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[[Image:The Emperor.jpg|thumb|right|The Emperor of Mankind]]
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The '''Emperor of Mankind''' is the sovereign of the [[Imperium]] of [[human|Man]], and Father, Guardian, and God of his race. He has sat immobile within the Golden Throne of [[Terra]] for ten thousand years. Although once a living man, his shattered body can no longer support life, and remains intact only by a combination of ancient technology and the sheer force of his will, itself sustained by the soul-sacrifice of countless millions of [[psyker]]s.<sup>2</sup>
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[[File:646545.jpg|thumb|300px|What the Emperor looked like before Horus decided to bitchslap him. Notice the giant skull. And the fact that he's out of his terminator armor, you don't get to see him like this very often.]]
  
His will is omnipotent, extending across the million worlds that comprise his Imperium. For ten thousand years the Master of Mankind has served mankind, simultaneously carrying out a multitude of tasks vital to its survival and to the survival of the Imperium. All at once he guides his race through the [[Emperor's Tarot]], soul-binds psykers, holds audiences with his most important servants and beams the Astronomican beacon. His immense psychic powers constantly keep the [[Chaos|Chaotic powers]] of the [[Warp]] at bay, preventing their intrusion into the material universe and protecting his people throughout the [[galaxy]].<sup>1</sup>
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The '''God-Emperor of Mankind''', also known as '''Tha Emprah''', '''Emps''', '''The Big E''' and '''Space Hitler''', is the figurehead ruler of the [[Imperium of Man]] in the ''[[Warhammer 40k]]'' universe and possesses unimaginable levels of manliness. The administration he established continues to govern the Imperium in his name, but it is generally accepted that the absence of the Emperor's proper guidance is what has turned the Imperium into the [[/b/|hellish mess]] that it is. In the [[Imperium]], questioning whatever your superior tells (yells) you the Emperor's word happens to be that day, is treason and [[Chaos|heresy]], typically punished by execution. Were The Emperor <s>alive</s> up and about in the 41st millennium, it goes without saying that he would be disappoint.
  
The Emperor's role as guardian of mankind seems to have been predestined for him. Without the Emperor there would be no Imperium, little space travel, and no protection from the multitude of threats facing mankind. The Emperor knows that to protect his race he must survive as long as necessary for the emerging race of psychic humans to evolve sufficiently.<sup>2</sup>
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If you hear any other voice than Peter Cullen's in your head when you read his lines in the Horus Heresy books, you are a heretic. <s>Who is he?</s>{{BLAM}} {{BLAM|He's the guy that voiced Optimus Prime!}} <small>What about patrick stewart?</small> <small>Sean Bean?</small> <small>Karl Urban?</small>
  
In the millennia since his ascension to the Golden Throne, the Emperor has become a god to his people, the worship of him uniting humanity throughout his Imperium, superstition and dogma replacing his doctrine of [[Imperial Truth]].<sup>1</sup>
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Exception? [[The Last Church]].  It is permissible to substitute the voice of whatever angry militant atheist appeals to you most/least for the duration of this one (short) story.
  
[[Daemon]]kind refers to the Emperor as '''The Anathema'''.<sup>9</sup>
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[[File:Majestica.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Big E gets all the bitches.]]
  
==History==
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==The entire history of the Emprah==
===Origins===
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He was apparently born 8000 B.C in Anatolia, making him a Proto-Sumerian probably. He also masqueraded as many prophets, leaders and wise men throughout history to nudge humanity towards a more ordered society, including Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Gaius Julius Caesar, Winston Churchill and so on. If this is true, it took their collective minds ''that'' long to see that Peace and Love wasn't working and that the only way for anything to go their way was at gunpoint/swordpoint.
  
Little is known about the majority of the Emperor's life; of who he was and what he did before he emerged as the great Emperor of Mankind, only the Emperor himself remembers.<sup>2</sup> A few pieces of information have come to light, from various different sources, and present some small parts of a coherent whole; however, their reliability is often disputed, especially as the Emperor's tale changes somewhat with each retelling.  
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At first The Emperor re-united humanity when it was going to shit with constant wars by establishing the Imperial Army, which later became what is known today as the Imperial Guard after a split with the Navy. After that, he made the original 20 Space Marine Legions, each comprised of 10,000 [[Space Marines]] rather than the present Chapters of 1,000  (though the legions each grew to have about 100,000 members). Each Space Marine is made using the DNA of a specific Primarch. The Primarchs were lesser clones the Emperor made of himself, because nobody else is badass enough to lead his great armies, but his own flesh and blood they however weren't as strong as their father and not all of them inherited his Psyker abilities. However the Chaos Gods then whisked them away and scattered them through the Galaxy. The Emperor then spent most of his years finding his sons while conquering planets, reestablishing human sovereignty across the galaxy.  
  
The oldest information given on the Emperor's origin relates that he was born to mortal parents many, many millennia ago, manifesting his powers as a youth. One account of the Emperor's origin goes so far as to say that he had mortal brothers and sisters and details the time and location of his birthplace - eight thousand years before the first millenium, in the region of Terra then known as Central Anatolia. This account also claims that the Emperor's birth, while a natural process, was actually the result of a scheme created by the wisest and most powerful of living humans at that time; the conclave of shamans. These men, termed 'shamans' by their society, were powerful psykers with great experience of the Warp. Finding their souls - and those of humanity - endangered by the growing perils of the Warp-gods, these psykers decided to pool their power into one human, a being they called 'the New Man'. Already having gained the power to reincarnate themselves (upon death, the shamans' souls would transfer to the Warp, accumulating power enough to reincarnate as human) the shamans entered a suicide-pact. Thousands of them poisoned themselves and sped their souls to the warp at the same time. Presumably pooling their soul-energy and using their reincarnation ability, they brought about the birth of their New Man - the Emperor - one year later. This New Man, once he had learned of his special nature, proceeded to haunt the history of humanity as a ghost; watching, waiting and occasionally influencing.<sup>3</sup>
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After he found 18 of the 20 primarchs, he assigned them to their respective legions and had them retake humanity in a crusade of a grand scale, this is also when the Spehss mahreens were at their awesomest. After much time, Horus Heresy erupts where 9 of the legions rebel against the Empra. The Emperor fought against [[Horus]], daddy's favorite in an epic battle that ended it all at the cost of being mortally wounded to the point that he must be put permanently on a life support machine known as the Golden Throne. All agree that the bronze skinned douchebag deserved it. After that, the Imperium eventually degraded into the Grimdark empire we all know and love today.
  
Living secretly amongst mankind, he developed his abilities until his psychic might allowed him to gain knowledge of not only his own world, but of the dangers beyond it. Aware then of the vast predations awaiting humanity, the being that would become known as the Emperor resolved to guide and protect humanity. Eventually, over ten thousand years before his current circumstances, he took his struggle out into the open, primarily because of the ever-increasing number of [[psyker]]s, whose very existence endangered their species.<sup>2</sup>
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It is established that the Emperor is pretty much the most powerful psyker alive, humbling even the eldar, and whilst upon the Golden Throne he guides the light of the Astronomicon, basically a lighthouse in the warp, which is run by the power of thousands of agonized psykers. He is tens of thousands of years old and has been secretly guiding humanity from behind the scenes for much of his lifetime. Theories variously suggest that he is also Sigmar of [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] fame, Chuck Norris, and Jesus. It is uncertain as to whether or not his internment on the Golden Throne is a good thing; some believe that if he were to die, the [[Imperium]] would be truly plunged into darkness, whereas others believe that if allowed to finally die he would reincarnate and return to unify the galaxy once more. Whatever the truth of the matter, [[Games Workshop]] are never going to advance the story, so it is mostly irrelevant.
  
===Rise of the Emperor===
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==The Emprah himself==
The man who would later become known as the Emperor first appears in Imperial records as one of the many warlords struggling for control of Terra during the later part of the [[Age of Strife]]. The Emperor undertook a series of campaigns against all the other warlords on the planet that would later become termed as the [[Unification Wars]]. During these wars the Emperor employed several military formations - such as the [[Geno Five-Two Chiliad]] - that consisted of genetically altered/engineered warriors, who played a significant role in his eventual victory. With this victory, the planet and population of Terra were at last unified under one rule; that of the Emperor. With this achievement behind him, the Emperor then set in motion his plans to take his purpose of uniting and guarding mankind out into the stars, to unify with the bastions of humanity scattered across the [[galaxy]]. This undertaking would become known as the [[Great Crusade]].<sup>4</sup> 
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After he shaved his goatee, his chin radiated a brilliant light through the [[warp]]. The [[Imperial Navy]] used this light as a beacon to guide them through that terrible place. He is sometimes referred to as the Empra or Emprah, a joke derived from the voice acting in the ''[[Dawn of War]]'' game, ''[[Dawn of War: Soulstorm|Soulstorm]]'', specifically [[Indrick Boreale]]'s final speeches.
  
[[Image:EmperorwLegions.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Emperor during the Great Crusade.]]
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The Emperor is so powerful that he could [[Awesome|'''DESTROY SUNS BY SNAPPING HIS FINGERS!!!''' ]]
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The [[Chaos]] Gods are scared shitless of this guy, and hope that he dies so they can take over the universe. ''If'' the God Emperor were to arise again [[Chaos]] would be '''FUCKED'''.
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The pussy [[Eldar]] fear that if the Emperor were to die a new [[Eye of Terror]] would be opened and Chaos would take over  EVERYTHING!!!
  
The Emperor prepared extensively for the Great Crusade; he created the special [[Astropath|astrotelepath corps]] to link his eventual dominion together, and caused the creation of the [[Astronomican]], a supremely powerful signal device powered by the Emperor's own psychic might that would allow simplified and safer travel through the Warp. Chief amongst his designs, however, were the creation of superhuman warriors, the logical extension of the gene-troopers already under his command. He had first undertaken the [[Primarch Project]], the creation of twenty infants from his own genetic code, designed to mature into powerful generals for his armies. However, this plan went awry with the intervention of the Chaos Powers. While accounts vary as to exactly what happened, the end of the tale is always the same; the [[Primarch]]s were cast into the Warp and thought lost.<sup>4</sup>
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[[File:Climax.jpg|250px|right|thumb|A typical father and son chat between Empy an Horus.]]
  
In the aftermath of these events, the Emperor evolved a new plan. Using genetic material which had been derived from the Primarchs, he created a caste of warriors which would possess some of the qualities of the Primarchs. These successors to the genetically-altered warriors of the Unification Era were the [[Legiones Astartes]], the [[Space Marines]] of the [[First Founding]].<sup>3</sup>
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After he was nearly killed by his son, he was placed on the golden throne and hasn't been able to move for the past few millennia, it's been said by most of the fluff that his existence on a day-to-day basis since then was a living hell (In comparison, the process of making astropaths would be like a trip to the dentist.) it's literally the mother/father/uncle/2nd Cousin of all mindfucks, so bad that even a Inquisitor would likely go insane as a result (or anybody else for that matter) and yet he continues.. why? He is maybe the universe's most powerful vegetable but that doesn't mean that he can just sit down and die, oh no it's exactly the opposite, it gives him a shitload of work to do, along with being the lighthouse of the warp guiding the Imperial Navy, he also needs to make the aforementioned astropaths, as well as keeping all the nasties of the warp where they're supposed to be and not spilling over into reality and make the lives of all human beings miserable. He also does it for the good of man. (sounds kinda familiar, don't it?) In the last year of M41 techpriests discovered that the Golden Throne is failing and the Emperor is DYING so look up! there is a 50/50 chance of the Emperor returning to life.... Or dying forever and everyone in the Imperium becoming a Chaos sex toy/Punching Bag/plague vector/science experiment.(insert Commissar quote here)  Pfft, as if [[Cegorach]], [[Tzeentch]], or the [[C'tan|Deceiver]] are going to let one of their paradox poker buddies die.
  
The Emperor led the Space Marines into the reconquest of the [[Sol System|Solar System]], driving [[Xenos|alien]] enslavers from the moons of [[Saturn]] and [[Jupiter]] and most importantly, achieving peace and eventual integration with the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Mechanicum]] of [[Mars]]. This alliance provided the Emperor with much of the means and materiel to extend his crusade into the stars.
 
  
With the final abatement of the Warp storms began the Great Crusade. The Emperor's forces rediscovered human worlds, cast out alien oppressors, and claimed new territory aplenty. Perhaps most importantly, the Emperor, leading his crusade, rediscovered his lost sons, the [[Primarch]]s. Scattered throughout space, the infants were found one-by-one, over a period of many decades, and reunited with their father and their kin. All were placed in command of the Astartes Legions created from their respective [[gene-seed]] and played their part in forging their father's Imperium.<sup>3</sup>,<sup>5</sup>
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:''"The Emperor was a brilliant scientist, a powerful warrior, and great psyker, but he was a terrible father..."
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:-Rowboat Girlyman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, telling it like it is.
  
First amongst the Primarchs was [[Horus]], first discovered and first honoured. Some great length of time into the Great Crusade, the Emperor decided to return to Terra and placed Horus in charge of the military advancement of his Imperium in his stead. Granting him the title of Warmaster, the Emperor declared that the time had come for his sons to show him what great leaders they were. Turning his back on direct military interventions, the Emperor then created the [[Council of Terra]], the Imperial Tithe and expanded the civil governing bodies of the Imperium, before retiring in seclusion beneath the [[Imperial Palace]] to begin work upon the Golden Throne.<sup>5</sup>
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Every Saturday night the [[Emperor]] gets together with [[Tzeentch]], [[C'tan|the Deceiver]], and [[Cegorach]] for a game of Paradox Poker. They have to use a new pocket dimension for each of these games because the sheer amount of dickery and [[JUST AS PLANNED]] causes the dimension they play in to collapse. Nobody has ever won one of these games.  Any who try to watch these games without possessing similar mastery of the fine art of dickery and [[JUST AS PLANNED]] will find that their heads will explode into a shower of [[Necrons]], [[Eldar]], [[Space Marines|SPESS MEHREENS]], and Daemons as they cannot comprehend the true form of the game.
  
[[Image:Horus vs The Emperor.jpg|thumb|right|The Emperor confronting Horus.|300px]]
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==Worship of the Emperor==
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The Imperium thinks and looks at the Emperor like God himself in relation to Christianity and is more than willing to die in his name or skullfuck the next guy who says anything remotely bad about him. Now, the only reason the Imperium worship the Emperor is that after his fight with Horus and his internment into the Golden Throne, they pretty much forgot what the Emperor taught them, including draining the power of the Chaos Gods by eliminating all kinds of religion and remaining an atheist empire. The Emperor was actually AGAINST any kind of religion as part of his plan for mankind's conquest of the stars-- even if the object of worship would be himself like when he told [[Lorgar]] to fuck off with the God-Emperor worship.
  
===The Horus Heresy===
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However, after he went off being the most powerful psychic vegetable in the universe, and lost direct control of the Imperium of man, belief in him sort of helped the Imperium stand together, even if it basically made humanity retarded in the process. The Imperium's faith in the Emperor is basically their biggest anchor of bravery and perseverance in a universe where humanity is constantly beset by:
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This turn of events did not please all of the Emperor's subjects, several of his sons in particular. In the final stages of the [[Great Crusade]], the Emperor's most trusted son [[Horus]] succumbed to Chaos temptation. Horus was told that the reason the Emperor had left the Great Crusade was so the he could attempt to reach godhood, abandon all his sons and betray one of the central tenants of the Great Crusade (to enlighten humanity and free it from the bonds of false gods). Horus saw it as his duty to save the Imperium and turned on his father. Having corrupted fully half of the [[Space Marine Legion]]s, Horus led them against the Emperor and plunged the fledgeling galactic empire into a colossal civil war. This became the most terrible conflict in human history, and billions perished as the Traitor Legions tore apart the empire they had helped to forge.<sup>5</sup>
 
  
The last act of this terrible treachery was played out above Terra, as the Emperor led a desperate assault against Horus' flagship. Though the Emperor was a being of unfathomable psychic and physical might, Horus had become mighty indeed, bloated with the powers of all four [[Gods of Chaos|Chaos Gods]]. After a tragic battle, and though heartbroken at the loss of his favoured son, the Emperor finally slew Horus, though the struggle left him close to death. In this state he was found by [[Rogal Dorn]]. The dying Emperor dictated plans for the arcane life-support machine that would sustain his remaining cells for over ten thousand years, and he was subsequently interred in this altered version of the Golden Throne.<sup>5</sup>
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*[[Tyranids|unimaginably massive swarms of voracious space lizards who exist only to feed and grow]]...
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*[[Necron|aeons-old zombie-terminator robots from space set on culling all life from the galaxy]]...
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*[[C'Tan|diabolical celestial beings literally as old as the stars themselves whose single concern is harvesting souls for consumption]]...
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*[[Orks|green-hued xeno-barbarians whose past-times, ambitions, job skills, and dreams can basically be summed-up as bludgeoning]]...
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*[[Tau|technologically advanced space communists wanting to assimilate everyone in their quasi Hindu-Communist empire and whom take after Billy Mays]]...
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*[[Eldar|snooty and uncaring space elves that can read minds and who eat, sleep, and live in planet-sized battle cruisers]]...
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*[[Dark Eldar|psychotic, hedonistic space elves who routinely torture others to the point of death for sheer amusement before grinding their remains into refined cocaine]]...
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*[[chaos|fanatical zealots that knowingly devote themselves to all that is insane and evil]]...
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*[[daemon|nightmare horrors made real who will rape and/or eat any sentient being they get their goat-hooves on]]...
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*[[Chaos Space Marines|deformed, demented traitors clad in power armor and aided by the evilest forms of weaponry and sorcery ever conceived]]...
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*[[Sly Marbo|and fuck knows who's the guy in the cardboard box...]]
  
==Transcendence==
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Without their faith in the Emperor after his internment into the Golden Throne, the Imperium would have likely gone pants-on-head retarded again like in the pre-Great Crusade days and subsequently devolved into what they were before the Emperor liberated them. So yes, much like IRL religion, it gives them hope and courage to fight on and survive in a universe that leaves the [[grimdark]] faucet running everyday.
Enthroned within the life-sustaining Golden Throne, the Emperor's will has transcended his maimed body. The Emperor is now divorced from the day to day running of the Imperium; this is left to the [[Adeptus Terra]] who govern in his name.
 
  
[[Image:Emperor_Imperial_Palace_Rogue_Trader.jpg|thumb|left|500px|The Imperial Palace, the Sanctum Imperialis: The Emperor, the Golden Throne, Custodians]]
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==The possible death of the Emperor==
  
Now, his will is interpreted and executed by the [[High Lords of Terra]], his worship is regulated by the [[Ecclesiarchy]], his law enforced by the [[Adeptus Arbites]], his form guarded by the [[Adeptus Custodes]], and his people protected from the horrors of the galaxy and from even themselves by the [[Inquisition]].
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With the Golden Throne being constantly damaged and the Techpriests are too power-armor-on-head rebooted to do anything about it, it is certainly possible that the Emperor may die one day, which will obviously result in all of the Imperial worlds and factions to cry tears of disappointment and subsequently devolve into chaos. There are however, 2 possible outcomes of what will happen if the Emperor should ever die:
 
 
The Emperor is confined within the Golden Throne, vast biomechanical machinery forming the great Sanctum Imperialis, located deep within the continent-spanning complex on Terra known as the [[Imperial Palace]]. There the Emperor's physical form is sustained by carefully maintained machinery.
 
 
 
Physically, the enthroned Emperor of Mankind is a ravaged corpse. The last surviving cells in his shattered body are sustained by the Golden Throne, providing an anchor for the Emperor's spirit, which extends across the entire Imperium. While his body is sustained, his will endures.<sup>2</sup>
 
 
 
His existence is said to be an unending torment, with his every thought enslaved to the task of ruling, guiding and protecting his race. Ultimately it is only his will to endure that allows him to survive, as he knows his death would lead to the destruction of the Imperium and leave mankind without the guidance it needs to survive.<sup>2</sup>
 
 
 
Only through his power can the [[Astronomican]] beam its guiding light, allowing Imperial ships to navigate the Warp in relative safety. The Emperor is not just a beacon for space travel, however, but is said to continue to guide humanity through his [[Emperor's Tarot|Tarot]], and through dreams and visions given to selected individuals. It is also popularly believed that he created the warp storm known as the [[Storm of the Emperor's Wrath]] during the [[Age of Apostasy]], and that the Emperor's will holds Chaos at bay. Were it not for his unceasing struggle, the Chaos of the Warp would flood the material realm with madness and horror, causing untold destruction.<sup>1</sup>
 
 
 
In addition to these already profound powers, the Emperor is capable of stopping time for undetermined lengths and guiding his servants through manipulation of his Tarot and sheer influence.<sup>8</sup>
 
 
 
==The Golden Throne==
 
Originally built to provide access to the [[Eldar]] [[Webway]], the Golden Throne took the form of a bulky machine-like chair suspended over gigantic mechanised doors made of gold metal. The doors were said to be large enough for a [[Warhound Scout Titan]] to walk through unbowed. The chair was linked to the portal by huge bundles of cables, wires and conduits. The whole machine was made of the same golden metal. The throne was built at one end of a vast hall big enough to house up to six fully equipped Space Marine Companies. This was the Emperor's main laboratory, which was itself at the centre of his underground complex, known as the Imperial Dungeon. Even after the Throne's construction, the lab remained littered with other huge machines and storage crates. Hundreds of red-robed technicians and labourers worked in the lab.<sup>5</sup>
 
 
 
The Emperor built the throne as a means of entering the Webway. Having this fixed point of entry was meant to free humanity from its reliance on Warp-ships and astrotelepathy, since humans could simply enter the Webway and emerge wherever they chose in the galaxy. He sent armies of workers through the portal and had them construct a new short section of Webway linking to the rest of the abandoned Eldar network. Since the original Webway was built of a psychically resistant material which the humans could not replicate, the Emperor used his powers, via the Golden Throne, to protect the human-built section from the Warp.<sup>5</sup>
 
 
 
The Golden Throne is connected to a massive Warp beacon known as the [[Astronomican]] which generates a system of signals making faster-than-light travel in the [[Imperium]] possible<sup>2</sup>.
 
 
 
In the last year of [[M41]], Techpriests discovered failures in the mechanisms of the Golden Throne that are far beyond their ability to repair<sup>1</sup>.
 
 
 
[[Image:God-Emperor.jpg|thumb|right|The Emperor on the Golden Throne.]]
 
 
 
;Consequences of the Horus Heresy
 
At the outset of the Heresy, when [[Magnus|Magnus the Red]] used his sorcerous powers to warn the Emperor of Horus's treachery, he inadvertently created huge holes in the Emperor's psychic shield. Daemons poured into the human-built portion of the Webway and slaughtered thousands of [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] workers there. The [[Custodian Guard]] and [[Sisters of Silence]] were left fighting a desperate battle to prevent the daemons from reaching the portal through into the Imperial Dungeon. Eventually the Imperial forces had to abandon the Webway and retreat back into the Imperial Palace. The portal was closed but only the psychic power of the Emperor was enough to keep it that way so he was forced to remain on the Golden Throne or find a suitable replacement. When the Emperor was forced to battle Horus on board the [[Sons of Horus]] flagship, the ''Vengeful Spirit'', his place on the throne was taken briefly by [[Malcador (Character)|Malcador the Sigillite]]. Malcador perished performing this endeavour, and the mortally wounded Emperor was reinstated upon the Throne after his battle with Horus. At his instruction, it was then enhanced and converted into the life-sustaining form it currently bears.<sup>5</sup>
 
 
 
==Rebirth==
 
''Two theories have been put forward concerning the possible rebirth of the Emperor. Note that at worst these theories could be considered complete fabrication brought about by [[Tzeentch]]ian [[Chaos Cult|Cultists]] and the lies of Chaos, as the [[Inquisition]] has decreed.''<sup>6</sup>
 
  
 
===The Star Child===
 
===The Star Child===
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The cultists of [[Tzeentch]] once prophesied that in the event the Emperor dies, he would be reborn as the Star Child, which will allow the Emperor to be restrengthened as this is the only part of humanity left in the Emperor. It's also prophesied that the Emperor's soul can now go to the warp and go in and kick all of the Chaos Gods' asses in an epic fight that will cause even the hardest of Space Marines to cry manly tears. It should be noted that the proceeding line is bullshit, because at his peak, the Emperor could only barely kill Horus. Who is a gnat compared to the greater servants of Chaos and the Daemon Primarchs. Furthermore, as Slaanesh killed most of the Eldar pantheon single handed and is yet the weakest of the Ruinous Powers, one must wonder how a mere psychic human (however potent) would match up against Khorne Or Tzeentch. Anyway, it's implied that this theory was the work of Tzeentchian cult, which is opposed by the Inquisition. <s>But, since Tzeentch actually wants to lose so that he can win and thus make everything make no fucking sense whatsoever, it might be true anyway.  So... yeah.</s> Tzeentch has no final goal. He has a hand in everything. Including your mothers ass.
A controversial belief amongst Imperial scholars, the Star Child Theory has two aspects: the first is that the Emperor's soul is currently forming as a new entity (the Star Child) in the Warp and that he will be reborn - a theory not dissimilar to the belief surrounding the potential Eldar god [[Ynnead]]- and the second is that the Emperor had children.<sup>3</sup>
 
 
 
After the defeat of Horus, most of the Emperor's soul is said to have dispersed from his body, merging into the warp in much the same way as that of the shamans, so many millenia before. It is believed that the Emperor - while apparently designed and empowered by the shamans to live forever - also possesses their ability to reincarnate, and that this would be his eventual goal. Avoiding discovery by the Chaos powers, it is believed that the Emperor was able to plant the seed of his reincarnation, a potential new soul awaiting birth: The Star Child. However, it is also believed that this new soul cannot be born while the Emperor is still tied to the Golden Throne, no matter how tenuously.<sup>3</sup>
 
 
 
Along with this, the Emperor is said to have had children. Although a man of unparalleled, god-like powers, the Emperor was still a man, and throughout the many millennia of his life on Terra had fathered many children. A few of their descendants had inherited some of the Emperor's power, including agelessness, and survive into the Age of the Imperium. They are known as [[Sensei]]. Sensei have a unique nature and relationship with the Warp which makes them invisible to psychic senses - even to those of the Emperor. The ultimate goal of the Sensei is to attain Apotheosis with the Star Child.<sup>3</sup>
 
 
 
===The Sensei-Emperor===
 
There is a another possibility given for the Emperor's resurrection/rebirth. A hidden group that call themselves the [[Illuminati]] have learned from the Eldar's [[Black Library of Chaos|Black Library]] many truths of Chaos, as well as about the Sensei and the Fall of the Eldar. They realise the Emperor cannot survive in his current state forever, and eventually he will fail, and without the Emperor, Mankind will fall to Chaos like the Eldar. Such an event would create a fifth [[Gods of Chaos|God of Chaos]] and create another [[Eye of Terror]], one which would span the entire Imperium. They seek to prevent this by bringing about the rebirth of the Emperor.
 
 
 
This involves gathering together the Sensei, protecting them from the Inquisition, preparing them for what they claim is "the final war with Chaos." In truth they ultimately plan to sacrifice the Sensei to the Emperor, in the same way so many psykers have been consumed by the Emperor. The Emperor will be renewed, reborn as the Sensei-Emperor to again lead his race in person.<sup>3</sup>
 
  
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The [[Eldar]] however, say that in the event that the Emperor dies, a new Eye of Terror will be created, plunging Holy Terra and all nearby planets into the Warp. Additionally, a new Chaos God would be created, which will most certainly be a God of all the Grimdarkness in the galaxy, ensuring that it would eclipse all of the powers of the other Gods since there's more <s>Grimdark happening in WH40K than [[Khorne|violence]], [[Nurgle|disease and pestilence]], [[Tzeentch|endless scheming]], and [[Slaanesh|huge crack parties]].</s> grimdark is all those things combined, you fucking idiot. Some would attest however, that Empy would be the Chaos God of Zealotry.
A cryptic account of the Emperor's origins (appearing in the ''3rd Edition Rulebook'') was written by Cripias, the final "Keeper of the Library Sanctus of Terra". This account was later deemed "heretical" and kept from being published. The account was passed down to each Keeper, starting from the First Keeper, Solomon.
 
  
In the beginning, the "First Age of Man", the Emperor was hidden. It was the Golden Age and the Emperor prepares Earth for mankind. The people that existed with the Emperor before Mankind were called the "Golden Race". The second group were called the "Stone Race". The Stone Race then built ships that took both races across the galaxy. The Golden Age ends in the 21st Millennium.
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== The Emperor's list of Things to do after Resurrection ==
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[[File:1291524053355.jpg|200px|right|thumb|It will be glorious]]
  
Until the 26th Millennium, also called the Dark Age of Technology, the Stone Men were busy creating many things, such as the "Iron Men", or robots. Soon after, the Stone Men and Iron Men fight amongst themselves. The Stone Men eventually defeat all of the Iron Men.
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''Too important to be a sub-section of this article; moved to its own article: '''[[Emperor's To-Do List]]'''''
  
After this "victory" against the Iron Men, the Age of Strife comes and the Stone Men fight amongst themselves. After five thousand years of conflict, the Emperor finally emerges. He conquers and combines the race of men together, leading them. After creating the Space Marines, the Emperor crusades across the galaxy and reclaims Man's former glory. Soon after, the Horus Heresy occurs and the Emperor ascends.
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== Gallery ==
  
==Sources==
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*<sup>1</sup>:''[[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]]''
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Image:1220179589932.jpg|The Emperor protects man from all.
*<sup>2</sup>:''[[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]]''
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Image:Horus and the Emperor.jpg|Son, I am disappoint.
*<sup>3</sup>:''[[Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned]]'', ''[[Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness]]''
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Image:Wh40k-emperor.jpg| Yearbook photo.
*<sup>4</sup>:[[Legion (Novel)|''Legion'']] by [[Dan Abnett]]
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Image:When you ruin his groove by Lutherniel.jpg| His groove, do not ruin it.
*<sup>5</sup>:[[Horus Heresy (Artbook Series)|''Horus Heresy'']]
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Image:8.jpg|The Emperor is an inter-dimensional being.
*<sup>6</sup>:''[[Warhammer 40,000 Compendium]]''
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Image:Emperor_Sagan.jpg|Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
*<sup>7</sup>:''[[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]]''
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Image:1271118030729.jpg|Just imagine if the Chaos Gods didn't scatter the primarchs through out the galaxy... Wait where's that little scamp Omegon?
*<sup>8</sup>:''[[The Inquisition War]]'' by [[Ian Watson]], pp.224-228
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Image:Femprah.jpg|THE EMPEROR IS NOT A WOMAN! AND THIS ONE IS UGLY, TOO!
*<sup>9</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)|''The First Heretic'']] p.292
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Image:Slavegirl Emperor.jpg|Emperor [[Rule 63]]! NO EXCEPTIONS!
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Image:Femprah_by_Mr-Culexus.jpg|
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Image:God-Emperor_Goldlich.jpg|Death is no excuse to stop bein' pimp.
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Image:Emperor blackwhite.jpg|He might be the most powerful psychic vegetable in the universe but the Custodes can't give him a decent hygiene program.
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Image:slowemperor.jpg|Oh God-emperor, how did this get here? I am not good with computers.
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Image:The Immortal Emprah.jpg| Not so divine now, is he?
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Image:Emperor_miniature.jpg|Roll d6; stays on the field on seven or less
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Image:Emperor_upon_his_other_throne.jpg|[[The Toilets of the 41st Millenium | In the grim dark future, there are only toilets.]]
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Image:emperor_old.jpg
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Image:emperor.png
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Image:Emperormini.jpg|In all His miniature glory
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Image:Carrionlord.jpg|The Carrion Lord for whom a thousand souls are juiced each day, so that he may never truly get thirsty.
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Image:Emprasque3.jpg|How do you kill what can not die?
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File:Painting.jpg|This painting sold for $900, that lucky ca/tg/url...
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We believe in one Lord,
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the Emperor, the Almighty,
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ruler of heaven and earth,
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of all that is, seen and unseen.
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We believe in one Lord, Emperor of Mankind,
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the only Lord of creation,
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eternally begotten of Humanity,
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Human from Human, Light from Light,
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true Lord from true Lord,
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begotten, not made,
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of one Being with Humanity;
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through him all things were made.
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For us and for our salvation
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he came down from heaven,
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was incarnate of the Holy Spirit
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and came among us.
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For our sake he has faced down Chaos;
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he withstood death and was enthroned.
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To this day he lives on
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in accordance with the Scriptures;
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he resides upon Mother Terra
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and is seated upon the throne of Humanity.
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He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
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and his kingdom will have no end.
  
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We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Emperor, the giver of life,
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who proceeds from Humanity and the from Terra,
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who with Humanity and upon Terra is worshipped and glorified,
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who has spoken through the prophets.
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We believe in one holy true and divinely guided Ecclesiarchy.
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We acknowledge one path for the defense against Chaos.
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We look for the justice for our dead,
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and the life of the worlds to come.
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<tt>++ Ayhmen ++</tt></i><br/>
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What the Emperor looked like before Horus decided to bitchslap him. Notice the giant skull. And the fact that he's out of his terminator armor, you don't get to see him like this very often.

The God-Emperor of Mankind, also known as Tha Emprah, Emps, The Big E and Space Hitler, is the figurehead ruler of the Imperium of Man in the Warhammer 40k universe and possesses unimaginable levels of manliness. The administration he established continues to govern the Imperium in his name, but it is generally accepted that the absence of the Emperor's proper guidance is what has turned the Imperium into the hellish mess that it is. In the Imperium, questioning whatever your superior tells (yells) you the Emperor's word happens to be that day, is treason and heresy, typically punished by execution. Were The Emperor alive up and about in the 41st millennium, it goes without saying that he would be disappoint.

If you hear any other voice than Peter Cullen's in your head when you read his lines in the Horus Heresy books, you are a heretic. Who is he?Template:BLAM Template:BLAM What about patrick stewart? Sean Bean? Karl Urban?

Exception? The Last Church. It is permissible to substitute the voice of whatever angry militant atheist appeals to you most/least for the duration of this one (short) story.

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Big E gets all the bitches.

The entire history of the Emprah

He was apparently born 8000 B.C in Anatolia, making him a Proto-Sumerian probably. He also masqueraded as many prophets, leaders and wise men throughout history to nudge humanity towards a more ordered society, including Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Gaius Julius Caesar, Winston Churchill and so on. If this is true, it took their collective minds that long to see that Peace and Love wasn't working and that the only way for anything to go their way was at gunpoint/swordpoint.

At first The Emperor re-united humanity when it was going to shit with constant wars by establishing the Imperial Army, which later became what is known today as the Imperial Guard after a split with the Navy. After that, he made the original 20 Space Marine Legions, each comprised of 10,000 Space Marines rather than the present Chapters of 1,000 (though the legions each grew to have about 100,000 members). Each Space Marine is made using the DNA of a specific Primarch. The Primarchs were lesser clones the Emperor made of himself, because nobody else is badass enough to lead his great armies, but his own flesh and blood they however weren't as strong as their father and not all of them inherited his Psyker abilities. However the Chaos Gods then whisked them away and scattered them through the Galaxy. The Emperor then spent most of his years finding his sons while conquering planets, reestablishing human sovereignty across the galaxy.

After he found 18 of the 20 primarchs, he assigned them to their respective legions and had them retake humanity in a crusade of a grand scale, this is also when the Spehss mahreens were at their awesomest. After much time, Horus Heresy erupts where 9 of the legions rebel against the Empra. The Emperor fought against Horus, daddy's favorite in an epic battle that ended it all at the cost of being mortally wounded to the point that he must be put permanently on a life support machine known as the Golden Throne. All agree that the bronze skinned douchebag deserved it. After that, the Imperium eventually degraded into the Grimdark empire we all know and love today.

It is established that the Emperor is pretty much the most powerful psyker alive, humbling even the eldar, and whilst upon the Golden Throne he guides the light of the Astronomicon, basically a lighthouse in the warp, which is run by the power of thousands of agonized psykers. He is tens of thousands of years old and has been secretly guiding humanity from behind the scenes for much of his lifetime. Theories variously suggest that he is also Sigmar of Warhammer Fantasy Battle fame, Chuck Norris, and Jesus. It is uncertain as to whether or not his internment on the Golden Throne is a good thing; some believe that if he were to die, the Imperium would be truly plunged into darkness, whereas others believe that if allowed to finally die he would reincarnate and return to unify the galaxy once more. Whatever the truth of the matter, Games Workshop are never going to advance the story, so it is mostly irrelevant.

The Emprah himself

After he shaved his goatee, his chin radiated a brilliant light through the warp. The Imperial Navy used this light as a beacon to guide them through that terrible place. He is sometimes referred to as the Empra or Emprah, a joke derived from the voice acting in the Dawn of War game, Soulstorm, specifically Indrick Boreale's final speeches.

The Emperor is so powerful that he could DESTROY SUNS BY SNAPPING HIS FINGERS!!! The Chaos Gods are scared shitless of this guy, and hope that he dies so they can take over the universe. If the God Emperor were to arise again Chaos would be FUCKED. The pussy Eldar fear that if the Emperor were to die a new Eye of Terror would be opened and Chaos would take over EVERYTHING!!!

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A typical father and son chat between Empy an Horus.

After he was nearly killed by his son, he was placed on the golden throne and hasn't been able to move for the past few millennia, it's been said by most of the fluff that his existence on a day-to-day basis since then was a living hell (In comparison, the process of making astropaths would be like a trip to the dentist.) it's literally the mother/father/uncle/2nd Cousin of all mindfucks, so bad that even a Inquisitor would likely go insane as a result (or anybody else for that matter) and yet he continues.. why? He is maybe the universe's most powerful vegetable but that doesn't mean that he can just sit down and die, oh no it's exactly the opposite, it gives him a shitload of work to do, along with being the lighthouse of the warp guiding the Imperial Navy, he also needs to make the aforementioned astropaths, as well as keeping all the nasties of the warp where they're supposed to be and not spilling over into reality and make the lives of all human beings miserable. He also does it for the good of man. (sounds kinda familiar, don't it?) In the last year of M41 techpriests discovered that the Golden Throne is failing and the Emperor is DYING so look up! there is a 50/50 chance of the Emperor returning to life.... Or dying forever and everyone in the Imperium becoming a Chaos sex toy/Punching Bag/plague vector/science experiment.(insert Commissar quote here) Pfft, as if Cegorach, Tzeentch, or the Deceiver are going to let one of their paradox poker buddies die.


"The Emperor was a brilliant scientist, a powerful warrior, and great psyker, but he was a terrible father..."
-Rowboat Girlyman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, telling it like it is.

Every Saturday night the Emperor gets together with Tzeentch, the Deceiver, and Cegorach for a game of Paradox Poker. They have to use a new pocket dimension for each of these games because the sheer amount of dickery and JUST AS PLANNED causes the dimension they play in to collapse. Nobody has ever won one of these games. Any who try to watch these games without possessing similar mastery of the fine art of dickery and JUST AS PLANNED will find that their heads will explode into a shower of Necrons, Eldar, SPESS MEHREENS, and Daemons as they cannot comprehend the true form of the game.

Worship of the Emperor

The Imperium thinks and looks at the Emperor like God himself in relation to Christianity and is more than willing to die in his name or skullfuck the next guy who says anything remotely bad about him. Now, the only reason the Imperium worship the Emperor is that after his fight with Horus and his internment into the Golden Throne, they pretty much forgot what the Emperor taught them, including draining the power of the Chaos Gods by eliminating all kinds of religion and remaining an atheist empire. The Emperor was actually AGAINST any kind of religion as part of his plan for mankind's conquest of the stars-- even if the object of worship would be himself like when he told Lorgar to fuck off with the God-Emperor worship.

However, after he went off being the most powerful psychic vegetable in the universe, and lost direct control of the Imperium of man, belief in him sort of helped the Imperium stand together, even if it basically made humanity retarded in the process. The Imperium's faith in the Emperor is basically their biggest anchor of bravery and perseverance in a universe where humanity is constantly beset by:

Without their faith in the Emperor after his internment into the Golden Throne, the Imperium would have likely gone pants-on-head retarded again like in the pre-Great Crusade days and subsequently devolved into what they were before the Emperor liberated them. So yes, much like IRL religion, it gives them hope and courage to fight on and survive in a universe that leaves the grimdark faucet running everyday.

The possible death of the Emperor

With the Golden Throne being constantly damaged and the Techpriests are too power-armor-on-head rebooted to do anything about it, it is certainly possible that the Emperor may die one day, which will obviously result in all of the Imperial worlds and factions to cry tears of disappointment and subsequently devolve into chaos. There are however, 2 possible outcomes of what will happen if the Emperor should ever die:

The Star Child

The cultists of Tzeentch once prophesied that in the event the Emperor dies, he would be reborn as the Star Child, which will allow the Emperor to be restrengthened as this is the only part of humanity left in the Emperor. It's also prophesied that the Emperor's soul can now go to the warp and go in and kick all of the Chaos Gods' asses in an epic fight that will cause even the hardest of Space Marines to cry manly tears. It should be noted that the proceeding line is bullshit, because at his peak, the Emperor could only barely kill Horus. Who is a gnat compared to the greater servants of Chaos and the Daemon Primarchs. Furthermore, as Slaanesh killed most of the Eldar pantheon single handed and is yet the weakest of the Ruinous Powers, one must wonder how a mere psychic human (however potent) would match up against Khorne Or Tzeentch. Anyway, it's implied that this theory was the work of Tzeentchian cult, which is opposed by the Inquisition. But, since Tzeentch actually wants to lose so that he can win and thus make everything make no fucking sense whatsoever, it might be true anyway. So... yeah. Tzeentch has no final goal. He has a hand in everything. Including your mothers ass.

The new Eye of Terror

The Eldar however, say that in the event that the Emperor dies, a new Eye of Terror will be created, plunging Holy Terra and all nearby planets into the Warp. Additionally, a new Chaos God would be created, which will most certainly be a God of all the Grimdarkness in the galaxy, ensuring that it would eclipse all of the powers of the other Gods since there's more Grimdark happening in WH40K than violence, disease and pestilence, endless scheming, and huge crack parties. grimdark is all those things combined, you fucking idiot. Some would attest however, that Empy would be the Chaos God of Zealotry.

The Emperor's list of Things to do after Resurrection

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It will be glorious

Too important to be a sub-section of this article; moved to its own article: Emperor's To-Do List

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We believe in one Lord, the Emperor, the Almighty, ruler of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Emperor of Mankind, the only Lord of creation, eternally begotten of Humanity, Human from Human, Light from Light, true Lord from true Lord, begotten, not made, of one Being with Humanity; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and came among us. For our sake he has faced down Chaos; he withstood death and was enthroned. To this day he lives on in accordance with the Scriptures; he resides upon Mother Terra and is seated upon the throne of Humanity. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Emperor, the giver of life, who proceeds from Humanity and the from Terra, who with Humanity and upon Terra is worshipped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy true and divinely guided Ecclesiarchy. We acknowledge one path for the defense against Chaos. We look for the justice for our dead, and the life of the worlds to come. ++ Ayhmen ++
-- the Creed of the Mankind's Council of Nicene of Holy Terra