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In the 40k universe, the end of the 41st millennium is coming. Does anyone thing something crazy is going to happen once it ends?

The 41st millenium is eternal

They're unlikely to advance the timeline, otherwise they'd feel compelled to change the name of the game, and Warhammer 41K doesn't have the same ring to it.

You mean something even crazier than all the nonsense that's already going on in the 40kverse?

Might keep the name but advance into 41k. But that would involve change.

As noted on previous similar threads - there are references in BL novels to the 42nd Millenium depending on what you consider canon etc.

Seaward wrote:They're unlikely to advance the timeline, otherwise they'd feel compelled to change the name of the game, and Warhammer 41K doesn't have the same ring to it.

Technically, the game is called "Warhammer 40.000", yet the scope of its history is not limited to that single year.

Still, I don't believe they will advance the timeline into the 42nd millennium. They really dug themselves a nice pit there with all the "hype" surrounding the so-called End Times, and between the choice of disappointing one half of the playerbase by any changes going too far and disappointing the other half by any changes not being radical enough, opting to simply remain locked within the 41st millennium likely seems like an attractice "solution" to the studio.

Seaward wrote:They're unlikely to advance the timeline, otherwise they'd feel compelled to change the name of the game, and Warhammer 41K doesn't have the same ring to it.

Warhammer 50K.

At least according to the Ciaphas Cain novels feth all happens, it just turns over into the 42nd and people go about calling the 41st "the old Millenium" (perhaps a pun on the fact that's its been going on for so damn long). ...At least that is if you count the Third War for Armageddon,Thirteenth Black Crusade and all those nids on the horizon as just another Tuesday.

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

Warhammer 50K.

Hmmm, Year 50,000. By then, the Imperium of Man has collapsed, and chaos has all but obliterated itself, along with most civilizations throughout the galaxy. The Emperor has been reborn, and is focusing on reuniting the shattered world of Terra. Then...wait a minute...