Imperial_Arson wrote:
This is my idea for a galaxy 500 years into the future of contemporary 40k.

Necron Tomb Worlds have been awakening through the past centuries in ever increasing numbers, more fleets of Tyranids are arriving and the 14th Black Crusade is about to commence on Cadia, which survived the 13th but as a shattered visage of itself, it's culture has grown stronger since then and the seeds of hope have been sewn throughout the Imperium after raid after raid of Chaos has been repelled from the Fortress World, but every instance the numbers grow stronger against the light in the dark.

The Tau expanded outward but within the centuries their empire has been splintered, the Farsight Enclaves have grown stronger and more self-sufficient, Farsight himself is still alive but a figure of IMMENSE legend in the sectors surronding his empire.

The Orks? well they'e still doing their thing.

What I think would be interesting to implement within this idea is the idea that the Harlequins have been succesful in their reconciliation of the Dark, Craftworld, and Exodite eldar, they now share technologies but are a heterogenuous mix of culture, parts of it still retaining what was left of their respective cultures. The Exodites still live primitively on their worlds, but are being militarized by the more warrior based Craftworlds and groups of Dark Eldar. The Dark Eldar and Craftworlds share technology, the DE gave the Craftworlds their cloning/reincarnation technology for wraithbone and spirit stones, the DE now becoming more like Corsairs, still leading a violent hedonistic lifestyle but VERY VERY toned down.
The CW Eldar are much more passionate now, but still retaining the defined paths of yonder. The Harlequins lead both the DE and CW as intermediaries, guiding their co-evolution back into one group, the " Gray Eldar". There is much more emphasis on conquest and sexual reproduction in this culture, and the Eldar Empire is on a rebound against the Imperium and Necrons.

The Imperium and Admech, through a series of psychic events including direct communication with the Emperor, has started mass innovation and reorganization of hive cities to where they arent just mass ghettos, along with the rebuilding of Legions but not to the extent they were in the Great Crusade. Plasma weaponry finally becomes more safer, and Marines enter battle with hundreds, if not thousands of troops at a time. On the edges of Imperial Space, where the Astronomicon is weakening and fickle, stories of the Loyalist Primarchs coming back have been told.. But the Custodes have been diagnosing the Golden Throne as increasingly more prone to irreparable failures, but the psychic mind of The God Emperor has never been more strong.

'tis a confusing, scary, but hopeful time in the Milky Way.

 Imperial_Arson wrote:
Well, it's a good thing this is just speculation, and yeah, GW won't advance the plot either way.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Imperial_Arson wrote:
Well, it's a good thing this is just speculation, and yeah, GW won't advance the plot either way.

The only way the plot could advance is with the Necrons taking up a strictly neutral alignment and not inferring unless provoked and Abaddons 13th Black Crusade failing because the Gods wish to sustain the current chaotic clusterfeth providing them with entertainment.

 StarTrotter wrote:

Also Ferros what you said is EXACTLY why the plot can't be advanced.

Also why not Deathwatch? It would make far more sense for Deathwatch to deal with that. GK are really for fighting daemons (admittedly we don't even know what Void Dragon is anymore. Pure god? Bits? Not even there?) No clue what a Dyson sphere is and I'd be rather surprised if the Pylon's would properly function to mess up the entire Eye of Terror. Sounds rather silly.

Ironclad Warlord wrote:
This sounds like lord of the rings, I really hope 40k stays grimdarkcyberpunk and stays out of the fantasy genre.

Well I hate to break it to you, but 40k is very Fantasy as it is.
You've got your Knights, your Demons, your Elves, your Orcs, your Undead, your Sorcerers, and even your Dragons

Author Message
MrBlackledge
Post 2014/01/20 18:02:02 Subject: Warhammer 41,500
~Warhammer 41,523~

Abbadon has been successful in killing the Emperor with this 14th black crusade however the emperors death scream obliterates the warp killing all warp travel and the webway. the imperium turns back to its state during old night. comunication is pointless between planets and the SM look to building and maintaining their own empires (until the eventual extinction of the human race in 41,806)

~Warhammer 41,539~

The elder float around aimlessly as they cannot fly too fast in the huge Craftwords until they die of age disease and starvation (DE included) the orks carry on jumping from one planet to the other but find it increasingly harder and harder to do as the galaxy is tearing itself apart. (massive amounts of infighting between rirval factions of every race) the orks turn on each other and invent a third god (Bjork- the god of music) every ork hates this god and subsequently commits suicide just to get away from him/her/it.

~Warhammer 41,587~

The greater good is found out to be a lie as the ethereals dissapear (could this be due to the Emps death scream?) and the Tau now split into smaller planetary empires and find it hard to cope with the payments for their mercenaries which eventually turn on them .

~Warhammer 41,641~

Necrons have already been awakening in more and more numbers but without the warp they are struggling to susain their bodies as the dark energy that powers them is slowly dwindling. Necrons will be faced with one final threat. The tyranids. they fight them on every front blasting apart fleets upon fleets with their guass weaponry but with their decaying bodies they cannot hope to hold them back. The innevitable happens and the Tyranids eat the crons (which as we all know is not a sustainable food source and doesnt provide much energy) they die of starvation as they cannot continue to eat enough to fuel the trillions of little gits running round in the Hive fleets thus shrinking dramatically and evolve a sense of self preservation. they run and with no astonomicon to guide them they get lost heading back out into the cold depths of the universe for millenia to come.

~12,367,903~

Over 12 million years Terran standard have been and gone since the extinction of the milky way. but life knows of no boundries. John Grammticus looks out over the harsh landscape. His eyes burn. The last few million years havent been easy on him, living no more than a handful of years at a time due to the varied locations of his re-birth. he has died in everyway he can think of radiation poinsoning, suffocation immolation, asphyxiation. he thinks he might have been eaten by something once. it doesnt matter now. nothing does. he looks out across the landscape cursing his existence, the sand blows gently around his bare feet. he wonders what this new alien planet holds in store him. he misses Oll. they were friends, him and Oll, neither would admit it but they both knew it. Grammaticus looks up into the purple hew of a sky almost familiar. he wonders what it would have been like if everything went to plan. if alpharius didnt turn. If the Mortals had won. theres nothing he can do now except stare into the gulf stretching beyond. he takes a step forward further into the burning desert. dehydration, thats what this death will be, the least of his favourites. he goes to take another, something stops him. he looks down, there in the sand. something glinting in the sunlight. he bends down and pulls it free. its been dulled by the weathering sand, but John knows what it is. he turns the Aquila in his hands. staring uncontrollably at the pendant. something catches in the corner of his eye, a light? perhaps.
he uses his voice. he hasn in a while so whats the harm?
"Hello, please dont tell me im going mad" tears streaming down his face he cries a plea. he needs something to be real. anything. "Please come closer, all i see is light." he sinks to his knees. it cant be real. everything is real and nothing is real anymore. The human race is dead. the galaxy is dead. everything is dead. except its not. the light moves closer, closer still it looks like a supernova its too bright to real, he cries pleades at it "stop tempting me with falsehoods. nothign is real"...

"I am" mumbles the once-emperor... "I was"

~Warhammer 12,367,903~

 MrBlackledge wrote:

~Warhammer 41,641~

Necrons have already been awakening in more and more numbers but without the warp they are struggling to susain their bodies as the dark energy that powers them is slowly dwindling.

 King Pariah wrote:

 MrBlackledge wrote:

~Warhammer 41,641~

Necrons have already been awakening in more and more numbers but without the warp they are struggling to susain their bodies as the dark energy that powers them is slowly dwindling.

??? ???

 Wyzilla wrote:

 King Pariah wrote:

 MrBlackledge wrote:

~Warhammer 41,641~

Necrons have already been awakening in more and more numbers but without the warp they are struggling to susain their bodies as the dark energy that powers them is slowly dwindling.

??? ???

Yeah, that never made any sense at all when he posted it. Necrons are entirely separate from the Warp and actually die if dropped into it with no way out.