Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141214213749/@comment-25177957-20151229122618

80.57.58.37 wrote: to determine the victory of this battle is more difficult then one might think because there are two main problems:

1) The total strength of the imperium (and allies) is not documented. And neither is the total strength of any star wars faction. Personally i would be inclined to accept that the imperium has larger numbers then for example the galactic empire

2) There is no known comparison between the technologies of both the imperium and the star wars factions. for example the star destroyers of the galacticempire can cross the galaxy in a matter of days where the imperium takes centuries to do something like that so the GC can more effectively deploy its assets. Similarily the weapons of the imperium are often balistics while the GC uses (trubo)lasers. we dont know which of the two is more effective. similarily shield and armor technoligies should be compaired. Additionally there is the issue of command and control. The imprium will not be able to coordinate a galactic scale offensive the way the GC would be able to.

Conclusion: It is not possible to make this comparison based on current evidance. This is why this wikia exists, so that you can do sufficient research before coming to silly conclusions. First off, it does not take "centuries" for the Imperium to cross the galaxy, as Imperial ships make use of warp travel and the warp drive, which fluctuates in how much time it takes for a ship to reach a point, anywhere from years, to near instantanious travel, or in some cases, before whatever event the ship is responding to occurs, Starwars' hyperspace would be unable to compare to warp travel, and hyperspace would likely fail to work in the 40k galaxy.

Secondly, the Empire is barely able to recover after the Rebel Alliance destroys the first death star is destroyed, the Imperium faces gigantic xenos (alien) incursions and brutal attacks by the Forces of Chaos almost every day of it's existence, if the Galactic Empire had to face what the Imperium does daily, I would give it about 2 hours before the Empire is crushed by either an Ork Waaaagh, Tyranid Hive Fleet, Black Crusade, or any other threat which throws itself at the Imperium. Especially when Palpatine's "finest" is broken by primitive teddy-bear like species on a forest moon and some rebels, the Imperium of Man's finest is busy destroying daemonic threats and xenos invasions that could tear entire star systems apart in minutes.