Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20160524151005/@comment-4960835-20160918123834

Yep, that's it. Mirus Divided happens after the Hand of Ruin happens after Marinus' Rebellion.

And as for the HofR plot: Ecoraptor3339 wrote:
 * Massive anti-Xonexi sentiment allows the Hand to get into power. Harbingers of this were the Triumvirate of Mirus and the Mendel Pact secretely but fully supporting the Talven in Marinus' Rebellion.
 * The Hand convinces Ord Acaya, Supreme Empyreal to support him as the new Walgolorian leader, playing on Ord's slightly croocked way of doing things, and promising him greater power and position.
 * Defeats first Comacar, then Barda in battle, taking both their positions, before Ord and the Council of W'alor exile Lwerian'ca and his clan for failure.
 * Phase-Hunter escapes into the outer reaches, as Kirta suits up to take on HoR, intent on avenging her father, unwittingly gathering a following of supporters from more moderate clans.
 * Unbeknownst to the Covenant of Mirus, foul beings from beyond (=Darkling Brotherhood/Qliphoggr?) have corrupted roughly half of the Hegemony's military, leading to a civil war. The Commandos, who have for the mayority have become Dark Koatria themselves after the Koatria massacre, decide to stage a coup. The astartes are sundered, with some staying loyal, others being corrupted, and others, sickened by the Hegemony's actions, defecting over to the Mirusians to fight along with the Olympians who used to be their brothers.
 * Word of the absolute mess the Hegemony is in reaches the Olympians via these deflecting astertes. They duly report it to the Covenant as is their duty. The Hand launches into an oratory that the Mirusians should not allow this corruption to reach the Hegemonic holdings in Mirus and between the lines practically advocates annexing them, before restoring order to the greater whole. Trying to appease the Hand, the Covenant lets him.
 * The Hand sends a retribution force into the Hegemony's Mirusian holdings. With the aid of a well-planned Olypian offensive, he's successful, and the Olympians (not just the Brazen Bulls) join his quest.
 * Once in Andromeda, beyond the scrutinizing eyes of the Covenant, the Hand breaks his promise and starts straight-up murdering everything related to the Hegemeony he comes across in revenge for the Koatria massacre. His own sub-commanders behave much more courteously and the Olympians who came with them begin to question the Hand's motives. Driven by vengeance themselves, the Koatria Protectors, who deployed their full force alongside that of the Hand to fight the Commandos, yet don't. The Olympians stay with the Hand, but only to resque any civilians they can - so the Hand can't slaughter them.
 * Basically, a clear-cut war breaks down into utter confusion. Skorezny, ashamed off his failure and realizing what his actions have done, kills most of the very Commandos he helped train. A small minority escape into Mirus and fully embrace the dark gifts the Darklings have bestowed upon them. Skorezny leaves in pursuit and becomes a bounty hunter in Mirus, fighting for the highest bidder.
 * Since the perpetrators of the massacre are either dead or have fled back into Mirus and Skorezny having more-or-less redeemed himself, the Protectors advise the Hand to retreat too and aid in hunting down the remaining Commandos, who have become a danger to everyone. The Hand refuses and continues the counter-massacre. The Procectors quit and leak word of what the Hand in doing to the Covenant (while in a ironic twist of fate, Skorezny joins the Protectors' ranks?).
 * Ammox dies in battle against the Brazen Bulls when the Hand's forces land on Durac, and they advance on the Imperial Palace with the objective of killing Marius and ending the Hegemony. The Hand fails to reach the inner chambers of the palace Marius is in due to Rakar quite literally flooding the place. When asked to purge them, the Grey Hunters collectively say "Screw this, we're not helping you any longer" alongside the other Olympians and withdraw with the surviving Hegemonic astartes and civilians, leaving the Hand to his fate. The Hand nearly -is- killed, but is saved by Kiun, Ryaler, and Saren. Unbeknowst to all of them, Marius has already gone down fighting the Dark One, and Durac is lost to the infernal hordes. The Hand's retribution fleet is badly damaged and is forced to retreat too, but is not fully destroyed.
 * The rest of the Hegemony's military leadership is scrambling to fix the situation. Marius, being much longer lived then any Zozer in history and being an amazing leader, becomes the focus of a new religious cult created by a Sophia Jamduar, who has become almost mad with grief over his death. The cult prays for Marius's return and a return to order and the collective pool of psychic energy births a new being. It looks like Marius but is devoid of his good qualities. Compassion and mercy are replaced by cold arrogance and a desire to crush all of reality under his heel. Basically a new sub-group of demons, though they look "angelic" being white and gold colored, smooth and metallic, and with wings. Sophia is rewarded for her devotion and becomes the second-in-command of this new group, essentially transforming into an arch-angel. Despite this change, she retains most of her memories, and blames the Mirusians for Marius's death and the fall of the Hegemony. She also takes the Andromedan heartlands back from the Darklings and transforms it into a theocracy where free thought is forbidden.
 * Ulrac Cale and Vassilus Orkan are in charge of what's left of the old Hegemony. While the colonies in the Quadrants still stand strong, the Hegemony's overall power has been broken, with the colonies in Mirus having fallen to Hand, and the Plazith colonies ending up expunged in the civil war between the Marius Sect and the Darkling Cults.
 * Back in Mirus, the Protectors have successfully leaked word of the Hand's doings to the Covenant, and he's ordered to stand trial. Instead, he breaks off all contact with the outside universe and prepares for war.
 * The Hand asks the rest of the Triumvirate to join him "in his righteous struggle that will see everything the Triumvirate has ever hoped for archieved". The Zarbania Powers flat-out refuse, and the Persan virtually piss on him.
 * The Hands sends two of the Walgolorian commanders, Kiun and Ryaler, to set up shop with an advance retribution fleet near France/Eldarisia. They defy his orders, break off contact, and form their own mini-empire enclaves, later joining up with Kirta's forces.
 * Learning of their treason, the Hand then sends the third commander, Saren, to deal with them. No idea what happens.
 * The Franco-Eldarisian-Draconid-TIAF-Waptorian blockade is erected in response to the Hand's bellicose fleet movements. The Hand finds himself trapped in his ex-Tyranny territories with no way out.
 * Phase-Hunters appears to the Peacebringers, other Olympians, and the newly-renamed Hegemonic astartes delfector groups, and leads them to join Kirta.
 * Takanuis leads the Koatria Protectors to join Kirta's forces. Angand'r gets long too (which is utterly irrelevant in the wider sheme of things but I throw it in here because it happens). Coupled with all the supersoldiers Phase brings in, this causes Kirta's formerly meagre army to become an actual elite fighting force.
 * Kirta leads a force into the Ruin's Hand capital, who are the last remaining remnant of the Proditkar Movement at this point after the Cicle of Sins caused their own doom and the Citadel has been defeated two conflicts before this conflict and re-absorbed into the Waptoria. She directly challenges Lorka Gredyc, triumphing over him in battle, and claiming ownership of the entire organization. Next, she convinces another Mendel splinter group, the Tul'kaarin, to join her, after their second-in-command removes the leader from power. As she does so, Rexsuta, fresh from cleaning up the Warrior-Hunter house, joins her, along with the successor to Nantau'vo'kush.
 * Making her intentions fully known, Kirta declares open war upon the Hand's retribution forces, and demands he step down and accept his punishment at her hands. The Hand, obviously, refuses.
 * The blockade ultimatum expires and the Hand has not relinquished to the F-E-D-T-W's terms. The Covenant attacks.
 * Kirta's forces directly engage too, and make a beeline towards the Multus Esse installation he's set up shop in as his capital. Big battle ensures, the Hand dies.
 * Kirta takes command of all Mendel and starts restructing them into a unified empire. When asked if they would like to stay with their Mendel conquerors, the formerly Hegemonic Mirus colonies say no and join the Federation instead (who thus get the Hegemonic races added to their species roster in addition to the Tyris ones, which they already had to begin with). This gives the Federation a much-needed power boost and perhaps drives them to be granted full represantation. The Quadrantia Hegemonic loyalists eventually end up limping back to the side of the Mirusians. Otto Skorezny, true to his word, loyally helps the Koatria in hunting down the last remaining rogue Commandos, but, refusing to have anything more to do with the Hegemony, settles down in Zarbania and rebuilds his own commando work from there on out - he just can't shake off his passion for thrill and adventure.