Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141214213749/@comment-33557506-20180219005737

Where would they fight? The WH40K's Milky Way, or SW's Galaxy. Because both sides need Warp or Hyperspace lanes map in order to safely travel at FTL speeds, plus they depend on a net of Astropaths or Hyperspace transceiver stations

But anyway, I would say SW has the advantage. First, they have quantity. Every starship in the SW is able of FTL travel and has either hyperspace or subspace transceivers, and there are millions or even billions of them per sector. In the IoM, on the other hand, they have a few dozens of Astropaths and Navigators per sector (most merchant voidships take years to go from star system to star system because they lack a Navigator...).

Plus Navigators can't guide voidships without the help of the Astronomicon at all, period, but SW starships can try to blaze new routes through unknown space... it it's slow, it takes months, but they would eventually be able to travel the Milky Way, while the IoM would never be able to travel at full speed through the SW Galaxy...

And even at full speed, SW's starships are faster... days to cross the Galaxy from one end to the other one, while a WH40K's voidship would take months to do the same... A SW's starship can probably blaze a new trail through hyperspace at the same speed a WH40K's voidship without a Navigator... but everytime a starship make the same route, it goes faster, because it records the route in its computer, while the voidship can't go faster ever without a Navigator and the Astronomicon.

As for communications, even without their net of hyperspace transceivers, SW's subspace transceivers still have a range of dozens to hundreds of lightyears, enough to coordinate attacks in a sector,and they can send LOTS of very precise information very fast, while WH40K's have to rely on Astropaths sending vague omens...

And then there is the difference in mindset and industrial capacity. Go search about the Landites, a very important sects of the Adept Mechanicus... they revere Land, the guy who discovered 10,000 years ago the blueprints of the tanks the Empire of Mankind still uses today (he didn't even create those... he just unearthed the blueprints!); their dream is to discover a new tank, and in order to do so, they carefully read Land's ancient writings in search of prophecies and omens... they think Land may have hidden the blueprint of a new tank among somewhere... and you know what? they are considered heretics for being too innovative!

Not to mention, learning from aliens and heretic is a SIN to them! Would they even be able make a collective effort to reverse engineer SW's tech, or would they collapse into a religious civil war over it?

And of course, reverse engineering SW's droids and computers would be out of the question!

These people will never be able to learn and adapt fast enough...

The SW's galactic civilization, on the other hand, could probably hook R2D2 to a voidship and break their computer code in a few weeks, and they could probably reverse engineer anything in the WH40K's universe in a matter of months.

Not to mention that SW's folk spread and replicate knowledge and turn it into industrial capacity really fast; they can build millions of starships in months, while the Empire of Mankind keeps using voidships that were built thousands of years ago, and are unable to rebuild many of them...

.The only advantage of WH40K's universe would be misdirecton of betrayal, but if Palpatine is in charge, they are screwed. And even if the Republic is in charge, they could betray them only so many times before the Republic learnt to fight back...