Introduction
Hello, ladies and gentlemen! If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've come here from The Grim Crusade, a game I'm currently GMing where the galaxy has changed greatly from canon, to the point of replacing every Primarch in the setting with completely different ones, created by the players. However, there's a lot more going on in the galaxy than just what the Primarchs are doing, and likely a lot that the game's timeline won't cover. This thread, then, is intended as a place for the players to log the actions of their Legion beyond their Primarch's sight, and to a lesser extent the activities of their Legion's homeworld and, if GM-approved, other people and places within the Imperium and the wider galaxy. This won't just be events occurring at the same time as the game, however: flashbacks to the earlier days of the Crusade are also perfectly acceptable, and indeed encouraged, to expand the lore of both the setting in general and of your Legion's personal interactions with others in the Imperium.
Rules
These rules are not quite identical to those in the main game thread, so please read them before making your posts.
-Forum rules apply, obviously. Most pressingly out of these, if I've decided on something happening a certain way, then my decision is final unless I'm given good reason to change my mind.
-Do not godmod. That is to say, don't control other player's characters for them without their permission. If you want to make a combined post between two or more players, or have decided between yourselves to allow a certain interaction to occur in a certain way, that's perfectly fine, but don't do stuff to other people's characters without their say-so.
-As with the main game thread, I'm not too concerned about activity levels, so don't feel overly pressured to post as often as possible. However, if you're going to create a flashback or other event that does not involve the Primarchs and/or is not set in the present day of the main game, put it in this thread, not the main thread.
-This is an Advanced roleplay. Please write to the appropriate level of quality - two or three significant paragraphs per post with good SPAG should be fine as a minimum, but try to come up with more if you can.
-You do not need to stick to just one character per post, as you do in the main thread. However, be reasonable about it - I don't expect you to perfectly and uniquely characterise every individual in an Astartes Legion, but try to form a reasonable personality for the characters whose perspectives you actually write from.
-We need to know where and when any given event occurs, as well as who's involved in it. See below for the formatting template for that post.
-@agentmanatee is currently the co-GM for this game; unless I actually contradict something he says, his word has as much authority as mine.
Formatting Template
I'm not too fussed about how people write, as long as they adhere to the rules as mentioned above. However, we do need to know when and where any given event takes place, as well as who's involved with it. To that end, please place the following template at the beginning of every IC post, and fill it in accordingly. Yes, the headers do need to be bolded.
Q&A
What is this?
Side-stories, essentially - the stuff the people not in-focus are doing in the Imperium and the wider galaxy in general, as well as flashbacks to events set before The Grim Crusade's most current events. You know what world-building is? This is where you put that stuff, when it doesn't pertain to the Primarchs in the present day.
Which people are these?
For the most part, the Legions of the Primarchs created for The Grim Crusade. However, it can also be posts made from the perspectives of those on your Primarch's homeworld, or- with my approval or that of @Roosan or @Yennefer, the game's co-GMs- the perspective of somebody outside the main scope of the Legions, such as a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus working on some significant project, a Custodian Legionary doing their thing, or even just a humble Imperial Armsman doing his or her duty for the Emperor of mankind, to give a few examples. There's plenty of possibilities for that sort of thing.
What was that about flashbacks?
The events of The Grim Crusade take place across a comparatively linear timeline, starting off at the climax of the Battle of Ullanor and progressing forward from there. By contrast, a Chronicle may end up taking place at various points in time before then, right up to the time the Emperor first produced the Space Marine regiments that would grow to become the Legions; additionally, the galaxy is a big place, and whilst the Primarchs can't be everywhere at once, events will nevertheless progress concurrently with main game events in locations other than those the Primarchs are present for. We've created a template to cover timings and locations, as well as who was present for particular events in the past, amongst other things; see above for that.
What's with the bunch of posts below this one?
That's the timeline. Basically, it's there to give a brief listing of events through the course of the Grim Crusade, primarily in the form of posts made by players both in the main thread and in this one. It may or may not end up becoming quite large, so I've put a full seven posts down for it; if I somehow manage to exhaust more than a million text character's worth of space, I'll know this RP has been successful.
Can I join this? It says "Apply"!
Well, yes and no. This isn't specifically intended for new players to join, and the Characters tab will contain a post reinforcing this point, but if you'd like to join The Grim Crusade and build an appropriate Primarch and Legion to play as, then you'll be allowed to create posts in this thread as well, given that it follows the above mentioned rules. Here's a link to the game; please read through the first post to get an idea of what we're aiming for.
Other questions will be answered as they arise.