

The God-Emperor of Mankind is the guy who set up the Imperium of Man, powers the lighthouse that all Imperium ships use to travel, and stops an endless horde of demons from breaking into Terra and exploding the planet. If you check out Warhammer 40K fan spaces and content channels, you’ll find that much of the conversation surrounds twenty terrible boys and all the bad decisions they make. That’s without mentioning the various alien races, known as xenos - terrifying space bugs, ferocious orks, awe-inspiring space elves, and immortal robot skeletons.īut that’s not what fan conversation tends to center on. Billions of people are stacked in hive cities, trillions of people sign up for the Imperial Guard (and die horribly in the process), and quadrillions of humans are spread across the galaxy. Warhammer 40,000 stands apart largely because of its vast scale.
