Some time ago, someone posted that the 'new' storyline of 40K will be where
Abaddon destroys the Golden Throne and kills the Emperor.
After that there is a civil war where all the (ressucited) primarches fight
to gain control of the Empire.
Does someone has any confirmation of this radical change of the storyline ?
At 14:36 4/03/97 -0800, Dan wrote:
>Jason Stephensen wrote:
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>> >Once, the Imperium was fighting a losing war over the span of countless
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>> >millenia, giving up a dozen worlds every year to implacable foes who gave
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>> >no quarter. Its citizens and its bureaucracy offered up their blind
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>> >adulation to a Carrion God who stood mutely over a universe of slaughter.
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>> >Ignorance was a man's armor, to shield his weak soul against the predations
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>> >of Chaos. In the name of the Emperor, hundreds of trillions were oppressed
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>> >and repressed and enslaved to His worship.
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>> This was the history that I loved. The Imperium was a lot like the nasty
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>> Inquisition from the pages of 2000AD. They were bastards, they didn't care
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>> about humanity and lives were very very very cheap. Commisars were nasty
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>> guys that led units like the gestapo. People were used as human bombs,
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>> treated very badly and life as a whole held little comfort, unless you were
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>> amoung the ruling elite. Necromunda did something to bring it back, but then
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>> it was just one hive world.
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>> Me I prefer the horrible, doomed, Imperium of the past. I prefer the
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>> hopeless situation they were left in.
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>Yeah, I agree. I liked the evil empire idea. It brings to mind Michael
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>Moorcock's Granbreton from the HISTORY OF THE RUNESTAFF (Hawkmoon)
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>series. In fact, I am certain they drew heavily from that series.
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>(God-Emperor in a life support system extending his life long beyond
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>normal, legions of fanatical warriors among which the wolf legion is the
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>fiercest, a mixture of medieval and advanced technology with magic,...)
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>Needless to say I was enthralled. The W40K novels has some great ideas
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>and I enjoyed the games. I was surprised and a little disapointed that
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>there was no "good guy" amongst the races. Well, the only sane group
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>looked to be the Space Dwarves. Whoops, I mean the (now defunct) squats.
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>All the other races are xenophobic or worse. Except maybe, my Tyranids,
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>their just hungry :] Originally the Knights were from independent
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>colonial worlds and had closer ties to the Exodite Eldar than the
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>Imperium. Hopefully they will get back to that story line and
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>reintroduce the Knight worlds.
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>Anyway, just wanted to get my "me to" in and reminisce about the "old
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>days".
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>danlobb_at_...
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Received on Wed Mar 05 1997 - 14:30:52 UTC