WWRGD?
Funny, are you in my head? I was thinking a similar CYOA, but I knew I lacked the WH40k lore level to write it.
Root? Is it you? I thought you died.
Anyway, its Dark Imperium time. Time to make Abbadon eat his own arms.
I'm not sure I want to do what I would feel is right, or what I feel Roboute Guilliman thinks is right.
All in all, a very philosophical start.
Ok, from what I know, Roboute is one of the most humane Primarchs. Not just that, he's one of the Primarchs that simply grox normal humans and politics the better. Possibly because he probably had the closest to a normal life any Primarch ever had. Roboute is also an epic organizer. He is idealistic, but also pragmatic. But his kindness and his other virtues are tempered by pragmatism. Theoretical. Practical. Theoretical. Practical.
Alright, I'm going to try and think like Roboute Guilliman.
A) The Golden Path, the prescient vision pre-ordained by the God-Emperor. Let humankind fall away to rot and ruin, and fortify only the core worlds which carry the virtues necessary for the species. Dorn, Horus and Perturabo ascribed to such an ideal.
Theoretical: Fortifying the core worlds allow us to focus on the worlds that matter, letting the useless worlds die in order to preserve the core of human civilization. The enemies arrayed against us are too great to try and fight at all points. Maximum focus of forces, but we consign trillions to die.
Practical: Our two worst enemies (Tyrannids, Chaos) feed on people. Letting them feed and feast on our worlds allows them to build up in strength to punch through our inner worlds.
Theoretical: The Golden Path was a good plan, only technical brought it to ruin.
Practical: It was a plan built upon lies and deception, and dependent on a certain many parts that needed only the appropriate manipulation to fail and explode.
Theoretical: We need to get rid of our warp dependency.
Practical: Cawl is testing pylon-tech. We lack the neccessary pieces for re-starting the Webway Project.
B) The Middling Path, the path of morality within the trenches. You will protect all that can be saved, and consign to damnation all that is too far from the Emperor's light. The Lion, Magnus and Ferrus believed in it.
Theoretical: We need to defend what we can defend.
Practical: We can't defend everything.
Theoretical: If we don't defend, our enemies will feed upon it.
Practical: They will use it against us.
Theoretical: We can trade space for time.
Practical: We lost that luxury when the Rift defacto severed off half of the Imperium.
C) The Path of Heaven: The Human Spirit is a repository of violence and virtue in equal parts, only the warrior-poets will survive. You will fortify the worlds best suited to a new Golden Age of Humanity, with their population made up of heroes and sages. Fulgrim, Russ and Jagathai believed in this path.
Theoretical: We need heroes, not average men.
Practical: Average men built up the Imperium.
Not a fan of this option.
D) The Path Of Man, ordained by the biblos of a forsaken era: The Path where every life is a deserving soul, and every movement of man's will is a movement of Heaven. Vulkan, Lorgar and Angron are its champions.
Theoretical: Man is the Highest Standard.
Practical: Men are just cogs in the machine of the Imperium.
This path seems to be quite humanistic, but the "heaven" part worries me. A more compassionate Imperial Creed? Even if its better, do we want a more powerful Imperial Cult?
E) The Path of Fate, the Path Indeterminate: All that will be already was, terror and virtue exist only for their own sakes. Mankind is past evolution and lacks only the maturity to make a choice: Light or dark? Curze, Corax and Alpharius follow this path.
The Emperor considered present humanity merely its current state, the future of humanity was
Also, I do not like giving up the chance to make our own fate, when our enemy includes its Architect.
Sides, fate is even less determined now, since Guilliman returned.
