Editing Warpath (section)

== Unlikely prequel to 40k ==
Gamewise warpath has become its own creation a long time ago, even though firefight seems a little similar to actual warhammer 40k though with much less fat AND alternate activation, which is awesome every single day.

Lore Wise, it could be said that warpath is a prequel to warhammer 40k actually, since corporation technology does seem to be similar to 30k tech, and also orcs are pretty similar in that they are both bred for war species of pirates. The Asterians could be interpreted as pre fall Eldar who have yet to develop soulstone technology, remember that slaanesh was born in the 20th millennium, hence warpath could be placed before that. 

Overall the corporation does look like the Imperium, though with much less focus on religion and much more focus on consumerism.

The main difference would be the alien population, but that could be worked out, after all in this joint timeline the Asterians/Eldar royally would have fucked up the universe TWICE (since in-universe it was the Asterians who allowed the Plague to succeed) AND the corporation is already at war with a ton of alien races already (many even within corporation space). So a post age of strife humanity would have devolved into a big(ger) state of xenophobia than they were during the corporation era.

Another thing that could help the joint timeline theory would be the similarities between Tau and Judwan, with peaceful judwan probably being the precursors to still moderately peaceful but necessarily aggressive Tau (if by "necessary" one means "without provocation"). Besides the nature, Judwan like Tau are mostly incorruptible by the forces of Chaos (but Tau are not remotely incorruptible, just hard for daemons to actually see due to having weak and camouflaged souls), with only 1 Judwan (Wrath) being prone to violence and only after extensive experimentation by the GCPS bastards. In other words, Tau are Judwan adapted to the grimdarkness of the 41st millenium.

There is now some "fluff" articles at the official blog of mantic page, [https://www.manticgames.com/news/background/thursday-fluff/ Thursday fluff]. They are short and quite fragmented, but overall they confirm that Warpath is its own thing and it is very unlikely a 40k prequel. Lack of depth of Warpath somewhat make it less attractive (there is almost more Dreadball lore than Warpath itself), but, perhaps unintendedly (surely...), it at least is consistent with the in-universe status quo of the factions.