Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130821214539/@comment-108.20.1.132-20130828204612

Callummacdonald79 wrote:

.......i was under the impression that chaos entities are immortal, but only if there is sentience to provide the emotional fuel. remove sentience and chaos, while it will exist for a time off of their own malevolence they will eventualy fizzle away to nothing, no?......

and peace indeed, fellow organic, to one and all, except in 40k where their is only war :) Let me teach you something about Chaos….

The Warp does not need realspace to exist. It existed on its own before the gods. It's its own dimension. While yes realspace channeled Warp entities to life there is no canon that states that they need a constant emotional fuel now that they live. (This is what you don't yet seem to understand). In the Warp there is no death (unless extremes like I said and absolutely not for the gods) so a deamon won't die because they have no emotional sustenance coming from realspace. The emotional fuel from realspace that continues creates new deamons and strengthens the gods but they don't need sustenance. The ones that are are. (In the Warp granted.)

Now, here is where it gets interesting. Chaos wants to burst into realspace, butcher its enemies and swallow reality into the Warp. Because they, well there are many reasons, including the very unspoken reason that they indeed do not like the fact that it was realspace that dawned deamonkind… (but don’t tell anyone Tzeench says he always was and crap). They don’t intend to make an emotional farm house out of realspace. (Stop laughing you know it’s a good metaphor) They want to destroy/assimilate it with the Warp.

During the Great Crusade the Emperor wanted to weaken Chaos as much as possible by denying its existence but had no choice but to utilize Warp Speed in his endeavors, thus allowing Chaos influence in realspace more than Chaos itself was able to; it’s a double edged sword. The very best that the Imperium or anybody else can do is shut out the Warp. (Very extreme measures to make it 100% safe, 100% of the time from Chaos incursions)

If all emotion channeling life dies from the galaxy and Tyranids and the like roam the galaxy Chaos would continue in the Warp though its ability to enter realspace would be certainly weekend. But they could make it happened eventually and ultimately win because you can’t nom*nom* deamons and absorb their genes and get stronger till you beat them, chaos is different. Therefore if anybody   is to banish Chaos and shut the Warp forever it would be a will based race like the Imperium by the Emperor   getting S#@& done and becoming a god and bolting it out. Or some Necron or Old Ones major event… Or something really really big like an alliance of   the Imperium, Tyranids and the Necrons and Games Workshop working together. Chaos is a major major threat to everybody!

You certainly made Tyranids a little cooler for me bro. Hive Tyrant hell yeah! In the Disscussion of “What Fraction are you” thing I am the Deamon Prince Kanthus Zoroil. Check it out.

Cheers.