Editing Alternate Heresy: Derailments (section)

== Humanity Existence Error ==
Back in the day, Earth and/or Sun were ruined. It's likely happened in The Times of Old ([[Wars of Secession]], [[War in Heaven]] or [[Fall of the Eldar]]). I mean, who though what this planet had '''such''' massive importance in the future? Cue someone destroying, ruining or colonizing it - perhaps accidentally, perhaps during the war. Or maybe they messed with eco-system, derailing the evolution. Mind you - God-Emperor of Man didn't exist yet, so Earth was not protected.

In less radical variant, humanity collapses or stagnates before developing FTL tech - or fails on early stages of FTL history. Perhaps losing to someone or having a "heresy" too early...

In first case, '''humanity never exists at all''' - and in second, '''it never becomes anything greater than one of the many minor civilizations'''. Again, Chaos has troubles with manpower, and territory what would be normally occupied by humans is instead divided between eldar, orks and minor xenos.

If Galactic Federation forms and manages to stand ground, then it will somewhat fill the role of Imperium of Man as main faction of setting. If it's formation is somewhat less successful, it may merely become main faction, but not get enough strength to become as prevalent as Imperium should be.

Unless Galactic Federation manages to emerge and stand ground, Orks will rapidly populate the area nearly unhindered: unorganized Minor Xenos can't fight orks off, and eldar have not enough people, and Eldar are too arrogant and too scarce to suffice (and they have their own plans on this). More over - Orks are pretty much immune to Chaos, what makes it very hard for Chaos to fight them off, especially when they now have manpower problems.

If both Humanity gets ruined and Galactic Federation doesn't form, then by this point it is more simple for Chaos to try repair the timeline (by, ironically, ''saving'' humanity) than to sort this mess.