Oh Hell no, I don’t push the button!
It said shifting into the Star Trek universe; it didn’t say anything about time travel or ending up on a planet other than Earth.
Oh no…
Yep, we are on track already to live in the star trek universe. We just have to live through WW3 first and it will be paradise.
World War III ends and Earth is left devastated, mostly because of nuclear warfare. Most of the major cities are left in ruins with few remaining governments and the death total reaching 600 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek
Push the button. Only 600 million is a generous offer. This timeline will have many more.
The 40k timeline is basically just normal Earth for a few more centuries at least. The Emperor is just out there, somewhere, fucking with shit.
In fact, there would be a golden age on the horizon
Yeah ironically it would probably be better to be in the 40k universe if it was current day.
It’s basically Star Trek for like a millennium or so if I recall. Things didn’t always suck so hard in 40k, it took a while for it to become the grimdark hell it is in the 42nd century
It says transported. That could definitely mean time travel and/or another planet
Obviously. And it could also mean neither of those
Well, everyone dies. Both options seem more interesting than a cult of idiots worshipping an orange idiot.
So I get transported to a futuristic utopia with Replicators and Holodecks, or I immediately get killed by a Space Marine or whatever.
Either way I don’t have to live in this shithole any more. 🤷♂️ I’m pressing it.
With all the endless war the Imperium is so huge most of the humans probably never saw war and space marines are so rare it’s almost impossible for you to be killed by them.
Even on “safe” planets, the average person is basically a slave doing endless, arduous labor with no concern for their lives or well-being, all under the merciless thumb of Imperial dogma. It’s just a bad place to end up.
Wait… Are you talking about 40k or current day ?
Yes.
So like… No different than here.
That’s literally the point most of it is just hyper reality.
When talking about the Star Trek universe, it’s important to designate both what time and which one.
Before first contact in any universe? No.
Prime universe? Sure.
Kelvin? Sure, why not?
Mirror universe? No.
Totally-not-the-mirror-universe-from-Picard? Fuck no.
You get transported to the Trek prime universe. You come out at Wolf-359, and the Borg approach.
I, for one, welcome our new Borg overlords.
Ever heard any of the Borg complain about being Borg?
Well, fuck. Forgot about that one.
Pro… you’re transported to the Star Trek Universe. Con… it’s still year 2025.
Yay, united Ireland!
Warhammer 40K universe in 2025 would just be the Event Horizon universe 22 years before Event Horizon. ;)
https://screenrant.com/event-horizon-movie-warhammer-40k-prequel-theory/
In other words, about as safe as real life if youre a normal person. We’ve got a lot of time before crazy shit starts happening, and a golden age coming up as well.
Pro: You get transported in Star Trek
Con: …. It’s Discovery
Pro: You get transported to the Star Trek universe
Con: It isn’t to ship, or a planet
I mean, Deep Space 9 didn’t seem like a bad place to set up shop
You get transported into the Star Trek universe.
But
You will be transported by the Star Trek transporter.
Is that still you?
Either I’m in the star trek universe or I’m dead and some other smhuck has to live with my choices
Yes, unless consciousness is more than the totality of our biology and there really is a soul or something erather.
Hell yes I’ll press. Either place is better than this
And now we wait for the replies… :)
Still better than THIS, so yes.
I would give my best Matt Damon in Interstellar “… that’s the best chance I have had in years.” And then smash my face jnto the button as hard as I could.
I’d risk it. Either way I likely won’t survive unless I spawn somewhere good.
The problem with the 40k universe is that “not surviving” doesn’t necessarily mean an end to suffering.
Unless the button transports you 40000 years in the future, you’d basically be in modern day but less insane and the Emperor hasn’t revealed himself yet. Easily the better option than being dropped into the Bell riots or something. The ST universe Earth is in a bad way compared to the 40k earth at the same time if memory serves.
Yup, some of those factions love playing with their food.
Where is good in 40k? The tau?
A planet that hasn’t yet been discovered.
But what about my internet? Or like other ppl? Am I going to be stranded in the wilderness by myself with no knowledge of what is safe to eat. Cuz let me tell you unless this is literal paradise I’d be lucky to survive for a month, probably a week even
The Past
Any Imperium world that has been completely forgotten about for a few hundred years should only be about twice as bad as here
Maybe life as a noble on a paradise world somewhere could be called good.
The vacuum of space.
Transported as I currently am? No chance of being some other race like Vulcan Hybrid or maybe a 40k psyker?
Nah, I’m good.
So I go to the 40k universe and all of the other beings are the size of my pinkie…
They all attack you at once
I’d take it if it was, “but there is a 10% chance you die.”
As it is, no deal.
I mean, it’s the 40k universe, there’s a 100% you gonna die. So, really, it does fit your criteria… just in a roundabout way.
There are fates worse than death in the 40k universe, like being captured by the dark eldar. If I can take a method of suicide with me, then maybe (though even then, my soul is going to end up in the immaterium).
Nah, if you work for the empire they’ll strip away your flesh and make you work forever.
That’s a 90% chance I get to see a better future and a 10% I’m still stuck in hell. Yes please deliver button. I do not want to remain here to see what is coming either way. I will take those odds happily. So very very tired of living in America. I hope we are heading for Star Trek still but we have to go through World War 3 to get there. Might be Dune though.
