Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24821739-20140604204305/@comment-24037808-20140606093928

I start guessing the Golden Throne is nothing but the greatest deceit ever made against Mankind.

Of course the original meaning of the Golden Throne was a good one: the Emperor who just saved Mankind and defeated Horus is mortally wounded: every single human in the universe wants him not to die.

For sure the Astronomicon is the main reason the rotten Emperor is still alive: a scattered, not connected Empire will fall for sure in a matter of years.

But...

1) Assuring the Empi to his golden cage virtually eliminates every chance to see him reincarnate with almost infite powers. Of course noone is sure this will happen, but the Golden Throne is the best insurance not to stumble in this uncomfortable option.

2) Without an "active" and living Empi, "common" humans can share the command power (sadly power if for manking one of the major source of corruption). Administrum,  Eclesiarchy, the Mechanicum, the Inquisition: all of this oligarchy will lost a good chunck of their influence and decisional power over all the Imperium.

3) The Astronomicon is attracting Tyranids: chances that Mankind could really win a massive invasion from Tyranids are more than scarce, we could say it could be better to lose the ability to FTL travels than facing Tyranids at the gates of the sol system. Yet the Astronomicon is still active, and fear full hearths and minds of everyone aware of it (chaos is really glad about it i think).

4) The most effective tool in Mankind ranks (the Astartes) have nothing more than a Simulacrum to serve in the name of. There is no true leaders (Empi or Primarchs) to rule, guide and command them, dropping shadows and second thouhts about what the Empi will really wants.

I'm pretty sure other people in this forum could find many other reasons other than those i listed.

All of this concerns could be wiped away by a single statement: "Noone can be sure the Empi will came back, so it's better a rotten Empi than no Empi at all".

But we all know that actual state of thing will inelcutably bring Mankind to disappear, or become nothing more than some isolated, scattered medieval living race in some remote planets.

The only hope is to take hard decisons in hard times. Doing nothing in critical conditions is the banner of failure, and the Golden Throne looks to me to be the perfect represantation of this state.