Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-6078851-20130406001402

i don't know what the removed reply said but when i said "words are a poor medium for thought, but for now they're all anyone has.", i should have added "and they should be used wisely and consideretly."

i see a parallel here with another sci-fi franchise.

the emperor (lightside) was uniting the galaxy under the banner of truth, peace and happiness to all. all was going swimmingly and order was progressing until chaos got it's claws into horus (darkside) and by laying the emperor low he brought balance back to the galaxy, neither side in the ascendancy.

given that humans aren't good or evil but harbour the capacity to express either, if everything positive is brought forth then for balance to be achieved everything negative must also be brought forth.

look at the eldar, they had reached the pinnacle of their civilisation and were ultimately 'good', and then balance was restored with the dark eldar.

the primarch project, they were all 'everything positive' and then later balance was restored when half of them became 'everything negative'.

i don't see emps or primarchs halting the imperiums decline, but on the off chance that they do then for balance to occur means something truly cataclysmic has to happen, for example - the species that the tyranids have spent 2 billion years running away, in abject terror, from finally catch them up in the milky way...... and ohhh will woe be upon us :)