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What do you think would happen to each race in another 2000 years?

Tyranids eat everything.

Well... it's GW, so everything's gonna remain gridlocked

1) The Emperor dies.
2) The Imperium falls apart, and splinter Mechanicum and Astartes realms established.
3) The Powers lose interest in the material realm, leaving the traitor legions to destroy each other.
4) The Tyranids and the Necrons begin to destroy each other.
5) The Eldar and the Dark Eldar's decay and extinction speed up without the Emperor's restraining influence on Slaanesh.
6) The Orks devastate large areas of the Imperium until the loyal Primarchs and those Primarchs who were tricked to become Daemon Princes (and having been forsaken by the Powers, threw away their daemonhood) return to unite the splinter realms into a lose alliance and drive the Orks back.
7) The Tau grow in power, but come into bloody conflicts with the Orks and the increasingly desperate and depraved Dark Eldar.

Tadashi wrote:1) The Emperor dies.
2) The Imperium falls apart, and splinter Mechanicum and Astartes realms established.
3) The Powers lose interest in the material realm, leaving the traitor legions to destroy each other.
4) The Tyranids and the Necrons begin to destroy each other.
5) The Eldar and the Dark Eldar's decay and extinction speed up without the Emperor's restraining influence on Slaanesh.
6) The Orks devastate large areas of the Imperium until the loyal Primarchs and those Primarchs who were tricked to become Daemon Princes (and having been forsaken by the Powers, threw away their daemonhood) return to unite the splinter realms into a lose alliance and drive the Orks back.
7) The Tau grow in power, but come into bloody conflicts with the Orks and the increasingly desperate and depraved Dark Eldar.

This, except for 3 and 6, I'd say.

I would say that the big E dies too, this either unites or ends humanity as the big super power (still has teeth though)

Tau use the lapse in power and expand massivly into the now lighty defended worlds, these planets see the benefit o the Tau defence (as the imperium can no longer defend them effectivly), and this allows them to consolidate there power.

I agree the DE become even more desperate as there bigeest treats are dieing fast.

Chaos (as in all of it) finally see's the Nids as the threat they are and unite again to fight it, the galaxy suffers but the nids are repelled from the milky way.

Nids: After having been repelled regroup and start to push into the Milky way once again, in larger numbers.

Necrons: More awaken, more sucumb to the flayed one virus, there empire expands eponentially as the main threat to them lessens (imperial), these replace the imperium as the dominant power.

Orks do what orks have always done.. fight and win. The orks defeat leviathan and bring the waaagh to the Newcron empire.

Eldar as a race decide to consolidate there remaining forces, this includes exodites. they move to the outer halo stars to re-ignite there empire and attempt to finally rebuild.

Thats just how i see it anyway

The emperor makes a miraculous recovery as he reveals himself to be the master of all the chaos gods. As if you think about it no one exemplifies all the powers of chaos more than the emperor. He slaughtered most o the galaxy, lives seemingly forever, is a powerful psyker and his armour is so extravagant it has to be slaanesh. After this chaos basically kills everything and turns everything into a giant realm of chaos.

Nothing much changes.

All marines reach Draigo levels of awesomeness and unite all races and have a party.

And in that party massive sex orgies occur ( the emperor being one of those at the party ) thus he has 12 more sons and one to lead them all. He names this particular son Horus jr. And this time everything works out as he makes the rest of his sons the new primarchs. And dark eldar die of sadness because they weren't invited to the party

Humanity will be heir to a crumbling Imperium held together by a massive bureaucracy and watched over by super-beings clad in ceramite.

The Eldar will struggle to maintain their civilization in the face of new and old threats as they have for the last 10 million years or more.

The Dark Eldar will skirt the edges of chaos and spend much of their time deep in byzantine politics punctuated by periods of intense blood-letting.

The forces of chaos will attempt to break into the material universe and exact their revenge on the Emperor and his minions.

The Tau will attempt to expand their small 'empire' by bringing order and good will (at the expense of personal freedom) to the other races in the galaxy.

The Orks will maintain a never ending cycle of battle while living under a mushroom.

The Necrons will start to wake up a little less slowly and slap the younger races around more frequently.

look familiar? Well, 2000 years is a mighty short time in this universe...

Assuming that the tyranids don't end up nomnomnoming everything inthe next thousands years.

Everything keeps decaying until either the Tau or the necron come on top.

Lets be honest, the imperium is slowly dying from the inside, at best I'm guessing they either split into several empire fighting each other over which is the best way to worship the emperor. Or the Astromican shrinks to the size of the Segmentum solar

The Eldar are slowly dying, they seem worst to then panda at procreating.

The DE are too self centered and busy raiding to build anything bigger

Orks...well Orks.

Halmyr wrote:Everything keeps decaying until either the Tau or the necron come on top.

I can see how Necrons would come out on top, but Tau? They only succeed because nobody pays them much attention. Once most major factions are gone, people will start focusing on them more, and that will be the end of the Tau.

DOOMBREAD wrote:

Halmyr wrote:Everything keeps decaying until either the Tau or the necron come on top.

I can see how Necrons would come out on top, but Tau? They only succeed because nobody pays them much attention. Once most major factions are gone, people will start focusing on them more, and that will be the end of the Tau.

The Tau will probably expand, then get butchered by Orks and Dark Eldar. The Necrons and the Tyranids I can see destroying each other.

Tau - Eaten by Tyranids
Orks - Eaten by Tyranids
Eldar - Eaten by Tyranids
Dark Eldar - Eaten by Tyranids
Imperium - Eaten by Tyranids
Chaos - Eaten by Tyranids
Necrons - Eaten by Tyranids
Tyranids - Eaten by Tyranids

Well the Dark Eldar would appear to be safe from the tyranids in the webway, as do chaos in the warp if i'm correct. I also do not believe orks would get nomd as it would just be a giant never ending battle. Can necrons even get eaten being metal and all?

Corruption wrote:Well the Dark Eldar would appear to be safe from the tyranids in the webway, as do chaos in the warp if i'm correct. I also do not believe orks would get nomd as it would just be a giant never ending battle. Can necrons even get eaten being metal and all?

I don't think they can nom the 'crons...and if the Emperor's dead, all Eldar would be in a heap of trouble, as Slaanesh would no longer be restrained by the old man's power.

Corruption wrote:Well the Dark Eldar would appear to be safe from the tyranids in the webway, as do chaos in the warp if i'm correct. I also do not believe orks would get nomd as it would just be a giant never ending battle. Can necrons even get eaten being metal and all?

Webway - Eaten by Tyranids

Tadashi wrote:
I don't think they can nom the 'crons...and if the Emperor's dead, all Eldar would be in a heap of trouble, as Slaanesh would no longer be restrained by the old man's power.

Wha? They are in a heap of trouble anyway, the only thing preventing them from being a source of soul juice for Slaanesh are their Soulstones. The Emperor doesn't make a blind bit of difference to the relationship between Eldar and Slaanesh. There were survivors after Slaanesh was born and the Emperor was still stuck on Terra.

DOOMBREAD wrote:
I can see how Necrons would come out on top, but Tau? They only succeed because nobody pays them much attention. Once most major factions are gone, people will start focusing on them more, and that will be the end of the Tau.

Something even less likely to happen than the Tau "coming out on top".

Moot point is moot.

Czevak succeeds in resurrecting the Emperor. Ahriman elevates to a new Chaos god and influences paths so that the Imperium may rebuild.

Ok, the Big E dies and the Imperium is in dissaray, but is still too freaking huge to lose. Abbys crusades finally break Cadia and establish a beach head into the Materium, Chaos builds for another push. Tyranids push deeper, and a large fleet encounters the Tau. The Tau get eaten, and are extinct except for maybe a few random fish in Dental offices. The Dark Eldar are mostly unchanged, as are the Eldar, although they begin to work more with man against chaos. Daemons are unchanged, just more incursions. Orks thrive on war and rampage through all races, as usual. Necrons slowly gain strength and momentum, but the different Dynasties aren't united yet. Oh,and the Dark Angels coat themself in the blood of Grey Knights so that they don't become fallen. Duh.

Aadrubael vect takes all the other kabals into the kabal of the black heart, enslaves all of humanity and turns them into a slave race for the never ending orgy of bloodletting in the arenas emporaor dies, (this is why vect is able to enslave them) astartes all join to create one giant chapter and become one race and drive out the nids, orks being orks slaughter everything they can find however they can only find the eldar, necrons exapnd as there enemy is wiped out orks then slaughter the necrons, tau expand and fill the gap created by the eldar and necrons, orks slaughter tau, the three main powers are orks, astartes and dark eldar, astartes and orks are locked in never ending war whilst the dark eldar remean in the webway with their never ending slave race (humanity) and laugh at the orks and astartes

TheEverShift wrote:Aadrubael vect takes all the other kabals into the kabal of the black heart, enslaves all of humanity and turns them into a slave race for the never ending orgy of bloodletting in the arenas emporaor dies, (this is why vect is able to enslave them) astartes all join to create one giant chapter and become one race and drive out the nids, orks being orks slaughter everything they can find however they can only find the eldar, necrons exapnd as there enemy is wiped out orks then slaughter the necrons, tau expand and fill the gap created by the eldar and necrons, orks slaughter tau, the three main powers are orks, astartes and dark eldar, astartes and orks are locked in never ending war whilst the dark eldar remean in the webway with their never ending slave race (humanity) and laugh at the orks and astartes

if you have read any necron fluff 1st off all 1 planet of necrons destroy an entire waaagh by shining a light into their eyes and turn to dust. 2nd necrons cant die so win in the end and tyrininds for all those tyrinid players out there cant regenerate if their entire hive fleet is destroyed. (necrons blow up a star right next to it)

Everyone spontaneously evolves into ponies, except the kroot.

the kroot then eat them...

Seriously though, it'd either be the usual gridlock, or the plot armour on the IOM would finally fail, Humanity would be wiped out, and the other races would then continue to fight each other..

Emperor dies and is reincarnated into a new body.

Great Crusade 2 is launched, Galaxy is united.

The Tau get virus bombed to oblivion, Tyranids flee from the mighty psychic presence, Necrons go back to sleep, Eldar finally go extinct, da Orks keep foightin, the Eye gets sealed up(but chaos continues to raid the imperium for eternity)

Ascalam wrote:Everyone spontaneously evolves into ponies, except the kroot.

the kroot then eat them...

Seriously though, it'd either be the usual gridlock, or the plot armour on the IOM would finally fail, Humanity would be wiped out, and the other races would then continue to fight each other..

then the humans all die becouse one necron is sleep walking and falls on the celestial orrery destroying all sun and blowing up most world only necrons survive because they are immortal and dont need light.

Dumb fluff will kill humanity every time.

Execute the Dark One to save Humanity

O'look, another thinly veiled Ward jab

Anfauglir wrote:

DOOMBREAD wrote:
I can see how Necrons would come out on top, but Tau? They only succeed because nobody pays them much attention. Once most major factions are gone, people will start focusing on them more, and that will be the end of the Tau.

Something even less likely to happen than the Tau "coming out on top".

Moot point is moot.

Once the Emperor dies, he either becomes the Star Child or just plain dies. At that point, either the Imperium or Chaos declines rapidly in power. More Necrons awaken, more Tyranids arrive, the Eldar and Tau go extinct, the Orks follow thousands of years later. Yes, you heard me: the Orks will go extinct eventually. Between the Tyranids and the Necrons, and their inability to unite, they will be wiped out.

Necrons, Tyranids, and Orks are the only races that have any hope of lasting forever. And with Orks, that hope is still pretty slim.

I do not think 2000 years is enough time for anything to really change in the Universe fully.