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Emperor's Children Timeline

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The following is a list of known events in the history of the Emperor's Children.

Year Event Description Notes on Dating Source(s)
Unification Wars
ca. 750.M30 The Primarch Project The Emperor of Mankind combines advanced Martian genetic engineering with the warpcraft he learned from the Chaos Gods to create the Primarchs and the gene-seed prototypes. The Chaos Gods steal the gestating primarchs from the Emperor's laboratory deep beneath Terra and scatter them across the galaxy. "Over two hundred years" before Davin. [2][3]
ca. 780.M30 The Emperor's geneticists refine the creation of the gene-seed that will allow him to create the Space Marine Legions. [2]
ca. 780.M30 The First Founding The Emperor uses DNA samples from the Primarchs to create twenty Space Marine Legions. Grabya's Theorem demonstrates how Primarch genetic data could be used to stabilize genetic development of Space Marines. Sorian's Inductus Excelsus shows requirements for more warriors is vast. Accelerated gene-culturing techniques implemented, reducing processing time to create Space Marine to one year. However, accelerated gene-seed has unseen fundamental flaws. "Most of the flaws in gene-seed structure will be written out in the course of the coming decades." [4]
???.M30 The Antartic Clearance The III Legion leads Imperial Army Group Antilles to victory. [1]
???.M30 The Capture of Nadarin The III Legion leads the Bronze Host to victory. [1]
???.M30 The Fifth Raising of Jove-Sat II [1]
The Great Crusade
798.M30 The Great Crusade Warp-dilated horologs state that the Great Crusade begins around this time. [5]
ca. 829.M30 The Proxima Betrayal An insurrectionist cell attacks the compliance ceremony on Proxima. The Legio Custodes and Astartes of the XVI Cohort of the III Legion defend the Emperor of Mankind, giving their lives so he can get to safety. In recognition of their sacrifice, the Emperor grants the III Legion the right to bear the Palatine Aquila in their heraldry and the right to invoke Exterminatus on Proxima. [1]
ca. 830.M30 The III Legion's gene-seed reserves fail to arrive at the vaults on Luna and an artificial pathogen obliterates several gene-seed vaults on Terra, sealing the fate of the Legion. In the "fourth decade of the Crusade," the "early decades of the III Legion's existence," and "Coming within a solar year" of Proxima. [1]
???.??? Rediscovery of Fulgrim The Emperor comes to Chemos and recruits Fulgrim to lead the III Legion, the 5th Primarch to be found. After Fulgrim addresses the two hundred surviving Astartes, the Emperor accepts the name he had given them, the Emperor's Children. Fifty years after his arrival on Chemos. [1]
840.M30 The Pride of the Emperor's keel is laid down in the Jupiter shipyards. 160 years before Laeran. [6]
???.M30 The Emperor, Lorgar, Ferrus Manus, Rogal Dorn, Fulgrim, and representatives of their legions and the Ultramarines come to Nostramo and recruit Konrad Curze to lead the Night Lords Legion. [7][8]

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