Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-4851119-20160427154656

88.171.98.229 wrote: To be honest, I think the Culture would just look at the 40K universe and then their Minds would just utter a big collective "nope" at the sight of the big prehistoric mess this world is according to their standards. They would be much more likely to try to manipulate them through Special Circumstances and Contact Agents than to invade this universe. But if they are attacked...well yes, any 40K universe force would be annihilated, maybe even by a single GOU. Which, by the way, are not even specifically designed for war. Seriously, the only time we saw the Culture really fighting with armies was in "Consider Phlebas" and we don't even know if they used their full potential back then... IIRC Consider Phlebas, while it stands as a good example of the Culture at war, is actually a low end as the showings of their technology go - which makes sense when you consider it's set so much earlier than most of the other books, by the Excession era they'd advanced hugely.