Is the Galaxy actually Doomed? | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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Top reason the galaxy isn't doomed: GW wouldn't be able to sell plastic figurines at exorbitant prices.

Tyranids - running from something worse. Necrons - waking up en massé Imperium - "this is fine"

As Reggie said or whatever his name is, “You know Eldar kill Orks, Trynaids, Necrons, and they revived Gulliman. They are like super helpful.”

Honestly hearing the bit about the larger Tyranid fleet incoming, then the segue to Necrons has me low key feeling that the Necrons are the heroes you didn't want but deep down know you need for their life ending genocide when the bug fleet arrives.

So... The key to victory is crouching down and wait until superior forces destroy each other? Thats the most human solution ever 🤣

I forget where but I actually heard that the Nids completely get screwed over if they attack a world with more than one faction active on it, especially if they start alternating their attack patterns, the Nids will adapt X amount to one faction's tactics only to get smacked sideways by the turnover. I'm pretty sure this is actually how Armageddon is able to fight the Nids, because the Orks and humans are able to form momentary truces for the purpose of exploiting this to clear the field of any interlopers in their own fighting. Which, yeah let's talk about the fact that you can actually form truces with the Orks if you just show them a bigger enemy that the both of you can fight together, the only thing Orks love more than fighting the humies is hitching a ride with the humies to fight some huge ass nid fleet

I hope the nids hive fleets are scouting parties and a hive fleet a millon times the size comes at the Milky Way and is confronted by the entire united Necron race. The Imperium, Tau and Eldar can have a roll to play, but really could just watch in awe as these two super powers duke it out.

I think it’s hilarious that the End Times doomed the entire Fantasy series, whereas the 40k Imperium has experienced multiple End Times-level events, resulting in billions dead on hundreds of different planets, and they’re just like “Oh well, another one bites the dust.”

Ehh you got Guliman banging the big new important eldar character, orks like a fight, got a significantly less brainwashy Tau faction in Farsight, a hivemind is the greatest threat to chaos in existence, and the Silent King seems to at least view humans as useful and the warp/nids as a threat. The galaxy has the best shot at peace it has ever had since before the war in heaven.

I love the current setting because there’s an overwhelming abundance of both hope for the future and impending catastrophe.

I always hoped for a Dream Team of Imperials, Eldari, Necrons and Tau in 40k. Imagine what the four of them united could achieve.

If a guardsmen can roll enough 6s, he can bring down a land raider with a lasgun. I always tell this inspiring quote to the people who ring up the suicide hotline I work for.

I've always seen the strenght of the Imperium in that way: the Age of Strife was probably worst that the current situation overall, so I think that a recovery is possible. How? Humanity always performed very well in a particular situation: 1- with an unified and centralized command 2- with an ideology driving it 3- military speaking, what humanity needs is an unified elite force that spearheads conquest and that wins every single battle; that force are the space marines Legions. While the chapters imo have been great in holding the line and preventing another major civil war, the legions are needed for the offensive in a crusade-like fashion attack that takes out enemies of humanity one by one. A force of a million space marines non-scattered but united could take out one by one every other faction in the current situation, while the Imperial Guard holds the line and keeps the Imperium alive. Of course this would require the return of the loyalist primarchs: just look what Guilliman managed to do alone. The Great Crusade, the Damocles Crusade, the Macharian Crusade, the Indomitus Crusade... just look what could be done in the right context and situation.

If the End Times of 40k comes, GW better not fuck it up like they did with Warhammer Fantasy's End Times. Then again, my expectations are very low.

Majorkill should Make a Krorks vids, _I'm really dying to know more about them_

I really want to know what Valdor is planning to do with his army of Nulls. Maybe the imperium plans to close the great rift by literally flying a huge fleet of ships filled with Null psykers? Or maybe they want to attack the eye of terror?

It's good for everything to look bleak. The God Emperor is so powerful that it's a joke if he ever comes back to life. It's like Saitama in One Punch Man, whenever he shows up all tension leaves the room. The most interesting parts of that show are always about the less powerful heroes and villains.

I would say no because after all in the grim darkness of the 42 Millennium, there can be no victor…

*Chaos splits the great Rift* Chaos - Hahahah *Chaos notices that the death korps of Krieg are on their side of the rift* Death korps - we arnt stuck in here with you, your stuck in here with us!!!

Grim dark loses its edge if there isn't hope. After all, if there is no silver lining and no chance at victory, grim dark loses its punch! In these settings, we need to see larger than life heroes triumph over impossible odds...only to see that hero fall in the hardest way. This of course opens the door for new heroes to rise to the challenge and thus the cycle repeats. No matter if things are grim dark or sunshine rainbows...too much of either one makes for a stale and boring setting.

I'd actually be super down for an event where the Tau's tech level hits Dark Age of Technology with Abominable Intelligence and it becomes everyone's problem.

The one story I know for a fact has a happy ending was when a bunch of orks went into the eye of chaos just to fight demon's, landed on a planet controlled by khorne and fought till they all died only to be resurrected by khorne to fight again and presumably this is done everytime they die and from my understanding that's a happy ending for those orks

As we've seen, the Silent King is willing to unite with, or at least use mankind in his fight with the Tyranids, so I would love to see just what the full might of the Imperium and Necrons could do against the forces of the Hive Mind.

I’ve always held the idea that if the eldar, tau and imperium pooled their resources and just bought the entire Blood Axes klan and told them to kill whatever problem they have it would save all 4 factions

The Tyranid would have created so much mass it literally created a blackhole and destroyed itself.

Hey Major, you should make a video about each primarch's equipment, weapons, armour and the like.

I think the thing that people miss is that while the setting is grimdark, every story in 40k is an opportunity for heroes to rise up and overcome it.

I wonder if the Necrons could actually defeat the main tyranid hive fleet. I get they counter them, but could they really defeat those kind of numbers?

All the factions teaming (besides chaos) against the bug boys would be a sick story

Just image how effective the Imperium would be if it wasn't heresy to build technology

I know it's heresy to say it, but I genuinely hope we see more team ups in the future, like Imperium and Tau, or even perhaps Necrons. It was toyed with when Gullimane was awakened, and that was pretty cool. I know most of those races don't like each other, but especially in the case of the Tau and Eldar, those races are also smart enough to realize they need to get their shiz together yesterday if they want things to work out

GW writers be like: The Tyranids: A terrifying innumerable force of pure hunger who has the entire galaxy outnumbered and surrounded who rapidly adapts and evolves in every fight to become more efficient killing machines and can shut down chaos and psicher powers with their shadow in the warp. The Necrons: Ancient soulless immortal androids who killed the creator race and enslaved their own gods with technology so advanced it can easily shut down the warp witch was reshaped by their ancient war. The Tau: A young race that has become a technologically advanced space empire so incredibly quickly that if left unchecked will rule the galaxy and is nearly immune to chaos and who not only poses a technological threat but an ideological one as well. The Orks: The most numerous race in the galaxy who become stronger and more numerous the more you fight them, who can create any weapon or vehicle from a uceless pile of scrap, who's psychic power grows with their numbers and is immune to chaos. Chaos: Despite the fact it is inherently disorganized and constantly infighting and is usually under equipped compered to their imperial counterparts it is the biggest threat to the galaxy because ...

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I think it's going to be a Necron vs Tyranid fight, with everyone else caught in the middle. All those forces will balance each other out and keep the Galaxy in the state of perpetual tension that the genre is meant to have. Ultimately, all things kind of point to the Necrons and Tyranids knocking themselves down and then the Imperium pushing in. I think maybe down the road the star child or the Perpetual Emperor will emerge and usher in another golden age of crusade. Also, Majorkill, it's not freedom if it is granted to you by your overlords there in fascistic Australia, any more than the Imperial Inquisition would grant you "freedom". You have privileges being reinstated by the High Lords of Aussieland.

I can't remember the name of the planet, but isn't there one where the Orks and Tyrannids have been fighting each other infinitely?

*optimistic answer* yes, but it will be fast and painless. *pessimistic answer* No, the galaxy is the ultimate perpetual entity.

Of course it isn’t! As it’s been said, “As long as a single space marine stands, there will be hope.”

It's not actually grimdark as long as majorkill uses his sexy voice and accent.

Boiyo I'd be careful calling Tyranid adaptation "slow", or "lacking in tactical ability. The Tyranids have always been used as the plot device faction, meaning they are always as easy to destroy as the main feature of the lore needs them to be to shine. There are numerous cases of Tyranids out smarting their enemies and eating them, like the Nephelim king who killed a knight by exploiting their nobility. GW always Nerfs or Buffs them according to their whims, so it is hard to use a hand full of novels that say one thing or the other with Tyranids. Mostly because not even GW knows how strong they want the Tyranids to end up at the final confrontation (Wich may never come).

I love the theory that the Tyranids have completely SURROUNDED the galaxy

*thumbnail* Tzeentch where Hope is part of its domain: "NYEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!"

I always hear other 40k fans talk about multiversal chaos, glad to see that you debunked that notion.

when designing grimdark, always remember: the faintest glimmer of hope makes the darkness that much deeper when the light is extinguished

One of the most serious Majorkill videos, he only pops a joke every 10 sentences instead of three, lol.

The Emperor was on such a time limit for the Great Crusade because he knew using the Astronomicon would attract the Tyranids. He was racing against the clock to unite the galaxy and master Webway travel, so he could turn off the Astronomicon. Finding out that a beacon he wanted to turn off right away has been left on for 10k years is gonna have some consequences.

the emperor fully awakens as a god, Leman russ returns from the warp with the fruits from the tree of life (which is most likely isha herself) that can heal the emperor physical body and is now either space oden or a giant ice werewolf (if corax gets shadow manipulation when he awakend his warp powers, leman will probably get ice powers), corax returns from the warp still keeping his powers thanks to the rift, Ferrus returns leading the legion of the damned or is revived like the emperor and malcador did with vulkan, Sanguinius is also either revived or his soul shards refuse with the sanguinor allowing him to return, vulkan returns fulled with waaggh energy after falling into the reactor with the beast (or if he where to awaken his warp side would probably become a giant fire dragon), the lion finally awakens and reunites all the dark angels under his command, the khan returns from the webway having awakened his psychic abilites that even magnus acknowlidged, Dorn returns and uses the last wall protocol, guilliman removes the codexes rules allowing all loyalist chapters to return to their primarchs as full legions, clonegrim is realised or escapes from trazyns vaults and returns to the imperium with all the allies he can gather and the space marines that dont have a primarch/legion to return to cause they are either from traitor geneseed or its long forgotten who they are decendants from, valdor returns with his whole loyalist army and knowing the emperors true name which along with the fruit of life or isha heals the emperors body allowing him to walk in real space like the eldar gods of old Chaos and tyrands: guess i'll die

Remember the Milky Way is the second largest of the galaxies in our local group. It’s orbited by many dwarf galaxies. So the Tryanids have most likely picked the third largest clean, finished up the Milky Way satellite galaxies and on to the main course. Andromeda is probably next.

Watch the end of the lockdown be glorified "yard time"

Without plot armor....oh hell yeah it's totally screwed

Welcome to the milkyway, check out our tasty menu: T'au: The galaxy's appetizer - nice but gone so fast. Oh, well... Humans: Plain good lunch - just sit down and eat and finish your dish! Genestealer Cults: Bring food, be food, who cares? Space Marines: Protein supplements! For your strong hive fleet! Eldar: Healthy Food - make sure to eat whenever you can! Orks: Junk Food - Well, who could resist just finishing the whole bag? Chaos: Spicy Food - When you get used to it, you love eating lots! Necrons: Self-refilling Mineral Supplements - Not tasty, but useful!

I could see the pokemon master ball having necron working with the rowboat to slap the nids around so he can complete his collection of rare pokemon.

Almost accidentally, the state of the Galaxy is forcing it's natives to get better at fighting, to the point Mankind's evolving into the psychic species it's supposed to be. To the point that the Orks gathering power and more and more Necrons are mobilizing. Oh, and more Eldar Craftworlds are starting to resemble Iyanden, Biel Tian, and Ulthwe while the unaligned are joining the Ynnari en masse. It seems that, to Quote Big E quoting a certain tentacled prick: Everything is going just as planned.

I know you prepared us for the new opening animation bit but it still catches me by surprise each time and mate, it's bloody awesome

Tecnically if theres a way to control the orks to believe theres only peace and progress in the galaxy, with their power could "IN TEORY" change everything

The galaxy isnt doomed... because once the ork boys realize Ghazghkull's enemy Yarrick is dead they're going to go on an absolute rampage on the one who did it.

If Imperium, Eldar and Tau would join together, they could win. Maybe

Its true. If there's anything I learned from The Infinite and the Divine, its that the Necrons are actually surprisingly chill.

One of my most favorite videos so far, and I strongly agree with that bit at the end about being grimdark doesn't mean "everything's fucked so don't bother trying", but that even if things get hairy, but we can pull through.

Good stuff as usual brother. I do wish all lore channels would throw in 'as explained in such and such a book.' If we want to dig deeper.

I mean it really boils down to Necrons savings the Galaxy. They are perfect faction to stop Chaos(they can literally close the warp) and Nids. If Orks become Krorks there might be some problems though

The Xeelee Sequence: aw, that's cute.

Tau just be vibing 300 miles away with a rail rifle :)

I don't know if the lithium battery struggling to recharge analogy still works for The Big E

"Is the Galaxy ACTUALLY doomed?" In the voice of Rogal Dorn: *No.*

Depends what you mean by ''doomed'', if you mean ''is the imperium eventually going to collapse if WH40K ever ends?'' Yes, total success of the Emperors vision for humanity is both impossible and a slam dunk victory would be disappointing even to Imperium fans. It'd go against the entire theme. If by ''doomed'' you mean, will chaos and/or the tyranids cause the extinction of all sentient life in the galaxy? No that would be an equally bad ending that no wants to write or read. What I would imagine would happen if GW ever runs out of money and has to write an ending is the Eldar sacrifice themselves to destroy Slaanesh, atoning for their sin of creating it, the Tyranids are revealed to the creations of the exiled old ones and therefore the necrons fault for existing, the necrons go extinct destroying the Tyranids, atoning for their sin of waging The War In Heaven. Humanity is then free to throw everything they have at chaos, destroying both factions and atoning for OUR sin of hubris in trying to conquer the galaxy and defeat nature itself at once. The (reformed) T'au then inherit the ashes of the Galaxy, having been passed the torch by every species that came before them and ensuring the cycle of death and rebirth ends with them. I think that would be the most dramatic, thematically appropriate and satisfying ending, far more so than just 'humanity epic winz' or 'everyone dies the end'.

I think the best story decision with all these crazy Xenos empires arriving proves that we should enter an age in the 42nd millennium where the emperor comes back to life fully and physically, more powerful than he ever was and starts uniting the imperium to fight against the United necrons and full billions of hive ship tyranids, this stagnation of grim dark is only gonna get more and more boring, we need to see the imperium actually winning.

Imagine the Tau building an big ass Ork like Gundam present it to them as " DA BIGGEST BOSS DER' EVAH WAZ" and then using them to fight the forces of chaos

I feel like GW wrote themselves into a corner with tyranids. They are so powerful it makes no sense they didnt won by now.

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Big e wakes up and throws a brick through nurgles window

Would be really cool to see the non-Tyranids band together in a temporary, uneasy truce to destroy the Tyranids.

I just want to say that the beast wasn't a krork. He was weaker. The beast was only 10 metres tall while krorks were 12

As long as GW can sale space marines the galaxy is never doomed

Chaos's biggest weakness is that it can't survive without fresh souls entering the warp.

Hey man much enjoyed the Upload today. Nothing much went on today for my birthday so this was kinda cool.

Maybe some theory vids like what would happen if Horus and the lion fought, who would win would be cool

I mean, if TTS happened, I'm certain there' d be some hope.

In Ravenor Rogue the Wych House shows the future of the galaxy consumed by the great devourer. I think the idea is that the nids are inevitable.

I thought the Necrons wanted to take over the galaxy. That was the impression everything I saw about them gave me

No. There is only War. Unless the company gets bankrupt, someone buys the IP and decides to go Watcher in the Dark and reboot the shit out of it.

GW doesn't have good enough writers to do the end scenario any justice judging by the dumpsterfire that was the Age of Sigmar.

Man bro, I’ve been having a shitty day and it’s not even 1pm But majorkill always knows how to weaponize my sadness and turn it into pure unadulterated happiness

When Guilliman rolls up with Macragges Honor you get slapped in the face.

Oh wow, this is the earliest I've ever been I think. O_O

After the absolute mistake that was the end times and age of sigmar, I certainly hope GW doesn't decide to "destroy" the universe again.

"a device that can destroy half the galaxy if you sneezed on it" made me laugh so hard cuz that's how it feels when you are a parent to a toddler at bedtime 😂🤣

lets not forget that Tyranids DONT JUST FARM BIOMASS they also absorb rare and valuable minerals and metals to combine into their armor and such. Would love to see what happened if they absorbed some of that Necron metal

It’s great the boomer robots are actually the most interesting race in the recent books petty boomers be petty

No, cause we've got you

As always, great transition to the sponsor

Not trying to be a prick, but if you care, "existential" is pronounced "ex-iss-ten-shal". Or you can just own what you do, whatevs.

Dude you have my sympathies, the Australian government lost its freaking mind. The most ridiculous thing is I can think of a few places more sunny than Australia, it is literally a massive health problem it's so sunny, and sunlight is literally the best way to kill and prevent covid. I mean most governments went authoritarian but holy crap did Australia go hard.

So in probably about 20 Millenia, Necrons The Imperium of Man, Tau and Eldar will probably be part of either an Anti-Tyrranid Alliance and Orc Pest Control Force?

New intro cinematic is sick

The Custodes used to defend the emporer. Now they just swap makeup tips and get on their knees for chaos.

All I want is a game where you can play as the necrons and melt unending swarms of nids.

Being born an Ork is perhaps the best luck any living creature can have in this universe.

Majorkill, I really want to start doing some WH40K fan fiction but I'm not sure what area of the lore I'd like to dive into. I'd love it if you could do something like a top 5 or top 10 sections of lore that need fleshing out. Some ideas I've seen that are really tempting are the early lore of the Big E, the story of the 2 missing Primarchs, or maybe some of the early Tyranid encounters...

I think that the story of tau and humans working together to beat the nids is actually pretty dumb. Like yeah they couldn’t adapt to both weapons, but people always forget that the tyranids have absolutely amazing tactical choices and overwhelming power. Seriously in the codex for nids the swarmlord is described as a being that has the intellect of the greatest commanders with thousands of lifetimes of experience that have given it experience in all things. Not to mention that nomatter how good your guns are, numbers of the tyranids will eventually break through it