Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141214213749/@comment-72.141.14.40-20170915155248

In SW they still seem to have peacefull-ish worlds and forms of governance that haven't gone so far that they can't send an ambassador somewhere or sign treaties and such.

In 40k, an ambassador or an actual honest to god peace treaty (that isn't a rouse) is as common as snowfall in summer. Every facet of every race in 40k is based upon either:

-The waging of war

and/or

-The counter-measures of war brought upon them

SW simply isn't populated by enough people who can accept the level of brutality and lack of politics that they would have to delve into.

You guys see all those Tyranid VS Guardsmen art pieces? Where the one surviving guardsman is hiding from the impending swarm holding a gun to his own head? That guardsman represents the SW universe in this situation, a universe faced with such a brutal reality that most would flee and any who stay but don't fight would promptly off themselves as the change in quality of life would be synonymous with the biblical rapture come real.

Those who do fight... well, thats really no contest, the Empire is really the only real threat in SW and they are pretty much geared as an invasive and occupying force, they haven't had milleniums of experience waging war against and defending against: Space Marine crusades, Tyranid swarms, Ork infestations, deamonic incursions, the tainting powers of the warp and the chaos gods, the trickery of the eldar, the tactical genius of primarchs, etc etc etc