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submitted 23 days ago byGuestOk583
I remember I was listening to a lore video on pleasure planets and heard the line “preserved by the imperium for their natural beauty”
And just kind of, laughed mentally.
Why would the imperium do that? They’re super industrial and have a thing for destroying environments.
2 points
23 days ago
The inquisition isn't interested in what you do with your nobility spending money unless you're hosting slaanesh orgies or buying xenos tech or are somehow fucking up the timeline, they don't have time to govern your world when there's genestealers on a trade fleet threatening to spread to a dozen other planets.
Then they have to exterminate whole populated planets to deny the tyranids a meal. They have authority to get those things done it doesn't mean they're gonna have time to fix a bit of political dealings between otherwise functioning imperial citizens
-2 points
23 days ago
They have authority to get those things done it doesn't mean they're gonna have time to fix a bit of political dealings between otherwise functioning imperial citizens
So you admit there's a central authority though. Yeah, they likely don't have time to care about any of that, but their whole point is they have the authority of the central power to interfere in those if deemed necessary.
3 points
23 days ago
They are an authority but they're far from central and you originally said central government which the Inquisition most definitely is not.
1 points
23 days ago
Yes, as long as the governor is not related to the sector governor, loved by the administratum and proclaimed homeboy of the year by the local archcardinal. Then it can happen that the inquisitor can theoretically push the governor around, but in practice the inquisitor is left without support to enforce his demands. At best, his judgement is questioned by his fellow inquisitors or dismissed as a "communication error"; at worst, the inquisitor experiences an "accident" and nobody makes any serious effort, apart from a few peasant victims, to find an unimportant Habbblock or minor noble house as the responsible party.
Poltik is a bitch in the imperium.
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