What stories would you like to see?

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**Co'tor Shas**

I'd also like to see some books not focused on the military or combat. Like a team of Inquisitorial acolytes in their search to discover the mysterious goings-on in a distant system, intrude and mystery. Something original for a change. Maybe a rouge trader, or a band of space pirates would be cool as well.

**Furyou Miko**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
I'd also like to see some books not focused on the military or combat. Like a team of Inquisitorial acolytes in their search to discover the mysterious goings-on in a distant system, intrude and mystery. Something original for a change. Maybe a rouge trader, or a band of space pirates would be cool as well.

Everyone's scared to write them since Eisenhorn is held up as one of the greatest Black Library series of all time.

**3AcresAndATau**

I'd like to read a good book about the life of Maugen-Ra, Phoenix Lord of the Dark Reapers leading his craft world during its time in the Eye of Terror, also one about Eldrad and a tome on Prince Yriel would be nice. A Farsight novel would be great too, and some Gue'vesa. In short, more Xenos, especially Tau and Eldar.

Also, more wild stuff with Rogue Traders and their heretical crews mucking around beyond the Imperium's borders would be great.

What else can we think of:
-More Arbites, perhaps in a police procedural type series in the grim darkness of the distant future
-More Soritas
-More politics

Basically, more of the plain fun stuff that don't sell great

**Matthew**

I'd love to see some Marines who go rogue to save civilians from orbital bombardment.

**skarnalaxwarlord**

A story about a gunslinging Ork cowboy-biker (complete with an Orky stetson hat and duster and the street showdown between him and an 'umie sherif)

A Necron version of Warm Bodies

A Cultist who fights his way to the top of the command chain and becomes a Daemon Prince

A lone Guardsmen survivor of a failed campaign who survives amongst the ruins of the planet he invaded alongside other misfits in the Guard

**Mr Morden**

I'd love to see a sequal to Lord of the Night - so much potential

Same with Titanicus.

I'd like a novel/s centered around some Amberely Vail's adventures with Cain as a cameo.......

Some new fiction about Imperial Navy - the Hornblower in space stuff has been good but rare thus far.

in that vein love to read a novel about Maensith - the corsair and former Dark Eldar captain of the Fae Taeruth

**GreaterGoodIreland**

Mr Morden wrote:

I'd like a novel/s centered around some Amberely Vail's adventures with Cain as a cameo.......

Isn't there already something like that?

**Mr Nobody**

I've realized that there are very few stories that take ace in the terra system. It's the crown jewel of the imperium and you would think you would see more of it in stories.

**Keep**

LumenPraebeo wrote:
I wanna hear a story about a planet. It should start off by introducing us to it. What classification, What climate, what geological anomalies sand out. Why it was colonized, when, and how. Then I want to hear who the current ruler is, what the rulers life is like, and what is the ruling class? Whats their political standing with the Imperium? With it's neighbors? With their trade partners? What type of aliens lurk around the system? Then I want to hear about the society side of things.
Social life? Planet Infrastructure? Culture? Food, Product, Trade? what about archeology? paleontology? what do the people build? what do the people extract from the planet, or nearby asteroids? Any notable individuals?
If there was a book like that for warhammer 40k, i'd be the first to buy it.

Does it need an entire book to describe just these things? Forgeworld campaigns usually go into alot of detail of what the world they are fighting on is and so on. I very much enjoyed the background of the IA:3Taros Campaign...

**3AcresAndATau**

^^

The Terra system is super secure, and a good portion of the Black Library's output is about Space Marines doing manly things, being on guard duty at the most stable post ever ain't overly conducive to action oriented storytelling. It'd be great to see some bits on the High Lords politiking, though.

**Co'tor Shas**

Maybe told through the eyes of an underling or something?

**Keep**

It'd be great to see some bits on the High Lords politiking, though.

Unfortunately the average fanboy can't survive without having bolterporn every 2 minutes so... good luck with that. Definitely potential in that though.

**Wyzilla**

One of the reasons why I love the Legion of the Damned novel was how it went for about three fourths of the book without any conflict and was largely just Space Marines talking, and brooding before the storm.

And boy, did the storm hit. Rob Sanders really know how to write combat, and how to make it brutal.

**Mr Morden**

GreaterGoodIreland wrote:
Mr Morden wrote:

I'd like a novel/s centered around some Amberely Vail's adventures with Cain as a cameo.......

Isn't there already something like that?

no its usually the other way around and you only get hints of her own exploits and adventures..

I really enjoyed The Legion of the Damned novel for the same reasons as the previous poster

**Computron**

Ravenor and Eisenhorn are awesome, it would be great to see something like that again instead of endless bland bang bang books about marines.

That said, I'd like to see a story about the owner of the power fists that Guilliman looted.

**Filch**

The story of a nurgling!

**BrianDavion**

I'd like to see some of the stories presented in some of the codexes out there taken and expanded.

The Plague of Madness from the GK 'dex could proably be turned into a trilogy!

The Tratican war as we saw a little of in codex AM could be an intreasting story

**KingDeath**

Well, spacemarine fiction from the perspective of a chapterserf (conveniently stationed on a strikecruiser/battlebarge) might be interesting if done well.
Or Puretides slow rise to prominence or even the Tau Empire during it's earliest days.

**dusara217**

Filch wrote:
The story of a nurgling!

Oh my god, yes!

**Furyou Miko**

dusara217 wrote:
Filch wrote:
The story of a nurgling!

Oh my god, yes!

Wouldn't it just read like one long fart joke?

**Talon of Anathrax**

Furyou Miko wrote:
dusara217 wrote:
Filch wrote:
The story of a nurgling!

Oh my god, yes!

Wouldn't it just read like one long fart joke?

Yeah, but a good one

Anyway, if it's hiding in a GUO 's fat, it would interesting as well as hilarious.

**The Imperial Answer**

Well some stories I'd like to see.

-One following the shenanigans of a Grot Tank mob and their Mega-Tank.

-One where a Cryptek, A Warp-smith and a Big Mek go head to head to see who can create the wackiest and most destructive weapons.

-One following the life of a Skull in (because lets face it, a Skull will always have a story to tell in 40k).

-Something expanding upon the Draxians and the Reek and why they aren't well liked.

-A story that details the most significant thoughts of the Emperor since the Heresy and what he was thinking when he created the Storm of Wrath.

**Talon of Anathrax**

I want more infos on the War of the False Primarch!
It sounds like something really awesome and world-shattering, but all I've heard about it is 2 or 3 lines of vague information about a huge cataclysm in the IA:13 book :(

**Supertony51**

I'd like to see some more standalone books about various Chaos SM chapters. Maybe similar stuff to the nightlords novellas

Or, maybe some more standalone novels from the Inquisition I.E. Eisnhorn or Ravenor. Except I'd like to see more from Ordo malleus or Hereticus, seems like all the good inqusition novels are from ordo Xeno

**Furyou Miko**

Ordo Xenos are more relatably 'good guys' because their mandate is hunting freakish monsters, rather than hunting down humans. You will note, however, that for a Ordo Xenos inquisitor, Ravenor spends a lot of his time hunting down daemon cultists.

**EmpNortonII**

Furyou Miko wrote:
Ordo Xenos are more relatably 'good guys' because their mandate is hunting freakish monsters, rather than hunting down humans. You will note, however, that for a Ordo Xenos inquisitor, Ravenor spends a lot of his time hunting down daemon cultists.

... but since Tau are the only good faction in 40k, that's not really true. Lots of humans are evil to the core. Tau? Not so much. Since the Ordo Xenos are tasked with destroying the galaxy's only moral species, they're the worst of the Ordo, not the most relatable. Most of us don't want to destroy the only hope for humanity to survive the 41st millenium.

**koooaei**

I'd like to see a story of a squadron of leman russes winning against a single hammerhead and not the opposite.

**Wyzilla**

EmpNortonII wrote:
Furyou Miko wrote:
Ordo Xenos are more relatably 'good guys' because their mandate is hunting freakish monsters, rather than hunting down humans. You will note, however, that for a Ordo Xenos inquisitor, Ravenor spends a lot of his time hunting down daemon cultists.

... but since Tau are the only good faction in 40k, that's not really true. Lots of humans are evil to the core. Tau? Not so much. Since the Ordo Xenos are tasked with destroying the galaxy's only moral species, they're the worst of the Ordo, not the most relatable. Most of us don't want to destroy the only hope for humanity to survive the 41st millenium.

The feth? The Tau are a non-faction that are so tiny and insignificant they don't even matter in the universe. They can do nothing to combat Chaos, Tyranids, or Necrons, and already can barley even defend themselves from the Imperium.

If you're going to continue to troll, you can at least attempt to do a decent job rather than... this. It's so poor it's insulting.

**Furyou Miko**

EmpNortonII wrote:
Furyou Miko wrote:
Ordo Xenos are more relatably 'good guys' because their mandate is hunting freakish monsters, rather than hunting down humans. You will note, however, that for a Ordo Xenos inquisitor, Ravenor spends a lot of his time hunting down daemon cultists.

... but since Tau are the only good faction in 40k, that's not really true. Lots of humans are evil to the core. Tau? Not so much. Since the Ordo Xenos are tasked with destroying the galaxy's only moral species, they're the worst of the Ordo, not the most relatable. Most of us don't want to destroy the only hope for humanity to survive the 41st millenium.

lol.

**EmpNortonII**

Wyzilla wrote:
EmpNortonII wrote:
Furyou Miko wrote:
Ordo Xenos are more relatably 'good guys' because their mandate is hunting freakish monsters, rather than hunting down humans. You will note, however, that for a Ordo Xenos inquisitor, Ravenor spends a lot of his time hunting down daemon cultists.

... but since Tau are the only good faction in 40k, that's not really true. Lots of humans are evil to the core. Tau? Not so much. Since the Ordo Xenos are tasked with destroying the galaxy's only moral species, they're the worst of the Ordo, not the most relatable. Most of us don't want to destroy the only hope for humanity to survive the 41st millenium.

The feth? The Tau are a non-faction that are so tiny and insignificant they don't even matter in the universe. They can do nothing to combat Chaos, Tyranids, or Necrons, and already can barley even defend themselves from the Imperium.

If you're going to continue to troll, you can at least attempt to do a decent job rather than... this. It's so poor it's insulting.

The third sphere expansion took plenty of territory from the Imperium. They'll be able to expand like that until such time as they are the single greatest threat to the Imperium. Necrons and Chaos are mostly at the other end of the galaxy, and the Tau have wiped out one hive fleet. They can do it again.