Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8881468-20150204091114/@comment-6078851-20150214163810

i'm definitely hoping that the upcoming 'end-times' makes some major changes, but i've been a fan of 40k, and have seen the plot go nowhere (besides filling in backstory), for over 20 years and so i'm half expecting any changes to be a bit of a cop-out: i'm hoping for the best but expecting the worst - but the changes in fantasy seem to be quite major so that could bode well for 40k. i don't think that killing off emps would kill the game though: there would still be the remnants of imperial gaurd and navy whose numbers would still be vast), and returned pimarchs to lead the astartes, as well as a multitude of human empires trying to maintain a semblence of the imperium - and though it would suck for customers i can totally see gw releasing as many codexes as they think they can get away with. and as mentioned humanity already created a huge galactic empire without emps or astartes, which is the empire emps was trying to put back together, so a human empire doesn't really need emps. and without emps and the imperium i'd agree that the primarchs might try to rebuild the legions.

regarding the dark age of technology: i'd love to be able to read about that empire - when it began, how well it's societies functioned, how it managed to cope with the scale of the empire without astronomican-aided warp travel, and the level and breadth of its technology of which not much has survived to 40k, yet a lot of what has survived baffles 40k's scientific understanding. and the men of iron as well as anything else that happened way back yonder. as far as i know there are almost no records about the dark age of technology so if stories were written then the writers would have almost free reign, which could be a two-edged sword - they could be awesome stories or they could suck. but regardless, i'd love for some light to be shed on 'ancient history' :)