Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20140911102114/@comment-6078851-20140917142017

if humanity were extinct there would be no race to fill the gap? are you forgetting that there are/were many species that had empires, some of them fairly large and pretty much all of them with aspirations of completely populating the galaxy? humanity is the race that has made them (currently) 'minor' races or has completely wiped them out.

if humanity went extinct now then granted, the emotional contributions from other races would be a fraction of humanity's and it would be a while before the gods had the same volume of feeding, but without humanity every race is then given the opportunity to 'grow' and in time (time being something the gods have ample of) that emotional contribution would rise again as the 'humanity gap' gets filled with a multitude of new galactic faring species.

if humanity had already went extinct then the galaxy would be teeming with different, numerous and emotional species. the gods would still be tending their 'garden', achieveing the same level of power, only instead of having one main flower to cultivate they would have many.