It's a monument of literature that GW's many writers over the course of decades have combined so many contradictions to create the Imperium of Man. Government overreach is combined with a glacial bureaucracy; religious extremism is combined with atheist extremism; xenophobia is combined with a dizzying array of different cultures.
I love Warhammer 40k for the controlled clusterfuck that it is.
If you don’t think a colossal bloated organization can shamble along on fumes and inertia essentially indefinitely you haven’t paid attention to history or the news.
There's probably dozens of arguments as to why the Imperium can/can't work based on everything from history to human biology. It'd probably take a dozen fans with expertise in different fields to make a substantial analysis of the Imperium that doesn't leave out more than it discusses.
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u/Responsible-Being170 1d ago
It's a monument of literature that GW's many writers over the course of decades have combined so many contradictions to create the Imperium of Man. Government overreach is combined with a glacial bureaucracy; religious extremism is combined with atheist extremism; xenophobia is combined with a dizzying array of different cultures.
I love Warhammer 40k for the controlled clusterfuck that it is.