Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-72.15.97.37-20121205193921/@comment-86.169.171.43-20160712191308

Potentially that didn't come through well in my point but that was what I was aiming to put across. That sheer Geography is not a good attachement to culture as A) people are saying things like 'germany is really good at tech' (simplification) based of a snap shot of circa 2000 years of European history. Given that the Emperor would be sampling his culture from 30000 years of history, then it is clear that alot could have changed in the other 28000 years. Poland could have became ninja at tech and Germany fell into nothing in the other years. Thus now, in this culture, we think "good with tech", we think Germany as they are synonyms with it. But to a person of the year 30000, Poland has a much better run at tech development, efficency and general abilty to be productive.

A little hyperbole but the Empire was actually based off the Muffmo nation, based in present day Malta who came to power in 12000 and had a powerful empire for nearly the next 20000 years. They took examples of practice from the Greeks, Romans and the Liverpool gangs of the 1950's.

So no, it wasn't based on the Romans fully as they were relatively flash in the pan compared to the Muffmo's who had a much impact on Pre-Imperium culture than the Romans.

Lol so yeah, i'd not argue too much as they'll take a little from a lot of sources.