What if Horus had won?

What if Horus had won?

why does 30k-art always look so shitty?

The Imperium would be at the mercy of 9 legions, driven insane and twisted by chaos. Once Horus had won, I would expect that most of the Traitors would scatter away, driven to pursue their own acts and whims.

Horus would carve out a brutal, despostic empire centered around Terra. Depending on how much willpower he possessed, and if anything of the original Horus remained, it would be the most stable, albeit tainted to its core with the touch of chaos.

Fulgrim and Angron would naturally but heads, lead to their fracturing, and later them spliting off from the dark imperium.

everything explodes everywhere forever as chaos collapses onto itself

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CG modeling. Perfect proportions, no soul.

It was better back when it was a little goofy and wonky but the art also conveyed the spirit of the setting.

Then the galaxy died.

First off all it wouldn't be called the Horus Heresy.

This but i think Horus would become a Demonlord at some point (like most of the other traitors). Warp Storms and the Eye of Terror spreads.

Whats not devoured by Chaos is a bunch of Chaos Warlords endlessly fighting each other.

Orks and Nids are far stronger because there is no unified force stopping them.

Oh and the Eldar are probably hunted to extinction.

Once Chaos gets it's mitts on your brain, there's no more getting along for you. Horus would be a shitty administrator, his planets would be piles of rubble as his followers fought one another over scraps, and the other traitor Primarchs would start carving out fiefdoms because they'd no longer have a unifying cause and because they'd have fucking mutant tentacles growing out of their brains and peeking from their ears.

It's basically as described in the book Legion. Without Order, Chaos just burns out, like what happens to fire when the fuel is gone.

Some more sweet Blance art