Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-44206756-20191022100821

There is a science fiction series from Germany ongoing for dozens of years (first published in 1961), still published in weekly magazines and countless books and comics. It is called Perry Rhodan and it would roflstomp W40K easily.

Why?

First take a look at humanity (Terra) in PR:

Ships: they have ships that dwarf everything W40K can come up with in comparison: the average human ship is easily able to do intergalactic traveling, they have spherical ships up to multiple kilometres in diameter, even the smaller ships at the beginning of the series are easily able to destroy an entire planet (with bombs setting the atmosphere on fire until there is nothing left), even the less advanced ships can fire with the energy of many gigatons, they have simple shields at the beginning and evolve to multidimensional ships. Their more advanced engines are able to move between galaxies, they have technology that allows them to go by many many times the speed of light, either in direct flight or transitional flight (disappear on one point, reappear on another, but the technology has various disadvantages). And they have tens of thousands if not (counting in their allies) millions of ships, there are battles in Perry Rhodan with many thousand ships on each side.Mutants: they have mutants, I would divide them into two types, first there are mutants with beyond human abilities like teleportation, time travel, telepathy, pyrokenesis, etc. which form their own organization of special agents. Then there are mutants with beyond human physical condition (e.g.  humans in with only several centimetre height), but it is not some kind of artificial modification, it is attributed to the conditions of the different homeworlds (e.g. gravitation) the humans come from. Although most of W40K races should have the edge in ground combat Perry Rhodan humans with their level of tech and mutants should give them a decent fight.Level of technology: they have technology that makes many of the things W40K humanity had at its peak look primitive and it is widely available, even to the average citizen. Besides the spaceships we talk about robots, transmitters (teleportation system between two transmitter stations), highly advanced shields, space suits for almost any environmental condition, relative immortality, a high level of medical tech, etc.Experience: the relative immortal leaders of humanity in Perry Rhodan (mainly Perry Rhodan himself) are demigods, they have seen everything (parallel universes, many different galaxies, thousands of alien species and cultures, they are living for thousands of years) and many times had to solve situations not by sheer brute force but with intelligence.

And that is only humanity, they have countless allies, some of which are even more advanced. Besides humanity and its allies in PR we have thousands of different species in thousands of different galaxies, some of which are easily able to travel through time, move stars and use them as sources of energy, the biggest artificial construction in Perry Rhodan (not done by humanity) is several light minutes big. And because of the age of Perry Rhodan and the depth of its universe they have counterparts to so many things in W40K, concepts of something similar to the Tyranids for example (this is not only for W40K but for almost any universe, a species similar to the Borg existed in Perry Rhodan almost 20 years before).

Now you may bring up the forces of chaos, but in PR there is even a counterpart to them. In PR if a species reaches a certain point of technology, it can transcend into something called a Super Intelligence, the most famous one in Perry Rhodan is just called "It". There are dozens of Super Intelligences, which have their own worlds, sometimes their own races to worship them, are not bound to space and time, can grant powerful technology and have plans over hundres or thousands of years. And with Super Intelligences we only start, the next step of evolution would be a Source of Matter or a  Sink of Matter (sorry for the crude translations but PR is not available in English afaik and I have to translate the German words for it). Where a Sink of Matter is pretty much the negotion of everything that "is", a Source of Matter is the emitter of something like that, though they are all sentient and have their own plans. The last step of evolution is a Cosmocrat or a Chaotarch, the forces behind the whole PR Multiverse, but they still are "real" beings in a sense that they are concious, have their own plans, created and evolve races that worship them and help them fulfilling their eternal plans (they have no real goal, the existence of the universe / multiverse itself is their objective). The Chaotarchs and the Cosmocrates are antagonistic forces in Perry Rhodan and affect the material realm in a similar way the Chaos Gods can affect the material realm (though it is easier for them to do so and they do it more often on a multiverse scale).

So there it is, a huge scifi universe you may have never heard of that has no problems in roflstomping the W40K universe.