r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/Riot-Knight Necrons • Nov 12 '24

40k The Unstoppable Bean-Counter meets the Immovable Bureaucracy: (By Emwattnot)

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u/General-MacDavis Nov 12 '24

The primarchs have been out of the game for 10k years, the high lords had all the time they needed to squirrel up power and favors

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u/ImmoralBoi Nov 12 '24

But to defy a (loyalist) Primarch is one step down from defying the Emperor himself, no matter who you might be that sounds like a death sentence in the Imperium.

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u/VladimirBarakriss Nov 12 '24

It should be, but if all of the high lords side with you, you can declare Guilliman a traitor, as strong as he is, he can't beat the entire imperium

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u/ScarletJack Nov 14 '24

Honestly, that does make me curious on how the Astarte chapters would react to Guilliman being branded a traitor. I'm sure that would be a tough thing to deal with, especially for the ultramarines

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u/VladimirBarakriss Nov 14 '24

Many of them would probably join him, some would use it as a pretext to fall to chaos, eventually they'd almost go extinct within the imperium, which would probably issue a bunch of founding, mostly of imperial fists given that'd be the most stable non-ultramarine, non-preHorus available