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It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.
These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.
Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.
There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods. ^[1]

— The standard intro to every written work from the 40K universe

Run like frak!

—Ciaphas Cain provides the best advice for self-assurance in the 40K setting in history.

For more quotes from within the WH40K universe, see The Lexicanum Quotes Index. And we mean more.

An example is the best way to explain it. There's a god of hope, and the god of freaking hope is evil.

Gabe: Well, isn't the enemy of your enemy, like, your friend? Or whatever? Can't they team up?
Tycho: Not exactly. In this setting, the enemy of your enemy is still a floating, greasy, armored brain.
Gabe: Well, what about his enemy? Maybe you could be friends with him.
Tycho: No, because that guy is a mechanical horror in an undying battle shell. He sails from world to world in a flying tomb, serving gods who eat hope.

—Penny Arcade.

Ethan: So we both have a bunch of little plastic men, right? And we move them. Manually. Then, when we fight, we roll dice and then do math to figure out who hits who. But there are no actual battles or explosions. We use our imaginations, like a couple of savages. It sounds almost as fun as chewing used medical syringes.
Lucas: These guys here have chainsaw swords.
Ethan: This is the coolest game ever.

Catholic Space Nazis sound like awesome villains, how can they be the heroes?
By comparison.

All I know is that it ends very badly. For one side.
This is WH40K. It's very badly for all sides, and it never ends.

It's like if Nathan Explosion made a tabletop.

God exists, and so does the Devil, only it's really more like twenty Devils, and they all want to see you suffer, and God is paralyzed for life and has to eat souls to keep breathing, but you still worship him because he eats less souls than any of the Devils, and Jesus decided to betray God and his clone still goes around killing people.

—Mr. Orkeosaurus

Warhammer Fantasy is Lord Of The Rings on a cocktail of steroids and GBH. And Warhammer 40000 is the above on a cocktail of every drug known to man and genuine lunar dust, stuck in a blender with Alien, Mechwarrior, Starship Troopers and Star Wars, bathed in blood, turned up to eleventy billion, set on fire, and catapulted off into space screaming WAAAGH! and waving a chainsaw sword.

—TV Tropes, This Is Your Premise on Drugs

Warhammer 40k can make women grow chest hair.

—Darth Lampshade in Dawn of War 2: Retribution General Chat

Basically, life sucks, there is only war, and you're probably going to be eaten by Tyranids. Have fun.

40k - where the genocidal, xenocidal, fascist, ultraconservative zealots with a morbid fear of technology and an unhealthy fondness for burning things... are the good guys.

—A forum signature.

I blow brains out for the Emperor
For the Chapter I burn Orks
I dismember for the Laughing God
Oi killz fer Gork and Mork
I drop planet killing bombs on the unclean from up above
Yes, 40k's the game that we all love!

—/tg/, to the tune of Rutland Weekend Television's Football.

In the grim darkness of the grimdark future, there is only grim darkness, dark grimness, and STALEMATE.

—/tg/

The Imperium is like a man hanging from a cliff with one arm and without the strength to pull himself back up. He could use his other hand to hold on just a little longer, but he's busy using it to give the finger to all the bastards watching him dangle.

—/tg/ (The website is in general NSFW).

If ever was there a game that was made of 100% pure mansauce, Warhammer would be that game.

—/tg/

God Himself could not sink this game!

—/tg/ likes Warhammer 40,000.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only awesome.

—/tg/, again, just because.

Space Jesus Saves. Until Space Judas. Hilarity Ensues. Thus, War. Forever.

—/tg/

Anon1: Can anyone briefly explain Warhammer 40K to me, please?
Anon2: Sci fi and fantasy cliches fight while power metal plays in the background.
Anon3: Best description I have seen yet, and I have been at the hobby for 20 years.
Anon4: 20 years ago, maybe. now it's just GRIMDARK

— - from /tg/

↑ Now to lighten the mood! Read this aloud in your most hamtastic voice!

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-{{quote|'''''[[AC:"It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries [[The Emperor]] has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom [[Human Sacrifice|a thousand souls are sacrificed every day]], so that he may never truly die.<br />
-<br />
-Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the [[Space Marine|Space Marines]], bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the [[Redshirt Army|Imperial Guard]] and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant [[State Sec|Inquisition]] and the tech-priests of the [[Machine Worship|Adeptus Mechanicus]] to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and [[Eldritch Abomination|worse.]]<br />
-<br />
-[[Crapsack World|To be a man in such times is to be]] [[A Million Is a Statistic|one amongst untold billions]]. It is to live in [[Dystopia|the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable]]. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future [[Hopeless War|there is only war]]. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and [[God Is Evil|the laughter of thirsting gods.]]"]]''''' <ref>Now to lighten the mood! Read this aloud in your most [[Large Ham|hamtastic]] voice!</ref> }}
+{{quote|'''It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries [[The Emperor]] has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom [[Human Sacrifice|a thousand souls are sacrificed every day]], so that he may never truly die.
-{{quote|-- '''The standard intro to every written work from the 40K universe'''}}
+Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the [[Space Marine|Space Marines]], bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the [[Redshirt Army|Imperial Guard]] and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant [[State Sec|Inquisition]] and the tech-priests of the [[Machine Worship|Adeptus Mechanicus]] to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and [[Eldritch Abomination|worse.]]
+[[Crapsack World|To be a man in such times is to be]] [[A Million Is a Statistic|one amongst untold billions]]. It is to live in [[Dystopia|the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable]].
+These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.
+Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future [[Hopeless War|there is only war]].
+There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and [[God Is Evil|the laughter of thirsting gods.]]''' <ref>Now to lighten the mood! Read this aloud in your most [[Large Ham|hamtastic]] voice!</ref>
+| '''The standard intro to every written work from the 40K universe''' }}
+{{quote|Run like frak!
+|'''[[Ciaphas Cain]]''' provides the best advice for self-assurance in the 40K setting in history.}}
 For more quotes from within the WH40K universe, see The Lexicanum [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Category:Quotes Quotes Index.] And we mean '''''[[Archive Panic|more]]'''''.
-{{quote|''"An example is the best way to explain it. There's a god of hope, and the god of freaking '''hope''' is '''evil'''."''|'''[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4124535&postcount=6 SurlySeraph on the GITP boards]'''.}}
+{{quote|An example is the best way to explain it. There's a god of hope, and the god of freaking '''hope''' is '''evil'''.
+|'''[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4124535&postcount=6 SurlySeraph on the GITP boards]'''.}}
 {{quote|'''Gabe''': Well, isn't the enemy of your enemy, like, your friend? Or whatever? Can't they team up?
 '''Tycho''': Not exactly. In this setting, the enemy of your enemy is still a floating, greasy, armored ''brain''.
 '''Gabe''': Well, what about his enemy? Maybe you could be friends with him.
-'''Tycho''': No, because ''that'' guy is a mechanical horror in an undying battle shell. He sails from world to world in a flying tomb, serving gods who eat ''hope''.|''[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/05 Penny Arcade]''.}}
+'''Tycho''': No, because ''that'' guy is a mechanical horror in an undying battle shell. He sails from world to world in a flying tomb, serving gods who eat ''hope''.
+|''[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/05 Penny Arcade]''.}}
 {{quote|'''Ethan''': So we both have a bunch of little plastic men, right? And we move them. ''Manually''. Then, when we fight, we roll dice and then do ''math'' to figure out who hits who. But there are no actual battles or explosions. We use our ''imaginations'', like a couple of ''savages''. It sounds almost as fun as chewing used medical syringes.
 '''Lucas''': These guys here have ''chainsaw'' ''swords''.
-'''Ethan''': This is the coolest game ''ever''.|''[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20061101 Ctrl+ Alt+ Del]''}}
+'''Ethan''': This is the coolest game ''ever''.
+|''[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20061101 Ctrl+ Alt+ Del]''}}
-{{quote|''"Run like frak!"''|'''[[Ciaphas Cain]]''' provides the best advice for self-assurance in the 40K setting in history.}}
-{{quote|''"Catholic Space Nazis sound like awesome villains, how can they be the heroes?"''
-''"By comparison."'' }}
-{{quote|''"All I know is that it ends very badly. For one side."''
+{{quote|Catholic Space Nazis sound like awesome villains, how can they be the heroes?
+[[It Got Worse|By comparison.]] }}
-''"This is WH40K. It's very badly for all sides, and it never ends."''|'''[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=155666&page=4 A discussion] on how [[Prototype (video game)|Alex Mercer]] would fare in the 40K universe.'''}}
+{{quote|All I know is that it ends very badly. For one side.
-{{quote|''"It's like if [[Metalocalypse|Nathan Explosion]] made a tabletop."''|'''[http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1212883.html?thread=202148563#t202148563 frau_eva]''', [[Fandom Wank]]}}
+This is WH40K. It's very badly for all sides, and it never ends.
+|'''[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=155666&page=4 A discussion] on how [[Prototype (video game)|Alex Mercer]] would fare in the 40K universe.''' }}
+{{quote|It's like if [[Metalocalypse|Nathan Explosion]] made a tabletop.
-{{quote|''"God exists, and so does the Devil, only it's really more like twenty Devils, and they all want to see you suffer, and God is paralyzed for life and has to eat souls to keep breathing, but you still worship him because he eats less souls than any of the Devils, and Jesus decided to betray God and his clone still goes around killing people."''|'''Mr. Orkeosaurus'''}}
+|'''[http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1212883.html?thread=202148563#t202148563 frau_eva]''', [[Fandom Wank]]}}
+{{quote|God exists, and so does the Devil, only it's really more like twenty Devils, and they all want to see you suffer, and God is paralyzed for life and has to eat souls to keep breathing, but you still worship him because he eats less souls than any of the Devils, and Jesus decided to betray God and his clone still goes around killing people.
-{{quote|''"Warhammer Fantasy is Lord Of The Rings on a cocktail of steroids and GBH. And Warhammer 40000 is the above on a cocktail of every drug known to man and genuine lunar dust, stuck in a blender with Alien, Mechwarrior, Starship Troopers and Star Wars, bathed in blood, turned up to eleventy billion, set on fire, and catapulted off into space screaming WAAAGH! and waving a chainsaw sword."''|'''[[TV Tropes]]''', ''[[This Is Your Premise on Drugs]]''}}
+|'''Mr. Orkeosaurus'''}}
+{{quote|[[Warhammer Fantasy]] is [[The Lord of the Rings|Lord Of The Rings]] on a cocktail of steroids and GBH. And Warhammer 40000 is the above on a cocktail of every drug known to man and genuine lunar dust, stuck in a blender with [[Alien]], [[Mechwarrior]], [[Starship Troopers]] and [[Star Wars]], bathed in blood, turned up to eleventy billion, set on fire, and catapulted off into space screaming WAAAGH! and waving a chainsaw sword.
-{{quote|''"In the grim darkness of the grimdark future, there is only grim darkness, dark grimness, and STALEMATE."''|'''[http://1d4chan.org /tg/]'''}}
+|'''[[TV Tropes]]''', ''[[This Is Your Premise on Drugs]]''}}
+{{quote|Warhammer 40k can make women grow chest hair.
-{{quote|''"The Imperium is like a man hanging from a cliff with one arm and without the strength to pull himself back up. He could use his other hand to hold on just a little longer, but he's busy using it to give the finger to all the bastards watching him dangle."''|'''[http://1d4chan.org /tg/]'''. The website is in general NSFW.}}
+|'''Darth Lampshade''' in ''[[Dawn of War]] 2: Retribution'' General Chat}}
+{{quote|Basically, life sucks, there is only war, and you're probably going to be eaten by Tyranids. Have fun.
-{{quote|''"If ever was there a game that was made of 100% pure mansauce, Warhammer would be that game."''|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40k /tg/]'''}}
+|''Totalbiscuit'' in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MeVxKZBOfM&feature=channel_video_title this video].}}
+{{quote|''40k - where the genocidal, xenocidal, fascist, ultraconservative zealots with a morbid fear of technology and an unhealthy fondness for burning things... are the good guys.''
-{{quote|''"God Himself could not sink this game!"''|'''[http://1d4chan.org /tg/]''' [[Captain Obvious|likes Warhammer 40,000.]]}}
+|A forum signature.}}
+{{quote|''[[The Political Officer|I blow brains out for the Emperor]]
-{{quote|''"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only awesome."''|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40k /tg/]'''[[Running Gag|, again, just because.]]}}
+[[Space Marine|For the Chapter I burn Orks]]
+[[Space Elves|I dismember for the Laughing God]]
+[[Our Orcs Are Different|Oi killz fer Gork and Mork]]
+[[Earthshattering Kaboom|I drop planet killing bombs on the unclean from up above]]
+Yes, 40k's the game that we all love!''
+|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Grimdark_Songwriting#Rutland_Weekend_Television:_Football /tg/]''', to the tune of [[Rutland Weekend Television]]'s ''Football''.}}
+{{quote|In the grim darkness of the grimdark future, there is only grim darkness, dark grimness, and STALEMATE.
-{{quote|''"Space Jesus Saves. Until Space Judas. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Thus, War. Forever."''|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40k /tg/]'''}}
+|'''[http://1d4chan.org /tg/]'''}}
+{{quote|The Imperium is like a man hanging from a cliff with one arm and without the strength to pull himself back up. He could use his other hand to hold on just a little longer, but he's busy using it to give the finger to all the bastards watching him dangle.
-{{quote|''"Warhammer 40k can make women grow chest hair."''|'''Darth Lampshade''' in [[DOW 2]] Retribution General Chat}}
+|'''[http://1d4chan.org /tg/]''' (The website is in general NSFW).}}
+{{quote|If ever was there a game that was made of 100% pure mansauce, Warhammer would be that game.
-{{quote|''"Basically, life sucks, there is only war, and you're probably going to be eaten by Tyranids. Have fun."''|''Totalbiscuit'' in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MeVxKZBOfM&feature=channel_video_title this video].}}
+|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40k /tg/]''' }}
+{{quote|God Himself could not sink this game!
-{{quote|''[[The Political Officer|I blow brains out for the Emperor]]<br />
+|'''[http://1d4chan.org /tg/]''' [[Captain Obvious|likes Warhammer 40,000.]]}}
-[[Space Marine|For the Chapter I burn Orks]]<br />
-[[Space Elves|I dismember for the Laughing God]]<br />
-[[Our Orcs Are Different|Oi killz fer Gork and Mork]]<br />
-<br />
-[[Earthshattering Kaboom|I drop planet killing bombs on the unclean from up above]]<br />
-Yes, 40k's the game that we all love!''|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Grimdark_Songwriting#Rutland_Weekend_Television:_Football /tg/]''', to the tune of ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'''s ''Football''.}}
+{{quote|In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only awesome.
-{{quote|''40k - where the genocidal, xenocidal, fascist, ultraconservative zealots with a morbid fear of technology and an unhealthy fondness for burning things... are the good guys.''|A forum signature.}}
+|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40k /tg/]'''[[Running Gag|, again, just because.]]}}
+{{quote|Space Jesus Saves. Until Space Judas. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Thus, War. Forever.
+|'''[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40k /tg/]'''}}
 {{quote|'''Anon1''': Can anyone briefly explain Warhammer 40K to me, please?