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Thoughts about the Warhammer 40,000 universe
LeeC:
There is a joke people have for the imperial guard: "incoming tanks? Fix bayonets!" Over the top is the point of it all.
TheEvilDog:
Of course, if you're looking for an entry point to the universe, albeit from a "normal" eye, I would suggest the Gaunt's Ghosts novels by Dan Abnett. Think of it as the Sharpe novels, but with space ships instead of sail ships.
LeeC:
If we're doing novel introductions, I'd suggest "Space Wolf" as you follow a literal viking as he learns about and is indoctrinated into the empire and universe.
LeeC:
So I just watched the latest episode of TTS...
(click to show/hide) So is Fyodor now actually part Emperor? :psyduck:
And did chaos just get burned to a crips in and out of the warp? :psyduck: :psyduck:
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 02 Jul 2018, 20:24 ---Nope. Still doesn't work. They can't possibly be in a desperate struggle for survival. If they gave a crap about winning (or, as you say, gave a crap about surviving) then they'd attempt to use effective tactics.
--- End quote ---
I think that you're missing a strong aspect of human ideology-driven factions. Winning doesn't matter; what matters is winning in a way that proves your ideology is right. That's why, IRL, you have things like kamikaze and the Soviet 'no retreat, no surrender' policy in World War II (where a soldier who takes one step backwards is shot as a coward). The more totalitarian and ossified with pseudo-religious ideology a faction is, the less it cares about its soldiers' survival even if they don't have the numbers and infrastructure to make up for losses. The ideology is more important than anything else; even survival.
The Imperium is a fascinating society because the whole point of it was that, if it weren't for its existential external foes (some of which are amongst the nastiest and most endemic xeno-plague foes in popular culture), it would almost certainly implode within a few generations. Yet, despite this, there remains the hope in some of its fans that, at some point, someone will emerge, despite an educational system and culture fine-tuned to prevent it happening, who fill finally turn things around.
Personally, I suspect that it will take the GEoM to jump off of His eternal throne and shout: "You know, I've had enough of this shit!" to fix the Imperium at this point and I would strongly suspect that He would have to fight the governing structures that have emplaced themselves in His absence to do so.
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