Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25222488-20151025234507/@comment-8881468-20151125093103

General patton 101 wrote: I understand it to a good degree but as heretical pointed out they often fail. an im only sharing my opinion to warrant further discussion. you cant deny that it would be interesting to see the imperium get a grip on its self. Which would only work if you destroy the basis of technology in the IoM, if you kill of the Mechanicum.

qed your post is pretty much not working within the framework of the IoM in the first place.

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an generation ships sound like an nightmare spending an lifetime on one only to never see outside the ship (and or warp) [/quote]

but is essentially what the Mechanicum used to keep contact with some forge worlds during the age of strife. Also it is pretty much the way  that our current technology can envison interstellar travel. getting to mars and back is atm a 500+ day travel wqith a ton of problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500

speed that up and interstellar still takes decades, hence you will have generation ships ( or take f.e. the bottle worlds in the "flight of the eisenstein" and many other examples. physics still apply.