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Well, let's say the Emperor dies, than what? From what I can tell he doesn't give the orders anymore, his successors do. And if he dies, I doubt they'll let that information out. Or even if he does die and a new God is formed, it doesn't have to be a Chaos god.
Pretty much, the Eldar are doomed (duh), the Tau are doomed since they don't have warp technology to expand their empire at all, and only a few Vespid planets can survive since no one can attack a gas planet (Tau can barely survive there with their life suits for an hour). Necrons, Orks, Dark Eldar, and Nids will be all thats left if the Imperium dies. Necrons and Tyranids are trying to eat/kill all life, and they can't fight each other, so they can kill the orks and the Chaos. Dark Eldar are untouchable, and if only Necrons and Nids are left, they will both die since Nids can't eat Necron and if the Nids die, the Necrons have no more souls.
Than the Old Ones come back and repopulate the galaxy because they get bored without entertainment.

So how does that affect chaos? nids dont eat immaterium and they don't count as life so necrons won't attack them cept maybe the marines..

How would it end? Simple:
2010-Jerks Johnson Becomes CEO of GW
2010 1/2- Tau,DE,Eldar, Nids,Chaos,Guard and Daemons are ALL removed as official army lists.
2011-1000 New chapter codex's have been released. The GW hamsters are over-worked.
2012-Codex Angry Marines and Codex Flaming Loins released.
Dec.21,2012-World implodes due to GW's blatant stupidity.

Don't kid about stuff like that man! That will truly be a grimdark future that no one can afford to be part of.

Probably either the nids, chaos or maybe orks, if the ever stop fighting each other!

Perhaps some ghazgull type bloke but better will come and unite them for good
Who knows....

History repeats itself right?

The old ones the c'tan and chaos duked it out till they all died or took a rest, the same thing would happen with the current Races in 40k. Death, then the arrival of new people.

Nids. Tau are the only race to hold out their planets with minimum loss of life, and everything about Nids points out that the vast majority are still waiting out in the darkness. The Imperium wouldnt be able to withstand a wholesale Nid invasion, neither would the (dark) Eldar or Orks. Even the Tau would lose to sheer numbers eventually. Chaos might survive, but no one gives a damn because they would be next to powerless. And im guessing the Necrons would be absorbed before they awoke, or just overwhelmed. So yeah, Bugs for the win

Haha! No way! In my opinion there are 2 options:

Worst case scenario Necrons are gonna win -- closing the bridge between the Immaterium and the Material universe. They would then proceed destroying and consuming the living until the C'tan satiate their appetites (temporarily) and then enslave everything thats left -- leaving them in charge for all of eternity or until the Deceiver tricks the rest of the C'tan to destroy each other and leaving only him, or until they get greedy and kill everyone.

The other option (more favourable) is that Humanity wins hands down. The Emperor fights the Gods of Chaos and eventually His soul is recycled into a new form and He proceeds to lead Humanity into a new Golden Age. Having learned from the mistakes of His past life nothing like the Horus Heresy will happen again and He will lead the armies of Mankind to conquer the galaxy once and for all. Humanity will be good again and hey, who knows, maybe we'll even learn of something called progress! lol

@metalifan: What you're describing is almost exactly akin to what the game INQUISITOR says about it.
Some inquisitors believe that the Emprah is being held back by the Golden Throne, while others understand that if the Emperor were to die the entire Imperium would crumble. Whether he comes back or not, there will always be some who view him as an impostor.

So wait... That makes me an Inquisitor?

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... I can haz Exterminatus privileges?

I wonder what people think when they say the Tau would win... They control such a small space that Ultramar alone beats them in a territorial match.

Cor Angars wrote:I wonder what people think when they say the Tau would win... They control such a small space that Ultramar alone beats them in a territorial match.

They're obviously drunk when posting.

I think it's also hard to say who will win just yet. Never know when GW will see fit to throw another new race in the game.

Yeah, it's impossible to say who WILL win. But fairly easy to see who won't.

EF's Top 5 loser list.
1) Tau (please, you thought these guys could actually DO anything?)
2) Orks (playing tic-tac-toe and not much else thier entire lives)
3) Necrons (50 bucks that they'll go back and have ANOTHER milliena long nap)
4) Eldar (No amount of dickery is going to oull them outta the fire)
5) Dark Eldar (will be too busy tortuing puppies an kittens to do anything worthwhile)

Hmmm... Well, I mostly agree with your list, much as I hate to admit that the Eldar just don't have the manpower to stand up to the big bad universe. The only part I'd disagree with is the Necron Nap. They tend to go to sleep only when the galaxy is emptied of life, so I'd imagine that they'd be just waking up right now. And even then they wouldn't really lose... They'd just be sleeping peacefully.

Haha, I also agree with Faithful's list, but just like Shelgelah I don't think the Necrons will be put out of the race that easily, and like he said; they'd only be asleep.

I didn't say they would lose, I said they wouldn't win. They are on the loser list becuase sleeping through the most epic battles ever seen in the galaxy is pretty lame.

Even so, I doubt they would still be asleep. The Nids entering the galaxy in force would be the most life that the galaxy has seen in a good long time, which I think would wake up the Necrons.

Emperors Faithful wrote:2) Orks (playing tic-tac-toe and not much else thier entire lives.)

I think the orks have a far bigger chanse of winning then the eldar has because of their numbers.
Since the eldar is a dying race they will eventualy die off when the orks are still numerous.

Meh, 2nd is the 1st of the losers. Besides, what is even more degrading is that orks have the POTENTIAL to overwhelm the galaxy, but they will always continue to waste it amongst themselves.


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@Shelegelah: My point was that despite waking up, the necrons are probably going to kill a few things, then decide it's nap AGAIN.

Necrons will anhillate Eldar.
Inquisition will fight Chaos till they run out of men/women.
IG and SM will run out of recruits.
The Ork and Tyranid hordes will meet and kill each other leaving the other races to will.
Tau will just sit there watching everyone die and Dark Eldar will just keep on sacrificing random races till they run out or get bored.

DE never get bored at thier job.


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metallifan wrote:So wait... That makes me an Inquisitor?

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... I can haz Exterminatus privileges?

Yes you can Mister Metalia.But don't abuse it.

Actually, DE DO get bored with thier job. Souls being tortured in the same way get's tedious after a while. But their answer is not something different, it is a desire for MORE.

chaos will get pwned by angry marines

Tau water caste ambassadors eventually convert Orks to the Greater good. The Tau use their newly found numbers to control the rest of the galaxy.

How would the Tau not win?

Nids overrun tera
emperor gets ripped to shreads along with everything else, or equally tau (or any other non-human race) would kill the emperor properly once they had control. as the emperor is the only thing stopping the chaos gods from turning the whole galaxy into a fat warpstorm and chaos destroying everything, then its inevitable that only mankind or chaos could win

IvanTih wrote:chaos will get pwned by angry marines

Sweet.

penut the butter wrote:

metallifan wrote:So wait... That makes me an Inquisitor?

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... I can haz Exterminatus privileges?

Yes you can Mister Metalia.But don't abuse it.

It's possible to abuse Exterminatus rights?

In all honesty, I think it'll just devolve into a Stalemate between Orks and Nids. I don't think there WILL be a winner until another race just comes along from across darkspace and decides to just blow up the whole Galaxy with a giant gun of FREEM

Stalemate between nids and orks, huh? Good thing humanity is already dead in your prognostication because that would be utterly boring.

Yea I figure... Unknown amount of Nids that're still floating in Darkspace and attacking other Galaxies + unknown amount of Orks still scattered around Darkspace and attacking other Galaxies... Humanity = surrounded and outnumbered... And as much as I hope the Emperor gets up from his 10,000 year deuce on the Golden Throne, I don't think it would be a realistic scenario :(

So... yea. Orks and Nids would just probably start beating on eachother shot for shot and things would pretty much grind to a halt. Because Orkses can survive on Nid Ravaged worlds, the Nids would keep going back to worlds they already nommed to gather more Biomass. And the Orks would just fight them there until they overran the place, then they'd leave spores and in a decade or so, the Nids would be going back there again because more Orkses grew out of the ground.

Vicious, repetative cycle.

The cycle of vicious boring hell.