Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-65.29.225.205-20130427160705/@comment-6134883-20130429152208

Humanity's strength lies in its numbers and its diversity - regretably Empy didn't recognize the latter and tried to impose uniformity (mistaking it for unity). Luckily the sheer size of the galaxy and numbers of human worlds defeated that intent and we see plenty of diversity in the Imperium. Diversity of course leads inevitably to conflict - which sometimes gets out of hand - but uniformity is stasis and death so a certain amount of mess and inconvenience must be accepted. Individual Humans can be worse that the worst of the Dark Eldar - and better then the best of them on a good day. Sometimes the same individual can be both in the course of a lifetime. Flexible, that's us. Humanity came back from destruction once and we can do it again, and as many times as are necessary. Possibly we would do better without Empy and the astronomicon. Maybe we'll find out, maybe we won't.