Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-28917471-20141230181343

Your last paragraph Callum was unexpected... Really? I mean REALLY? You really don't know why the Emperor did not let himself die? ok... let's get through this...

The Golden Throne himself was created in order to support the Imperial Webway. The Astronomican, on the other hand was founded way earlier, and it was powered by the psychical might of the Emperor, no matter when or where he was.

Now... after the Battle with Horus, the Emperor was very weakened, because if him using almost all of his powers to erase Horus from existance. The Imperial Webway was utterly destroyed and was sealed away. They replaced the function of the Imperial Webway with that of the Astronomican and placed the body of the Emperor in the Golden Throne.

So now the Golden Throne sustains the mortal body of the Emperor, and the Master of Mankind uses his psychic might to function the Astronomican.

So why didn't he die and reincarnate? Well... it is obviously because he did not had enough psychic might to revive himself(and because he was concetrated on the Astronomican on the same time).

You do realize that the Emperor was empowering the Astronomican while he was fighting Horus right? But back to the main point...

No psychic might = no ressurection. But wait! How did Vulkan got to revive himself so many times?! While the Emperor could not even revive himself once?! I know right?!

But the answer is also very simple. Throught ALL of the Great Crusade, the Emperor had to keep the Astronomican functionning. Like no matter what the Emperor was doing, he was always empowering the Astronomican. Whether it was counselling with the War Council, fighting with aliens or anything else...

Vulkan, on the other hand, didn't have that kind of enormous responsibility. He could use his psychic powers for variety of things, but not to empower the Astronomican. Meaning that he had all the psychic might to himself when he was tortured and killed by Curze. Meaning he could revive himself freely.

Again, why didn't the Emperor let himself die? Well, we don't really know how much time did it take for Vulkan to ressurect, right? So how much time would it take for the Emperor to revive? We just don't know. But what would happen to the Imperium while the Astronomican was off? So first, if the Emperor were to die, he would need to use his psychic might to ressurect himself, meaning he would have to let go of the Astronomican and concetrate on himself to come back to life.

But while the Astronomican is not functioning, the Imperium will fastly, and I mean really fast will fall down. Each planet in the Imperium depends on its star system, and these star systems depend on their sectors. This is how the Imperium keeps itself alive, by the common trade routes, which the ships use to travel in between.

Again, if the Astronomican is gone, then all of this will disappear. And like I said, the Imperial planets depend on the imperium. Without the support of the Imperium and the Astronomican, these planets will quickly drown in another age of strife.

Wow.. that was a lot of writing... I know that you guys have diffirent opinions, but what I wrote up there is the official lore and it is very reasonible(common sense). Though I'm very interested in what kind of questions you are going to ask me, and what kind of contra-jections you will present me with.