Editing Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition (section)

===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.