A mate of mine used to be quite high up in gw and he was saying that one of the main reason's andy chambers left gw is that he wanted to take 40k in new directions and shake up the 40k universe in big ways.
Basically the plot he submitted was that a new tyranid hive fleet materialised right around terra slipping "under" the warp in ways previously unheard of. They assault earth and the imperial palace. Meanwhile a fleet of spacehulks heads towards the center of imperial space. It is not showing sign's of being chaos or tyranid in origins. The marines and imperials muster, chasing the fleet towards earth, where the unknown tyranid threat is about to strike. It turns out that the hulks are cypher and the fallen angels, deliberately drawing the imperials back toward earth to save the emperror.
The nids attack, the marines counter attack and a bloody war engulf's earth. The emperror stirs, and takes the fight to the enemy but the marine counter assault is too late and the imperial palace falls and the emperror is killed. All seems lost and then out of the mists the primarchs return and fight back the tyranid threat, leading there chapters to victory. One of the Primarchs[can't remember if its Lion el johnson or Rouboute Gilliman(spellings probably off
)]
Meanwhile the Tau empire seizes the oppertunity to take a fair portion of imperial space and dig in whilst the Marines attentions are held elsewhere
Apparently this was part of the same story as the 13th company emerging form the Eye of terror which was the only part of the story that remained.
Personally i think it sound quality and would shack things up nicely
Basically the plot he submitted was that a new tyranid hive fleet materialised right around terra slipping "under" the warp in ways previously unheard of. They assault earth and the imperial palace. Meanwhile a fleet of spacehulks heads towards the center of imperial space. It is not showing sign's of being chaos or tyranid in origins. The marines and imperials muster, chasing the fleet towards earth, where the unknown tyranid threat is about to strike. It turns out that the hulks are cypher and the fallen angels, deliberately drawing the imperials back toward earth to save the emperror.
The nids attack, the marines counter attack and a bloody war engulf's earth. The emperror stirs, and takes the fight to the enemy but the marine counter assault is too late and the imperial palace falls and the emperror is killed. All seems lost and then out of the mists the primarchs return and fight back the tyranid threat, leading there chapters to victory. One of the Primarchs[can't remember if its Lion el johnson or Rouboute Gilliman(spellings probably off
Meanwhile the Tau empire seizes the oppertunity to take a fair portion of imperial space and dig in whilst the Marines attentions are held elsewhere
Apparently this was part of the same story as the 13th company emerging form the Eye of terror which was the only part of the story that remained.
Personally i think it sound quality and would shack things up nicely