Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24821739-20140604204305/@comment-77.251.177.11-20140625172741

There appear to be several things that seem strange to me about the whole golden throne theory:

1) surely the astronomicon is powered by psykers and then guided by the emperor on the throne. but dont forget that this was a solution because the emperor needs his own power to shut the door to the webway. If the emperor should die then we can no longer shut this door (surely that would be bad for terra) but then there is no reason for him not to power his own astronomicon in the warp.

2) if the emperor should die then demons will apperently attack terra... but everyone knows that this will happen thus you can prepare for it. If you recall lets say 20+ space marine chapters to terra to hold the gate (after all its just one door to the webway so massive gunfire will not allow anything trough) then you might be able to hold them demons back for at least a while. furthermore what will stop the emperor from using his power in the warp to make sure nobody gets to said gate in the first place?

but then the whole emperor story makes little sense to me from the start... the guy has had about 50+ thousend years to learn how to deal with all maner of people and yet he seems to make quite basic misjudgements in people like the primachs. He seems to trust them enough to just let them go and kill about half the universe... but he does not trust them enough to warn them about the true goal of the great crusade (which is the spread of the imperial truth and as a consquence the weaking of chaos)? so evedently he was worried about the effect the forces of chaos had on the primarchs... so why not order them back to terra once every 5 to 10 years for (i dont know) some inspection? im sure the emperors unimaginable power would allow him to see the influence chaos will have had on his sons?