Editing Advancing the Storyline (section)

==Fundamental Misunderstandings==
The problem in 40k is basically the date. That's it. The fluff writers can really just play grab ass going back and forth over and over for another ten thousand years, with no real setting defining changes easily enough. After all, they've already done that once - The whole timeline from the heresy to today, has resulted in basically no major changes but has still felt interesting. The status quo doesn't need to change, but there really does need to be some space for new fluff going forward, so it's not just being stuffed in around existing events. We already have canon conflicts and it'll only get worse to the point, where everyone in the fluff is established as being at one specific place in 999.M41 and that's it. No more new fluff. You can leave out the major events, just takes us some number of years forward so things are actually interesting again. Or, hell, go BACK. There's absolutely nothing wrong with filling in TEN THOUSAND YEARS of time over a galaxy of space, to make an interesting story!