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Sitting here thinking again, dangerous I know.

There are numerous theories on the nature of the Emperor. The fluff where the Emperor is the living embodiment of the essence of thousands of sacrificed psykers who volunteered for that duty millenia BCE is my current favorite.

What if there is far more here than the Emperor and humanity fighting chaos and the xenos for mastery of the galaxy.

I apologize for using the shotgun method of thought processing...



Did the Emperor come to the realization that mankind had been manipulated into their psychic potential by the Old Ones? Since it was the old ones who warped the warp by introducing psychic races in the first place? Was the Emperor, since he may be the living embodiment of the psychic potential of the human race, simply trying to allow humanity time enough to evolve into a race capable of 'controlling' the warp, and in turn chaos so that C'Tan and their minions could be thwarted and destroyed since the warp and psychic potential is an anathema to them (I think I have that right)?

What if the Cabal are actually servants of the Old Ones and it was they that caused the 'diaspora' of the primarchs and their infection by chaos to bring about the conclusion forseen in the vision eventually given to the Alphas? They realize that the destruction of the Human race is necessary to quell the warp enough to be usable once again in the ancient war against the C'Tan.

How do the galactic 'vacuum cleaners', the Tyranids, figure into this idea? Are they a tool of the Necrons to cleanse the galaxy of all life? It's not above the Necrons to use genetic manipulation as it was they I think who introduced the Pariah gene into the human gene pool.



I find that very interesting that the Necrons used that researcher to find the genetic frailties of the living creatures in the Galaxy.

Thoughts brought on by hypoglycemia.

Any info and perspectives are much appreciated.

The crons definately are of no relation to the 'nids. the 'nids cleanse the galaxy of life and eat everything, no harvest the souls which is what the necrons want to feed their 'gods'. The C'tan need the souls to survive and gain strength, and the 'nids eating everything doesn't figure into the equation, it's speculated that they were created by the old ones as a 'self destruct button', if the war against the C'tan goes badly, they can destroy the thing that they need to survive, life, with the tyranids, who will consume everything. The thing is, if the tyranids were ever to successfully asymilate the necrons, then they would be unstoppable, with their ability to rapidly reproduce and then be able to regenerate they would consume the universe, same with the necrons, if they were to asymilate the tyranids, they would become pretty much unstoppable. I find it likely that the Cabal is led by an Old One, who guides them, as I don't find it likely that those species would be able to see so much without the aid of something so powerful as an old one.

After reading Legion I came away with the assumption that the Cabal, regardless of what they were originally, during the Heresy they were unknowing pawns of Tzeentch.

Cabal are idiots....
The Emperor sacrificed himself to protect us...
And by his right galaxy is ours to rule...
Soon we will have enough troops to wipe out every Traitor, Mutant and Heretic out there...
For the Galaxy was meant for Humanity to rule it...

Brother Coa wrote:Cabal are idiots....
The Emperor sacrificed himself to protect us...
And by his right galaxy is ours to rule...
Soon we will have enough troops to wipe out every Traitor, Mutant and Heretic out there...
For the Galaxy was meant for Humanity to rule it...

Uh, da Emps had twenty sons stolen from him. Later, after da Emps finds them he does not see fit to warn/inoculate/monitor them against the crazy thingies that absconded with their toddler butts and deposited them hither, thither and yon. Then de Emps is all surprised and mopey when those same powers that stole the mega babies turns half of them against him. He did not sacrifice himself, he sacrificed humanity fighting halfheartedly against Luprical trying to talk reason into him, rather than just offing the boy immediately.

/Heresy
//I'll be heading over to the nearest Arbite or Inquisitorial office to turn myself in now.

There was thread earlier where someone pointed out that it was the amalgamation of eldar souls combining into one force that created Slanesh, in a similar vein to ancient psyker souls combining to form the emperor. One might now note that the emperor is essentially dead in the materium, but still exists in the immaterium, and is "fed" sacrificed psykers on a daily basis.

Looking at that for a moment, I'll forward the possibility that the Emperor does in fact want (essentially, at least in form if not function) ascend to the power a chaos God. But do it in such a way that the bulk of Humanity is left intact, and the nature of the feeding of psykers is one of performing a selfless duty for the sake of humanity as a whole - perhaps making the Emperor a chaos god (if this thought is true) associated with either those traits, or with the Human species in specific.