Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-86.147.147.99-20141222195515

"Though His body is a shattered wreck, more corpse than man, as long as the Golden Throne can maintain even the barest hint of His life functions, He will be able to maintain His presence within the Warp, guiding and directing the psychic beacon known as the Astronomican that is so vital to the Imperium's commerce, defence and communications even as His mind must claim the life energies of 1,000 human psykers a day to empower the beacon.

As noted above, it is the Emperor's powerful mind, projected and amplified in the Immaterium by the arcane mechanisms of the Golden Throne, that guides and maintains the psychic beacon of the Astronomican empowered by the daily life forces of thousands of psykers." - Strikes me as abit of both really.

Haha no it's not a perfect analogy, but not too bad i thought...real seas have current-so does the warp...real seas have storms-so does the warp...real seas have hazards (e.g. ice/fog/rocks/pirates)-so does the warp(Daemons/Chaos Space Marines etc). I was making it as without the seas/warp, the colonies/worlds would be isolated and open for attack and the centre(British Isles/Terra) would be starved of many resources.

It is a undoubted fact that every empire, state, company or even person has committed wrongs. The British Empire was no exception, on the other hand however all of those also bring bonuses. The Empire of Man is no different as just the same as all foreigners and colonies werent crushed and raped of anything good, without anything valuable put back into them by our imperialist forebears, the citizens of the Imperium has alsorts of good bits from the Imperium too at times. Hell, the Romans did the same to us but left all sorts of good things behind. Just because the locals don't like it, doesn't mean value isn't there.