Our most recent Twilight Imperium event and the now released REX has prompted an idea in my gaming group for a massive all day TI3 game event in which we play out the entire history of the Twilight Imperium universe in one loooong day/evening/likely morning!

The idea is to play from the spark of the civil war (REX), to the galactic civil war (The Shards of the Throne scenario) and finaly finish it off with a rather elaborate but standard Twilight Imperium game aka the Dark Years as the races return.

The idea behind the event is that players would play the same throughout the entire history. The LAZAX player would represent the Lazax in the scenario and later become the Mindnet and stuff like that.

The question that came up which had all of us D&D nerds wondering is wether or not we actually got the history right. Do the events of REX precede the events of the Shards of Throne scenario? Does anyone have a source for the history of the Twilight universe?

Was also curious if anyone had any interesting ideas on how an event like this might be made more interesting?

I know I had a similar idea that I presented in the thread named "epicness is on the horizon". I'll see if I can find and bump it for you.

BigKahuna said:

No definite sources, but it was always my impression that the battle for Mecatol City was the climax of the collapse of the empire, not the beginning of it. Thus, the Fall of the Empire scenario would come before Rex.

Dulkal said:

+1

After all, the original fluff texts point to the Federation of Sol ending the war by bombing the crap outta Mecatol Rex. Which is happening all through the game of REX.

Fnoffen said:

Oh hey, deja vu.

Rex is the culminating battle at the end of Shards of the Throne. The Shards of the Throne obviously has the potential to run differently than the canon timeline, but no matter.

I thought I saw a timeline somewhere, perhaps in the rulebook of Rex?