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Commissar Typhus wrote:

b1soul wrote:

infinite_array wrote:my bet's on Horus. Why?
Because he slapped down the Emperor. And even the Big E couldn't handle Horus at the height of Horus' power.

yes, the Emperor couldn't handle Horus, that's why he annihilated Horus...

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The Emperor had his eye burned out, his face boiled off, his arm ripped out of its socket, his throat slit and felt utter despair as Horus dominated his Palace and mind upon his warship.

In a last ditch effort of focused power, the Emperor literally spent his life force to kill Horus in a blast so powerful that all 4 Chaos Gods recoiled from Horus. In a total display of how powerless the Emperor truly was against Chaos, they left Horus totally before the Emperor killed him, turning the once vile Warmaster into his former self to be brutally slaughtered by his own father. It was then, that a limp pitiful husk that was once the Emperor was taken by his son to sit on a throne of damnation, a shrine dedicated to the one thing he fought so long to abolish, religion.

The Emperor didn't win s***

He lost half his sons and watched his empire fall into abyss before succumbing to his wounds. The Imperium that exists now is a sickly mutation of what was intended.

Home Brew Nuke wrote:The Emperor could've beaten Horus more or less instantly if he'd given it his all. At least that's my take on it.

Quickly summoning all of you power, every last scrap of energy from your soul and focusing into the most angered, betrayed, hateful wrath the galaxy has ever seen isn't something you flip on or off during a fight.

There is no other single creature or entity in 40K existence that would of required 100% of the Emperor's power to be killed. Let alone one that could actually slay the Emperor.

The fight was brutal and close, had the Emperor acted a moment later Horus would of likely taken his head off.

Commissar Typhus wrote:

BeefCakeSoup wrote:

Commissar Typhus wrote:

b1soul wrote:

infinite_array wrote:my bet's on Horus. Why?
Because he slapped down the Emperor. And even the Big E couldn't handle Horus at the height of Horus' power.

yes, the Emperor couldn't handle Horus, that's why he annihilated Horus...

+1

-5

The Emperor had his eye burned out, his face boiled off, his arm ripped out of its socket, his throat slit and felt utter despair as Horus dominated his Palace and mind upon his warship.

In a last ditch effort of focused power, the Emperor literally spent his life force to kill Horus in a blast so powerful that all 4 Chaos Gods recoiled from Horus. In a total display of how powerless the Emperor truly was against Chaos, they left Horus totally before the Emperor killed him, turning the once vile Warmaster into his former self to be brutally slaughtered by his own father. It was then, that a limp pitiful husk that was once the Emperor was taken by his son to sit on a throne of damnation, a shrine dedicated to the one thing he fought so long to abolish, religion.

The Emperor didn't win s***

He lost half his sons and watched his empire fall into abyss before succumbing to his wounds. The Imperium that exists now is a sickly mutation of what was intended.

Good point...

But a win is a win, the Imperium still stands (if not a little crookedly), and we all know Chaos would never destroy humanity or the universe because the Gods would have nothing left.

No skulls for the Skull Throne
No pawns in the Grand Scheme
No carriers for the diseases of Nurgle
No seduction for Slaanesh

Which clearly shows who actually won the conflict.

The IoM stands as a feeding pool lead by its husk Emperor against a tide of foes it can't hope to win against. The goal of Chaos was never to destroy the IoM, it was to break a non-feeding atheist lead empire into a religious buffet of twisted emotions to eternally feed upon. At least, this is what is largely suggested.