>>96894566
>Emperor wakes up and becomes the Dark King
>99% of humans inside the Imperium die and get consumed to empower the new Chaos god of oblivion
>Most of the humans left are now in the Tau Empire, and fanatically worship the Tau'va who is the only warp god that can save their souls now
>The remaining independent humans lead by what's left of the Grey Knights form a grim union with the Eldar, learning how to put their own souls into spirit stones to prevent them from becoming absorbed by the Dark King upon death while the Necrons try to turn humans into blanks so that they have no souls to convert