Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-88.114.255.138-20130111160957/@comment-88.156.136.9-20160226222627

Emperor in the warp is equal to all 4 chaos gods, has been discussed and proven multiple times. Khorne alone will get brutally murdered and simply cease to exist if the fight was to be a 1v1. As for the fate of humanity, there is few possible outcomes.

A) Emperor dies becomes a single most powerful warp entity ever seen and lays unbelievable smackdown on Chaos gods most likely neutering if not outright destroying them.

B) More probable. The Emperor simply comes back to life. There are 2 major theories on how. One is that he is a perpetual (highly hinted by book "Vulkan Lives"), or he simply chooses to be reborn again. That begs the question, if he can be reborn why won't he do it now?. The anwser is rather simply really, one is that terra will be overrun by demons from webway project and two it will likely cause the humanity to split if a random guy came and claimed to be Emperor of mankind. Then there is also the issue of Astronomicon. The emperor probably sees the problems his return might cause. And chooses to play a long game rather then loose all his pieces in a reckless movie. If he returns, major changes will happen in the imperium. All religions will be banned, most likely by force. Emperor will fix the  Astronomicon since he himself builded it. And he can focus on  bringing back the tech from dark age of technology, since he lived and learned during those times it is no issue for him. He can improve the space marines gene-code, and reform the legions. The imperium is slowly but surely gaining on strength. With the new tech they can easly steamroll most other factions into the ground. Since imperium is a secular empire based on human superiority, chaos will slowly starve to death like the emperor intended. As for xenos, the tau empire gets crushed. Orks will most likely be used as a temporary shield against tyranids. In the end it will come down to blood fight between Tyranids,Necrons,And Reborn Imperium. From there its anyone's guess how it will go down.Too many variables.

That being said. It is probable that the return of the emperor might happen in M42. The dark eldar agreed to help mechanicus in fixing the webway project. That means that if the Emperor leaves the throne, terra will not go down in flames. Also Cypher returned and begged the emperor for forgiveness, and the emperor gived him a mission. Also the fact that throne itself is weakening, and Emperor can no longer afford to be stigmatic.