Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-96.237.238.119-20131218020230/@comment-24.177.35.35-20131223072707

I think your underestimating just how big the imperium is. With no communication, or army support forge and fortress worlds would starve to death. The same with hive worlds. But there are millions of worlds in the imperium. Every year, 500 might be scoured by leviathan, 1000 might be conquered by orks, 200 might be taken by tau, ect, but the imperium would fracture into small kingdoms, for systems that have an armoury world, and maybe an agriworld might hang on for a while. It would take a century for the imperium to fall, it would take a millenium for it to be destroyed. Look at the roman empire, it deteroiated for like, 300 years. And the byzantines held on for even longer! Imagine that time 500