The Age of Progress Begins

(General POV)

Location the Warhammer 40k World-The Materium/Realspace: The Feudalworld Earth:2199s-New Age America

As 23rd Century was right around the corner of the Earth, and mankind.

Much has happened in the seventy years, first technology drastically advance and the use of energy over gas and oil has replaced all matter of power for machinery, vehicles to mechs, and several wars have unfortunately occurred in those years.

From the devastated of the Asian territories from years nuclear war, (while GW retconned Asian and Arab models, it is lore accurate that before the Age of Progress and Age of Strife, those lands were destroyed way before the Technobarbarian Era.), and the downfall of the nobility of England, as the time of monarchs was destroyed and replaced with a electoral system.

Some reports of a giant of a man under a cloak, was witnessed to be in the middle of the uprising, and entering the ruins of the Queen's tomb, and just as he appeared this giant banished.

Another huge event that occurred was the unity of the three Americas, North, Central, and South America, became one single super country, often called New America by various people.

And lastly the space program has become a top priority for all the world leaders, cause the Earth was facing serious overpopulation, and a dwindling amount of resources.

Under the united funding and design, the need to drastically advance interstellar travel, all for the important mission of outer-world colonization, and thus save humanity which is growing without end, and the Earth wasn't able to keep supporting them, as time goes on.

Various starships, was being designed and made in hope of expanding humanity reach across the stars, and a man, a being known as the Anathema was proud of humanity, and while they are still limited to Solar System, they'll soon set sail to the star, and claim the Galaxy for mankind.

Meanwhile in the daemonic Realm of Chaos...

Location the Immaterium: The Neutral Zone of Chaos; Mount Olympus-The Palace of the Dark Gods, the Banquet Hall of the Gods

After sometime, all the Dark Gods came to Olympus, to collect their newest Godly subordinates from the Olympians, sealed down below, one by one the various factions of Chaos, were arriving to their sacred mountain of Olympus.

The first to arrive to Olympus, were the Blood Gods, Khorne accompanied by his wives Bellona, and Valkia that was holding his infant son, Krom, and their daughter Painwheel close to their feet, while already Enyalius has already become apart of the Lord of Skulls' pantheon of Blood and Violence.

The second to arrive to the golden Banquet Hall, was the Scheming God and his beloved fiancée, Mitochondria Eve, as they saw that already the hall was filled with banquet, drink, and entertainment, along with fanatics rushing around the Banquet Hall, for the desires of their Dark Gods.

When Tzeentch and Mitochondria Eve, saw the Blood God and his family, they did their usual greetings, with Painwheel showing no emotion to her uncle and aunt-to-be, standing proud and strong, making her parents proud of her, and even her uncle and aunt-to-be were impressed with the strength of will shown by the young Godling.

This made Tzeentch cackle, and Mitochondria Eve giggle, as they were about to converse they felt the coming of fifteen daemonic divine essences, that meant Laharl and his family were the next to appear.

The next to arrive was Laharl, and all his twelve wives and two children, starting with Chi the Dark Druid Queen who is cradling their firstborn daughter, Mandraggohza who was sucking her thumb, Kiira the Succubus Queen, Scalpel the Devil Nurse Queen, Jade the Gobo Queen who was rocking their firstborn son Gjelbër, napping in her hands.

Cassandra the Crimson Queen, Ruu the Slime Queen, Ragna the Rampage Queen, Crystallyl the Shi'lanorai Queen, Scylla the Dark Seiren Queen, Camilla the Witch Queen, Jinx the Devil Queen, and lastly Nyo the Mermaid Queen, were all standing proud, and lovingly beside their husband and sister-wives.

The Dark One and his family, saw that the Blood and Change Gods, exchanging greetings to each other, and Ruu stretched her slimy arm onto the long, dinning table and grabbed a giant roasted pork leg, and started eating it with gusto in the middle of the conversation.

Laharl just smiled and lovingly petted his wife, making her more happy from her husband's affection, while this act gluttony from Ruu, made Camilla, Jinx, and Ragna laugh at Ruu's action, while Cassandra, Chi, and Scalpel shuke their head at their sister's nonchalance, childish personality.

Maybe this is the reason, that Ruu is considered the most favored aunt among their nieces...regardless, they kept on talking to each other, when they sensed...and smelled Plague Father's coming.

Last to arrive were Nurgle and his family, the Godlings and daughters of the Grandfather, Limos the Goddess of Hunger, and Evenline the Goddess of Mold.

And standing beside the massive, green, bloated, corpse of a Plague God, was his beloved wife, Aiikila the Plague Mother of the Garden, and Goddess of Swarms, but what they all noticed is the small bundle in a dirty, moldy rag, in the grasp of Aiikila...then all Chaos Gods, sensed a new divine essence, coming from the said bundle in Aiikila's hands.

Tzeentch was the one that asked what they all were wondering, "Corpse God!! What...no more fitting, who is that?" pointing his middle left hand, at the bundle in Aiikila's grasp.

Nurgle looked at his wife, and in a almost bashful, happy laugh, and Aiikila was "showing" a very joyful, smile in her mandibles covered, torn mouth.

It was clear no only from the what their seeing, but also the possitive and loving emotions that their sensing from Nurgle and Aiikila, along from Limos and Evenline, that whoever is in their grasp.

That's when, both overexcited and happy little Limos and Evenline, rushed to the legs of their mom, and hugged Aiikila's legs, as they both said together, "That's our baby sister!! Deonna!!!" immediately this shocking reveal to them, as they stayed quiet for a few moments, and Laharl asked, "Care to explain, how we have a new niece, and Chaos Goddess, and we never notice!?"

After the surprise and shock of their newest niece, Deonna passed, and Nurgle explained what happened in his home, and finding little Deonna in the Canocopia that used to belong to Demeter, he knew the moment he held that Deonna was his...and somehow Demeter's daughter.

Laharl, having some knowledge on how many Gods from various pantheon can give birth without sex, or needing to be alive, assumes that this one of those said intenses when that happened, so now Nurgle was a father of three, and latest to gain a new addition to his family.

Then the Dark One took the opportunity to talk to Tzeentch, "Brother, once you have a chance, I have to present you with your request."

This earned the Great Deceiver's interest and attention, as this could only mean that his brother, has complete the creation of his newest God Artifact, created from the staff that Tzeentch's daemons, collected from the body of Ahhephokh.

But for now they have other matter of importance to deal with, which is go down to the God Prison, underneath their mountain.

With Laharl and Scylla targeting the Nine Muses of Art: Calliope, Clio, Melpomene, Euterphe, Erato, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, Khorne was aiming for Agathodaemon, and Tzeentch was targeting Janus, Apate, and Dioscuri, (Castor & Pollux) lastly originally both Chi and Nurgle were competing for corrupting and converting Demeter to one of their service...but instead from the sight of baby Deonna, from what all the Chaos Gods were sensing from the newly born Goddess, seems that Demeter, tried the old Pagan trick.

Many Gods not just the Olympians, would either get killed, commit suicide, or embrace death for some cosmic twist of fate, they be reborn, reincarnated, or even create new life, like little Deonna.

Demeter, drastically underestimate the corruptive, ruinous, powers of Chaos, so her plan to escape through death and creating herself a new heir, all ended in failure.

Instead of being a new Olympian, Goddess of Nature, her daughter was born through her divine and most obviously Nurgle's essence, thus creating a child together in a inderect way.

So Demeter's most likely outcome is death, which means that all three Chi, Nurgle, and Aiikila will soon feel a surge of divine power, enhancing their powers further, so while they lost a possible useful servent, they obtained a new family member.

As the Chaos Queens, gush over the newest addition to the family and pantheon, the brothers, decided to leave their beloves with each other, while they handle the final push to claim their new Godly servents.

While they started to walk towards the hidden stairway that goes throughout the mountain, and while on their errand, Laharl decided to tease his youngest brother, as he said to the Architech of Fate, "Sooo...me, Nurgle, and Khorne, are fathers. So hey, when are you getting Mitochondria Eve, pregnant, little brother?" this caused Tzeentch to lose focus on his usual floating style of trasportation, and fall on his ass, which made all of them, with exception of Tzeentch laugh hysterically at Tzeentch's tripping.

They laughed harder as they heard, their younger brother, groan in pain and discomfort, and once Tzeentch stinging face/faces cease to hurt, he said, "Ohhh screw you all!!!" dusting himself off, and returning to his cross-legged floating position, he flew passed his older brothers, obviously ashamed, and embarrassed, which only made things funnier for the Dark One, the Blood God, and the Rot Lord, and they continued on, following behind the Great Deceiver.

Location the Materium/Realspace: The Civilisedworld Earth: 18Ks-The Great City of Primeria

The birthplace of mankind, planet Earth...has changed drastically, in the 2Ks it was prospering and advancing to become a beacon of Humanity's ingenuity and progression, but now it has become highly withered away, all the Oceans are nearly dried up, major if not complete deforestation, and the vast extinction of several animal species, has left humanity at the brink of eradication.

Only by some remaining political powers, managed to maintain humanity alive, even with the extreme overpopulation.

Because of those still in change did humanity, after so many years of struggling and waging wars the last remnants of humanity have all elevating Earth from a Feudalworld to a Civilisedworld which will be the most common classification of world by the future Imperium.

On these upcoming self-sufficient worlds, the main population centres tend to be large cities or other urban environments that are supported by the planet's own agricultural production, and the state of development both technologically and socially varies, but is most commonly around the future Imperial norm.

Most adjuncts of the Imperial state will normally have a presence on the planet under the classification guidelines, a civilised worlds have a population from 15,000,000 to 10,000,000,000, just like Earth has currently, billions of humans struggling to earn a spot on the upcoming colonization ship, under construction in one of Great Cities that still stand even now.

The great cities are the predecessor of the future hivecities, that will start to be constructed on new human colonized worlds, all the resources and technology is used to construct these great cities by tunneling deeply underneath the earth, and these advance cities, construct the colonization ships from underneath in massive forges.

Allowing these ships to grow like colossal, mega skyscrapers, along with merging the old and most important buildings, structures, and machines became part of these super nearly country expanding ship, to aid in every way the survival of mankind on any other world that isn't the Earth.

Currently there only twelve great cities, and the most important and oldest is the one called Primeria. (For comparison think any lesser hivecity in 40k...only not yet as grimdark as the 30k & 40k timelines.)

From Primeria they finally managed to create a whole new method of interstellar travel, that mankind desperately needs.

After soo long and many attempts to create a method of space travel, faster than sub-light, has finally been created, the invention of warp drive, interstellar travel for humans was limited to sub-light speeds, the Warp drive allowed humans to travel faster than light, the Warp drive was miraculously invented by humans in the 18th Millennium.

At the same time as warp drive, humans also invented the Gellar Field Device, something of great importance for interstellar travel, as some engineers, inventors, and scientists under some supernatural guidance, almost "divine" they created the Gellar Field Devices, which protected starships and their occupants from the hazardous environment of Warpspace, the Gellar Field Device projected a bubble of realspace around the starship. 

These bubbles allowed the starship and its occupants to survive in the hostile Warp environment, were installed onto the newer and more massive colonization ship, which can host hundreds of billions people, to have a massive civilation of a "crew" to colonize and slightly terraform an unknown planet to a new world for human life, and growth.

And once those planets, have been colonized at the most basic level, they can form a trade network between those worlds and Earth, allowing those that will remain in their homeworld, gain the needed resources and necessities from offworlds and thus solving all the crisisses that the world is suffering, this is surely the dawn of mankind greatest prosperous moment, in millenias.

(Anathema POV)

Location the Unknown Area on Earth: The Anathema's Hidden Chamber-Genetic Bio Labs

What has happened to my world?

Mankind was finally prospering and on it's way to achieve untold greatness, untold the usual issue of disagreements, mistrust, suspicion, and foolishness has lead Earth to near destruction...only by my secret interventions, has armageddon has been stayed.

As I walked through a humongous, laboratory, filled with advance machines design to manipulated, genetics, cellural structures, and DNA of those chosen.

Inside countless massive glass tunes, filled with green glowing liquid, the silhouettes of my chosen soldiers...as I place my hand on the glass of one of these tunes, I thought of everything that has lead me to this.

To create a army, compose of super soldier, I'd name them the Thunder Warriors, those countless wars using weapons of mass destruction, have taught me that I've too inactive.

Those wars devastated the once beautiful Earth, and humanity while having a singular goal to achieve outerworld travel and colonization, they are more divided than ever.

This showed me that humanity can't survive or thrive with a divided source of leadership, they need a single leader, one man to stand in the pinnacle of humanity...

That man is me, in order to save humanity from itself, I need to lead them, and I need a great army to enforce my rule, and protect my empire.

For this I'm not only designing my Thunder Warriors, to be able to take down all humanity's enemies, which includes humans. (Despite Thunder Warriors, Space Marines, and Custodes, designed to be humanity's greatest weapons and warriors against xenos and Chaos, they're originally designed to kill human rebels and uprising. That's why in lore and some games, Space Marines have difficulty killing other Marines since their weapons were designed to kill humans.)

These Thunder Warriors will be my blades to unify mankind, when it most needed, and eventually I'll design better super soldier beyond them, but for now the Thunder Warriors would be enough for my future plans.

Removing my hand from the glass, I started walking away, my special power-armor boots stomping onto the steel floor, I look at my latest weapon that I'd designed and forged, a power-claw that can produce electrical energy from the gauntlet claw.

I tighten my Lightning Claw, and cause a surge of powerful electricity through it, this is one of the many weapons that will wielded by my future soldiers, Power-claws, Power-fists, Bolters, Flamers, Melters, Autoguns, and much more all being forged in these very chamber, once their complete and tested I'll teach other how to create them.

Lowering my Lightning Claw, and keep on walking through my lab, thinking of a multitude of plans, contagions, and even the future of my army...even I can lead legions alone, but their few who I can truly trust, aside from Malcador, who I'd meet a long, long time ago, my loyal and trusted subordinate...and companion, these commanders must have a deep and unbreakable bond to me, like that of a child and his father...

I sigh, as I pushed those thoughts aside for now, and remember some of the things that I've achieved over this millenia, I'd reached enlightenment from my multiple past lives, and my powers are at their strongest.

Achieving this, I tried once again to enter the Realm of Souls, and acquired the knowledge to overcome my and humanity's mortal enemy...Chaos, and I'd even managed to consume the essences and knowledge from some daemons trapt in malefic relic on the Earth, and I was enraged with what has happened in the Warp!!!

The birth of more vile spawns, from the Dark One, the Blood God, and the Decaying God, along with something unimaginable...the Chaos Gods, have managed to breach the fabric of reality, and invaded another world, a another world separated from our own and consume other Gods and that world as well, it was a great revelation, and make things complicated but regardless I'll defeat Chaos!!!

I've also with Malcador's aid I'd also learned much about magic, and I'd even achieved, creating a large magic core in my very being, only using this to counter against any malignant sources of magic.

This is for my standing against any magical force that might challenge me in the future...as I near the pathway to the Arcanum Eterialess, were I seal away all the magical artifacts, that are great danger to all, I need to further strengthen my defense toward magic, so I most focus and prepare for the pressure on my very soul...

(Lore states that not much is known or remembered in the 18k and previous eras, with slight exception of Thunder Warriors & Unification Wars, the Great Crusade, and the Forming of the Imperium. So I have some artistic freedom of describing this time period, and start expanding into the near extinction of the Eldar, and the birth of Slaanesh. After a couple more chapters, the Chaos Gods will return to the Old World, plus by many of you guys, suggestion I can also write the creation of the Forge of Souls, and the birth of the Arkefine.)