# Preceding Hadrian's Lifetime

# ISD 15792 - Battle of Cressgard

First contact with Cielcin in the Year ISD 15792.

> By the time I was born, the Crusade had been raging for three hundred years since the first battle with the [Cielcin](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/cielcin) at [Cressgard](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/norma-arm/page/cressgard), but it was far away across some twenty thousand light-years of Empire and open space, out where the Veil opened on the Norma Arm.  
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> *Empire of Silence* - Chapter 1: Hadrian

> I blinked. “Five hundred years is . . . before first contact.” I meant the Battle of Cressgard in ISD 15792, when the Cielcin attacked our colonial fort settlement on the edge of the Marinus Veil. The loss of that colony had sent its horrible message careering across the Imperium, the temple fires burning on every world and the priests beside them crying out those fateful words: *We are not alone*.  
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> *Howling Dark* - Chapter 32: Saturn or Dis

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# ISD 15863 - Battle of Linon

Battle during which House Marlowe destroyed exsul House Orin on Linon, the moon of a gas giant in the Delos system. ISD 15863.

> Lord Hadrian’s grandfather, the [Archon Lord Timon](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/page/lord-timon-marlowe), was assassinated in ISD 15861 by a homunculus concubine gifted him by Yuen Starcrafts, a starship manufacturer aligned with [Delos](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/spur-of-orion/page/delos)’s exsul houses. They were outraged that Lord Timon had used his powers as the vicereine’s executor to secure a writ of monopoly for House Marlowe over all uranium mining in Delos System, destroying their profits. With the vicereine away at Forum, young [Alistair](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/page/lord-alistair-diomedes-friedrich-marlowe) was thrust into the role of system executor and into war with the exsul houses when they declared poine against the [Houses Marlowe](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/chapter/house-marlowe-of-delos) and [Kephalos](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/chapter/house-kephalos-of-delos). The other houses had underestimated Lord Alistair, however, and were crushed at the Battle of Linon in ISD 15863. [House Orin](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/chapter/house-orin-of-linon), the leader of the rebellion, was utterly destroyed, and system authority was more tightly concentrated in the planetary houses. For this and for defending her title, [Vicereine Kephalos](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/page/vicereine-duchess-elmira-gwendolyn-kephalos) married Alistair to her youngest daughter, [Liliana](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/page/lady-liliana-kephalos-marlowe).   
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> *Empire of Silence* - Dramatis Personae: House Marlowe of Delos - The Sword, Our Orator!

> Once when Father was little older than I, the vicereine—my grandmother—had been called to attend the Emperor at Forum. Thirty-seven years she was away, and she left the recently orphaned Lord of Devil’s Rest in her stead as executor. It had taken House Orin of Linon less than three years to begin refusing Father his tribute, and by the next year Lord Orin had raised an army among the exsul houses to depose my father and the absentee vicereine-duchess. They’d swarmed in from the outer planets in-system, falling from the sky like rain.
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> There had been no second year of Lord Orin’s rebellion, and the castle at Linon was home now only to ghosts, a shattered ruin in a twilit crater on a distant moon at the edge of Delos’s system. My father ordered the deaths of every member of House Orin, smashed their genestock, and raided their family atomics. He would have sown the earth with salt if it would have done any good on airless Linon. As it was, he only opened the windows of the sealed fortress and let the air out of the castle.   
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> *Empire of Silence* - Chapter 5: Tigers and Lambs

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# ISD 15987 - Battle of Bellos

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</div>> “It was the summer of ’987!” The announcer’s voice filled the coliseum, rebounding off the cheering masses with their banners and hand-painted signs, screams and shouts of “Devils! Devils! Devils!” nearly drowning out the artificially amplified tones. It was enough to wrench at even my attention. I knew the date, knew what it was we were about to see.
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> “The last men of the 617th were stranded on [Bellos](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/norma-arm/page/bellos), their ship crashed, their brothers and sisters slain! No one was coming to save them!”   
> *Empire of Silence*, Chapter 6: Truth Without Beauty

The survivors of the 617th Centaurine Legion repelled a [Cielcin](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/cielcin) horde that had ravaged the Bellos colony; Commemorated often in Colosso by having gladiators represent the Legions and the slaves, disfigured and painted white, to represent the Cielcin.

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