Avenging Son
Guy Haley
A modern-era launch point focused on the Imperium reorganizing under enormous strategic pressure.
NovelEra IndomitusDawn of Firemajor
000.M42 - 333.M42
era date, medium confidence
Imperium / faction
Adeptus Astartes
The Space Marines: genetically engineered superhuman warriors first raised as twenty Legions for the Great Crusade, later broken into thousand-strong Chapters after the Horus Heresy.
- Origin
- Late M29
- Founding
- First Founding
- Gene-seed
- Primarch gene-seed, twenty original Legions
- Homeworld
- Chapter homeworlds across the Imperium
- Status
- Active — Active
- Date quality
- era / medium
Lineage
Adeptus Astartes Books
Original summaries and chronology labels generated from the same catalog powering the atlas.
Ashes of the Imperium
Chris Wraight
A Scouring-era entry that bridges the immediate post-Siege transition into Imperial recovery and pursuit of traitor forces.
NovelScouringThe Scouringdeep-lore
014.M31 - 014.M31
approximate date, medium confidence