Kind of long post.

Had nothing to de really so i composed two document(so far), mainly taken from the Dark heresy timeline, as to what i think The PC with the appropriate Knowledge should have. I have changed some stuff so they dont mention "forbidden" and "scholastic" knowledge as much as i could.

And feel free with some constructive critisism and or suggestions to add or remove.

Common Knowledge War

133.M37 The World of Sinophia Founded: As the Granted Personal Fiefdom of the Rogue Trader Teresa Sinos at the end of her voyages. The
planet is situated beyond the edge of the Scarus Sector and rapidly becomes a staging post for expeditions into the Calyx Expanse
and the Halo Stars.

322.M39 The Angevin Crusade Begins: Preator Golgenna Angevin, Lord Militant, granted a writ from the High Lords to persecute a crusade to liberate and dominate the area of space designated as the Calyx Expanse. His crusade forces drawn principally from the Segmentum Solar, re-enforced by elements of the Titan Legions, as well as Adeptus Astartes and a significant naval deployment from the battlefleets Solar and Obscurus. While a score of Rogue Trader and Explorator fleets range ahead of the main forces identifying targets and providing active reconnaissance in this dangerous region of space. Swelling the forces already vast ranks are tens of thousands of “pauper warriors” whipped up into a frenzy of holy zeal by the Ecclesiarchy and the passing of the crusade fleets and innumerable petty hangers-on, opportunists and logistical transports. Using the well established frontier world of Sinophia as its forward staging post and marker, the crusade’s main thrust in launched like an armoured fist into the heart of the Calyx Expanse across the Periphery in a two pronged assault into the regions heading towards two prominent systems where Rogue Traders have long established pro-Imperial human contact; Malfi and Solomon.

341-545.M39 The Reaping of the Emperor’s Wrath: Having strongly established and fortified two salients of conquered territory into the Calyx Expanse, with their domains now anchored on the worlds of Solomon and Malfi, as well as defeated three xenos empires and innumerable other non-compliant forces in the prior twenty years of fighting, the Crusade pauses for fortification and entrenchment of its gains before the next stage of conquests begins. The crusade is then granted a fresh influx of troops in order to press on. Seizing the moment, the Crusade forces carry out the greatest single sweep of conquests of the conflict as the two-pronged assault from the salient arms sweep together conquering as many worlds in the apace of four years as had been taken in the proceeding two decades, forming the territory later known as the Golgenna Reach it what becomes known to the chroniclers as the “Reaping of the Emperor’s Wrath.” Of the many famous victories of this campaign, one of the most lauded belongs too the young general Drusus, who took the war-world of Iocanthos in single week.

353-558.M39 The Golgenna Consolidation: With the first and second great phases of its vast operation complete, Angevin’s forces consolidated their hold of what was more than two hundred captured worlds, and shepherded the arrival of the a first wave of Imperial colonisation to the areas they controlled. During this period of relative peace, several notable regiments who had earned great glory in the wars were given rights of settlement to their own worlds, while several attached forces (such as the Astartes) rotated out of Crusade service.

359.M39 The Crusade Second Front is Opened: The Crusade’s third great push begins under the command of High Admiral Vaakkon, opening a second front. Invading from the Calyx expanse’s Coreward, with the goal of linking up with Angevin’s own forces who advance from Golgenna to meet them.

367.M39 The Transfiguration of Drusus: Drusus is slain and rising again - an
event many see as a true miracle and a clear mark of the Emperor’s favour. The Drusine Imperial Cult begins to flourish revering him as a living saint.
Drusus forces the Angevin Crusade’s beginning the third and final great phase of conquests destroying the powers that controlled
much of what would later be known as the Drusus marches in his honour.

372.M39 The Death of Angevin: Golgenna Angevin dies at his palace on Quaddis by natural causes. Drusus is named Lord Militant by wide acclaim in his stead. He re-forges the regions military forces for a final counter attack into the regions of the Adrantis Nebula and remaining strongholds of the Yu’vath Hell Worlds.

384.M39 The Angevin Crusade officially Ends in the Birth of the Calixis Sector: With the final defeat of the xenos Yu’vath and the Bale Childer,
Drusus declares the Crusade to be complete. Drusus installed as the first Lord Sector Calixis. Among his first acts are the confirming the world of Scintilla as his capital.

417.M39 The Death of Drusus: The first and greatest Lord Sector dies and is succeeded by Marshal Corin Shultus, his former aide-de-camp and distant kinsmen to the late Angevin. The final resting pace of Drusus’s mortal remains is kept a secret, although rumours
circulate that he was taken back to Maccabeus Quintus to be interred at the site of his first “death”. Mass lamentation and unrest
accompany the news of his passing and the entire sector undergoes a seven-year cycle of mourning.

502.M39 The Beatification of Saint Drusus: After nearly a century of deliberation the General Synod of Holy terra confirms sainthood on
Drusus, whose cult and dogma had already flourished within the Calixis sector to become a dominating factor in the local Imperial
Creed.

550-760.M39 The War of Hubris: The world of Sinophia fights a covert trade war with the burgeoning commercial powers of the Calixis
Sector and is laid low. As a result in the years that follow, much of its population is repatriated to the sector itself, its hives emptying
and Sinophia, now retains but a shadow of its former prominence and grandeur, nominally passing under the writ of the Lord sector
Calixis, and condemned to long, slow economic starvation.

387-401.M40 THE MACHARIAN CRUSADE
738-741.M40 The War of Brass: The hive worlds of the Gelmiro Cluster fall into sedition, following the charismatic leadership of a figure calling himself the “Emperor of Brass”, debasing themselves into the worship of the Great enemy. Heavily militarised, the renegades quickly sponsor and arm rebel groups on nearby worlds and when counter-attacked, reveal the hand of dark forces from the Eye of Terror in their ranks. The so-called “War of Brass” that followed was comparably brief but bloody, involving forces drawn from across the sector, and the involvement of the Adeptus Astartes and the titans of Legio Venator, it rendered the once thriving worlds of Gelmiro blasted, rubble strewn rocks. Classified as war worlds and the haunt of murderous scav-mutants, renegades and wreakers ever since, while the reign of the Emperor of Brass is long over, the system is still a shunned no-man’s land to this day.

143-160.M41 THE GOTHIC WAR

211-226.M41 The Meritech Wars: The clans of the Merates Cluster secede from the Imperium, rallying many renegade factions to their cause,
raiding deep into the sector and causing widespread disruption and anarchy. The wars, at their height, pose the greatest threat to the
sector’s stability in generations and even threatens to provoke internecine conflict with the bordering Ixaniad Sector. Thanks to the
rise in power of Myram Harvala as sector governor, the Meritech clans are crushed and the worlds of the cluster are scoured clean of
life.

385.M41 The Seventeen Holy Martyrs: A small force of Adeptus Sororitas die to a woman defending the agri-colony of Gallowglass in the Malfi
system from a evil heretical depraved cult. A permanent shrine is raised to their honour
in memoriam of this great deed.

410-412.M41 The First Siege of Vaxanide: The Vaxanide system is besieged by an Ork raider fleet, the Ork forces also make planet fall to assault its
hive cities but are swiftly repulsed. The Orks are eventually driven off by the Battlefleet Calixis, one sizable splinter force landing on
the world of Ganf Magna.

444.M41 THE FIRST WAR FOR ARMAGEDDON

507.M41 The Second Siege of Vaxanide: A second Ork invasion force centred around the Space Hulk designated Pinnacle of Savagery attacks
the system. Although this force is considerably larger than the first, it is met with swiftly by Battlefleet Calixis and allied forces whose
mass bombardment cause the hulk to break up and disintegrate before it can approach the hive world, although fierce fighting
continues as some Ork forces make it through.

742.M41 THE DAMOCLES GULF CRUSADE
745.M41 THE FIRST TYRANIC WAR BEGINS
755.M41 THE SABBAT WORLDS CRUSADE BEGINS
755.M41 THE SABBAT WORLDS CRUSADE BEGINS

784.M41 The Margin Crusade is Launched: Under holy writ by the Synod Obscurus and taking place far to the Calixis Sector’s Spinward
border, a crusade is launched into the Margin region beyond the light of the Astronomicon to the galactic north. The Calixis Sector is
called on to provide troops and material to the ongoing effort and grudgingly complies. Thirty years later the crusade still grinds
bloodily on.

807.M41 The Tranch Insurrection: A mutant uprising in the soot warrens of the minor industrialised hive world of Tranch rapidly develops into
a planet-wide insurrections which topples the ruling class, the brutal Oligarchs of Tranch. The mutants have formed together into aunified faction calling itself the Pale Throng. Lord Sector Hax realises the wider threat to Imperial order and declares a mass counter-invasion of the war-torn world to bring the rebellion to heel. At huge cost in lives and at the price of laying waste to much of Tranch, the Pale Throng is crushed. The war is over but the pacification of Tranch goes on.

815.M41 CURRENT DATE LINE

And common knowledge Imperium (shorter of course)

133.M37 The World of Sinophia Founded

322.M39 The Angevin Crusade Begins: Preator Golgenna Angevin, Lord Militant, granted a writ from the High Lords to persecute a crusade to liberate and dominate the area of space designated as the Calyx Expanse.

367.M39 The Transfiguration of Drusus: Drusus is slain and rising again - an
event many see as a true miracle and a clear mark of the Emperor’s favour. The Drusine Imperial Cult begins to flourish revering him as a living saint.
Drusus forces the Angevin Crusade’s beginning the third and final great phase of conquests destroying the powers that controlled
much of what would later be known as the Drusus marches in his honour.

372.M39 The Death of Angevin: Golgenna Angevin dies at his palace on Quaddis by natural causes. Drusus is named Lord Militant by wide acclaim in his stead.

384.M39 The Angevin Crusade officially Ends in the Birth of the Calixis Sector:
Drusus declares the Crusade to be complete. Drusus installed as the first Lord Sector Calixis. Among his first acts are the confirming the world of Scintilla as his capital.

417.M39 The Death of Drusus: The first and greatest Lord Sector dies and is succeeded by Marshal Corin Shultus. Mass lamentation and unrest accompany the news of his passing and the entire sector undergoes a seven-year cycle of mourning.

502.M39 The Beatification of Saint Drusus: Holy terra confirms sainthood on
Drusus.

387-401.M40 THE MACHARIAN CRUSADE

143-160.M41 THE GOTHIC WAR

385.M41 The Seventeen Holy Martyrs: A small force of Adeptus Sororitas die to a woman defending the agri-colony of Gallowglass in the Malfi
system from a evil heretical depraved cult. A permanent shrine is raised to their honour
in memoriam of this great deed.

444.M41 THE FIRST WAR FOR ARMAGEDDON

742.M41 THE DAMOCLES GULF CRUSADE
745.M41 THE FIRST TYRANIC WAR BEGINS
755.M41 THE SABBAT WORLDS CRUSADE BEGINS
755.M41 THE SABBAT WORLDS CRUSADE BEGINS

784.M41 The Margin Crusade is Launched: Under holy writ by the Synod Obscurus: a crusade is launched into the Margin region beyond the light of the Astronomicon to the galactic north. The Calixis Sector is
called on to provide troops and material to the ongoing effort and grudgingly complies. Thirty years later the crusade is still fought.

815.M41 CURRENT DATE LINE

And i will try to compose a Common knowledge Imperial creed so soon i can. Hope this helps some out there.

The meaning of this is to have as Handouts to your PC so they themselves know something about the Sector(at least). Without exploring to much into the esoteric and more "educated" parts.

And now the Timeline for Common Knowledge Imperial Creed. Since there seem to very little creed and moreso history... there is more history. ^^ But i included some Notes on the Various cults and also the Pilgrimage of Drusus ("Footsteps of Drusus").

100-600.M36 THE AGE OF APOSTACY

378.M36 THE REIGN OF BLOOD ENDS IN THE DEATH OF GOGE VANDIRE. Followed by the Thorian reformation of the Ecclesiarchy by the most holy saints Sebastian Thor! Emperor bless him!

395.M36 The Haarlock Charter: The granting of the Haarlock Great Charter by Sebastian Thor to the Free Captain Mordercai Haarlock for his
service against the apostate fleets of the Frateris Templar.

133.M37 The World of Sinophia Founded:

322.M39 The Angevin Crusade Begins : Preator Golgenna Angevin, leads a crusade to liberate and dominate the area of space designated as the Calyx Expanse. His crusade forces drawn principally from the Segmentum Solar, re-enforced by elements of the Titan legions, Adeptus Astartes and a significant naval deployment from the battlefleets Solar and Obscurus. Swelling the forces already vast ranks are tens of
thousands of warriors with holy zeal lead by the Ecclesiarchy .

341-545.M39 The Reaping of the Emperor’s Wrath: Having strongly established and fortified two salients of conquered territory into the Calyx
Expanse, with their domains now anchored on the worlds of Solomon and Malfi, as well as defeated three minor xenos empires and
innumerable other non-compliant forces in the prior twenty years of fighting, the Crusade pauses for fortification and entrenchment of
its gains before the next stage of conquests begins. Seizing the moment, the
Crusade forces carry out the greatest single sweep of conquests of the conflict as the two-pronged assault from the salient arms
sweep together conquering as many worlds in the apace of four years as had been taken in the proceeding two decades, forming the
territory later known as the Golgenna Reach it what becomes known to the chroniclers as the “Reaping of the Emperor’s Wrath.” Of the
many famous victories of this campaign, one of the most lauded belongs too the young Saintly general Drusus, who took the war-world of
Iocanthos in single week, overthrowing a great and baleful tyranny there.

353-558.M39 The Golgenna Consolidation

359.M39 The Crusade Second Front is Opened

363-369.M39 The Bleak Years: . Rebellions and cult
activity rises to threaten what were thought to be stable worlds and the life of Arch-Confessor Melcher El, the
Crusade’s spiritual leader, is taken,. Drusus is widely acclaimed as a saviour during this dark time!

367.M39 The Transfiguration of Drusus: Drusus is
attacked by a deadly assassin while rallying his depleted forces on Maccabeus Quintus and is seemingly slain, before rising again - an
event many see as a true miracle and a clear mark of the Emperor’s favour. The Drusine Imperial Cult begins to flourish in his
shadow, already revering him as a living saint. Almost by sheer force of personality and by independently rallying much of the Crusade’s forces to his own banner with tacit backing
from the wider Imperial power. So empowered, Drusus forces the Angevin Crusade’s beginning the third and final great phase of conquests destroying the powers that controlled much of what would later be known as the Drusus marches in his honour, laying waste to as many worlds as he dominated.

372.M39 The Death of Angevin: Golgenna Angevin dies at his palace on Quaddis, the judgement is natural causes. Drusus is named Lord Militant by wide acclaim in his stead.

380.M39 The Grant of The Lathes: In recognition of their invaluable assistance and heavy losses in the purging of the taint of the Adrantians, as
well as their service to the Crusade in decades past, Drusus grants the Lathe system to be the sole domain of the Adeptus Mechanicus
in perpetuity, and ratifies their claims to several other worlds and rights of free and unchecked passage through the stars the Crusade
has conquered. By this act, the lords of Mars were bound in strength both to the fledgling sector and to his own banner.

384.M39 The Angevin Crusade officially Ends in the Birth of the Calixis Sector: Drusus declares the Crusade to be complete. Drusus installed with full rights and title by the Equerry Primaris of the High Lords of Terra as the first Lord Sector Calixis to much acclaim. Among his first acts are the confirming the world of Scintilla as his capital. His other achievements include the creation of the sectors great legal code, the Corpus Presidium Calixis and the instillation of a Calixian Holy Synod at Tarsus on Scintilla.

417.M39 The Death of Drusus: The first and greatest Lord Sector dies and is succeeded by Marshal Corin Shultus. Rumours circulate that he was taken back to Maccabeus Quintus to be interred at the site of his first death . Mass lamentation and unrest accompany the news of his passing and the entire sector undergoes a seven-year cycle of mourning.

502.M39 The Beatification of Saint Drusus: After nearly a century the General Synod of Holy terra confirms sainthood on
Drusus, whose cult and dogma had already flourished within the Calixis sector to become a dominating factor in the local Imperial
Creed.

385.M41 The Seventeen Holy Martyrs: A small force of Adeptus Sororitas die to a woman defending the agri-colony of Gallowglass in the Malfi
system from a Heretic cult. A permanent shrine is raised to their honour
in memoriam of this great deed.

560.M41 The Devayne Incorporation: The writ of holy orders is removed from the Devayne Fraternity by the Synod Calixis, sighting the group’s
worldly aspect and growing moral turpitude, forcing its slow rebirth into the entity known as the Devayne Incorporation, one of the
most powerful and rigorously organised commercial powers in the sector.

609.M41 The Recovery of the Lucid Court: Lord Sector Larhanus Sult, called by many “The Great Conciliator”, is inaugurated and restores much
power and prestige to the Lucid Court. He successfully pulls back executive authority to the office of the Lord Sector that had been
slowly devolving to the Great Houses over the years, and massively expands the directly controlled military forces of his office and
institutes aggressive reforms to the governance of Hive Sibellus.

755.M41 THE SABBAT WORLDS CRUSADE BEGINS

784.M41 The Margin Crusade is Launched: Under holy writ by the Synod Obscurus and taking place far to the Calixis Sector’s Spinward
border, a crusade is launched into the Margin region beyond the light of the Astronomicon to the galactic north. The Calixis Sector is
called on to provide troops and material to the ongoing effort and grudgingly complies. Thirty years later the crusade still grinds
on.

815.M41 CURRENT DATE LINE

The great chantries of Tarsus:
The centre of the Ecclesiarchy in the calixis sector, The great Cathedral of Illumination. In the shadow of this great edifice lies hundreds of minor chapels, priories, shrines etc.

The Redemption:
An extreme unsanctioned cult consisting of bloodthirsty zealots and madmen.

Drusus the Warrior:
On maccabeus quintus Drusus, the general, prayed to the emperor, the great enemy assassins struck and killed Drusus, the great. The killer was himself struck down by the Emperors wrath at that moment. After ten days and nights did Drusus return! Resureccted! The power of Him on Earth empowering Drusus, the risen. After this Drusus knew no defeat as the enemies of man fell before Him and His armies! And thus was the Calixis sector born! So it was on Maccabeus Quintus, the Emperor raised Drusus up, the life of a man ended and the life of a saint began!

Drusians:
The first and greatest of the Imperial cults in the calixis sector. Official in the wake of Drusus Sainthood, said to have been worshipped by Cardinal Ignato himself. The cults purpose is to continue the great work of Drusus through tightening the imperial control within the calixis sector. Only through total dominance can Drusus memory be honoured and his dream of total conquest realised. Bravery and sacrifice is paramount. Most important holy day is Drusus day. Cult member must gather and proclaim deeds done in the saints name for the year past. Cult primarily attract soldiers and martially oriented induviduals. Symbol is the Curved silver chainsword of The saint himself.

The Vitrians:
A cult dedicated to the destruction of the orc menace in the sector. Founded after a miraculous defence against the orks. Vitrian himself was a confessor and paramount in the creation of the ”vitrian covenant” as the cult is known. The cults symbol is a flaming spire.

Sisters of the Void:
An all female cult formed to help travellers, pilgrims and crews from the stresses of warp travel. The symbol of the cult is a Black disc, representing the emptiness of space.

The footsteps of Drusius:
A pilgrimage many priests and devotees takes. It begins at Golgenna reach on the planet Scintilla → Spaceport of Hive Tarsus → Coreworlds of Golgenna reach → Sepheris Secundus → The Lathes → Iocanthos → The Drusus marches → Endrite → Tygress V → Maccabeus Quintus → Sentinel. End.

Well, what's your intention?

Is it to provide them with a handout they can consult when they need additional information on the general history of the Imperium and the Calixis sector? Or is it for them to read the information and use it for role-playing?

If your goal is to provide reference material they can pull out when they feel the need, then this works. Otherwise, if you want players to read this I would really shorten/eliminate some of the entries and expand others.

For example, you explain the death of Angevin and the rise of Drusus in two sentences, when you can safely omit it or just make it "Angevin dies and Drusus takes his place."

On the other hand, you just state "100-600.M36 THE AGE OF APOSTACY". Why is that relevant? Why would it be common knowledge? If you can't narrow it down to a sentence or two, it's neither common knowledge nor important.

The Haarlock and Sinophia bits of information seem better suited to a separate timeline focusing on Haarlock's legacy. I wouldn't group them as part of "common knowledge", they're more interesting bits in certain campaigns, but useless in other situations.

You also go on and list most of the steps undertaken to conquer the Calixis sector: Reaping the Emperor's Wrath, Second Front opened, Golgenna Consolidation, etc...

What purpose would this have in an individual's common knowledge? Who knows about when the different fronts were opened in WW2 other than history buffs? Most people know the major players and the outcome. Instead of the whole bit on Reaping the Emperor's Wrath, I'd focus on Angevin and Drusus as they are emblematic figures. People remember Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, focus on the characters not the myriad of events in a timeline.

Don't try to give as much information about an event as a player would want to know. Entice their imagination, but don't go into detail. Leave them curious, asking for more, that's what will drive them to ask you during play to elaborate more on those bits. It will make them more memorable as well. You'll also be better able to guage what parts interest them and focus your campaign in those directions.

As i wrote in the second post it is meant as a handout for the PC with the relevant Lore. (yeah i know it probably got hidden in there)

And i would se common lore war as a kind of half educated way of knowing of wars(ie a guardsman knowing of the wars of their homesector).

The Age of apostacy should not really mean anything except that it had something to to with the faith of the Imperium(hence why it is included in the imperial creed). Maybe should have wrote something like that. Thanks.

And some of the military actions, the crusade, would be central to the belief system in Calixis sector since it was the work of the major saint in the sector(and note about the start of the calixis sector being blessed by Sebastian Thor himself should be noted).

The Common knowledge Imperium is less "arrowed" in a direction so it does not take deep jumps into things concerning faith or wars. (except that they heard about "Reaping the Emperor's Wrath" and maybe not know what that plan was in "more" detail(without going in to scholastic lore), thats what CL War is for. (IMHO)

And i try not go into to much detail, there are quite much of that scattered about in all books...*sigh* (FFG pleasy fix this in to a summary or something)

But i do want the PC to know something about the world they play in before a session starts. It has happened to often people ask me "what do i know?". I hate that.

EDIT: should maybe say that i never start PC at rank one also, so they have some exp. of the world instead of being retarded children who knows nothing.

Cool, then I'd just fill in a little sentence description for each event/title that doesn't have an description attached. Just a note on why that particular event was noteworthy.