Basically the whole setting, storyline, characters, universe, and everything that goes in Warhammer 40K is described in these few words written on almost every other Warhammer 40K book there is:
"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war."
So mankind is in its waning days and is fighting back every threat threatening the Milky Way. A very quick summary of why mankind is having to fight off these threats is very uncomplicated. Basically the ruler of the Imperium of Mankind, the Emperor (also known as the All-Father, the Emperor Beloved by All, Corpse-God, and Big E) made 20 generals to command his army. These generals were known as the Primarchs, and each of them was made with selective genes of the Emperor. These generals each commanded a Legion of super humans that's 3 times larger then normal men. These soldiers are called Space Marines or Astartes, here's a picture
Here's a list of Primarchs and their Legion:
Traitor:
-Horus Lupercal, Luna Wolves
-Konrad Curze, Night Lords
-Perturabo, Iron Warriors
-Alpharius/Omegarius, Alpha Legion
-Fulgrim, Emperor's Children
-Mortarion, Death Guard
-Angron, World Eaters
-Lorgar Aurelian, Word Bearers
-Magnus the Red, Thousand Sons
Loyalists
-Lion El'Jonson, Dark Angels
-Jaghatai Khan, White Scars
-Ferrus Mannus, Iron Hands
-Rogal Dorn, Imperial Fists
-Sanguinius, Blood Angels
-Vulkan, Salamanders
-Corvus Corax, Raven Guard
-Leman Russ, Space Wolves
-Roboute Guilliman, Ultramarines.
*Note that two legions are missing and no information can be found about them.
The traitor Primarchs turned from the Emperor because they believed that the Emperor was abandoning them to conquer the galaxy, while He goes on and become a god. Actually the Emperor was creating a safer way to travel the galaxy through this thing called the Webway, which will replace Warp travel. Of course he never told any of his sons that and they felt abandoned. Classic daddy problems.
The Warp is another dimension of pure thought. Every single thought in the galaxy is represented in the Warp. There lives the Chaos Gods, beings made from the sheer concentration of thought of one particular idea. Here's the four main Chaos Gods:
-Tzeencth, god of change, plans, logic, and progress.
-Slaanesh, god of pleasure and other creepiness.
-Khorne, god of battle and violence in general.
-Nurgle, god of sickness and plagues.
These Chaos Gods work together (most of the time) to overthrow the Imperium. When the traitor legions turned from the Emperor they found the Chaos Gods and worked together to destroy and rebuild the galaxy. It worked well enough, and they got as far as attacking Terra (Earth) before everything went wrong. Horus, head of the traitor legions, was killed by the Emperor and the traitors had to retreat to the warp. To be fair the Emperor was mortally wounded by Horus and had to be placed in this eternal life support machinery.
Thus was the beginning of the grim dark universe of Warhammer 40K. Do note that everything I just described happened during 30K, 10.000 years before 'present' times. And now things got worse with new horrors, either xenos or Warp caused. Here's some of them:
-Chaos Space Marines, those Astartes that went bad retreated to the Warp and waged an eternal war with the Imperium. The opposite of a regular Space Marine, full of mutations and psychic powers. Not to mention untold horrors of the Warp like Daemons, and other unworldly creatures.
-Eldar, a dying race not unlike elves. They live in huge ships called craftworlds and are continually fighting to survive. Docile except when threatened.
-Dark Eldar, bad Eldars. These guys caused the birth of Slaanesh. Needless to say they do creepy things to keep their race alive, like taking prisoners and doing horrible things to them.
-Tau, aliens in gundam suits. No really, these guys are aliens that wear gundam like battle armor. They work for the greater good, and are extremely Communistic.
-Tyranids, alien locust swarms. They're an unstoppable plague of alien locusts. Why are they unstoppable? Well there's so many of them and they're huge as tanks.
-Orks, like Tyranids only a bit more advanced technologically. Remember that advancement in technology does not mean advancement in the brain. They're generally stupid as a race, and pillage and plunders the galaxy as a whole in these big groups called WAAAGH!'s
To fight off these threats the Imperium has a couple weapons up its sleeves
-Space Marines, Adeptus Astartes. Very big men with very big armor with very big guns. The elite army of supermen created to defend the Imperium
-Imperial Guard, a group of toughed up men. It's like a ginormous army stationed at every other Imperial planet.
There are others, but I will not list them down.
So that's about all of it. There's a tabletop game you can play with Warhammer 40K and you use little mini figures to represent your army. It's very complicated, but fun to play. I'm not going to describe that, because I would have to spend hours upon hours describing it.
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