Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150220210346/@comment-25177957-20150221200254

@Callum, well in your first post you had that idea, and in this post you've got the same idea. That's got a very low chance of happening if at all. If the death of the Emperor resulted in the second Age of Strife, humanity would hardly be able to advance at all, it'd be thousands of years that mankind would be struggling to survive, and even if the Primarchs are back and in charge of a neo-Imperium, they certainly aren't going to help with any major science projects any-time soon. There also wasen't a single time once, not during the Dark Age of Technology, Age of Strife, or Great Crusade when using xenos technology was popular in the Imperium, humanity has always prefered it's own devices, rather this be due to mere choice, or supersition. If anything, only one or two factions will even be considering reverse engineering xenos technology, and those factions will probably be tainted by Chaos in secret or simply close allies with the Tau, but as you put it, all of Humanity will reverse engineer xenos tech, have extremely high technology, and  whatever else. I don't think you know why humanity didn't advance during the Age of Strife, because if you did, you know why they'd have a hellish time advancing after the Emperor dies.

I'm not the only one calling the idea stupid, several others in the old thread did too, it's just a bad idea. Sounds like something they'd come up with on 4dchan.