Editing Warhammer 40,000 (section)

==In the Grim Dark Future==
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[[File:Silvian locke.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Women of the 41st millennium. Outrageously attractive, but this Imperial Navy captain is not here to impress you.]]
The motto is: "In the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium, there is only war." Warhammer 40k even gave rise to the word "grimdark." Set in the [[Advancing the Storyline|seemingly never-ending]] year 999 of the 41st Millennium, Humanity, now united under the Imperium of Man, will go to any ends to protect itself from an endless tide of enemies, including the onslaught of time itself - though they seem to have adopted a peace treaty of some sort, given that they finally reached M42 as of 8th Edition.

From the [[Eye of Terror]] come the dreaded Legions of [[Chaos]], psychopathic mutants, slavering daemons and relentless heretics that have together waged a 10,000-year war against the Imperium. The mysterious, near-extinct and technologically superior [[Eldar]] pursue their own ends, which often conflict with that of the Imperium, while their fucked-up brethren, the [[Dark Eldar]], enslave, torture, and rape anyone they get their hands on. From another galaxy come the [[Tyranids]], a pure-biological hive-minded insectoid colossus that lives only to consume all life. The robotic [[Necrons]], one of the oldest races in the galaxy, who strive to reclaim the galaxy for their own, have began to re-awaken on their [[Tomb World]]s. The [[Orks]], green-skinned war-worshipping monsters that are MADE FER FIGHTIN' AN' WINNIN', that have the monopoly on MOAR [[Dakka|DAKKA]], as well as outnumbering everyone else put together except the Tyranids. The [[Tau]], a progressive and technologically-advanced race of [[weeaboo]] communists, crusade for "the Greater Good" with forced sterilizations and brainwashing.

Standing in defence of the Imperium of Man are the numberless regiments of regular military men and women known as the [[Imperial Guard]], the tech-worshipping weirdos of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Legio Cybernetica [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)|Titan]]/[[Imperial Knight|Knight]] Legions, and last but ohh-no-not-least; the legendary [[Space Marine]] Chapters, genetically engineered immortal super-warrior-monks that only live to fight the Imperium's foes. Meanwhile, the [[Sisters of Battle]], [[The_666_Rituals_of_Detestation|Grey]] [[Grey Knights|Knights]], [[Inquisition]], and Officio Assassinorum (Latin for Office of Assassins. They do pretty much exactly what it says on the tin) safeguard the Imperium from internal threats like heretics, traitors, mutants, furries, and daemonic possessions.

In case you haven't guessed, this premise and 40K's official tagline (''In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war!'') is the origin of the term [[grimdark]]. Not knowing this is [[heresy]] - which, incidentally is also derived from this setting.