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I'd be a planetary Lord searching for salvation in the form of billions of people worshiping me. That way, when I die, my soul is fused to such entity and I become immortal! There is only one way to ensure my path to immortality, I'd have to lie to my followers and promise them everlasting glory, conquer nearby systems to secure enough emotional base, and find the cult of the Illuminati to invoke the demon into me. I shall never die! Mwuahaha!

 ENOZONE wrote:
I'd be a planetary Lord searching for salvation in the form of billions of people worshiping me. That way, when I die, my soul is fused to such entity and I become immortal! There is only one way to ensure my path to immortality, I'd have to lie to my followers and promise them everlasting glory, conquer nearby systems to secure enough emotional base, and find the cult of the Illuminati to invoke the demon into me. I shall never die! Mwuahaha!

My flamer has several issues to discuss with you! BURN HERETIC

Looks like I'd go out leading my Guardsmen and Marines in a last desperate charge into the traitor hordes. Better to die a hero than to live a coward, after all!

This thread has to many heretics and traitors.

See, the Emperor was about the only thing holding the warp at bay. So, demons would be EVERYWHERE and unstoppable. So the Tau would be over-run and killed. The Eldar may be able to evade them, but they would still die out or just not accept anyone who's not Eldar. Chaos would be the most..."accepting" of a new cultist, but you would most likely just end up being turned into spawn or used as a meat-shield for a Chaos Marine.....yeah you're gonna die no matter what hahahha

I'm already a slave to darkness, I see no point to stop worshiping chaos now. So, chaos it is.

The Plague Father has this hollow husk.

 ENOZONE wrote:
I'd be a planetary Lord searching for salvation in the form of billions of people worshiping me. That way, when I die, my soul is fused to such entity and I become immortal! There is only one way to ensure my path to immortality, I'd have to lie to my followers and promise them everlasting glory, conquer nearby systems to secure enough emotional base, and find the cult of the Illuminati to invoke the demon into me. I shall never die! Mwuahaha!

The Illuminati aren't a cult - they're a secret society, kinda like the Human equivalent of Harlequins and Solitaires. That cult you speak of was just a puppet they used to keep the Inquisition off their backs (which was also helped by the fact that many Inquisitors - including the ones who ultimately purged the cult - are also Illuminati).

 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:
This thread has to many heretics and traitors.

Just as planned.

No, seriously. I did ask people whether they would fight and die with glory worthy of their noble heritage, or just go crazy.

The Imperium isn't noble, and not all chaos worshippers are crazy. Just a lot of them.

I'd fuse with a Hive Tyrant like this one Tech Magos from Victories of the Space Marines or Fear the Alien (forgot which), then become the first Living Saint of the New Age when I lead the 'Nids around to eat Tau and stuff. Twould be fun. NOMNOMNOM. No one has mentioned Necrons yet as they'd be likely to survive the madness.

rally the remaining Imperial armies under my NidFUSION and assist with keeping everyone else at bay

Im an ork so if daemons are everywhere war is everywhere. But seriously I would join Nurgle and try to ascend to daemon prince status!!!

 LoneLictor wrote:
The Imperium isn't noble, and not all chaos worshippers are crazy. Just a lot of them.

The Imperium has protected Mankind for ten thousand years. The methods are certainly ignoble (at least the Inquisition's methods) unless you're Imperial Guard/Space Marines, but the cause of Mankind is a noble cause.

I'd join the Red Corsairs and frickin' reave, pillage and party hard throughout the galaxy, taking what I want, doing what I want, killing who I want, and having a damn good time while doing it!

Dying on the battle field is the only way to go..... bowing to a chaos god or alien overlords is not a way to live for any man...

"Mejor morir de pie, que vivir toda una vida arrodillados"
-General Emilio Zapata

It is better to die on your feet than live a lifetime on your knees

Well personally:

"Any attack against national liberty and independence shall meet armed resistance. Each message that resistance should cease is false. Sweden wants to defend itself, can defend itself and shall to defend itself. "

Resistance should be constant at all times., It is on you it depends - Your effort, your determination, your will to survive., We will never give up!

To actively participate in the resistance movement requires courage and good nerves .... Do not give the enemy any assistance other than humanitarian aid. Refrain from personal intercourse with him. Leave no information about the Swedish Armed Forces. Participate not in the propaganda against Sweden. Oppose it instead.

It is treason to help the enemy!"

For 40k, exchange Sweden for the IOM... and remove the part about humanitarian aid.

Plikten framför allt

Not really content with death so I would submit myself to the will of the Oldcron star gods, e.g. The Nightbringer or the Deceiver

Death - Going to copy Lukas the trickster on this one, have a stasis grenade(heck why not a couple) fitted into my body and charge the daemonic hordes with bolter and blade!

Tau.

If enough humans turned to tau, they may have a chance of living through the imperiums fall, and might possibly thrive.

Heretics burn the emperor shall not die burn

Thinking about this more, I think the Tau would eventually notice that us humans are the problem (regarding Chaos incursions into the Materium) and would therefore ultimately herd us into death camps for efficient obliteration.

So, if the Emperor were to die -- rather than siding with the foul xenos in the vain hope they might continue his work -- I suppose I would live out the remaining futile moments of human existence just doing what he had ordered from the start: burn the heretic, kill the mutant, purge the unclean, und so weiter.

Nice thread @Tadashi...my service only ends in death...

Creepy tumors growing out of my chin or a badass mechsuit in which to purge the disgusting filth of the galaxy? Not a chard choice. Tau please.

I'd continue to sit on my tomb world, and eat Necron popcorn, as trillions of humans make this decision, seeing how it all plays out.
I might even chuckle.
Maybe.

If I had to choose as a human?
FOR THE EMPRAH! GIVE THEM STEEL!

 Shlazaor wrote:
or a badass mechsuit in which to purge the disgusting filth of the galaxy?

Problem is, the fish wouldn't even let you work on the assembly line much less get in the cockpit. Defecting to Tau would more realistically mean digging latrines for the Kroot until being loaded into an oven.

FIGHT TO THE BITTER END!!

FOR THE IMPERIUM OF MAN!!

I will not die, I will not surrender, I will not succumb, I will not be tainted. I will run, all those I can gather, all those that will follow, and all that I can possibly take with me. And I will run, no matter what lies ahead, and no matter how painful, hopeless, and never ending it will seem. I will run, and I will never surrender. Those that I take with me and I will survive. All other choices are not choices at all.

The emperor may have fallen, but he is still in my heart. And i will NOT BOW to the forces of chaos. I WILL FIGHT.

I will fight till i run out of bullets, until my blade is dull, until my gun falls apart, untill my armor falls off, untill my fists bleed.

I WILL DIE IN HIS NAME

For the Emperor guides us, leads us, even after death.

ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR!!

 Manchu wrote:
Thinking about this more, I think the Tau would eventually notice that us humans are the problem (regarding Chaos incursions into the Materium) and would therefore ultimately herd us into death camps for efficient obliteration.

More likely, they wouldn't risk angering and alienating their (now) most populous species, especially in a time of great strife when they need all the manpower they can get.

Or they just won't figure out the connection, because there is no easily accessible evidence in-universe, especially for blunt aliens who are ignorant to the way the warp works. It'd be like a guy who doesn't know what soul stones are figuring out that the Eldar are using their captured souls to build a god to kill Slaanesh and deciding to help them.

 Manchu wrote:
Problem is, the fish wouldn't even let you work on the assembly line much less get in the cockpit. Defecting to Tau would more realistically mean digging latrines for the Kroot until being loaded into an oven.

The existence of Gue'vesa auxilliaries alongside traditional human settlements shows that the Tau allow humans more flexibility in some cases than the actual Tau castes, although obviously not as much respect or prestige. There is nothing in the fluff to indicate that life under the Tau is particularly more oppressive than on a normal Imperial world.

Also, a human will never get a mech suit because mech suit aren't built for humans, because the Tau are smug and because it's a waste of resources.

1068SCP wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
Thinking about this more, I think the Tau would eventually notice that us humans are the problem (regarding Chaos incursions into the Materium) and would therefore ultimately herd us into death camps for efficient obliteration.

More likely, they wouldn't risk angering and alienating their (now) most populous species, especially in a time of great strife when they need all the manpower they can get.

Or they just won't figure out the connection, because there is no easily accessible evidence in-universe, especially for blunt aliens who are ignorant to the way the warp works. It'd be like a guy who doesn't know what soul stones are figuring out that the Eldar are using their captured souls to build a god to kill Slaanesh and deciding to help them.

After the Fall of Medusa VII, the Tau know enough about the Warp and its connection to mortal beings. And if the Tau are as smart as people say they are, they'd be quick to connect the increase in Warp anomalies to the death of the Emperor. And its only going to be a matter of time before someone says "For the Greater Good of the galaxy, we must wipe out Mankind to defeat Chaos."

All of you who are going to defect to Tau Empire:
How long do you think Tau will survive Black Crusade when Chaos Forces realize that lot of Humans have escaped there?

Fleeing to Tau only means that you are going to end up in concentration camp because Tau don't trust Humans. And when larger number of Humans start appearing they will think it's some kind of invasion and it will open fire. And how many pirate lords will attack Tau to use the opportunity of this whole mess to become a little more rich?

I am afraid that Humanity defecting to Tau Empire will only doom it. But I guess that the further people are from Terra the faster they forget their origins and their loyalty...