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At work today I had something run through my mind that got me thinking.

What if, just what if, Guilliman didn’t in fact kill Alpharius (or Omegon), but in fact lost.

What if Alpharius, being the master of all that is deception and under handed tactics and plans with in plans that he is, killed the big blue guy, and having taken his armor (and probably using some creepy warp shannangins) gave himself the appearance of the Ultramarines primarch?

It sounds too absurd to be true, but consider this; Alpharius was warned well in advance of Horus’ heresy. The alien ‘Cabal’ led by the eldar showed Alph two possible futures. One the emperor was slain, Horus would turn in on himself and destroy all he had done, preserving the galaxy. The other had the galaxy dying a slow lingering death after Horus’ defeat.

So, Alph takes this to heart. We already know the 20th legion spent a better portion of its time back on Terra before its primarch was found (or was he not already found?) doing some very strange...shadowy stuff, and no doubt, Alph may have made his way back home to insure a little  insurance on the whole galaxy destruction thing.

Say, something in the form of a new army? One that would be ready and waiting when the time came? 

Alph allows himself to be ‘assassinated’ by the shard after taking on Guilliman’s appearance. Why? Cause it was meant for the big blue guy. Meaning it wouldn't fully kill Alph. He’s put in stasis while Omegon continues to lead the 20th legion alongside the heresy (or is Omegon the one who takes the blue man’s place? hmmm.)

Knowing the eldar will seek any way they can to preserve themselves, especially having shown part of their hand to Alph, he waits patiently in stasis, waiting until, huh, what do you know? Chaos has pushed the eldar and the imperium to desperate measures. Who shows up with the xenos creepy stuff to fix up the big blue’s body and bring him out of stasis? 

Why, the very people who told Alph this would happen all along. So Guilliman (Alpharius?) is revived, and some how, some way miraculously makes his way to Terra, after things all sort of..conveniently slide into place to give him a leg up on his pursuers....hmmm, are those pesky 20th legionaries doing something we don’t know about?

And boy, what do you know? That army he had put in place (and now bears his geneseed encoded in their bodies) is ready and ripe for combat. Of course everyone, EVERYONE would want Guilliman, the greatest tactical mind of the 18 primarchs to lead a new crusade in the name of saving mankind and the galaxy. So suddenly now he is in charage of the Imperium’s war machine. And huh, wouldn’t you know it, those pesky Primaris marines made from a certain primarch’s gene stock are now...suddenly..inside...everyone..else’s.. chapter...

 Oh wait...didn’t the eldar say the galaxy couldn’t be saved? Hmmm, guess just like his drop on the Cabal, Alph (Guilliman) has other ideas...he always was such a loyal son...

Hydra Dominatus.

I have held back mostly on my feelings regarding the current direction of the in game lore of Warhammer 40k, because honestly I don’t like to be that person who complains about something without having a better something to offer.

So then with that in mind, here’s the skinny. I fucking hate the current lore of 40k. To be honest I have found very very very little to my liking since about the mid point of 4th edition. And coming from a guy who has been playing since the twilight years of 3rd, but made the effort to go back and read all the lore and weird side stories and dark corners of the game from before then and since then, I can honestly say the grimdark 41st millennium is not at all very grimdark anymore.

However, I’m a fan. I think true fans (NOT FANBOYS) of something take the bad with the good. Fix, ignore or try to change the bad and enjoy the good however you can if you really like something. And I do so far very much like 8th ed rules, and I don’t think I can every fully dislike 40k. Just...wow the lore has gotten so watered down. Its gone full blown cliche sci fi, with unjustifiable PC bullshit whiting out the stuff that might be considered not commercial enough for special snowflake consumption. And all this in the name of appealing to the all coveted, mythical and powerful “Wider Audience”.

And as I am not, nor will ever be an official author or creator for official 40k lore, all I can do is create my own pocket universe for the game. And since my small group of 40k pals and I have decided to kick off 8th ed with a living campaign, I have decided to create my own 40k lore narrative. 

This fan narrative will basically discount most of what has been written in game from about the ending of 3rd ed-ish through parts of 4th. It will borrow from certain new events I feel have a real place in the 40k universe, but remade to actually be something less...ridiculous and honestly neither scary or grim.

This post is of the beginning intro (Which might still have lots of editing to go through as right now its just me working on it) for everyone’s interest. I plan on posting sections at a time as I finish the overall narrative for the major factions of the 40k universe, and then perhaps to an extent the lesser known factions of the under belly of the game. Enjoy, and keep it TRVE GRIMDARK.

Yesterday’s game and the second part of the campaign between the two rival warsmiths of my friend and me.

This time around his warsmith sent in his Nurgle allies in an attempt to find the Slaaneshi sorcerer Malaki, whom I had captured last game.

We played the RESCUE mission, and I ended up managing to scrape out a victory. Malaki was never found and the Nurgle forces where beaten back from my precious captured forges.