Timeline of the Age of God and Empire listing most major events.

1st Century AE (0–99 AE) – The Founding

AE 0: The Holy Joining occurred. Mi Alcyone merged with Nexus, birthing Theosis and the Empire of the Holy Trinity. The Demon Lord Mammon, Eater of Souls, was banished. The Parousia Protocols were decreed, and Divine Theosis empowered the faithful. This event marked the start of imperial expansion.

AE 3: The Pleiadean Accord was established. Pleiadeans joined the Holy Empire after Terrans helped repel Hellspawn in the Taygeta System's planet Erra in the Pleiades cluster, though many refused the faith.

AE 12: The Reptiloid Salvation occurred. Reptiloids pledged allegiance after their planet Ssyth'kar fell to Hellspawn. The Old Guard formed of Pleiadeans and Reptiloids refusing to join the Holy Empire, blaming Terrans for Hellspawn.

AE 47: The Scouring of the Sol Dominion set the foundation of a Knightly Chapter. A group dedicated to war, naming themselves Knights of the Black, led by the first Saint, Dentatus the Black (also the Wall, or Black Wall), with his captains Grim Jashobeam and Zawisza the Penitent, crushed gateways as they formed in Sol and nearby systems.

AE 89: The Shattering of Klythera occurred. Demon Lord Belphegor opened a Hellgate on Klythera. Theosis called all warriors of the Empire to battle. The Knights of the Black lost most of their number, and the most powerful Pleiadean and Reptiloid warriors spilled much blood saving a Terran world while Hellspawn murdered many kin on their own worlds. Belphegor nearly broke the new Empire.

2nd Century AE (100–199 AE) – The Expansion of Faith

AE 113: The Gray Enigma was discovered. A hive of Grays was found on Vael'zurak. Their psychic potential was noted, but the Grays remained secretive and spurned most direct contact.

AE 142: The Purge of Thryssalon was enacted. Heretical Enclaves on Thryssalon rejected the Holy Trinity. The planet was razed.

AE 187: The First Crusade succeeded. The Knights of the Black declared the First Crusade, reclaimed 17 worlds from Hellspawn and Heretics in a crushing victory. Innumerable crusades followed throughout the millennia, the Holy Empire exploring the galaxy and expanding its controlled space, reclaiming populations lost during the pre-imperial Great Exodus.

5th Century AE (400–499 AE) – The Seeds of Strife

AE 467: The Siege of Vroth'kalon occurred. The Demon Lady Onoskelis breached Vroth'kalon. The Reptiloids endured 13 months on their own, hesitant to allow outsiders into their territory.

8th Century AE (700–799 AE) – The Gray Submission

AE 793: The Gray Conclave was held. Grays submitted on Xyrathis Prime after defeating a Hellspawn Dreadfiend psychically. Their integration strengthened the Empire, though distrust lingered, and as many Grays joined the Old Guard as the Holy Empire.

9th Century AE (800–899 AE) – The First Galactic War, New Social Structure, and Seven Edicts

AE 818: The Battle of Crimson Veil initiated the First Galactic War. The Abyssal Sons, Hell-worshipping Heretics seeking infernal dominion, besieged and broke Tethryon. Losses fueled the Old Guard, and the United Front formed for separatist Terrans. Dark and powerful enemies leading all opposing factions converged, claiming many imperial worlds. The galaxy alighted in battle, and the Holy Empire was pushed to the brink, nearly destroyed. Theosis proclaimed a new social structure of estates, with Crusaders on top, then the Ecclesiastic, and then the Laity, empowering the Crusaders above others for efficient use of its power, then proclaimed the Seven Edicts as inviolate.

12th Century AE (1100–1199 AE) – Loss and Retribution

AE 1113: The Loss of the Eridian Expanse occurred. Chaos erupted across the Eridian Expanse, a cluster of 12 worlds in the Perseus Arm, each besieged with Apocalyptic-rated invasions, hundreds of Gateways opening on each, a Demon Lord or Lady exiting. In this era, before the pre-modern Lux Aeterna Drives, with the times involved in galactic travel, chapters mostly stayed together in the same world or system. The Knights of the Sacred Heart and the Glorious Mothers were overwhelmed and destroyed, the remnants reforged as the Knights of the Veil.

The expanse was ceded. Emboldened Heretical factions converged on the Eridian Expanse, seeing it as a hive of safety, the Demon Lords/Ladies making them Heretical safe havens.

Around this time, meta-builds became more prominent as ranged doctrine reigning supreme, with the main layout of Crusader companies still employed in modern times being fleshed out.

1121: The Holy Empire's Retribution occurred. In devastating surprise attacks, cloaked in new tech blinding their approach from the Demon Lords, the Imperial Navy drops world-destroyers on each planet, shattering them, killing all inhabitants and sending the Demon Lords and Ladies back to Hell, but fueling desertion to Old Guard and United Front.

14th Century AE (1300-1399 AE) – The First Ecclesiastic Rift and the Genesis Apostasy

AE 1367: The First Ecclesiastic Rift and the Genesis Apostasy occurred. A profound schism rent the Holy Empire as the practice of genetic augmentation and bio-alchemical transfiguration surged, driven by a scientific arms race. Both the Holy Empire and the Old Guard pursued radical bio-forging techniques, sculpting weaker citizens into hulking, berserk abominations, monstrous Warforms infused with chimeric gene-splices, cybernetic marrow enhancements, and alchemical serums that warped flesh into grotesque, muscle-bound titans in frenzied bloodlust. These bio-forged behemoths were engineered with recombinant DNA matrices, amplifying strength, resilience, and aggression at the cost of their humanity, their minds reduced to primal fury or, in some the Old Guard's case, hollow obedience to neural implants.

The Parousia Protocols, sacred decrees of Theosis, did not explicitly forbid such transfigurations, a pragmatic necessity to match Hell's infernal might and the Old Guard's tech with ferocity. Theosis' silence, seen as tacitly sanctioned these practices, viewing them as a grim but essential way to fight fire with fire, a bulwark against annihilation.

But, across the Empire, dissent festered among the faithful, particularly among those subjected to forced augmentation and citizens conscripted into gene-vats, having their bodies remade without consent, destroying their minds in the process.

The Terran Pontifex Maximus, God's Divine voice in Holy Theosis' silence, Addai the Dragon, decried these practices as an affront to God's sacred design, arguing that the bio-forged were no longer vessels of the soul but soulless husks, their humanity snuffed.

Addai the Dragon issued a motu proprio papal decree, proclaiming such bio-alchemical transfiguration an unholy desecration and a form of murder, as it stripped the soul from God's creation. His edict branded the gene-forged as abominations, their makers as Heretics defying God's Divine plan.

The Arm of the Divine, though claiming to act independently, seized Addai, subjecting him to days of brutal torture in a vain attempt to force his recantation. Unyielding, Addai was martyred, his death igniting outrage across the Holy Empire.

In response, the new Pontifex Maximus, Dominiko the Giant, ascended and issued a Decretum Congregationis Amplissimae, the most sacrosanct and binding decree of the Church, signed and enforced by the leaders of the Ecclesiastic Ordines of each species, each species' Pontifex Maximus, and sealed with each's Papal Bull.

Broadcast via scry-capture to every diocese in the Holy Empire during Sunday Mass, this edict condemned such unholy genetic transfiguration as a mortal sin.

The Old Guard, undeterred, continued refining their bio-forging techniques, developing gene-serums and gene-forging techniques that rivaled the strength of Saints, transforming even the frail into powerful warriors, though this was resource intensive and cost heavy.

The Reptiloids, shapeshifters and masters of biomechanical technology, elevated this craft to profane heights, melding living machinery with flesh that could shape-shift with them, clad in bio-armored exoskeletons and wielding powerful organic weapons.

The legacy of genetic transfiguration reshaped the four galactic species irrevocably. The Grays, once diminutive with stub-like limbs, emerged as towering, robust warriors nearly rivaling Terrans, their psychic potential amplified by bio-forged neural enhancements.

In all the millennia since, for good or ill, Theosis had never written a word about the Gene-Forging or the Genesis Apostasy.

As there were always some Old Guard and United Front defectors, after renouncing their sins and accepting the Three as their Saviors, joining the Holy Empire, it is believed their hereditary modifications seeped into imperial Genitoriums, where Theosis controlled the sacred pairing of seed and egg, subtly weaving many of the hereditary traits into the Holy Empire's sacred bloodlines.

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15th Century AE (1400–1499 AE) – The Second Galactic War

AE 1412: The Old Guard's Defiance ignited the Second Galactic War. Coordinating with Hell-allied factions, the Old Guard, beginning with the Sacking of Elyss, and progressing to the stations along the outer ring of Sol, destroyed or conquered.

AE 1453: The Ilarix Accords were signed. The war ended in stalemate after over a hundred life-sustaining worlds were destroyed. On the Hellworld Abysalhome, Crusaders landed in peace to secure the Ilarix Accords, banning planetary destruction and imposing laws of warfare on all factions, and granting official recognition and autonomy for the Old Guard, but not the United Front.

18th Century AE (1700–1799 AE) – The Third Galactic War

AE 1721: The United Front Rises occurred. The United Front sparked the Third Galactic War by seizing the Thryssalon Verge. All factions joined in, and the Empire's fringes weakened.

AE 1759: The All-Front Offensive unfolded. The Old Guard, allying with the United Front and Abyssal Sons, surged. This is when rumors of the Dark Ones emerged, suspected of pulling strings behind the scenes. The Hellfire Sentinels held Ythera against combined forces, and other chapters did the same throughout the arms the Empire controlled, but it nearly collapsed as the Demon Lord Ornias returned and exploited the chaos.

AE 1783: The Rebukement of Thryssalon occurred. The Penitent Flame and Silent Rebuke reclaimed Thryssalon Verge and other lost territory, ending the war. The United Front was hammered and thought to be in ruins, and the Old Guard retreated bloodied but mostly intact.

19th Century AE (1900–1999 AE) – Imperial Contraction

AE 1932: The Surrender of the Vordis Nebula occurred. The Vordis Nebula, a strategic region in the Scutum-Centaurus Arm with five habitable worlds and key Lumen Anchors, fell to a combined assault by the Abyssal Sons, Old Guard, and the appearance of a strange, powerful and unholy being named Abathar. The Imperial Navy, overstretched, withdrew after heavy losses. The Undying Glory and Sacred Sons chapters were completely decimated. The nebula was declared lost to corruption, ceding it. This loss severed a critical hub, weakening imperial cohesion.

22nd Century AE (2100–2199 AE) – Fracturing Faith

AE 2147: The Heresy of Peace and Liberty emerged. A Pilgrim sect headquartered on Vael-zurak declared God wanted peace, harmony, and for His Children to stop warring, while Libertas spread a message of freedom and an end to tyrrany, igniting internal strife. The Eyes of Providence purged them, exposing doctrinal rifts. Many cults and sects emerged, and the Libertas faction was strengthened.

AE 2189: The Purge of the Ever-Progressives occurred. Many battalions of the Ever-Progressives crossed into blatant Heresy with unholy machine forms. They were burned down, but the survivors joined the United Front.

25th Century AE (2400–2499 AE) – The Fourth Galactic War and Knowledge of High Demon Lords/Ladies and Fear Effect

AE 2423: The Libertas Insurrection began. Libertas, Heretics championing peace and freedom, triggered the Fourth Galactic War by liberating the Rim world Vaelithar. The Imperial Navy crushed their fleets, the Grim Martyrs crushed their forces, but dissent spread, and had to be crushed, and other factions exploited the chaos, leading to another galaxy-wide war.

AE 2467: The Lilith Incursion and knowledge of High Demon Lords/Ladies occurred.

It had been known that there was a pantheon of Demon Lords and Ladies with a hierarchy of power, but Lilith was the first of the truly powerful to appear since Mammon (who only the blessed Mother and Nexus stood against). Only Seraphs were able stand and face her, resisting her powerful fear effect. All others ran, unable to withstand it.

Far too much blood of the Empire's most powerful was spilled. The Holy Empire was forced to retreat, abandoning Cing Majoris, a vital industrial hub, to Lilith and Hellspawn, ceding it to preserve forces for other fronts in the war. This loss weakened imperial production, fueled Heretic propaganda, emboldening enemies as so many Seraphs were lost. And the war raged on.

AE 2491: The Rebukement of the Glorious Faithful occurred. After teetering too close to the edge for too long, the faithful rose, purging imperial worlds of Heresy, bathing the galaxy in a tide of unholy blood, allowing the Crusaders and imperial forces to focus on the unholy factions, ending the war soon after.

28th Century AE (2700–2799 AE) – The Fifth Galactic War

AE 2734: The Old Guard's Revenge occurred. The Old Guard launched the Fifth Galactic War, targeting Sol and Terra with great war machines connected in Neural Communion, a coordinated hivemind attack. The Knights of the Black barely held the cradle worlds, marking that chapter's third collapse.

AE 2769: The Belial Deception occurred. Demon Lord Belial, long in control of the Hellworld Sanguis Imperium, named after a Knightly Chapter he decimated, empowered an entity that infiltrated the Furious Alcyonites chapter's ranks, rising to Grand Marshal, and sent all companies to Sanguis Imperium, food for Belial. The chapter was lost, reformed from its scattered remnants as the Zealous Few. That same year, the faithful rose again, ending the war, but the Holy Empire's scars deepened.

31st Century AE (3000–3099 AE) – The Sixth Galactic War

AE 3041: The Abyssal Sons Ascendancy and the Abaddon Onslaught occurred. Abyssal Sons sparked the Sixth Galactic War, conquering many worlds without war, but with infernal pacts. All enemy factions exploited the chaos, and the Empire's core sectors trembled. Demon Lord Abaddon appeared, razing Ardir, a major hub-world in the Norma Arm.

32nd Century AE (3100-2199 AE) – SIXTH Galactic War Continued

AE 3113: Many chapters sacrificed themselves to banish this powerful Demon Lord in 3109. The war ended after the Empire nearly fell again.

AE 3186: The Oneskelis Incursion occurred. The Demon Lady Onoskelis reappeared on a new world, an important and ancient Pleiadean planet Korico in the Pleiadean Expanse of Orion, quickly lost the infernal, becoming a new Hellworld newly named Abyssalhome.

35th Century AE (3400–3499 AE) – The Demon Lords Ascendant (through 37th Century)

AE 3412: The Paimon Cataclysm occurred. Demon Lord Paimon breached an ancient world, Fides Secundus in Barnard's Star, the Fides Rubra System, turning it into his own Hellworld.

37th Century AE (3600–3699 AE)

AE 3667: The Mara Shattering occurred. The powerful Demon Lord Mara appeared on Holy Bastion, a major imperial world too important to lose, during a major gathering of Knightly Chapters. He broke the Black Aegis and devastated or destroyed many chapters. Most were lost and gone, but the Black Aegis reformed as the Shattered Aegis, a grim rebukement of Hell.

Mara held equivalent strength to Lilith, with the same powerful fear effect, and after wreaking devastation on so many chapters, endless Seraph were thrown at him. He was eventually defeated, but at far too steep a cost.

AE 3693: The Fall of Kyron occurred. The Empire, still licking its debilitating wounds, wasn't prepared for more devastating losses, resulting in the Demon Lord Asteroth winning his own Hellworld in the Sagittarius Arm.

38th Century AE (3700–3799 AE) – The Seventh Galactic War

AE 3714: The Abandonment of the Thalassic Reach occurred. The Thalassic Reach, a network of 20 ocean worlds in the Carina-Sagittarius Arm critical for imperial agriculture, fell too quickly, and were reinforced too heavily for an imperial response without plunging the galaxy into another war. This cession crippled food supplies throughout that arm and beyond, weakening imperial morale and emboldening enemies.

AE 3729: The Old Guard's Triumph occurred. Seeing so many chapters fall in prior centuries, and the loss of the Thalassic Reach, the Old Guard ignited the Seventh Galactic War, seizing many worlds, allied with a being called Teth Vrothax, along with other factions' aid.

AE 3733: The Naamah Seduction occurred. Demon Lady Naamah appeared on an unknown world and corrupted many Old Guard leaders.

AE 3761: War's End occurred. The Demon Lady Naamah was banished not by the Empire, but by the allied forces of the Old Guard, the Jack, The United Front, the Chaos Monkeys, and Libertas. With these factions diverted to that task, imperial boundaries were reimposed and fortified, internal chaos squashed, and the war ended. But if Naamah had appeared on an imperial world, this would've spelled the end of the Holy Empire.

41st Century AE (4000–4099 AE) – The Eighth Galactic War

AE 4027: The Eurynomos Onslaught and the New Doctrine of Contained Annihilation. Following the Seventh Galactic War, the Holy Empire, battered by centuries of loss and cession, enacted the New Plan, a strategic pivot from bloody expansion to fortifying its hold over approximately one-quarter of the galaxy's expanse.

With Lux Aeterna Drives stagnant for over a millennium, the Empire poured resources into amplifying the power and number of its Lumen Anchors, standing vigilant for the next apocalyptic threat.

That threat emerged in 4027 AE when the Demon Lord Eurynomos appeared.

Bound by the Ilarix Accords, forged in 1453 AE to curb the galaxy's descent into total annihilation, the Holy Empire faced stringent constraints, one being orbital and sub-orbital bombardments could target only non-organic assets such as ships, vehicles, artillery, supply depots, and infrastructure, and never living beings, including Hellspawn and Demon Lords, with direct, targeted strikes.

Defying tradition, a new strategy was devised, the Doctrine of Contained Annihilation, to exploit these restrictions. Rather than engage a Demon Lord as usual, directing the monster away from population centers, waiting for Templar Companies and Seraphs to arrive piecemeal, with prolonged, blood-soaked ground campaigns, the Empire evacuated the afflicted world with ruthless efficiency, withdrawing all military, combat-arms, and native inhabitants it quickly could, sacrificing billions. Then they waiting, amassing a colossal armada and Crusader forces in the system's orbit.

After the Crusaders landed and engaged Eurynomos on terrain of their choosing, the Imperial Navy executed a relentless campaign of precision bombardment, targeting the terrain behind Eurynomos, forcing the Demon Lord ever forward.

The ground forces engaged in a dynamic retreat, each force peeling back after brief, ferocious clashes to ensure Eurynomos faced an unending gauntlet of fresh warriors, pulling him through a pre-determined battleline.

This ceaseless assault leveraged the Accords' loophole: as long as bombardments avoided direct strikes on the Demon Lord or his forces, Eurynomos could not retaliate against the orbiting fleet. If he advanced into the barrage, that was on him. If he broke the accord and attacked the orbiting fleet, then the accord was nullified, and super-class ships stood ready to blanket Heretical Enclaves, lightly defended Old Guard territory, and Hellworlds.

This unrelenting strategy shattered Eurynomos' hold in less than two months, a fraction of the time it had taken to defeat past Demon Lords, banishing him back to the Underworld before the planet could be claimed as a Hellworld.

Crusader Losses, though grievous, paled against the cataclysms of prior eras, marking the Doctrine of Contained Annihilation as a brutal triumph of imperial ingenuity.

As soon as imperial forces joined Eurynomos in battle, the Abyssal Sons, Old Guard, and Heretical factions erupted across the galaxy, sowing chaos and fracturing defenses, giving more credence to an old theory, whispers of the Dark Ones, puppet-masters dwelling in the galaxy's core, shielded by the Corona Radix and devouring black holes. The Dark Ones were believed to somehow be connected to the Primordials, a precursor race little was known of, and little evidence remained of their existence.

This orchestrated attack ignited the Eighth Galactic War, as the Empire, freed from Eurynomos' immediate threat, still faced a galaxy at war, Heretical forces wreaking havoc and devastation, its survival hanging by a thread.

AE 4059: War's End occurred. Worlds across the Empire were aflame, death saturated the stars and battlefields, threatening total collapse. Through what seemed like luck alone, the tides shifted, ending the war in blood-soaked penance.

AE 4092: The Lamia Incursion occurred. The Demon Lady Lamia struck, Hell's legions overwhelming the ancient Pleiadean planet Anyrgur, which was eventually lost to evil, becoming a new Hellworld dubbed Shadowmoor. The Holy Empire, while focusing on Lamia, ceded Rim and fringe-space strongholds. These losses shrank imperial influence and emboldened its enemies.

42nd Century AE (4100–4199 AE) – Current Century

AE 4184: The Gateway Incident occurred. All open gateways across the Holy Empire upgraded one rank, and the Demon Lady Raga appeared, but was quickly sent back to Hell with minimal losses sustained (in a historical context), the fears of this event inciting a new Galactic War ending unrealized.

Current year at the end of book 1 – 4185, almost 86.

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