Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141214213749/@comment-11526152-20180127104604

IMO, EU still can't hold a candle to 40k canon. Why? I would take for example the Yuuzhan Vong Crisis and the Darth Krayt Crisis. This two crisis was way more worse than Emperor Palpatine but when it comes to comparison with the 40k universe.

Both crisis pales in comparison, for example, the Yuuzhan Vong came from another galaxy, compared to the Tyranids who also apparently are from another galaxy. Now the difference with both the Yuuzhan Vong and the Tyranids is very very times 100 big. Why, well the EU star wars managed to kick the Yuuzhan Vong arse and force them peace and gave them a planet to settle on, which so happen that very planet is actually a seed from the Yuuzhan Vong own Galaxy.

Now, let's look at the Tyranids, multiple Hive Fleet Tendrils have made their way into the 40k galaxy and peace is not an option for the citizens and living beings of the 40k galaxy. Why, cause the Tyranids want to OM NOM NOM the 40k galaxy like a super mega ultra all you can eat buffet. So every race and civilization of the 40k universe have no choice but be prepared for total war against a enemy that seeks to eat them all.

Right, we only look at the first comparison of crisis and already Star Wars EU pales in comparison to the 40K universe. Now let's look at the Darth Krayt Crisis from the New Sith Empire to the End of the EU (where Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney). Darth Krayt imo is by far the most overstreched villian for EU. From the moment he took over Emperor Roan Fel Empire and somehow dying and then coming back to life and then launching galaxy wide war and then dying again. Like the EU authors just ran out of ideas to write for the main bad guy for the EU universe.

Now, when it comes to comparing the Darth Krayt Crisis to the 40k universe, there's actually several figure that comes to mind of being overused and overstretch, I may be wrong BUT this is my own opinion. I would use Abaddon as a comparison. Why, because there was 12 black crusades which somewhat was failures and somewhat was success depending on how one sees it. It took Abaddon 10 thousand years to finally split the 40k universe into two. AND, Abaddon is still alive and well. There are other 40k universe characters and crisis that can be use as comparison to  the Darth Krayt crisis. For startes, the Nova Terra Interregnum, the Beast crisis where the original Imperial Fist Space Marine Chapter dieded, the Beheading, the Age of Apostasy (in particular Goge Vandire), the Abyssal Crusade and many others.

In a nutshell, what I'm trying to say in this post is that when it comes to comparing both 40k and Star Wars EU. I would say 40k is way more "MORE" than Star Wars "EU". In either topics, whether it be WAR, POLITICS, GENOCIDE, DESTRUCTION and OTHERS. One cannot just take the EU Empire and compare it to 40k Imperium of Man. Because both universe is way different from one another.

My Opinion on the matter of 40k vs Star Wars EU (not the Disney Canon)