Editing Mag'ladroth (section)

==That's Awkward==

This has profound and also profoundly weird implications that get weirder the longer you examine them. The first is that the Adeptus Mechanicus are [[Heresy|heretics]] of the highest level, (which they already basically are since they actively try to be as far from their own sacred humanity as possible, at least chaos represents normal human traits only taken to dark extremes, and xenos aren't human in the first place so according to the Imperium are already inherently bad) who worship an actual xenos demigod. The second and perhaps even worse possibility is that [[Machine Spirits]] are the working of the Dragon, suggesting that he is a big part of what even allows Imperium technology to work. Or, perhaps if he's having a [[RAGE|bad day]], to [[Troll|''not'' work]].

Of course the implications are even worse for the [[Dark Mechanicus]], since being a Chaos-worshipping cult who just found out that your god hates Chaos would generate quite the Cogitator Dissonance.

So if the Dragon woke up and decided to lay the crackdown on the Imperium, the best case is that the Imperium would lose a bunch of the guys who make and repair their tech along with control of Mars. The worst case scenario is that all of their complicated machinery would start attacking them Men of Iron 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Strangely, this means that the most powerful user of physical forces and the most powerful user of [[Psyker|psychic]] forces are imprisoned almost right next to each other. This also means that the Corpse Emperor's fancy life-support machine is a stone's throw away from a being who could probably turn it off with a thought, except that presumably the Emperor is psychically protecting it. This might not be as [[Grimdark]] as it first appears - while the Dragon might just be super pissed and waiting for an opportunity to press the eject button on the golden throne, in the long run the Dragon has more to gain from [[Noblebright|''protecting'']] the Emperor. [[Ecclesiarchy|As we know]], the Emperor is holding back the forces of Chaos, and the C'tan [[RAGE|despise]] Chaos above all else. So grab some popcorn and [[Alpha Legion|sneak]] into the Imperial Palace to see if some ''seriously'' weird cooperation takes place.

It is also likely that the only reason Big-E's golden toilet continues to function is because good old VD has realised the fact that Emps currently functions as a cork for an infant eye of terror and as such has deemed it a bad idea to try offing him because the consequences of such an action would most likely result in him getting [[Rape|buttfucked]] by the forces of Chaos. Or it is legitimately supporting mankind, because Emps made a deal with it to give its followers immunity to inquisition.

But the sad truth is that the VD is making sure the Golden Throne flushes only to prevent Sigmar shit from overflowing into 40k...

Speaking of Sigmar this relationship seems an awful lot like a Grimdark one of Sigmar and his dragon friend. Perhaps it wasn’t the Mechanicum the Emperor went to Mars to recruit...and he did visit the Void Dragon while there. The Emperor knows how to use belief and ritual to create Warp entities and could probably tie that to the Void Dragon, protecting it and giving it access to the Warp in exchange for fealty.

And all of ''this'' only works if the Void Dragon is still relatively self-aware. As we've seen from other shards, that's not guaranteed- it might not even be aware of its current condition.