Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-6078851-20141224165456

in regards to the astronomican: 'the emperor of mankind' page doesn't actually say much about it but it does say - "his powerful mind's presence in the immaterium maintains and directs the astronomican." and "...engineered the creation of the astronomican, a supremely powerful psychic navigational beacon powered by the emperor's will and psychic abilities." to me "powered by his will and psychic abilities" says that he is the source and any device is just the focal/magnification mechanism.

@cont 86.147, barbarity in the name of civilisation is abhorant and contradictory, but burning a few planets worth of people in the face of tyranids isn't in the name of civilisation but in the name of species survival. such an action is inded barbaric and atrocious, but given that tyranids are winning the 'survival of the fittest' race such actions are necassary to deny them access to viable bio-mass, thus preventing, or just slowing, their propogation, thus helping humans, as well as every other species native to the milky way, to survive against them longer.

i too apologise for significant topic deviation :)