What If? The Thousand Sons replaces the Jedi Order.

[Tyzuris]

So Magnus as the ''grand-master'' the Thousand Sons and the 85000 Thousand Sons themselves + serf and servitors replaces the Jedi Order and they are also given their fleet of 40 capital ships and 120 escort ships and a forgeworld is transported to Coruscant system orbiting Coruscant. This switch happens a few weeks before the start of The Phantom Menace. Assume the Jedi Temple is replaced by The Thousand Sons fortress monastery.

How will Magnus lead The Thousand Sons in SW galaxy and how will he fit his Legion into the galactic scene?

 

[ShieldWife]

Is this the Thousand Sons before or after they turn to Chaos? The relationship between the Republic and a bunch of psychic supermen will be different than with a demonic demigod and his legion of animated power armor. Are the people of the Star Wars galaxy magically influenced to accept the presence of the Thousand Sons as normal or will they be horrified by the disappearance of the Jedi and the appearance of a new planet next to the Republic capital?

 

[Tyzuris]

Is this the Thousand Sons before or after they turn to Chaos?

Before.

 

[Lanmandragon]

Does chaos gain power in the wars Galaxy? Because the force vs chaos could be a thing.

 

[ATP]

Before.

Then Galaxy is safe from any troubles.And Magnus would become president-for-life.
In this case, it would works.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Then Galaxy is safe from any troubles.And Magnus would become president-for-life.
In this case, it would works.

Primarchs and Astartes don’t die of old age and Magnus has a whole galactic republic to recruit from

I expect he’d be considered a shadow dictator with a public office that supposedly doesn’t have that much power

 

[Navarro]

Unless Magnus gets a really good attitude change it all ends in tears.

 

[ATP]

Unless Magnus gets a really good attitude change it all ends in tears.

Well,i do not read many books in SW universe, but i think,that everything ended in tears anyway.So...if it could not be better, then at least made it more fun?

 

[Hlaalu Agent]

Honestly the Thousand Suns are going to be more tolerant of different force traditions, and I mean ones that aren't evil space wizards so there is that. Apparently in both canons the Jedi dun goofed by being so intolerant they created evil space wizards where there were just people with differing beliefs before.

 

[ShieldWife]

Unless Magnus gets a really good attitude change it all ends in tears.

Actually, wasn't Magnus pretty good before he got a negative attitude adjustment from the Emperor? Magnus tried to warn the Emperor and was punished as a result. Maybe if that hadn't happened, we would still have a largely heroic Magnus in the Star Wars galaxy, more than willing and able to stop Palpatine from seizing power.

I would be curious, though, about the existence of the Warp in the Star Wars universe. Assuming that Magnus' powers (and those of the other Thousand Sons) still work to their full potential, that suggests that the Warp exists and potentially Chaos gods.

We don't have Jedi anymore, but we still have Sith. That seems a bit weird too. It's Force using Sith versus 40K psykers using powers of the Warp.

 

[Alaric Volta]

We don't have Jedi anymore, but we still have Sith. That seems a bit weird too. It's Force using Sith versus 40K psykers using powers of the Warp.

The Force in the movies is pathetic compared to the warp.

You could find stuff that wanks it to be on par in the EU, but that is not canon.

And space marines have power armor, so they are going to actually be soldiers.
Episode 1 will be over when the marines just shoot the viceroy and be done with it.
Clones will be useless.

 

[ShieldWife]

The Force in the movies is pathetic compared to the warp.

You could find stuff that wanks it to be on par in the EU, but that is not canon.

And space marines have power armor, so they are going to actually be soldiers.
Episode 1 will be over when the marines just shoot the viceroy and be done with it.
Clones will be useless.

I don’t consider the sequel trilogy canon, but others might. Doesn’t the Emperor destroy some ships with Force lightning at some point? That’s pretty powerful. I get the feeling that Magnus might be able to do more though. Regarding the other movies, the Emperor doesn’t do much that would put in on par with Magnus, or maybe not even other psykers in the Thousand Sons.

I don’t know how much the combat prowess of the Thousands Sons will matter in this scenario, but it always seems to matter in both Star Wars and 40K fiction, so maybe it would.

Could Magnus just sense the Emperor with his psychic powers and then make his head explode? I’m not quite sure what feats Magnus has accomplished in the fiction, but he should be one of the more powerful psykers in the galaxy.

 

[Doomsought]

Magnus had loyal motivations, but his very bones were made of HUBRIS. There is not a drop of Sith lore that he would not explore. He won't do anything obviously evil, but any Sith that had a system for making Jedi fall to the darkside would be able to use Magnus's arrogance against him. The one mercy is that unlike chaos, you can return to yourself after falling to the darkside of the force.

I'd say there'd end up beign somethign like a thousand year cycle of Magnus falling to the dark side, redeeming himself to the light, only to make the same mistakes all over again in a different way.