Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-197.69.42.77-20130915194639/@comment-82.153.134.193-20131111121343

The Imperium would undoubtably become more powerful, at least militarily, because instead of a small number of dwindling tech-marines maintaning and salvaging what can be saved from battle, they would be able to mass produce titans, robots, and other pre-age of strife vehicles and technology. As the imperial guard have mainly recently designed weapons, they would not benefit as greatly as the Chapters and the Mechanicam. On the other hand the Imperial Guard would probably just adapt their organisation to make use of the STCs rediscovered tech, so if it came to a civil war between the decadent high lords and commissars, they would be very well equipt indeed. But the question is, when the STC was found, would it not have been destroyed due to its robotic heresies? Or would it have been embraced as a miracle, and able the imperium enough war machines and ships to make war upon the galaxy again.

If the inquisition discovered it the former would probably be true, if the astartes found it probably the latter, perhaps giving the astartes enough power to rule over the imperium in the emperors stead...thethemselves rather than