Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-66.206.224.153-20131227230402

We've teetered on the brink of the 42nd century (and the Emperor on the brink of death) for a long while now. Maybe it's time to see some change in the universe?

It is now the 42nd century: The Adeptus Custodes, ten thousand years the protectors of the Emperor, are ankle-deep in the blood of frenzied tech-priests and bureaucrats. For years they had entrusted the fate of their Charge, the Master of Mankind, to the Cult of the Machine, powerless to halt the decay of the Emperor's broken body in their irreproachable martial prowess. No longer. The arcane technology of the Golden Throne has failed. The Emperor is dead. Though the babbling pleas and death screams of the Machine Cultists are defeated by the titanic concrete masses that comprise the Imperial palace, millions of hive city dwellers feel it: the great shuddering of the earth as the most stalwart of the Imperium's defenders bring it crashing down. There will be a time for lament and penance. There will be a time to leave Holy Terra and gather the truest sons of the Emperor. There will be a time to Keep Faith and await the his return. The Terran Council will be put to the sword and the Imperial Palace obliterated... Holy Terra will be a target of Chaos and xenos no longer, but a home for the Emperor to return to. The Age of the Imperium is over.

Factions: The Emperor's Servants (or something): The Adeptus Custodes, Dark Angels, and elements of the Imperial Guard have ceased to maintain an empire (the Imperium has collapsed in the absence of the Astronomican) and have now banded together to seek out and safeguard the second manifestation of the Emperor. Unbeknownst to pretty much everyone, the Dark Angels have been recruiting like mad in preparation. Legion-sizes, anyone? Ultramar: Now independent from the Imperium. Most of the Ultramarines were lost when the Astronomican stopped working, but the new Lord of Ultramar is working hard to replace them and them some, with huge quantities of fresh Space Marines and billions of regular guardsmen (distant-future Roman legionnaires). Tyrannids: They aren't making a beeline toward Terra and the destruction of humanity anymore because the Astronomican is gone, so there's a silver lining. Still pose a very real threat to Ultramar. Cadia/Chaos: The Imperium has collapsed, and Chaos was on the brink of conquering Cadia from the relatively nearby Eye of Terror, until the Cadians Exterminatused their own planet in a last-ditch effort to stop the slaughter. The survivors are now, I dunno, fleeing the Eye with Chaos biting at their heels. Dunno exactly where I'm going with this. 