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part 2
|60 years before 63-19
|[[Davin]]
|The Luna Wolves and [[Word Bearers]] Legions bring [[Sixty-Three Eight]], or Davin, of the Davin [[system]], into compliance. [[Chaplain]] [[Erebus]] of the Word Bearers introduces the Davinite practice of Warrior Lodges to the Luna Wolves. [[Eugen Temba]] is made [[Governor]] of the Davin system, whilst final pacification is left to [[Kor Phaeron]] to implement. At some point not much later, after the 63rd moves on from the system, Temba and his forces are corrupted by the [[Chaos]] power [[Nurgle]].
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|[[Dahinta]]
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|The best part of 2 years before 63-19
|[[Galaxy]]-wide
|The Imperial Fists Legion is commanded to return to Terra by the Emperor to fortify the [[Imperial Palace]].
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|Ullanor/Terra
|The [[Emperor]] leaves the Crusade, returning to Terra. He forms the [[Council of Terra]], which supplants the [[War Council]].
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|8 months before 63-19
|In transit
|[[Primarch]] [[Rogal Dorn]] and 2 [[companies]] of Imperial Fists join the [[63rd Expedition]].
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|[[Murder]] or /[[140-20]]/[[Spiderland]]|The [[140th Expedition]] gets itself into trouble on [[140-20]], later to be known as Murder and later still also called , Spiderland. They transmit a request for assistance.
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|6 weeks later
|In transitAboard the ''Vengeful Spirit''
|Garviel Loken is introduced to the Warrior Lodge of the Luna Wolves. He does not join, but ceases in his disapproval of its existence.
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|"Some weeks later"
|In transitAboard the ''Vengeful Spirit''
|The 63rd Expedition returns to Imperial Space. Horus exercises his right to rename his legion; from this time on the Luna Wolves are to be called the ‘[[Sons of Horus]]’. The Legion’s colours and main iconography are altered.
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|15 days after leaving Xenobia
|Aboard the ''Vengeful Spirit''
|Garviel Loken begins to distrust Erebus, suspecting him of stealing the anathame and therefore initiating hostilities with the Interex. Soon after, Erebus leaves the 63rd Expedition to join with other Word Bearers and travel to the Davin system. At some point here he must cause the anathame to come into the possession of Eugen Temba.
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|1 week later
|Davin
|Petronella Vivar becomes the Warmaster’s personal remembrancer.
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|Davin
|Euphrati Keeler devotes herself to worship of the Emperor as God. She begins to distribute the (banned) text of the [[Lectitio Divinatus]] throughout the ''Vengeful Spirit''
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|Davin's Moon
|The 63rd Expedition returns to the Davin system at the behest of Erebus. The 63rd Expedition, along with a detachment of Word Bearers, descends upon Davin’s moon to exterminate the traitor forces of Governor Eugen Temba apparently located there. Petronella Vivar and Maggard join the assault without permission and become involved in events .The Imperial forces come under attack from daemonic forces of Nurgle and suffer many casualties, including Captain [[Verulam Moy]]. Warmaster Horus himself is grievously wounded by the daemon-possessed Eugen Temba, whom he in turn manages to slay, before collapsing.
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|The ''Vengeful Spirit'', in orbit of Davin
|In their haste to get the injured Warmaster to the [[Apothecary]] deck of the ''Vengeful Spirit'', the Mournival accidentally kill over 21 civilians, fleet staff and soldiers by rushing through a crowd and causing a stampede and crush. This scene is witnessed by, among others, remembrancer Ignace Karkasy. Horus, during a period of lucidity and believing himself dying, dictates his valediction to Petronella Vivar, before falling into a coma.
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|News of the Warmaster’s critical condition begins to spread through the 63rd Expedition; preachers of the Lectitio Divinatus begin to move around somewhat more openly, and there is an influx of new followers to the fledging religious movement.
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|Loken recovers the weapon which wounded Horus from the moon of Davin; the anathame, stolen from Xenobia. He and [[Tarik Torgaddon]] begin to suspect Erebus of manipulating the events around the wounding of the Warmaster. He surrenders the anathame into the safekeeping of Apothecary Vaddon.
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|Davin
|Warp-disturbances around the Davin system increase dramatically.
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|[[Prospero]]
|[[Magnus the Red]] receives prophetic knowledge of Horus’ fate. He determines to both contact his brother and their father psychically, despite such a course of action being banned by current Imperial edict.
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|Davin
|Erebus persuades the Warrior Lodge of the Sons of Horus to allow him to take the injured Warmaster to a mystic healing lodge on Davin, the [[Lodge of the Serpent]]. Here, Horus begins a mystic, Chaos-inspired ‘dream-vision’ of both the past and the future. He is guided through it by Erebus, who at first takes on the identity of the deceased Hastur Sejanus. Erebus attempts to coerce Horus into treating with the Chaos gods. Magnus the Red invades the ‘dream-vision’ psychically, unveiling Erebus and attempting to warn Horus off his path of succumbing to the temptations offered by the Chaos powers. He fails.
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|2 days after Horus is taken to the Serpent Lodge
|Davin
|Ignace Karkasy begins to distribute scathing literature that is critical of the Astartes and other Imperial authority figures. His work concerning the crushing to death of the civilians when the Mournival brought the injured Warmaster back to the ''Vengeful Spirit'' is particularly polemic. Petronella Vivar tells him many of the stories and details the Warmaster told her on his deathbed.
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|2 days after Horus is taken to the Serpent Lodge
|Davin
|At least ten thousand Crusade personnel of all ranks take up station outside the Delphos of the Serpent Lodge, holding a vigil for the Warmaster.
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|9 days after Horus is taken to the Serpent Lodge
|Davin
|The first outbreaks of violence between followers of the God-Emperor and the followers of the Imperial Truth are recorded amidst the 63rd Epxedition.
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|9 days after Horus is taken to the Serpent Lodge
|Davin
|[[Kyril Sindermann]] and Euphrati Keeler translate some of the [[Book of Lorgar]], the secret text of the Word Bearers; they are attacked by a [[Horror]] that manifests as a result. [[Ing Mae Sing]], Mistress of Astropaths, joins it in battle, but the creature is finally destroyed by Keeler, who calls upon the power of the God-Emperor in order to banish it. Succeeding in doing so, she immediately falls into a coma.
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|9 days after Horus is taken to the Serpent Lodge
|Davin
|Lord Commander [[Varvarus]] begins to complain about the Astartes treatment of other Crusade personnel, threatening to contact the Council of Terra about the deaths of civilians aboard the ''Vengeful Spirit''.
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|9 days after Horus is taken to the Serpent Lodge
|Davin
|On Davin, Horus awakes, fully healed and returned to vitality, his secret bargain with the Chaos powers begun. The 63rd Expedition rejoices his return. The Mournival meets with Horus in the role of his consultative body for what will become the last time.
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|16 weeks later
|[[Drakonis Three Eleven]]
|The 63rd Expedition arrives in the Drakonis Three Eleven system. Contact is made with the indigenous human population of the system, the [[Auretian Technocracy]].
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|3 days later
|Drakonis Three Eleven
|The [[203rd Expedition]], under the command of Primarch [[Angron]], arrives to join with the 63rd. On the same day, at the first diplomatic meeting between the Crusade forces and the Auretians, Warmaster Horus assassinates the Auretian delegate. War breaks out between the Imperium and the Technocracy as a result.
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|5 months later
|[[Aureus]]
|The [[World Eaters]] and the [[Legio Reductor]] of the [[Mechanicum]] begin the siege of the Iron Citadel, primary bastion of the Auretian Technocracy. The siege goes slowly.
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|4 months later
|Aureus
|The Warrior Lodge of the Sons of Horus no longer operates under secrecy; following the events on Davin, most members of the Luna Wolves have joined the order. Angered at the Astartes frequently coming under pressure and criticism from Lord Commander Varvarus due to the revelations in the writings of Karkasy - the barbarity of the World Eaters’ fighting methods giving Varvarus even more grist for his mill - the Lodge decides to murder Ignace Karkasy and blame Garviel Loken for instigating the crush of civilians after the Warmaster’s wounding. Tarik Torgaddon refuses to go along with this plan, even though his testimony is required to ensure the success of the latter part. He leaves the Warrior Lodge.
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|Warmaster Horus gains the complete loyalty of [[Master Adept]] [[Regulus]] and the Mechanicum under his command by promising them total ownership of the [[STC]] technologies recovered from the Technocracy.
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|1 month later
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|Disturbed by the complaints of Varvarus, the Council of Terra orders Primarch [[Fulgrim]] to attend upon the 63rd Expedition, to make sure everything there is in order. Along with a small contingent of Emperor’s Children, he joins the 63rd for a brief period, spending nearly all of it in private council with Horus. [[Chief Apothecary]] [[Fabius]], with the authority of the Warmaster himself, takes the anathame from Apothecary Vaddon. Loken next sees it belted to the waist of Primarch Fulgrim, just as the Primarch and the Emperor’s Children contingent takes its leave.
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|Primarch [[Leman Russ]] and his [[Space Wolves]] Legion are dispatched to detain and escort Magnus the Red to Terra and a disciplinary audience with the Emperor. Horus soon contacts Leman Russ and informs him that Magnus attempted to attack him psychically. The enraged Russ agrees to follow a change in his orders, given by the Warmaster; Magnus is not to be arrested. He is to be killed.
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|The Warmaster himself, [[Tybalt Marr]] and even the human Maggard, all join the Warrior Lodge of the Sons of Horus. The only Legion officers now not members of the Lodge are Garviel Loken, Tarik Torgaddon and [[Iacton Qruze]].
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|The Iron Citadel is taken by an assault consisting of Primarch Angron, an [[Assault Company]] of the World Eaters, 2 Companies of Sons of Horus (those of Torgaddon and Loken) and a detachment of [[Byzant Janizars]] (led by Lord Commander Varvarus personally). The formal surrender of the Technocracy forces to Varvarus is ruined by Angron, who, recovering from being taken out of the fight by a mine and an avalanche of rubble, re-instigates hostilities. The Technocracy forces are slain to the last man, bringing the war to an end, the fall of the Iron Citadel later becoming known as the White Mountains Massacre. Lord Commander Hektor Varvarus is killed in this last skirmish, the victim of a supposed friendly fire incident. The shooter is never identified, although Loken and Torgaddon suspect that a Son of Horus may have murdered Varvarus in order to put an end to his complaints about Astartes behaviour..
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|Aboard the ''Vengeful Spirit''
|Maggard murders the troublesome Ignace Karkasy, at the command of the Warmaster. The death is framed as a suicide. Warmaster Horus himself personally murders Petronella Vivar, to prevent her publishing his deathbed confession.
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|Aboard the ''Vengeful Spirit''
|Euphrati Keeler, still in a coma, begins to be whispered of as a Saint of the Emperor by the believers of the Lectitio Divinatus.
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|Aboard the ''Vengeful Spirit''
|Horus reveals his plan to depose the Emperor to his trusted commanders: Maloghurst, Aximand, Abaddon, Regulus, Erebus, [[Princeps]] [[Turnet]] and various officers, naming them his War Council. Lorgar and Fulgrim have also sworn themselves to Horus, and Fulgrim has been sent to sway [[Ferrus Manus]] of the Iron Hands to their cause. The Warmaster announces the [[Chaplain Edict]]; under it Erebus will send emissaries to all Legions targeted to be swayed to the Warmaster. Horus orders the [[Ultramarines]] to mobilise on [[Calth]]; he plans for them to eventually be ambushed and attacked by a large force of Word Bearers led by Kor Phaeron. Horus orders the Blood Angels to mobilise and head for the [[Signus Cluster]], where he has a similarly deadly trap planned for them. He also reveals he has a last trap for other Legions to be sprung in the [[Istvaan]] system.
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*c. 29,908: Garviel Loken becomes a Luna Wolf Space Marine.
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*30,000: The 27th Expedition brings the Istvaan system into compliance. Baron Vardus Praal becomes Governor of the system.
203 Sometime very near the end of this year, a weak distress signal is broadcast from Istvaan III warning of open revolution against Imperial forces on the planet.
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*30,014: Last year of the Great Crusade; year of the Horus Heresy.Membership in the Lectitio Divinatus is outlawed, as is everything to do with the fledgling religious movement, in the 63rd Expedition. Astartes warriors begin hunting down their gatherings.Horus begins an alliance with Fabricator General Kelbor-Hal of the Mechanicum.Primarchs Vulkan and Dorn are reported to be heading towards Terra.Very powerful warp storms cloud much of the galaxy, stranding many Crusade elements and retarding the travel of others.Horus questions Ing Mae Sing about ‘Saint’ Euphrati KeelerIterators are confined to their quarters in the 63rd Expedition, are require permission from the Office of the Lupercal’s Court (a new organisation) to travel anywhere else.Kyril Sindermann joins the Lectitio Divinatus, and becomes convinced that Karkasy and Vivar were murdered. He alerts Garviel Loken to these suspicions, who in turn confesses his suspicion that a Marine murdered Varvarus.Maggard begins to undergo the processes that will turn him into an Astartes warrior.The Army regiments under Horus’ command remove their insignia.Deep Orbital Station DS191 is recovered from Ork hands by the Emperor’s Children, first act in a joint campaign by the Children and the Iron Hands to retake the Callinedes system.Warmaster Horus orders the majority of the Emperor’s Children to join his forces in the Istvaan system. Primarch Fulgrim and a detachment of the Emperor’s Children remain with the Iron Hands.Kyril Sindermann recieves a vision of Euphrati Keeler being murdered by Horus. Unknown to him, it is a psychic warning given to him by Ing Mae Sing.The forces of the Sons of Horus, the Death Guard, the World Eaters and the majority of the Emperor’s Children arrive in the Istvaan system.The Word Bearers Legion change their colours from slate grey to a deep scarlet.Ing Mae Sing is sacrificed by Horus in a ritual that allows him to contact a daemon called Sarr’Kell, Lord of Shadows, and a pact is made between them allowing Horus’ forces uninhibited warp travel, while the Emperor’s forces will be becalmed or thrown off course. The powers of Chaos reveal they want the Emperor removed, his secret work that meddles with the nature of the warp stopped, and will support Horus’ coup.Master Adept Regulus is sent to Mars to assist Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal in readying the Mechanicum in aiding Horus. Kyril Sindermann and two crewmen of the Dies Irae, Titus Cassar and Jonah Aruken, rescue Euphrati Keeler from an assassination attempt carried out by Maggard. Euphrati once again calls on the powers of the Emperor to save all four of them from death, even in her persistent comatose state.Units from the Emperor’s Children and Death Guard capture the moon Isstvan Extremis. Nathaniel Garro is badly wounded in this battle, and removed from combat duties as a result. He is assigned to the Death Guard frigate Eisenstein, along with a contingent of Marines around 100 strong. Commander Grulgor and his unit join him on the vessel, secretly bringing a cargo of Life-Eater virus bombs with them.Captain Saul Tarvitz learns of the genetic manipulation the Emperor’s Children Apothecaries are making to their own gene-seed on the orders of Primarch Fulgrim; he is offered a place in the this new order by Eidolon and Fabius, but turns it down.Warmaster Horus draws up the Order of Battle for the assault on Isstvan III personally. Instead of committing units by Company, he assigns them on a squad-by-squad basis, transferring and including specific officers and units. History will show that he is deliberately discarding the elements of the Legions and armed forces that he cannot rely on to take his side in the forthcoming coup. Captains Loken and Torgaddon are given command of the Sons of Horus detachment, which itself is more than a third of the Legion, while Captain Temeter receives command of the Death Guard contingent and Captain Lucius that of the Emperor’s Children. (The Children’s detachment was originally to be commanded by Captain Tarvitz, but increasingly suspicious of the unusual circumstances, Tarvitz manages to get himself assigned to the Andronius instead). Captain Loken tasks Iacton Qruze with looking after Sindermann, Oliton and Keeler for him.The assault on Istvaan III begins.Housecarl Kaleb Arin and Apothecary Voyen of the Death Guard discover the virus bomb payloads aboard the Eisenstein being armed by Grulgor’s detachment.Captain Saul Tarvitz discovers that the fleet has orders to bombard the planet’s surface with virus bombs despite – or rather, because of - the heavy presence of Crusade forces there. He steals a Thunderhawk and travels to the planet, intent on warning the officers there that they are betrayed. On the way, he contacts Captain Garro of the Death Guard aboard the Eisenstein and communicates the information to him. Eidolon orders Tarvitz’s deth, but Garro has the Eisenstein shoot down the Ravens attacking Tarvitz’s Thunderhawk. Garro is then informed of the virus bomb payloard aboard the Eisenstein and confronts Grulgor about it. Grulgor and his men attack Garro, but are defeated, killed by exposure to the Life-Eater virus. Housecarl Kaleb Arin dies in the battle, sacrificing himself to trap the traitors in a compartment flooded with the virus. Magnus and the Thousand Sons are defeated by the Space Wolves, and flee Prospero.Kyril Sinderman, now styled as an Apostle of the Saint, recieves a vision of Horus’ betrayal of his forces on Istvaan. He gives a fleet-wide proclamation decrying the Warmaster. Horus orders his death, and that of all his supporters. Euphrati Keeler, the Saint, regains consciousness. She contacts Gaptain Garro.On Isstvan, Captain Lucius defeats and kills Vardus Praal.Captain Tarvitz manages to spread word of the imminent bombardment to many of the Legion officers; Most of the Sons of Horus, Emperor’s Children and Death Guard manage to get into sealed cover. Some World Eaters also manage it, but most are trapped in the open. Istvaan III is bombarded by life-eater virus bombs, which are followed by a firestorm. All unprotected life on the planet is wiped out in a matter of minutes.The remembrancers, iterators and general civilian contingents of the fleet are murdered by Astartes on the orders of Warmaster Horus.Captain Iacton Qruze rescues Keeler, Oliton and Sindermann, kills Maggard and flees with them in a Thunderhawk to the Eisenstein and Garro. The crew of the Eisenstein decide to flee the system and head to Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus’ treachery. They are followed and attacked by the Terminus Est, under the command of First Captain Typhon. The Eisenstein is damaged just as it jumps into the Warp, sending it off-course. It is attacked by the Chaos powers whilst in the Warp, and the bodies of Grulgor and the others slain by the Life-Eater virus are reanimated and possessed by Nurgle daemons. These attacks are beaten off, although Solun Decius is gravely wounded by a daemon weapon, and the ship’s Navigator is killed. At this point there are 70 loyal Marines surviving on the ship, and Garro has started discussing the Lectitio Divinatus with Keeler, starting on the road to gaining faith in the Emperor as a holy figure with extranormal power. The vessel drops back into realspace, marooned without a Navigator. Garro has the warp engines of the Eisenstein detonated, acting as a signal flare. This flare is picked up the the Imperial Fists legion, who have been stranded by warp-storms for many, many months. (They received the orders to return to Terra 3 years previously.) The crew of the Eisenstein are taken about the Phalanx, the damaged Death Guard vessel is destroyed and the journey to Terra is resumed. Primarch Rogal Dorn is briefed on the betrayal at Istvaan.
**The Luna Wolves warrior-lodge is said to exist since the start of the Legion - the Mournival is an offshoot from it - which contradicts the warrior-lodge being introduced to the legion on Davin, only some 60-odd years before the Heresy. The probable explanation is that the Davinite version of the lodge is different enough to the original version that the lodge-master Seghar Targost can claim the Davinite influence made it a new thing, whilst an old and somewhat casual member like Tarik Torgaddon considers them one and the same.
*Despite being recalled to Terra around the Crusade year 201, the Imperial Fists are apparently still trying to get there when the actual Heresy breaks out, years later.
*I think the official dates are out. Well, kinda out. While 'time-in-warp' versus 'real-time' is not equal, if you add up all the time markers, years pass. The fight against the Megarachnids takes 6 months and the war with the Technocracy takes 10!
