Editing Warhammer 40,000 8th edition (section)

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*The upper half of the Imperium, separated from [[Terra]] & Sol, has been labeled "Imperium Nihilus" (also known as the "Dark Imperium"), and as bad as things are on the Terran side of the [[Great Rift]], things are ''really'' going to shit on the far side (especially since the rift blocks the [[Astronomicon]]). At this rate, the Big G may well have to deal with [[Imperium Secundus]]-style not-quite secession, with him now on the other side of the mess...assuming there's even enough of the Imperium left to secede. 
*[[Armageddon]] was lucky enough to not get cut off from Terra when the Cicatrix Maledictum tore open, but is unlucky enough to be slap dab in the path of the Blood Crusade, a huge army of Khornate daemons that are pouring out of the rift, setting the Armageddon system up for a [[Slaanesh|massive three-way between the Imperium, Orks, and Chaos]], and quite possibly the biggest conflict it's ever seen. [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka|Ghazghkull]] and [[Commissar Yarrick|Yarrick]] are almost guaranteed to be right in the thick of that. Hell, maybe even [[Angron]] will be there for his own personal round 2. Oh yeah, and Armageddon being [[Ullanor]] has something to do with why the Orks are all there. Make of that what you will.
**The Salamanders were able to prevent Angron from being summoned back to Armageddon, but half of the planet was still effectively transformed into a [[Daemon World]]; the only reason the rest of it wasn't Chaos-ified was because [[Khorne]] and [[Tzeentch]] are currently fighting over control of it. In fact, things have gotten so bad that [[C.S. Goto|the Orks have agreed to a truce with the Imperium to fight off the Chaos threat.]]
***Although to be fair, there was probably less of an agreement and more the Orks realizing [[Tuska Daemon-Killa|"Oi! Dese spiky Boyz are LOADZ more fun ta fight den da 'umie gitz!"]]
*To stem the tide of traitors, Xenos, and Chaos, [[Roboute Guilliman]] has declared the [[Indomitus Crusade]] against the enemies of the Imperium. Additionally, with the help of [[Belisarius Cawl]] he has refined the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor's]] original plans for the creation of the Space Marines in order to create a new generation of supersoldiers known as [[Primaris Marines]] (compare to [[Warhammer 60K: Age of Dusk (Continued)|Space Marines Mk II]]), [[meme|harder, better, faster, stronger]] than ever before ([[21st Founding|which one hopes will work out better than it did the last time someone tried it]]), along with some swanky new armour and guns. Just how Guilliman plans to get these new Marines out fast enough to be useful when the whole galaxy is going to hell ''right now'' is an open question though. Properly making a regular Astartes takes over a decade, and accelerated development is still risky as hell even discounting [[Raven Guard|the last time someone tried it]] due to sabotage. However, according to GW Archmagos Cawl was [[Matt Ward|secretly creating them by Guilliman's commission before he got poisoned by Fulgrim, that's been 10,000 years folks!]]
**Despite Big G offering the new Primaris Marines to everybody (even founding whole new Chapters out of them), not all chapters are happy to see them. Some are calling out Guilliman just for meddling with the Emperor's work, others are worried about the effects the new Astartes formula might have when combined with some of the more esoteric [[gene-seed]] strains. The Primaris Marines were OK'd by the [[Adeptus Custodes]] however, and even the Chapters which have never particularly liked Guilliman or the Ultramarines aren't dumb enough to turn down free reinforcements. Especially when the Custodes make it clear what they'll do to you if you refuse "a gift from the Emperor".
**The Indomitus Crusade lasted about 100 years or so before Guilliman was forced to return to [[Ultramar]] to protect it against the Death Guard invasion. The good news is that by jumping the plot forward about a hundred years, we've avoided a repeat of [[Abaddon|"oh this game-changing ultra crusade will begin any minute now..."]]. The bad news is that this means we're skipping over all of the interesting stuff too, like watching giant 9-feet FNGs getting thrown into the deepest shit ever, or watching decimated chapters like the Blood Angels get just barely saved and are shunted right back into campaign strength status quo. A possible approach could be something akin to The [[War of the Beast]], with a novel series covering the events of the Indomitus Crusade, this may actually allow Black Library writers to do some character development as well as explore the evolution from the last years of the 41st millennium to the 42nd millennium, indeed, there was a cameo of Uriel Ventris in the novel Dark Imperium, and it may be a great oportunity to see other recurring characters from Black Library such as Ciaphas Cain, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Alaric from the Grey Knights, Honsou, Marduk from the Word Bearers, Shira Calpurnia, Navradaran of the Adeptus Custodes, Magos Omnid Torquora, the Speranza crew and many others and how they fared during the Noctis Aeterna and the Indomitus Crusade.
*The forces which were supposed to be arriving to defend Cadia have been redeployed to other nearby planets to prepare for a possible next wave of Chaos attacks. When that doesn't immediately come, some Guard commanders begin considering the possibility of counter-attacking and reclaiming Cadia (or what's left of it, anyway), though at this point it would be little more than a symbolic gesture since the pylons are completely busted.
**However, considering Cadia's relative proximity to the Nachmund Gauntlet this counter-attack could secure the Imperium vital access to the Imperium Nihilus. Too bad that doesn't solve the problem of the Traitor Knight House that currently occupies the Gauntlet itself.
*It is mentioned that during the Dark Age of Technology, the greatest driver of human expansion was the employment of advanced genetic manipulation techniques. When the Age of Strife hit, massive gene-wars broke out between what had effectively become entirely different species of humans.
*It is officially confirmed that the Emperor has at least some ability to influence events outside of the Astronomican, as he is said to be able to communicate with the Custodes to a limited extent and protects them from harm (rules-wise it's +1 to Custodes invulnerable saves in battle-forged armies). There is no information why he can't do this to every lowly guardsman out there, either because regular humans are not tuned to work with Emps psychic potential or because he is a dick. Between this and Rise of the Primarch (where Emps communes with Guilliman, no ifs or buts, and speaks quite clearly), there is now absolutely no doubt that the Emperor is still alive and aware of the galaxy around him. It is currently unclear if everything since his ascension to the Golden Throne happened in spite of his wishes (as was the case in previous canon) or if it was [[Just_As_Planned|all part of a plan so convoluted that even Tzeentch would be getting plan envy from it.]] Given his recent depiction in the Horus Heresy novels suggesting that he had foreseen the events of 40k all the way to Guilliman's revival, the latter is a real possibility.
*A seventh [[Blackstone Fortress]] has emerged in the western part of the galaxy. Nobody's sure how it managed to go undiscovered for so long, but now basically everyone in the galaxy is tripping all over themselves to try and claim it. This may be easier said than done, as unlike the previous six this Blackstone Fortress is fully active and does not like visitors. 
*At least one sentient [[Men of Iron|Man of Iron]] still exists, having disguised itself as a robot of the Legio Cybernetica for millennia. Its motivations and agenda are currently to find other beings like itself, but it's anyone's guess as to what it plans to do if it does find one.
*The Emperor's psychic power continues to grow even as his physical body remains in a state of unlife. The Chaos Gods suspect that he seeks to form an "[[Legion of the Damned|Unliving Army]]" that could strike at them within the Warp itself. Even Roboute Guilliman is privately wondering if Lorgar and the Ecclesiarchy were right about the Emperor's divinity all along. If the Emperor wasn't divine to start with, he certainly is a god now.
**By the time of the [[Psychic Awakening]], this has culminated in the increasingly common appearance of what could only be called "Imperial Daemons", which can fuck up Chaos by their presence alone.