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That depends a lot on the sourcing. Blanks (as opposed to Pariahs) tend more towards just being unpleasant in most sources. See Eisenhorn. Full blown Pariahs are where you tend to get the really debilitating effects. Well yes, raising a human psyker in the webway would be a good idea. Except it...

1. I never said that it would be pleasant for the psyker. But Blanks (as opposed to Pariahs) aren't lethal to psykers, so it is survivable. 2. Depends basically entirely on sources used and interpretation. The tech base for neural interfacing and VR absolutely exists but as to the specifics of...

Hmm, so idea for creating a powerful, stable, psyker. Step 1) While the fetus gestates, keep it constantly surrounded by stable psykers who use their power to protect it from any attacks. Step 2) Once the psyker is born, keep them constantly in the presence of Null's until they reach...

Yes, but that was a great deal less of a problem back in the Great Crusade. Yes, Mars is still making Knights (and Titans). No clue. But Astartes, and 40k in general, logistics are basically a "who the hell knows?" situation anyways as canon seems to change literally every time and at least...

To be fair the basic idea makes some sense. Well at least as much sense as the entire concept of mecha makes. Daemons can be quite large and sometimes you simply need to operate on the same scale to be effective. So create a large exoskeleton of the appropriate size, arm it proportionally, and...

Until you remember that the Astartes are actually more than mere muscle bound idiots who always forget their helmets. Canonically, EVERY Astartes has an eidetic memory, a mind operating at far beyond merely superhuman speeds, and a level of control over their own minds that would make the best...

Everything involving 30k (and 40k to a somewhat lesser extent) numbers is an absolute shit show. I mean just take the number of Second Founding chapters and compare the SM numbers to what Legions were said to have. The Imperial Fists split into six successor chapters (including the IF chapter)...

Yes, but humanity had nothing to do with the webway in the Golden Age. Courier ships have their own issues. And the Speranza apparently had an STC and AI that were still communicating with others. I didn't think that the Tau had FTL comm's, I thought they were limited to couriers. Actually, do...

So what kind of FTL communications system should Golden Age/DAoT humanity have? I mean astropaths don't really work (especially not thematically) but it also can't be something that the Emperor could relatively trivially replace (otherwise he would have done so).

If the Primarchs weren't taken then he has twenty demigods raised directly by him to act as his lieutenants and agents. I'm sure he had some other plan to get a viable end result from that situation. If the Heresy hadn't happened? Well then he gets the Imperial Webway and with it fast...

Malcador would indicate otherwise. As would the example of Horus, whose charisma was the product of basically playing a numbers game with conversations, body language, etc. The Emperor might not have cared over much about gaining "true loyalty" but the very idea of true loyalty undercuts the...

Their armor is pretty horrid actually. You need to remember that the IG is explicitly designed as a planetary expeditionary force. The local PDF is supposed to be the static garrison force, sufficient to handle the expected threat profile of a world. The IG is supposed to be the offensive and...

The entire IoM military apparatus is pretty stupidly constructed and organized in basically every facet. I mean the only thing it does well is split the space and ground forces. Take Space Marines, it takes ten years for both progenoids to mature and both can be removed safely once fully...

Anywhere from 1 to a great many more. A veteran Space Marine Librarian from a Not Stupid chapter could likely conquer most worlds, depending on how long they are willing to invest. I mean a Raven Guard or Dark Angel remaining in the shadows, building up local partisans, and using things like...

Or "I'll capitalize on the predictable actions of my enemy and engineer those actions into my own plans." The Emperor set up an Imperium that absolutely was going to have a massive, destructive, civil war. The masses of humanity were not going to stand for the rule of the Primarchs and their...

Then the Emperor is a raging idiot. He knew about Chaos and yet let Lorgar act, indeed he let him get away with killing Custodes. He knew about the Fleshchange and the Thousand Sons personal daemons and yet he let them practice sorcerery without comment. He knew about the opinions of the...

The Imperium of Man is built on deception and secrecy, and like any good conspiracy it is a layered thing. Custodes, Sisters of Silence, Black Ships, Inquisition, Grey Knights, Deimos, Officio. Everyone an organ shrouded in the utmost secrecy, everyone of them the personal province of the...

The perfect example of why "good" people aren't allowed power in the Imperium. Yes, it is a horrifically evil shit hole. Yes, most of those with power abuse it on a massive scale. Yes, the Imperium is supremely inefficient and corrupt. Yes, it could (theoretically at least) be massively better...

It continues one of GW's worse trends, an absolute unwillingness to actually kill of baddies and/or Champions. I mean Abbadon? It would have made so much more sense if Chaos got pissed after the first thirteen failures and either 1) forced Lorgar to get off his ass and actually lead the 13th...

Space Marines only produce a maximum of two successor Space Marines. The first Progenoid matures after five years, the second after 10 years. And if Space Marines weren't a bunch of raging idiots, they wouldn't send any Space Marine into combat until after those ten years have passed and both...