The Imperium Hive Worlds are huge and have vast populations of mutants just lurking below in the underhives so how are there not constantly hive worlds exploding from unsanctioned psykers?
The Imperium Hive Worlds are huge and have vast populations of mutants just lurking below in the underhives so how are there not constantly hive world...
>thinly veiled excuse me commissar thread
Can you be so kind and get a testicular torsion, please
Because unlike in the memes, one random psyker sneezing doesnt lead to a planet scale demonic invasion with multiple greater demons.
yes it does
But it literally does. Every time some random psyker rolls for perils there is a non-zero chance of greater demon manifesting. Tiny chance, but there's a lot of Hive Worlds with lots of people.
That's a game mechanic from the RPGs, an abstraction meant to represent the risks of psykers using their powers without any sort of restraint.
It's an abstraction but it represents the innate threat all psykers present to the world they're on. All it takes it one unlucky moment of weakness and they can be turned into a portal allowing daemons to pour through. This is in fact one of the major causes of the Age of Strife, many human colonies were simply wiped out by untrained psykers trying to explore their own powers. It was, in fact, such a dire threat to humanity's survival that it is the singular reason, more than any other, that forced the Emperor to launch the Great Crusade to reunite humanity. Only by purging the unstable nascent psykers and training the rest to be functional could humanity survive its evolution into a psychic race. Source: The End and the Death Part 1, when Sangy asks the Emperor why he did the Great Crusade
Nope. It's literally called the psyker paradox. The Imperium both needs psykers to function and it also needs to cull them daily.
Otherwise they'll turn into mini eye of terrors
A single Greater Demon being spawned for a few minutes isn't a threat to a world of tens of billions.
But what could it achieve in those few minutes, provided it wasn't some khorne smash moron? A tzeenth one probably has three dozen plans set up for this particular opportunity
I'll pretend you're actually interested in the answer for a moment and give a half way proper reply so hopefully we can end the thread and not waste anyone's time.
I could start ranting about the difference between mutant and psyker, but I will charitably assume you meant the latter as technically psykers are mutants, even if most mutants aren't psykers.
Most psykers have low potential, and aren't really capable of channeling enough warp energy to cause major damage before their body and/or soul gives out and they die which generally severs the connection. So most psykers if they run wild will cause relatively minor weirdness over a local area which can be cointained, or at least cleared up afterwards, by local authorities.
Powerful psykers are a whole different thing, and the Imperium proactively hunts for them constantly. The Black Ships partrol between worlds looking for psykers, and the more powerful a psyker is the more likely the black ships are to detect them. The Inquisition, primarily the Ordo Hereticus, as well as elements of the church also actively hunt psykers constantly using a variety of intelligence methods, including psychic prognostication of their own. As a result of multiple overlapping systems of searching and majority of high potential psykers are caught early before they can become major problems.
When the various methods fail and a powerful psyker becomes a major warp conduit, weird shit indeed happens and you get strange events up to and including daemonic invasion. Again, the Imperium has multiple methods of dealing with such an event depending on severity, from local but relatively elite forces like the Arbites and Sotoritas up to specific units like the Ordo Malleus and Grey Knights that exist for exactly this eventuality. Generally speaking, even the most powerful of psykers would be unable to affect an entire planet and any damage they cause will be recoverable.
obviously NTA, but thanks for this
I appreciate your post
I dunno, ask /40kg/
it's called whimsy. things can be fun ideas and be left at just that.
this might not be the right game for you. might I suggest star wars?
>the USA has hundreds of millions of people who all have internet access and if they wanted to could get all the knowledge of basic chemistry and order simple materials online to construct explosives, why aren't their major explosions going off in US cities every day???
I mean unironically domestic terrorism is a serious problem that I feel we as a society aren't really acknowledging since most domestic terrorists vote for one party over the other.
Because the Imperium's heavy-handed methods aren't quite as necessary as they believe. The tragicomic point of the setting is that the real external threats give the corrupt and stupid of the Imperium an ironclad excuse for their incompetence and brutality, permanently preventing reform.
The Imperium is styled as Catholic Space Nazis but the political equilibrium is Russia. It's centralized and too big to fail, so crushing internal threats is more important than winning any external war.
What this guy said. The Tau Empire and the Leagues of Votaan in the game itself, and factions like the Interex in the background for the game, clearly show that on some level the Imperium is doing it wrong.
Only the Votann.
Tau still fall to chaos
The Interex fell to Chaos
Votann have developed chaos proof plot armour
The Imperium's own populace is trained to hunt for witches amongst their own numbers and cull them or deliver them to the Black Ships. Even the underhives know about how dangerous rogue psykers are and that the best cure is a bullet in the brain. 99% of psykers are purged by the populace of the worlds they're born on, 1% gets delivered to the Black Ships whenever they arrive, and the remainder get lucky and might manage to survive long enough to reach maturity
took too long for someone to post this, is /tg/ mostly lorelets now?
>is /tg/ mostly lorelets now?
No, but we like to shitpost to trigger spergs.
it looks like mostly honest opinions on the thread so far, it just took an unusually long time for someone to come up with the most relevant answer
They have death squads that hunt down suspected psykers and kidnap or eliminate them, that’s if their heads don’t explode at a young age.
In the lore, this did happen originally, the orignal High Age star spanning high tech human empire was destroyed millenia before the Emperor appeared, throwing humanity into the current backwards and demon fearing era. (until recently that, is, as GW jumped everything back to it's High Age setting again by pulling Cawl out of their ass in a drive to sell more technologically relevant figures to normies)
The reason why it doesnt happen as often now is:
Lots of Imperial Guard patrols.
Lots of 'Judge Dredd rip-off' patrols.
Lots of Inquisitor networks.
Lots of fanatical Imperial cults.
Reliance on sanctioned brain controlled devices (servitors) instead of the vulnerable High Age AI.
Faith (it actualy works!)
Most citizens know that deviants, mutants and the unclean should be killed on sight. This results in most psykers being killed off at birth or before they get too powerful. Some occasionally do create warp gates though and and major infestation happens, resulting in a Marine chapter being called in, the world being exterminatus, or it falling to Chaos and becoming a demon world. It's a setting for a wargame you see, the entire universe exists to create a background of conflict, to engage and motivate you to buy and use your overpriced little toys.