Calixis Sector Timeline

Please note that the record of the events in the Calixis Sector's history outlined
here is by no means complete or exhaustive and offers only a snapshot of the
unfolding chronicle of the Calixis Sector, as it might be made known to the
Acolytes of the Inquisition. Much of the true nature of events, as well as vital
occurrences of dire import, remain hidden. A few of the major events in the
Imperium of Man's history have also been included to establish a wider context
for a consideration of Calixian events.
 Great Crusade (Late 30th - Early 31st Millennium) - The Emperor of
Mankind's Great Crusade seeks to reunite all of the Human-settled colony
worlds in the galaxy dating back to the Age of Technology under the rule of
the newborn Imperium of Man.
 Horus Heresy (Early 31st Millennium) - The Warmaster Horus,
Primarch of the Sons of Horus Space Marine Legion, is corrupted by Chaos
and his own ambition and rebels against his father, the Emperor. He
successfully recruits half of the Space Marine Legions, large parts of the
Adeptus Mechanicus and the Imperial Army into the service of Chaos and
unleashes a 7-year-long galactic civil war that kills billions. Horus is slain
by the Emperor at the conclusion of the Battle of Terra. Mortally wounded
himself in the confrontation, the Emperor is interred within the Golden
Throne. The present Age of the Imperium begins.
 Age of Apostasy (100-600.M36) - The Imperium is consumed by civil
war and apostasy from true faith in the Emperor after the High Lord Goge
Vandire seizes control of both the Administratum and the Ecclesiarchy in
an attempt to impose his own will upon the Imperium rather than serving
the will of the Emperor. He is ultimately brought down by an invasion of
Terra known as the Terran Crusade and the Ecclesiarchical Palace led by
the Space Marines, the Imperial Guard and his own bodyguards, the
Daughters of the Emperor, the predecessors of the Adepta Sororitas. The
invasion is spurred on and guided by a militant religious reformer, the
priest Sebastian Thor, and his Covenant of Light.
 War of Assassins (228.M36)
 Reign of Blood Ends (378.M36) - The Age of Apostasy's Reign of Blood
finally ends in the death of Goge Vandire at the hands of the Daughters of
the Emperor as Terra comes under invasion from Loyalist forces seeking to
restore the rightful rule of the Emperor.
 Haarlock Charter (395.M36) - The Haarlock Great Charter is granted by
the new reforming Ecclesiarch, Sebastian Thor, to the Free Captain
Mordercai Haarlock for his service against the Apostate fleets of the
Ecclesiarchy's private army and navy, the Frateris Templar.
 The Great Voyage (723-736.M36) - Solomon Haarlock's fleet
undertakes a perilous 13-year-long voyage and charts a volume of space
beyond the Imperium's borders he dubbed the "Calyx Expanse." Haarlock
discovers several formerly unknown xenos realms, substantial mineral
resources, several stable Warp paths and scattered human-settled worlds
of unknown provenance. He also notes several worlds that he deems to
 mark out the territory of an ancient and long-dead alien civilisation, aeons
old, and names their former realm a "Chalice of Great and Ancient
Wickedness." He notes the area in the Imperial Cartographia Universalis as
rich in "souls, plunder, wealth and things best left undisturbed," and a
region that could be added to the Imperium only with a "great effusion of
blood."
 World of Sinophia Founded (133.M37) - The world of Sinophia is
granted by the High Lords of Terra as the personal fiefdom of the Rogue
Trader Teresa Sinos at the end of her voyages as a reward for her service
to the Imperium. The planet is situated beyond the edge of the Scarus
Sector and rapidly becomes a staging post for expeditions into the frontier
of the Calyx Expanse and the Halo Stars beyond.
 Age of Plunder (Various Dates.M37-M39) - The stories brought back
from the Calyx Expanse of wealth, xenos artefacts and resource-rich, life-
sustaining worlds draw numerous Imperial Free Captains, Rogue Traders
and Renegades to the region from across the already-settled Scarus and
Ixaniad Sectors. Darker tales surface as well of inhuman empires, horrific
xenos "Mind Eaters," Chaos-worshiping savages who were once men, the
dark perils of the limitless "Abyss of Ha'az'Roth" and of a baleful black star
that presages disaster. But enough plunder flows into Imperial coffers to
keep a steady stream of adventurers, rogues and Explorators entering the
Expanse. Many never to return.
 Altid Crusade (290-299.M38)
 Meratis Settlement (mid-M38) - Isolationist voider families fleeing
persecution in the dynastic wars of the Ixaniad Sector settle the Meratis
Cluster in the stellar dead zone between the abyss and their former home.
In time their numbers are swollen by human Renegades, outlaws and
worse, forming the Meritech Clans.
 Ymgarl Moons Cleansed of Genestealers (038.M39) - The
Salamanders Chapter of Space Marines cleanses the moons of Ymgarl of
the strain of Genestealers long found in that region of the galaxy. The
purge is not successful and Ymgarl Genestealers will continue to plague
the Imperium in the centuries to come.
 The Angevin Crusade Begins (322.M39) - Praetor Golgenna Angevin, a
powerful noble from the Terran Court, is raised to the rank of Lord Militant
in the Imperial Guard and granted a writ from the High Lords of Terra to
persecute an Imperial Crusade to liberate and dominate the area of space
designated as the Calyx Expanse. His Crusade's forces are drawn
principally from the Segmentum Solar and number over 17 million levied
troops who are divided into 4 battle groups and a strategic reserve, re-
enforced by elements of the Titan Legios Venator and Magna, as well as
the Black Templars, Tigers Argent, Sons of Medusa and Charnel Guard
Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes and a significant naval deployment
drawn from the Battlefleets Solar and Obscurus. A score of Rogue Trader
and Explorator fleets range ahead of the main Imperial forces, identifying
targets and providing active reconnaissance in this dangerous region of
space. Swelling the force's already vast ranks are tens of thousands of
 “pauper warriors” of the Frateris Militia whipped up into a frenzy of holy
zeal by the Ecclesiarchy and innumerable petty hangers-on, opportunists
and logistical transports, with supply trains leading back whole sectors
away from the front. Using the well-established Frontier World of Sinophia
as its forward staging post and marker, the Crusade’s main thrust is
launched like an armoured fist into the heart of the Calyx Expanse across
the Periphery in a two-pronged assault directed towards two prominent
star systems where Rogue Traders had long-established pro-Imperial
human contact: Malfi and Solomon.
 Reaping of the Emperor's Wrath (341-545.M39) - Having strongly
established and fortified two salients of conquered Imperial territory into
the Calyx Expanse, with their domains now anchored on the worlds of
Solomon and Malfi, as well as defeated three minor xenos empires and
innumerable other non-compliant forces in the prior twenty years of
fighting, the Angevin Crusade pauses for fortification and entrenchment of
its gains before the next stage of conquests begins. The Crusade is then
granted a fresh influx of troops by the High Lords of Terra in recognition of
its success (and the wealth already pouring into Imperial coffers from their
conquests), in order to press on. Seizing the moment, the Crusade forces
carry out the greatest single sweep of conquests in the conflict as the two-
pronged assault from the salient's arms sweep together conquering as
many worlds in the pace of four years as had been taken in the proceeding
two decades. These conquests form the territory later known as the
Golgenna Reach sub-sector in a campaign that is called by Imperial
chroniclers the “Reaping of the Emperor’s Wrath.” Of the many famous
victories of this campaign, one of the most lauded belongs to the young
General Drusus, who took the War World of Iocanthos in a single week,
overthrowing a great and baleful tyranny there, while perhaps the most
infamous is the Exterminatus of the world of Amun’an Morrus, whose once-
human population of intelligent machines is judged too tainted by tech-
heresy to continue to exist. Such horrors are attested to on this world that
after its destruction its former location is stricken from all Imperial records,
only to live on as a dark Calixian legend.
 Golgenna Consolidation (353-558.M39) - With the first and second
great phases of its vast operation complete, (and partly owing to battle
fatigue after 30 standard years of Crusade), Lord Militant Angevin’s forces
consolidated their hold of what was more than 200 captured worlds, and
shepherded the arrival of the first wave of Imperial colonisation to the
areas they controlled. During this period of relative peace, several notable
regiments of the Imperial Guard who had earned great glory in the
campaign (such as the Brontine Centurions) were given rights of
settlement to their own worlds, while several attached forces (like the
elements provided by the various Astartes Chapters) rotated out of the
crusade's service.
 Angevin Crusade Second Front is Opened (359.M39) - The Angevin
Crusade’s third great push begins with a freshly raised army group
gathered from the core worlds of the Segmentum Obscurus, under the
command of the Imperial Navy's High Admiral Vaakkon who opens a
second front. The new army group to enter the Crusade assaulted the
 Calyx Expanse from the Segmentum's coreward regions, with the goal of
linking up with Angevin’s own forces who advanced from Golgenna to meet
them. This phase of the campaign proves disastrous, as worsening
conditions in the Warp and a series of calamities and reversals beset the
Imperial forces, and when the fleets finally meet in 363.M39 at the world of
Orendal the Imperial losses of the last four years nearly equal that of the
first two decades of the Crusade. Angevin commands the world of Orendal
be transformed into a shrine to honour the fallen dead and then he orders
a retreat. Some say that after this time Angevin is a man broken in will and
purpose. The Crusade's forces withdraw to the interior of the Golgenna
Reach, and Angevin devolves command of his armies to his senior generals
and admirals with mixed success, as with no clear line of authority
factionalism and bitter rivalries start to appear in the ranks of the Crusade.
 The Bleak Years (363-369.M39) - With the Angevin Crusade’s forward
impetus stalled, its domains begin to come under repeated and sustained
attack from without, weathering the storms of an Ork WAAAGH!, and the
privations of xenos corsairs and raiders whose assaults claim the lives of
millions. Signs and omens are everywhere; a burning black fire is seen in
the skies of the world of Lossal Prime days before all contact with the
thriving Imperial colony world is lost, the wreckage of an entire overdue re-
enforcement battle group out of Akurion is discovered by piquet ships
operating on the fringes of the Ha’az’Roth region and plagues decimate
the worlds of the Malfian Holdfast. Rebellions and cult activity rise to
threaten what were thought to be stable worlds and assassins claim the
life of Arch-Confessor Melcher El, the Crusade’s spiritual leader and
Ecclesiarchy adviser. Worsening political rivalries between the Crusade's
generals and Imperial Commanders break out into petty conflicts.
Betrayals and a wave of outright distrust between the Crusade's leaders
allow matters to deteriorate further. For the first time the Crusade’s gains
begin to be lost, and the Imperial forces are stretched increasingly thin in
their defence of the new realm. Morale problems and discord grow in the
ranks. Only the fleets of the Rogue Traders Sibylline Haarlock and Ludd
Sabrehagen provide the rapid transport and redeployment needed to
support the brilliant and daring counterattacks of General Drusus’ army
group against the Warp-worshiping xenos race known as the Yu’vath and
their debased human allies which prevent the entire Malfian region from
collapsing and leaving the Crusade’s conquests wide open for assault.
Drusus is widely acclaimed as a saviour but many powerful figures in the
Crusade view him as a dangerous warmonger, rival and would-be usurper.
 Transfiguration of Drusus (367.M39) - According to some sources,
betrayed by agents of his rivals among Lord Militant Angevin’s generals,
Drusus is attacked by a deadly assassin whilst rallying his depleted forces
on the world of Maccabeus Quintus and is seemingly slain, before rising
again -- an event many see as a true miracle and a clear mark of the
Emperor’s favour. The Drusine sect of the Imperial Cult begins to flourish in
his shadow, already revering him as a living saint, while shadowy agencies,
some say belonging to the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition, also bring new
aid to his forces in the persecution of the Yu’vath and their human allies
(which include traitors within the Imperial’s own ranks). Almost by sheer
 force of personality and by independently rallying much of the Crusade’s
forces to his own banner with tacit backing from the wider Imperial powers
(including the involvement of a sizable force from the Iron Hands Astartes
Chapter), Drusus orders the launch of the Angevin Crusade’s third and final
phase of conquests. This campaign succeeded in destroying the powers
that controlled much of what would later be known as the Drusus Marches
sub-sector in General Drusus' honour, laying waste to as many worlds as
he dominated.
 Great Founding (370-610.M39) - Mass colonial expeditions from the
overpopulated worlds of the distant Segmentum Solar, and from nearer
afield in the troubled Mandragora and Gehenna Sectors arrive within the
fledgling Calixis Sector, creating a great influx of human population to the
region.
 Death of Golgenna Angevin (372.M39) - Lord Militant Golgenna
Angevin dies at his palace on the world of Quaddis. Though the official
cause of death is listed as natural causes, rumours lay his decline in health
on advanced old age and a surfeit of fine living. Darker stories persist of
the Officio Assassinorum's hand in matters as punishment for his later
failings in the prosecution of the Angevin Crusade. Drusus is named Lord
Militant by wide acclaim in Angevin's stead (with the political support of
both the Departmento Munitorum and the Inquisition) and as soon as a
state period of mourning for the late Angevin is over, Drusus immediately
sets to re-forging the region's military forces for a final counterattack into
the regions of the Adrantis Nebula and the remaining strongholds of the
Yu’vath Hell Worlds.
 Grant of The Lathes (380.M39) - In recognition of their invaluable
assistance and heavy losses in the purging of the taint of the Adrantians,
as well as their service to the Angevin Crusade in decades past, Drusus
grants the Lathe System to be the sole domain of the Adeptus Mechanicus
in perpetuity, and ratifies their claims to several other worlds and rights of
free and unchecked passage through the stars the Crusade has conquered.
By this act, the Lords of Mars were bound in strength both to the fledgling
sector and to Drusus' own banner.
 Angevin Crusade Officially Ends; Birth of the Calixis Sector
(384.M39) - With the final defeat of the xenos known as the Yu'vath and
the Bale Childer, and the Exterminatus of their homeworlds, the final
serious organised resistance to Imperial rule in the Calyx Expanse ends
and Drusus declares the Angevin Crusade to be complete. Drusus is
installed with full rights and title by the Equerry Primaris of the High Lords
of Terra as the first Lord Sector Calixis to much acclaim. Amongst his first
acts are the confirming of the world of Scintilla as his sector capital, the
ratification of the great trade charters for the new sector's mercantile
shipmasters and rising commercial powers that had maintained the
crusade. This binds the sector's life blood of trade and creates what would
become the great Chartist families and first great Calixian noble houses.
His other achievements include the creation of the sector's great legal
code, the Corpus Presidium Calixis and the instillation of a Calixian branch
of the Holy Synod of the Adeptus Ministorum at the hive city of Tarsus on
 Scintilla. The full effective pacification of the sector will continue to
consume much blood and treasure of the Imperial war machine for a
further three Terran centuries to come.
 Death of Drusus (417.M39) - The first and greatest Lord Sector Calixis
dies and is succeeded by Marshal Corin Shultus, his former aide-de-camp
and distant kinsmen to the late Golgenna Angevin. The final resting pace
of Drusus' mortal remains is kept a secret, although rumours circulate that
he was taken back to Maccabeus Quintus to be interred at the site of his
first "death." Mass lamentation and political unrest accompany the news of
his passing and the entire sector undergoes a seven-standard-year cycle of
mourning.
 Beatification of Saint Drusus (502.M39) - After nearly a standard
century of deliberation the Adeptus Ministorum's General Synod of Terra
confers sainthood on Drusus, whose cult and dogma had already flourished
within the Calixis Sector and become a dominating factor in the local
Calixian sect of the Imperial Cult.
 War of Hubris (550-760.M39) - The independent world of Sinophia
fights a covert trade war with the burgeoning commercial powers of the
newborn Calixis Sector and is laid low. As a result, in the years that follow,
much of its population is repatriated to the sector itself, its hive cities
emptying and commerce fleeing. Sinophia now retains but a shadow of its
former prominence and grandeur, nominally passing under the writ of the
Lord Sector Calixis, and condemned to a long, slow economic starvation.
 The Donionian Crusade (989.M39)
 The Threefold Curse (123.M40) - Two heavily defended Battlefleet
Calixis watch-stations and a sizable capital ship taskforce, lead by the
grand cruiser Fire of Heaven, are destroyed by unknown assailants in the
outer reaches of the Hazeroth Abyss, forcing an Imperial retrenchment,
effectively shrinking the border of the sector and ending further military
expansion in the region. The only clue to the cause is found carved on a
bulkhead in the hulk of the watch-station Sentry-17, which reads, "The
worms that walk have come for us all."
 Macharian Crusade (387-401.M40) - The Lord Solar Macharius launches
a massive Imperial Crusade into the unexplored regions of the galaxy that
marks the largest expansion of Imperial territory since the Great Crusade 9
millennia before.
 The White Sorrows (552-570.M40) - Drukhari corsairs of the Kabal of
the White Sorrow plague the area of space known as the Periphery with a
devastating series of raids. The corsairs are shattered and their threat
ended at last when confronted and brought to battle by a force consisting
of Battlefleet Calixis, Explorator and Rogue Trader forces (aided it is
rumoured by unknown xenos forces) under the overall command of the
Rogue Trader Kobras Aquairre. The battle turns when Aquairre's flagship,
The Son of Seth, successfully rams and boards the corsair flagship Altar of
Torment, Kobras himself slaying the enemy's Butcher Archon in single
combat.
 Tanis Incident (709.M40) - The thriving Hive World of Tanis and its
surrounding star system, which had been an outer bulwark of the Calixis
Sector's power in the Hazeroth sub-sector, is visited by an unexplained
stellar phenomena in the shape of a baleful black "Tyrant Star" that
presages destruction, madness and death. Within a period of solar weeks,
the Tanis System is ravaged, resulting in over two billion dead or missing.
Survivors are only found on the Agri-moon of St. Astrid's Fall, which itself is
badly ravaged. The "Tanis Incident" is covered up with full Inquisitorial
authority and declared a forbidden subject on pain of death. Civil data is
adjusted accordingly so that Tanis never existed in the public records of the
sector. This event, taken with a long and erratic slew of other dark
mysteries and a rising weight of deadly prophesy, leads to the formation of
the current incarnation of the Inquisition's Tyrantine Cabal to investigate
the matter and take whatever action is necessary to combat what is now
classified as the phenomena of the Hereticus Tenebrae.
 The 26th Space Marine Founding (738.M40)
 War of Brass (738-741.M40) - The Hive Worlds of the Gelmiro Cluster
fall into sedition against the Imperium, following the charismatic leadership
of a figure calling himself the "Emperor of Brass," debasing themselves
into the worship of the Ruinous Powers. Heavily militarised, the Renegades
quickly sponsor and arm rebel groups on nearby worlds and when counter-
attacked, reveal the hand of dark forces from the Eye of Terror in their
ranks. The so-called "War of Brass" that followed was comparably brief but
bloody, involving forces drawn from across the sector, and the involvement
of the Adeptus Astartes and the Titans of the Legio Venator, it rendered the
once thriving worlds of Gelmiro blasted, rubble-strewn rocks. Classified as
War Worlds and the haunt of murderous scav-mutants, Renegades and
wreckers ever since, the Gelmiro System is still a shunned no-man's land
to this day.
 The Second Vortigern Crusade (740-745.M40)
 Mara Colonised (098.M41) - The ancient, frozen world of Mara in the
Hazeroth Abyss sub-sector is colonised as Imperial miners explore the
world's icy depths for rare and unique trace elements of great strategic
and economic value.
 The Birth of Ateanism (103.M41) - 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.
 The Dark Heresy (126.M41) - 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.
 Gothic War (143-160.M41) - The 12th Black Crusade, better known as
the Gothic War, consumes the Gothic Sector.
 Mara Isolated (191.M41) - 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.
 Meritech Wars (211-226.M41) - The clans of the Merates Cluster
located between the Calixis and Ixaniad Sectors secede from the
Imperium, rallying many Renegade factions to their cause, raiding deep
into the sector and causing widespread disruption and anarchy. The
Meritech 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.
 The Seventeen Holy Martyrs (385.M41) - 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.
 Tyrant Star Appears (389.M41) - The Asteroth Mining Colony in the
Drusus Marches sub-sector 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.
 First Siege of Vaxanide (410-412.M41) - 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 ships of Battlefleet Calixis, one
sizable splinter force landing on the world of Ganf Magna.
 Fall of the Tellurian Combine (428-430.M41) - 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.
 Reign of Terror on Malfi (428-479.M41) - 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.
 First War for Armageddon (474.M41) - The First War for Armageddon
unfolds on that crucial Hive World in the Segmentum Solar.
 Bloody Solstice on Malfi (499.M41) - 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.
 Tyrant Star Appears (503.M41) - Snowden's World suffers a visitation
by the Tyrant Star leading to twenty days of riots and a mass famine that
decimates the population.
 Second Siege of Vaxanide (507.M41) - 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.
 Devayne Incorporation (560.M41) - 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.
 Recovery of the Lucid Court (609.M41) - 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.
 Fall Narrow Incursion (623.M41) - The Fall Narrow mining outpost on 88
Tanstar is revealed to been secretly dominated by the Cryptos xenoform.
 Corinth Crusade (689.M41)
 Haarlock Vanishes (703.M41) - 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.
 Sutters Rock Outbreak (724.M41) - 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 solar hours. The virus is an unnatural Warp-contagion linked to the foul
Nurglite Daemon-cult known as the Vile Savants.
 Ascension of Marius Hax (731.M41) - The iron-handed Marius Hax
becomes Lord Sector Calixis, after effectively ruling as the power behind
the throne for several prior solar 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.
 The Manchenko Purge (740.M41) - 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.
 Damocles Gulf Crusade (742.M41) - The Damocles Gulf Crusade, also
called the Damocles Crusade, was the first military conflict fought between
the Imperium of Man and the rapidly expanding T'au Empire in the Lithesh
Sector of the Ultima Segmentum in the galaxy's Eastern Fringes during the
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 T'au sought to begin diplomatic
negotiations with the Imperium to show Humanity the benefits to be had
by accepting the Greater Good. Members of the T'au Water Caste had
established trade agreements with Imperial worlds on the frontier of the
T'au 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 Terran century later, the Damocles Crusade
smashed into T'au space, destroying several outlying settlements and
pushing deep into the T'au Empire. When the Imperial fleet reached the
T'au Sept World of Dal'yth Prime, however, the crusade ground to a bloody
stalemate as the formidable numbers and high technology of the T'au and
their Kroot allies thwarted every attempt to capture the world or its star
system. Many solar 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 T'au Water Caste for peace talks. The
negotiations were successful and the Imperial fleet withdrew from T'au
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.
 A Pattern Revealed (742.M41) - The Tyrantine Cabal conclusively
identifies the "Calixian Pattern Killings" going back at least eleven hundred
Terran years.
 The Tyrant Star Appears (742.M41) - The Tyrant Star is sighted by
Explorator vessels in the area of the Death World of Vigil.
 Malygrisian Tech-Heresy (742-770.M41) - The militant Explorator
Archmagos, Umbra Malygris, goes Renegade after clashing with the High
Fabricator of the Lathe Worlds, 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.
 Ice Station Mara (743.M41) - An Imperial mining penitentiary outpost is
re-established on the deserted Ice World of Mara in the Hazeroth Abyss.
 First Tyrannic War Begins (745.M41) - 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 by the
Ultramarines.
 The Tyrant Star Appears (748.M41) - Plagues and an epidemic of
madness grips the feral World of Endrite.
 Sabbat Worlds Crusade Begins (756.M41) - 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.
 Mara Abandoned (768.M41) - 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.
 Treachery of Nephthys (777.M41) - 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.
 Margin Crusade is Launched (784.M41) - 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
Margin Crusade is believed by most in the Imperium to still be grinding on
with a great loss of blood and treasure. In truth, the Imperium lost contact
with the Margin Crusade as early as 788.M41 and the crusade is believed
by the Inquisition to have failed, the forces dedicated to its completion lost
in their entirety. However, the Imperium continues to maintain the fiction
of the Margin Crusade's existence, using it as an excuse to raise ever
larger tithes of troops and war machines which are then diverted to the
Achilus Crusade in the Jericho Reach, which has also faced setbacks.
 Astral Knives Cult declared Heretical (792.M41) - 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.
 Doom of the Ardent Seeker (799.M41) - 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.
 Tyrant Star Appears (807.M41) - Zillman’s Domain suffers a visitation
from the Tyrant Star.
 Tranch Insurrection (807.M41) - 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.
 “Dance of the Dead” on Kalf (808.M41) - 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.
 The Vervilix Disaster (810.M41) - 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
casualties ensue and the remaining survivors are taken into Inquisitorial
custody.
  Reef Stars Crusade Begins (811.M41)
 Red Vaults of Luggnam (811.M41) - 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-standard-year-long planet-wide
witch-hunt to weed out recidivist elements.
 Disappearance of Inquisitor Layran (812.M41) - 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.
 Opening of the Spinward Front (814.M41) - WAAAGH! Grimtoof, the
Ork WAAAGH! under the control of the Ork Warlord Ghenghiz Grimtoof,
slams into the Periphery Sub-sector of the Calixis Sector in 814.M41. The
massive Ork assault forced the Sub-sector Governor Duke Severus XIII to
request aid from the Sector Governor Marius Hax, who mobilised the
Calixis Sector's military reserves to meet the Greenskin invasion. Even as
the forces of the Imperial Guard poured into what the Departmento
Munitorum soon designated as the Spinward Front under the command of
Lord General Ghanzorik of the Maccabian Janissaries, Severus XIII used the
chaos caused by the invasion to secede from the Imperium, creating the
independent pocket empire in the Periphery known as the Severan
Dominate. At present, a three-way war is underway in the Spinward Front
between the forces of the Imperium, the Severan Dominate and the Ork
WAAAGH!
 The Time of Heroes (815.M41) - 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 Ordos Calixis of the Inquisition.
AD
The Tyrant Star
The Calixis Sector is beset by many threats, but few of them are as obvious as
rampaging aliens or widespread rebellion. Perhaps the most troubling is the
prophecy of the Tyrant Star, the horrific harbinger of ruin and desolation, the
spectral sun which consumes light, hope and sanity. This prophecy is known as
the Propheticum Hereticus Tenebrae ("the black doctrine" or "the shadow heresy"
in High Gothic) by the Inquisitors of the Calixis Sector. Reports of the conflict,
destruction and psychic cataclysm that accompany apparitions of the black sun
are often suppressed, in case disorder and fear overtake entire worlds.
The Tyrant Star, also known as Komus, is an uncategorised stellar anomaly that
appears as a black dwarf star whose arrival in the sky of a world is seen as an
imminent herald of catastrophe, while the existence of the Tyrant Star is itself
part of a wider prophecy called the Hereticus Tenebrae that is of great interest to
the Imperial Inquisition. Unraveling this prophecy and the role of the Tyrant Star
may be crucial to preventing a cataclysm that will consume not only the worlds of
the Calixis Sector but perhaps the entire Imperium of Man.
The baleful Tyrant Star casts an ill light upon the Calixis Sector and nowhere
seems immune from its influence. Cults and seditionist groups fester in its
underhives and moral corruption gnaws away at the Calixian nobility, which holds
much of the power on the sector's scattered worlds. Conflicts brew between the
Imperial adepta and the great noble families who trace their lineage to the times
before Lord Militant Golgenna Angevin's conquests. Mysteries abound, for the
Calixis Sector was quite evidently occupied by more than one long-vanished
civilisation in the past. The previous inhabitants of this province of the galaxy
have left their indelible traces behind them. Certainly, many Inquisitors of the
Calixian Conclave fervently hope that the spectral sun is a legacy of aliens long
since gone to dust, for the alternatives have implications that are unspeakable.
Komus is described in a doom-laden vision which speaks in apocalyptic terms of a
"darkness" that will engulf the worlds of Humanity and ultimately devour Human
civilisation. The engulfing darkness will be preceded by signs and portents, so-
called "herald events," that will gradually transmute Human minds and make
them ready to embrace the darkness. Many believe this to be an obvious allusion
to a rising of Chaos and the Warp, though this explanation is far from universally
agreed.
There are many considerable threats in the galaxy. The prophecy could as much
apply to the Tyranids (scholars note a repeated use of the word "devour" in the
prophecy text) or the Aeldari as to the Warp. However, given the Warp's manifest
ability to uncreate and mutate reality, much weight is given to this idea by the
Tyrantine Cabal of the Inquisition in the sector. The actual text of the prophecy is
secured in the archives of the Bastion Serpentis on Scintilla's moon of Lachesis,
and Inquisitor Lord Anton Zerbe, the leader of the Tyrantine Cabal, only allows a
very favoured few to examine the complete transcript.
In speaking of the herald events, the Propheticum Hereticus Tenebrae, as the
manuscript is called, makes many references to "Komus" or the "Tyrant Star."
Komus is said to be the harbinger, a portent of the encroaching darkness. It is
said to be a "black sun" or a "halo of black flame." This preternatural harbinger is
represented by an unholy rune, best described as a clawed bird's foot. The rune
has resisted specific translation and no previous occurrence of it has yet been
found.
Zerbe believes it can be no coincidence that the Calixis Sector is fraught with a
curious, recurring phenomena: that of the "Spectral Sun." From time to time -- no
specific interval period has been identified -- a monstrous "black sun" matching
the prophetic descriptions has mysteriously appeared in various locations
throughout the sector.
No two appearances have been quite the same but the pattern of visitation is
usually this: with little warning, a ghostly star apparently emitting black flames
and esoteric, unknown radiations, spontaneously materialises in a planetary
system, shines malevolently for a few solar days, and then, just as mysteriously,
vanishes without trace. The visitation is accompanied by psychic disturbances,
geological upheaval and sociological problems, including mass rioting and unrest.
Most often, the Spectral Sun actually eclipses a system's natural star, as if
possessing it, causing consternation and panic on the orbiting worlds as their sun
goes black. However, the Spectral Sun has also on occasion appeared less
directly -- a strangely bright star at night, a phantom corona around a moon --
before disappearing.
No astronomer has successfully explained the eerie phenomenon. It belies
Human science and has thus far evaded close investigation. Its visitations cannot
be predicted. The Tyrantine Cabal believes that the Spectral Sun phenomenon is
the Tyrant Star, Komus, as it so closely matches various descriptions in the
prophecy. Some suggest the Tyrant Star is the ghost image of some stellar body
in the Immaterium, shining through the worn fabric of space. Others say it is a
mirror image, a Warpspace star that is partially translating into realspace, trying
to find a way through. Yet others claim that the Tyrant Star is an artificial body,
driven by xenos engines and mechanisms Mankind cannot comprehend.
Whatever the truth, the phenomenon is a fact. It has manifested eighteen times
in the Calixis Sector during the last standard century (8th century of the 41st
Millennium). Every single visitation has caused public unrest and geological
instability. Where the Tyrant Star appears, earthquakes and volcanic upsurges
follow. A world will experience a violent period of upset and revolution prior to its
appearance. Many more psykers than usual will be born or become
spontaneously active. Mutation will occur. These things will usually take place in
the two or three solar months leading up to a manifestation.
Signs and portents will be widespread: these generally are a matter of
birthmarks, odd runic sigils appearing upon walls without explanation and the
rise of fanatical Chaos Cults. Some sources also describe premonitory half-
sightings, fleeting glimpses of the black-flamed sun in mirrors, pools, puddles or
even on the surface of wine or water in drinking vessels.
Mass panic and insanity precede a visitation of the Tyrant Star. No one has been
able to explain how it appears and covers a system's natural star with its noxious
black smoke. Sometimes, disorder and civil unrest lead to nothing and, for all the
portents and cues, the Tyrant Star never actually appears, though this may be
because it has manifested in a way that is hard to detect. On at least two
recorded occasions, the Tyrant Star has appeared merely as a distant star above
a world, no larger than a morning star, instead of eclipsing the local sun.
The Tyrantine Cabal believes it is a vital part of its work in the Calixis Sector to
trace and investigate these visitations, and to actually be on site to witness a
manifestation. Inquisitor Lord Zerbe hopes that important data may be gathered
during a genuine sighting. In the sector at large, the visitations are a matter of
myth and rumour. The Inquisition has carefully suppressed any official
confirmation of the phenomenon.