Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-90.211.181.229-20130907201722/@comment-3258762-20131201160411

What people seem to forget is that the Imperium is not, and never was, the only "evil" faction. We have plenty of stories from the Great Crusade of civilizations of Xenos incredibly more advanced than the Interex that had enslaved or wiped out human colonies. Some of them were good, yes, but fitting with 40k, the majority were bad, and the majority were also superior with the only thing letting the Imperium win was tenacity and numbers.

We don't know how aliens would be in real life, we've never met them, but depending on where they came from and what conditions, they would be more or less warlike than us. This, however, is not the case in 40k. In 40k, the good guys die and the bad guys triumph, as we see happened to the Interex when they met the Imperium. What happens when the Interex meet a Waaagh! the likes of the ones on Ullanor or Armageddon? The Imperium won there through, partially, the genius of the Astartes and Primarch commanders, but mostly due to the fact that for ever Astartes who fought on the planet, a thousand Army/Guardsmen fought along side them. The Interex would have been screwed, simple as that, no matter what tech they had.

Don't believe me? The Imperium had TITANS. Imperial Titans are some of the greatest warmachines in the galaxy, only outdone by Eldar Titans. Yes, a Reaver or Warlord beats anything the Tau can dish out, they beat the Necrons, they beat the Tyranids Bio-Titans. What do they not beat? The Orks. The Orks brought down an Imperator Titan and almost destroyed it. An Imperator Titan, the kind of thing that could shatter fortifications by just venting plasma fumes near the walls (Not really but kinda.) The Interex were the best option for Humanity if Orks and Tyranids would not exist, but they do, so the Interex are not the best bet. Is the Imperium? Probably not, but they have a better chance than any other civilisation in the galaxy right now. In the Golden Age of the Imperium, maybe they would have crushed both the Orks and Tyranids, who knows?