Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6767898-20130409140103/@comment-6078851-20140413154138

there are totally good times in 40k:

orks always have good times, except for the lulls in-betwen battles :)

the thing is though, despite the size of the imperium, and the size of the ork threat, and the size of the tyranid threat etc, and despite the sheer volume of wars that are waged across the galaxy, the one thing there's more of than anything else in space....is space - empty, tranquil space (relatively speaking, because the 'empty' vacuum of space is far from empty and things like supernovae, black holes etc are far from tranquil).

for every warzone in the galaxy there's thousands of worlds all over the place that are not directly involved (or involved at all) in those wars. places that will most likely provide materials/personnel for the wars but aren't actually warzones themselves - so for the people of those worlds; not being at the frontline of a war would definitely be good times. plus every war won would be good times (for the winners). as well as realms like ultramar that live in comparitive luxary; the denizens of those type of worlds would regularly experience good times.

and on the other side of the warp - every daemon and worshipper of khorne that's killing something is having a good time. slaanesh daemons and worshippers are all about the good times - however depraved and vile their actions may seem to us there's no denying that they're all having exceptionally good times :)

and while 40k's tagline is "there is only war", the sheer scale of the galaxy opposes that notion. think of all the drudgery that the masses have to go through to provide for the wars. drudgery that far, far outnumbers the amount of war. for those that have to drudge 'good times' would probably be small things: maybe satisfaction in their work, getting home to their family after their shift, celebrating a childs birthday or their induction into the imperial guard or even astartes ranks. they're maybe small things in the scheme of 40k but for those involved they would certainly be good times. then there's still worlds undiscovered that are home to civilisations that know nothing of galactic war, worlds that might mirror our current world on which good times are quite commonplace.

essentially 'good times' is subjective, and when 40k was first created the tagline would've been more accurate, but 25 years later, with the abundance of story that's been created since, there's now so much more and the tagline ought to read - "in the grim darkness of the far future there isn't only war." :)