Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20140109121720/@comment-2253300-20140109164310

You do realize that the Emperor was not aiming for faith right? Actually he was tying to bring about the epoch of the Imperial Truth, which was a philosophy that promoted reason and progress and discouraged religion and blind faith. Him getting worshipped as a god was the result of mankind's desperation after he was forced into life support on the Golden Throne. Also without him there is no Astronomicon. No Astronomicon means almost no Warp Travel, and if you think the the Tau are going to be able to maintain an empire on the scale of the Imperium without the use of relkiable Warp Travel then you have another thing coming. The Tau are only so prosperous because they are still small.