Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24.177.35.35-20130905071358/@comment-203.134.114.238-20131013152032

Kadjah Thoris wrote: All hell breaks loose yes - but: the Tau are a small empire, cut out the Imperial bureaucratic middle men and local support is likely to improve immensely. Remember the WHOLE Imperium doesn't respond to any challenge mostly it's the local Sector or Sub-sector or even  system resources that take it on. Cutting off the head of such a humumgus body might make much less difference than you think. It is not impossible that certain planets will never even notice.

Coupled with the IoM already pathetic communication arrays and speed...yeah, it would take years or even centuries for the colonies from Ultima Segementum to even respond to the news that Empy is dead.

One must wonder though, since the Ultramar system has always been regarded as the only hope left in the Imperium, as well as the fact it has been nicknamed the "Second Imperium"; once the IoM falls, do you guys think that the Ultramar System would be the new Human Empire?

[Darth Grunt]