gravity wrote:
Yes it is, one "super soldier" per *planet* (on average), where each plant has up to several hundred billion people, is *not* efficient no matter how much fanboy spin you put on it.
A.) They do not recruit from every world... but wait thats inefficent right, if they recruited from every world for the Space MArines then it would be better? Correct, nope sorry the Inquistion does a similar thing to this, examaning all worldsfor Psycics, and the Inquistion is as efficent an organisation as exists... yet it can take a Generation for a black ark to cycle through it's worlds.... if they difd this with Marines it'd be as long and tying up resources, better to stick to a handful of worlds, that coincidently are proven to provide the needed qualties. (Or in the Spacewolves case insure your world provides those qualities...) Added is that the number of Marine Number's is kept artificially low, once bitten twice shy, when half the Super Soldiers go off and join the great enemy you kind of want a security against it happening again.
No it's not, religious opression and wasteful beaureaucray add up to a system where the potential of billions of people is almost completely wasted, and where innovation is almost completely stifled.
Reliogous oppresion, oh you mean the Emporer worship, yes in a way, except for a religious dictatorship it's quite open almost every world has it's different take on the faith, and as long as they fall within specfic boundry's (Such as the emporer has two arms not four, thats a clear sign of Genestealer taint) you'll find it's not so bad. And the fact that a Governer has unparralled self government. As long as they keep the Imperium laws, on such things as tithes, support for a Crusade, eradicating Xenos and Chaos Taints. and keeping the Psycker population under control a Governer has a great deal of freedom.
when you are talking about a Billion planet empire that has to tell with constant warfare, and internal problems that have to be dealt with for the sake of humanity....
1 million planets, not 1 billion. And the constant warfare is at least partly their own fault;
You may be correct, still the fact stands that this is a nit pick, a Million or a Billion doesn't really change my argument much so can we move past this point?
if they would learn to ally with the Eldar and other potentially friendly races, rather than being culturally bigoted against them (this does apply both ways), they would be in a much more stable external situation,
LOFLMAO Friendly species the Eldar yes thats right I'd see the Eldar as a friendly species!... You do know what the Eldar world for Humans means don't you? 'Mon-Keigh' = is the name Eldar use for Humans, it refers to a previous time when an unknown species held the Eldar as Slaves. This Brutal Barbaric race was wiped out, possibly by the Eldar when they rebelled, or possibly by an outside force that in the process of doing this freed the Eldar. When the Eldar use the term in for humans they are saying not only that Humanity is a similar species in mentallity to this one, but that they deserve the same fate.
The Eldar also view the creation of Ghaskall thraka and his Armageddon campaigns as a success because they saved a I think it was a Thousand, or ten Thousand Eldar, at the cost of millions of humans, small fry to them. This is the species you think the Imperium would be more efficent if they allied with them!!!!
and if they dumped the religous dogma for a more scientific and rational approach to combatting Chaos influence, and to maintaing social order, they would probably have much greater internal stability.
WHAT THE FUCK Rational approach to Chaos!!! What they should get a team of scientists together to stiudy the fundamental laws behind Chaos! Chaos has a few simple rules. The weak should not know about it, for in knowing they become tempted and will fall into it's power. ANY Human not strong willed enough sensibly avoids knowing anything more about Chaos than They go splat when I shoot them... not because of fear of the Imperium but more because it is at the cost of their being, Knowladge breeds Chaos. The Faith in the Emporer is THE ONLY THING holding the Humanity together, the sacriface of the lesser Psychics keeps the Astromecian going without which Warp travel would be next to impossible.
many go willingly to their deaths because of their faith.
The Faith in the Empoerer keeps the Soldiers fighting, keeps them sane at times. Despite this boards love of science in 40K there is such things as forbidden knowledge, the Emporer is a threat to Chaos why do you think even it's Dremon Princes hate and fear him!!! In the far future only the Emporer provides hope, Science would not because the weapons of Chaos are not Science, it's true weapon's are fear, and in Chaos's case the more you know the more you fear. apart from anything else Chaos is not Rational, so a Rational study is doomed to fail.
From a review of the two Towers.... 'As for Gimli being comic relief, what if your comic relief had a huge axe and fells dozens of Orcs? That's a pretty cool comic relief. '
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