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Ive heard it said many times, that time has no meaning in the great eye. Ships fly in and come back out thousands of years later while only a few years have past on the ship. If this is the case has there ever been an instance in which people have gone back in time traveling in and out of the eye of terror?
I think i remember an instance in the eisenhorn series in which he travels forward and then back, during which he incounters the tyranids before the galaxy had first encountered them. But thats the only instance in which i can remember.

You don't have to traverse the Eye of Terror to travel backwards in time. Anything with the warp is enough.

I remember some Ork Boss did it. He launched a Waaagh, then accidentally had his entire army travel back in time during warp translation and encountered himself shortly before he wanted to make the jump.

Both armies clashed with each other as the Waaaghboss ordered his boyz to kill his doppelganger because he wanted a spare of his favourite gun.

The Inquisition once had an Ordos specifically centered around this phenomenon, called the Ordo Chronos, but they all mysteriously vanished one day.

There have been several ships that have arrived before they left. Usually it's not that big a deal, unless it is several centuries, rather than weeks or months.

I dont remember read any thing about these two circumstances, or about the ordo chronus. Was this pre 3rd edition?

Possibly, most recently mentioned in one of the FFG supplements.... I wanna say Edge of the Abyss but I could be mistaken.

Fists of the emperor wrote:Ive heard it said many times, that time has no meaning in the great eye. Ships fly in and come back out thousands of years later while only a few years have past on the ship. If this is the case has there ever been an instance in which people have gone back in time traveling in and out of the eye of terror?
I think i remember an instance in the eisenhorn series

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in which he travels forward and then back, during which he incounters the tyranids before the galaxy had first encountered them. But thats the only instance in which i can remember.

Spoiler Tags, man!
N.b. it was Ravenor.

Well, I know that a ship that goes through the warp can arrive before it left. So it might be possible in the Eye, but less likely.

Psienesis wrote:The Inquisition once had an Ordos specifically centered around this phenomenon, called the Ordo Chronos, but they all mysteriously vanished one day.

LOL irony.
Anyway, an Imperial Army Group (several IG regiments with Imperial Navy transports and escorts) meant for the Damocles Gulf Crusade appeared about 200 years after the crusade in Tau space and helped to fight back the Tyranids before turning on the Tau as their original mission intended. Does anyone know what happened to those guardsmen after they turned on the Tau?

I believe they went their separate ways after the fact, I think they may have won however...I know the story you're referring to, but i haven't read it in some time.

iGuy91 wrote:I believe they went their separate ways after the fact, I think they may have won however...I know the story you're referring to, but i haven't read it in some time.

I know the Tau and Humans won, I was just wondering what happened afterwards. I thought that they resumed fighting, but that would make me curious about the outcome of that battle.

I don't think being in the Eye of Terror has time go backwards for you. The Eye is not the Warp. It's a place where the Warp has overrlaped with realspace, but it's still in the Materium. Time just moves much slower in the Eye.

Harriticus wrote:I don't think being in the Eye of Terror has time go backwards for you. The Eye is not the Warp. It's a place where the Warp has overrlaped with realspace, but it's still in the Materium. Time just moves much slower in the Eye.

The Eye is basically the liminal space between real space and the warp.
Reality is twisted by the warp, sometimes time goes faster for you sometimes it goes slower.It also varies by degrees...
The Warp itself is unaffected by time...
Slannesh had a definite point of birth in real space but in the warp he has existed forever...

I believe in the ADB Nightlords novels from Talos' perspective only about 300 years have passed since the end of the heresy(wether this refers to the siege or the scouring is unclear) I believe this is noted down in the books as due to the effects of time spent in the eye.