The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

If you ask people in the Human Empire in the Warhammer world who are the most important people to the empire, in the era of the Great Crusade in 30k, the answer may be the Primarchs.

One is because at that time, there were indeed many people and Space Marines of various legions who believed that their Primarchs were the most important people to the Empire, and they were unconditionally loyal and believed in these Primarchs, even more than their loyalty to the Empire.

Otherwise, during the Horus Heresy, there would not have been so many people who would not have hesitated to follow the Warmaster and follow him to betray their oaths and the cause they fought for, as well as betray the entire human race.

But if you ask this question to be answered by people in the 40k era, there will basically be only one answer, and that is the Emperor himself.

For many people, this is a very incredible thing. You must know that in the 40K era, the Emperor has already sat on the Golden Throne. For 10,000 years, although the Emperor could not speak or move, he could only use relatively indirect methods. Many people have never seen the Emperor in their entire lives. Even because of the Emperor's spiritual power, they have never seen the image of the Emperor himself, and they have never known the ideas that the Emperor once promoted in the Empire.

However, for the current human empire, the existence of the Emperor is indispensable.

For the most ordinary people of the human empire, they need firm faith in the Emperor to resist the erosion of Chaos. In this world where the evil god of subspace exists, belief in the Emperor is really useful, and firm faith can indeed Effectively resist the erosion of chaos.

This is particularly prominent among the military armed forces of the Human Empire. For example, soldiers of the Astra Militarum or Sisters of Battle maintain their firm faith in the Emperor on the battlefield, and when they fight bravely for humanity, they may even attract the Emperor. My attention will bring you back to life.

For example, Celestine, the famous Living Saint of the Human Empire, and her two attendants died in battle more than once, but the power from the Emperor himself could bring them back to life again and again.

Even as the Emperor's power grows further, he can even send the Cursed Legion to directly participate in battles closely related to the Human Empire, in order to directly help the Empire.

Of course, these are actually very far away from the ordinary people of the empire. They only live under the protection of the empire. What they can see and come into contact with every day are only the ceilings of the hive and the pipes of the factories. I don’t even know what the starry sky and the empire look like.

However, even so, the Star Torch, kept burning by the Emperor's own spiritual energy, is still the most indispensable thing in the life of every Imperial citizen.

As for the reason, it is very simple, because the ships of the empire rely on the light of the star torch to navigate. The place where the star torch shines is the empire's territory. Even just sailing outside the star torch's light is full of danger.

It can be said that it is precisely because the Emperor sits on the Golden Throne and keeps the Star Torch burning that the Human Empire can exist and be maintained.

If the light of the Star Torch is extinguished, the empire will be in danger of falling apart and falling apart in an instant.

But... the Star Torch itself was not the tool to sustain the Imperium's existence as originally envisioned by the Emperor, it was merely a temporary replacement.

And the reason why it can illuminate the entire galaxy is not the star torch itself, but the person sitting on it.

The Emperor used his vast psychic energy to keep the Star Torch burning. In the early days of the Great Crusade, he still had enough energy to leave the Golden Throne and direct the battle in person, and the burden of the Star Torch was not too heavy for him.

However, as the territory of the Empire expanded, the location the fleet needed to reach became farther and farther away from Holy Terra, and the Emperor had to increase the injection of psychic energy to allow the light from the Star Torch to illuminate more distant places.

So at the end of the Great Crusade, the Emperor could no longer leave the Golden Throne.

Originally, the Emperor had asked Magnus, the most powerful psychic being among the Primarchs, to replace him to keep the Star Torch burning. However, the intervention of the Four Gods of Chaos caused everything to deviate from the original trajectory. In the end, Magnus His soul was shattered, and the Emperor was reduced to a mummy on the Golden Throne.

However, the Emperor was more powerful than anyone imagined. Even with his last breath, the Emperor still kept the Star Torch burning for a full ten thousand years.

Although the Imperium of Man had to consume the souls of psykers every day during this period to keep the Star Torch burning, it was still the Emperor's own psychic energy that maintained the Star Torch's brilliance.

"Seriously, haven't you ever considered changing the navigation method? For ten thousand years, burning a thousand psykers every day to maintain the brilliance of the Star Torch, can you really accept this kind of thing with peace of mind? Take a step back Wan Bu said, what if something goes wrong with the Star Torch one day?" As the world ship gradually approached Holy Terra, Chen Mo could already feel the existence of the Star Torch, a huge psychic facility, so he asked Chahe who was standing aside. Tai Khan asked.

Chagatai Khan could only shake his head and did not answer Chen Mo's question.

For Jaghatai Khan, he actually didn't care about this. Whether the empire used star torches to navigate or otherwise, it made no difference to him.

And from another perspective, he couldn't answer this question.

Ever since the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne after the Great Heresy, the Primarchs disappeared and died, and the human empire fell into stagnation or even regression for ten thousand years.

The officials of the Empire and the priests of the Mechanicus could not find any technology that could replace the Star Torch, let alone extinguish the Star Torch and use other methods to navigate the Imperial fleet.

In fact, even the Emperor himself had no other option at that time, otherwise he would not have agreed to Prime Minister Malcador's proposal to use the souls of a thousand psykers as the main source of energy consumed by the Star Torch every day.

Ultimately, it's all just a conspiracy.

In other words, the connection between the real universe and the subspace in the Warhammer world is too close. In addition to the emotions of life in the real universe can affect the subspace, many technologies are also inseparable from the subspace.

"What method are you going to use to treat the Emperor?" Jaghatai Khan didn't want to talk about the Star Torch, so he asked what he was most concerned about.

Although he said that "all emperors are liars", Chagatai Khan was impressed by the emperor's power and regarded him as his father, even though he knew that he and his The Legion is just a tool for the Emperor to realize his own goals and ideals, and he will abandon this tool after his ideals are realized.

However, Jaghatai Khan still abided by his oath of allegiance to the emperor and remained loyal to the empire.

Even during the Great Heresy, Horus, who had the best relationship with him, once persuaded him, and he was once shaken by Horus's words, but in the end he firmly chose to be loyal to his oath with his legions.

Facing Chagatai Khan's inquiry, Chen Mo just paused for a moment with the cane inlaid with six gems in his hand.

Silently, Jaghatai Khan only felt a force sweep through his body. All the old injuries he had suffered from fighting against the rebel Primarch during the Great Rebellion ten thousand years ago had left his body. Expelled from inside.

This feeling didn't even feel like being treated, but directly erasing the concept of injury from Chagatai Khan's body.

Feeling Chen Mo's power firsthand, Jaghatai Khan no longer had any doubts that he could heal the Emperor.

"Do you think the return of the emperor is a good thing or a bad thing for the human empire?" Chen Mo asked Chagatai Khan an almost heart-wrenching question.

Although the Human Empire was established because of the Emperor's existence, and it has survived for these ten thousand years because of the Emperor's existence, is the Emperor really necessary for the Empire? Or is the Emperor's return a good thing or a bad thing?

This is a difficult question to answer, but Chagatai Khan did not avoid it this time. He just took a deep breath and said: "Father's return is necessary, although for today's empire, his return is very important. It may make some things worse, but in these dark times we need his leadership and even more his strength."

"Really? Even if he wakes up, he is no longer the same person, even if he has lost his humanity and turned into something more essential?" Chen Mo looked at Chagatai Khan.

His gaze was quite aggressive, causing the Primarch, who was much taller and burlier than Chen Mo, to take a step back.

But Jaghatai Khan still nodded firmly. He saw clearly that the empire needed the emperor, even if it was just a "god" or other indescribable existence with the appearance of the emperor.

But as long as he has the power of the Emperor, the appearance of the Emperor, and the abilities of the Emperor, then he is the Emperor. Even if it is just a machine without emotions and may make the Empire more ruthless than it is now, he is also the Emperor. , is the leader the empire needs now.

Chen Mo seemed to understand Chagatai Khan's thoughts from his eyes, so he shook his head slightly and did not comment on it.

But he did not remain silent. Instead, he asked Chagatai Khan the third question of the day: "Do you want to know the emperor's story? The part that you, as his son, don't know. Stories about the Emperor from the long past, before human history began.”

"You know this?" Jaghatai Khan was surprised. The emperor's past was a secret that no one could know. Even if Malcador, the then prime minister of the empire, knew more than all of them, he might not know it. Learn the stories of the Emperor's past.

"I know, and I know how he became what he is today." Chen Mo nodded, and then began to tell the story about the emperor.

The birth of the Emperor can be traced back to the long past of Holy Terra, around 8,000 BC. Humanity was still in the primitive era, and all the four evil gods of the warp had not even been born.

The Emperor was born in this ancient and primitive era.

The birth of the Emperor did not occur naturally, and the Emperor was not even a naturally born being.

In ancient times, due to the existence of subspace in this world, there were some naturally born psychics among the human race. They were called tribal shamans.

Because of the characteristics of the sea of ​​souls in the subspace, these shamans can be reincarnated into new bodies after death, thereby achieving immortality.

However, as humanity has developed, the collective human spirit's disturbance of the Warp has grown, and shamans have begun to lose their ability to reincarnate into new bodies.

Instead, once they die, their souls are consumed by the beings and daemons of the Warp.

Eventually, these shamans who lost their ability to reincarnate would become extinct, and without the shamans and their spiritual power to guide their species, humanity would inevitably fall prey to the corruption of the warp, as eventually happened to the Eldar same fate.

In those ancient days, all the shamans came together to decide what measures to take to prevent them all from being eventually swallowed up by the Warp.

Eventually the shamans decided to focus their spiritual power into one soul by reincarnating into the same person to create what they called a "new human being."

Thousands of shamans took medicine and committed suicide together. Their souls formed a spiritual force and rushed into the subspace, using a pure spiritual flame to purify the subspace demons who tried to hunt him. This immortal spiritual energy The fire eventually formed a soul.

A year later, the baby who would become the emperor was born to an ordinary herder family in the Neolithic Asia Minor.

His psychic powers were so powerful that they altered his genome and anatomy, rendering him immortal so that he would no longer need to reincarnate and would no longer be attacked by the daemons of the Warp.

And he was the later Emperor.

In the days that followed, the Emperor did not lead Mankind from the outset.

At first, he simply traveled outside human history as a witness to human glory and folly.

But soon afterwards, he began to use his wisdom and power to gradually guide mankind forward.

Although he carefully hides his true nature and disguises himself as an ordinary person, his influence on mankind is increasing day by day.

Tens of thousands of years before he became Emperor, he guided and observed the development of mankind, assuming the guise of numerous historical figures.

Until the birth of Slaanesh, the last evil god of the warp, the huge warp storm that swept across the galaxy destroyed the former human civilization.

After this unprecedented subspace storm subsided, he stepped out of Holy Terra and unified the chaotic Holy Terra. Only then did he become the Emperor of the Human Empire and reunited the divided Holy Terra. Humanity reunited humanity as a whole, and the current human empire was established from this.

Until the era of the Great Crusade, his creation, his son, the Imperial Warmaster Horus, was seduced by the evil god of the warp and launched a great rebellion.