Okay, so I had an idea for a 40K novel series: it'd be kind of like Gaunt's Ghosts...

Okay, so I had an idea for a 40K novel series: it'd be kind of like Gaunt's Ghosts, except based around a Chaos warband that'd be more protagonist-friendly than most, in the same way that the Gaunt and the Ghosts are. Is this decent or idiotic?

Not at all.

There are proofs of Chaos Marines/Chaos Worshipers who are bro to each other even after a shitload of years in the warp.

Good to know. Another question: Do Dark Eldar have soul-harvesting technology that stores souls until they can be later consumed (I think they do, but I'm not positive), and would "show us how this tech works or we sacrifice you to Slaanesh" be an effective threat against any DE captives?

Honestly, I think just having an obviously Slaaneshi heretic just stand near a captured E or DE is enough. They don't even need to say anything to have an effect.

All right.

I don't think that this warband would have any CSMs in it; it'd be entirely a Lost/Damned affair, led by a powerful psyker who went to Chaos in large part because she wants to find a way to solve the problem of all human souls being doomed to be consumed by the Warp (also, daddy issues). There'd also be a newly-recruited heretek who's doing a lot of experiments with AI and warpcrafting in attempting to get a proof of concept for possibly building an actual Machine God, as she believes that the Omnissiah is yet to be made, instead of preexisting. And then they fuck.

sounds lewd

I actually stopped myself from including any corrupted SoB. But I'll still probably use the Ecclesiarchy as villains a lot; if any Imperial institution is riddled with evil bastards and apathetic, corrupt wastes of space beyond any real likely usefulness, it's that.

>There are proofs of Chaos Marines/Chaos Worshipers who are bro to each other even after a shitload of years in the warp.
ADB, please.

The Eyes generally not that bad to you unless you're weak. Not all of the legion fractured like the WE and EC.

>Not all of the legion fractured like the WE and EC.
Actually all of them, read Black Legion supplement.