Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-69.142.168.238-20140724005240/@comment-25177957-20140724105615

Well, the news of the arrival of the remaining loyalists legions were of a shock to Horus, he assumed the traitor legions he had ordered to delay the loyalists would have been sucessful. But they were not. I do like your idea though. Horus could have relied mostly on daemons and renegade imperial army soldiers on Terra, while his CSM held off the Ultramarines and Space Wolves, the Space Wolves were hardly weakened, however the Ultramarines were weak due to the Word Bearers' actions in the realm of Ultramar and the Dark Angels were never a large chapter. If Horus had somehow used the powers of the warp to cut the fleets off from eachother as they made their way to Terra and picked each ship off one at a time. Then the Emperor would have been pretty much screwed. You sometimes have to agree with Abbadon when he said Horus was a fool :D

But the Emperor also made a mistake by simply teleporting himself into a trap. You would think that he would be able to predict his enemies' movements. The Emperor could have had Malcador take over the Golden throne, but instead of teleporting on to the Vengeful spirit he could have destroyed the ship with a powerful psychic lightning bolt. Killing Horus with it. But of course the Emperor had to be all "fathelry love" and did not realize what sort of grim darkness the galaxy was, which would not allow such. By the time the Emperor learned this, it was too late.

What I wonder though, is what would have happened with humanity if Horus was victorious. Probably similar to what a xenos enclave told Alpharius once, that Chaos would use humanity up and feast upon humans for eternity. But what if these xenos were wrong? And Chaos actually prevented humanity from dying a slow, painful death 10,000 years later?