@Background Pony #DA8B
Big E might have defeated Horus but he didn’t come out of the fight in the best of shapes.

Then he made modifications to the Golden Throne to make it a life support machine.
Which members of the then High Lords sabotaged to keep The Emperor out of the way so they could run everything.
Because he was slowly recovering.(source:- Inquisitor game rulebook)

>Couldn’t defeat his son
Bitch, he DID defeat Horus

@Background Pony #D8DB  
Well Horus wasn’t the same strength as the Emperor. The Emperor could have one-shorted him as soon as he entered the room but he didn’t because he didn’t want to kill his SON. He only killed Horus in the end when he saw how far he had fallen and even then it must of been hard for him.

@Legioner8  
The Alpha Legion aren’t the only ones. The Emperor’s children still use it out of irony

Only thing is that the emperor is half dead, fought aginst FOUR chaos gods, and had to KILL his son. he didn’t have the means to banish him. Also he is currently preventing the chaos gods from making terra into the new eye of teror. Beat that.

@Legioner8  
Never heard of them.  
Must have been a collective hallucination.  
Disregard everything you think you know about this imaginary legion.

@Kharn The Generally Swell Guy  
Aren’t they the chaos marines, who still use “For the Emperor!” as their battle cry.

@40kponyguy  

 
There is no such legion. I think you must be mistaken.

@Background Pony #F059  
20th legion is the Alpha legion. Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon.
 
It’s the 11th and 2nd that were lost.

celestia and luna are clearly the two lost primarchs of the 2nd and 20th legions

I love both things, but the scale of what the God Emperor of Mankind does and the scale of the threats he faces is vastly greater than the scale of anything Celestia does or the scale of any of her threats.

@Kharn The Generally Swell Guy  
Friendship is Magic but Canterlot’s not made of money…

@Hex101  
But then they would have had to replace that window. Do you know how much that would cost?!  
… I mean, probably nothing, since they’re royalty… and have magic… but STILL!

@Kharn The Generally Swell Guy  
Thank you, thank you!
 
I was delighted… if only for a little bit… when Celestia pulled the bait and switch with Tirek and smirked in his face the way Skipio Africanus smirked at the formidable Hannibal of Carthage when he drew him into a trap that HANNIBAL had invented…
 
… and then immediately died a little inside when that stupid stained glass window was revealed. X_X
 
One brick. Problem solved. Tirek clueless. S’all I’m saying…

@Hex101  
This sounds a thousand times more interesting than what we actually got.

@Kharn The Generally Swell Guy
 
Heh.
 
My interpretation of Celestia is influenced largely by what little we saw in Season 1 and my own boundless imagination.
 
I interpreted her to be a sort of demigoddess. Immortal, powerful, but Earthbound and not omnipotent. She channels the power of the sun as much as directs it.
 
Everfree Forest, as a whole, was the site of a long battle between her and her sister. Where so much raw force was thrown around that the fundamental laws of reality had broken down, leaving it wild, untamable and utterly inhospitable to ponykind.
 
Further, she came off as a strategist at heart. Someone who saw the long-game and planned accordingly.
 
She couldn’t bring herself to kill her sister, but she knew she could not cleanse the darkness from her without total control of the elements of harmony, thus, she settled for exiling her sister instead, until she could arrange redemption.
 
‘The Stars shall aid in her escape’.
 
Who, at that point, had dominion over the night sky? Not Luna. T’was Celestia still.
 
Nightmare Moon escaped because Celestia allowed it, because she had arranged the pieces well in advance. As the center of government, it stands to reason that she would be aware of census changes. Such as Cutie Mark appearances.
 
Celestia played then, off Twilight’s obsessive nature and spurred her to action, which she knew would draw others.
 
Long story short, she arranged a long-play gambit in order to save her sister and restore balance.
 
Yet at the same time, in spite of her strategic intellect, we see that she has a much more light-hearted nature to her. Arranging things so Twilight runs aground of lessons she needs in order to greater understand the inherent magic of friendship, knowing experience to be the best teacher.
 
Methinks that the release of Nightmare Moon and her subsequent redemption was when Celestia proverbially ‘let down her hair’ around her subjects, playing little pranks and arranging for the Grand Galloping Gala to be stirred up a little.
 
I even wrote a couple of letters on the back and forth…
 
http://zucca-xerfantes.deviantart.com/art/One-last-letter-278695465
 
http://zucca-xerfantes.deviantart.com/art/One-letter-of-many-284078913

@Hex101  
So you’re saying the idea of Celestia is more appealing that what she actually is?  
Sounds like you have something in common with a certain galaxy-spanning human society and their leader.

@Hex101  
I’m convinced that is really the best way to think about Celestia.

@moonlightaveger  
Sigh
 
Yeah.
 
Honestly, I think I’m more in love with her potential than her canon.

@Sanguine_paladin  
– Her guards always gets defeated when something bad happens
 
ME:“yeah her guards kinda of suck like a lot, i mean every time a villain shows up they get their asses kicked.

@moonlightaveger  
This sounds like the plot for the best Dark Heresy campaign ever.

Something has just occurred to me, because of the season 6 finale… Big, BIG spoilers… Celestia being captured by changeling drones is kinda similar to the Emperor being captured out of his palace on Terra and then being rescued by a chaos cultist, a rogue trader and a civilian that just lost all their guns and powers. All the while the Empire’s military didn’t even notice anything had happened.
 
I think this comparison just got shot in the head with a heavy bolter and stepped on by The Man himself.

@Hex101  
That is true.

@moonlightaveger  
They at least make an attempt at giving her arcs.