What or who you want to be in the 40k universe. Any races , ( no gods please eg : emperor ,gork or mork and chaos gods)

Daemon, preferably a la Samus.

Samus is near.

A Cartnifex, because I get to eat people and have no biological reason to feel pain.

An Imperial governer of a rich world well away from any war hot spots. a life of luxery and ease!

The highest-ranking Adeptus Mechanicum guy on Mars, starting the end of all times by releasing the Void Dragon.

Goodbye, universe.

 Sigvatr wrote:


Goodbye, universe.

Emperor will just kill the dragon....

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:


Goodbye, universe.

Emperor will just kill the dragon....

Corpses can't fight back, plus the Emperor in his full power almost lost against the Void Dragon and could barely contain, not even kill him. Plus reawakened Necrons etc =)

The Emperor is dead and while his spirit might fend off the warp, the warp is of zero interest to the C'tan.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:


Goodbye, universe.

Emperor will just kill the dragon....

Corpses can't fight back, plus the Emperor in his full power almost lost against the Void Dragon and could barely contain, not even kill him. Plus reawakened Necrons etc =)

Except this game is written by humans, so obviously the Emperor is going to defend earth from the dragon, then ascend the godhood.

Well, this thread ain't about what GW might do, but what you might do as a 40k character. So - one last fart and the Golden Throne is history

I would be some badass IG veteran sergeant.

Some noble on a garden planet, a life of luxury and plenty !

I would like to be some rich noble on a a forgotten paradise of an agriworld far from any site or conflict of importance. Because anything else has untold potential for violence and unimaginable terror.

Just a noble on a gardeth like planet.


Please no tyranids.

Preferably a Grey Hunter or failing that a Servitor

Probably a Lord Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos.



Innocence proves nothing.

Hmm,i'd either go with an Inquisitor so i could kill everyone i dislike and if anyone fights back they're heretics or with a Blood Angel,i always liked their fluff.
(i'm aware those 2 are totally opposite of eachother)

An Ork warboss with plot armor.

Loadsa fun and you'z ain't gonna die!

Shas'O with XV22 experimental armour trying to secure the 3rd sphere expansion or a member of a Sternguard squad just getting things done.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:


Goodbye, universe.

Emperor will just kill the dragon....

Corpses can't fight back, plus the Emperor in his full power almost lost against the Void Dragon and could barely contain, not even kill him. Plus reawakened Necrons etc =)

The Emperor is dead and while his spirit might fend off the warp, the warp is of zero interest to the C'tan.

Uh, the Emperor whipped the arse of the Void Dragon while wearing platemail and wielding an iron sword. Care to try again?

Being an Inquisitor is probably fun.

The Machine Spirit of an imperial titan could be pretty interesting.

Give me Little House on the Planet Prairie and I'd be fine. Maybe Orks or Dark Eldar or something would show up... we'd try to fight them, maybe we'd die, maybe we'd win, who knows? Gotta go out some time. Just don't let 'em take you alive.

If not that? Give me Tau, Earth Caste. I'd be retired at this point.

I would be a Bloodthirster.

Corsair Prince or Craftworld Eldar

 Sigvatr wrote:
one last fart and the Golden Throne is history

i could not stop luaghing after reading this.


i would love to be a thunderwolf rider! always love the fluff for them.

if not a slaneesh deamon prince. who doesnt love pleasure! lol

I personally would want to be a lord comissar in charge of a 50 dude blob squad the hunts heretical rhinos. By tearing them open with an eviscerator. I've put a lot of thought into this!

An Eldar Ranger. Explore the galaxy, make worthwhile contributions on behalf of my Craftworld...all while never being seen.

Governor of a pleasure world at the heart of the Imperium with like 3 SM Chapters of totally coool guys based on the three moons orbiting my planet, known as Kaisel. It would be sweet.

Planetery governor on a planet nice and close to Terra and a marine chapter. Money, power, security and hopefully a nearby forgewoeld so you are well supplied.

Low chance of invasion, decent life in comparison I'd you had to live in that universe,

Farsight Enclave Crisis Shas'vre. Ready to do my part for the Greater Good.

A very high-ranking Necron elite. Preferably an important named one.

My first order of business after transference would be to head to the celestial orrery. Not to cause havoc, not to destroy anything - but to lay my digital peepers on the GREATNESS THAT IS THE SINGLE MOST POWERFUL OBJECT IN THE GALAXY.

I would observe the Crypteks for thousands of years, just for the privilege of watching them prune a star even once.

A extraordinarily powerful Khorne Lord with a Sigil of Corruption.
Blood for the Blood God, Baby!
Failing that, the Fabricator Locus of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Knowledge is power, guard it well.

Id be a chapter master with my own Agriworld/Garden World in the heart of the imperium. every now and then id send out a couple of companies to kill some orks or whatnot maybe send the odd squad to cadia as a display of unity and say we are "spread too thin" to contribute any real numbers.

once every 10 years or so i would launch a full scale chapter assault at a planet with a few tyranids on it (nothing too major) just to show the imperium that we are serious!!.

in my free time i would tend to my many fish and water the orchids. maybe take up knitting and just chill out. might pop down to the local merchant system and scare the gak out of everyone whilst buying some new interesting and alien fish.

i might even hold a tournement where local warriors can come to try to beat me in a skill of their choice. if they win they are allowed to live in the hall of champions on my planet and enjoy a lifetime of wealth and luxury. if they lose they die... simple...

Oh what i a life. if the inquisition asks why my chapter dont do as much fighting as others i will simply answer with the fact that we are seeing how long a space marine lives for!

definately an iron warriors deamon prince/ warsmith
laying siege to stuff and even if you get killed you can be brought back to life.

The only true answer is to be Alpharius. I could be the fabricator general one day, before shipping off to planet madeupius 5 where I could relax in the quarters of the governor, only to engineer circumstances that lead the planet into revolt, allowing my cell and I, to take a now undefended planet in the nearby nonexistant sector. Followed by of course subverting an ork waaagh the following Tuesday afternoon while leaving a trail of clues to pique the interests of any Xeno inquisitor, baiting him/her into my trap, and stealing their identity or replacing them with a loyal minion.

A pie vendor on some dirty backwater outpost.

You just gotta aim high and have a goal.

 Necro wrote:
A pie vendor on some dirty backwater outpost.

You just gotta aim high and have a goal.

I dunno man, that kinda character tends to be the guy who gets eaten by the lictor in the first few pages of a BL book

 Banzaimash wrote:
Governor of a pleasure world

A pleasure world ? Is that some kind of planet-sized brothel ?

 Psienesis wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:


Goodbye, universe.

Emperor will just kill the dragon....

Corpses can't fight back, plus the Emperor in his full power almost lost against the Void Dragon and could barely contain, not even kill him. Plus reawakened Necrons etc =)

The Emperor is dead and while his spirit might fend off the warp, the warp is of zero interest to the C'tan.

Uh, the Emperor whipped the arse of the Void Dragon while wearing platemail and wielding an iron sword. Care to try again?

uh, the emperor is dead. as in, in a throne, cant move. cant pick up an iron sword, cause he is broken. care to try again?


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I would be a terminator. preferably a captain.
"im sorry what? I cant here you over the sound of how awesome I am!"

uh, the emperor is dead. as in, in a throne, cant move. cant pick up an iron sword, cause he is broken. care to try again?

You don't need hands when you can pick up an iron sword with your mind and proceed to beat a starving god silly with it.

However, the point being, the last time they fought, the Emperor was living on Terra in M1 and beat the piss out of the Void Dragon with an iron sword, while dressed in pre-medieval armor, and then dragged the Void Dragon to Mars on a horse.

I would be Alpharius. Or maybe I already am Alpharius disguised as Alpharius pretending to be Omegon while lying to an Inquisitor that I'm actually Alpharius. When in reality I would be on another planet as Alpharius disguised as Roboute Guillimann pretending to be a regular Space Marine fighting for the Greater Good and acting as a double agent for the Dark Eldar.

Life is fun when you're Alpharius.

I want to say a Chaos Lord, you get power, luxury, gifts from the warp. Unfortunately, all of those can backfire so fast you wouldn't even realize before some former 2nd company sgt runs up and lops your head off cause Khorne thought it would be fun.

In the end, probably some highborn guy on a planet near terra. If I want a challenge, definitely the Chaos Lord

I would be an Iron Hands Space Marine

Put me under the knife and pump me full of augmentations!

Who needs flesh when you have Iron?!?!

Genetically Modified Humans for the win!

InquisitorRoeth wrote:
I would be Alpharius. Or maybe I already am Alpharius disguised as Alpharius pretending to be Omegon while lying to an Inquisitor that I'm actually Alpharius. When in reality I would be on another planet as Alpharius disguised as Roboute Guillimann pretending to be a regular Space Marine fighting for the Greater Good and acting as a double agent for the Dark Eldar.

Life is fun when you're Alpharius.

Haha this!!

But for me I think of two things. Either a daemon prince, I mean come on... All that power. Not to mention immortality! "Oh you killed me?.. See you again soon..."

Or I would love to be an imperial knight. Laying waste to whole armies in my own personal little awesome suit?! Yes, please.

Id like to say a rich governor so id never have to fight and subsequently die, but this is 40k and thats not really the point is it. So ill have to pick Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka please. (Or maybe Asdrubael Vect).

Daemon Prince of Nurgle.

Daemon part gives you Immortality + power.

Nurgle part gives you the friendliest companions, you can't feel pain on your excursions into the materium and you're one of the toughest mother fethers.

Plus with the Nurgle stuff, you could troll so easily --- sneeze on a group of guardsmen to kill them etc.

Well, realistically speaking, I would be best at being a Guardsman. I don't meet the physical qualifications to become a Marine.

But thinking about it, being a badass Commissar would suit me just fine lol.

Inquisitor of the Ordo Necros.

Just to see what the hell they do.

Or that guy at Ordo Desolatus.

A very powerful null perennial (effective null radius of at least 5 kilometers) that has been around since a thousand or so years before the Emperor shows up. Every once and awhile I would venture close to the Golden Throne just to feth things up with the Astronomicon for my own personal amusement. I would also be a founding member of the Inquisition with a writ signed by both the Emperor and the Malcador placing me above any Imperial authority save those two. I would use the writ to travel the universe in grand luxury and kill a few heretics every now and again for appearances. Every few Black Crusades I would venture to the Eye of Terror (via the webway) and mess with some daemons and such.

kharn, just with my own landraider.

A Dark Angels' Venerable Dreadnought. I'd have already been a kick ass Marine, and if the fluff is an indication, i'd have plenty of time off with a few bad ass moments per hundred years.

My kind of retirement.

Haemonculus,
Cutting people up for fun and using fancy wargear

BrianDavion wrote:
An Imperial governer of a rich world well away from any war hot spots. a life of luxery and ease!

Place away from hot warspots DOESN'T EXIST.
But yeah, i would like to be either a chaplain or Ministorum priest
Actually screw chaplains, IRON FATHER!! OR atleast an iron hand chaptermaster.(chapter president more precisely, eh?) Fancy bionics, bike, 2+/3++ then 3+ FNP if i have apothecary near me, Thunder hammer, because... Well it is an 60kilo hammer that sends energy charge when it hits someone, and lightning claw so those disgusting weaklings who still have their own kidneys, can redeem when i claw their eyes out, thus making MANY vacuum cleaners and toasters are superior to said abominations

I'd like to be 1) someone who does cool things while 2) having a reasonable chance at avoiding a messy death while 3) being able to have sex in my downtime.

Yep, I think I'd like to be an XV-88 Shas'vre.

Second place is being a Carcharodon terminator. If I have to give up one of the three things above, it'll be the third one, and getting to occasionally blow up a planet is almost as awesome as sex.

The commander of my homebrew regiment or a knight titan pilot.

A Craftworld Eldar civilian. I could follow one of hundreds of paths from warrior to baker. I would have access to (albeit limited) psychic abilities with the capacity to train them further. Food would be plentiful, lifespan relatively long, excellent medical coverage by those on the path of the healer, the ability to join my ancestors after death in the infinity circuit, and much more.

 Nightwolf829 wrote:
A Craftworld Eldar civilian. I could follow one of hundreds of paths from warrior to baker. I would have access to (albeit limited) psychic abilities with the capacity to train them further. Food would be plentiful, lifespan relatively long, excellent medical coverage by those on the path of the healer, the ability to join my ancestors after death in the infinity circuit, and much more.

... and you'd live a life devoid of pleasure, as you're too afraid of being eaten by Slaneesh to reproduce.

Ork Boy.

Ignorance is bliss. They love life in every way.

A chapter serf of the Ultramarines. Or a Battle Brother of the Dark Angels. For Chapter and home!

Ordo Hereticus Inqusitior of Amalathian faction.

Virtually unlimited power to crush the witches, mutants, & heretics from within. An Imperium with a strong foundation is better able to combat the many threats
it faces.

A greater daemon of Slaanesh for obvious reasons.

In order of preference

1. Vect
2. Greater Daemon of Slaanesh
3. Imperial Knight pilot, they seem to be royalty.

Slaaneshi Daemon Prince, or some mortal CSM lucky enough for Slaanesh to grant you a place in its court. Probably the only pleasant fate in W40K, considering Slaanesh warps your mind until all you feel is pleasure, which makes the galaxy somewhat livable. Being a member of an Eldar Craftworld wouldn't be too bad, but there's still the danger of Slaanesh grabbing your soul in the future, going insane in the Infinity Circuit, or becoming an Exarch.

Dark Eldar, preferably an incubi (secure lifestyle and no one has any reason to kill you) or a Scourge (rich, get to fly around on actual wings, killing you is seen as a grave offence). I get to sit around protecting some guy or training or I get to fly around delivering messages, going on the occasional raid with the best equipment available short of Archons and Incubi. Either way I may live in constant fear of Slaanesh, but the chances of my life being cut short are pretty low all things considered.

This is easy: I'd be an Inquisitor.

Get paid to see the stars while doing whatever you want, whenever you want.

Tau Shas'O with iridium armour, force field and something with a disgustingly high rate of fire, expanding the third sphere one Tyranid at a time.

Or Eldar Ulthwe Farseer. Arrogant, but kinda justified seeing as I know what's gonna happen! lol

I'll stick to my old standby:

Warboss Bigfoot. A exbawks hueg Ork, who enjoys krumping things, being immortal, being da boss, and short walks to the nearest squig-ale brewer.

I'd also like some plot importance, so whenever I am mortally wounded, GW gives me some spare plot armour.

Buttons wrote:
Dark Eldar, preferably an incubi (secure lifestyle and no one has any reason to kill you) or a Scourge (rich, get to fly around on actual wings, killing you is seen as a grave offence). I get to sit around protecting some guy or training or I get to fly around delivering messages, going on the occasional raid with the best equipment available short of Archons and Incubi. Either way I may live in constant fear of Slaanesh, but the chances of my life being cut short are pretty low all things considered.

Being an Incubi doesn't save you. Everyone wants to kill you still if you're on the ladder, or the person you're protecting might whack you for simply knowing too much.

Lelith Hesperax' personal pleasure slave.

...OK, too ambitious, isnt it?

 UlrikDecado wrote:
Lelith Hesperax' personal pleasure slave.

...OK, too ambitious, isnt it?

I'm pretty sure her idea of a good sexual session is going to be ruinous to most humans' bodies.

 Kain wrote:

 UlrikDecado wrote:
Lelith Hesperax' personal pleasure slave.

...OK, too ambitious, isnt it?

I'm pretty sure her idea of a good sexual session is going to be ruinous to most humans' bodies.

Yeah...I guess it would be five minutes of fun and half day of pain...probably not worth of it... yeah, this is really grimdark universe...

 UlrikDecado wrote:

 Kain wrote:

 UlrikDecado wrote:
Lelith Hesperax' personal pleasure slave.

...OK, too ambitious, isnt it?

I'm pretty sure her idea of a good sexual session is going to be ruinous to most humans' bodies.

Yeah...I guess it would be five minutes of fun and half day of pain...probably not worth of it... yeah, this is really grimdark universe...

She's likely been very sexually active for fifteen thousand years. I somehow doubt that your standard missionary position is going to interest her much.

 Kain wrote:

 UlrikDecado wrote:

 Kain wrote:

 UlrikDecado wrote:
Lelith Hesperax' personal pleasure slave.

...OK, too ambitious, isnt it?

I'm pretty sure her idea of a good sexual session is going to be ruinous to most humans' bodies.

Yeah...I guess it would be five minutes of fun and half day of pain...probably not worth of it... yeah, this is really grimdark universe...

She's likely been very sexually active for fifteen thousand years. I somehow doubt that your standard missionary position is going to interest her much.

Maybe she's feeling a bit retro that day

A rogue trader. See the galaxy, have adventures, get rich, and have special rights to ignore about 90% of the Imperium's oppressive laws. Maybe meet a hot space babe along the way. And unlike with a worshiper of Slaanesh, I don't have to worry about getting zapped down to a Chaos Spawn by my fickle god or tormented eternally for failing at some mission, which is what actually happens 99.9999999999999999% of the time.

Space Marine Captain or Vanguard veteran. Preferably in one of the fightier chapters.

Dark Eldar Incubi!

A shotgun toting, doorkicking, grav-chuting, meltabombing, Stormtrooper with a drop regiment on some toxic wasteland.

Also, I just remembered, being a Legionnaire of the Legion of the Damned would be interesting if you were down for the whole "completely posthuman" thing with you not even having an organic body anymore. Or if you can even feel emotion.

But hey, you can't die! You're already dead!

Guess for me it'd be cypher. The way I see his fluff he's a bad ass but is he a good guy or bad guy or what? Anyways I like the ambiguity of the character. Better yet a rouge trader cause there rich and must get lots of women. That's it, Cap'n Kirk with cyclone torpedos!

I'd be a Gretchin Dodger, basically a very "efficient" Grot Merchant. Running around the Grot Bazaars, scavenging junk and conning Orks out of their hard earned teeth has got to be fun. And, as the epithet Dodger suggests, not without action.

I'd also be partial to being a Madboy. I'd probably be a Frantik or a Paranoid. It's funny, it's one of the few situations where a fictional character in a grimdark setting that has a mental disability and is more likely to be treated with respect than real life. Orks are that awesome.

Failing those two, a Rebel Grot Guerrilla. I do genuinely think Gretchin are the coolest things in 40k. Yeah, I know. I need to get out more.

I think its important to still have my genitals intact. A lot of people are saying things like Daemon Princes of Nurgle and I don't even want to think about their situation down there. You gotta think about these things people.

 changerofways wrote:
I think its important to still have my genitals intact. A lot of people are saying things like Daemon Princes of Nurgle and I don't even want to think about their situation down there. You gotta think about these things people.

Slaanesh.

Done.

 changerofways wrote:
I think its important to still have my genitals intact. A lot of people are saying things like Daemon Princes of Nurgle and I don't even want to think about their situation down there. You gotta think about these things people.

You're a daemon prince. I'd imagine shape shifting is completely possible given you're now purely made of the warp.

Pilot of an Emperor-Class Titan or Captain of an Imperial Battleship, both of which make you damn indestructible and pretty awesome.

Shas'El in the Farsight Enclaves, simply to feth with GW. Retcon you say? Not anymore! Plus, punching things is still cool with us.

Failing that, add another Daemon Prince to the tally.Eternal life? Psychic powers? Woop woop.

I mean, there's load of cool stuff in 40K, but would you realistically want to be most of them?

 liquidjoshi wrote:

Failing that, add another Daemon Prince to the tally.Eternal life? Psychic powers? Woop woop.

"Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.

A space redneck living on some barren planet on the outskirts of the Imperium. I'd spend most of my time taking peaceful walks through the exterminatus'd countryside or tending to my cabbage farm, but when the Imperium eventually comes a-knockin', I'll be ready with my array of 20 twinlinked autoguns lining the top of my humble abode.
Of course, then they send in a single AV10 vehicle and then I'm screwed, but that's beside the point

 sierra 1247 wrote:
I would be some badass IG veteran sergeant.

I concur, I'd want to be a VSGT of a Elysian drop team squad. My Warhammer 40k Idol is Sergeant Major Merrick ( I know its based of the DoW and not table top, but its still canon) mostly for mouthing off to the =][= and beating the feth out of his CO for "wasting" his trooper's lives.

Boom hero.

I'd like to be some human auxiliary farmer on a Tau-owned Agri World, somewhere deep in the Tau Empire. Quiet life, not so much the religious zealotry, get to hang out with some aliens that aren't so terrible.

Nice, quiet, pastoral life on the farm, nothing to really worry about beyond the regular concerns of day-to-day life, then eventually grow old, retire and die.

For me it would be a toss up between an Inquisitor or a regimental commisar

A Guardsman. With my spheres of steel and trusty flashlight.

Slaaneshi Daemon Prince, of course. Or an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor to be more sensible.

Because it needs mentioning again:

 Selym wrote:

 liquidjoshi wrote:

Failing that, add another Daemon Prince to the tally.Eternal life? Psychic powers? Woop woop.

"Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.

Turns out a significant majority of the human race would go 'Neshi Daemon Prince. Who knew?

Well thinking about the question makes me think of it in some other ways. I mean one can ask your question and simply say well I like this and this fits me best in all of its Disney glory. But the reality of life is a gray. So thinking of it in that terms my gray choice would be Vindicare Assassin. I would be bitter, aloft and unhappy with the imperium of man. Secretively fancying the eldar ways, longing for them even.

I would be diligent to my work, just to keep my mind off the afflictions and disdain that float around me(Servo-skull) that is the imperium. After many missions and keeping my eye on people threw my scope I would start to delude myself from the realities of 40k life into some kind of escapism fantasy. I would say this would come in the form of one of my targets being an eldar women, and reading the data slate over the things she likes, involved in all this. Find some attraction in all that and end up in the position of shooting her. With the idea of my fantasy vs reality clouding my judgment more then likely logic and discipline will win. I would kill her then, while regretting that moment for the rest of my life. Then wanting to go back to that moment with other wild ideas of going rogue.

In my torment I'll realize I let life get away from me, my chance came and gone due to the skull on my shoulder and the bitter pessimism that blighted my senses. I would dwindle into some activity of guilt to sooth the fantasy I shot. I would dislike the world for what it is then, admire men greater then myself that are akin to my situation such as Corvus Corax or Konrad Curze. I would most likely die on some mission of course, or let the world eat away at me before pulling my Exitus Pistol on myself.

Imperial governors?
Nobles on a luxery world?
Carnifex that lives for a week max?.
..
Ppl didn't think too much before posting did they...
Just one junior inquisitor could change the lives and fates of each Imperial citizen ON A WHIM!
Goodbye cushy life

Rouge Trader. It's about as free as you can get, and you are allowed to not kill everything on sight.

What do I want to be in the 40K universe?

Left alone.

Ahriman would be my choice.

Space Marine captain or Adeptus Mechanicus tech magos.

most likely living in the 40k universe will lead to death.

so I will go down in a ball of glory, I'd wish to be an Alpha+ level Psyker