Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-192.138.62.36-20140116164341/@comment-24532429-20140211072320

Could the Old ones possibly have created the 'Nids? They are good at creating other races, they left the galaxy, and the hive fleets are coming from outside galactic space. If the Primarchs come back Chaos is in serious trouble. Russ, Johnson, Khan, Corax, Vulkan, and Guilliman would be hard to deal with. Not to mention the Aliens don't really have anything that compares to a Primarch so they would kinda be hosed too. Here's a far out one: The Emperor really does die. The Astronomican goes out and the stuff seriously hits the fan. The Imperium implodes. The resulting widespread anarchy and terror causes the forgotten Chaos God, Malal or Malice, to gain serious power. He kills one of the others. Most likely Slaanesh because he/she is fairly useless. This throws Chaos a curveball and now they have to worry about fighting themselves, as well as the rest of the Galaxy. In the interim the loyalist humans, Eldar, and Tau join forces to combat the recently suckerpunched forces of Chaos and the ever encroaching 'Nids. The Orks and Necrons are wildcards and cause headaches for both sides. Hopefully the psychic screams of Slaanesh's death just melts the minds of all the Dark Eldar and we don't have to worry about them. The Eldar show the humans and the Tau how to use the Webway so they can travel faster and get some cohesiveness with their worlds. The truce is supposed to last until the threat is gone but of course it doesn't end and alliances start to break down. Maybe one or two of the Primarchs come back and help the Imperium get back on track. But the humans lose a lot of worlds to Chaos, so the population takes a major hit.