Realistically, what are the chances this guy will finally wake up?
Do you think GW will ever move the ship forward and make some serious changes like the return of a loyal primarch or another serious development for the Empire (not "oh no the tyranids are coming™ to Holy Terra" tier, but "sanguinius just came out of the warp alive" tier), or is this setting destined to be perennially stuck in 999.M41?
Yes, yes, I know what's important in WH40000 is the players' stories and the setting is just precisely a setting where everything is in background to let the players have fun, but after a while it becomes stale and stagnant.
With the discovery of the Golden Throne's deteriorating state, a dozen contingency expeditions have been launched by the Cult Mechanicus, including a Xanthite war procession sent through the Exhubris Portal. The Xanthite fought through Harlequin Troupes and Daemon hordes alike before reaching their intended destination. In the grave-cold oubliettes beneath Commorragh, a dark bargain is struck.
>is this setting destined to be perennially stuck in 999.M41? It is, stop asking.
Bentley Lee
Came here to post this.
The problem with the Emps dying is that humanity loses it's central "light house" and warp travel/FTL communication becomes and utter mess. Which is exactly the same trick WizKids tried with MechWarrior Dark Age, and it was shit. >let's take our massive, hundreds and hundreds of planets and systems space opera setting, and reduce it to a few local systems in some mock-feudal method >Brilliant!
So I doubt the throne will fail/Emps will die. BattleTech used to be 40ks main competitor for a while anyway.
Which means, OP, that if GW is trying to do some AoS-type dramatic shift forward in the setting, it's very likely they'll revive the Emps in some fashion. Hopefully no one gets assblasted about mentioning AoS in a 40k thread.
Luis Walker
Yeah that's what I'm referring to. It happens in 999.M41. That dark bargain is gonna take decades IRL to get done.
Julian Hill
Well if you think about the number of primarchs that are either in staisis, missing or some other excuse for not killing them off entirly, then it seems very possible that GW will bring them back.
Ryder Young
>discovery of the Golden Throne's deteriorating state
What do you wanna bet that the emps is powering down the life supports influence on him before coming back alive.
Caleb Gutierrez
>Emps is powering down life support to come back to life >Mechanicus takes this instead as a sign that he's dying >now they've made a Dark Pact with the DEldar >so the still presumably weakened Emps is now subject to whatever xenotech the Mechanicus got
Dark Emperor Rising. This is what the primarchs will return for.
Alexander Johnson
That's at once dumb and rad as all hell.
Brayden Sanders
Maybe the Emperor's willingly lowering his own life support to stop attracting tyranids like bugs to a nightlamp? And I wonder what the repercussions of the general populace learning about the tyranids' motive would be.
Alexander Lopez
God can we just start the 40k end times already. For fuck sake just shut the lights off bring the primarchs back.
Stop fucking teasing me GW you know you want to do it. Just get it fucking done.
Brody Wood
When was the last time any of the primarchs did something that actually impacted the plot, anyway?
The traitorous ones are constantly jerking off in the eye of terror, while half the loyal ones are sleeping or dead and the other half fucked off to do weird stuff like finding >the tree of life
Jonathan Ross
Angron and magnus had so so succsess. Perturabo is vital to Abbadddons plans. Mortarion lost his heart. Fulgrim is bored, and Lorgar is meditating. As far as loyal ones, Vulkan had his episode in Beast rises series. If we are to trust rumors, alongside plastic demon primarchs, loyal ones will be coming also.
Evan Butler
Aren't they coming back according to rumors?
James Adams
My head canon is that the emperor was going to become a powerful new warp God when he died, and Tzeentch orchestrated the Heresy so that the emperor would get wounded and his subjects would lock him in the chair.
The 13th black crusade, unbeknownst to Abandon, is actually a plan to restore the failing chair.
Justin Cooper
You know that is actually disturbingly fitting into the Ynneead legend of the Eldar. If we were to believe the theory that Ynnead will actually turn out to be the Emperor himself.
Lincoln James
>Splits the Imperium into two seperate factions as the Ynemperor returns, his body hijacked by the Eldar, and pardons the Eldar race after eating Slaanesh >Those who accept the Eldar intergration into the Imperium, bringing along their Webway travel, Wraithbone and Psychic Training. >And those lead by the deathwatch/Ordos Xenos, who fight against them
Kevin Jenkins
I doubt Emps will resurrect. It just seems to me that he could reincarnate without much trouble if the Imperium could sack up and have enough faith in Emps to let him die.
Aaron Bennett
I can dig it
but doesnt that sort of make The Emperors Text to Speech device cannon?
Carter Baker
>And those lead by the deathwatch/Ordos Xenos, who fight against them No human would go against the Emperor, even if he just woke up one day and went "actually the xenos and the mutants aren't that bad". He's God to them, him telling them they've been wrong for ten thousand years would be immediately accepted and they'd instantly start to comformize to whatever he says to do.
Keep in mind that the Emperor's power at his peak was so strong that his mind could be seen from all the corners of the galaxy as long as one had some psychic ability. He directly fueled the astronomican with his bare mental power.
Julian Powell
Waiting for "Age of Emperor" w40k?
Isaiah Moore
Who would the Emperor even reincarnate into?
>inb4 guilliman or cato sicarius
Caleb Brown
>The glorious Cato Sicarius >Ever allowing a lesser being such as The Emperor to tarnish his name
Alexander Ortiz
Nah, ITEHATTSD Emps is 100% the emperor. In this case, its Yneed taking his body and prancing around pretending to be the Emperor, while aided by Cegorach.
Caleb Lewis
>Vulkan had his episode in Beast rises series.
What is Vulcan up to anyway?
Andrew Hernandez
Doing things you know how Vulkan is probably has a farm or something
Oliver Wilson
What about that guy who wrote about 50k? >The Emperor watched as his dream died. >He watched, as the Imperium descended into a living parody of what He wanted. >He watched as science was treated as sorcery. >He watched as temples were built in His name. Not schools, or hospitals. >He watched as Trillions died crying out in His name. >But No More. >The Emperor died. >And a God was born. >The psychic shockwave swallowed Segmentum Solar. >And what replaced it was called... >The Eye of Despair.
Daniel Brooks
Isn't the chance to create ynnead ruined now that the infintiy circuits destroyed?
Thanks eldrad.
Matthew Campbell
The only good thing about 50k was all the remaining IG regiments and space marine chapters joined the Black Templars for one last crusade against all the shit one last time
Caleb Hernandez
Or perhaps he's wondering why he would shut off the life support before throwing himself into the warp
Luke Reed
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Owen Harris
The Emp doing anything is supposed to be big news. Which is why Beast Arises is supposed to be so good, there's supposed to be a lot of buildup and then Emp saves the day then goes back to bed. As for will the Emp ever wake up, Black Library has released too many waste of space codexes when they were trying to rump up the gun waving crazy fun. At their rate they may actually have to get Big E out of the chair. think of WH as it is now- now declare the new Great Crusade. Sound like fun, right? The big time reunification road tour featuring Elvis. It'd take a whole codex and another half dozen books just when they reach the Eye and meet the all day all night Gwar War.
Jacob Sanders
>but doesnt that sort of make The Emperors Text to Speech device cannon? You claim it is NOT CANON! HERESY!
Landon Walker
The only two things confirmed were: >A piece from the ritual took refuge in the webway. >Eldrad is now at the top of the Imperium's shitlist.
Adrian Mitchell
>Which is exactly the same trick WizKids tried with MechWarrior Dark Age, and it was shit.
And the same reason why MegaTraveller was criticized.
Michael Rivera
>Beast Arises Beast Arises is set in M32. We're mostly talking about M41 Emperor.
Ethan Roberts
>Will GW ever Age Of Sigmar 40k? Probably.
Brandon Flores
At least he can write a theory. Who are you, GW CEO?
