better late than never

Poor Equestrians, they are discovering the horrors that wait in the Void.

Next to the memorial, someone had hastily assembled an altar to Twilight with the electronic equipment that no longer worked. A single pole rose from a square base and ended with a smaller square at the top. Its builders had tried to use candles to replicate Twilight’s mark extending from the base, but they quickly abandoned that project in favor of creating a small circle. Spike wondered where they had found any candles at all, but he decided he would worry about it when and if the ship came back to real space.

This is 40k. There will always be candles.

There was a chair next to Twilight, reserved for him. A thin layer of solid ice had covered the armrests, and a small eight-pointed star had formed over the top rail. Looking at the star filled Spike with a slight sense of unease, but he did not understand why.

Oh god BURN IT! Twilight is DAMNED!

Even if the electrical equipment had started working once more, everything else had stayed as it had been before. In fact, the star on Spike’s chair had inexplicably grown slightly larger and a chromatic blue eye had appeared in its center. Even the icy feeling coming from the chair had not gone away.

I repeat, BURN IT.

There was little else to say after that, Spike and everyone else followed the medical team through the corridors, Twilight and the medics in front and everyone else behind, in a grim parody of a religious procession. Twilight was akin to a ghastly object of worship, followed by a desperate and starving flock of devout followers. Spike contemplated the absurdity of worshiping something stuck in a coma, but his two weeks in hell had taught him that the desperate would worship anything capable of giving them hope.

Pffft. If he only knew.

Many of the bodies were of equestrian creatures, their faces locked in a final wide-eyed expression of agony and terror. That sight alone was enough to induce vomit from several witnesses, but other bodies induced an even stronger reaction of disgust and horror, as none had ever seen their accursed forms before. They were shapeless bundles of bleeding meat slapped together by some sick god and covered by a sea of jaws, deformed eyes, and fist-sized craters. Rows of spikes and a thick layer of blood covered many of their long tentacles, some still twitching despite the death of the bodies.

Scratch that, BURN THE WHOLE SHIP.

Jeez, the Ponies are like the Tau but even more naive. They don't stand a chance, and even if they do, they'll lose their identity. They will not win in war against a society who has perfected it over 10,000 years.

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Why is not a good thing??!!

Sure, MLP will obviously be One-Shot by a OP Grimdark Universe of that is Warhammer 40K ( WH40K ).

But, I personally like to have a Alliance/Friendship with the Peaceful Ponies ( And other MLP Races ), and between the Imperium Of Man! And then they can help each other to face, and kill the REAL Evil Threats out their ( Chaos, Orks, Tyranids, Drukhari/Dark Eldar, and probably the Necrons ).

And the "less hostile" Xenos like the Eldar, Tau, and some Necrons could be potential allies. Just as long they don't screw with us, and we promise not to screw with them back!!!!!

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I like those stories a lot more myself, actually. I'm currently (kind of) writing a story where Rainbow Dash Rainbooms into the Imperium, the Emperor sanctions ponies, and eventually things get better for everyone. Hopefully I'll write enough to post it someday.

While I may have enjoyed the opening more, before the premis was introduced;
but now you finally get the act together, under the banner of the promises the premis presented.

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That's nice! And does everyone/everypony in Equestria/Equis be sanctioned or "indoctrinated" to the Imperium of Man as well?! Or just Rainbow Dash?!

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Rainbow Dash at first, because he senses the anti-chaos energies present in her element (and Equestrian magic in general), but he decides to just sanction the whole species for simplicity's sake. Mostly because the Elements require a full set of cooperative individuals who embody ideals that have not been common in humanity for thousands of years. This, of course, leads to certain elements of the Imperium worshiping "the Holy Xenos" (the ones not crying Heresy, of course), and a crusade forming to find the xenos homeworld, with Dash, (and whatever ponies also end up in the 41st millennium, such as the Crusaders and Warboss Fluttershy) leading the way. Eventually, if I ever get that far, Equis and all of its races will be folded into the Imperium.

Also Rainbow Dash is first found by the Rainbow Warriors. Of course.
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Nice story idea. I actually do like stories where us ( Humanity ), and the Ponies ( And other MLP Species ) are friends/allies. And fight against very evil bad guys down. And it's rare to see the Imperium Of Man ( Of all Fictional Human Factions ) to be friends with Equestria/Planet Equis!!!

And found by the "Rainbow Warriors"??!! We have so many Space Marine Chapters, huh?!

And why is Fluttershy with the Orks??!!!

Also, it sounds like that the Emperor sounds ok, and isn't a giant skeleton in his Golden Throne anymore??!!

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It's rare because the Imperium is so incredibly xenophobic that it takes serious suspension of disbelief to even entertain the idea of cooperation with ponies. I want to write something that's at least semi-believable.

Heh, the Rainbow Warriors are actually what inspired me to start this in the first place. I wanted to see Dash meet them, and it just grew from there.

Dash is missing, and everyone is distraught. Fluttershy persuades a very reluctant Discord into sending her to wherever Dash is, because she knows her friend would do the same for her. Unfortunately, she ends up in the middle of a horde of Orks. They think she's so pitiful she's barely even worth krumpin'. However, their attitude makes her so mad she uses the Stare on them. This accidentally connects her directly to the WAAAAAAGH energy and makes her more orky, similar to that time she linked with a fruit bat and turned into a vampire. This, coupled with her beating up some of their strongest Boys (if she can wrestle a bear, she can wrestle an Ork), quickly causes the Orks to think she's the Bee's Knees, and the "Pink Butterflois" warband (name pending, if you have any other suggestions I'd appreciate it) spreads throughout the stars. Her talent at creating separate personalities allows her to keep the Boys in line without losing her true self. She manages to convince the Orks to leave civilians alone (because what's the use in krumpin' some git that can't even give a propa fight?) and focuses mainly on "the big meanie's", like Tyranids, Necrons, occasional Space Marines, other Orks who won't accept Fluttershoi as Best Pony, and especially Chaos, who she hates with all of her being. The WAAAAGH of Warboss Fluttershy is unstoppable, until she is found by Inquisitor Sweetie Belle, and an agreement is made. From then on, those Orks are in an unstable alliance with the Imperium.

The Emperor is still a spooky boi confined to the golden toilet, (for now) but he uses the energy from RD's initial catastrophic destiny changing Rainboom into the warp to give himself enough strength to contact with certain groups as needed.

I also have LOTS of ideas for the CMC and Equestria Girls. I almost want to write this just to get to those parts.

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Which Timeline for MLP is set in? And including on which period in WH40K Galaxy?

And what about the Loyal Primarchs/Chaos Daemon Princes themselves? Will they be involved?!

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For MLP, this is actually difficult, because I really want the Cutie Mark Crusaders to be involved, and to get their Cutie-Marks in various Imperial factions. I'm thinking Tech-Adept Applebloom, Guardsmare Scootaloo, and Inquisitorial Adept Sweetie Belle. This means I need to have Rainbow Dash disappear pretty early on, early season 5 at the latest. However, I also want things to be pretty close to how they were around season 8 or 9, and taking Dash out early, and then the Crusaders, will change a lot for many reasons, not least of which is the emotional effect it would have on the characters. So I'm not sure. In any case, I'm planning on having time passing faster in the 40k galaxy than in Equestria. I'm thinking for the Imperium it will be close to the current time in the lore, around mid M2.

Oh I have lots of ideas for the Primarchs, don't you worry. Once Twilight gets involved, there's at least a couple I think she'd get along great with. One likes lists, paperwork, administration, and rules. The other loves books and magic. I wonder how good at redemption Twilight really is?

Also, did you know that in canon Leman Russ is in the Warp looking for a special tree that's supposed to have fruit/artifacts that can heal the Emperor and banish Chaos? Just something I thought was interesting.

Meh

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If you could elaborate, that would be very helpful.

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If you want ponies to join or work with the imperium I would recommend having a powerful radical inquisitor or a inquisitor cabal as these are the people who are willing to use chaos weapons and bind demons to help the imperium if one saw these ponies and the effect they had on the warp as the warp is shaped by all our thoughts and emotions they would probably help them especially if magic is separated from the warp

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That's what I was thinking, they'd have to get lucky with whatever Ordo Xenos Inquisitor is sent to deal with them.

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I would say that it would be better if they met someone from the ordo malleus because of the whole magic thing they have going
Also it’s ordo xenos job to deal with xenos not demons and warp stuff well some inquitors in the ordo xenos work with xenos it usually is either a small group or the aldari for a short time

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Well they are xenos, but something as important as a magic using xenos species being sanctioned by the Emperor himself would likely get multiple Inquisitors involved. Of course, they would likely try to sabotage the others. I was also thinking of bringing in the Aquilan Shields, special Custodes with purple robes who protect people they're pretty sure will do something important in the future, as an added incentive for leaving the pony alone.