Bring Down the Imperium by PancreasNoWork - Reaction 

Honestly? The Imperium fracturing into a number of warring civilizations would be a fun idea to explore. The Imperium would still exist, Segmentum Solar isn't going to vanish with the snap of a finger.

I think the best way to start it off would be with the final death of the Emperor. Of course this doesn't work because without him we have no astronomicon, but I think it's possible to plan around it. Imagine, for a moment, the emperor perishes. As the throne fails and chaos is unleashed, the Emperor's last gambit is played. Every scrap of emotion and spare power collected over the years is burned by his fragmenting soul shards at once. The faith energy collected from the entire emperium over 10,000 years is used in a single moment. The Emperor's final will pushes back against the warp itself. Imprinting itself on the emerging hole in reality and banishing the daemons pushing in. As one the legion of the dammed and the other imperium half deities (Celestine etc) appear inside the new golden planet of the warp. This planet becomes the new beacon, and is protected by all the dead and collected heros and otherwise of the imperium. With his true death ending in a manner like this, a fracturing could occur without needing the setting to collapse due to lacking FTL travel. You'd get several remnant factions, several breakaway, and you could have some really fucked up books about those who are doing cult shit to try and bring him back faster (They prob don't know he's a perpetual at this point for the most part)

5:42 Far as I know, Elves are not in hurry to do anything because they live forever and since their afterlife is a physical place in the world, concepts of worldly possesions or making most of the time you have doesn’t apply to most of them. As for the Dwarves, There aren’t many of them left and those who did eventually died out because female dwarves are pretty rare(we only know one).

5:40 Tolkien Elves are some of the least Douchebag Elves in all of Fiction. With the exception of a notable line of Elves from the First Age, they dont tend to wage war or be violent for no reason. Dwarves, They tend to like living in their Mountains, and dont care about other areas most of the time. They are also heavily outnumbers. Which is the biggest reason why they have conquered everything: They are vastly vastly outnumber by the Men of the East, who in their majority swear fealty to Sauron. Its made explicitly clear that come the time of the discovery of the Ring, Sauron has already won and only the final strike remains to be landed. He's conquered the great ancient forts that stood to contain him, and none of their like can be remade. The return of the Ring to him, is the final blow, but its indirect and direct intervention of Eur Eluvatra himself that ends up beating Sauron. Because without Frodo's pity to keep Smeagle alive, he would have fell to the ring, and not cast it into the fire. Thats also not taking into account Sauron's Tech advantage as well. So they are outnumbered, outgunned, and backed into the last little bit of land in the world not occupied by Sauron's forces.

Was that questioning of LOTR about the lack of apparent conquest of the Dwarves and the Elves for real? Assuming it might be, so... The Dwarves have digged into nearly all of the meaningful mountain ranges and other delves suitable for their particular tastes. The Elves have their race exclusive heaven across the Sea while for the most part residing in the most blissful realms across the Middle-earth. Aaand as the biggest reason the capital G God of the verse was ushering in the Age of Men so both races during the movies were near to their date of expiry on the continent.

Glad to hear you're doing better! Enjoy your daily dose of Heresy!

One thing that would make this scenario interesting is some sectors wouldn't even know what was going on. An Age of Strife 2.0 would be an interesting thing to write and read about.

An interesting idea. For me personally, so long as the imperial guard or other interesting factions that fight for humanity(or what they view as the best for humanity) exist I'd be fine. Unfortunately GW is never going to do this as they fear change like the imperium itself does.

If the Imperium did fracture, than that would force the writers to strengthen the other factions in order to keep the other threats at bay. Like the Craftworld and Exodite eldar can finally unite under the Ynnari banner or previously abandoned plot lines can come back into the lime light like the one about the Severan Dominate. One thing that I hope could get more progression is the Farsight Enclaves. Now, I liked the Farsight: Arks of Omen book, but the book seemed to focus more on progressing Commander Farsight personal story more so than the Enclaves story as a whole. I mean we don't even know if they officially claimed Arthas Moloch for colonization or not, after it was cleansed of Chaos. (The ending was kind of vague on whether or not the Enclaves were going to take the planet after the conflict). Maybe with Imperium fractured, the Farsight Enclaves can have a sphere of expansion of their own. They can call it "The Red Sphere Expansion".

I know that it likely won't happen, but a back-to-back reaction to Pancreas's videos on the Mechanicus AND Necrons would do well in driving home the little detail that in some ways the two armies are complete opposites.

When you hit 40k: 5ish minute lore "Squad Broken"

While this would be interesting, it's already been tried in the setting (COUGH Badab war COUGH) and the Imperium has put them all down. It would take something truly insane for an actually new human faction to break off from the Imperium.

Following the idea that humans might get some technology the mechanicus wouldn’t approve of, what if Trazyn started mentoring his own mini empire of humans. In return for help securing and maintaining artifacts, he teaches humanity about the glory days of the dark age of technology. The humans begin to resent the imperium and mechanicus for holding them back, whether or not that’s a fair judgement, and follow Trazyn like some kind of historian god of knowledge.

Hey Boss, you sound like you got better. Anyway hope you have a Great Day.

old man turning into a james bond villain with his cat there at the end

5:44 Read the Silmarillion or a few articles on Tolkien Gateway. Specifically Fathers of the Dwarves, The Awakening of the Elves, Elves, Dwarves, Children of Ilúvatar (this one is important), the First Age, Second Age, Third Age, Men, possibly Music of the Ainur if you wnat the Creation Myth for Arda, and any others that catch your eye.

You know who would be pissed by this? Abbadon, biggest blue balling he could experience.

Daily reminder that pancreas hates bretonia cause hes bad at fighting cav.

40k subscribers video ideas, A video over the severan dynasty a lore video of if the old man was the emperor and how you’d lead the imperium a Sanguinius video 🙏 👼 A What if video, what if the eldar and the emperor had formed a truce before the great crusade how that’d change things A video of The badab war (and if you think Huron had a good point (up to a certain level))

Do some more SODAZ reactions, they've got a fallout series ongoing rn

this is my biggest issue with modern 40k fandom responding to the tourists plague by hypercoping that games workshop writing is perfect and NEVER grimderp. even though the fandom often call matt ward the 5th chaos god for that very reason.

Any Tau appreciation post as 40k special?

Going hard on the pancreas videos! Glad tho, given your hiatus from him 😂

this sounds like what is going on in warhammer 40k vs star wars by AFanWithTooMuchTime with how the story is going i could see mini empires popping up like PancreasNoWork is talking about🤔

Would like to see the Leagues of Votann be a more overt part of the setting…

11:11 Like the War of the Bucket for example.

Lord of the Rings Elves just don't want to conquer everyone- that's the biggest thing they're just benevolent

Pancreas no work seraphon video would be epic

6:58 I ordered Elden Ring two weeks ago!!!!!!

9:58 Luckily it wasn't Border Body Horror...

What paradox game do you play

What's even the point? GW can't even keep up with all of the armies they have right now. Do you think they can really do 30+ new armies? And there is the fact that the setting overfocus on humans (Space Marines really) as is.

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