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Nidsnik Boreork wrote:
Of course not. Would this orkmoticon lie to you?

No, but this one would.

I don't have my books in front of me this time, but it is suggested that even when that which has stirred the the Warp to its current broil does not exist, the Warp still does but is calm, waiting for the next prescient race to feed the lurking masses. +__+

 Happyjew wrote:

 raiden wrote:
not looking!

I promise. It is not what you think it is.

Joking aside, I can see the orks taking over anyway - I know its not likely, but its possible. This is a collection of the most fearsome ork models in existence - the last is particularly terrifying. Why does he look so happy? Whats he going to do with the implement he's holding?

 PredaKhaine wrote:

Spoiler:

Exactly what procedure is that second one about to carry out?

I dunno, those Goblin Cheerleaders are kinda cute.

 PredaKhaine wrote:
I voted Eldar. Because when the dust settles after the final battle, 100 baneblades will explode out of every carnifex..and then get sucked through a warp rift that Eldrad got a primitive race to create eons ago.
Just as planned.

This. lol

extremefreak17 wrote:

 PredaKhaine wrote:
I voted Eldar. Because when the dust settles after the final battle, 100 baneblades will explode out of every carnifex..and then get sucked through a warp rift that Eldrad got a primitive race to create eons ago.
Just as planned.

This. lol

Yeah, but Eldrad got his Avatar killed by Fulgrim once upon a time. So how great could his prescience really be?

Side note: Here is a great reason why the Chaos Daemons are the only plausible answer for complete domination: Per their Codex, they are the only force in the universe that has always existed and never existed simultaneously. Even with the Warp is Calm, they still Exist. And by that virtue, I would say that the universe is already claimed, even if the Warp doesn't yet exist in Real Space. Real Space is still controlled by the Warp.

It's been mentioned before, but Tyranids don't conquer (they consume), and Orks only "hold" land because they don't have a good scrap going on at the moment. So they're kinda out of the running.
Chaos can't REALLY win either; if the known verse turns into one big Eye of Terror then MAYBE, but even then given the level of inter-faction conflict I dunno if I'd call that conquering. If you've conquered something I'd imagine you need at least a short period of peace to call it conquered good and proper. Whichever sub-faction owned a planet would then get shoved off said planet by their rival.
The IoM could win, but it would take the Emperor stepping off the Golden Throne to actually seal the deal (or some other massive Deus Ex Machina).
Necrons: Maybe, it's not like they don't have enough time on their hands to do it. But, on the other hand, they do have the limitation of the Flayed disease (it's shown that it is transmittable and permanent), so they may just turn into mechanical Tyranids; killing stuff for the sake of new hats.
Eldar/Dark Eldar: Not enough numbers. If we narrowed the scope maybe, but as is they just can't hold that much space.
Yeah, Tau have the best shot all in all.

Tyranid domination is inevitable.

Given time, we will all get nommed.

In my opinion, the most realistic possibility would be the Necrons once the Tyranids have killed everything else and moved on.

Of course, this being a stagnant work of fiction, I predict that the fading Imperium will remain on top until the end of time.

TheRedWingArmada wrote:

extremefreak17 wrote:

 PredaKhaine wrote:
I voted Eldar. Because when the dust settles after the final battle, 100 baneblades will explode out of every carnifex..and then get sucked through a warp rift that Eldrad got a primitive race to create eons ago.
Just as planned.

This. lol

Yeah, but Eldrad got his Avatar killed by Fulgrim once upon a time. So how great could his prescience really be?

Side note: Here is a great reason why the Chaos Daemons are the only plausible answer for complete domination: Per their Codex, they are the only force in the universe that has always existed and never existed simultaneously. Even with the Warp is Calm, they still Exist. And by that virtue, I would say that the universe is already claimed, even if the Warp doesn't yet exist in Real Space. Real Space is still controlled by the Warp.

lol - I was responding to the previous poster when I wrote that - that post basically said "CREEED!" so I responded in kind

Besides, the Eldar are
A)Unable to win - in the fluff, one guardian's life is worth 10 gajillion human ones (if you're an eldar) we have all the best guns, the best psykers etc - but as soon as the eldar make it into a book we lose because marines. They're the heroes we're reading about, so the Eldar tend to either be a bit moustache twirling or a helper species. And Dark Eldar do the twirling a whole lot better.
B)Humanities last hope. The Eldar are making a new god Ynnead (the god of buffering - thanks to whoever on here said that )we can only hope he destroys slaanesh before Lucius tries to kill the Swarmlord. Otherwise, Swarmy will nom Lucius down like a dry twix and then the ultimate troll power comes into play and Swarmy starts turning into Lucius. As soon as Swarmy is more Lucius than Swarmy and technically dead , the hive mind will re-upload Swarmy and absorb Lucius too...then we get slaanesh tyranids and the universe explodes in TMT*

*too much tentacle.

I thought you needed to feel some sort of pride at killing Lucius in order to turn into him? I doubt the Swarmlord is capable of feeling pride, as pride is a weakness that the Hive Mind wouldn't have let it have.

Its got to be nids, even though im an imperial player, nids are amazing.. if I wasnt so busy building my Ultramarines 4th comapny, i'd collect nids omnomnomnomnom

Tau due to ally and assimilation of other factions, don't forget that the Eldar are on the way out and are growing more and more friendly with the Tau, I think that as the last of the Eldar start to die out that they will either pass on their technology and such to the tau, or the Tau will offer then protection and a place in the empire in exchange for the technology. Just my two cents.

Dark Eldar actually do have a chance of conquering the galaxy if you think about it.


Lets say Tyranids devour most biological major factions. Only Necrons are left.

During all that time, Dark Eldar are perfectly safe in their little hidden city, raising their numbers and military equipment.

Chaos gods are crippled because the vast majority of emotions that fed them is gone (Humanity and Eldar.)


Tyranids go for another galaxy and that leaves only Dark Eldar and Necrons as the two remaining major factions.

Now, DE just have to use all their military they raised while Nids were eating stuff and defeat the Necrons.
The odds that DE win vs. Necrons is slim, but they do have a chance.


That's just my humble opinion.

Necrons can enter the Webway.

No one the forces of chaos call it the eternal/long war for a reason.

 shinros wrote:
No one the forces of chaos call it the eternal/long war for a reason.

This is true, however the Warpsmiths have a goal in mind for conquering the universe, which is to turn Real Space into one perfect, giant living machine-daemon-spirit-thing. However, should either one of the Ruinous Powers actually succeed in dominating all, they would die for the Warp is sustained by mortal desires, thoughts, emotions, spirits, etc. That said, Chaos can still conquer the universe and man can still exist, as is the case on some Daemon Worlds and some Chaos Societies. Otherwise, no more Chaos, yaddigg?

Well I'm not sure what the exact lore is, iirc the Tyranid fluff doesn't actually specify whether the Tyranids have eaten everything from their own galaxy and are moving on. Perhaps they are running away from something? Or maybe something the equivalent of IoM at full strength has created the things and made them the vanguard of an expansionist army. Otherwise CSM or Crons FTW!!!