Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6589306-20130610072240/@comment-91.183.110.50-20130613162545

If the Golden throne did die out, then there would be no way to use warp travel in the usual way?...not very accurate, in the dark age of tech, the humans did colonize the universe without the A. so warp travel would be limited but not impossible, astropaths would still be able to communicate (no need for the A there). the webway portal would collapse and daemons would roam free in the webway for a little while (the eldar/harlequins would shut the gate out of self preservation) but this is fairly irrelevant to the empire anyways. the Nids would start focussing on the next best thing in terms of psychic light, this being the Maelstrom/eye. this would be a cataclysmic battle twixt nids and chaos leaving the empire time to reorganize and 'explain' the emperors ascendancy to the warp 'to fight evil on its home ground' or whatever. this would then allow the Space Marines to nibble away at all the Orcs and smaller insurrections etc and actually allow them to wait out the royal rumble of nids and chaos and clean up the remnants. Tau are still a nuisance but neglible.

if the star child theory is tue then the only benefit from that will have to wait +-5k years to fully psychically mature into an emperor worthy of the name. taken into accout the numerous prophesies of a mysterious golden warrior saving the emperor he might actually be a near corpse without a throne, so all of his pent up psychic energy could be directed at repairing himself in time to lead the empire against a severely weakened chaos/nid and the crusade could spring anew, the removal of such a potent psychic beacon, if only temporarily could rouse the necrons fully aswell, resulting in a mass rising of theyre forces aswell and since they want the same thing they would hate the guts out of nids more then anything. basically the nids are f*cked. so it kinda boils down to this.

-Imperium in dissaray for about a century and losing positions all the while

-nids raiding towards the eye/maelstrom virtually unnoposed

-chaos rising up to stellar levels till the nids reach them

-mega battle twixt nids and chaos

-eldar love the show

-necrons rise

-necrons beat the crap out of the nids behing whilst the chaos pummel the face

-orcs have fun as they always do and reign supreme over theyre pocket empires

-finally the empire is driven down to cluster empires around the smchapters

-here is where the primarchs are roused and the emperor regains himself

-the necrons and chaos prove to be no match for the onslaught that is the nids and the gods have no other option then to close the eye/Maelstom

-almost half the hive fleets are sucked into the warp and the better part of the leftovers are picked up by the necrons (who are also very much reduced by the fighting)

-due to the bloodletting of those three factions neighter are really in a ready position to endanger anything, and the eldar have bloody vengeance on any strays

-the orc empires are reduced to rubble one by one by a resurgent empire

-by this time everyone is beaten to such a pulp the nothing happens for a millenium, the emperor creates Space marines MkII and realises the dream of a united human universe absorbing the Tau tech

-new Horus Heresy because he didnt learn from his mistakes and trusts selfrighteous warmongerers to stay loyal lapdogs.

-rinse and repeat.