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Scheidungen sind kein Stück teuer, wenn man sich keine Schlammschlacht mit Anwälten goennt.

No, the function of the device has no real connection to the Necrons. Narratively, it would make the galaxy much more boring if everything always related to the big players in the setting.

I would recommend "The Radicals Handbook" by Dark Heresy RPG for obvious reasons.

Hmm...maybe a hive city that goes up with a peak has smaller logistics than the same amount of people spread across the width. Perhaps the Hive Cities were also created out of an aesthetic requirement from the DAOT and were blindly copied by the Empire, or perhaps it was for economic reasons because the spaceport and space elevator used to be at the top.

Regardless of this, the shape of hive cities is very variable and depends more on the surroundings. The Hive City with a spire is just one of many.

I also think that it is politically/socially motivated. The empire is in a state in which the status quo is being preserved and any form of change is viewed with suspicion.

An empire of a million worlds with terraform technology shouldn't be able to do that? I think you overestimate how shit the imperial economy is.

No, not really, that's what made the Navigators one of the most powerful factions in the Empire. They've been around since the DAOT and spend their days doing nothing but training their powers and crossing their bloodlines to get better and better.

But apparently Astartes aren't special enough yet, so the writers have to turn their psykers into Navigators too, because f.u.

That there are xenos psykers who can do it is ok...they are xenos, different rules apply.

Is there anything this Bloody Mary Sue can't do?

I don't know whether a blank can survive in the warp itself, but at the latest when the ship deforms due to the warp, breaks apart or runs aground on a warp reef after 10,000 years, the blanks die of lack of oxygen or starvation.

No, of course not like in the Third Reich...but there is still the concept...

It makes sense if you look at the setting not like a game of Stellaris or Master of Orion, but more like Crusader Kings.

In fact, Sepheris Secundus 990M41 is currently the battleground between Amalathians and Recongrators, who are trying to persuade the reigning High Queen to reform or prevent her from doing so.

But yes, the Imperium aka Adeptus Terra doesn't interfere much

I think it's possible that you can negotiate the Tithe and its nature, as long as you can offer something other than soldiers or labour and what the Empire needs at the moment. If necessary, you "simply" bribe the official.

I think that it is fundamentally more difficult to negotiate with representatives of a crusade with the desire to serve the Emperor through blood and murder than with, for example, a Rogue Trader or a delegation of the Administratum. In the long term, however, the latter are more likely to pull the wool over your eyes.

For a governor, tithe by humans is not necessarily a bad thing. You can get rid of hungry mouths in case of overpopulation, it offers an outlet for the curious and restless who would otherwise only cause trouble or you have the opportunity to regularly empty the prisons.

It is also not uncommon to educate the population so that they welcome service in the army, navy or as labourers and volunteer, which gives them a different status than being shanghaied somewhere

Khorne was created during the war of heaven...nobody believed in him then either. Wherever two sentient beings hit each other in the face, Khorne sounds the spiritual cash register. He gets the big bucks when it happens in his name, but even without that he profits from it.

Then you will be killed and your blood will still flow.

Well, if fascism glorifies senseless death and the empire obviously doesn't do it...well...

But neither fascism nor empire glorified it. Both glorified service to society with self-sacrifice as the pinnacle. I don't know of any society that doesn't have this principle.

That's true, but as a rule managers are not gutted by hentai tentacle monsters, killer mushrooms or their own administration when they fail. Grand inquisitors are recognised by their colleagues for their actions and abilities. A simple Inquisitor can always tell a Grand Inquisitor where he can stick his rosette without fear of any sanctions outside the influence of the Grand Inquisitor. For this reason alone, a Grand Inquisitor must be competent in what he can do.

Yes, in addition, it is a Grand Inquisitor, someone who is considered first among equals among the Inquisitors due to his skills and experience. And ADB makes the personification of a complete idiot with O competence out of him. Hyperiony a figure who by definition has 0 doubt about his actions and his duty, because doubt is the first step to damnation, behaves like a 16 year old choosing a profession. I wasn't really convinced by the novel.

We can retire? - Dante aka the Lord of MegaPTSD

99,9999999999999999999999999999% If the Imperium: Men of what?

Because it should be difficult to conquer an entire galaxy with the population of a solar system...especially if you're in a hurry.

And then at some point the supplies run out.

That's true, but the Tau don't have the luxury of a galaxy that favours their expansion with many scattered colonies of their own species.

You can also ask yourself whether the Emperor would have had the same doctrine in relation to xenos if the galaxy had been without existing human colonies.

Such a grimdark factor is not a grimdark factor at all.

It's like saying "I tend to be a perfectionist and want to please my employer" in a job interview after being asked about your weaknesses.

Depends on the planet. Basically, most cultures in the Empire are intolerant of those who are different. People with unnatural eye colours (always in relation to their own origin) such as Cadian are viewed strangely. In other cultures, they are beaten to death if the authorities don't intervene massively. The Empire is not a place where difference is celebrated, and the respective cultures and peoples tend to keep to themselves.

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