The Emperor has sent a message through the Warp that he will be reborn on (Insert random Agri world...

>The Emperor has sent a message through the Warp that he will be reborn on (Insert random Agri world, which there are hundreds of worlds called).Every Pysker in the Imperium hears this.
>How does each faction react?

Civil War within the Imperium. People who believe verse people who don't.

Chaos wades in as well to capture the Agri-World to kill the False Emperor.

Eldar try to engineer this to benefit them.

Orks don't care.

Tau are unaware until someone tells them but are in all likelihood unable to do anything about it.

Necrons, like the Tau, are going to have to wait until they're told. The only difference is that they have a better shot at doing something about it.

Dark Eldar don't care.

Tyranids don't care, until the Astronomicon moves.

>The generic Agri world is really in Tau space.

It was a clever ruse by the emperor because he would be born on a completely different world to grow up on while the other forces slug it out on the other world

How would Chaos know which world is the one? The idea is there are hundreds of Agri worlds with this name across the entire Imperium.

Every Psyker in the Imperium heard the message.

Tons of people in the Imperium are Chaos people. And a fair percentage of those are Psykers.

You aren't understanding me. Their are Hundreds of worlds that COULD be the one the Big E chose. How does anyone choose which one?

The point is that he said "I'll be reborn on the agri-world known as Shoobledoo," when there are hundreds of worlds described by that sentence.

Names could be repeated, but Imperial designations would have to be unique or near unique for the Administratium to work.

Do you think the False Emperor wouldn't give the Imperial Designation that was given during the Great Crusade? There's a fair chance that's the only name he would know for the planet.

>Orks don't care.

DA BIGGEST BOSS O' DEM 'ARD HUMIE BOYZ!? LET'S GO KRUMP EM LADZ!

They'd hear it through the grapevine, though, because they have unique psykers.

>Orks don't care
That world is about to become the largest battleground in the history of the galaxy

>Dark Eldar don't care
Easy pickings for slave raids

That would be the smart thing to do, but we're talking about 40K and GW here.

Wouldn't I black ship find the emperor relatively fast if the emperor is born on a populated world. I mean they collect what 80% of all psykers so that they can be feed to the golden throne.


Also what if the emperor is reborn as a chick?

Then they would be the Empress.

Souls have gender.

>Dark Eldar
>Orks
>Don't care

Looks like you jumped the gun on your reply. Dark Eldar would absolutely skirt the edges of the conflict to pick as many slaves up as possible.
The Craftworld Eldar's Farseers would probably have seen the even in the web of fate and whatever happens from so massive an event would surely affect them, so they'd deploy to protect themselves as much as possible.

The Orks would all amass on that planet to fight one of the biggest battles the galaxy has seen. More and more would follow.

Genders have souls.

You're assuming that the planet was given a designation during the Great Crusade. The Imperium has conquered territory since then.

You're assuming that anybody other than the Emperor knows the planet by that designation.

Indeed. They are likely to pull a BS twist of "the planet used to be known by that name".

The largest battleground in the galaxy is unlikely to be a good spot for slave raids.

The systems nearby that had their forces pulled into the battleground are a different story.

Then there will probably be a schism in the Ecclesiarchy as they try to figure out whether or not the new God-Empress is still the Father of Mankind, the Mother of Mankind, or both the Mother and Father.

Or the gender non-specific Parent of Mankind.

>The Emperor takes over the Tau empire at age 15

Quick, someone call Japan, I have an Anime for them!

>Dark Eldar don't care.
U wot? That's the ultimate heist. Every archon in Central, Lower, Outer, and Satellite Commorragh (plus every non-Commorragh, webway archon, plus every real-space prince) would be scrambling and beginning to devise slave raids ready to claim every inhabitant of every human world with that name. Whomever gets the Big E would receive so much fame they would probably receive a handshake from Vect himself and sweet Lelith pootang on the side.

The only real question here is how baby emps gets out of Commorragh during all the backstabbing chaos as everyone tries to kill the archon currently possessing him.

>orks show up on the planet in mass
>dont start any shit
>just pull out folding chairs and wait for their chance to slug it out with the umie war god

>The Emperor is not trapped in Commorragh with the Dark Eldar
>They are trapped in there with him

Can you even begin to imagine how pissed off he would be?

Psykers are already dangerous beacons in Commorragh as it is. The Dark Eldar may have some fun hunting Baby Emps, but they sure as fuck would NOT bring back the psychic equivalent to the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Daemons would be swarming Commorragh like no tomorrow.

Not to mention Big E could probably punch Commoragh back into real space with just his dick.

They thought they grabbed some random kid. They didn't know!

I know that was the case with the Baron, but they contradict themselves on this point all the time. For example, the captured exodite worldsinger. Bringing in psykers is a risk because they can lead to a Disjunction or summon demons, not (iirc) because they are beacons (Shadowseers wouldn't risk their kin's lives if that was the case). Not that it matters anyways as Slaanesh is already breaking down Khaine's Gate.

Also, they have hundreds of ways of reducing or even eliminated (or amplifying) psychic presence. They even captured a planet of tyranids, zoanthropes included, to have it orbit around Central Commorragh as scenery, for goodness sake.

I found the note in question, for what it's worth. The concern is using them, but I think it definitely stands that emps would attract attention unless stored in a hex cage or stasis tube of some sort.

So yeah, definitely
>the psychic equivalent to the Lighthouse of Alexandria

In the case of the worldsinger, I believe that was by a conspiracy planning to overthrow Vect through methods that were already extremely dangerous, so I doubt they really cared much. As for Shadowseers and Tyranids, both are special cases; the former are shielded from Slaanesh by Cegorach, and the latter have the Shadow effect on the Warp, and so are probably not a daemon risk.

>My little emperor can't possibly be so cute

So they are. As for the worldsinger, I recall that feeding from her invited a daemon prince to return through the Shaa-dom Emperor's body.

Two other tangential notes I remember from that book is that 1) during the disjunction, the webway portals were shuffled to key to any other portal, many of which were exit points into the Warp itself, which is what led to massive invasion from daemons all through Commorragh, and 2) Shaa-dom is full of slaaneshi daemons and is still part of Commorragh but for its closed portal. I wonder why Slaanesh is seiging Khaine's Gate instead of Saa-dom's gate.

>Biggest and shootiest unified faction is tearing itself apart in civil war
>Every single other faction that isn't the tyranids is trying to get in on this
>The galaxy is on fire with even more war than normal
>The orks don't care

Dis foight is gunna be the biggest and dah shootiest of 'em all. Ain't proppa orky to shy away from dis golden opportoonitee. Not proppa orky at all.

Not according to literally every major religion on earth.

Has GW really said anything to the contrary in the fluff?

Maybe the way is completely closed in Shaa-dom, but Khaine's Gate is weak enough for them to bust through?

And then they could possibly be aiming to open the Commorragh-side portal of Shaa-dom to have those daemons flood in as well.

It really seems like the Dark Eldar are going to have the worst time come Rhana Dandra. Or, at least, they'll be one of the first to fall.

>Khaine's Gate is weak enough
Khaine's Gate is the singularly strongest and most reinforced gate in all of Commorragh. Vect alone has more than quadrupled the protections around it since his rise ever since Slaanesh began her siege. Of course, the gate is falling, but it just seems like there were easier ways that wouldn't take 1.5 millennia.

I'm going through the book right now to see what was up with Shaa-dom's gate.

The easy answer is probably that the codex writers already planned on using Khaine's Gate, and the inclusion of Shaa-dom came after, so they just kinda used both and only hand-waved the latter.

Also, I just remembered; the daemons in Shaa-dom came from an Imperial ship's gellar field causing a singularity or whatever when it exploded. So maybe it was only temporary and allowed daemons to pour in, but not enough to carry out the destruction that would wipe out Commorragh, which is why Khaine's Gate is more important; it's a direct, constant link to the Warp.

True on the latter, wrong on the former. Path of the Renegade was written well before the 7E codex (which had the first mention of Khaine's Gate).

As for Shaa-dom, the daemons came from the Warp rift that brought the imperial vessel - the exploding warp drive is just what destroyed the palace. It can be assumed that Vect, who opened the rift, then closed it after as the book makes no suggestion that demons can continue coming.

As for the gate to Shaa-dom, it appears to be just a regular portal. Pic related is quite literally the only mention of it. They walk through Talon Cyriix (the kabal that tried summoning daemons, then became trapped with them) which is in the upper part of pic related, and then it just scene skips to the lower part of pic related. Not a challenge at all. But, as you said, the daemons are just trapped in Shaa-dom; it's not a reliable rift into the Warp.

In no way would the imperial designation need to be unique... at least not as far as the planet name is concerned. For instance, there are 14 'Portlands' in the U.S. These are differentiated by the state that they are in, just like these hypothetical agri-worlds would be differentiated by the systems, quadrants, segmentums or whatever.

So if Big-E declares "I will be reborn on the world of 'Meatfactory!'," there could reasonably be thousands of planets he could mean.

Meatfactory being a hive world with a gigantic tithe and a high birth rate, presumably.

>Also what if the emperor is reborn as a chick?

He uses the same psychic projection s before. Gotta stand out from all the people going "I'm totally the emps reborn guys".

Though knowing GW, femprah is mistaken for an imporstor and killed, or ends up as the concubine of some noble of the planet as their ship flees the hellhole it's becomming.

Orks will immediately head for any world remotely similar to the emperor's description. The big humie boss is calling them out (they think) after all.

Eldar will either get the hell away from those planets. They will not attempt to harm the emperor as this will cost them too much for now.

Chaos will do the same as orks but for different reasons.

Tau will not get the message. If they do through a third party, they might attempt to kidnap the emperor and hold him hostage in return for the imperiums cooperation.

Nids might also try to assimilate the emperor and might be drawn ro his psychic signature.

Dark eldar will attempt to kidnap/kill/seduce the emperor for prestige or their own gains.

The imperium will be the interestong part. The ecclesiarchy and half the inquisition will not believe the psykers at first until the other half of the inquisition (which contains psykers and grey knights) convince them ofherwise. Astartes, having librarians will flock to these worlds.

Time to dig in