Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.224.117-20160114023716/@comment-26420219-20160114192420

Isn’it implied somewhere ( maybe in that short-story about the last Church) that the Imperial Truth was just an invention by the Emperor to try to diminish the power of the Chaos Gods? I mean religions and superstitions essentially function on the four basic emotions that also fuel the Chaosgods power (anger, fear, hope and joy), and so the Emperor bans them in an effort to weakening the Gods. In an effort to keep Mankind safe from the corruption of the Warp, knowing fully-well that Mankind is not ready to face the true horrors that lurk in the Warp (upon the Imperium relies so heavily for transport, communication and expansion) and which whom he obviously had some kind of dealings before, the Emperors brings about the Age of Enlightenment and the Imperial Truth as an attempt to unite humanity in scientific progress.

Awakening ten thousand years later, the Emperor may well see that the secret is out and use his position as a "god" of order to fuel his own psychic powers in his war against Chaos. Or maybe he would assume that position despite his misgivings in order to preserve the Imperium (even though that seems unlikely, the Emperor having been around for 40 000 years basically implies that at some point in history he most have ruled over some portion of earth before becoming the Emperor and was defeated, for all we kow he could have been Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler in disguise, who can tell?)