Editing MedHammer 40,000 (section)

==Key Differences==

;Chaos Very much Divided
:Tzeentch claims victory against the Emperor. As Lorgar pleads and tirelessly works to keep the movement alive, the gods look inward, and against each other.
:Tzeentch and Nurgle both, have offered their aid to the Eldar against Slaanesh, and have fostered small but thriving cults looking for salvation against slaanesh.
:Lorgar's school of Chaos Undivided will be significantly less monolithic. Lorgar and those under his control will live under his Theocracy, but the Exclusivites and Ahrimanists will not participate in his movement. Luther and Ahriman's Imperium Undivided present itself as a robust Ideological Alternative to Lorgar's "Faces of the Divine" Chaos Undivided
:The Arrival of a new Chaos god, and the return of Malal represents a greater Anti Warp anti chaotic mentality. Which only Khorne and his ilk seem actually preparing against.


;Multiplicity of religions
:The multiplicity of religions offers a lot of opportunities for ideological differences. In MidHammer the Vlka Fenrika, Promethian Cult, and Aurelian Cult of Ultramar all have a presence in the imperium, as well as several more ancient religions.

;Showcase divisions of belief and develop Heterodoxy in Aurelian Cult
:Each "Spiritual Liege" in the Aurelian Cult is essentially its own Denomination or Fiqh with sometimes vastly different Theologies <!---yes im aware that Fiqh is a school of Jurisprudence not theology. Still relevant to the discussion as each Spiritual Liege often have legal and moral making power as well-->.

;Xenos ideologies
:The Ynnari are just as much a political ideological movement as they are a religious cult. So much so that they have forced the existence of Cegorach and Khaine Followers to organize themselves along similar lines. The Farseers themselves will begin to become a political movement in the same way The Constitutionalistas in the Mexican Civil war, or The "Presbyterians" were in The English Civil war.
:The T'au are significantly more radical in MidHammer. But even so there will still be different ideological approaches among the generals.
;Greater Emphasis on the Guard
:Space marines are rare and distrusted, Sanguinius leads a smaller more agile army in the Blood Crusades against Lorgar, and the space marines of The Segmentarchs aid their fathers in the administration of the segmentums. Every faction has their own guardsmen and navies to use against each other, and serve as the lion's share of their force.

;Romanticism
:The grim darkness always looks better in hindsight. As horrific as The Heresy was for those involved in it, to those of the 41st millennium, it will seem like a battle of heroes and the clash of good vs evil, with so much potential, the primarchs were triumphant heroic figures, not the tired old tyrants they are now. 

Likewise, roll the clock forward to 50k, and those who are facing the full brunt of the Tyrranic invasion will look fondly on the wars of the 40th. There was an era when men were men, when great art and great leaders came. That was a time when the emperor's sons ruled in peace, and one could still fight over what the destiny of man was, as though that was a guarantee.