Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150220210346/@comment-8881468-20150223081539

1. With nobody actually knowing "proper" science ( since the death of that 1 tech adept in "mechanicum") and the mechanicum guarding everything that is remotely related to technology, what faction in the whole imperium would actually be able to reverse engineer anything?

Stagnation will continue unless rules not on alien tech but on research are lessened, however: with no proper scientific method and every savant actually going through Mechanicum training, what does that mean?

2. Emperor dead and rules lessen, not really likely: the Imperium and the Ecclesiarchy have built their power structure up. They can simply formulate theories like: Pray and you keep the Emperor alive/you sustain him, he dies, we were not faithful enough/ we havbe not done enough.. so more zealotry and dogmatism.

3. with all the ships ready to depart and pre astronomicon travel, with devices like that in "unremembered empire" and relay stations, you can still have faster than light travel. the mechanicum even uses usblight ships to maintain contact.. they did that throughout the age of strife.

If we look at "red and black" we got worlds separated from the imperium for millennia by warp storms and they are still faithful.