Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20140924094901/@comment-8881468-20140929213715

even in the great crusade era, the imperium forced their view on everybody else

let's look at who they killed/ put under their control by brute force

interex: a culture several millenia old and developed, that had incorporated alien species instead of extinction campaigns versus them (or permanent exile)

disaporex " we wanted to be left alone" the last word after they had lost the final battle

auretian technocracy: did not wanna be part of the imperium.. here come the space marines  "

the "imperium of man" that is met by the lunar wolves  in the 1st horus heresy novel

basiccally: as soon as you were human, you were brought into compliance by etreaty or by war.

same with f.e. isstvaan people battled to the gorund by the raven guard, the davinite humans, xyz, we could look at a ton of campaigns in every era of the IoM and would simply find carnage