Quote Originally Posted by Selrahc View Post
God, you guys are so defeatist.

Even in 40k, there are plots and schemes to unmake the gods of Chaos. The warp powers are not unassailable. Ork Waaaghs have raged into the heart of the eye and killed daemon gods. The Eldar Crone worlds were reconquered by the Phoenix Lords during the 13th Black Crusade and serve as an Eldar stronghold in the heart of the Eye. The 13th Company of Space Wolves hounded Chaos marines for ten millenium inside the warp. The Tau and their warp resistance... The Hrud and their enslaved warp god... the Orks and their psy field... And beyond that, there are schemed for ultimate victory. The Laughing god has a plan, possibly the same one as the Dead God plan. The warp severance plan of the Oldcrons. The Emperors glorious psychic dawn of the next phase of humanity, drowning the gods in the raw power of humanity. The Emperor as benevolent warp god.

Chaos has been beaten a hundred hundred times. The gods have been stymied and defeated by the relatively limited powers of the 40K verse. And they rage against each other, dealing heavy defeats. Ultimately, they are just psychic residue from a large past war. There should be a way to defeat them when you have all the tools of the Culture and all the tools of 40K at your disposal.
- The Orks launched a Waagh straight into the Eye of Terror, and managed to kill a load of daemons, it's true. Except none of those daemons have remained 'dead', and the Orks themselves have all died several hundred times over only to be brought back so the daemons can kill them all over again.
- The Crone Worlds are still in the middle of the Eye of Terror. They are not safe, not even slightly. The Phoenix Lords may have retaken them, this does not mean that Chaos is giving them up. And the daemons have effectively infinite forces.
- The 13th Company are also all quite possibly mad. And they've slaughtered mortal followers of Chaos, but that really doesn't achieve anything.
- The Tau, the Hrud and the Orks are all resistant to Chaos Corruption. They are not immune, and nor do any of them have any better defenses against the non-corruptive dangers of the Warp.
- The Laughing God might have a plan, it's impossible to really tell, because he's not the most forthcoming fellow. The OldCron plan would have defeated the efforts of the Chaos Gods in the mortal realm at the small cost of the souls of everyone who ever lived.
- The Emperor lost. And even if he is a Warp God now (and I kinda believe he is, to be honest), that doesn't help much. Warp Gods are shaped by the beliefs of their followers, and the God-Emperor of the Imperial Creed is not exactly benevolent...

Chaos can be thwarted. It can be denied. It can be guarded against. But it cannot ever, by it's nature, be defeated or slain. The Chaos Gods are not distinct individuals sitting in their palaces plotting evil schemes. They are the dreams and emotions of every sentient being, the fundamental forces of the cosmos, the quasi-sentient embodiments of an entire universe of raw energy. The laws of physics and sanity do not apply to Chaos, and their armies are quite literally without number. Sure, it's possible to destroy a daemon (albeit absurdly difficult rather than merely banishing them), but every time a child has a nightmare, or a man covets his superior's wealth, or a young woman falls in love, another daemon is created.

They don't call it the Great Enemy for nothing...