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085.M41 - By request of Inquisitor Scallen, the Sisters of Battle of the Adepta Sororitas' Order of the Valorous Heart purge the hive city of Hive Tumulus on planet Farglum of the Cult Epicurian, a Chaos Cult that threatened to take the world out of the grace of the Emperor of Mankind.
098.M41 Mara Colonised - The ancient, frozen world of Mara in the Hazeroth Abyss is colonised as Imperial miners explore the world's icy depths for rare and unique trace elements of great strategic and economic value.
103.M41 The Birth of Ateanism - The Arch-Heretic Julius Ateanos “accidentally” creates the Eris Transform, a heresy that will claim thousands of souls and lives in the years that follow.
126.M41 The Dark Heresy - The Propheticum Hereticus Tenebrae, a compilation of many sources, case studies and prognostications is compiled into a single archive of dark lore by the Inquisition's Tyrantine Cabal and housed in the depths of the Bastion Serpentis, (although rumours abound that this is merely a version of some much earlier work of unknown origin). This work's implications trouble the sleep of many great minds.
139.M41 - Abaddon the Despoiler's Chaotic forces complete construction of the massive Planet Killer starship, mostly using slave labour, somewhere in the Eye of Terror.
139-160.M41 - Abaddon the Despoiler uses the Planet Killer to lead the 12th Black Crusade, better known as the Gothic War, a massive assault by the Forces of Chaos that ravages the Gothic Sector for almost 21 Terran years before finally being driven back by Imperial reinforcements that arrived to aid the Imperial Navy's beleaguered sectorial Battlefleet Gothic. Reinforcements were prevented from arriving for years by the onslaught of potent Warp Storms that had been produced by the will of the Dark Gods to isolate the Gothic Sector and assist Abaddon's foul plans.
154.M41 - The Planet Killer is finally destroyed by the Imperial Navy. No traces of the infernal starship's remains are found by Inquisitor Horst's investigation 2 years later in 156.M41.
191.M41 Mara Isolated - All contact with the Imperial colony on Mara is lost amid Warp disturbances troubling the area. Later contact finds no trace of the former inhabitants of the Mining World.
211-226.M41 The Meritech Wars - The clans of the Merates Cluster secede from the Imperium, rallying many Renegade factions to their cause, raiding deep into the sector and causing widespread disruption and anarchy. The wars, at their height, pose the greatest threat to the sector’s stability in generations and even threatens to provoke internecine conflict with the bordering Ixaniad Sector. Thanks to the rise in power of Myram Harvala as Sector Governor, the Meritech clans are crushed and the worlds of the cluster are scoured clean of life. In the aftermath, the Heretek conspiracy of the Logicians is proved to have been behind the outbreak of the war.
213.M41 - The world of Castaburg is invaded by Orks under the control of the Warlord Skarmork. The Imperial Guard regiments of the Death Korps of Krieg counterattack and drive the Greenskins from the world after a long camapign of attrition -- the kind of warfare at which the Death Korps excels.
240-338.M41The Ophidian Campaign - The Ophidian Campaign (also known as the Purge Campaign) is carried out, in which the Imperial Navy's Battlefleet Scarus wrested control of the Calixis Sector's Ophidian Sub-sector from heretical forces. The campaign lasted from 240.M41 until 338.M41 -- a considerable achievement across such a relatively short timescale.
273.M41 - Inquisitor Jaq Draco visits Stalinvast. The existence of the Ordo Hydra within the Inquisition is discovered. The world of Stalinvast is destroyed after the Ordo Hydra's plot to release a psychic virus that will enslave Mankind as part of a larger plot to destroy the Chaos Gods is disrupted after Jaq Draco is allowed an audience with the Emperor Himself on Terra.
342.M41 - Inquisitor Quixos is declared a heretic and Extremis Diabolus by Inquisitor Eisenhorn.
356.M41 - Macharius is born in 356.M41,the son of Pella, the Imperial Commander and Planetary Governor of the world of Donia.
359.M41 - Copul IV is cleansed by the Ultramarines.
367.M41 - Ork world of Balur scoured by Space Marines and Imperial Guard regiments in a campaign led by the Ultramarines' Chapter Master Marneus Calgar.
371.M41 - Sergeant Severus of the Ultramarines is badly wounded on the world of Corinth, and is interred in the cybernetic shell of a Dreadnought. He eventually returns to that world and takes part in the seventh year of the Corinthian Crusade in 698.M41.
373.M41 - A number of Inquisitors are inexplicably murdered. Inquisitor Jaq Draco raids the Eldar's Black Library. The world of Sabulorb is incinerated and Draco is killed in the Eldar Webway, though his soul manages to survive intact within the Labyrinthine Dimension rather than being absorbed back into the Warp.
374.M41 - Macharius is promoted to colonel in the Imperial Guard and is given command of the Donian 26th Regiment.
379.M41 - Macharius becomes the general of the Donian IV army during the Roxane Rebellion.
380.M41 - Macharius takes the stronghold of the Renegade leader Roxane Mountjoy, and rescues Lord Solar Phillips, becoming Phillips' chief deputy and most successful Imperial Guard general.
385.M41 The Seventeen Holy Martyrs - A small force of Adeptus Sororitas Battle-Sisters die to a woman defending the agri-colony of Gallowglass in the Malfi System from a Chaos Cult of decay, slaying an incarnate daemon of great power in the process. A permanent shrine is raised to their honour in remembrance of this great deed.
386.M41 - Lord Commander Solar Phillips dies. Macharius is appointed the new Lord Solar, the Imperial Segmentum Governor and supreme military commander of Segmentum Solar, by the High Lords of Terra.
387-391.M41 - As Lord Commander Solar Macharius' armies assemble to launch the greatest Imperial Crusade since the Horus Heresy, he reconquers the worlds of Lands End, Morbellum and Jalfrezi III with his Donian army of Imperial Guard.
389.M41 The Tyrant Star Appears - The Asteroth Mining Colony in the Drusus Marches falls to heretical rebellion and waves of mass suicides following a visitation by the Tyrant Star. The colony is effectively destroyed, survivors flee to the nearby Locura System where they sow discord and unrest before a joint Inquisitorial and Adeptus Arbites purge of the refugees.
392.M41 - Macharius begins his great conquest of the western galaxy. Over a thousand worlds fall to him and his Generals over the next seven years:
392.M41 - The Hive World of Persepolis is recontacted by the Imperium of Man after 5,000 Terran years. Macharius finds the tomb of the ancient human explorer Indijona the Vagrant, and takes the helmet he finds there for himself.
393.M41 - While fighting against Chaos Space Marines on Zaga IV, a bolter round embeds in Macharius' chest but does not explode. The Confessors of the Ecclesiarchy accompanying Macharius' Crusade proclaim this a miracle of the Emperor's doing for his favoured son.
393.M41 - Lord Commander Solar Macharius musters the greatest army the galaxy has ever seen. In five years Lord Commander Solar Macharius reconquers a thousand worlds on the western reaches, and his glory carries him into the darkest sectors, places where the Emperor's light had never before been seen, even during the Great Crusade. Upon his death, the whole Imperium weeps for the fallen commander, but Macharius' territories soon collapse into rivalry and war. The Macharian Heresy, as this time has come to be known, lasts for seventy years and is only ended through the combined efforts of one hundred Space Marine Chapters
395.M41 - Macharius orders the advanced technology world of Adrantis V destroyed by a redirected comet, and disbands the 3rd Army Group of his Crusade.
396.M41 - Macharius' 2nd and 5th Army cross the boundary of the territory reached by the Astronomican, entering territory beyond the boundaries of the Imperium of Man.
398.M41 - Warp travel is slow, but Macharius still conquers another 15 worlds and destroys 7.
399.M41 - Macharius bombards the Carnelion Palace of Leminitus into submission. His generals decide the conquests should end.
400.M41 - Macharius dies before reaching the old boundaries of the Imperium.
401.M41 - Macharius is entombed on Macharia, his first base of operations.
410-412.M41 The First Siege of Vaxanide - The Vaxanide System is besieged by an Ork raider fleet, and the Ork forces also make planetfall to assault Vaxanide's hive cities but the Greenskins are swiftly repulsed. The Orks are eventually driven off by the Battlefleet Calixis, one sizable splinter force landing on the world of Ganf Magna.
428-430.M41 The Fall of the Tellurian Combine - The dominating commercial power of the Tellurian Combine is uncovered as a front for the malefic Chaos Cult called the Brotherhood of the Horned Darkness. Such is the group's widespread power and infiltration, even of the Lucid Court, that rather than risk civil war and an open purge, the Inquisition's local Ordos Calixis declares a shadow war against the Brotherhood, which lasts for three standard years and involves what is believed to be the largest employment of both the Officio Assassinorum and the Grey Knights in the sector’s history before its conclusion. An unforeseen side affect of the widespread secret purges and fearful suspicion they create is a dramatic and long-term weakening of the sector’s central government which has detrimental effects for centuries to come.
428-479.M41 The Reign of Terror on Malfi - The ascension of the House of Koba on Malfi results in the most tyrannical and brutal regime in the history of the Calixis Sector, and raises the spectre of succession and sector civil war, threatening the wresting, by covert and bloody means, of the seat of sector government from the then weak Lucid Court on Scintilla. The House of Koba falls at last by its own hand from betrayal within, leaving a power vacuum that leads to a twenty year period of strife, misrule and petty house wars on Malfi, ended only by a greater threat that rises from the tumult.
450-465.M41 - The Hesten Manuscript, which lays out the principles of the belief that the Emperor of Mankind is the God Incarnate, later held dear by the Thorian faction of the Inquisition, is compiled by the Inquisitor Hesten.
474.M41 The First War for Armageddon - Riots on the world of Armageddon. Warp Storms cut off the Hive World of Armageddon in the Segmentum Solar from Imperial communications or transport. Food shortages lead to armed rebellion in a dozen hives. First War for Armageddon begins with a Chaos incursion led by the Daemon Prince of Khorne Angron and his World Eaters Chaos Space Marines, which is eventually beaten back with the assistance of the Space Wolves and the Grey Knights Astartes.
452.M41 - A detachment of the Adepta Sororitas' Sisters of Battle from the Order of the Bleeding Heart are entrusted with the bones of St. Emiline and must evacuate the Shrine World of Emilines Hope when its home Yerena System is invaded by an Ork WAAAGH! under the command of the Ork Warlord known as the Arch Maniac of Calvera.
499.M41 The Bloody Solstice on Malfi - The rise of the appallingly powerful Khornate Chaos Cult called the Pilgrims of Hayte forces an end to Malfi’s internal political divisions at the cost of the near fall of that mighty world to annihilation. The Pilgrims of Hayte, while defeated, are not destroyed and live on to become a thorn in the side of the Calixis Sector's Imperial authorities until the present day and the source of a great many woeful atrocities.
503.M41 The Tyrant Star Appears - Snowden’s World suffers a visitation by the Tyrant Star leading to twenty days of riots and a mass famine that decimates the population.
507.M41 The Second Siege of Vaxanide - A second Ork invasion force centred around the Space Hulk designated Pinnacle of Savagery attacks the Vaxanide System. Although this force is considerably larger than the first, it is swiftly met by Battlefleet Calixis and allied forces whose mass bombardment cause the Hulk to break up and disintegrate before it can approach the Hive World, although fierce fighting continues as some Greenskin forces make it through to the planet.
560.M41 The Devayne Incorporation - The writ of holy orders is removed from the Devayne Fraternity by the Synod Calixis of the Ecclesiarchy, which cites the group’s worldly aspect and growing moral turpitude, forcing its slow rebirth into the entity known as the Devayne Incorporation, one of the most powerful and rigorously organised commercial powers in the sector.
567.M41 - Sergeant Lystander of the Ultramarines is awarded the Imperial Laurel for acts of courage under fire during pacification of a heretical insurgence on the world of Iduno.
609.M41 The Recovery of the Lucid Court - Lord Sector Calixis Larhanus Sult, called by many “The Great Conciliator”, is inaugurated and restores much power and prestige to the Lucid Court on Scintilla. He successfully pulls back executive authority to the office of the Lord Sector that had been slowly devolving to the Great Houses over the years, and massively expands the directly controlled military forces of his office and institutes aggressive reforms to the governance of Hive Sibellus.
623.M41 The Fall Narrow Incursion - The Fall Narrow mining outpost on 88 Tanstar is revealed to been secretly dominated by the Cryptos xenoform.
659.M41 - Logan Grimnar becomes new Great Wolf of the Space Wolves.
698.M41 - The Corinthian Crusade - Marneus Calgar is elected the commander of a Space Marine force including elements of the Ultramarines, Lamenters, Marines Errant, Angels of Absolution and Silver Skulls Chapters on a 7 year Crusade. The Ork empire of Charadon suffers a series of heavy defeats, delaying the invasion of WAAAGH! Argluk by a further 30 years.
703.M41 Haarlock Vanishes - Erasmus Haarlock, Rogue Trader, thought to be the last of his famed line, vanishes after completing the extermination of his bloody kin and leaving himself the sole-survivor of his clan.
704.M41 The Siege of Tulwa - Ultramarines Chapter Master Marneus Calgar leads the Astartes infiltration force that destroyed the Fortress of Pain controlled by the Chaos Space Marines of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion.
724.M41 The Sutters Rock Outbreak - The mining asteroid colony of Sutters Rock becomes the first confirmed location where what will come to be called the Fydae Strain Virus is encountered. The plague runs rampant and the dead walk, leading to the loss of all 120,000 colonists in a matter of hours. The virus is a Warp-contagion linked to the foul Nurgleite daemon-cult known as the Vile Savants.
731.M41 The Ascension of Marius Hax - The iron-handed Marius Hax becomes Lord Sector Calixis, after effectively ruling as the power behind the throne for the prior decades for his ailing and aged kinsman, Larhanus Sult. Subtle, clever and above all ruthless, and able to build on the achievements of his predecessor, Hax is arguably the strongest ruler the sector has seen for several centuries.
737.M41 - The world of Valos on the galactic rim is reported stripped of life by what is later identified to be the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth.
738.M41 - 26th Founding of Space Marine Chapters is called for by the High Lords of Terra.
740.M41 The Manchenko Purge - A sizable portion of the Commercia Great House of the Manchenko Dynasty is found to be corrupt and sanctioned by Inquisitorial purge, leaving it a battered shadow of its former power, further assailed and tormented by its rival houses. The Manchenko endure however and spend the next decades slowly rebuilding their power.
742.M41 The Damocles Gulf Crusade Begins - The Damocles Gulf Crusade, also called the Damocles Crusade, was the first military conflict fought between the Imperium of Man and the rapidly expanding Tau Empire in the Lithesh Sector of the Ultima Segmentum in the galaxy's Eastern Fringes during the late 41st Millennium. The conflict essentially ended in a stalemate, as the Imperium was forced to conclude its military offensive early to deal with the encroaching Tyranid threat while the Tau sought to begin diplomatic negotiations with the Imperium to show humanity the benefits to be had by accepting the Greater Good. Members of the Tau Water Caste had established trade agreements with Imperial worlds on the frontier of the Tau Empire, near the Damocles Gulf region of the Ultima Segmentum in the galactic east, and exchanges of goods and technology were common. Alarmed by the threat of alien contamination, the Administratum readied a suitable response and almost a century later, the Damocles Crusade smashed into Tau space, destroying several outlying settlements and pushing deep into the Tau Empire. When the Imperial fleet reached the Tau Sept world of Dal'yth Prime, however, the Crusade ground to a bloody stalemate as the formidable numbers and high technology of the Tau and their Kroot allies thwarted every attempt to capture the world or its star system. Many months of terrible fighting ensued with nothing gained on either side. By late 742.M41 the Crusade's commanders eventually agreed to requests from the Tau Water Caste for peace talks. The negotiations were successful and the Imperial fleet withdrew from Tau space unmolested, primarily due to the impending approach of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth. Or, depending on the source, the Damocles Gulf Crusade was ended in 988.M41 due to the emergent threat of Hive Fleet Kraken.
742.M41 A Pattern Revealed - The Tyrantine Cabal conclusively identifies the “Calixian Pattern Killings” going back at least eleven hundred Terran years.
742.M41 The Tyrant Star Appears - The Tyrant Star is sighted by Explorator vessels in the area of the Death World of Vigil.
742-770.M41 The Malygrisian Tech-Heresy - The militant Explorator Archmagos, Umbra Malygris, goes Renegade after clashing with the High Fabricator of the Lathes, taking with him hundreds of adepts and followers and threatening a full dogmatic schism within the Machine Cult’s ranks within the sector. Hunted on all sides, Malygris becomes increasingly insane but refuses to flee the sector, hiding instead in its shadows and cultivating a conspiracy of sympathisers and traitors to aid him. The renegade unleashes blasphemous horrors and forbidden weapons seemingly at random in order to further his research or avenge himself on his enemies. His forces also plunder and attack Mechanicus facilities, exploratory bases and even rival tech-heretic forces in order to obtain their secrets. Eventually destroyed at the hands of the Mechanicus Dragon Secutarii. However, Malygrisan lore still exists to plague the Omnissiah’s cult to the present.
743.M41 Ice Station Mara - An Imperial mining penitentiary outpost is re-established on the deserted Ice World of Mara in the Hazeroth Abyss.
744.M41 - The approaching End Times of the Imperium of Man are first predicted by Imperial seers using the Emperor's Tarot.
745.M41 End of the Damocles Gulf Crusade - Ultramarines retaliation against the Tau Empire during the Damocles Gulf Crusade is cut short by the invasion of the Eastern Fringes of the galaxy by the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth.
745.M41 The First Tyrannic War Begins - The Tyranids' Hive Fleet Behemoth assaults the Eastern Fringes of the galaxy and is defeated during the Battle of Macragge only by the heroic sacrifices made the Ultramarines.
745.M41 The Battle of Macragge - Hive Fleet Behemoth was spearheading a large Tyranids invasion force into Imperial space and were making unprecedented progress towards the Realm of Ultramar. Upon learning of the threat posed to Ultramar by the vicious Tyranids, Chapter Master Marneus Calgar at once drew up his plans. Calgar declared that the Hive Fleet would be halted at Macragge before it consumed more of Ultramar or drove deeper into the heart of the Imperium. Deeming Macragge to be the star system most immediately threatened, Calgar ordered its formidable defences to be further improved. Scant weeks later, the outrider vessels of the Tyranid fleet attacked Macragge. With the Hive Fleet destroyed after the sacrifice of an Imperial Battleship created a Warp vortex that destroyed the majority of the Hive Fleet, Calgar's surviving starships came about and roared back to Macragge to try to save the beleaguered polar garrisons. Calgar, feeling that the situation was becoming critical, sent the 3rd and 7th Ultramarines Companies ahead in their fast Strike Cruisers while his remaining damaged ships limped back to Macragge. Despite horrendous losses inflicted upon the Tyranid fleet from the orbital and polar defence grids, many Tyranid organisms were able to reach the surface of the planet. The Tyranid swarm swept across the planet with the most intense fighting in the region of the northern polar defence installations. Despite the Ultramarines fleet's ability to destroy the Tyranid bio-ships, horrific casualties were suffered by the planet's population as well as the Chapter. Calgar went down to the planet's surface, leading the 3rd Company against the ravenous hordes of the Great Devourer. The entirety of the elite 1st Company was wiped out to a man whilst defending the northern pole's defence grid. The Ultramarines 1st Company was gone and the 3rd and 7th sorely diminished. It would be many long years before the Chapter could properly replace its losses, but replace them it would.
746.M41 The Scouring of Ultramar - Lord Commander Dante recognises that the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth's invasion of the Realm of Ultramar is but the first of many scourges that will befall the galaxy at the hands of the Great Devourer. Dante sends 3 companies of Blood Angels to assist the Ultramarines in scouring the Tyranids from the sectors of the Eastern Fringe. Upon their return to Baal 3 Terran years later, the 3 companies are much reduced in number, but have earned invaluable experience in combatting Tyranids that are soon passed on to the rest of the Chapter and many of the Blood Angels' Successor Chapters.
748.M41 The Tyrant Star Appears - Plagues and an epidemic of madness grips the Feral World of Endrite.
755.M41 The Sabbat Worlds Crusade Begins - The Sabbat Worlds Crusade was an Imperial Crusade fought over the course of more than 23 standard years between 755.M41 and 778.M41 to retake the Sabbat Worlds Sector located at the rimward edge of the Segmentum Pacificus from the heretical Forces of Chaos. This Crusade was one of the largest and most significant Imperial military operations undertaken in recent history and ultimately ended in the reconquest of the sector by the armed forces of the Imperium of Man.
759.M41 - Scouring of Quintarn. Calgar commands forces against Ork scavengers who captered triple system of Quintarn, Tarentus and Masali (part of Ultramarines Empire) in the aftermath of Hivefleet Behemoth.
762.M41 The Purge of Thrax - Chapter Master Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines leads the remnants of his Chapter against the daemon-corrupted Adeptus Mechanicus Forge World of Thrax. Under the leadership of their Chapter Master, the Ultramarines banish countless thousands of daemons and recover crucial Imperial data-records from the twisted manufactorum complexes. With the mission complete, Calgar issues the order for Exterminatus.
765.M41 - Space Marine Chapter Losses to date: 13 Lost in warp, 21 Irrecoverable battle losses, 9 Gene seed failure, 4 Inquisitorial purge, 16 Other circumstances.
768.M41 Mara Abandoned - The Imperial mining colony on Mara is abandoned amid great loss of life and the entire region of space around it is quarantined by Inquisitorial edict.
777.M41 The Treachery of Nephthys - Inquisitor Erya Nephthys, once the most promising of her generation, goes Renegade and massacres a number of her peers in the very heart of the Tricorn Palace on Scintilla. The vilest of Traitors, she attacks numerous other Imperial holdings and carves a bloody path cross the sector, prompting a blood hunt by the entire Ordos Calixis of the Inquisition. She dies a third and final time at the hands of Witch Hunter Rykehuss and her ashes are interred in a sealed vault to insure her disposal is a permanent one.
780.M41 Fourth Quadrant Rebellion - The Fourth Quadrant Rebellion breaks out.
784.M41 The Margin Crusade is Launched - Under the holy writ of the Synod Obscurus of the Ecclesiarchy and taking place far to the Calixis Sector’s Spinward border, an Imperial Crusade is launched into the Margin region beyond the light of the Astronomican to the galactic north. The Calixis Sector is called on to provide troops and materiel to the ongoing Imperial effort and grudgingly complies. Thirty standard years later the Crusade is still grinding on with a great loss of blood and treasure.
792.M41 The Astral Knives Cult declared Heretical - Long tolerated, the centuries old void born death cult of the Astral Knife is found to have become tainted by association with dark forces and declared heretical by the Holy Ordos.
797.M41 Siege of Zalathras - Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, holds the gate of the Hive City of Zalathras alone against an Ork horde for a night and a day.
798.M41 WAAAGH! Big Skorcha's Assault on Baal - Three monstrous Space Hulks emerged from the Warp in the Baal System, bringing with them the massive Ork WAAAGH! Big Skorcha. Lord Commander Dante orders the deployment of 2 companies of Blood Angels to defend each of Baal's moons. The remaining companies opf the Chapter are assigned to serve as strike forces and ordered to board and destroy the Greenskins' Space Hulks. The Blood Angels prove successful and 2 of the Space Hulks are destroyed with much of the WAAAGH!'s Orks still aboard them. Before it can be destroyed, the final Space Hulk disgorges thousands of Orks commanded by the Warlord Big Skorcha, onto the surface of Baal. Knowing that the bulk of the Blood Angels forces are still in orbit destroying the Space Hulks or on the two moons of the world, Big Skorcha aims to lay siege to and ransack the Chapter's fortress-monastery. However, the Blood Angels prove not so easily outmanoeuvred. The Chapter's Dreadnoughts, deemed unsuitable for use in the cramped confines of the Space Hulks had remained behind on Baal. With the remains of WAAAGH! Big Skorcha still at large, the Venerable Furioso Dreadnought Astramael assembles all 41 of the Blood Angels' Dreadnoughts and coordinates the defence of the fortress-monastery in what was later known as the Battle of Iron. Although Astramael and his Dreadnoughts needed only to defend the fortress-monastery long enough for Astartes reinforcements to arrive from orbit, they fought with such savage fury that there were precious few Orks remaining when the first Stormravens finally landed.
799.M41 The Doom of the Ardent Seeker - The Ecclesiarchy Mission Ship, Ardent Seeker, is ravaged by a false prophet of the Pilgrims of Hayte on the way to the Shrine World of Maccabeus Quintus. Seven thousand worthy souls die in ways more hellish than the sane can imagine.
801.M41 - The Lugannath Eldar Craftworld is first detected by the Imperium of Man.
801.M41 Assault on Kammelstadt - Captain Zorael of the 4th Company leads the Blood Angels strike force Bloodhawk against rebels who have risen up against the Imperium on the world of Golgotha. Using their Land Raiders, the Blood Angels' armoured column smashed through the walls of the rebels' fortress and trapped the rebels behind their own defences. The rebels were then wiped out by an air strike by Zorael's Stormraven gunships.
802.M41 Reign of Blood - The Blood Drinkers Chapter assists the 35th Cadian Shock Troops Regiment of the Imperial Guard in the siege of the daemon-infested Hive World of Helios Alpha. The Blood Drinkers powerful assault breaks the stalemate, although the heavy collateral damage suffered by the Imperial Guardsmen while fighting alongside the Blood Drinkers leads the Cadian High Command unwilling to accept aid from this Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels again.
805.M41 The Forgoil Campaign - The Ork WAAAGH! Gutshredda rampages through the Forgoil System. Marneus Calgar leads 3 companies of his Astartes to the assistance of the Forgoil Planetary Defence Forces. In a little more than three weeks, the Ultramarines destroy the tellyporta ships and Stompa factories that provided WAAAGH! Gutshredda with much of its momentum. In the final battle of the war, Calgar and his Terminator-armoured retinue board and destroy Gutshredda's flagship, Da Supadestructa.
807.M41 - Purgation of Jhanna. Marneus Calgar leads two Ultramarine companies in the recapture of rebellious oceanic cities of Omon and Vorlencia, against heretics, Traitors and Chaos Space Marines.
807.M41 'Tyrant Star Appears' - Zillman’s Domain suffers a visitation from the Tyrant Star.
807.M41 The Tranch Insurrection - A mutant uprising in the soot warrens of the minor industrialised Hive World of Tranch rapidly develops into a planet-wide insurrection which topples the ruling class, the brutal Oligarchs of Tranch. The mutants have formed together into a unified faction calling itself the Pale Throng, led by a cabal of terrifyingly powerful witches and mutant-psykers known as the Shroud Council. As rumours of the successful rebellion spread, so do brushfire revolts and uprisings on other worlds in the sector, and the flames of malcontent are fanned. Lord Sector Hax realises the wider threat to Imperial order and declares a mass counter-invasion of the war-torn world to bring the rebellion to heel, calling on the Inquisition to dispose of the Shroud Council, which they do, whilst the Ordo Hereticus launches Operation Bellerophon to decapitate the mutant forces. At huge cost in lives and at the price of laying waste to much of Tranch, the Pale Throng is crushed, but its many factions manage to scatter off-world, while sympathisers still raise revolt against the Imperium in the Pale Throng's name elsewhere. Although the war is officially over, the pacification of Tranch goes on, providing a bloody baptism of fire for many of the sector’s soldiers.
808.M41 The “Dance of the Dead” on Kalf - Mysterious cult activity on the world of Kalf forces a notorious clash between rival Inquisitorial factions, leading to bloodshed and acrimony within the ranks of the Ordo Calixis in its wake.
810.M41 The Vervilix Disaster - After suffering serious malfunction in transit, the Imperial Guard's mass-troop conveyer Vervilix, far off course, makes a forced landing on the forbidden Ice World of Mara. Heavy casualities ensue and the remaining survivors are taken into Inquisitorial custody.
811.M41 The Reef Stars Crusade Begins
811.M41 The Red Vaults of Luggnam - A small Adeptus Arbites taskforce, investigating evidence of political corruption, murder and tithe-theft on the mining world of Luggnam, instead encounters the horrors perpetrated by the wanted Arch-Heretic Myrchella Sinderfell. In the aftermath, the Inquisition steps in and instigates a two-year-long planet-wide witch-hunt to weed out recidivist elements.
812.M41 The Disappearance of Inquisitor Layran - The Inquisitor Layran and his retinue of Acolytes vanish en masse while investigating rumour of a xenos conspiracy, peripherally connected to the so-called “Beast House” organisation on Fenksworld. Their loss prompts the Ordo Xenos to place the entire, widespread trans-sector group under scrutiny, leading to an ongoing covert investigation of the Beast House and its mysterious master, Solkarn Senk.
815.M41 - The Space Wolves Great Wolf Sven Ironhand revokes his oath and leads his Great Company into exile in the Eastern Fringes.
815.M41 A New Beginning - Gabriel Seth becomes the Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearers. His first act is to repair relations between his Chapter and the Blood Angels, as the tradition of brotherhood between the Chapters had been sundered for centuries by the Flesh Tearers' bloodthirstyness.
815.M41 The Time of Heroes - This year marked the start of a particularly momentous era in the Calixis Sector's history which would decide the ultimate fate of the sector at the hands of small bands of heroes in service to the Ordo Calixis of the Inquisition.
820.M41 Bloodcaller's Triumph - The Blood Angels Battle Barge Bloodcaller is badly damaged by an Ork Freebooterz ambushing while patrolling the Tresinka System. The Bloodcaller seemed to be finished, as its main drives had been silenced and boarding Kroozers had deployed a horde of Greenskins within it. Nonetheless, deft manoeuvring by Fleet Captain Bellerophon managed to bring the great vessel's main batteries to bear on the Ork fleet, destroying the Greenskins' flagship and half a dozen support vessels in a single salvo. Meanwhile, the furious counterassault by the Bloodcaller 's crew and Astartes swept the Orks who had boarded the Battle Barge from its lower decks and then carried the fight to the Kroozers. Though it took nearly a full standard year for the Bloodcaller to make its way at sublight speeds to the nearest Imperial Navy orbital repair docks at Haringvleet, the great Voidship did so proudly, bearing its scars as a tell-tale sign of the great victory it and its crew had won against incredible odds.
823.M41 The Khartas Incident - Captain Zorael of the 4th Company is killed by the Bloodthirster Greater Daemon Ka'Bandha. Only the unexpected arrival of the enigmatic entity known as the Sanguinor prevents the total annihilation of Zorael's remaining Astartes. Francesi Castigon replaces Zoreal as the new Captain of the 4th Company.
830.M41 The Axonar Spirewar - Lord Commander Dante despatched the Blood Angels' 3rd and 4th Companies to quell a rebellion against the Emperor's authority on the Hive World of Axonar. Determining that the rebel defences at the bases of the world's hive cities to be to potent for his Space Marines to launch a frontal assault, Captain Metraen, the Force Commander for the operation, orders a series of low-orbit insertions onto the cities' upper spires using Jump Packs. Once again trapped behind their own defences, the rebels are easily crushed by the Blood Angels' savage assault.
835.M41 The War For Piety - The Shrine World of Piety rematerialises after being swallowed by a Warp storm two centuries earlier. The planet is, however, almost unrecognisable, having transformed into a hideous Daemon World. Canoness Sariah of the Order of the Sacred Rose immediately leads a force of Battle Sisters to the planet to retrieve artefacts from the Reliquary of Hope, one of the few sites to have withstood the corruption. As the rest of her forces establish a perimeter around the reliquary, Sariah leads several squads into the labyrinthine corridors beneath. For three days Canoness Sariah and her Sisters battle through monster-infested passageways; bolters cut down scores of blood-hungry Daemon-hounds and flamers burn swathes of bloated plague-beasts. Only Sariah and two Celestians survive to rejoin the Battle Sisters on the surface, having recovered the left thighbone of Saint Dolan and three pages from the Lexicon of Falsehoods from a stasis vault. The surviving Battle Sisters withdraw to orbit with their prizes just as a fleet of Grey Knight vessels arrive and lay waste to the planet with cyclonic torpedoes.
843.M41 The Dalaric Campaigns - Three companies of Blood Angels are sent to the world of Dalaric to stop the raids of the deceitful Eldar. The Blood Angels initially earned a string of victories against the forces of the elusive xenos, but the Eldar managed to carry out an ambush that killed almost 100 Battle-Brothers, transforming an easy victory into a catastrophe for the Chapter. Fortunately, at the darkest moment, when it seemed that every Blood Angel might receive the Emperor's peace, the Sanguinor appeared once more, striking down the alien Avatar of Khaine and forcing the remaining Eldar to flee for their lives.
853.M41 Battle of the Steel Cross - Captain Alessandro Cortez of the Crimson Fists slays an Ork Warlord and his bodyguard of Nobs.
855.M41 The Assault on Black Reach - The Ultramarines 2nd Company under the command of Captain Cato Sicarius defeats the brutal Ork WAAAGH! Zanzag during its assault on Black Reach. The WAAAGH! was a Greenskin horde under the command of the Ork Warlord Zanzag, a Big Mek, or Ork Warlord who possessed unusual mekanical skill for an Ork.
858.M41 The Defence of Dimmamar - Dimmamar, birth world of Sebastian Thor, comes under attack from the Eldar of Ulthwe Craftworld without any warning or reason. Seraphim Superior Ame lda of the Order of the Bloody Rose retaliates, leading her squad of Seraphim in a daring attack to slay the enemy commander - Farseer Kauerith. The Seraphim's pistols blast a bloody path through a score of black-clad Eldar before the Sisters are engulfed in a hurricane of psychic lightning. Though many of her companions fall, Amelda refuses to yield and defiantly advances through the eldritch storm, slaying the Eldar Farseer with a single bolt round to the head.
859.M41 Assault on Zoran - The forces of the insidious Alpha Legion incited an uprising against the Imperium on the Ice World of Zoran. The Blood Angels' Captain Metraen lead elements from the Chapter's 3rd and 8th Companies to that frigid planet to eliminate the rebellion and drive the Traitor Legion from the world. Metraen's bold tactical choice at first seemed to drive the enemy back but the assault stalled when the Alpha Legion's base of operations on the world was determined to be an ancient and long-lost Imperator-class Emperor Titan left from the days of the Horus Heresy. Though still half-buried in the ice of Zoran, the monstrous war engine's Void Shield generators and weapons batteries proved to be operational with devastating consequences for the servants of the Emperor. Many Blood Angels Astartes fell in the first assault against the Titan and Metraen feared that the only course open to him to end the threat was an outright Exterminatus order against Zoran and its people. Fortunately for the innocents of that Ice World, aid arrived in the form of Kor'sarro Khan and the 3rd Company of the White Scars Chapter. Sent to claim the head of the Alpha Legion's infamous Daemon Prince Voldorius, the Khan joined his forces to the remains of the Blood Angels force on the planet. As the White Scars launched their own attack on the Alpha Legion's bastion from below, the Blood Angels used their Stormravens to initate a series of drop assaults against the secondary plasma reacors that powered the Titan's weapons. Metraen's Astartes neutralised the Titan's defences and the White Scars swarmed into the massive war machine's lower levels. Though Voldorius ultimately escaped once more, his followers were exterminated to the last Chaos Cultist and Alpha Legionary. Though Kor'sarro Khan was obliged to continue his hunt for the Daemon Prince, Zoran had been restored to the Emperor's light and the recovery of a battered but fully repairable Imperator Titan was no mean feat. Metraen eventually brought the Titan back to Baal, from which it was sent on to Mars, where Lord Commander Dante hoped that such a priceless gift might finally smooth over the conflicts between the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Blood Angels.
861.M41 Battle of Arconar - Chapter Master Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines defeats a coalition of Eldar Raiders on the Feral World of Arconar, scattering their forces and capturing their bases both on and off world.
867.M41 - Captain Alessio Cortez of the Crimson Fists breaks through Eldar lines despite suffering 17 wounds including being stabbed through one of his 2 hearts and two hits by heavy weapons.
877.M41 The Mel'yanneth Skywar - Captain Metraen is charged by Commander Dante of the Blood Angels with the destruction of Eldar Corsairs who have been assaulting Imperial commerce from a fortress making use of Eldar anti-gravitic technology hidden in the toxic atmosphere of the gas giant called Mel'yanneth. Making use of the Chapter's entire existing fleet of Stormraven and Thunderhawk gunships, Metraen launched an airborne assault that had no equal in the Chapter's long history. Stormravens cut through the blaze of anti-aircraft fire to disgorge their cargoes of Assault Squads and Terminators directly onto the floating fortress' docking platforms. These Astartes secured the landing zones for heavy armoured vehicles like Land Raiders and Predators which were delivered by a follow-on wave of Thunderhawk Transporters. As the battle then unfolded through the Eldar fortress hangars and maintenance shafts, the overwhelming firepower brought to bear by the Blood Angels was able to scythe through the arcane traps and dishonourable defensive systems erected by the Eldar pirates. Once they realised that they had no chance to stop the human assault, the xenos abandoned the fortress, although not before sabotaging its gravity nullification technology. Metraen was forced to retreat as the fortress was sucked down into the gas giant's grasping depths. Only the incredible skill displayed by the Blood Angels' gunship pilots, who fearlessly plunged deep into Mel'yanneth's gravity well to rescue their Battle-Brothers, prevented what became a famous victory for the Chapter from ending in mournful failure.
879.M41 Battle of Knarts Landing - Calgar defeats rebel army led by General Dornal in 30 day battle on the industrial world of Knart's Landing, taking less than 17% casualties.
892.M41 Captain Cortez of the Crimson Fists defended a breach in Fortress Maladon's wall for 21 hours of constant fighting.
897.M41 Massacre at Sanctuary 101 - An Adeptus Sororitas fortress is destroyed by Necron raiders.
901.M41 Battle of Stonehaven - Commander Dante personally lead a Stormraven drop assault on the Ork forces outside the hive city of Stonehaven that finally broke WAAAGH! Bludcrumpa's decade-long siege of the Forge World of Ironhelm.
901.M41-913.M41 The Badab War - The Badab War begins when the Astral Claws' Chapter Master, Lufgt Huron, revolts against the Imperium of Man and later turns to Chaos, unleashing the worst internecne strife between Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes since the Horus Heresy.
903.M41 - Lamenters, Mantis Warriors and Executioners join the revolt of the Astral Claws against Imperial authority in the mistaken belief that Imperial bureuacrats and nobles are directly impinging upon the ancient rights long granted the Adeptus Astartes by the Emperor of Mankind himself.
903.M41 - Captain Cortez fights through the entire six week campaign on the world of Kardia without supplies after his company of the Crimson Fists Space Marines had been lost to enemy fire during their initial deployment.
904.M41 Fire Hawks retaliate when their supply ship is captured by rebels.
906.M41 Red Scorpions and Minotaurs called in to suppress the Badab revolt.
911.M41 Vengeance of the Blood Angels - Justicar Parsival of the Grey Knights brings word to Baal that the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha, ancient bane of Sanguinius, has returned to realspace. Sepharan, the leader of the Blood Angels' Sanguinary Guard, receives Commander Dante's permission for the Sanguniary Guard to serve in the coming battle against the hated Greater Daemon. United in their determination to banish sucj an evil from the mortal realm, a force of Grey Knights and the Sanguinary Guard storm the gates of Ka'Bandha's fortress and defeat both the Bloodthirster and his Chaotic army in a single night's assault.
913.M41 - Executioners and Lamenters Space Marine Chapters sent on penitent 100-year-long Crusade against the enemies of the Emperor for the participation in the Badab War. During this time they are forbidden from recruiting new Neophytes.
917.M41 Battle of Amion - The Red Talons and Regiments of the Imperial Guard's Armageddon Steel Legion defeat rebel forces on the world of Amion.
918.M41 The Semmel Betrayal - The Blood Angels strike force Breath of Hermes is attacked by a large contingent of Eldar on the ghost world of Semmel. Fragmentary communications make clear that the Blood Angels briefly held the upper hand until an unknown party intervened on behalf of the Eldar. The strike force was wiped out to the last Astartes.
921.M41 The Siege of Barathred - Chapter Master Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines is ambushed by the Night Lords whilst en route to the Darkhold battle zone. The Chapter Master's crippled vessel makes planetfall on the sparsely settled Imperial Feudal World of Barathred. Several hundred Night Lords Chaos Space Marines make landing shortly thereafter, but Calgar rallies the planet's feudal population to defeat them.
926.M41 The Necron Worldengine - The 2nd and 4th Companies of the Blood Angels are despatched to the Vidar Sector to assist their fellow Space Marines against the threat posed by the monstrous Necron construct known as the Worldengine. After the sacrifice of the entire Astral Knights Chapter leads to the final destruction of the Worldengine, Captain Donatos Aphael of the 2nd Company proposes that an Imperial shrine be erected upon the world of Safehold in eternal memory of the Astral Knights. From that day forth, 2 Blood Angels of the 2nd Company are always assigned to stand guard over the memorial, which is considered a signal honour for the Astartes of that company.
927.M41 Battle for Antax - Captain Donatos Aphael and the Blood Angels' 2nd Company free the Forge World of Antax from the assault of the Ork WAAAGH! Gutstompa.
929.M41 The Trenor Uprising - Three dozen Ultramarines Scout Marines, under the expert direction of the famed Sergeant Telion, put down a rebellion against the Imperium on the world of Trenor in less than a day.
930.M41 Day of the Swordwind - The Blood Angels' 3rd Company manages to rpeserve Explorator Station Ghosa Prime from the unprovoked fury of the Eldar of Craftworld Biel-Tan.
935.M41 The Rise of M'kar - A daemonic horde under the direction of the Word Bearers Daemon Prince M'kar the Reborn seizes control of the Star Fort Indomitable in Calth's outer orbit. Under the command of their Chapter Master Marneus Calgar, Terminators from the Ultramarines' 1st Company board the star fort. M'kar is slain by the hand of the Lord Macragge, who tears the upstart Daemon Prince limb-from-limb.
940.M41 - A Tzeentchian Chaos Cult revolts against the Imperium on the planet Chicano. The world is lost to the Imperium and is displaced into the Warp as a new Daemon World dedicated to the Lord of Change.
941-942.M41 The Second War for Armageddon - The Ork WAAAGH! Ghazghkull descends upon the Imperial Hive World of Armageddon in the Segmentum Solar, initiating the Second War for Armageddon. The Orks are defeated only by the extreme stubbornness of the defenders and the combined might of the Blood Angels, Ultramarines and Salamanders Chapters. Thought dead by his foes, the wily Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka himself escapes into space. Lord Herman Von Straub's forces are saved by Imperial Guard Commissar Yarrick's performance. The Blood Angels are one of 3 Space Marine Chapters who respond to the strategically-located world's plight. Lord Commander Dante's reputation amongst other Astartes is so great that Chapter Master Tu'shan of the Salamanders and Chapter Master Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines cede overall command of Astartes operations to him. The fighting proves to be the fiercest in and around the planet's hive cities. The Blood Angels bear the brunt of the close-quarter fighting, primarily because only the overcharged engines of their Lucifer-pattern Rhinos can keep pace with the convoys of roaming Ork Trukks and Battlewagons. The tactical manoeuvrability of the Blood Angels forces is a crucial factor in the later stages of the war. The 3rd Company, under the command of its newly promoted captain, Erasmus Tycho, forms the heart of a spearhead of armoured vehicles that severs the primary Ork supply lines, which leaves the WAAAGH!'s Mekboyz without the necessary materiel to keep the Greenskins' massive Skullhammas and Stompas operational. With its heaviest units thus put out of action, the WAAAGH! is finally broken before the walls of Tarterus Hive, where Dante and Tu'shan famously fought together against Ghazghkull Thraka's own bodyguard of Nobs.
942.M41 - The Eldar Commander Yriel is named the leader of the Iyanden Fleet.
944.M41 - Balur Crusade. Marneus Calgar elected leader of the Space Marine Crusade force operating against worlds along the Eastern Fringes. Operations began with the scouring of Ork held Balur and ending with devastation of Boros.
945-959.M41 - Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka mounts raids on various planets
946.M41 Dante,Yarrick, and Mannheim Imperial monitoring stations established in outermost orbit of Armageddon System.
955.M41 Gehenna Campaign - Commander Dante and the Blood Angels' 3rd Company face the Necron Legions of the Necron Lord known as the Silent King on the dusty wastelands of the Tomb World of Gehenna. For three weeks, neither side is able to gain an advantage though Dante finds his own tactical acumen stretched to its limits countering the space-time manipulations of the Silent King and the advanced technology of the Necrons. The stalemate is broken when a Tyranid splinter fleet suddenly enters orbit of Gehenna, which forces the two armies to break off from hostilities with each othe to deal with the Great Devourer. This unwanted alliance proves to the downfall for the Tyranids. Following the final battle against the Tyranids at Death's Crag, Dante and the Silent King leave the field without further combat, as each side is now too damaged to guarantee victory over the other. In addition, for the Blood Angels, the idea of turning in combat upon those they had so recently shed blood beside was distasteful in the extreme.
962.M41 - Imperial base on Buca III annihilated by Ork asteroid base, another machination of Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka.
963.M41 - The Fire Hawks Battle Barge Rapturous Rex, sent to Crow's World Sector to investigate raids by the Dark Eldar. The Chapter dissapears en route within the Warp.
963.M41 The Cleansing of Malbede - The Ultramarines clash with a Tau expeditionary fleet for control of the cursed planet of Malbede. When the conflict awakens the Necrons hidden on Malbede, the Ultramarines and the Tau join forces to defeat the emerging Necrons. In the wake of the battle, Marneus Calgar initiates Exterminatus on Malbede, but allows the Tau to evacuate before the planet is destroyed.
965.M41 The Tempation of Mephiston - The Daemon Prince M'kar the Reborn trapped the Blood Angels' Chief Librarian Mephiston in the crystal caverns of Solon V. He attempted to lure Mephiston into the embrace of Chaos by accusing him of already having walked upon the path to daemonhood in the eyes of the Dark Gods. Mephiston rejected the Daemon Prince's deceptions and throttled the life from his captor, banishing him back to the Warp, but not before a seed of doubt had been planted within his heart.
972.M41 - Imperial Agri-World Chigon 17 overrun by Orks under the command of Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka using guerilla tactics.
974.M41 The Damnos Incident - The 2nd Company of the Ultramarines under the command of Captain Cato Sicarius rescues survivors from the doomed world of Damnos, an Imperial Civilised World that was also a Necron Tomb World. The Necrons awakened and launched a massive assault upon all life on the planet's surface, while Damnos Planetary Defence Force and Imperial Guard Regiments proved unable to defeat the hideous cybernetic xenos. The Ultramarines successfully rescused survivors from the planetary capital city of Kellenport before the Necrons claimed the world for their own.
976.M41 Skirmish with Hive Fleet Perseus - The Tyranid Hive Fleet Perseus is detected by the Ultramarines in 976.M41. Spearheading an assault on the Tyranids, Chapter Master Marneus Calgar was severely mauled, losing all four limbs as well as large areas of body tissue and his left eye. He underwent extreme augmetic surgery and has had most of his missing body parts replaced with bionics.
980.M41 The Promethean War - The Order of the Ebon Chalice reinforces Space Marines of the Salamanders Chapter who are engaged in a brutal urban war against the dread Black Legion on the world of Heletine. The enemy is put to the torch as dozens of Immolators and Land Raider Redeemers burn a path through the wartorn cities. Despite the strength of their forces, the advance is halted when Lord Gralastyx - the Daemon Prince leading the Chaos forces - unleashes a legion of possessed Chaos Space Marines. As the frenzied Chaos horde rips through the Imperium's ranks, Battle Sisters and Space Marines fight back to back, their bolters and flamers blazing away as every warrior endeavours to sell their life dearly. However, the allied forces are saved when Saint Celestine appears, falling upon the Chaos horde like an avenging angel. The Living Saint carves a path through the horde towards Lord Gralastyx, before plunging her blade through his heart. With the death of Gralastyx, the Chaos horde is destroyed, but of Celestine there is no sign, for she vanished as mysteriously as she appeared.
981.M41 - Durlan Ocellati discovers warp route into Wheel of Fire.
982.M41 - Last encounter with Hive Fleet Perseus. The Hive Fleet drifts out-system.
983.M41 - Fire Hawks declared lost in the Warp.
983-985.M41 - The Hrud Migration.
984.M41 Battle of Hell Town. Pyran Dragoons assigned to Armageddon jungle base desert their posts, leaving the Armageddon Steel Legion's Ork Hunters to defend against Ork invasion.
986.M41 Imperial Battlecruiser Radiant Way wiped out by Ork pirates led by Ghazghkull Thraka.
987.M41 Space Wolves' 519th Crusade ends in Wheel of Fire (Orks cleared).
988.M41 Crimson Fists Space Marines nearly wiped out by their own misdirected missile while fighting Orks on Rynn's World.
989.M41 - Force of Blood Angels Terminators killed while exploring a Space Hulk.
989.M41 The Liberation of Lagan - The Ultramarines' 3rd Company liberates the Lagan System from the Tau Empire for the Imperium of Man.
990.M41 The Vaults of Pandrax - In a search for a cure to the Blood Angels' genetic Flaw, Brother Corbulo discovers the repositories of archeotech from the Dark Age of Technology on the world of Pandrax III that are in the hands of the Eldar of Craftworld Alaitoc. Three companies of Blood Angels, including the Terminators of the 1st Company, are assigned to seize the vaults from the xenos interlopers. A fierce battle erupts through the tech-vaults and catacombs of Pandrax III. The Blood Angels are the ultimate victors, the Farseer commanding the Alaitoc Eldar sacrifices himself to destroy the very records of advanced genetic manipulation techniques that Corbulo had sought. The search for the cure to the Blood Angels' Flaw must continue elsewhere.
991.M41 The Martyrdom of Praxedes - Canoness Praxedes of the Order of Our Martyred Lady reinforces the Imperial Guard on the cardinal world of Okassis, soon after the start of the Second Tyrannic War. As the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Kraken assault the Ecclesiarchal Cathedral, the combined fire of Retributor Squads and Exorcist tanks obliterates the first wave, but the second manages to breach the fortress- walls. As Tyranids pour through, Praxedes confronts a Hive Tyrant. During the fightin g the Canoness is dealt a mortal wound, but even as her blood ebbs away, she summons the strength to land a final blow, caving in the beast's skull with a thunderous strike from her power mace. With the Tyrant's destruction, the swarm loses all direction. The Sisters waste no time in pressing the assau lt, determined to avenge the death of their beloved leader. The remaining aliens are swept aside, buying the time to evacuate the Ecclesiarchy's priests.
991.M41 The Stromark Civil War - A political rivalry within the Stromark System lead to a civil war between the two manufactorum worlds, Stormark Primus and Stromark Secundus, that coexisted within that star system. The escalating violence halted the flow of much needed weapons and materiel from these planets to the wider Imperium, a situation that the Departmento Munitorum's Adepts determined could not be allowed to continue without adversely affecting the security of the Emperor's realm. As a result, elements of two Successor Chapters of the Blood Angels, the Angels Encarmine and the Flesh Tearers, were despatched to the Stromark System with the mandate to end the conflict by any means necessary. The fighting on Stromark Prime was the first to cease. The first engagement by the Flesh Tearers Chapter was also the last, as stories of unstoppable Space Marines hacking a vicius and bloody path through literally tens of thousands of Stormarkian warriors quickly terrified the planet's recalcitrant population into submission. Stromark Secundus took longer to be pacified, as the Angels Encarmine used less "direct" methods than their savage brethren amongst the Flesh Tearers. Several hours of difficult combat ensued that was brought to an end when 5 of the Chapter's Furioso Dreadnoughts smashed into the Stormarkian Secundus military headquarters and tore the planet's High Command apart. The surviving officers of the planet's Planetary Defence Force wisely agreed to immediately end the conflict with their neighbours and resume meeting the system's crucial production quotas.
992.M41 Second Tyrannic War - Iyanden Craftworld is nearly destroyed by Hive Fleet Kraken. Lamenters Chapter lost. Scythes of the Emperor Chapter badly depleted, its homeworld lost to the Great Devourer.
992.M41 The Hives of Hollonan- In response to a request for assistance, Chief Librarian Mephiston leads the Blood Angels strike force Sanguinatus to the Hive World of Hollonan to deal with an uprising against the authority of the Imperium. What at first appeared to be only a run-of-the-mill, if still large rebellion, was soon revealed to be a deep-seated infestation of Tyranid Genestealers. Mephiston's strike force purged the xenos parasites and their psychically-addicted cult members from the hive cities of Hollonan, but it was already too late for the Hive World -- even as the last brood of Genestealers was brought down in fire and blood, Hive Ships from a splinter fleet of the approaching Hive Fleet Kraken arrived in the Hollonan System Mephiston immediately recognised that his strike force lacked the numbers to repel a Tyranid swarm of that magnitude and so he assumed command of Hollonan's defences and sent an astropathic request for aid to Baal and to Coinal, the nearby Chapter planet of the Blood Angels Successors called the Angels Vermillion. The battles that ensued within the depths of Hollonan strained even the ever-present lust for battle of the Blood Angels. The first assault by the Tyranids eliminated the planetary defence batteries and automated Sentry Guns. The second destroyed the chain of ancient but necessary fusion accumulators that provided Hollonan's hive cities with most of their power. What resulted was a ferocious war for survival in the guts of Hollonan's primary underhive. Mephiston's Blood Angels found themselves stretched to the limit of even their considerable abilities as tried to rally the Planetary Defence Force against the endless swarms of Termagants, Raveners and Carnifexes. Only where Mephiston personally entered the fray did the human defenders hold. Over the course of two terrible weeks, Mephiston proved his worth again and again, never once sleeping or taking rest from combat, though even his fellow Astartes had become weary beyond the measure of mortals of the constant bloodshed. His deeds wrote a new legend for the Chapter. At the Chapel of the Emperor's Repose, Mephiston tore a Carnifex to shreds with his own hands. He held the entrance to the hive city's filtration plant for six hours by himself. In the final hours of that terrible assault, he cleaved his way alone through the spearhead of the Tyranids' primary assault, slaying a Hive Tyrant and all of its hideous guardians before he was himself struck down by a Trygon. Mephiston's fall, which could have easily crushed the last strands of fragile morale amongst the world's defenders, instead led them to redouble their efforts to be worthy of his example. Such was the determination borne in the hearts of the Blood Angels and the soldiers of Hollonan that they held out long enough for reinforcements to arrive. Fresh companies of Blood Angels and Angels Vermillion Astartes came from the sky in Drop Pods and Stormraven gunships just in time to save the world's remaining defenders. Yet the Astartes were not alone, for they had been joined by the Eldar of Craftworld Ulthwe, led by the ancient Farseer Eldrad Ulthran, who had decided to fight beside the guardians of Mankind for reasons of their own. The Tyranids were crushed between the attacks of the three descending armies and this splinter of the coming Hive Fleet Kraken was removed from existence before its parent Hive Fleet arrived in full. Eldrad Ulthran and his forces remained just long enough to see Mephiston recovered from the rubble, terribly wounded but miraculously still clinging to life. This second resurrection only served to increase Mephiston's legend within his Chapter -- and beyond.
992.M41 - The VIII Kimmerian Regiment, fighting Orks on the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, are assisted by Jotun Bearclaw's renegade Space Wolves Great Company. Bearclaw had refused to return when ordered to Fenris after fighting at Ichar IV due to the length of travel time involved.
992.M41 - Ursarkar E. Creed and his Cadian Shock Troops of the Imperial Guard annihilates an Eldar raid launched by Craftworld Ulthwé on the planet Aurent.
993.M41 The Second Tyrannic War and the Battle of Ichar IV - The Ultramarines quash rebellion on the industrial world of Ichar IV, only to find themselves at the forefront of a desperate defence against the Tyranids' Hive Fleet Kraken. Elsewhere, the Eldar Craftworld Iyanden is ravaged by other tendrils of the Kraken. Two Space Marine Chapters -- the Scythes of the Emperor and the Lamenters -- are all but wiped out and hundreds of Imperial worlds are lost to the Tyranids before the incursion is blunted.
994.M41 Blackfang Crusade - After determining that the Ork strongholds located in the Blackfang System had defied the will of the Emperor for far too long, Lord Commander Dante mobilised the entire Blood Angels Chapter for a year-long Imperial Crusade that not only drove the Greenskins from their empire within the 12 worlds of Blackfang but also from 2 neighbouring star systems that had long been Ork bastions.
995.M41 - Battle of Korsk II. Lord Vorlak leads a rebellion that is crushed by marines in a major tank battle on the plains of Korsk II.
995.M41 Defense of Ichar IV - Calgar acts as supreme commander in defense of Ichar IV, a vital industrial world on the Eastern Fringe. Tyranid invaders from Hive Fleet Kraken held in check by the combined efforts of Space Marines, Imperial Guard and alien Eldar forces.
995.M41 Beheading the Serpent - Captain Tycho's Blood Angels 3rd Company was one of the many Space Marine strike forces that responded to the threat of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Jormungandr. Though Tycho led his Astartes to numerous crucial victories that turned the tide against this tendril of the Great Devourer, his tactics proved so reckless, even for a Blood Angel, that the Sanguinary Priests of the Chapter began to fear for his sanity.
996.M41 The Battle of the Sepulchre - An Eldar emissary from the Biel-tan Craftworld was sent to the Imperial world of Commrath to enter negotiations with its Planetary Governor for the return of an ancient eldritch artefact from the tomb of one of the Ultramarines' most-lauded heroes, Captain Orar, known as the Sceptre of Galaxian. Refusing his request, the Eldar emissary grew angry and soon his pleas turned to threats of violence. The Planetary Governor refused to be cowed by the arrogant xenos and had the Eldar executed on the spot. However, the Governor had the foresight to heed the Eldar's threats and requested aid from the Ultramarines. Calgar responded with overwhelming force, mobilising his entire Chapter. This would be the first engagement the Ultramarines fought in as an entire Chapter since the First Tyrannic War. The Eldar launched a series of devastating attacks against the tomb complex. Though unsuccessful against the stoic Ultramarines' defenses, fully half the Astartes' number were either wounded or dead. When the third and final attack came, the Eldar looked like they were going to overwhelm the defenders. An Eldar Avatar of Khaine spearheaded the assault, breaking the Ultramarines' lines of defence and spilling into the tomb complex. Dozens of Ultramarines were killed by the mighty Avatar. Calgar valiantly fought the Avatar in single combat, and though grievously wounded, managed to kill the vile creature. With the fall of their War God, the Eldar lost all heart for the fight. Some fled without heed while others fell back in good order, but all retreated into the darkness. Despite overwhelming odds, once again the Ultramarines had emerged victorious, but in his wisdom Calgar knew that the Eldar would return for the Sceptre of Galaxian. So it was that Calgar informed Commrath's Governor that the Galaxian Sceptre would be removed from Orar's Sepulchre to Macragge, where it could be properly defended.
996.M41 Vengeance for Semmel- Commander Dante learns of the location of the Eldar who slew so many Blood Angels on Semmel years before. He orders the Sanguinary Guard to earn the Chapter's vengeance. The strike force caught its quarry in the arid badlands of the world of Zoros. In the resulting aerial combat, Sanguinary Guardians duelled with Eldar Jetbikes and Swooping Hawks Aspect Warriors, but emerged as the victors. Unfortunately, the identity of the individual who betrayed the Blood Angels at Semmel cannot be determined and so final vengeance for that loss remains beyond the Chapter's reach.
997.M41 The Third Tyrannic War and the Defence of Tarsis Ultra - Elements of the Ultramarines and Mortifactors Space Marine Chapters make a stand against one spur of the Tyranids' Hive Fleet Leviathan on the world of Tarsis Ultra. The defenders defeat this tendril of the Leviathan with an engineered anti-Tyranid biological plague, but the remainder of Hive Fleet Leviathan rampages on unabated.
998.M41 - The Administratum Historicus Coran Celecius is tried for heresy by the Inquisition after his work links the Aphis Hermitage Massacre to the Necrons and other mysterious past encounters Mankind has had with that dangerous and enigmatic race.
998.M41 Third War for Armageddon - The Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka returned to the Hive World of Armageddon at the head of the largest Ork WAAAGH! seen since the Ullanor Crusade ten millennia before, unleashing the Third War for Armageddon. Over 2 dozen Space Marine Chapters respond to the Greenskin assault this time, which was necessary as the Blood Angels had been forced to deploy much of their existing strength against the equally dangerous threat of Hive Fleet Leviathan. Even so, honour demanded that the Chapter provide at least some assitancer to Armageddon and Dante sent the 3rd Company and genereous number of suport units. During the course of the campaign, Captain Tycho finally succumbed to the Black Rage and spent his life valiantly on the outer walls of the Hive Tempestora, taking hundreds of Orks with him down into death. The 3rd Company's new commander was Captain Galan Machiavi.
999.M41 - A murderous plot unleashed by the Forces of Chaos kills several members of the Cadian High Command, including the Lord Castellan. Colonel Ursarkar E. Creed is appointed the new Lord Castellan of Cadia.
999.M41 The Taking of Bridge Two-Four - Uriel Ventris succeeds Captain Idaeus as commander of the Ultramarines 4th Company.
999.M41 The San Leor Massacre - A Red Corsairs strike force invades San Leor, the original home world of the Daughters of the Emperor. The Chaos Space Marines are unprepared for the fury of the Adepta Sororitas reprisal, as they come under assault from nine separate Orders Militant and are utterly annihilated by the combined counter-attack.
999.M41 The Zeist Campaign - Captain Cato Sicarius leads an army of Astartes and the Imperial Guard into the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy to halt the Tau's Fourth Sphere Expansion. An Imperial Crusade later known as the Zeist Campaign drawn from 30 Space Marine Chapters drives the Tau back from dozens of Imperial worlds, but is recalled before its work can be completed to deal with the much greater threat of Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade.
999.M41 The 13th Black Crusade - The 13th Black Crusade erupts out of the Eye of Terror led by the Warmaster of the Black Legion, Abaddon the Despoiler. The great Chaos Lord leads the largest Chaotic invasion of the Imperium since the Horus Heresy to the Fortress World of Cadia in the hopes of conquering the world and at last seizing the Cadian Gate for the Dark Gods so that the Forces of Chaos can once again launch themselves towards Terra and depose the hated Corpse Emperor. The Imperium suffers heavy losses during the fighting across the Segmentum Obscurus, but the Black Legion and its allies only captures half of Cadia durign its ground assault. The Chaotic warfleets are forced to retreat back into the Eye after an Imperial counter-offensive. While the Forces of Chaos retain their foothold on Cadia, the Imperial Navy patrols the space above and prevents a Chaotic break-out -- for as long as the stalemate holds.
999.M41 Defence of Ultramar - In the midst of the 13th Black Crusade, the Realm of Ultramar comes under renewed assault from the Forces of Chaos. The Daemon Prince M'kar the Reborn, clad in mortal flesh once again in the body fo a former Ultramarines Dreadnought, leads the onslaught against the world of Talassar. Other Chaotic warlords under the command of the Iron Warriors Warsmith Honsou attack Calth, Espandor and Tarentus. Marneus Calgar recalls all Ultramarines forces to defend Ultramar, dispatching a reinforced Battle Company to each threatened planet. Calgar himself accompanies the 2nd Company to defend Talassar, determined to slay M'kar a hundred times over if need be.
999.M41 The Darkest Hour - The Blood Angels are tested as they have not been since the days of the Horus Heresy. As the launch of the 13th Black Crusade consumes the resources of the Imperium, a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan is determined to be on a direct course for Baal. To make matters worse, the dread Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha, the Bane of Sanguinius, returns from the Warp leading an army of daemons. His first blow is struck against Ammonai, the outermost world of the Baal System. Faced with a possible war of extermination for the Chapter on 2 fronts, Lord Commander Dante makes swift preparations, and unites many Imperial and even non-human worlds under the command of the Blood Angels simply for the sake of survival against Tyranid and Daemon alike. Even some former foes of the Chapter and the Imperium are counted in Dante's alliance, though whether or not they can be truly trusted when the time comes remains an open question. Well aware that even these forces will not be enough to repel both foes, Dante recalls the 3rd Company from its operations on Armageddon and sends requests for aid to all of the Blood Angels' known Successor Chapters. The Flesh Tearers are the first to respond and despatch their entire fighting strength to the Blood Angels' aid without question. Ultimately, all of the Successor Chapters save for the Lamenters lend some form of aid to their primogenitor. Even the Knights of Blood, declared Renegade by the Imperium many centuries earlier, heed Dante's call -- though they are very careful to never take the field alongside the other Chapters. The stage is thus set for the defence of Baal, and perhaps the final battle of the Scions of Sanguinius, the Sons of the Angel.
999.M41 - The Adeptus Mechanicus discovers that the Golden Throne has irreparable flaws that could ultimately endanger the Emperor's life.

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