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Neithan02 wrote: Callum, source for your first paragraph please ;) I wanna read up on that particularity.

let us go "utipia" here:

1. science and technology are done via research.. --> progress there

2. Imperium is still more than mildly xenophobic.. aka: kill everything non human

3. all legions more or less united, titan legions around and so on.. everything is crushed and you only have humans around in the galaxy  --> disarmament of the wider imperium : boredom for the marines and no threats mean little control and chaos comes in through the backdoor (especially tzeentch and Slaneesh)

also if the outer threats are gone, you turn inwards... If I remember correctly from some of the Horus Heresy Vision Books, the Golden Throne was created the shield the Imperial Webway from the Warp, because the Emperor lacked the neccesary teachnology to construct tunnels.