Editing Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition (section)

==Fluff Updates==
===Imperium===
*The [[Indomitus Crusade]] introduced last edition got retconned slightly. You know how Bobby G called it over after the Raukos Rift? That was rewritten (including new re-releases of the Dark Imperium novels) into being merely the end of phase 1 of the crusade, and several other stages ongoing. Its other effects are still completely canon.
**It should be noted that this wasn't entirely new, as [[Psychic Awakening]]: Pariah was also set during the crusade - which would be weird to set some years in the past without any repercussions spreading while the rest of that series' events were playing out.
**The [[Plague Wars]] now have become part of the first stage of the Indomitus Crusade, with Guilliman reaching Ultramar and fighting back the Death Guard onslaught across Ultramar, the conflict ends with a fateful duel between Bobby G and Morty, where the former literally gets a Deus Ex Machina in the form of the Emperor reversing the effects of the Godblight disease used by Mortarion (imagine the Anathame on steroids).
**The Emperor then proceeds to wound Nurgle and tell him he is coming for him and his brothers, while Nurgle snatches Mortarion to have a little chat for not obeying him from retreating as the Scourge Stars are under siege by Tzeentch forces, the whole thing ending in a decimation and routing of the Death Guard from Ultramar.
**[[Skub|While some people didn't like what they felt was a forced resolution]], many fans actually cheered the fact the Emperor finally, ''FINALLY'' made a clear statement he is done being subtle. A few readers have even pointed out it was curious the final part of the Plague Wars trilogy just coincided with the beginning of worldwide mass-deployment of the COVID-19 vaccines, So yeah, no more allegories, maybe-maybe-nots and hints, the Emperor is truly coming back! 
*The [[Octarius War]] seems to finally be shifting. Rather than any decisive victory, the battlefield merely expands to encompass part of the planetary cordon. There are Inquisitors that try to address this issue, with one finding a weird Ork device that allowed them to blunt the effects of the shadow over the warp. However, these efforts end up being in vain.
**While in the sector for other reasons, the Black Templars had managed to show up to defend a Forge World from ork invasion while the magi in charge seethed about the lack of Inquisitorial support. While the invasion was eventually crushed, it came at a serious cost for [[Helbrecht]], who was in such dire condition that he just happened to need the Rubicon Primaris in order to survive...[[Marneus Calgar|Just like another Chapter Master just one edition earlier...]]
**Nids won the war.
*Speaking of Papa Smurf, Warzone Nachmund has been announced, and that will mean that whatever narrow foothold he won on Vigilus will inevitably come under threat by Abby's forces again. Unfortunately, Calgar didn't take active part in this conflict, but the forces of the Imperium rally under the idea that the chapter master is a martyred saint despite not exactly being dead.
*Psykers are being born in unprecedented numbers throughout the Imperium, leading to speculation that the evolution of humanity into a psychic species is accelerating. The Black Ships are struggling to keep up with them, and psychic phenomena are growing alarmingly common. Even species thought unable to be psykers like the Ogryns have begun awakening to such powers.
*Remember how the Salamanders prevented Angron from being summoned back to Armageddon? It turns out they didn't actually prevent the summoning so much as delay it, and the growing amount of Khornate daemons on the world is getting the Ordo Malleus concerned that the Red Angel might be back very soon indeed.
*As many expected, the Salamanders finally got confirmed successor Chapters in the Ultima Founding.
*The [[Leagues of Votann]] finally confirm the full-scale return of [[Squats]] into 40K as more than just a one-off reference. Now they're described Dark Age of Technology survivors who hold an uneasy alliance with the greater Imperium and have trade deals with whoever will do business with them, with the Mechanicus in particular viewing them as hereteks. Rules-wise though, they aren't considered part of the Imperium since they're a separate faction.
*After [[Creed]]'s presumed death, the title of Lord Castellan of Cadia was passed down to his daughter Ursula.
*[[Yarrick]] is reportedly "at the Emperor's side". No cause of death is known, but one of the skulls Angron is wearing ''does'' have a rather prominent bionic eye...
*Following Vashtorr's invasion of The Rock, the [[Dark Angels]] eventually discover what the forge-daemon was really working on when they discover that he managed to recreate his own Caliban...with warp-storms and factories. Needless to say, the Unforgiven were very pissed. Even more so when he then made off with the Tulchulcha Engine, which just so happened to be the last component he needed to forge the Key.
**Speaking of the Dark Angels, it turns out that [[Lion El'Jonson]] was alive after all! And he's been awake this whole time, aging a lot less gracefully than Gorillaman's stasis-induced power nap. It seems he's managed to mellow out a lot, as he's figured out how to forgive some of <s>the [[Fallen Angels]]</s> the less egregious traitors of the Emperor. And we mean actual forgiveness, not the Imperium's thinly-disguised pious executions.

===Chaos===
*Typhus decides to get off his lazy ass and tries to conquer the Charadon Sector, home of both the Forge World Metalica as well as central HQ for the Imperial Knight House Raven. Of course, Metalica and Raven have poised themselves to repel the invaders with full force.
**Book 2 not only sees the Imperium get some reinforcements (including Abbess Movenn Vahl - yes, an actual [[High Lords of Terra|High Lord]] is getting involved with this shit), but [[Be'lakor]] also reveals that he has his grubby mitts in this mess as well with an army of heretics and daemons. In the end, the First Prince accomplishes in doing something, sinking Kolossi into the warp and screwing over Typhus' plans of dedicating Charadon to his patron deity. Metalica technically survives, but is now suffering from signs of Warp corruption that the cogboys have just barely managed to contain. Rip.
***The Chaos Knights codex re-introduce the remnants of Kolossi as House Korvax, now a fully corrupted household bound in service to the Dark Master.
*[[Haarken Worldclaimer]] returns to harass forces defending the Nachmund Gauntlet as part of the re-igniting conflict in Vigilus.
**While the Warzone books were left on the cliffhanger of Abaddon making his way back with nothing stopping him, it wasn't until the 35th Anniversary stream that we finally get to know his agenda - A new armada of ships led by "[[Ark of Omen|Arks of Omen]]", [[Space Hulk]]s fished out of the Warp with the help of Abaddon's new buddy [[Vashtorr]] and re-armed to serve the forces of Chaos. They are currently hunting for something only known as "the Key".
***As a meta bit to this development, GW is looking to add in a new series of campaign books suitably named "Arks of Omen", with the first of them giving game rules for Boarding Actions and utilizing the terrain from the newer [[Kill Team (Specialist Game)|Kill Team]] boxsets.
***As 2023 revealed, Vashtorr himself decided to take the lead in invading [[The Rock]], all while Azrael was still recovering from the Rubicon Primaris. While the Dark Angels pursue Vashtorr back to his Daemon World (which to their horror is their own homeworld of Caliban, reassembled through his infernal machinery) in an attempt to retaliate, he succeeds in assembling the Key, opening numerous tunnels into the Webway. He and Abaddon are now looking for "the Lock", a stockpile of ancient technology dating back to the War in Heaven. Only the Key can grant them access to it, and if they get their hands on the Lock's contents they could annihilate the entire galaxy several times over.  
*D'vok the Unmaker, a Black Legion Warpsmith in charge of his own Warband, leads an assault on the maiden world of Daethe. With its inhabitants all but wiped out, the only thing left between D'vok and all the Exodite souls housed within Daethe's world spirit were a few paltry psychic wards. In an effort to gain Abaddon's favor, D'vok set about cracking open these wards so that he could craft newer Daemon Engines fueled by the much more potent aeldari souls ripe for the taking. Unfortunately for D'vok and his warband, Saim-Hann had received a psychic cry for help and a warhost led by Autarch Ghaelyn swiftly retaliated. Though the assault on the surface of Daethe quickly favored the Ruinous powers, the Craftworld fleet in orbit was able to ultimately decimate the Chaos ships in orbit. With a potent Warp Storm rolling into the system, D'vok attempted to stamp out the last vestiges of Aeldari resistance, but was unfortunately unable to do so; the last remaining Warlocks were able to reinforce the wards protecting the World Spirit, undoing much of the work his warband had done to crack open the reservoir of psychic energies. As a final insult, the Warlocks had intentionally been conspicuous in their efforts; while D'vok and his warriors were hunting the Warlocks, Ghaelyn had led a contingent of rangers against his fortress and destroyed its Void Shield generators. With no shelter from the oncoming Warp Storm, D'vok and the few Chaos Space Marines remaining fought the last few living eldar on the planet to the death.
**Ultimately a defeat for Chaos, though not one of substance. A relatively nameless warband was ultimately wiped out, but they bled a large number of Aeldari lives during their efforts on Daethe. If nothing else, there's little to stop another Warband from discovering the still-defenseless Daethe once the Warp Storm passes.
*[[Angron]]'s back, and he has a new trick. Every time he gets cast back into the Warp, he re-emerges exactly eight weeks, eight days, and eight hours later, complete with eight Crimson Omens that strike terror into anyone unlucky enough to witness them. The Inquisition is baffled as to how he's become impossible to truly banish- all they know is that even direct hits with voidship-grade weaponry can only delay him for a while before he returns to slaughter again.

===Xenos===
*The Octarius War would eventually end up going to the [[Tyranids]] of all races, following an utter bruiser of a war on the capital world of Octaria. While the Overfiend was able to score an early kill on the [[Swarmlord]], Swarmy would respawn/fucking cheat and redirect the hive fleet's reinforcements to overrun the nearby planets and cut off the Overfiend from any support.
**The end result sees the Swarmlord cripple the Overfiend before devouring the ork, destroying the entire ork offensive. That's right, the Tyranids won Octarius and have enough biomass to shit out enough fexes and biotitans to devour the entire Imperial cordon.  GG, Kryptmann.
*The Necrons have been very busy working on their Pariah Nexus, which would be able to completely sever the connection between reality and the Warp if it is allowed to be brought up to full strength. The fact that this would destroy the souls of every sentient being in the galaxy (leaving them apathetic shells of their former selves unable to muster even the motivation to protect themselves) is a bonus in their eyes, since they make perfect subjects for their experiments on reversing biotransference.  
**Imotekh has shown only disdain for the Silent King, as he believes that he alone should be the one to reunite the Necrons and holds Szarekh responsible for allowing their empire to fall in the first place. 
**Warzone Nephilim was confirmed in Warhammer Fest 2022, meaning that Szeras' little experiment from Psychic Awakening might become the setting for a full-blown war rather than merely a research expedition turned invasion.
*The Craftworld Eldar have largely kept to themselves (as usual), though Saim-Hann has been particularly involved in the Nachmund Gauntlet. When a Chaos Space Marine warband (lead by a Warpsmith named D'Vok) assaulted the maiden world of Daethe to prey upon the World Spirit shielded within, Autarch Ghaelyn organized most of her clan to defend the Exodite souls housed within. Though the defense of Daethe cost clan Vaethyr Kurthanil half of their warriors, Autarch Ghaelyn among them, they successfully managed to reinforce the psychic wards protecting the World Spirit of Daethe and exposed the few remaining Chaos Space Marines to the full wrath of an oncoming Warp Storm.
**Long story short, the Eldar get a pyrrhic victory over Chaos. The Chaos Warband is all but wiped out and they failed to acquire ripe Exodite souls for use in Daemon Engines, but the Craftworld Eldar paid a very heavy price to achieve victory. Due to this, in true GW fashion, the status quo remains largely unchanged due to this.
*The reveal of the [[Leagues of Votann]] also exposed that the Tau's Demiurg auxilia were really just Kin who sold their advanced tech to the Tau. Why yes, the Tau Empire's super-powerful ion cannons were made by Squats, and they're not even the ''good'' ion weapons!
*During the Arks of Omen narrative, Farsight was seen fighting orks and his return to Arthas Moloch in a desperate attempt to stop them. There, the t'au discovered the remains of a mysterious structure with crystaline formations growing atop of it. This place was the location of one of Vashtorr's MacGuffins.

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