User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20180718090850/@comment-24955665-20180719055713

The Emperor is a slave to his nature just like the dark gods were, however his human side gave him a sense of human fragility and remorse for the evil he did to his species and the galaxy. I think Lawrence would have an interesting conversation about the things the Emperor knew and did not now about the universe and multiverse.

Also I believe that depending on the whether or not the Emperor knew about the Horse Heresy before hand would change Lawrence’s opinion of him.

1.     If the Emporer knew about the heresy before hand then, Lawrence would already know that sadly everything had to play out the way it did, in some long spanning master plan of the Emperor to save humanity. And Lawrence would empathize with him more.

2.     Or the Emperor did not know it was going to happen and it was just a major fuck up on his part. Lawrence would probably chastise him for treating his sons so poorly.

Either way it would be interesting to see how the conversation would go. Like both would be psychicly feeling each other up, but the Emperor would be getting nothing from him while Lawrence was perfectly going through any psychic defenses he would have. They would be speaking with words that only acted as the tip of the iceberg of their psychic conversation with sly smiles on both faces.

In the end Lawrence could not depend on a verbal agreement between the Emperor and himself. He would have to change his fundamental nature from just ‘protecting humanity at all cost’ to ‘protect all rational and sentient life’.

From the Big E’s perspective he would realize this creature is more powerful then any in this universe and if he wanted to, he could destroy humanity easily. So he would use all of his charisma to try and convince him to stay and help him; but not as a subordinate, but as an equal.

Lawrence would decline of course, due to him not being moral person just a kind person. And the idea of ruling an empire across the stars is boring compared to his multiverse’s adventures.