40K Charted: The Emperor Part Two – The Timeline Of The Imperium
December 14, 2015 by warzan
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The men of iron remind me of the chaos androids from Space Crusade. That would finally give them a canon grounding in the universe.
Hi so the old ones created the webway the eldar expanded it and chaos demons can brake into it where it has been weakened also the eldar don’t even know how it was made any more
Excellent content! Can’t wait for the next episode! Time to dust off some of my 40k…
I’m kinda disappointed that you keep spoilering my life.
A part from that, great job.
ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR! lol
Glad you could turn up btw 🙂
I’m a little freaked out now LOL
Why freaking out for something that you have demanded?
Hello folks, great show guys. Now over the years of gaming we have talked a hell of a lot on this story of the Emperor and the golden throne, I had heard the idea that in trying to make a portal into the webway on or near earth that when Horus was killed the chaos gods broke through the portal that the Emperor had made. So to save it all, the guy is put on the throne to keep the chaos gods from coming through to the sol system.
the webway project drew him away but it was Magnus that led to the chamber being overrun with daemons – by drawing on the power of Tzeench he was able to get his message to earth but at the same time shattered the barriers protecting the emperor’s project. Custodian Guard fight off the daemon horde in what is essentially the emperors basement in the Imperial Palace – cool stuff!!
It was when Magnus broke the wards of the webway to warn the Emperor about Horus that Chaos tried to flood into the Imperial Palace. From this point on the Emperor had to stay on the Golden Throne to keep the forces of Chaos at bay. When he confronts Horus, Malcador takes his place and is eventually disintegrated before the Emperor is placed back on it again.
The original intention was for Magnus to sit on the Golden Throne after the Emperor had finished doing whatever he was doing but he kind of mucked that up.
Lol..I was actually considering to open up a second account just for this reaction from you.
Good to see the @emperor is already on board (only 11 posts so far tho..tut tut).
Yet again a fabulous show today, a true lesson in ‘history’.
And this is exactly what makes 40k so special. Apart from LotR I do not know anything SciFi/ Fantasy with a background story like this.
Roll on next Monday!
Wow, the Emperor himself! How’s it going since you’ve got the speech to text device? 😀
Still work in progress.
As you can see there are some problem between A part and apart.
Oh, I see so maybe let’s talk about the little son of yours… Horus? 😛
Luna is pretty cool, home to billions of people living in underground hive cities – big focus on research and development (low gravity makes it an interesting place to work). Being earth’s largest satellite it’s also home to a kick ass naval base and massive defensive works for blowing apart meteors of enemy space ships, top stuff!! (All hail the immortal @emperor btw)
Really liking the show so far, so many interesting details 😀
STC Devices were basically what they are trying to produce now, they are almost 3D printer type tech but an actual forge that can make whatever it is asked to from a list of Standard Templates on its database, most likely in its original form it would have been able to produce another functioning STC device. They have a list of standard, no frills, reliable gear that can be produced from nearly any raw material, making them great for colonies. As the colonies expanded and became towns, then cities, etc, the STCs would have maybe been cast aside as industries… Read more »
Again I apologise for the MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT. We all get carried away with what we love, I’d love to sit and have a beer with these two and discuss the history, its so rich and deep you can get lost for hours down individual conspiracy theories!
I found your wall of text very informative. Thank you for posting it.
Yep! Great to have all that extra Info Lotan2012! 40k really does have such a vast and rich background, and for me, it is the background that keeps me in the hobby!
yes as @lotan2012 says the imperial fists take Garro down to the moon and he is told that it is full of tunnels and factory’s and shipyards to keep the empire going near the end of the flight of the Eisenstein.
Fascinating series. Despite having read dozens of the books, I’m learning a lot here.
To one of the early points in the video, I’d often thought of the film Event Horizon as giving an idea of what goes on travelling the Warp without a Gellar Field.
If I’m not completely mis-remembering it, I’m sure the writers for Event Horizon cited the Warp as an influence when they were making the movie.
Aj and Warran..
again another great program
Played this game for years, read books and info but lol never put them together like you’s are doing.
Find it much better listening too and understand information this way,
on another note (sad face) time will be given over to my daughter on her return of the tv control over Christmas period..
So hugs too all at Beasts of War, hope to pop in when ever possible to the program but at least, have all info coming to my phone.
Aj and Warran..
again another great program
Played this game for years, read books and info but lol never put them together like you’s are doing.
Find it much better listening too and understand information this way,
on another note (sad face) time will be given over to my daughter on her return of the tv control over Christmas period..
So hugs too all at Beasts of War, hope to pop in when ever possible to the program but at least, have all info coming to my phone, via e-mail.
From 2061
“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE”.
Yes it was Europa
great show guys.
Sure it mentions in ‘The First Heretic’ HH Novel that Chaos was responsible for the scattering of the Primark’s – a in Vision given to Lorgar, when investigating the boundaries of Warp Space (from a Chaos source though, so who knows).
Terrific show gentlemen. It’s making Mondays worthwhile!
had to stop watching at Nikaea, sorry guys 🙁
Sorry I don’t follow… was there an issue?
It was a council, where everyone sat down and talked, not a battle…
Great show and great comments. Not bad Warren but it did take you 21 mins and 58 secs. to slip from STC’s to STD’s I was expecting the change a lot quicker!!!
Great series so far. As someone who has no interest in modern 40k gaming I’m still drawn to the fluff. I might have to raise a Legion for Epic 40k, I’m drawn to the 1000 sons too! Also, I’m hoping in the pipe line, a good in depth look at the other races, and as a Green skin at heart would love to hear your thoughts and expand on Ork Kulture! The 6 clans, their Gods, and a look at how GWS have changed the race over the years. Ere we go! rogue trader book we a great resource if… Read more »
Thanks for a great series!
Great show again! I can’t for the life of remember in which Horus Heresy books the fate of the two missing legions was hinted at, but I do remember that they were only ever talked about by the astartes in hushed tones, and that befell them was terrible. But what makes it seem quite apparent as to their fate, is how the Space Wolves are known as legion killers, that the Emperor sent them to destroy the Thousand Sons, and that it wasn’t the first time they had been sent to do so – they had killed brother marines before.… Read more »
‘The Lightning Tower’ is one of the stories where the other two Primarchs are mentioned. There were statues of all the Primarchs in the Imperial Palace on Terra, but the plinths where the missing two once were are now empty.
So they were discovered, joined to their Legions, and took part in the Great Crusade, but were eliminated and expunged before the Heresy era.
As someone also mentioned, it’s hinted that some of their Legionnaires were absorbed into the Ultramarines, which explains why they are such a disproportionately large Legion by the Heresy era…
Welli read in the Horus Heresy that the moon is basicly a Prison-Labratory-Thing. And also a base for the Sororitas I think. It should be in the book “Cruiser Iron Fist” or something like this.
Also, itt is a fortress where a part of the imperial fist is based, if I´m not mistaken