Every empire begins as a story someone chose to believe.
Explore the wars, doctrines, worlds, and unresolved signals that shaped the Reach from the King's arrival to the present fracture.
Explore the Lore
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Timeline
The complete chronology of the Reach
The Dominion
Glory Through Power
The Reformation
Order Through Control
The Remnant
Keepers of the King's Memory
The Eclipse
Ancient Shadows Return
The King
The Vanished Sovereign
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The Galaxy
Worlds, Systems, and Civilizations
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Pirates & Outcasts
Those Who Bow to No Banner
A kingdom,
then a fracture.
Trace the Reach from the Eclipse Wars to the scorched colony where your story begins.
Historical periods
0 A.K.
The Eclipse Wars End
The Vanquishing
The King, wielding power unlike any seen before or since, drives back the ancient and insidious Eclipse race - beings of shadow and mind, who sought to unmake the cosmos itself.
Key events
- The final battle is said to have split a star in half.
- The remnants of the Eclipse vanish into myth.
- The King establishes the Throneworld of Lyr, the center of a unified galactic order.
- This moment marks Year 0 A.K. (After the King)—a new calendar begins.