.

Hey man, there's a lot of freedom when you don't have to listen to your parents. Some people get into weird shit.

This.

Imperium Asunder is essentially what happens when the Primarchs can hang out after twelve and play as much of that loud, no-good rock music as they want.

Except for Sarco ;_;

>Dim Mak
The Dim Mak is a order derived from the old esoteric assassin orders scattered across the Jade Empire. In the traditional parlance, these fighting styles all operate on 'qi' or 'ollim' manipulation. Imperial standard parlance would describe it as warp manipulation, with strikes designed to disrupt the flow of warp energy through an entity. Initially designed for targeting humanoids, Imperial access to psycho-conductive metals has allowed the techniques of the Dim Mak to be used against daemons. These techniques can also be taught to nulls.

So basically fighting daemons with the power of 40k Kung Fu, with Nulls going up and making daemons heads explodes with a five fingered death punch.

M31
The Warmaster’s Heresy
-Dismayed by death of the Emperor and the incapacitation of their father, the XVIII legion retreats to Amaranth and its surrounding worlds.

The Council of Titans
-The Undying Scions send a small delegation to the Council of Titans, but does not speak.

M32
Forging of the Vigil
-The Undying Scions begin a war of conquest to reunite worlds in the western Ultima segmentum. The campaign finishes with the destruction of two entire battle companies of Iron Hearts upon the world of Sarco Primaris, whose original name has been excised from Vigilant records.

-The Karadon Cold Ones are founded

M33
Vigilance Without End
-Battlefleet Vigilance is founded, and is baptized in blood as a massive Ork Waaagh! crashes into Vigilant space.
-the world of Hadrianus is beset by a daemonic invasion. First known use of the Baleful Blade to divine where the Scions are needed most

M34
Divided We Stand
-In order to more effectively police their domains, the Undying Scions follow the example of Imperium Minorum and split themselves into independent successor chapters, each two thousand strong
-Following the liquid iron drops of the Baleful Blade, the sons of the XVIII legion push into Segmentum Tempestus and expand their territory

I'm changing Forging of the Vigil to this:
Battlefleet Vigilance is founded, and is baptized in blood in the Second Crusade where the Undying Scions retake the Maelstrom zone.

M35
The Fire Rises
-The Undying Scions’ primary recruiting world, Amaranth, is attacked by Eldar corsairs. Five hundred aspirants fall defending the complex where the Baleful Blade has its place of honor.
M36
The Teliom Crisis
-Forgeworlds across the Teliom Sector suffer from rogue heretek attacks and servitor uprisings. Two whole chapters are required to put an end to the crisis.

Unwavering
-As a massive hole in the firewall opens up, Idrias Stern leads the defense of the Unyielding Vigil with the single largest detachment of marines since the Great Crusade.

-Sergeant Marius begins his investigation of a mysterious xenos threat

M37
The Ninth Crusade
-The necropolis cult reveals itself and moves to attack the worlds surrounding Amaranth with the assistance of its necron benefactors. Only the timely intervention of the Crimson Warhawks prevents the total annihilation of the world.

Unsung
-The Baleful Blade leads the current High Councilor of Amaranth and his retinue to Feingard, a remote world in the Kor Protectorate. Their fate is unknown, but the Blade later appears in its place on Amaranth. The skies above Cydonia play host to blue-tinged comets for weeks to come.

Paladins of Kor Timeline Draft 1

M31
-Immediately following the death of the Emperor, the Paladins of Kor begin to take the refugees to a safer place. Anders Kor spends his time fighting on the front lines to take his mind off the many tragedies that have occured

-Council of Titans takes place, Anders Kor attends

-first encounter with non-hostile xenos

M32
-Countless running battles are fought as the Paladins continue looking for a suitable world to settle

-the Paladins defend many worlds in trouble during this time, earning their favour

-late into M32, the ocean world of Cydonia is discovered. Constructions of hives begin

M33
-Cydonia is settled. Many of the worlds that the Paladins have assisted swear their loyalty to the world and it's protectors, officially forming the Kor Protectorate

M34
-The Paladins spend their time defending their worlds and assisting others

-Bannruod Tenriel, witness of the Great Betrayal and leader of the Paladins' Veteran Terminators, leaves the Paladins and founds the Guardians of the Apocalypse chapter

-friendly relations are established with local xenos, and many elect to join the Protectorate

M35
-Paladins are publicly considered "peacekeepers", and Anders Kor becomes a more political figure as well as a military leader.

-the Battle of Halstadt, a large daemonic incursion, is fought. Heretics flow into the Protectorate to Halstadt, considering it holy ground. A permanent Paladin presence is established, but it is soon realized that the heretics are not there to fight, only pray. This marks the beginning of heresy being tolerated in the Protectorate.

-the Errant Paladins are founded.

M36
-Eldar attack the planet of Sykin II. Paladins are sent to defend, but are driven away. Negotiations are attempted, and it is discovered that Sykin II is a Necron Tombworld. A joint cleansing operation is conducted, and the Eldar leave on neutral terms.

-a corrupt politician whose name is expunged from record attempts a coup with a private army of religious fanatics. He fails when his army is crushed by the Paladins, and is executed for his crimes.

M37
-with the legalization of Chaos worship allowing many heretics to openly practice their religion came many problems. The most dangerous being that occasionally, groups of people who wished to conduct the more violent of their rituals would spring up regularly. To combat this, the suggestion of a group to deal with this rising issue is presented. The Lawbringers are founded.

M38
-a team of Errant Paladins goes beyond the borders of the known galaxy. They do not come back. Their last transmission is recovered, and mentions of 'giant insects' are recorded. Pictures of what would later be known as the Swarmlord are also found.

-More and more of these aliens, dubbed "Tyranids" for their tyrant-like domination of the Swarmlord over the lesser species.

Which crusade is the one where the Firewall goes down and when is it?

And when is the 9th crusade?

I mentioned a hole in the firewall in M35, that could be the one. I've put the Ninth Crusade in M37. As always, these are subject to change.

OK, I'm thinking the M35 firewall hole is co-incident with a major chaos offensive, not sure if we want to call that a crusade.

But that's the one where I'm thinking Xun goes to Prospero and does some sort of ritual, vaguely hint that it's got something to do with the fact that Prospero is a nexus of fate, something about crimson armor with ivory trim and it's this that is what starts Xun's master plan.

Again, we can also use it as a way to justify new tech being recovered and I'm thinking that the Sky Serpents draw a lot of flack for their mysterious actions during the breech.

Eeey Gary j... Klaus here, Anything exciting happend here? been pretty busy with school im afraid.

Also, Any questions you need me to answer?

Why does he wear the mask?

Because he's a big guy?

Why not have Xun die off earlier than M35.

A universe with active primarchs is a boring universe. I get some people dont want theirs to die until modern day or at all, but Xun is one of the better ones to die off within 1 or 2 thousand years.