Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-6078851-20141222190835

i'm pretty sure 'the emperor of mankind' page states him as the ssource of the astronomican, and the thousands of psyker sacrifices each day are simply to feed emps' 'psychic hunger', so to speak. i'll read it again though as it was ages ago i read it and i could easily be mis-remembering.

the british empire analogy doesn't quite work: warp travel is absolutely essential for the imperium to maintain its scale as regular inter-steller travel is far too slow. and the oceans of our world aren't seething maelstroms of psychic energy with no fixed points, that gave birth to monstrous entities that feed on emotion and consume souls :P

as for 'bringing the light of civilisation to various folks', that's not what we were doing, we imposed our idea of civilisation upon cultures whether they wanted it or not because we weren't civilising the world, we were attempting to conquer it and salve our consciences by saying things like 'bringing the light of civilisation' :P