Drakan Vangorich, the Grand Master of Assassins killed the all the High Lords of Terra in an attempt to take power. Was thwarted by Space Marines from the Halo Brethren, Imperial Fists and Sable Swords chapter when they tracked him down and killed him in the Evesor Temple.
The Nova Terra Interregnum, Time of the Twin Empires (M35):
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The rebellious Ur-Council of Nova Terra dismissed the authority of the High Lords of Terra and claimed separate rule over the Imperium's Segmentum Pacificus. Numerous civil wars are fought for nearly 900 years before the Cataclysm of Souls event (Information unknown) in 975.M35 reunited the Imperium. The Ecclesiarchy at this time tried to transform the Imperium into a theocracy where political differences would be submerged by usurping the power of the rest of the High Lords of Terra. Their efforts ended only in stirring up massive religious civil wars against the Ur-Council of Nova Terra who were denounced as Heretics who stood in defiance of the will of the God-Emperor when they rejected the Ecclesiarchy's attempts to increase its power over the state.
This religious rebellion on many worlds of the Segmentum Pacificus ultimately overthrew the Ur-Council and restored the rule of the High Lords over the entirety of the Imperium's territory, though billions died in these religious wars and the power of the Ecclesiarchy had been increased throughout the Imperium to a dangerous level as a result.
The Age of Apostasy (M36):
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Foreshadowed by the deep political divisions of the Nova Terra Interregnurn, a new age of dissent and power struggles cosumed the Imperium in the 36th Millennium. Zeal eclipsed reason, and misrule reigned supreme. The word of the Emperor was subverted wholesale by corrupt ideologues, each struggling to usurp total control of the Emperor's realm for themselves.
This era is known as the Age of Apostasy, a time of brutal Imperial civil war, and is considered to be one of the bloodiest times within the Imperium's history after the Horus Heresy. Around 200.M36, the Age of Apostasy is marked by the Reign of Blood, when the High Lord Goge Vandire, an insane tyrant, became both the Ecclesiarch of the Adeptus Ministorum and the High Lord of the Adeptus Administratum through bribery, blackmail, coercion and murder. During Vandire's Reign of Blood, multiple wars of faith were fought as Vandire attempted to gain control of the Imperium. The Reign of Blood lasted for 70 Terran years before a messenger delivered the news that heralded its end. On the world of Dimmamar, a man named Sebastian Thor and his sect of the Imperial Cult, the Confederation of Light, denounced High Lord Vandire as a traitor to the Emperor. As an accomplished orator, Thor was able to sway billions to his cause.
Eventually Vandire was besieged on Terra by several Space Marine Chapters and several Imperial Guard regiments. The Space Marines' fleet unleashed a massive orbital bombardment which caught most of the Traitors in the open. Lord Vandire was killed by his bodyguards, the Brides of the Emperor, who were convinced that they had been tricked into betraying the Emperor by Vandire. In the aftermath, the Ecclesiarchy was reformed, and the Brides of the Emperor were transformed into the Adeptus Sororitas, the Sisters of Battle, the armed forces of the Ecclesiarchy and the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's new-formed Ordo Hereticus. The Ordo Hereticus was intended to root out the internal enemies of the Imperium, watch over the Ecclesiarchy and prevent the emergence of another Goge Vandire who sought to serve his own selfish ends rather than the will of the Emperor.
The Macharian Heresy (400:M40):
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After the death of Macharius, those great demesnes that he had conquered for the Imperium of Man during the Macharian Crusade fell into open civil war and anarchy between his seven Army Group generals throughout the newly-conquered territories. These contested territories splintered into petty star empires, each lorded over by one of Macharius' old generals who had repudiated their oaths of loyalty to the Imperium, opposing each other as well as the authority of the Adeptus Terra, and with Space Marine Chapters now drawing sword upon each other in dispute and anger, the High Lords of Terra were forced to act decisively. A force of over 100 Space Marine chapters fought a long and bloody war to crush these rebels and restore the conquered regions to the Imperium.
Time of Ending (750.M41 - 999.M41):
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Rebellion is rife. Desperate messages from across the galaxy echo through the Warp. Astropaths work feverishly to pull the transmissions from the Immaterium and translate them, to sift the meaning from the garble. The messages are increasingly dire: Planetary Governors send desperate pleas for aid, Imperial Guard officers call for reinforcements, fleet commanders issue ominous warnings of enemy starship movements. The forces of the Imperium fight with the valour of ancient heroes, defending humanity from within, without and beyond -- but they cannot be everywhere at once.
Notable rebellions during this time:
The lamentable campaign known as the Siege of Vraks occurs from 813-830.M41. The Apostate-Cardinal Xaphan leads the Armoury World of Vraks Prime into the service of the Ruinous Powers. As the forces of the Imperium arrive to quell the rebellion, they are immediately met in battle, followed by a rapid escalation of forces on both sides. The seventeen-year-long campaign ends in a full-scale daemonic incursion and, finally, the intervention of the Ordo Malleus and the Grey Knights. By the end, Vraks is entirely laid waste, its entire population exterminated.
In 863.M41 the Saint Cyllia Massacre occurred whrn the Adamant Fury Titan Legion betrayed the Emperor and fell to Chaos. The Traitor Titan Legion turned its guns upon Loyalist regiments of the Saint Cyllian Planetary Defence Forces before making good their escape off-world. The loss of a full Titan Legion sends ripples of concern through the Imperium and great effort is exerted to find and destroy it, particularly by the Mechanicus and its Collegia Titanica.
In 901.M41 the terrible civil conflict known as the Badab War begins when Lufgt Huron, the Chapter Master of the Astral Claws Space Marines, refuses to hand over his Chapter's tithe of gene-seed to the Administratum and instead announces his secession from the Imperium, declaring himself the Tyrant of Badab. Twelve standard years of intersystem war follow, wreaking havoc on shipping lanes in the Maelstrom Zone and embroiling more than a dozen Space Marine Chapters. With much loss, Badab Primaris finally falls to the Loyalist forces, but Lufgt Huron and some 200 of the Astral Claws escape to take refuge in the Maelstrom of the Ultima Segmentum. There, they become Chaos Space Marines and change their name to the Red Corsairs. They become dreaded pirates and raiders of Imperial commerce. Huron adopts the title of Blackheart and continues to recruit more Astartes Renegades to join his growing Chaotic empire.
In 992.999.M41, the Night of a Thousand Rebellions occurs. Uprisings and discord strike countless planets across the Imperium. Unrest races like wildfire, consuming many outlying planets, but also supposedly secure worlds like Enceladus, Darkhold, and Minisotira. Even the homeworld of the Lions Defiant Space Marine Chapter is lost to anarchy caused by secret cults and frenetic agitators. Contact is lost between Terra and large swathes of the Segmentum Pacificus.
In 993.999.M41, wave after wave of Astropathic pleas for help flood at once from all across the galaxy, though there is only an eerie silence from the Segmentum Pacificus. So powerful is the influx, so overbearing is the psychic current, that theAdeptus Astra Telepathica suffers serious personnel losses amongst their Astropaths. Whole choirs collapse at once, driven mad or slain outright, their minds bursting. Vast breakdowns in Imperial communications ensue, increasing both anarchy and panic as the endless psychic screams for help echo across time and space.
In 993.999.M41, wave after wave of Astropathic pleas for help flood at once from all across the galaxy, though there is only an eerie silence from the Segmentum Pacificus. So powerful is the influx, so overbearing is the psychic current, that theAdeptus Astra Telepathica suffers serious personnel losses amongst their Astropaths. Whole choirs collapse at once, driven mad or slain outright, their minds bursting. Vast breakdowns in Imperial communications ensue, increasing both anarchy and panic as the endless psychic screams for help echo across time and space.
He still wasn't responsible for the event you quoted. The Messages of the Dead even was thousands of different astropathic messages for help all at the same time. It coincides with the Night of a Thousand Rebellions as this likely caused it. Plus it happened after Talos died.
What you're talking about Penguin is in Void Stalker and I'm pretty sure it was a localised effect out in Ultima Segmentum. As Ulysses says Talos died well before the the final years of the 41st millenium around the time of the early planning stages of the 13th BC.
Rebellion is rife. Desperate messages from across the galaxy echo through the Warp. Astropaths work feverishly to pull the transmissions from the Immaterium and translate them, to sift the meaning from the garble. The messages are increasingly dire: Planetary Governors send desperate pleas for aid, Imperial Guard officers call for reinforcements, fleet commanders issue ominous warnings of enemy starship movements. The forces of the Imperium fight with the valour of ancient heroes, defending humanity from within, without and beyond -- but they cannot be everywhere at once.
Notable rebellions during this time:
The lamentable campaign known as the Siege of Vraks occurs from 813-830.M41. The Apostate-Cardinal Xaphan leads the Armoury World of Vraks Prime into the service of the Ruinous Powers. As the forces of the Imperium arrive to quell the rebellion, they are immediately met in battle, followed by a rapid escalation of forces on both sides. The seventeen-year-long campaign ends in a full-scale daemonic incursion and, finally, the intervention of the Ordo Malleus and the Grey Knights. By the end, Vraks is entirely laid waste, its entire population exterminated.
In 863.M41 the Saint Cyllia Massacre occurred whrn the Adamant Fury Titan Legion betrayed the Emperor and fell to Chaos. The Traitor Titan Legion turned its guns upon Loyalist regiments of the Saint Cyllian Planetary Defence Forces before making good their escape off-world. The loss of a full Titan Legion sends ripples of concern through the Imperium and great effort is exerted to find and destroy it, particularly by the Mechanicus and its Collegia Titanica.
In 901.M41 the terrible civil conflict known as the Badab War begins when Lufgt Huron, the Chapter Master of the Astral Claws Space Marines, refuses to hand over his Chapter's tithe of gene-seed to the Administratum and instead announces his secession from the Imperium, declaring himself the Tyrant of Badab. Twelve standard years of intersystem war follow, wreaking havoc on shipping lanes in the Maelstrom Zone and embroiling more than a dozen Space Marine Chapters. With much loss, Badab Primaris finally falls to the Loyalist forces, but Lufgt Huron and some 200 of the Astral Claws escape to take refuge in the Maelstrom of the Ultima Segmentum. There, they become Chaos Space Marines and change their name to the Red Corsairs. They become dreaded pirates and raiders of Imperial commerce. Huron adopts the title of Blackheart and continues to recruit more Astartes Renegades to join his growing Chaotic empire.
In 992.999.M41, the Night of a Thousand Rebellions occurs. Uprisings and discord strike countless planets across the Imperium. Unrest races like wildfire, consuming many outlying planets, but also supposedly secure worlds like Enceladus, Darkhold, and Minisotira. Even the homeworld of the Lions Defiant Space Marine Chapter is lost to anarchy caused by secret cults and frenetic agitators. Contact is lost between Terra and large swathes of the Segmentum Pacificus.
In 993.999.M41, wave after wave of Astropathic pleas for help flood at once from all across the galaxy, though there is only an eerie silence from the Segmentum Pacificus. So powerful is the influx, so overbearing is the psychic current, that theAdeptus Astra Telepathica suffers serious personnel losses amongst their Astropaths. Whole choirs collapse at once, driven mad or slain outright, their minds bursting. Vast breakdowns in Imperial communications ensue, increasing both anarchy and panic as the endless psychic screams for help echo across time and space.
So this means the plot is going to move forward at some point?
It'll never advance......I'd love for the Imperium to finally fall and the "Eastern Imperium" survive under the stewardship of Ultramar
Would be a very interesting thing as the Heirs of Gulliman have a long history of model governorship, I think it'd be a great thing for Ultramar to inherit the Imperium
What you're talking about Penguin is in Void Stalker and I'm pretty sure it was a localised effect out in Ultima Segmentum. As Ulysses says Talos died well before the the final years of the 41st millenium around the time of the early planning stages of the 13th BC.
It'll never advance......I'd love for the Imperium to finally fall and the "Eastern Imperium" survive under the stewardship of Ultramar
Would be a very interesting thing as the Heirs of Gulliman have a long history of model governorship, I think it'd be a great thing for Ultramar to inherit the Imperium
Humanity can not live without the Emperor. The Imperium will exist in all eternity if the Emperor does. The realm of Ultramar is perhaps a model society, but still a mere drop in the ocean.
The fact is that giving power to Ultramar is giving power to the Space Marines - the one single power that is capable of overthrowing humanity and the Imperium.
Humanity can not live without the Emperor. The Imperium will exist in all eternity if the Emperor does. The realm of Ultramar is perhaps a model society, but still a mere drop in the ocean.
Humanity are survivors, mankind would survive the destruction of Terra and the "Western Imperium". You only need the Emperor to keep the Plebs in check, to keep the earth webway gate closed and to act as "lighthouse" for warp travel. Other than that he is a idol....
With the heart of the Imperium under chaos control, they'd just fight among themselves as we all know no chaos lord really has any sort of plan, they just want to please their petty idols. Plus chaos is weaker the further it is from the Eye of Terror, the threat level would not be as dire.
With the destruction of the Western half of the Imperium, the survivors would be forced to advance/progress or perish.....this would be very welcomed, a new Golden age of technology, space marine legions return out of necessity, emergency powers etc etc....
Course thats after the civil war between the traditionalists and Rationalists, I highly doubt the Ultramarines would be in the traditionalist camp being pragmatic as they are(GW would have you believe otherwise)
The Ultramarines have the sort of influence and pull to inherit the Imperium....so naturally Ultramar would be the new seat of power.
It'd be great, I'd love to see the Imperium advance, reclaim Terra...that'd be awesome
Originally Posted by Karabekian
The fact is that giving power to Ultramar is giving power to the Space Marines - the one single power that is capable of overthrowing humanity and the Imperium.
No price is too great for survival, the Imperium takes that to extremes on a daily basis, the Space marines declaring emergency powers and purging the opposition is minor compared to committing planet/system-wide genocide to deny it to the enemy
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Humanity are survivors, mankind would survive the destruction of Terra and the "Western Imperium". You only need the Emperor to keep the Plebs in check, to keep the earth webway gate closed and to act as "lighthouse" for warp travel. Other than that he is a idol....
With the heart of the Imperium under chaos control, they'd just fight among themselves as we all know no chaos lord really has any sort of plan, they just want to please their petty idols. Plus chaos is weaker the further it is from the Eye of Terror, the threat level would not be as dire.
With the destruction of the Western half of the Imperium, the survivors would be forced to advance/progress or perish.....this would be very welcomed, a new Golden age of technology, space marine legions return out of necessity, emergency powers etc etc....
Course thats after the civil war between the traditionalists and Rationalists, I highly doubt the Ultramarines would be in the traditionalist camp being pragmatic as they are(GW would have you believe otherwise)
The Ultramarines have the sort of influence and pull to inherit the Imperium....so naturally Ultramar would be the new seat of power.
It'd be great, I'd love to see the Imperium advance, reclaim Terra...that'd be awesome
No price is too great for survival, the Imperium takes that to extremes on a daily basis, the Space marines declaring emergency powers and purging the opposition is minor compared to committing planet/system-wide genocide to deny it to the enemy
I was thinking along the lines of cooperation with the Tau, after all they also have the Tyranid to worry about don't they? I don't see the problem of maintaining some measure of peace and cooperation (warning of impending attacks, share of knowledge - just imagine Space Marines + Tau tech) unless all those that do that inevitably fall to chaos?
I have no doubt the ultramarines would pursue some sort of diplomacy as they are the most experienced in terms of politics being space Romans as they are, fall of damnos demonstrated ultramarines politics very well.
the eldar and tau can be negotiated with, some orkz can be paid...everyone else is meat.
It does state in the Rulebook that the Administratum is giving control of many sectors to Space Marine Chapters as they are usually better at maintaining order and guarding them than regular Imperial Forces are.
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Originally Posted by Ulysses S. Grant
of stuff they can place behind those events alone.
