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[WH40K] Does the emperor still possess any powers?

Since the Emperor is a rotting shell, barely kept alive by a life support system, does he do anything in practice? Can he communicate with his subjects and issue orders? Or is he just a symbol now?
gpt
Some would say that he's just a withered husk, a dead king upon a throne of gold.

Some people believe that the emperor has sent them visions or given them powers (see saint sabbat), but if nothing else, he powers the astronomican, the golden psychic light which guides all navigators of all of the warp enabled ships.


Some believe that if he dies, he will be reborn as the starchild, a more powerful version of his former self. Others believe that if you feed him all of his biological children (not the primarchs, his actual flesh and blood who still live) he will be resurrected. Some think that if he dies...then he dies.