Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150220210346/@comment-6078851-20150221153235

it would probably be interesting but frankly i'm sick of gw's propensity for releasing many codexes, which aren't cheap and will have to be replaced in about 5 or 6 years (if we're lucky and gw don't release a new edition in 2 years), and now that there all hardback they're very expensive. i'd probably still want it though :)

@ master, yep, humanity gaining insane tech a short time after emps' death is a stupid notion, but i never said a short time after emps' death, you did just then. when i said about humanity reverse engineering, or hybridising, superior alien technology i was under the impression (mistaken it seems) that folks would realise that such an endeavour would take time. obviously clarification seems to be needed:

after emps' death the remnants of the imperium are going to be hard pressed simply to survive and achieve stable empires, and even those that achieve stability will need more than a few decades, probably centuries, to gain that stability. this stability is needed before they attempt to reverse engineer, hybridise, or simply utelise and start to build, superior alien tech because the masses have been brainwashed into thinking of such tech as heretical, which will take time to get over. and because such tech is alien, and superior, considerable time and resources will be needed to accomplish the successful reverse engineering, and then the mass production, of such technology.