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 ArcaneHorror wrote:
How would you all feel about GW putting out a story that takes place in the modern era instead of the future, but still in the 40k universe? For example, there could be a story about ancient artifacts being found that lead to a Chaos outbreak, or an Ork or Eldar ship crashing into some remote part of the world. Maybe there could be one about a powerful politician or criminal making a deal with a daemon.

As long as it doesn't have a happy ending and is the precursor to the dystopic events leading into the necessities of 40k (of fusing with machines to survive the xenos onslaught) then that would be cool and would if done right also make a nice impact on the dull "everything always lands on its feet" scene of today's movies. Maybe keep it away from hollywood and give it to netflix or something to look for some writers because netflix series tend to be a lot better at keeping things suprising (the walking dead comes to mind, game of thrones too etc)

I would say.. go with Eldar over Orks because Orks are way overdone with big titles such as LOTR and Warcraft being at it.

Eldar atleast is pretty freakin original.

Imagine an Eldar fleet utterly stomping the military of today's world backhand slapping the presidents to the ground with their superior physique etc.