Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150114163201/@comment-6078851-20150119183231

the reason i like bad moons lore-wise is because of their character: they're rich orks with the flashiest shoota's and gubbins :P  i like blood axes as a small faction of ork-dom but i find them a little too un-orky. part of what i like about orks is their numbers but in a game it takes aaaages to move, shoot and assault, which can be annoying, and also that it takes a considerable amount of time to paint up a sizable force :P

@ zixis, your post kinda reinforced my point that we can only guess at what will happen. i don't disagree that anything you posted may happen, i can only disagree with the chances of certain things happening. the throne failing beyond repair is a fairly major part of the lore, as is the fact that emps' physical body is dying. the chances of the throne getting fixed are miniscule, though not impossible, as it's technically forbidden tech from the dark age of technology and no-one in the galaxy knows how to fix it, and it's 2 experimental devices, over 20,000 years old, cobbled together and continuously on for the last 10,000 years.

emps dying is also a major part of the lore, and regardless of what happens after his physical body dies, it's almost a certainty that he will die. though not 100% certain i'd say 99.9repeating% certain: when emps set up the throne as a life support system he was still walking and talking, but have you seen him recently? he's basically a skin-covered skeleton :P and as the lore says "he is a rotting carcass."

the end times will be epic, it has to be, but it is a 100% certainty that not everyone will like whatever happens: being epic doesn't have to mean the human race will surmount the odds against them, but for you this would qualify as epic. whereas, personally i think emps coming back, in whatever form, and helping the human race achieve a stranglehold on the galaxy wouldn't be epic but an epic fail and cop-out from gw, and my idea of an epic end times could simply be the human race, and every other race, going out in a blaze of glory as the tyranids nom all. plenty of epic battles to be had against an unbeatable foe but never giving up hope of survival and every sentient native of the milky way fighting, and hoping, to the last breath... to me that's very epic. it may not be a popular view but i would rather read about the failure of the throne and the subsequent failure of the imperium as i believe the imperium's had its chance, and has blown it.

but this is exactly what i meant by we can only guess. we have facts of 40k lore, like the failing throne and dying emps, but we have a lot of information that can be indicative of many things, and as many of us have done we discuss what we think this or that bit of info is indicative of, which leads to many interesting discussions. but at the end of the day, until gw actually publish something concrete about what will happen all we have is conjecture and speculation, leading to interesting and entertaining discussions :)