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He seems useless right now, doesn't seem like he's going to get up. Kill the comatose loser.

Well, the simplest reasons are that he helps Astropaths, essentially making Warp Travel safer and letting people communicate Telepathically over literally astronomical distances.

So he's basically still keeping humanity together.

Yeah, without the Emperor, Warp Travel more or less stops.

And supposedly the Emperor is in the Warp, holding back the Chaos Powers from breaking willy-nilly into our universe.

All of above plus if GW advance the story in some way what so ever we will all hate it. So i guess its not good to touch Huangdi at all. Also who would replace him? Necron fleets broke into Mars in 998.M41, who knows what could happen if he died.

 tau tse tung wrote:
All of above plus if GW advance the story in some way what so ever we will all hate it. So i guess its not good to touch Huangdi at all. Also who would replace him? Necron fleets broke into Mars in 998.M41, who knows what could happen if he died.

It's not a story. It's a setting.

The emperor can influence things from the warp, by being in the throne he's also keeping the webway on earth closed stopping a flood of demons emerging right into the palace.

Also if killed he'd resurrect become corporeal once more unite humanity and defeat chaos once and for all, which would mightily annoy xenos players.

hobojebus wrote:
The emperor can influence things from the warp, by being in the throne he's also keeping the webway on earth closed stopping a flood of demons emerging right into the palace.

Also if killed he'd resurrect become corporeal once more unite humanity and defeat chaos once and for all, which would mightily annoy xenos players.

There's a possibility he may turn into a warp entity of similar proportions to the Chaos gods...
They are after all just monstrously powerful daemons.
There has also been speculation that when a human dies their soul powers him up...

So long as orkz believe he is alive, the emperor will neva die, at least until an ork killz him.

If the power up is true, after so long on throne he would be getting close to a minor chaos god at least kind of strength.

Add the phiskers they all feed him daily, if you feed enough does he heal up?

 purplefood wrote:

hobojebus wrote:
The emperor can influence things from the warp, by being in the throne he's also keeping the webway on earth closed stopping a flood of demons emerging right into the palace.

Also if killed he'd resurrect become corporeal once more unite humanity and defeat chaos once and for all, which would mightily annoy xenos players.

There's a possibility he may turn into a warp entity of similar proportions to the Chaos gods...
They are after all just monstrously powerful daemons.
There has also been speculation that when a human dies their soul powers him up...

The shamans that created the emperor did so because they themselves were no longer resurrecting after death instead they were being eaten in the warp, I'm pretty sure the same would happen if he died, after all everything he's ever done has been to protect humanity from extinction, left without him it would quickly fall.

Warp travel aside, I don't think that the Imperium is very inclined to kill their God and nominal leader anyway. They're quite fond of him, to put it lightly.

Plus minor task of the body guard, 300 semi primarch level troops willing to die in the defence, and that's o ly the throne room!

And the other 9,700 others guarding palace, oh forgot two titans guarding the door.

Whole load of nope on getting to that point.

Who would sit on the Golden Throne preventing the almighty toilet from spewing forth the greatest backwash of all time? Any mere mortal psyker would last a second on the throne. Malcador the Hero, one of the greatest psykers of all time, lasted perhaps hours at best.

hobojebus wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

hobojebus wrote:
The emperor can influence things from the warp, by being in the throne he's also keeping the webway on earth closed stopping a flood of demons emerging right into the palace.

Also if killed he'd resurrect become corporeal once more unite humanity and defeat chaos once and for all, which would mightily annoy xenos players.

There's a possibility he may turn into a warp entity of similar proportions to the Chaos gods...
They are after all just monstrously powerful daemons.
There has also been speculation that when a human dies their soul powers him up...

The shamans that created the emperor did so because they themselves were no longer resurrecting after death instead they were being eaten in the warp, I'm pretty sure the same would happen if he died, after all everything he's ever done has been to protect humanity from extinction, left without him it would quickly fall.

They were being eaten because they were weaker alone.
The warp is like a sea of psychic energy. A soul is like a fish in this sea. Daemons are the predators. A human soul is weak and will quickly be torn apart. A psyker is marginally less weak.
The Emperor is incredibly powerful. He would possibly be able to survive the warp. Because of the nature of the warp belief can be incredibly powerful (Possibly explaining some of the Sisters of Battle's faith powers as an incarnation of the Emperor's psychic might in the real world) When human's believe in the Emperor they make him more powerful, when they die they power him even more. Not a lot but given the number of believing humans that die each day and the number of psykers...
That's one theory anyway...

The psykers feed the throne, not the emperor.

This thread again. Kill the Emperor and warp travel stops, humanity disbands as a faction and is swallowed by an infinitely large wave of chaos.

 the shrouded lord wrote:
The psykers feed the throne, not the emperor.

At this point it may be hard to distinguish between the two.

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
This thread again. Kill the Emperor and warp travel stops, humanity disbands as a faction and is swallowed by an infinitely large wave of chaos.

He also apparently becomes a god and defeats chaos.
Then humanity finishes completely burning out anyway.

From memory, isn't one of the more radical branches of the Inquisition almost considering this? Just dragging vague memories from the Inquisitor source books, I'm probably misremembering though.

Yep they are.

It's one of the older Inq sources IIRC...

And then there's the cryptic little bit of fluff from the Grey Knights book, mentioning the Terminus Decree.

Excluding all the big horrible or amazing things that could happen should he die another reason is that the Imperium of Man doesn't want the current status to change. You've a lot of political systems working which basically in-fight with each other for power and are mostly content with that struggle. They don't want to have the Emperor awaken because that would basically destabilize their whole current power structure. Those on the top might well find themselves on the bottom minus their head.


Honestly the only thing I think that could tip the scales would be a proper Tyranid Invasion. And by proper I mean multiple hive-fleets striking the Galaxy, likely at multiple angles. Because at that point you've a good justification for turning the big beacon that is the Emperor off or at least waking him up and seeing if his powers can change the signal or something. Nids are also the only force (possibly barring Necron) who are not Chaotic but who have the numbers and organisation (sorry orcs) to actually force a major invasion and cause change.

Not too informed with the fluff but it's a no brainer that if the emperor stopped existing it would be like the super glue holding a land raider together vanishing.....ie the prices if mankind would break resulting in humankind becoming extinct to chaos or some other inter galactic chomper

What do you guys think of cipher?

This is a dumb post BUT

Rumor says when the EMPRAH dies he will turn into a choas god (rumor) hey is a perpetual and just revive and kinda deal with the age of strife all over again!! Or when he dies a Null (or somethin) takes his place. Overall when he dies the astronomicon will go out causing no warp travel and letting all the demons gak all over terra!

The point is when he dies imperium will fall or kinda break and he has to fix it!

My point is when the EMPRAH dies age of strife all over again!

 poppa G wrote:
He seems useless right now, doesn't seem like he's going to get up. Kill the comatose loser.

Someone's call the inquisition!

Then run so not to be inquisated ;-)

jhe90 wrote:
Plus minor task of the body guard, 300 semi primarch level troops willing to die in the defence, and that's o ly the throne room!

This is an actual serious question. What do these guys do all day?

The last time they had visitors was in M36 when the Emperor invited Alicia Dominica and her friends in for tea.

And without the Emperor St. Celestine and other living saints would cease to be. :(

Or, he'd be reborn. Who knows? Most aren't willing to find out.