Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24821739-20140604204305/@comment-4851119-20140624170104

Callummacdonald79 wrote: given that the dune saga is one of the grand-daddies of modern sci-fi, then any sci-fi that came after 1965 is most likely heavily inspired by dune (and they should be as the dune saga is still a masterpiece). Well yeah, pretty much every space opera draws from Dune at least. Dune basically created the space opera genre as we know it, that and Lensmen, which also basically created the military sci-fi genre along with Starship Troopers. We all know that Dune, Lensmen and SST heavily inspired 40K (Though the Dune influence on the Imperium is less noticeable ofter 3rd edition retcons) so... yeah.

Back on topic: the only way the Imperium's recovering fully is if it finds a full STC database and a full-scale Standard Template Constructor, and then makes competent use of it. Not likely.