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On the other hand, Chaos Gods do care for their followers, especially Nurgle. But Papa Nurgle's idea of good child care is to give them a host of hideous diseases...

I do not think Chaos actually has the infrastructure required for this - most of their stuff appears to be inherited from the Imperium. Also, see below on impact of STC. Actually, IoM does progress technologically - it is just glacially slow because, as I noted, anything new brings with it a...

Except there is an explanation for extreme technological conservativism: Chaos. I remember a case of Imperial battleships - entire class - getting corrupted by Chaos simply because a certain portion of the ship's inner workings, from a certain angle, looked like the eight-pointed star symbol of...

Not if nobody else innovates. Eldar have been using the same technology for millenia, Orcs have their technology literally hardwired into their genetic code, same for Tyranids, Necrons are murder bots who do not innovate either... the only ones who innovate at all are Tau, and the only thing...

That is why I wrote "pure superficialities". Racism, imperialism, belief in manifest density and genocide - you can find all of those in Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, British Empire, Spanish Empire, Imperial China, expansionist-phase United States... By that logic, Imperium of Man is also based...

No, it isn't. Imperium has nothing to do with either Nazis or Soviet Union beyond pure superficialities. It has some elements of Nazism, but organizationally, it is really "Holy Roman Empire IN SPEHSS!". Imperium is essentially a feudal state, and it is in fact much better representation of...