This page is for Wild Mass Guessing that interprets 40K in terms of franchises not owned by Games Workshop.
- Allow me, put some of these up on my DeviantArt a while ago anyway (I make no claims that I'm original). Ahem:
- Event Horizon - The movie where humanity learned the value of the Geller field. Yuck.
- Doom - A SPESS MEHRINE plugging a daemon invasion with nothing but a shotgun and a chainsaw? What part of that isn't 40k? (More to the point, what part of that isn't awesome?)
- Every Hellraiser movie except Bloodline - Although Slaanesh isn't due to become sentient for another 30,000 years or so, the drive for sensation that feeds him/her/it is already here. It only makes sense that there'd already be proto-cultists achieving a sort of daemonhood.
- The Dark Knight - The Joker is a latent proto-psyker who's been driven mad by Khorne's whisperings about how cool it would be if everyone started killing each other with pool cues.
- Meanwhile Lucius Fox is Arkhan Land in a past life.
- 300 - Takes place on a Feral World that some marine chapter or another should be using as a recruiting station. I like this one in particular as it makes the presence of monsters and slow-motion splatter more forgivable.
- House Of Leaves - Two stories, three bedrooms, lock-up garage and access to the Webway. $550/week, not including therapy bills.
- Drag Me to Hell - Seriously, don't mess with proto-psykers.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Before the Event Horizon was Discovery One's Jupiter mission. Instead of running into Chaos, they ran into troublesome AI and Necron artifacts.
- Friday the 13th - Jason clearly got Khorne's attention at some point and was awarded daemonhood. Bonus marks for Jason X, for obvious reasons.
- The Matrix - Really takes place on a Necron tomb world, where the angry goth terminators are feeding captured humans to the C'tan. Very slowly.
- The Alien Quadrilogy - A shipload of captive Tyranids being sent somewhere for testing and evaluation get lost in the warp and crash-land 30,000 years in the past. Ripley and the Nostromo crew investigate. More AI problems. Cue grimdark.
- Soylent Green - Population-overflow Hiveworld. The administratum must have been forgotten about them thanks to a rounding error somewhere, otherwise they'd be recruiting cannon-fodder Guardsmen from there.
- Starship Troopers - Both Heinlein's book and Verhoeven's movie. The book shows the early days of the proto-SPESS MEHRINES, and while most see the movie as straight-up the Imperial Guard vs Tyranids, I see a war from mankind's early attempts to colonise the stars, before the Emprah even came out of the Golden Closet.
- Don't forget everything written by Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft: KAYOS !
- As for the Hellraiser bit - the Chaos Gods technically predate the creation of the universe. The Warp's a crazy place.
The Gaia Garou and other changing races failed in their attempt to defeat the Wyrm, who proceeded to subjugate Earth and the rest of the galaxy. The Space Wolves are kinfolk descendants of a few Get of Fenris who survived, but they are ignorant of their true heritage. The Kroot are descendants or a few surviving Corax who fled to far-flung planets, where evolution made them capable of normal biological reproduction and evolutionary cannibalism.
Spreading Wyrm-taint is compelling sentient beings to engage in war, depravity, and greed. The overcrowding, pollution, and ecological devastation is also the result of Wyrm influence, just as it was for Gaia.
Already insane due to its confinement in the Weaver's web, the Wyrm's various aspects gained full sentience and autonomy. Beast-of-War became Khorne, Eater-of-Souls became Nurgle, and Defiler splintered into Slaanesh and Tzeench. Banes, now called Chaos Daemons, thrive in the Umbra, now referred to as the Warp.
The Chaos Gods are also the passions of Spirals in a mutated form, and the Spiral Energy generated by the endless war feeds the Immaterium. The "corrupted" spiral energy is more prevalent in 40k because they are more realistic and willing to act through their angst-ridden feelings.
In the issue, Doom becomes omnipotent, conquers the Earth and turns it into a utopia after defeating all the remaining super-heroes. He then turns his attention to space and conquers or destroys most of the alien races and super-beings there as well. The Celestials arrive and Doom engages in a 400 year long war with them, from which he emerges victorious, but with most of his power gone and the earth disloged from its orbit and freezing. Doom, rather than humankind go extinct, uses up his remaining power to restore the Earth's orbit. He then lives among them, but muses that given the proper motivation humanity could be made into an unstoppable force. Doom, in this reality, has his face restored, and has been possession of great cosmic power for centuries. Civilization has already fallen once, hostile alien races have been subjergated or destroyed by his power. Is it so unlikely that his power returned to him, and he then led humankind back to the stars as the Emperor of Mankind?
- Akihiko is affiliated with the Emperor Tarot Arcana.
- In the game, references are made to Akihiko wishing to increase his power in order to protect others. The Emperor in 40K uses his powers to keep the Daemons of Chaos at bay (or at least try to, anyway).
- The Space Marine guardians of Terra are the Imperial Fists Chapter. This Chapter also served as the Emperor's bodyguards during the Great Crusade and constructed the Imperial Palace. Factor this in with the fact that, during his school days, Akihiko was captain of the school boxing team...
- Akihiko's status as a Persona-user can easily be considered an early manifestation of psyker powers.
- In Persona 3, Akihiko has white hair. In the world of 40K, several Sisters of Battle are mentioned as also having white hair. This could be a the result of them dyeing their hair as a "mark of loyalty" or even possibly imply a subtle genetic connection. Recall that, before they were the Adeptus Sororitas, the Sisters of Battle were known as the "Daughters of the Emperor."
- Perhaps Akihiko is an Expy of the Emperor?
- So what does that make the Protagonist, who was (at least at the time) much more powerful than Akihiko at the time?
- The Holy Shit to Akihiko's Godlike.
- Let's see. He spends most of the game gathering power by telling people what they want or need to hear, resulting in enlightenment for both him and the person he's
manipulatingbefriending. He has the power to rapidly switch between various styles of magical abilities on the fly by putting on and replacing personas. His color theme is mostly blue. And at the end of the game, his soul ends up trapped in a metaphysical place outside reality as we know it where time doesn't work right, where he is fated to do battle with the Anthropomorphic Personification of despair for all eternity. You get three guesses as to who that makes him, and the first two don't count. Any problems him being the Lord of Change causes the timeline can be handwaved by the general weirdness of time in the Warp. IIRC, Tzeentch has a favored creepy herald/servant he uses as an emissary outside the Warp: it could be Elizabeth, Aigis, or both, elevated to the level of a Demon Prince (although Elizabeth may have qualified as a minor deity to begin with). - What would Philemon be, then?
Alternatively they are the Yehat.
- You can't get Ye hat.
- Alternatively alternatively, the Tau are an evolved form of the Qunari.
- The setting is run by a sadistic god of dirty tricks. How else do you explain it?
- Also, according to said crossover not only were the Eva Units inspirations for the Titans (albeit replicating the same results mechanically). But the Emperor is revealed to be an early version of Kaworu.
- One word: Adamantium.
- The Hulk becomes da Orkz. Please, don't make them Waaagh. You won't like them when they Waaagh.
- Super Soldier Serum + Tony Stark's armor and weapons = Space Marines.
- Alternatively, Fio'O To'ni St'ark was one of the finest minds of the Tau Earth Caste. Abducted by a radical Inquisitor's retinue and forced to recreate Tau technology for them, he instead built Powered Armor and used it to escape captivity. Voila! The Battlesuits were born.
- ...In a CAVE!! From a box of SCRAPS!!!!!
- Professor Xavier is a crippled old man who sits in a chair all day and uses a combination of his immense psychic powers and a powerful machine array to communicate with and guide people all around the Universe. Replace Cerebro with the Astronomicon and you've got the God Emperor of Mankind.
- The all-devouring Tyranids are Galactus.
- No, no, the Tyranids are the Annihilation Wave. Galactus is another C'Tan.
- Excuse me, Gah Lak Tus. (Ultimate version, who are a kind of scuttling skull-bug cyborg race).
- The Devourer certainly sounds like a C'Tan.
- No, no, the Tyranids are the Annihilation Wave. Galactus is another C'Tan.
- Human/Mutant relations is a popular subject for various multiverse stories: Age of Apocalypse, House of M, etc. In the Warhammer 40k universe, they're more strained than usual.
- And finally, Warhammer 40k takes place in the universe designated Earth 40,000. As it should.
- A question: Who's Deadpool-40,000?
- Let's see. Who in Warhammer 40k is bugfuck insane, hilarilously awesome, and Chaotic Neutral? Da Orks. When Waaagh!Dedpool gets going, the galaxy will burn. Then he'll move on to whatever the Nids are running from.
- ... I may just have to get an Ork army.
- Let's see. Who in Warhammer 40k is bugfuck insane, hilarilously awesome, and Chaotic Neutral? Da Orks. When Waaagh!Dedpool gets going, the galaxy will burn. Then he'll move on to whatever the Nids are running from.
- Is no one going to mention the fact that the Marvel universe now has a huge rift in it? Through which lots of eldritch abominations are coming? Of course there could be a simpler explanation...
- God Emperor of Mankind = Shinji
- Primarchs = Shinji's personality traits
- Tzeentch = Gendo/SEELE
- Slaanesh = Misato
- Khorne = Asuka
- Nurgle = Rei/The Sea of L.C.L.
- C'Tan = The Angels
- Gork & Mork = Asuka
- Shinji is clearly The Emperor, Tzeentch and both Gork and Mork. Rei is a Primarch, Asuka is Slaanesh and Khorne, Kensuke is the Omnisiah, Touji is the Lord Commander Militant of the Imperial Guard, Misto, Gendo and Ritsuko are the heads of the Inqusition. For more, see Charles Bhepin's Shinji and Warhammer 40k
- Shinji is
ChaosW40K Undivided, as he's got all the factions running around in his skull. Apocalypse Rei is obviously Gork and Mork ("waaagh."). Asuka has Khorne's aggression and Slaanesh's pride, and both are struggling with the Greater Good ideology for dominance, but there may be the potential for a Primarch somewhere in all that confusion. - Rei would be Roboute Guilliman, if only for the eyes, the hair, and the behavior of the average Ultramarine now.
- Shinji is
- Totally not inspired by Gorkken Morkann. Seriously.
- Red wunz do go fasta, after all.
- So, WAAAGH! is Spiral Power? I knew it!
- Yeah, Spiral Energy is powered by hotbloodedness, which means Waaagh!.......
Sure, they aren't quite like humans, they were created artificially, they don't really understand things like love, and they don't really follow anyone except out of fear and possibly admiration of bigness, but they're green (from algea in thier skin) and WAAAGH! sounds extremely similar to something spiral energy would do. Not only that, almost all of thier enemies are excessively grimdark (unsurprisingly), and they are the least angsty of all the factions.
- Or he played Fallout and liked the design so much he... ahem... borrowed it.
- Well, the backround does state the Space Marine power armour is derived from the so-called "Thunder armour", a type of power armour used by the inhabitants of the post-apocalyptic Earth.
- Guts had a birth mother, she was lynched while in labor. He was born of a dead body and then found by Gambino's bitch.
- WMG page for Berserk suggests a solution to that.
- Wait, you're proposing that Kirby and Warhammer 40k exsist in the same universe? Man! That is one seriously screwed up setting.
- Kirby is, of course, the only thing keeping the GRIMDARK from assaulting Pop Star. Even the C'tan know better than to fuck with him.
- And Dark Matter, as well as other Eldritch Abominations that get their asses handed to themselves by Kirby in a regular basis would fit naturally in this setting. Dark Matter is a reatively young Chaos God given form by a fraction of all negative emotions of the galaxy that eventually builded up in the Inmaterium to a degree that all that hate, sadness and despair BECAME SELF AWARE. His prefers sending his daemons to posses mortals and control them to further get rid of the galaxy of all positive emotions (which include compassion, valor, pride, excitement, hope and pleasure, and thus an enemy to all factions and Other Chaos alike. Making him Malal. Maybe excluding Nurgle, god of despair) Nightmare and other minor entities are simply powerful Daemons that emerged from the Warp.
- Kirby is, of course, the only thing keeping the GRIMDARK from assaulting Pop Star. Even the C'tan know better than to fuck with him.
- If the 'nids are fleeing from Kirby, then what does that make Meta Knight? Because there are some big hints that they're the same species; Meta just has a better hold on his appetite.
Less certifiable comparisons, but C'tan could be the (far less cheerful) descendant of Death, and I'll go with the Emperor as 40K's Destiny. Alternative interpretations are welcome,though.
- Tzeentch is the next Destiny. The rise of the Emperor, the birth of Slaanesh (as a new form of Desire), and the death of the Eldar gods has somehow comprehensively buggered up the entire concept of fate, effectively killing Destiny. Due to the universe being completely screwed over, his replacement was pretty much the opposite of him — instead of knowing what was going to happen with absolute certainty, and never getting involved, the new Destiny knows what should happen, and acts to make sure it does. Because if he doesn't the universe is screwed.
On a more serious note, Stark Industries didn't just survive the death of Tony, it went on to become very powerful, such that masses of Stark tech-enabled robots were commonplace in the Dark Age. Now, knowing that Tony had problems with AI under him going nuts, what's to stop less sanguine descendants from making the same mistake? With the prevalence of their 'bots, large-scale violence was inevitable.
- Just a few problems with that. Superman was an alien and knew it, so why would he be anti-alien? Also, did Horus strike him down with a kryptonite sword?
- Superman is also vulnerable to magic—not in the same way as to kryptonite, just insofar as it bypasses his invulnerability. So maybe it's a magic sword, however you define "magic" in this continuity.
- As for the anti-alien sentiment, it could be due to just how utterly horrific the world turned out to be. Even Kal-El couldn't fight the grim darkness.
- Think about it. He can kick the ass of every other god in the setting because he has "Za Warudo!"
His first dream (which he doesn't remember well) is of trying to find his father to get some money, which Ed Tom thinks he lost. The second is of his father leaving him alone in the cold to go ahead and start a fire.
The "father" that Ed Tom sees in both dreams, the man he knows as his father, found and adopted the Ed Tom when he found him as a baby, alone and abandoned, in the Texas desert. The dreams are not really about this man, however. They are about Ed Tom's true father, the God-Emperor of mankind.
The first dream is fragmentary and partially forgotten because Ed Tom was spirited away as an infant, and so had no knowledge of who or what he was, but his latent Psyker abilities have painted him an incomplete picture of this. He knows he has a greater destiny than to be a sheriff in rural Texas. The "money" that his father is going to give him is his rightful destiny as one of the sons of the Emperor and leader of a legion of Space Marines, defending Mankind and building the Imperium. He has the fundamental feeling that he has lost this, which he has, by virtue of being cast back in time and stripped of most of his power.
In the second dream, his father passes him by on a cold mountain pass without pausing to speak, in order to go ahead and light a fire in "all that cold and all that dark." This is about the God Emperor's mission to take the reigns of leadership over Mankind, in order to light a fire of inspiration and hope in the cold, dark distance of the far future. But because of the upset in time, Ed Tom can only stay behind and watch as he goes on ahead. Because Ed Tom was meant to be -and should be- immortal and able to simply take The Slow Path to join the Emperor and his Brother Primarchs in the Great Crusade, he has a moment of hope that whenever he gets there, his father will be waiting. But the same Psyker abilities that fill him in on the past break that hope by giving him the premonition of Horus' betrayal, and his own knowledge reminds him that he is cruelly mortal. And so he wakes up.
It is the knowledge that despite being made and nurtured by the hand of the Emperor himself and bred for the sole purpose of being an immortal, invincible guardian of mankind, he has by a whim of fate been consigned to live and die a mortal man, and that in the face of the infinite, universe-shattering threats the universe holds, he cannot even contend with the evils created by humanity itself that drives him to despair and a defeated retirement.
The reasons? No reason, I just thought this would make everything in the 40k universe worse.
- Hey, remember what was originally going to be the backstory of the World of Darkness? I mean the Emperor is totally a Solar Exalt.
- Tyranids are the Wyrm. Necrons are Wraithes and Sidereals. The Mechanical God is the Weaver. Psykers are Mages. The Inquisition started with the Hunters. Chaos are the Yozi. Orks are from the Wyld. And the Tau are geniuses.
- The Dark Eldar curse is actually a derivative of the curse of Caine. Commoragh is the Enoch of the new millenium.
- The Warp is the Umbra, almost completely dominated by the Wyrm. Each chaos god is a head of the Triatic Wyrm, with Khorne being the Beast of War, Slaanesh being the Eater of Souls, and Nurgle being the Defiler Wyrm. Tzeentch is the last remnant of the Weaver.
- Chaos Spawn are actually Formori in service of the Wyrm. Daemon Princes are what happens when one of them ascends to Incarna level. Rank and file Daemons are simply very powerful Banes.
- The Blood Angels are the remnants of the vampires, who by now are such thin bloods that all that remains of their curse is bloodlust and frenzy.
- Necrons in their early editions are spectres, bound permanently to the fetters of their bodies, and the C'Tan are Neverborn. In the new edition, Necrons are still wraiths, but have somehow found a way to shatter and imprison the Neverborn to their service. Flayed Ones and Destroyers are still Spectres.
- Inquisitors are Hunters. The Wayward creed seems to have taken over the order.
- And finally, the Tech Priests are the last remains of the Technocracy.
Expanded from the Team Fortress 2 WMG:
- Scout: Gork/Mork (the smart one)
- Soldier: Khorne
- Pyro: Malal
- Heavy: Gork/Mork (the violent one)
- Demoman: Slaanesh
- Engineer: Void Dragon
- Medic: Nurgle
- Sniper: Khaine
- Spy: Tzeench
- Helen: Deceiver
- Saxton Hale: The God-Emperor or CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
At some point, the Imperium will stumble across them, and an Exterminatus will be carried out a few minutes later.
The Void Dragon influenced the creation of Skynet, allowing it control over Skynet, and in turn, allowing Skynet to rise up against humanity. This was all part of a millenia-long, albeit failed, The Plan by Void Dragon to have an army that could punish humanity and release it from its prison underneath Mars.
The robot war was the start of the Dark Age of Technology, with the war for survival prompting humanity to begin colonization of space and jumps in technology. The eventual defeat of Skynet's Terminators left humanity in shambles, starting the Age of Strife. All of this is forgotten since the Emperor, the only one who would remember this, decided to suppress this information for the good of humanity; and the Eldar see no ideological difference between the Necrons and the Necrontyr. Also, the Iron Men STC found by Gaunt were the plans for the original Terminators.
The C'tan control over Skynet is what also allows the other C'tan to command Terminators/Necrons, since Skynet no longer exists to facilitate commands to the Termicrons. All the inert and slumbering Tomb Worlds are Termicron colonies on stand-by, waiting for eventual orders.
- Ever wondered why Eldar all think Humans Are Bastards? Well, now you know...
- Exodite worlds are Maiden Worlds raised from a dead rock to being a vibrant jungle world and given sentience. I like to think that the world from Daemon World where the planet was driven insane by constant warfare and warfare creating the most METAL planet ever where the compacted corpses of the damned have increased the planets size. The planet spirit after recomposing itself killed itself and killing all life in the solar system.
And besides, it's not like all the shit that this entails could possibly make the 40k-verse any WORSE.
- His legion would naturally be called the Steel Balls.
- The Blood Ravens seem to be obsessed with collecting tech, like the Brotherhood of Steel.
- Green-skinned homicidal maniacs—Super Mutants or Orks?
- The Forced Evolutionary Virus could be a Warp-based mutagenic virus—look at what it did to everything from Deathclaws to Centaurs.
- The status quo in the 41st Millennium remains constant, a war without end. And war... war never changes.
Besides the fact that they are both depicted as very large men with flowing black hair, a variety of similarities are present
1. Ramirez says, about the Kurgan "If he wins the Prize, mortal man would suffer an eternity of darkness.", and humanity in 40k is in a fairly dark age.
2. When Connor wins the prize, he says "I feel everything! I know... I know everything! I am everything!" Sounds to me like he is describing himself, and by extension anyone who won the prize, as The most powerfdul psychic of all mankind.
3. The God Emporer of Mankind was said to be born in the second millenium B.C., or usually some time around the dawn of civilization, which, given the Future Imperfect history in 40k, is a fairly acurate estimate.( The Kurgan was born in 970 Bc)
That being said, I could easily imagine The Kurgan having more than 20 sons in his life(though i would not see him letting many more than that live), he would most likely be frightened by the realization that he is no longer immortal, but it turned out alright, because The Emporer is, for all intents and purposes,unable to die.
Chibiusa's reign would be the Dark Age of Technology, with the dead Sailor Senshi resurrecting and Sailor Pluto and Galaxia using the late's Queen Serenity's corpse fused with the Starseeds of many historical figures as the basis for Sailor Cosmos in preparation for the emerging of Sailor Chaos.
Then the decaying Eldars created Slaneesh, and that also brought the emerging of Sailor Chaos as the avatar of Chaos Undivided and the destruction of Chibiusa's Empire, while the Sailor Senshi suicided themselves into creating Sailor Cosmos, who, after her time travel, destroys Sailor Chaos (Oh, Crap! ensues for the Chaos Gods). In doing so, the original personality based on Sailor Moon goes catathonic, and Sailor Venus, who became more serious after being killed by Galaxia, takes over and decides to do things her way. A more violent way.To get the time to do so, Cosmos awakens the Void Dragon and fakes her death in beating it into submission (the Void Dragon knows, but shuts up out of fear), and then, as the very scared Void Dragon inspires the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars (chosen to honor Sailor Mars), takes a male form to continue The Masquerade and reunifies Earth while preparing the conquest of the galaxy.
The scattering of the Primarchs happens when the Chaos Gods realizes they have been had, and the Heresy is their last ditch attempt at defeating the now more violent, scheming and combative version of Sailor Cosmos, an attempt that went even too well: the Emperor allowed Horus to wound him to become even more powerful due the adoration of the Empire's citizens, and the defects of the Golden Throne are just the God Emperor stirring before awakening, resurrecting as loyal all the Primarchs and cleansing the Chaos Space Marines, before Venus' personality retires and lets Galaxia take over as she has more knowledge of Chaos of anyone. Or worse, in the last ten thousands years the personalities of Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus and Sailor Galaxia merged, giving the Emperor Sailor Moon's immense willpower, Sailor Venus' Plucky Girl, scheming and violent tendencies and Galaxia's ulterior violent tendencies, intimate knowledge of Chaos and desire to get even for that backstabbing during her battle with Sailor Moon.
- Not even Khorne wants to face THAT...
- Khrone is both the Butcher and Ion, since he's the god of hatred and bravery
- Tzeentch is Adara, being hope, and splits Ion with Khrone, for what is Tzeentch without the will to change?
- Slaaneesh is both Ophidion and the Predator.
- Nurgle is both Parallax and Proselyte, with a little of Nekron.
- They are clearly C'tan, and the Angels are shards thereof. The Thunder Armor that predates Space Marines are the Evas themselves (or their successors), and the system derived from it wasn't the concept of power armor, but the empathic link (consider the Black Carapace as a sort of armored, integral plugsuit).
- Yeah, that would be downgrading. The amount of firepower worn in the book makes 40k look subtle. The primary weapons were nuclear missiles, they also had conventional explosives, and they had much longer-ranged flame weapons than are in 40k.
But by the 41st Millennium, however, the notions of personified countries would likely be viewed by the Inquisition as heresy. So he may have taken on various roles in the Imperial Guard, conveniently "dying" should people start suspecting him. It also wouldn't help that he would also be the Last of His Kind, assuming that China's still lurking somewhere...
- Let me guess, the reason for the extremely hostile native fauna is that the terraforming gengineers mostly knew about Norse Mythology from DnD (would explain the regenerating trolls at least).
- You know, that would probably explain most of the Fantasy Counterpart Cultures in the Imperium. For instance Atilla was probably colonized by Mongolian romanticists who wanted to be Genghis Khan.
- Same with at least some of the Imperial worlds and their respective Guard regiments. Vostroya (and perhaps Valhalla)may have been settled by Russian neo-nationalists while the Mordians, Armageddon and Krieg are direct descendants of German romanticists trying to recreate their legendary Terran homeland.
- Which means that the Imperium will be saved by the power of glam rock, turning humanity into a beautiful, mono-gendered, glitter covered race that lives solely on red peppers, cocaine, and milk. Unfortunately, this victory will be short lived as the rock music and non-stop sex will result in Slaanesh's reappearance and s/he will be more powerful than ever.
Now consider what would happen if his compassion could make simple decisions. It would probably want to get as far away from the GRIM DARK 41st millennium where its favorite son had just been killed by his own hand. The Emperor has been stated to have time warp powers, and an aspect of him that did not have to do anything like powering the astronomicon could possibly muster enough psychic power to achieve true time travel.
The compassion aspect would travel to the late first/early third millennium, where there are far fewer horrors that imperil humanity. It would be very weak and could even be scattered over the planes of existence, like an egg that broke and spilled on the floor (in a pan-dimensional sense). The first instinct upon arrival would be survival. It would go about this by attaching to human hosts in whatever form it could, becoming various transformation trinkets in a manner akin to soul binding.
The hosts it would seek out would be young, caring, and female. Why female? Because compassion, love and other "soft" emotions are more feminine than masculine. The Emperor, the dominant aspect and with more than a hint of War-God ( Great Crusade and all ), is masculine. The Omnissiah, the aspect of knowledge and machinery ( and by proxy the the war aspect, war-machines ) is not solidly referenced to by gender ( I cannot recall the Omnissiah being referred to as a he with any regularity ). The most war-oriented the compassion aspect can be is as either the supply lines that feed the conflict, the bonds of warrior brothers, or the healing and recovery from after war.
During the first meeting with the hosts the aspect would involve an infodump explaining things the the host. The reason they all get different backstorys is because the trauma of traveling so far through time has rendered it a crippled with no clear idea of what happened, but its stronger connection to the War/Main aspect gives it general sense of directive to oppose Chaos and safeguard humanity.
The form Chaos takes in this time frame to threaten man is small time Daemon lords trying to take a few billion souls to jump-start there carriers. The first choice for the aspect would be to fight would be daemons serving Khorne, god of hate.
All this time attached to the host, the aspect will amplify the power of love to insane levels to fuel the hosts powers to fight anti-lulz. When the host is in civilian mode the aspect will squirrel away psychic compassion resonance to send to the future for the Star Child.
- At the very least, this theory certainly explains the reasoning behind Nanoha Takamachi's insane amount of firepower and mentality...
- Didn't Sailor Moon end with her destroying Chaos?
- She "put it back where it belonged, back into the hearts of humans."
- "In the name of the
MoonGod-Emperor of mankind I punish you! - Puella Magi Madoka Magica is one of the Magical Girl dimensions closest to the actual 40k universe.
- Puella Stellae Madoka Magica has this averted, with the sole exception of Homura Akemi, who becomes gifted as the Emperor's messenger. The rest of the magical girls, however, have their contracts bind them with daemons of Chaos who will eventually grow so powerful that they can be directly summoned into the materium. Their first success? Miki Sayaka, Bloodthirster of Khorne.
- It's also possible that the Incubators harvest energy and stave off their own entropy by selling unlucky souls to Chaos, and then harvesting reality-warping Warp energy. Just like the Dark Eldar.
- Here is another fanfic that makes things a good deal worse: The traitor primarchs were not only Puella Magi themselves, but they've also become daemon princes because of the despair in their soul gems. Even worse, the Emperor Himself is a Puella Magi, who madea contract to give Mankind civilization but requires thousands upon thousands of mindraped psykers and grief seeds in order to purify his soul gem...and even then, it's still gradually failing. What's to say that Leman Russ, Jaghatai, Vulkan or even Corax haven't already succumbed to despair and became daemon princes themselves?
- Alternatively, the Emperor is an agent or Avatar of Madokami herself. Well they're both Messianic Archetypes...
- Ultimate/Jesus Madoka + Sankt-Kaiser Olivie/Vivio + Neo-Queen Serenity = God-Empress of Mankind?
- And the Silver Millennium is clearly the Dark Age of Technology.
- Alternatively, The Imperium of Man after its collapse shall be known to future generations as Ancient Belka. When the Star-Child aka the Sankt-Kaiser returns from the dead, the endless horrors of the galaxy are surely f*cked.
In this scenario, Kane is either the Emperor, or a very highly placed Eldar (probably a Harlequin). In either case he's older than dirt, can see the future, and has unknowable goals and motivations. The Tacitus is a fragment of the Black Library's archives, either stolen or "left" where the humans would be sure to find it.
As for the Scrin, the smart money paints them as the work of a Dark Eldar Haemonculus (perhaps one who has found a way to survive the predations of Slaanesh, albeit at the price of Tiberium addiction). Consider their love of spikes, the spindly, inhumanly gaunt appearance of their troops and vehicles, the superhuman technology, Tiberium shard weapons vs. splinter weapons, the Threshold network vs. the Webway, their tendency to allow/encourage the humans to fight each other, their reliance on fast, mobile units to outflank the enemy, their effect on human morale. Not to mention they obviously know of Kane from way back.
Both universes are utterly insane, operate on Rule of Cool, and frequently depict charging at people with swords as an effective military strategy. WH40k is a human perspective on Disgaea, told via corrupt government that is desperately trying to keep order.
- Imperium of Man: There is Crapsack World space faring human empire, since traveling through space in Disgaea is extremely easy, but it's size is exaggerated and it lies about human originating from Earth.
- Chaos and Orks: All of them are demons. The propaganda splits them up because the human rules don't want to admit how numerous demons are and that single demons that can take over whole planets are common place. Human followers of Chaos and demon worlds are lies told to keep humans to afraid of demons to associate with them.
- Xenos, minus orks: This the Pan Galactic Alliance, but the human propaganda splits into various alien factions because nobody could handle the panic that would come from the commoners knowing about a coalition of 20 billion planets who want to Kill All Humans simply because they see the as pests
- Going by the lore of those two series, Humanity expanded into the Earth Sphere (and possibly other places in the Solar System, depending on the canonicity of certain spin-offs) during the Universal Century, which lasted for an undetermined period of time. This period also saw the discovery of certain Humans that have psychic powers which can Warp Reality at their strongest, and have a mysterious connection to higher planes of existence. In this Era, they were called Newtypes, later humans would call them Psykers.
- At the end of the UC, there was apparently a conflict so utterly destructive that the Spacenoids were reduced to just a few colonies around The Moon and Venus, and the people of Earth gave up on Space Travel. This was the Regild Century. Humanity, of course, ended up rediscovering and reconnecting with itself over the course of the actual G-Reco series.
- Some time after that, a mysterious Mobile Suit made with indescribably advanced technology drifted into the Solar System. This MS could only be piloted by a Newtype/Psyker, and was thus likely made by the Eldar, who had more than enough advancement to build something as complex as the Turn A. The conflict between humans over the Turn A led to it being used to strip Humanity of its technology, regressing them by thousands of years. They would, again, rediscover each other and their history during the actual events of Turn A.
- The important thing to take into account is that the amount of time required for all of these events to come to pass would likely be thousands of years, and it would likely be considerably more time before Post-Turn A Humanity to consider expanding beyond the Solar System. The era between the Universal Century and Correct Century is the Age of Terra, the time when humans had expanded throughout their home system, but never truly considered the great void beyond there. After they had gotten over their vicious cycle of destruction and rebuilt their interplanetary infrastructure, the people of the Correct Century finally began expanding into interstellar space, thus beginning the Dark Age of Technology.
The Tyranids might be all that's left of a galaxy that was devoured by The Beast Planet after they were teleported to Planet Reptizar. The Null Energy of The Beast can't be adapted to as it is anathema to all life, especially organic, so even if they could damage the shell the insides would annihilate them. The only reason it hasn't caught up to them yet is because of The Beast Planet's slow speed.