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 El_Machinae wrote:
Holding the Webway closed is rather new fluff too. It used to be that he was necessary for the Astronomicon, but that's started making less sense because Terra had it with the Emperor romping around the galaxy too.

But the Webway breach allows him to be kept in an eternal state of non-regenerating undeath.

Wasn't he able to direct it from a distance?

tneva82 wrote:

Cptn_Cronssant wrote:
I assume it meant he would die and be regenerated but those with him at the time thought he would die and so they shoved him in the GT and he's in a state of undeath.

Except Emperor himself gave instructions on plugging him into the throne and how to turn it into life support system...

Ironically a billion psychic souls being fed to a powerful psycher is also how slannesh was born.
I have a feeling the golden throne is just what the emporer needed to become the star child and establish a presence strong enough in the warp to combat the chaos gods.
The emperor will not die at some point but evolve into something else. Whether that's good for humanity or not is up to the fluff.

I'll be the first to call the Horus Heresy novel series a steaming pile of gak, especially anything involving Perpetuals, but to be fair Perpetuals can be killed.
In Unremembered Empire they reckon a a chunk of Fulgrite created by the Emperor's psychic lightning striking sand is enough to kill Vulkan if wielded by a Primarch.
Now that would be only the tiniest fraction of the Emperor's power, so imagine what Horus could to do after being granted tremendous power by the Gods.

Alternatively as in The Lost and the Damned, the Emperor over drew on the power of the warp and in doing so undid his immortality.

gungo wrote:
I have a feeling the golden throne is just what the emporer needed to become the star child

Going by the Star Child fluff the Emperor is already the Star Child, and he needs to be reborn as the New Man once more to save humanity.

pm713 wrote:

 El_Machinae wrote:
Holding the Webway closed is rather new fluff too. It used to be that he was necessary for the Astronomicon, but that's started making less sense because Terra had it with the Emperor romping around the galaxy too.

But the Webway breach allows him to be kept in an eternal state of non-regenerating undeath.

Wasn't he able to direct it from a distance?

I've not seen that in the fluff, but I've not read everything.