Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.117-20130701124335/@comment-8881468-20130706053413

problem  with star wars, just look at the timeline, the number of different publications, authors and narratives. warhammer is far far away from the size of sw, thus having far fewer problems there. (okay and the quality of w40k main books is quite a lot better than f.e. sw movie books [example: nothing up until r.a. salvatore's novel to the 3rd movie of trilogy 2 mentions anything about styles in light saber fencing and that is what, 20 years into the franchise and the lightsabre is about the most iconic thing of the franchise]) or the original trilogy book 2.. man that 200+ pages are pretty horrible. also SW did change basics of movies (han shot first anyone...)

However what I mean is something completely different: you simply cannot take up the narratives of f.e. w40k imperioum without using it against the backdrop of the universe that is constructed around it, take all it's own narratives with it. otherwise you simply saw off 1 extremety and have nothing to supply it with blood, aka you get a piece of dead meat and not a working system.