A long road ahead, but hopefully not for the Champions!

Rei

Minutes later…after sorting out the non-sequitar given off by Setsuna...

And now that Horus has gotten over the shock of it all and the Emperor has gone and reconciled (en passant) with his wayward Primarch son . . .

So . . .the Warmaster had mentally blocked out the events leading up to what had been the START of the Horus Heresy in his reality (too tramatic probably for even HIM, being faced with the Chaos Gods face to face or whatever). Unlike the one in the books and all that, he’d actually been able to (at the VERY last second, according the Emperor) seen through the false words of the Chaos Gods and refuse them.

AND be able to live to tell about it (sooner or later when the mental blocks finally go away).

Looks like perhaps Ethan Rayne’s chaos magic played a part in snatching Horus away from the wrath of angry Warp Gods, but I’ll be buggered to say that Rayne is the hero of the day. At least not YET…

There is still MUCH to be sorted out back in Sunnyvale with THAT business. Business that I am not sure we actually have any business to be part of here, really.

Somehow I just don’t feel like playing vigilante. No, let Buffy and her friends handle THAT stuff in the end and let me and my friends here to our Quest. That and perhaps any data that could shed light on Rayne’s guilt or innocents for the blood his magic had unleashed this night.

If nothing else, maybe if we’re able the Emperor can tell us if he saw anything in the background, light peeping toms like Rayne and Willlow in the astral plane flesh?

That is for a bit later…but still . . .

Well, cannot say that the God Emperor is in his heaven and all is right with this world, but at least we have a START here. Got leagues to go before we could even BEGIN to be able to say that!

And given what I know of the Imperium, even by second hand information, it’s going to be a VERY bloody and long road indeed before that could honestly be said, if EVER. One which I cannot and will NOT play any part in. The Warmaster’s going to do that here. Whatever information he’d gotten from MY head earlier is going to come out here and come out for the Emperor to use in whatever manner he deems fit.

And given what I have learned over the years while a Champion, THAT could bear some very bitter fruit indeed for the enemies of the Imperium!

I pray that the Emperor reigns in the more zealous of his worshipers so they cannot commit even MORE death and destruction in his name. Guy has enough genocidal lunatics in his church as it stands for me to be anything but hopeful, if the handbooks are anything to go by. I’m not going to condemn humanity in this reality for those lunatics, but the Emperor has a LOT to put to right here.

Hell, even before everything went wrong during the Horus Heresy the things the Imperium did make me cringe. I do NOT at all like the idea of the Imperial Truth campaign which tried to stamp out all religion.

I’m a Christian and make no appologies for it. So are my sisters, truth be told. But I and they I can truthfully say NEVER wanted to force our religion upon others. I am happy to say that I’m pretty open minded about other people’s religious beliefs. Got all sorts of friends and family who range from atheists to polytheists and everywhere between. Don’t have a problem with that.

Have a serious problem with what the Emperor and his Primarchs tried to do, however. Force every human world they gathered back into the Imperium’s bosom to give UP all religious belief and embrace cold logic and scientific reason. Except for ONE glaring exception, anyway. THAT particular faction was even now too vital for the Imperium to try to stamp out.

That’s not really important right now, though.

Anyway. Sigh, and more often than not the works of fiction from one reality at least has a good handle at being a known quantity for the real thing, d*mnit.

Even with the Chaos Gods out of the way (something that we’ve only just learned of here) there are many enemies of the Imperium out there that want to put a serious HURT on it, at the very least.

Great, so according to both the Emperor AND Warmaster Horus ALL of the Chaos entities known as gods (and not just the main ones) seem to have gone up and died all of the sudden? Apparently some having died screaming as they’d scrambled to get the HELL out of this reality and to somewhere else they thought they could set up camp and live (like say Sunnyvale for a certain creep named Slaannesh), and that’s all fine and well. They DO NOT make good neighbors, shall we say.

Okay, they’re gone. Good. So long Khorne - god of Blood, unrelenting fury and war. So long Tzeentch - god of Change, Magic (or what passed for it from the Warp . . .MY brand isn’t even close) and endless schemes and plots. Bye, Nurgle - god of decay, disease and physical corruption. And good riddance to Slaanesh - god of Hedonism, excess, and pleasure!

That last hemorphadic freak of nature I don’t even want to contemplate trying to deal with. Too much like that trollish Author who’d caused so much heartache and grief during MY sister’s validation Quests for me to be able to even think good of him.

Heh, as if I’d even THINK to think good of Slaanesh!

Good riddance to the lot of ’em and hope that their followers are in a right panic right about now.

But we still have other threats facing the Imperium. Threats that make me want to really get this part of the Quest over and done with before they even HEAR about the doorway in the Golden Throne room to OUR little universe, thanks!

We have the Necrons. According to wikipedia when I was researching Warhammer 40K art commission (one who’s results I and the customer really never was happy with) they are “… a mysterious robot-like race that have lain dormant and largely unknown by the other races of the universe for sixty million years, and are reemerging in the distant future of the Warhammer 40,000 universe….” Don’t wish to see the soulless monsters (a combination of undead/soulless machines) in reality, thanks.

We have the Orks. They are tall, muscular humanoids, with green skin and a penchant for violence, basically futuristic version of the fantasy Orc you’re familiar with? Usually seen as comedy relief in 40K, they’re still very much a threat. They’re the . . .favored game army for Uncle Elrondir. Fits his form of humor, really. Whatever the case, they’re the most populous alien race of 40K and could (if they ever got their act together) swamp ever other race here and wipe them out, period.

God only knows that we’d had enough fun with “real” Orcs back in the early days after the Enemy/Alliance War having touched Terra Prime’s shores and those creeps showed up to make misery upon the war weary population. I don’t want these ORKS to show up anywhere in my home reality, thank YOU!

Tyranids? Well, we talked about that race earlier when I and my sisters chewed Ethan Rayne for almost having unleashed that horror upon Sunnyvale. Upon all of the Earth and such with his chaos magic. But if you failed to recall that (what with them being basically the embodiment of hunger or as a friend of mine said, the avatars of “om nom nom”), these aliens are according to wikipedia (yes, that same 40K comission, thanks for asking) are “…a nomadic alien race comprising many genetically engineered forms (see Tyranid genetics) created from harvested bio-mass. They are the ‘Great Devourer’ and are the ‘most alien race’ in the Imperium.[1] They are an ‘elemental force’ that seeks to consume all in their path, draining all planets of any possible resource with horrific speed and power….”

Do….not….WANT!!

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1. The Tau? The Eldars? the Dark Eldars? Well . . .personally, I don’t know…

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