Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-28917471-20141220161146

Hmm... now that I think about it, I presume that Imperialfist31 is right. If the golden Throne fails, then the Emperor dies, if the Emperor dies, then the Astronomican will stop working, if the Astronomican will stop working, then the existance of the Imperium will end.

It doesn't matter if the Emperor willl become a God or not. The franchise will be over, since everything centers around the Imperium and it's survival. if there is no Imperium, then there is nothing to offer to continue the franchise.

The Imperial characters will be irrelevant, since they lost their original goals. From this point on, their actions and achievements will do little if nothing to change the universe, since the feeling of unity that the Imperials had before has vanished. No one will care about the factions or the pocket empires that will be created after the fall of the imperium, since all the principles that the W40k has builet the imperium upon will cease to exist.

In short, the franchise will end, and that's why the Imperium must survive, in order to battle more greater threats to it existance... which I am sure that there are enough enemies to throw at the Imperium...