So i just finished reading path of Heaven and i gotta say its got some pretty good parts in it
one thing though is that the book was finished last year (the authors blurb at the end is marked 2015)
it answered one of the underlying questions about the entire series.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
>its got some pretty good parts in it
If you think that, I want to know what you think the best book in the HH series is.
gib spoils
The Navigators
so throughout lore and canon it states that the navigators are a necessary evil in the imperium and that the emperor having no other means to travel has to suck it up and use them but secretly hates them just like everyone else in the imperium
as we all know by now he gets 70% through conquering the galaxy and then goes back to Terra and begins working on the construction of his "human webway" project then a few years later Magnus fucks it up by accident
turns out that some of the navigator houses had heard rumours about this kind of thing and were actively working to sabatoge the project (plot point in the story)
the reasoning being that if the Emperor no longer needed Navigators he could have just killed them all, which he was planning on doing the first chance he got because they have so much power in the imperium
it also goes into detail about the navigators are being used by both sides and are the only ones other then ships that forces wont outright destroy and that gives them a kind of arrogant invulnerabilty. this is touched upon in other books about the creation of the Pariah assassins and the whole navigator house kicking up a massive shit fest and threatening to strike (which would fuck the crusade up)
hence why the emperor went to all the trouble to make it super secret, he was keeping it not from his sons but from the navigators, (hence why he explained to Magnus in Thousand sons) although he never tells horus (but then he probably didn't see the point in burdening horus with something that big
Emperor: Hey Horus i know you got a galactic crusade to run and co ordinate so i am just going to go build a webway portal using Ancient Alien technology so we no longer need navigators. yeah you can't tell them though because if they find out they will launch a civil war and that would be bad, so keep it super secret. also don't judge me for using alien tech...
i said its got some good parts in it, not that the whole thing was good. If i had to make a favourite i would either lean towards A Thousand Sons, Legion or Deliverance Lost
Consensus is that it's one of the top 5 HH books ever. Also
>Deliverance Lost
You sir, need to improve your taste. That story was bland as shit.
Well fuck, that makes a lot of sense given other examples of non-HH fluff.
I mean the Nav-Houses do tend to be a bit ruthless if the actions in the second Shira Calpurnia novel serve as an example
I really couldn't care less about this published fanfiction garbage.
At this point is the Heresy ever going to move on Earth? Are we ever going to get a battle for the Emperors Palace?
I realise that this would be the end of this tripe book series and the end of the cash cow but goddamn how is no one getting tired of
>On a distant world Primarch X has discovered an amazing Mcguffin
>This Mcguffin could change the course of the entire heresy
>Little does he know a strike force of Y and Primarch Y trailed him the entire way
>Will Primarch X be able escape with the Mcguffin or will Primarch Y take it from him
its set 4 years after Scars
well at this point they are delaying the release of the books to add tie ins from the Forge world books
(Krimzon king was supposed to be released 3 years ago but there was a delay with forgeworld because they had to work out sisters of silence and Custiodian armies and then rework magic)
add that to now they are adding "The Beast Arises" series and the new "
Primarchs" series
sorry sir but its looks like it is going to be a while
That actually makes sense and somewhat answers the most glaring flaw in the Emperor's plan, i.e. why not just fucking tell Magnus. I've always wondered why the Navigators don't have massive political capital in the Imperium.