Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-4851119-20160308181841

I think you're all forgetting one important factor here: what interpretation of 40K are we using? It's incredibly inconsistent with regard to the technical stuff which is relevant to these sorts of debates. Depending on what source you use for the firepower of Imperial starships for example, it can range from "lance batteries can't kill ordinary humans" at the low end up to "lol single broadsides output more energy than supernovas" at the high end (though those are the extreme low and extreme high ends respectively, and both show up so infrequently that in 99% of cases they should be ignored). And pretty much everything else in the setting has just as wide a spread.

Though regardless of what numbers you go for the Culture (from the sci-fi novels of the same name) would roflstomp the entire 40K galaxy unless you use the most ludicrous interpretations of what high-tier Warp entities are capable of. And they're not even the weakest group that could win.