User blog comment:Lune Crackham/Is the Emperor of Mankind really a hero?/@comment-30517726-20170422112800

The point is not to make IoM a place of comfort and noblebright empire. For the crusades, if the emperor would've wanted to act as a sole conqueror, Imperial Truth wouldn't be forcefully applied on every planet. It was EXACTLY like the crusades of old, just on a grander scale and with bigger guns. The main difference was the Astartes did not just want to conquer a "holy place", but the entire world and the same '''"accept or PERISH!" strategy was used as well'''. It is grimdark, that's true, but the problem behind this is that when you unite humanity, you don't unite only those who agree to you, otherwise no one would have the right to curse (bastard) hitler, who wanted to unite europe and EUROPEANS only. Meaning those who rejected, along with those who did not had the similar genes of a european, were to be exterminated. I do not go against the great crusade, but it is an agreeable fact that it was flawed and could've been better. The endgame was to "subjugate" mankind to prevent it from falling apart. Also, I did not mean there shouldn't be a galactic conquest, along with some "acceptable casualties", but my point was that the way it went through was absolutely flawed. (I do not support chaos) The thing with Emps is that he always thought that only he knew what's best for mankind and that is obviously not true.

For the record: "...as they were fighthing over religions that are both wrong." I disagree.