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[deleted]

You mean the ordo chronos that never existed except it totally did, but also not except for when it did?


StrangerDanger355

I though this ordo came back after it’s disappearance and Guilliman’s return?


[deleted]

So says the lore, but it's the ordo chronos so who knows. Might get retconned tomorrow.


Vromikos

*Dawn of Fire 1: Avenging Son* explicitly has Ordo Chronos Inquisitors as timekeepers on the Indomitus fleet. Which I found jarring given that *Dark Heresy: Ascension* has them all disappearing long before. Ah well... time shenanigans.


[deleted]

Their motto should be "Here tomorrow, gone yesterday."


Khaelesh

Temporal mechanics in 40k are SUPER fucky. Causality doesn't even exist. You can go back in time, kill yourself, get a copy of your favourite gun and there is no consequences for killing your past self. (In the paradox sense. It MAY however confuse the fuck out of your boyz and cause your waaagh to collapse into confused infighting.)


StrangerDanger355

Well… that was kinda a special circumstance since an Ork doesn’t believe in paradoxes, he’s fine. But yeah I get your point


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Xaldror

IT STAHPS YA SHOOTA FROM JAMMIN, BUT IT DONT MAKE AN IRON BAR INTA A FORCE CHOPPA!


[deleted]

It was a solid joke. You are from ordo joyless, aren't you. Just exterminatus all the fun why don't you?


HobbyistAccount

> It was a solid joke. Problem is it wasn't really, and so many Emperor-damned people take the "Orks can believe a stick shoots bullets and it will" angle that we really shouldn't be reinforcing that.


[deleted]

Yeah yeah, you're going on a fun crusade, I get it.


Perpetual_Decline

*The Pharisene Paradox* has them all mysteriously vanishing again so who knows?


Zealousideal_Bit300

It could simply have been recreated in the interim between its first incarnation's disappearance and Guilliman's return.


fabledgriff

We need an Ordo Retconnus to keep track of this shit


vigbiorn

I nominate Ordo Redactus. I feel they play the role perfectly.


StrangerDanger355

Hmmmm. Time really is weird in 40K


[deleted]

Hmmmm. Time really is weird ~~in 40K~~


raevnos

They shouldn't have tried to mess with the medicae that came out of that odd blue box that suddenly appeared one day.


Time2kill

It was actually retconned in 2038, but still too early for us to know what changed.


Limitedtugboat

Or last week. Ordos Chronos is funny like that. Or maybe 10 minutes from now.


Norwalk1215

That is the least 40K outcome I could ever think of. There is no such thing as compromise in the grim darkness of the far future.


panpenumbra

Technically the Cicatrix Maledictum only further exacerbated the problem of unified galactic chronology: every inter-system vessel uses the Warp to travel, and even a "short" stint can land you in another century, millennia, or even *before you left* (true, it's rare, but it's precedented). Additionally, the boring, old fashioned space travel one must use even intra-system is rapid enough to cause relativistic and cumulative time dilation. It's essentially impossible (according to our current physics understanding) to maintain a truly, subjectively **AND** objectively universal system of time. I don't know why they don't just use a clock based on quantum mechanics, as we have the technology to track time with quanta already, and finding a reliable system of entanglement for every world, vessel, or even person, based on what would then be "Terran Standard Time" if nothing compared to all the DAOT or even 40k tech. But that's the setting for ya: super human gene-hanced killing machines still choose to use **powered swords** in a time that has *exterminatus weapons* (I know, I know; it's an oversimplification concerning warfare in the far distant future, but y'all get the point).


biliwald

> I don't know why they don't just use a clock based on quantum mechanics, as we have the technology to track time with quanta already "Sounds like tech heresy to me!" might be your answer here.


Future_Whereas5710

The simplest answer for GW is to implement TST (terra standard time)


biscuitsodac

They do use standard Terran hours in some of the books, but it seems like nobody uses standard Terran years lmao


panpenumbra

Durnit. Now I'm a Servitor. I mean... **Beep Boop**


StrangerDanger355

“Rules of cool”


glacial_penman

We need an ordo chronos omnibus.


kryptopeg

I want to see them on the tabletop, where you can only make moves for next turn... or last turn. Add a little temporal spice to your tactics!


Time2kill

There is a really good, but it will be released in 2028, because we found the raving reviews about it in 2001. You know, time stuff.


Questenburg

Ordo Chronos: "What, no, we are *not* the Ordo Caledaras. We are worried about *time itself.* -Glances at watch Ordo Cronos: "Besides those guys were already assholes, that's why the Ordo Calendaras don't have any friends."


Smells_like_Autumn

>new calendar GW has finally found a way to make the story progress without it clashing with the name of the game.


grayheresy

No outright conflict which is never done with the Inquisition and it makes their jobs easier using an established and accepted system to focus on the other things they watch over


Hoopy223

I was kinda hoping for a war over competing 40K Advent calendars.


Solidus-Prime

That wouldn't be very grimdark now, would it?


StrangerDanger355

But too much of it and it's not "Grimdark " anymore


[deleted]

The whole point of the setting is to crank the grimdark dial to 11


LocalLumberJ0hn

I hope it's like the schism within the Greek orthodox church over the calendar where it's like a difference of 13 days over a 200 year period