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Cain talks about Commissars who rely on fear to maintain morale (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) according to him they tend to die valiantly in battle - at a suspicious distance from the foe.

My take is a Galaxy wide empire is going to show a lot of variation in how strictly they follow the rules set by distant authorities. The Imperium is a very decentralized place in many ways after all.