So the Dread Legions of Chaos etc etc all have their home bases hidden deep inside the Eye of Terror. They flit from daemonworld to daemonworld like a bunch of squabbling children, and occasionally get their shit together enough to follow Abaddon on his latest scheme to crush Cadia or whatever.
Why, though?
The Cadian Gate is the only stable route out of the Eye of Terror, sure. But the chaos forces already *live* in the Eye. They can get around in it just fine. Why would they even need the Gate?
>>46177257
Because they want to conquer the material universe. Look, the whole point of Cadia is that the pylons stop daemons and the weird, more corrupted stuff from pouring out.
If Cadia is ever conquered, Chaos wins. That's because all of the physically-impossible stuff that exists in the Warp can emerge at once. All the daemon primarchs, all the daemonships, all the warp horrors. There is literally an infinite amount of them.
Even the more mutated Chaos Space Marines and stranger creatures, who cannot live without Warp exposure, can now join in the fray. It's a massive, massive advantage.
>>46177291
why don't they just blow cadia up
>>46177335
They tried.
Eldar, Necrons, and Imperials saved it.
>>46177354
and chaos is like skeletor and won't reuse previous plans and attempt again?
>>46177335
It's not like they haven't tried! However, nearly EVERYONE has a massive investment in not have the materium assfucked, so Abbadon can't just fly the Planet Killer over and blow up the planet.
No, he has to do it the old way. The hard way. The trouble is, the Imperium KNOWS this.
>>46177362
The attempt to destroy Cadia happened once and it was in retconned EoT. After it failed, Chaos stormed the surface.
In current lore, Abaddon controls the surface of Cadia and all he has to do is destroy the pylons on it and then it' finished.
