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If you're completely new to Warhammer 40K and want a crash course on the setting and factions, here's four essential lore videos to watch that give a broad spectrum narrative of what's going on and who's who to bring you up to date.
Timeline of Humanity. What happened from the first humans all the way up to the 40th millennium.
https://youtu.be/8jhGnWxFdfE
Factions lore video 1: https://youtu.be/xCGKPRiJp84
Factions lore video 2: https://youtu.be/Y6jnsX77TCU
The 20 Legions of the Legiones Astartes, later to become the Adeptes Astartes after the Horus Heresy.
https://youtu.be/Ae2Beeleswc
I played Warhammer fantasy tabletop a bit in the late 90s, so learned a bit of the lore of both but this is good to watch later!!
Broad question though - in both settings it seemed Chaos would eventually win just because the "source" of it could never be stopped/defeated. It might take a long time but eventually everything would succumb...is that accurate?