Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150220210346/@comment-8881468-20150226102614

Callummacdonald, the Mechanicum existed and they have a very strict line of thought on all matters...

The Collegia Titanica is only a branch of the Mechanicum, the Titans are embodiments of the Omnissiah, they are the purest avatars of the machine god, you really want to make that argument?

2. The Eldar were already looking down on the younger races before, the term Mon Keigh was used for humans before we even had the Imperium.

3. we could make the argument of favorabvle contact of humans and elder without the IoM around, as with the Interex, however: already then did they have access to STC contructs and the Empire of the Mechanicum existed.

[quote]and if they had overthrown the resident mechanicum they would have access to any tech they had there, giving themselves a technological foundation for defense, inter-stellar travel/trade, and research.[/quote] they would be able to use it, not maintain it nor repair it nor know the workings of it. not even mentioning that any mechanicum, adept or forgemaster would be pretty much aware of the power of his position and exploit it accordingly. and all would be well aware of how much they need tech, hence they would not  cut off the tree they're sitting on.

4. people would relearn but from what basis? sticks and stones? they would first and foremost try to imitate the mechanicum since that is what they have experienced working. with no adepts around they owuld fall down to barbarism if not simply loose everything they have thanks to a lack of ressources.

5. what happens when worlds in the imperium start rebellions, what are normally the reasons? cults or ego interests of the ruling classes. ruling classes demand sphistication and off world trade to be useful at a certain level in the first place, they will not piss off the mechanicum.

an unsophisticated world would be the only chance and that owuld simply take them millenia.