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i mean it pretty much went
>fancy ancient race that has ruled galaxy for ages
>run into some guys that live short and painful lives in a planet with a sun that irradiates them to death so early they worship death
>"hey you guys are advanced, could you cure our cancer of a planet and make us ageless too?"
>"lol nah bro get fucked"
>"wow, what a dick"
>"what'chu gon do bout it limpy bitch?"
>"..."
>few years later
>"hey some giant dude is eating planets, i hope its friendly!~"
>"hey you guys look miserable as fuck, want immortality?"
>"do we ever!"
>"get in this blender so i can slurp your sweet sweet essence and make you walking metal zombies"
>"awesome, wait what?"
>"nothing, now hop in we can also beat those ancient jerks that didn't give you immortality"
>"yeah, fuck those guys lets do this!"
>few years later
>"hey old ones, like our new immortality?"
>"what the fuck, that's a no no"
>"what'chu gon do bout it?"
>war declared
>"ha we got them in the ropes, lets fuck them up!"
>"oh no, we suck at war and our only edge was our technology, quick make some soldier races and seed them across the galaxy before we get our shit kicked in!"
>"what kind of races should we make?"
>"anything that kills just do it fast!"
>"okie dokie chief, what about these weird pointy eared ones?"
>"they seem loyal enough, mass produce those fast and have them fight the war for us"
>"hey old ones, guess who!"
>"oh shit!"
>few years later
>"fucking metal zombies you killed our masters >:3"
>"your master were dicks"
>">: ( abominations, light em up"
>"they suck ass but there's just way too many of them, we should probably go take a nap and wait until things cool down and then rebuild our empire once their race fades from existence"
>a whole lot of years pass by, the seeded warrior races start to evolve into beings that don't eat their own fingers, space elves have massive orgy and slaneesh pops in to ruin it
>fast forward to current day 40k