Rogue Trader Timeline

Rogue Trader: Drake Dynasty
GM
Adam
Dynastic Power
Character Level: 31,250 XP / Rank 8
Profit Factor: 43𝖕
Command Crew
Lord-Captain Drake Navigator Primus Mordecai Arch-Millitant Winter Astropath Solarus
House Drake Fleet
Aurea Albion Hound of Albion • Abhorrent Fortuitous Purpose • Penance of Iocanthos
Drake Trade Empire
Damaris • Scintilla • Kulth Svard • Dross • Aurum Sepheris Secundus • Tennenberg Killian's Rest
Drake Expeditions
Open Missions
Grand Endevours
Personnel
Magistrates • Retainers Militants Svard 1st • Stormtroopers House Drake Expeditionary Army
Assets
Materiel Aerospace Craft • Ground Vehicles
Armoury Wargear • Relics and Artifacts
Other Estate Secrets and Contacts • Awards and Honors
The Galaxy
Locations Calixis Sector Koronus Expanse • Periphery Subsector Personalities Peers of the Imperium Rival Rogue Traders
Utilities
Rogue Trader Timeline House Rules Guide and Lore

Pre-history

M36

Circa 760
Haarlock’s Progress: Solomon Haarlock, scion of an infamous and (according to some) damned Rogue Trader lineage, successfully charts the area of space known as the Calyx Expanse and some say stray beyond the Maw as well.

M37

Circa 433
Auspicious Dinner: The Rogue Traders Marius Drake and Herman Krieg are both active in the Calyx Expanse and meet to share stories and barter findings and materials. Notes about their meetings are recorded in the Aurea Albion's datastacks.

M38

Circa 101
The Koronus Fragments: During the preparations for a proposed Imperial Crusade to bring the Calyx Expanse under Compliance, a number of apocryphal documents come to light in the vast data-stacks that house the Segmentum Obscuras naval records on Wykthorne Prime. These documents, which become known as the Koronus Fragments, are the degraded and incomplete logs of an Adeptus Mechanicus Exporator fleet of unknown age and provenance that purports to have discovered a stable passage through a vast swathe of warp storms at the edge of the Calyx Expanse.

Circa 375
End of a line: Jonah Krieg, last of the nearly bankrupt Krieg dynasty, makes a desperate gamble to locate the passage to the fabled Koronus region based on millennia-old family records. The ship is never seen or heard from again.

M39

Circa 322 to 384
The Angevin Crusade: The Imperium forges the Calixis Sector from the former border region of the Calyx Expanse, with great effusion of blood and the loss of many millions of lives. Several minor xeno-empires are crushed, dark powers cast down and lost human colonies either restored to the Light of the Golden Throne or purged from the stars, according to their measure.

Circa 878
Abenicus’s Theorem: Studying ancient pre-crusade reports, prophetic murmurings culled from dubious texts and the visions granted him by his own fickle gifts, the Mad Navigator Abenicus of House Benetek spreads his theory of the safe passage through the veil of warp storms that crowd the edges of the Drusus Marches and form a ‘natural’ border to the Calixis sector.

M40

Circa 197
The Discovery of the Maw: Rogue Trader Purity Lathimon succeeds where dozens of other Rogue Traders have failed and perished, discovering and plotting safe passage through what she dubs ‘the Maw’ to the Koronus Expanse beyond.

Circa 733
The Sceptre’d Rose, a Rogue Trader barque under the Lady Juno Dach’man becomes one of the first vessels to traverse the new route through the Maw on a regular basis. Although the Sceptre'd Rose disappears during one transit, the waypoints Lady Dach'man established remain the standard for Maw navagaition.

M41

Circa 055
Right of Trade: The Lord Sector Calixis and his heirs and successors are granted the right, within set guidelines, to issue Warrants of Trade pertaining to the exploration and domination of the Koronus Expanse by the writ of the High Lords of Terra. This leads inevitability to a steady rise in the numbers of Rogue Traders operating within the Expanse in the years to come, kept largely in check by natural attrition, and also serves to further bind the Koronus Expanse to then Calixis Sector politically.

Circa 071
Homefield Advantage: Angered at taxation and rising supply costs, a coalition of minor Rogue Trader houses petition the Administorm for the men and materials to create an independent Imperial colony in the Expanse. Their success leads to the founding of Damaris and Balwork orbital docking station.

Circa 452 Founding of Footfall: Possibly in search of a world on which to build a palace city, former Imperial Colonel turned Rogue Trader Dewain passes through the Maw with a small fleet of ships laden with stone, plasteel and iron. Becalmed on the far side of the Maw he orders the construction of "my grand palace in the stars." He dies without an heir, and in his final act bequeaths Footfall to "all Rogue Traders who have passed the Maw."

Circa 774 Chaos Reigns: The barbed vessels of the Chaos renegade Karrad Vall emerge from the Maw and bombard Footfall. The renegades are finally driven off, but not before their boarding parties and surface raiders capture hundreds of souls. Their fate is said to provide a libation of blood to the Dark Gods in thanks for safe passage through the Great Warp Storms for the infamous Vall, who is said to have last plagued other Imperial sectors for a millennia before. Chaos activity across the Expanse notably increases in his wake.

Drake Timeline

816

Acanthus Regulus Drake is presented with the Drake Warrent of Trade.