Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-65.29.225.205-20130427160705/@comment-15803608-20170612081315

How is any Ecclesiarch going to justify galling Guilliman a heretic? That would be the equivalent of a Christian priest calling Jesus a servant of the devil, or the equivalent of a Muslim imam claiming that the Prophet Muhammad is misinterpeting the Koran. Simply put, for any cleric to call Guilliman a heretic would be a suicide pact. His popularity and credibility is such that the ONLY way for more than an extremely fringe minority to consider him a heretic is if he openly worships chaos and/pr attempts to kill the Emperor.

As for planets, I admit that the claims on the maiden worlds already inhabited by imperials does complicate things. But that's not insurmountable either; the Imperium has abandoned, evaucted, quarentined, and even wiped out a multitude of it's own worlds. There is not a "hold onto every single inch" mentality in the Imperium, so a few worlds could be parted with. The Inquisition often do not reveal their reasons for quarentining or exterminating a world, so if an evaucation was ordered for "strategic necessidy" or "consolidation" or some other reason then nobody would raise a fuss.

On Eldar Pride, them thinking themselves superior has not prevented them from working with Humans and Orks in the past in teporary alliances. "Inferior" is not the same as "Has no value" or "does not benefit us". Every ally soldier who dies is a soldier from your own side that lives.