Ancient history

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year	event	source
sometime after the birth of the universe	First apearance of life in the Milky Way galaxy. Parasitical star vampires, the first self-aware entities, appear. They fed upon stars, eventualy shortening thier existence by billions of years, disregarding the forming planets.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 24 the beginning of time
unknown	The Old Ones appear. They build the Webway, and seed and foster life on many planets. The Necrontyr appear. Evolving upon a planet orbiting a fierce star they are molded with a short life-span, a fact which haunts and pains them immensly.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 24 the Necrontyr
unknown	Necrontyr eventually find the Old Ones and, filled with envy, wage war against them. The Necrontyr are eventualy out-maneuvered by the Old Ones and exiled at the edges of the galaxy and into their own homeworld.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 24 the Necrontyr and war in heaven
unknown	Twisted by a hatred towards all life and looking for weapons to use against the Old Ones, the Necrontyr create a body for the star vampire feeding upon their own sun, creating the Nightbringer. They create more bodies for other star vampires, turning several star vampires into the C'tan, aka Yngir by the Eldar. The ever-hungry C'tan discover their ultimate delicacy: Souls. The C'tan known as the Deceiver tricks the Necrontyr with the promise of immortality and the C'tan turn all living Necrontyr into Necrons, feasting upon their souls.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 24 war in heaven, page 28 the birth of death, page 30 the betrayal of the Necrontyr
unknown	The God War begins. The Old Ones are forced to retreat into besieged bastions. The C'tan and their servants, the Necrons, dominate the Galaxy. The young races are treated like cattle by their new terrifying masters, the C'tan. Life begins to grow more and more scarce in the galaxy. The C'tan, manipulated by the Deciever, begin to slaughter and to consume each other. The desperate Old Ones influence many warlike young races like the Eldar, fostering their ability of using the energies of the Warp, the Achilles' heel of the C'tan.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 25 Necron ascendancy, page 28 an age of slaughter, page 31 war among the gods
unknown	Faced with only 4 surviving C'tan (Nightbringer, Deceiver, Void Dragon, and Outsider) the young races are able to strike back, re-claiming the galaxy. The C'tan, united since millions of years, begin their work intended to ward the material universe from the Warp dimension forever.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 26 the Old Ones strike back
60 million years BC (approx)	The Pandora's box of Warp-magic opens. Several predatory Warp-entities appear, hunting and consuming Psykers. Trying to defend their last remaining strongholds from destruction the Old Ones create the Krork (Orks) and the Jokaero, but it is simply too little, too late. First among the warp-denizens, the Enslavers appear in a locust-like fashion.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 26 Apocalypse looms
60 million years BC (approx)	Faced with a rapidly diminishing food-supply because of the Enslavers and the counter-offensives of the young races, the C'tan entomb themselves in 4 different planets, who are devoid of all life to avoid the appearance of the Enslavers. Other planets also harbor their Necron armies. Their plan is re-appear when the galaxy is full of life again to 'harvest it' anew. Nightbringer, en route to the planet Pavonis, is ambushed by a combined armada of the young races, who were tipped off by the Deceiver. He manages to reach his tomb, losing important assets however. The Deceiver is last C'tan to entomb himself.	prologue of the novel Nightbringer, Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 26 the C'tan entombed, page 31 war amongst the gods
unknown	Many minor creations of the Old Ones survive and slowly evolve on their own. Amongst them comical tree-beasts, who will slowly evolve into Humanity. Perhaps because of compassion, or simply reluctant to extinguish another life-form, the Eldar decline to wipe these Mon-keigh out. Known to almost no one, future Humanity will produce Untouchables (rate: less than 1 in a 1,000,000,000; a billion) because of ancient DNA manipulations of the Devoured Ones (Necrons?). All surviving and future races are imprinted with a fear of death because of the slaughters and powers of the Nightbringer, with the sole exception of the Orks.	Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition) page 28 an age of slaughter, page 9 shadow games, Codex: Assassins (2nd Edition), page 20
8000 BC	Birth of the Emperor in central Anatolia.	Realms of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned
8000 BC- 1400 AD	Birth of Khorne, Tzeentch and Nurgle (Chaos Gods).
8000 BC- 1400 AD	Eldar learn many secrets of the Webway from the Slann. Old Slann culture dies out. Slann warn Eldar of their own fall.

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