Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-96.237.238.119-20131218020230/@comment-107.219.200.245-20140115140237

I personally like the idea that, with the God Emperor clinging to mortality (as much as we hate to admit it, he IS a fallible mortal being, albeit insanely powerful, and I'm sorry but even I could have managed my generals better and avoided the Horus Heresy), he is denying himself even greater power that could be his in the realm of the warp. Currently the Emperor is more or less a passive, albeit extremely powerful, presence in the warp. If he were to die, I would imagine that the Astronomicon would probably fail, causing widespread chaos through out the Imperium, but that he would also ascend into a warp consciousness and become, effectively a being just as powerful as one of the Chaos Gods. I feel like in that case, he'd become the first true God of Order and instead of being a largely nascent force, he would become as active as any of the Chaos Gods, which could potentially make up for the loss of the Astronomicon in a short amount of time, or even allow him to keep modulating its signal to turn it back on, assuming psykers are still being fed into it.

The other thing is, with a couple of the Loyalist Primarchs still alive, albeit in stasis, I have a feeling that they will reanimate. That could actually be problematic, as that would cause a power imbalance, having one or more of the Emperor's own sons walking among the living and potentially challenging the status quo amongst the High Lords of Terra. Seeing how the Imperium, especially with the Cult Imperialis, has fallen far from the Emperor's vision of the Imperium and that of his sons, I wouldn't be surprised if Guilliman or El'Johnson (or both) got insanely pissed and challenged the High Lord's authority. They, like any politician and ruling party, would of course resist, and that would create a deep schism in the Imperium harkening back to the Horus Heresy.