Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.229.75-20160517103444/@comment-86.169.168.6-20160521223105

The majority of the IOM's worlds are 'Civilised Worlds' which whilst a wide ranging term, does denote that not all of the worlds are totally crap. This is backed up in several stories, sources, threads etc etc they aren't all oppressive and nasty. They have shops, relaxtion situations for the general public etc but then some a nasty hive/forge worlds.

The Tau are a joke. The etherals are dodgy, using some kind of control over the population. There is dissent in the caste system in that atleast some don't even believe in the greater good. Not all Tau leaders treat the non-Tau troops as equal to the Tau etc etc Scratch the Tau's shiney surface and there is a potentially flimsy society under it.

The Emperor was flawed, clearly. No one who has reportidly got to where he did would be so...dense. Distant from humanity i'm sure he was, he would still have some solid ability to read situations. It's not massively realistic in that regard sadly.

I can well imagine a situation where the Emperor was pushing the webway project so fast etc as he knew a storm was coming and that strife would occur. He may even have seen some out of context images in visions etc so knew some legions etc were loyal yet didn't have enough forsight to prevent it all and, perhaps, paradoxically assist it. There are loads of examples of foresight and i'm fairly sure that the Emperor had some function. Trying to develope the technology that would assist in winning this potential conflict and generally massively help the imperium, would be quite a push. Who knows.