Birth
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AN: This one was actually pretty fun to write. I care deeply about the Earth and I think its fitting that it shall be the capital of the Imperium.
To Private Ripper: My name is 'Clare Prime of Ultra.' And I do not know, sorry.
To Greg: Good idea but I have never watched Elfen Lied. When I do I will probably included it. Besides, from what I know, Diclonius sound like powerful psykers so I might just have them as a class of that and not abhumans but we will see. And I'm a huge Mecha fan so you will definitely see a lot more robots.
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M29
Unknown Date.M29: End of the Age of Strife. Mankind is brought to its knees by the onset of Old Night. By this time, the raging Warp Storms began to abate. When humanity finally started to emerge from the long darkness, it was forever altered. This heralded the end to the Age of Strife. Science was no longer the answer for much of Mankind, but something to be feared.
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Late M29: The Emperor of Mankind creates His earliest known template for genetically modified warriors. These proto-Astartes, or Thunder Warriors, will help aid him in His conquest of Terra under one ruler. The Thunder Warriors were the first gene-enhanced warriors created by the Emperor and served as the precursors to the present-day Space Marines. Wrought to be living weapons, the Thunder Warriors were known to be physically stronger, more savage and more potent in combat than the later Astartes, though they were not as long-lived. It was against this background of techno-barbaric warfare that the first Space Marines were created and the first class of Space Marine Power Armour developed
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M30
M30-M31: Birth of Slaanesh & Formation of the Eye of Terror. Earliest sightings of the Doom Slayer fighting his eternal battle against demonic hordes is recorded by ships unlucky enough to be drawn into the Eye. The origins of the Doom Slayer are widely speculated and are unclear. However, no historian can deny that the Slayer has a hatred so fierce that he is willing to literally rip and tear every demon he sees until they are all dead. No one has any idea how he has remained untainted for the hundreds of years he has been fighting. Regardless of his origins, humanity has an unofficial alliance with the Slayer in the fight against the power of the Warp.
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Unknown Date.M30-798.M30: In secret, The Emperor and Empress have been planning for this moment in history for millennia, ever since the Age of Strife had fractured what remained of the ancient human federation. With Their massive army of Thunder Warriors, the Emperor and Empress began Their conquest of Terra with the intent to reunite the warring nations into a unified planetary government. They then planned to use Terra as the springboard from which to begin the reconquest of the galaxy under the aegis of an Imperium of Man dedicated to the Imperial Truth of progress and reason.
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742.M30: The underwater city, Rapture, is discovered. Horrified by the effects of the city's civil war and of Adam, the Empress brought the Thunder Warriors to slay the Adam addicted Splicers, once men now mutated by the slug into feral beasts, and capture the Big Daddies, Little and Big Sisters. All of which are unwilling victims of the Rapture's rulers. The Empress plans on giving the 'Bigs' their minds and returning the Little Sisters back to normal little girls. Knowing that completely remaking the city will take several years, the Empress leaves well thought out plans to Brigid Tenenbaum and Jack Wynand oce the Thunder Warriors have either slayed or captured most of the Adam population. She then leaves to continue the Crusade of Terra by her husband's side.
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745.M30: The last false church of Terra, the Church of the Lightning Stone, is burned down. After meeting with the last priest, an old man by the name of Uriah Olathaire, the building is raised to the ground, removing superstition and one of many gates for the Ruinous Powers from coming to Terra. This allows 'True' religions, such as the worship of the Traveler and Lord Raiden, and the Emperor's own ideology known as the 'Imperial Truth' to take root.
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750.M30: The Empress begins the Primarch project. Twenty transhuman fetus are genetically engineered using genes from both the Emperor and Empress. Of the many children the two have had over the years, these twenty are the ones to truly be called their children. These primarchs will lead entire armies during the "Great Crusade" and will be directly leading humanity according to the ideals of their family.
Later that same year, when the Primarchs are about to be born, the forces of chaos breach the hidden facility in the Himalayas, in the depths of what will later be the Imperial Palace. Despite the efforts of the Emperor's and Empress's own personal guard, the Adeptus Custodes, the Ruinous Powers are able to scatter the twenty gestation pods, each one containing a single Primarch, across human space. The Empress is grieved at the loss of Her children, and the Emperor equally so. However, He continues His duty and continues His campaign across Terra.
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751.M30: The Empress leaves Her body in a desperate bid to find and protect Her children. She guides the young Primarchs through the more difficult of their early lives. The Emperor, though heavily grieved, establishes a connection to Her body in order to find Her soul once all twenty Primarchs are found.
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752.M30: Twenty years after She left, Brigid Tenenbaum comes to the surface to inform the Emperor that the Empress's plans have borne fruit and Rapture has become the city of Trade and Science that Andrew Ryan had dreamed about. Many Big Daddies and Big Sisters have remained as they are but their minds have been recovered thanks to Dr. Tenenbaum's efforts and have been renamed as Adeptus Oceanus, whose duty is to guard the oceans of Terra and maintain the great 'Sunken City.' The Splicer population has been eradicated, but Splicers can still be born whenever a fool gets his hands on a plasmid or the red slug. No Little Sister remains, and of which have been cured and either returned to their rightful families or given to Oceanus, led by Johnny Topside and Eleanor Lamb. Saddened by the news of the fate of the Empress and her Children, Tenenbaum visits her catmose form to give her thanks and grieve the Goddess of the Sunken City. She is the first of many pilgrims from Rapture to do so.
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769.M30: The Thunder Warriors, the precursors to the Adeptus Astartes, perish in the Battle of Mount Ararat. Their leader, Arik Taranis, known as the "Lightning Bearer," raised the Banner of Lightning at the final declaration of Unity which established the rule of the Emperor and Empress of Mankind over the entirety of Terra before dying of his wounds. The banner still stands today as a monument honoring the sacrifice of the Thunder Warriors.
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778.M30: Utilising the remaining genetic material from the stolen Primarchs, the Emperor creates gene-seed and implants it into His already elite Terran soldiers. They provide the genesis of His Legiones Astartes. The 20 original Space Marine Legions are created during what becomes known as the First Founding. These Legions will play a major role in finding the lost Primarchs.
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790.M30: This early Imperial campaign was the first operation mounted by elements of the early Space Marine Legions beyond the skies of Terra while the Terran Unification Wars were still raging across the surface of Mankind's birth world. The combined force of the VII, XIII and XVI Legions lifted from the surface of Terra in a scattering of rocket flame. The as-yet unnamed XVI Legion had been chosen to serve as the Space Marine force's vanguard, and had brought its full strength to bear. In a daring surprise assault the XVI Legion launched a planetary strike while their brother Legions drew fire from Luna's defensive weapons. Within six solar hours of the first shot being fired, Luna had been pacified and brought into Imperial Compliance, the first off-world conquest of the Imperium of Man. Faced with annihilation, the surviving Selenar cultists bent the knee instead, their surrender communique transmitted to Terra calling for the Emperor to "call off His wolves". The XVI Legion thus earned their name - the Luna Wolves.
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798.M30: The Great Crusade Begins. Of all the crusades the Emperor and Imperium have raged, the Great Crusade remains the largest on record. Aside from the worlds previously settled by humanity in the better parts of history, any human civilization that is space worthy had been expanding recklessly into previously uncharted territory. At the same time, new settlements have been created by the surviving colonist ships that have scattered throughout space during the Age of Strife. The forces of the Imperium battled against both tyrants, pirates, mutants, Chaos forces, and Xenos such as the Orks, Eldar, the dreaded Necrons, and the Covenant Alliance. The Great Crusade is estimated to have covered nearly 65% of the Milky Way Galaxy and has yet to officially end.
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AN: This story is going on a temporary Hiatus, because the Great Crusade is where you will see a whole lot more of the crossovers. And I mean A LOT. Most of my Crossovers are in the Crusade. So far, it's chaos (no pun intended). I only know what crossovers are in the Great Crusade, not in what order and there is only minor connections to the Canon timeline. I need time to organize my thoughts so I can give you the next chapter.
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"Has yet to officially end" will be explained in detail in later chapters, but what I mean is that not all human worlds have been discovered in the official time frame. Not to mention the Great Crusades purpose was to reunite humanity. 65% of the galaxy, spending only a few years in each star system. Take a good look at the canon version of the Imperium. I'm going to write a chapter that's dedicated to the Emperor trying to organize the Imperium. I'm sure you all can guess how flipping long THAT is going to take. Just thinking about the mess gives me a headache. Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, as short as it was. Also, although I will mention major franchises, I am mostly focusing on works that haven't been given much credit. I will happily take recommendations but I HAVE to know the stories before I add them. I'm talking to you Greg. I will watch Elfen Lied as soon as possible.