Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150511012802/@comment-8881468-20150526141958

Funny thing: Erebus had joined with the Sons of Horus after murder/ during the compliance action, however the view of Xenos, aka kill them all is pretty much a condition of the astartes and nowadays the Imperium as a whole. The Chaos worship was also not really evident in the lodges as they were mainly the meeting place outside of rank.

Plasma weaponry: to quote the Plasma Weapon Article, section Imperial Plasma Weapons, emphasis made by me:

Imperial Plasma Weapons represent a dying technological art for the contemporary Imperium of Man, with the secrets of their design and construction almost lost outside the select circles of the Adeptus Mechanicus and their Tech-adept artisans. Their inner workings are a mystery for the most part in the wider Imperium, and o'''nly a select few Forge Worlds still know how to construct them. Existing weapons must be carefully maintained and passed down generation to generation''' with each operator carefully ensuring all the proper blessings of the Machine God are bestowed before use. "

A little before that,m  in the same article we find this little gem: "[...]Despite this danger, Plasma Weapons are usually such a rare and valued technology for the Imperium it is often considered better that the weapon survive than the wielder."

In that same article, we also find this passage:

"In the modern 41st Millennium, it is an honour to carry such weapons into battle and be trusted to make sure every searing shot counts. Based on the secrets of the sacred STC, it is a design that has never been developed or improved on. Indeed, the very thought of trying to mitigate the flaws of Plasma Weapons would be repellent to the followers of the Machine God. By the grace of the Omnissiah, these weapons fulfil a role within the God-Emperor's armies, and to change this role in any way would be to invite mayhem and disorder. So Plasma Weapons are crafted just as they have been for untold centuries, each finding its way into the hands of a resolute Space Marine or an ungrateful Guardsman."

Aka: if you only repeat somehting that has been done for centuries, you do not really understand how somehting works, only that it works, which is exactly what the Mechanicum does.

let us move on to AI or machines: the Imperium relies on servitors that are programmed.. aka brain matter, instead of ebing able to produce simple automata that can fulfill simple task, the argument is a simple one: if you do not rely on manual labor, you need far less humans, you do not need hive cities for production, you have far less peopel thus far less biomass, which is far less attractive to f.e. tyranids or dark eldar.

Let us move towards the Eldar hmm what do we have.. craftworlds destroyed by space marines, tons of campaigns against them.. the eldar will unite with mankind against chaos but ultimately the mon keigh are merely held in contempt and what is a credo of imperial creed.. Abhor the Xenos

Dark Eldar vs PDF  a simple thing: if we move through the canon m,aterial, we find the Eldar raiding worlds repeatedly, abducting even companies of guardsmen (as we see in f.e. Path of the Outcast ( if I remember correctly) or in the short story "deathwolf" or in the Tactica Imperialis or we look at the tome of fire series, the brothers of the snake or the many many other mentions in cannon material where dark eldar regularly raid planets and collect their meat.

Problem being honey: the IoM acted towards it's own people as spreading of enlightenment, forcing cultures into compliance, bringing ruin to superior or more enlightened realms and then trying to sell it as improvbement. the leaders lied to their subordinates and kept them in the dark, under such conditions, the only thing we can view the IoM is simply a barbaric parasitic entity.

You probably are also glad about killing hundreds of thousands or ifaqi children, starting decades of civil war for the greater good of a company or destabilising countries, toppling democraticcally elected gov ernments and so on ^^