Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-92.97.77.182-20130321145115/@comment-18016240-20141003144929

Hakster wrote: Then you're missing the point of Chaos within the Warhammer universe. It feeds off the negative emotions, so is impossible to "defeat" while the emotions exist. Given that humanity are the more widespread species in the universe (with the exception of orks, who don't respond to Chaos as they don't feel the emotions required), removal of humanity would remove the source of sustenance for the Chaos powers.

How would you expect to remove beings created from pure emotion without removing the source of the emotion? If you've read the Inquisition War trilogy, they try to use a being called the Hydra to unite the minds of infected people to force Chaos back, but without enslaving the will of all humans in the universe, it's otherwise impossible. I suppose I could have written it better, but I wasn't really reffering to Chaos per se, but rather the motivation behind the Alpha Legion's "fall". According to one theory an Eldar group called the Kabal told them about two situations (referenced above) regarding the struggle between the Imperium and Chaos, wherein it seems like either way humanity loses, so personally I'd rather take the way in whihc humanity at least exists slightly longer.

Yes, but the method is to put it blunty, kinda stupid. If the only way to beat Chaos permanently is to destroy or lobatomize the human race, then Chaos is just going to have to stay around, since arguably destroying humanity is the worse situation.