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Do you think that GW will ever continue it? Maybe even finish it with some big book, movie or video game?

No, and I don't really want them to. The vague, unspecified end of the galaxy just around the corner is what makes the 40k universe so appealing. It's like a freeze frame of a huge calamitous war right before all of the forces engage.

Considering that Rick Preistly wanted to do this with Warhammer Forge (the books would be a trilogy of that outlined the end of the Warhammer world) and GW shut him down, I don't think they'd do it to their prime IP if they wouldn't for their less popular IP.

I kinda wish they did progress the storyline or at the very least, release a set of non cannon books that outlined the end of Warhammer 40k. Players would still be able to play continue/finish the storyline with their battles and fanfics. 40k has and always will be a hobby where players can make their own of it and such books wouldn’t affect this.

It would be interesting to see what kind of epic battles/events would happen further down in the storyline (such as the final battle for the imperium). It is the kind of thing that would shake things up in a good way I reckon.

That being said, it is clear the GW writers do not have the capacity to finish the storyline adequately.

I think it would be awsome if GW actually continued the storyline a bit, and personally I think it would be intersting to know who destroyed the imperium.

They've begun to move it into M42 (after all a 14th black crusade would be in M42), but I dont think they'd ever end it. Fall of Medusa V was in M42, as were the Ciaphus Cain novels.

Though when they do start using M42 dates, WH40k effectively becomes an artifact title, not that anythings wrong with that.


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candy.man wrote:I kinda wish they did progress the storyline or at the very least, release a set of non cannon books that outlined the end of Warhammer 40k. Players would still be able to play continue/finish the storyline with their battles and fanfics. 40k has and always will be a hobby where players can make their own of it and such books wouldn’t affect this.

It would be interesting to see what kind of epic battles/events would happen further down in the storyline (such as the final battle for the imperium). It is the kind of thing that would shake things up in a good way I reckon.

That being said, it is clear the GW writers do not have the capacity to finish the storyline adequately.

Problem with any definitive "end" is they'd have to do a reboot, like White Wolf did with 'World of Darkness'