Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-6078851-20150106153946

@imperialfist, thanks for checking but that's exactly the point i continue to try to clarify to people: emps may or may not be a perpetual but there's no irrefutable evidence for either case. there may be the occasional implication for his perpetualhood, but there's more circumstantial implication that he's not. however, regardless of either implication all we have is our opinions until emps either dies or regenerates. again, thanks for checking.

and emps wasn't stupid, but he was occasionally an idiot. intelligence doesn't protect anyone from doing idiotic things but does imbue the hyper-intelligent with an arrogance that they can't be wrong, and emps' intellect is probably the greatest the human race will ever create. as such his arrogance (probably also fueled by his own publicity) is most likely unparalelled, which led to some of his less-than-intelligent decisions.