Warhammer 40 k, The Emperor

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Corvus XIII 30 Aug @ 4:05am

A summary first for people who do not know it ;

There was a Man who throughout human history had sought to guide it.
He sort of helped in not making it self destruct.
Then in thousands of years ahead of 2000 he decided the time was right to unify Earth / Terra under his banner and openly declare himself as The Emperor.

He developed the Thunder Warriors, a dangerous and most capable fighting force to conquer Terra and bring all Techno Barbarians and peoples under his Rule.
Those who did not accept it would be wiped out.
Science was to replace all superstition and religion despite him being responsible it is said of bringing religion to the human race in various forms - see our past.

He unties Earth, Brings Mars and its 'priests' of technology to his rule and they believe (generally speaking) he is The Omnissiah their version of The Emperor / God Machine.

Developing Primarchs and then the Astartes a more evolved and stable form of the Thunder Warrior.
- The Thunder Warriors were flawed and it is said The Emperor on purposefully killed them off.

The Primarchs were the genetic fathers to the Adeptus Astartes aka Space Marines.

The separated worlds of humanity across the galaxy had to survive and fend for themselves and The Emperor's goal was to unite them all under His Banner and then have them govern themselves.
While he would gift them more understanding and technology.

The Astartes / PRimarchs, some felt a little slighted by this believing they should rule regions because they know better - and to much extent they did in theory. Before some Primarchs got jealous and mental and some fell to Chaos or ascended to depending your perspective.

The way The Emperor did things was very much all must come under The Imperial Truth or be stamped out of existence.

I sometimes think he was bit of a jerk, to people and even to his own creations.

What do you think?

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Kamiyama 30 Aug @ 4:22am

I was watching some videos about big E and the chaos gods just the other day. Fun fact: Nurgle doesn't hate the emperor. In fact, Nurgle downright loves him. Nurgle is the god of disease and stagnation. Guess what the Imperium has been doing for tens of thousands of years? It's been stagnating, and big E is rotting on the golden throne.

The Imperium in 40k already had it's "war against the robots" long before the Emperor revealed himself. There are actually stories about old AI powered vessels experiencing time dilation from high speed non-FTL travel and making contact with Imperium ships. The AI is shocked at how primitive and unevolved humanity became in the future. Their reliance on the warp is basically spells and magic compared to the high technology that humanity used in the past.

The Imperium doesn't build advanced computers anymore, and instead loads cybernetics into humans to turn them into servitors in order to accomplish the same tasks that AI used to do. But servitors aren't as good as AI, and technological progress has stalled as a result. They don't trust computers because they become corrupt, and they rely on the Warp for FTL and many of their most powerful warriors are psykers. This has become a roadblock to the development of new technology. They not only need better computation systems, but their reliance on the Warp had basically eliminated the scientific method. They don't have the mentality to perform hard research anymore. They see the world in terms of Gods and the Warp, not as a world driven by fundamental forces of nature.

As a result Nurgle is no doubt the most powerful chaos god, and he considers the Imperium to be a source of worship. The Imperium of Man is the most powerful faction in the galaxy and it strengthens him with its stagnation, it's misery, it's decay. Human society is slowly breaking down over the span of millennia and Nurgle is giggling as he watches it unfold.

Some have asked could big E defeat the chaos gods? I think he could beat Slaanesh, Tzeentch, and even Khorne in single combat. But Nurgle would give him a hard time, and yes I know big E confronted Nurgle in the lore to save his son Roboute Guilliman. He destroyed one of Nurgle's warp gardens, but I think Nurgle has many of these, and this was back when big E still had a living, breathing fully functioning body.

Tens of thousands of years later, big E has been rotting on the golden throne for millennia, the Imperium is stagnating, and I think Nurgle has the last laugh. He's growing stronger with every passing year.