Ork history in Anargo

I'm not so sure. The Great Crusade lasted only a few centuries (200 years, IIRC), which means the Emperor's forces must have been in quite a hurry. I for one think that they must have focused on liberating human worlds rather than cleansing the stars of orks.

I would argue that any Ork worlds would be in Wilderness space and therefore beyond the Imperium's knowledge/reach. If the Imperium learnt of Ork worlds in the sector I'm sure they would either launch a crusade or get the exterminatus equipment out

One might assume that Ork worlds are present in the Anargo sector more than detailed in the "Ork Empire". Including them on Imperial worlds would be problematic at best. Including them in Imperial subsectors less so if one assumes that they lack the ability to remove themselves from the world...

Of course, if they happen to be inhabited 'prime territory' then you're going to run into a whole suite of problems...

I would just warn people that while we're trying to create an Imperial sector - amongst other things - that Orks aren't going to be popping up on every world, be in every Imperial subsector, etc. They're not all going to have access to interstellar travel, or even intra-system space resources, and they're not all going to be a threat to the Imperium. Indeed, many of them are going to be on worlds that are entirely hostile to human life...

Thus mentioning a few worlds as being 'inhabited by orks' is more than fine. But at this point let us not begin to detail them at the expense of other aspects of the project. As CELS says elsewhere, there are better things to do with our time. (Of course, if someone wants to detail one of these worlds in addition to creating an Imperial world, I'm all hunky-dorey with that idea. Indeed, now that Anargo is finished I'm tempted to do that myself!)

Kage

I've just been working on the date suggested by Sikkukkut back in the day, but this is now foggy, and one of the many important dates we need to set.

The main problem is reading through all the relevant threads and setting a date that doesn't conflict with anything we've previously decided, such as the founding of the Frost Bringers, the end of the Age of Apostasy (and the war with Meksum and Sargassos), the wars with the Alpha Legion, etc.

So many things to be done, and so little time

I seem to remember the M37 date was what we decided to go with, wasn't it? I'll check the other thread again.

My original idea was that Anargo was effectively ork-free up until Waaagh!-Tuskragga, when orks began spilling in from Cruciatine as Tuskragga passed close to the sector borders (think of a wave slopping over a riverbank after a speedboat has just passed by). Then after the Waaagh! was finally broken the warbands it broke don into spread out in all directions, and the ones that wound up headed for Anargo made a sort of second wave.

One thing to bear in mind is that Anargo has, at least in my own writing to date, never been on the receiving end of a Waaagh!, certainly not one on the scale of Tuskragga. Castellan sector had to fortify itself against a series of raids and conquest expeditions, some of them quite large, but none of them approached Waaagh! status.

In fact my original plan was that there were no ork-held world in Castellan at all until that time: the orks came in from Cruciatine and attacked the human worlds at the very edge of the sector, conquered them, and fought their way right through Castellan almost to the other side of the sub. The humans, with the aid of the Silver Skulls and a reversal in the Pendulum Tide, were able to stop them there and then push them back to the world that are now the ork empire, but could never dislodge them from the sector entirely.