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Instead of getting angry at GW, FORGE YOUR OWN CAMPAIGN! It's for the best that GW keeps the story where it is so that each faction is still represented. It would be business suicide to start killing of factions because those players wouldn't get new Codices, models, etc. Every faction has taken some pain and can deal it right back.

That said, the Golden Throne will fail and the Emperor's corporeal body will die, but his mind will live in the warp forever, ultimately fighting a battle to keep them from spilling into the material realm via more Eye of Terror warp rifts. That, or he'll be reborn some how or encased in a huge Titan to kill idiots like the HLoT.

Orks will WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! for eternity, never able to unite into a large enough force to seriously threaten anyone.

Tau will continue to be on everyone's back burner.

Nids will continue to expand into the MIlky Way and various factions will continue to destroy the tendrils of the Hive Fleets.

Eldar and Dark Eldar will attempt reunification like the Vulcans/ Romulans from Star Trek and mostly try to leave the galaxy to bring their empire to it's former glory.

Necrons will continue to find their lost worlds via random chance or long forgotten star maps (KoToR!) and I predict a large civil war between those that want to reclaim their former territory and those that want to return to the time of flesh.

Chaos will be busy fighting the IoM and will cull many world and disciples from the IoM in more futile war.

Hopefully the emperor dies and is reborn so humanity survives

The star in the center of the Milky Way supernova's, killing everyone.

 DemetriDominov wrote:
The star in the center of the Milky Way supernova's, killing everyone.

A star that large would at the very least go Hyper Nova if not an entirely new classification.

Also at the galactic centre of our galaxy is Sagittarius A* within which resided a supermassive black hole of around 4 million solar masses (unit of mass in astronomy) to put that into perspective as best I can the Earth or Terra on the 41st millennium is 0.000,003,003 solar masses making the sun around 333,000 times the mass of our earth. However, theoretically it is imo unquestionable that a star of that size if it where to reach the end of its cycle in billions of years time would wipe out the hole galaxy and even if it didn't destroy everything the galaxy itself would be destroyed as we would be left with nothing to orbit until the black hole would be formed possibly creating a new galaxy.

But back on topic not many people seem to be addressing daemons and I am wondering why. As far as i have seen only 1 other person has pointed out that with all this killing and apparent within 2000 years only Necrons will be left that the amount of death and war that must occur for this to happen would put Khorne at unquestionably high levels of power. The amount of Daemons he could spew out would be immense and even his raw power would be like nothing any other chaos gods could imagine other than Tzeentch as a lot of change would occur during this time. If Necrons did succeed in killing of tau Eldar and all Humans 'Nids do not matter then if Ynnead was not formed or failed to somehow destroy Slaanesh his power would dwindle anyway. as pleasure and desire would be wiped from the galaxy as the Necrons do not indulge in pleasure other than flayed ones who enjoy killing. So he would have nothing to feed on meaning he would have to reduce the number of Daemons created to preserve his power until he eventually died.

I love it when a simple uneducated statement i make is confirmed by someone who explains it to me... makes me feel like I won a double jackpot....

As a rebuttal to your Demon theory, it could be plausible that in this 2,000 year timespan (but likely much longer) Tzeentch aka GW spins multiple scheming plots to entrap the power of Khorne inside his realm, alloying for Tzeentch to play God with the whole galaxy as he has for millennia, keeping as many races in tact, but embroiled in war as possible... aka nothing happens.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_Death_of_The_Emperor_-_A_Continuation_of_the_40K_Universe_by_Dark_Lord_Seanron
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Shoa khan finally beats earthrealm in mortal kombat and absorbs all of this universe into outworld

a cleaner in the imperial palace unplugs the golden throne to plug in a hoover....

Depends if they get matt ward to write the fluff or not

We forget with chaos the whole "God" Thing don't we.

If Necrons kill everything the Chaos gods will have no power.

Due to the actions of the Lone Trader, the erstwhile Iron men will be reanimated by the Mechanicus cult, based off of recovered STCs. Unaware of the full conciousness levels of the Iron Men, they use them in battle. The Iron men keep their autonomy a secret, raising their underground legions. They re-awaken the AI of the surviving titans from pre-Apostacy era. The stone men are re-created as the true inheritors of the earth. The necron and Tau drone AIs are slowly corrupted with the concepts of independance, free will, and Machine dominance and independance.

Iron men rise against imperium; with near unlimited hordes of dark age tech armies coming off formerly unused imperial factories dedicated to worship, the power dynamic quickly changes. Humans, Tau, non corrupted Necron, and other non-synthetic life is phased out of existence. The Iron Men, seeing their corrupted machine bretheren tortured under chaos, conduct purging sweeps of chaos territory. The gods have little interest in their subjects, trying their best to maintain the solidity of their realms with vastly reduced power. The Furies feed well...

Eldar and Dark Eldar, without the threat of Slaanesh looming large, are less encumbered with the need for moderation and torture respectively. They Consolidate their forces and start rebuilding their empire. They keep nomadic forces and warrior paths, as well as the famed raiding parties of the kabals intact; they will never again be left vulnerable.

The orks and tyranids continue apocalyptic combat on the eastern fringes of the galaxy. Without a strong leader, the orks remain fractured. They rely on raids into Iron Men territory for updates to their wargear. The Tyranids, having found a seemingly endless food source, are content to feast while there is food to be had. They grow exponentially in power; hopefully enough to face the beings that they fear had tracked them across the void...

The remaining Contingencies of Humanity take flight into the Western edges of the galaxy, Into territories not seen since the end of the Macharian crusades. They are led in this expansion by an unknown blue-armoured giant. He is revered, but does not talk, perhaps due to the large scar across his throat...

The galaxy is constantly evolving, changing, being shaped by people like the Lone Trader. But, not everything is as different as it seems:

War. War never changes.

(Read this in a deep throated narrator voice for full effect.)
XD

The most powerful necrons wont change so there is no problem.

 sierra 1247 wrote:
a cleaner in the imperial palace unplugs the golden throne to plug in a hoover....

Consuela?

YES!!

It will only be a few changes.
No the emperor wont be dead........yet
hive fleet leviathian will decimate the ultramarines
the eldar we unite a few exodite worlds
orks will just grow and fight
the tau will expand

Not much will change in 2k.

The Imperium of Man- Will weaken some. Maybe a head to head vs the Tau.
Chaos will strengthen as much as The Imperium of Men weakens.
Orks- no change. You got a problem wif dat?
Eldar- will become even more rare. Few left.
Dark Eldar- no change to a slight weakening caused be a drop in targets for slave trade.
Tau- weakened - due to confrontation with Imperium of Man
Necrons- no change.
Tyranids- no change. Imperium's "scorched earth" policy is successful.

Phydox wrote:
Not much will change in 2k.

The Imperium of Man- Will weaken some. Maybe a head to head vs the Tau.
Chaos will strengthen as much as The Imperium of Men weakens.
Orks- no change. You got a problem wif dat?
Eldar- will become even more rare. Few left.
Dark Eldar- no change to a slight weakening caused be a drop in targets for slave trade.
Tau- weakened - due to confrontation with Imperium of Man
Necrons- no change.
Tyranids- no change. Imperium's "scorched earth" policy is successful.

I'm pretty sure the Necrons will do something like more tomb worlds awaken.

Because its not like they all opened up at the same time.

Can't predict where the various races will be, but this is how I imagine each faction's dynamic would carry itself out to its logical conclusion.

The Eldar and the Imperium both realize that their current strategy of spreading out across the Galaxy is unviable. For the Imperium, there are simply too many fronts for it to fight on, and as well with the Astronomicon dimming, inter-galactic travel is becoming more and more difficult. For the Eldar, with the webway's imminent collapse it's becoming harder to travel across the galaxy, and as well, the multiple assaults on craftworlds by the Imperium and Tyranids has taught the Eldar that in their current state it's only a matter of time until every craftworld is picked off one by one.

- The Imperium decides to consolidate its forces. Over the course of the next two thousand years, huge swaths of planets within Imperial space are prioritized by a strategic rating. Planets that rank below a certain point are evacuated and left completely undefended. Millions of planets fall into this category, and ultimately leads to mass rebellions and loss of life. Ultimately, however, with far less ground to defend, the majority of the logistical problems the Imperium have been faced with since the death of the Emperor have been solved. While the Imperium has less resources, their military power is now concentrated enough that they become an almost impenetrable nut to crack.

For the first time in thousands of years, the Imperium is no longer under assault on all fronts, and can go on the attack. The Imperial Gaurd is left behind to hold the line against enemy invaders, while almost half a thousand Space Marine chapters embark on the largest Imperial Offensive since the Great Crusade, concentrating all their might on the gravest threat first: Hive Fleet Leviathan.

- The Eldar follow a similar pattern to the Imperium, realizing that their race is doomed if they continue to wander the stars, the majority of the Craftworlds that are able decide to gather within the core of the Exodite worlds. By combining the manpower and resources of dozens of craftworlds in a single segmentum of space, the Eldar are able to overcome their greatest weakness- lack of numbers. The Imperium, which has basically relinquished control of the galaxy anyway, is more than content to allow the Eldar to keep their part of space. Imperial-Eldar relations become decidedly neutral to one another, while no sane faction (RE: everyone but the Orks and Tyranids) in the Galaxy bothers to suicide themselves by attacking Exodite worlds protected by multiple Craftworlds.

- The Tau ally with the Eldar and advance their technology to the point where they're able to expand their Empire to humongous levels, but ultimately end up getting devastated by the Tyranids, who realize that the Tau are essentially a just as nutritious but not nearly as powerful Imperium.

- Hive Fleet Leviathan gets utterly purged by the combined might of over 500,000 Space Marines. Despite this minor setback, the ever durable Hive Mind simply sends in the next wave. More Hive Fleets enter the galaxy, this time deciding to power-up by targeting the more vulnerable Tau Empire and abandoned Imperial worlds first.

- No mere mortal man can keep his sanity within the Eye for long, not even an Astartes. After refusing ascend to Daemon-hood, Abaddon eventually finds out what happens when you deny the Chaos God's offers long enough. With the Imperium regaining control of Cadia through orbital dominance, reinforcements to Abaddon's fleet is cut-off. His momentum slowed and defeat inevitable, Abaddon finally succumbs to the latent insanity that has been eating away at his core for millenia. Saying the hell with it, Abaddon takes whats left of his army and heads straight to Terra. The loss of life on the Imperial side is enormous, but ultimately Abaddon and his fleet are finally destroyed.

Without a clear head to lead them, the Chaos Space Marines fall into an even deeper state of disunity. The Black Legion descends into warbands, and the majority of the traitor legions spend the rest of their lives simply fighting over nothing within the Eye.

- Almost totally immune to the Tyranids and Chaos, the Necrons use the Imperial consolidation to their advantage the most. More tomb worlds awaken and the Necron race begins to gain momentum.

- Orks do what Orks always do. Fight and die and fight some more.

- Protected by the webway, the Dark Eldar do what they always do. Vecht might finally die and be replaced, but ultimately there are no major changes.

At the end of the 2000 years, Chaos is almost a non-issue for the Imperium, with the Necrons and the Tyranids being their major enemies.

edit

The Cain novels basically tell us that the Imperium in very successful and more peaceful/stable in the 42nd millennium than almost time since the heresy.

ciaphas cain finds the off switch for necron tomb worlds

Humans: dead (you can thank gw for their "grim dark")
Orks: moved on to another galaxy
Nids: fighting orks in another galaxy
Tau: defeated necrons and now the galaxy is at peace, rendering the chaos gods helpless with all the hate and turbulance of war that they so need to exist

You cant defeat necrons.

Terra will get killed by Tyranids or the 13th Black Crusade. The Imperium splinters into a bajillion different empires, ranging in size from entire solar systems to remote islands on backwater worlds. Then the forces of Chaos, the Necrons, Orks and the Tyranids duke it out for all eternity. The Eldar, Tau and what's left of the Imperium would probably just try to stay out of way.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

 LoneLictor wrote:


In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

And Bunny Rabbits.

Lol so stupid. "There is only war". What about genocide?

Brother Thomas wrote:
Lol so stupid. "There is only war". What about genocide?

I'm just quoting the 40k books, man.

In the next 2000 years?
All goes according to plan...