>>718927234
Perpetual + Power (10,000 years of Humanity's faith) = God. And we know the Emperor studied the shard of the Void Dragon so he might have figured out the possibility and then at Molech peered into the future to see how to do it. A cynic might argue this was the Emperor's plan all along to become a Materium God and everything is proceeding exactly as he intended with Chaos completely fooled into doing it's part.