Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-68.229.119.75-20161124160543/@comment-8881468-20161130141321

Your first point is what, because the old ones eddled with the eldar and they meddled with the humans, they can repproduce together? Okay, we have had selective breeding on earth for millenia, that still oes not mean you can have an offspring of a horse and a shark. You actually say tht their genomes are not compatible (more chromosomes) in the first place... now what is the consequence of that... you wanna cut off chromosomes and then have a nonfunctioning zygote?

2. They would not be tools but Eldar (at least in some form or another) and judging by how the Eldar do not waste their own.. doubtful, to say the least. And we're not ven going into eldar pride and all them other lifeforms simply being beneath them.

And that is not even getting into the problems of: Eldar not being mammalian (as far as research shows, their ancestors are not really ot be found anywhere) or the difference of heart rate, and so on, or their psyychic potential, the whole species is psychic and prone to excesses, you think for one moment that having instable psykers would be no feast for chaos..

3. That is actually no argument at all. Every publication within a "universe" has to work within the strictures of said universe. Your "stroke of a pen" is only a thing that would work if you were an author who did not know the universe in the first place.

But hey, let us do some IoM 101.

A. Knowledge in the IoM is the sphere of the mechanicum, they are the institution that "does science". They send their magi to get shit done with technology, they are the ones that maintain everything, they are the ones who train the enginseers and techmarines and magi...

The Mechanicum does not know how to do it, they do not do research but try to get back to STC level (aka rediscover a lvl of technology that humanity had by ~ad 25000 by getting old records), they maintain things. Their ways of improving on the organic is mechanization or merely slapping artificial muscles on an existing structure...The rest is heresy and damnation. Why do you think, the only ones who do meddle with genetic material for "progress" are followers of Chaos, which would also rule out Eldar anyway....

They would not know how to do it, aside from such research being violation of the 2 religions active in the IoM, Cult Mechanicus and Imperial Creed.

B) Humans are (in the IoM) seen as the pinnacle of everything, it is a "sacred" form. The IoM kills off aberrants, mutants and the likes. The only thing they tolerate are those mutants that they need by neccessity (psykers) or which have not strayed too far from the human base (squats,ogryn, ratlings).

You really think that anybody who does not want the inquisition up their asses or the Machine Cult up their asses (because the Machien cult knows what each person does know/can know and thus can rather easily track down those that stray form the path.

Again: read the books, use your brain and then come... and honestly try to make sure you got an argument that works in the first place.