Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-90.211.181.229-20130907201722/@comment-3258762-20131111193515

.Talik wrote: this imperium, regardless, is heading to ruin. Maybe you should all consider the possibility that some of these colonies would have truced with the xenos instead of being the xenophobic's they are today? And you cant deny that alot of tech was wiped out during the crusade. The fact is, 10,000 years of research could have brought them up to par with some of the most advanced aliens, and regardless of whether it would they would still have more then the imperium doesn now. And even if the colonies did fail and were wiped out, its not all that much worse then what the imperium is heading for right now. Yet nothing says it would help against Chaos. Chaos finds a way, the Tyranids are near instoppable through sheer number.

What happens when some of these colonies join Xenos? Will they just join every other colony? No, they'll start a war with some of them, and so damage is done. Then, when only one, much weaker faction remains, the Tyranids arrive and there's nothing that will stop them.