Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20131011103916/@comment-3258762-20131011152546

Aresius King wrote: Well, I'm sorry to turn down your hopes, but Roboute Guilliman can't get healed because inside of a stasis field, time can't move forward nor backwards around him and so he can't die...but he can't get healed either.

The 40k universe is meant to be this dark. It's what we call a "grimdark atmosphere". Mankind has been decaying for ten thousand years, and yet humans keep fighting on heroically against the forces of darkness and the alien threat. It's a kind of epic tragedy, I think.

If you still want to cling to hope instead of accepting the destiny of the Imperium is just to be remembered with hate in its enemies legends, you can go with the Tau - modern, stylish, clean, and so far confident about their future domination of the whole Galaxy. However, they haven't really faced Chaos nor the horrible power of the Warp so...who knows what might happen? xD And the Necrons are waking...and the Tyranids are coming in larger number...and Abaddon has Cadia (Not a huuuuuuge victory but a pretty heft one all the same)

Yeah, 40k is not the story of a hard time ending in the light, it's the story of the heroic beings who, despite the approaching end, refuse to bow down and be humbled by it. They will not save the galaxy, but they'll go out the best way a human being can: Swinging.