


Guilliman had been hoping to find a solution to the Imperium's tortured dating system he had instead found there was none. and an entire millennium later, and that was leaving out the numerous lesser, more heretical interpretations. Various rival dating systems had evolved from the Imperial Standard, making a true chronicle of the Human-settled galaxy almost impossible to construct.Īs the first phase of the Indomitus Crusade drew to a close sometime around what had originally been believed to be 012.M42, Guilliman calculated the current year by the five main factional variants of the Imperial Calendar to be anywhere between the early 41st Millennium A.D. During the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, the standard Imperial Dating System had provided some idea of the order of events over time, but like everything else the Emperor had created, the calendar had become degraded by both dogmatic adherence and thoughtless revisionism. After training them personally in objective methods of data collection, the primarch assigned them the daunting task of discovering, collating and cataloging thousands of standard years of Human history that had been lost or was woefully inaccurate due to superstition, suppression or purposeful obfuscation by the High Lords of Terra.īut the monumental task Guilliman had set before them was made all the more daunting when the primarch discovered that even the Emperor's calendar had not survived the millennia intact.
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Sometime after his resurrection in the 13th Black Crusade, Roboute Guilliman, the lord commander of the Imperium, Imperial Regent and primarch of the Ultramarines, was intent on making a full and accurate accounting of the Imperium's fragmentary and often contradictory history, the truth of which would inevitably help Humanity's advancement out of the darkness that had befallen it in the millennia after the Horus Heresy.įor this task, Guilliman created the small Imperial organisation known as the Logos Historica Verita, formed from individuals of an inquisitive and liberal nature. The Chronostrife is a bitter, ongoing internal conflict within the Inquisition's Ordo Chronos over the Imperium of Man's standard dating system that occurred during the Era Indomitus.

Some historitors continue to seek knowledge, but their work can be compared to holding a candle against the dark abyss. Knowledge of the long ages of Human history has been wreathed in shadow, buried beneath the aeons or simply lost over the expanse of time. All dates are given in the format 999.M41, which should be read as the year 40,999 A.D. This is the time period in which the perspectives of the Imperium of Man and the Aeldari are particularly relevant and it represents the present time. Throughout, comparative references to present dates will be made with respect to the original Imperial Calendar used before the birth of the Great Rift. This article briefly summarises the known historical events of the Milky Way Galaxy from Human prehistory up through the 41st Millennium in the Warhammer 40,000 setting. " Peace? There cannot be peace in these times."Ī historitor-investigatus of the Logos Historica Verita seeks to piece together the true and objective history of Mankind.
