>Religiously xenocidal polity built around the purity of the human form
>Most numerous lifeform in human space is actually a scaly alien cow
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>Religiously xenocidal polity built around the purity of the human form
It would be a mistake to think of the Imperium as a rational polity. It's more of a temper tantrum on a widespread scale.
Temper Tantrum is a poor characterization, the Imperium moves far too slowly for it to be that. It feels much more like a bureaucratic nightmare.
They exist to serve mankind.
This. Fiction is often the subversion or reversal of the real world inspiration.
>reversal
The real world government is engaged in genocidal wars purely for pissing off their genocidal rival government decades after the cold war supposedly ended.
OP said religious polity. Mainstream media love to present banger stories with little resemblance to reality if not full on declare war on truth.
>The Imperium is hypocritical
What a revelation. That said, it's pretty obvious that alien animals and plants don't pose a threat to humanity the same way that alien people do.
Imperium only hates intelligent aliens, all other aliens are just useful resources
and yet they hate eldar and orks, two species that are demonstrably mondo-morono. curious.
>hates intelligent aliens
That don't work for them.
Immortan Joe's looking lively.
ah, yes, the human form
to merr is human. to low, bovine
Xenos are allowed to serve Man.
That's what a Grox looks like?
Not really sure it'd make good Meat Livestock like that...
almost like the point is that the imperium is moronic and hypocritical, like how they worship the "purity of the human form" whilst their most iconic forces are genetically modified freaks with their humanity stripped away
>genetically modified freaks with their humanity stripped away
tbf they're just really big buff religious dudes. It's not like they give them six arms and a laser gun for a face.
they spit acid and can breathe underwater
if you see someone try to discredit a statement based solely on word choice, you know you're engaging with a moron
But I'm right.
You need to make it clear which poster you are when you make a reply like this, cretin. Or, better yet, just refrain entirely from making posts so lacking in substance that they boil down to "nuh-uh".
You are very, very gay.
>they spit acid and can breathe underwater
Superman has laser vision and can fly, and unless you're named lex luthor you're probably not running around calling him a twisted freakish perversion of the human form.
If I met a dude who could breath underwater I'd say that's pretty cool.
Nah, that's nulore. I can't find anything before BL got into it that said they didn't revere him as a god.
>I can't find anything before BL got into it that said they didn't revere him as a god.
moronic secondary. This is Priestley era lore established in rogue trader and 2nd edition.
>The Imperial Cult only became an organised institution after the Emperor's battle with Horus. Before that time there was no organised Imperial religion, but the Emperor was venerated on many different worlds by a multitude of different people. The Space Marines had always regarded the Emperor as their founding father, and after his incarceration in the Golden Throne this veneration gradually turned to open worship. In this way, every Chapter of Space Marines developed its own distinctive cult practices, so that the official Imperial Cult of the Ecclesiarchy never held any sway over them
>this veneration gradually turned to open worship
2nd edition literally says they don't view the Emperor as a God, just the greatest man
Go get a quote, cause I've been wanting to find where this all comes from. Realms of chaos is the oldest quote I've found and it says they do by current year.
I think it mostly comes from Index Astartes, where most lore on Space Marines that fans are familiar with comes from
If there is anything earlier than that it would be in the 2nd edition Codex Imperialis, but I have never been able to find a copy
Not sure if going back to 1e proves anything since back then Space Marines were just battle hardened men (and sometimes women) in power armor
>Space Marines were just battle hardened men
Stop parroting this, it's not true at all.
I mean they had some physical enhancements, but it wasn't until later editions that they started emphasizing how freakishly mutated they were
No, you are wrong. The RT book says they're chemically and psychosurgically enhanced super soldiers, and mentions the black carapace. The article detailing all their extra organs and gene seed was in White Dwarf about 4 months later.
They were never just dudes in power armour.
They were never complete freaks either, otherwise how do you explain the female marines that existed back then?
I don't have to explain them because they didn't exist.
they had models
Not everyone in power armour is a marine. Sisters of Battle for instance. Who are also in the RT book.
>muh female marines
Every fricking time.
Literally the second book printed to mention space marines, and the first to give any detailed fluff about them, goes into exactly how mutated and weird they are. The only thing that's changed over the last 30 years is the volume of faux Latin being used to name stuff.
>Not sure if going back to 1e proves anything since back then Space Marines were just battle hardened men (and sometimes women) in power armor
Total fricking lie. Space Marines were just as superhuman in 1e as every following edition, this was never a change, and there were NEVER female Space Marines. You have never read Rogue Trader. Why do you homosexuals ALWAYS pretend to be authorities on a book you've never read with your own eyes?
Discord trannies and r/sigmarxism gays sow this shit in threads all the time.
>I think
He didn't ask what you thought, he said post the quote. Screenshot it.
I'm counting six arms here, and there are eye bionics which make your face into a lasergun
>religious dudes
Fake fan fake fan fake fan fake fan! You stupid motherfricker. Most space marines are not religious, and the Black Templars viewing the Emperor as a divine being is noted to be an irregularity among chapters.
If you see someone start a phrase with "it's almost like", you know you're going to read something stupid.
what else is someone supposed to say when some dipshit is having a hard time grasping something simple and intended
You're supposed not to say something stupid in a condescending manner. This isn't Twitter.
You're b***hing about being rude on Ganker? Are you fricking kidding me? I'm not one of those morons who says "go back to [website]" (like you), but I think you might not be in the right place if you have a problem with that kind of response.
You got caught red handed and now you're a gonna b***h about it. Give it a rest.
>red handed
Doing what, moron? Using a phrase you don't like? I'm not gonna stop doing that, especially since it evidently makes the worst kind of frickhead angry.
it's as if people don't respond well to being corrected and tend to lash out even when they're wrong
Well, they shouldn't be wrong on the internet, then.
but in this case he was correct and you're stupid for whining about it
>Uhh the imperium shouldn't feed itself because it goes against my misinterpreted view of the setting
You guys are so fricking moronic.
>>Most numerous lifeform in human space
is probably either human-dwelling gut flora bacteria or human-host pest such as scabies
if God preferred groxes, groxes would have spaceships and eat man burgers
>Most numerous lifeform in human space is actually a scaly alien cow
It's actually orks, lorelet
why doesn't the imperium just eat the orks then?
Widespread mushroom allergies
>Is upset humans aren't humans' primary food source
I know 40k fans are moronic, but you guys are really pushing the envelope.
To be fair, corpse starch IS an Imperium staple crop
I think you'll find the most numerous lifeform in human space is one of the dozens of species of gut flora that the humans need to survive. Oh, you meant by biomass? It's ants.
It's not uniform. Imperial Fists and many of their successors don't view him as a god. Meanwhile, there were space marines even during the Heresy on the Loyalist side that did view him as a god. To exclude the books might be the dumbest 40k take I've ever seen.
So do you think cows and chickens are going to take over the world or what?
I've been looking for a decent grox stl for a while, can anyone point me in the direction of one? Preferably free
when did they ever say non sapient animals counted as xenos, it's not like earth had a biosphere left. should have used jokaero, moron.
I don't really see what's so hypocritical about this, Groxes are obviously non-sentient and a source of food so why would the Imperium have a problem with them existing? You don't actually think "Kill All Xenos" means "Kill all lifeforms that aren't from Terra", right?
It's specifically *intelligent* xenos they have a problem with.
What the frick is hypocritical about that you fricking morons?
Is a cow human? Is a pig? Is a fish? Is a chicken? No you stupid bastards.
Really guys, explain this moronic line of reasoning to me.
Grox are DAOT-era genegineered super-cattle moron.
>Pan-humanist empire is extremely dysgenic because they wipe out their entire gut flora on a systematic industrial level
Yeah, they should use gmo humans for cattle