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The thing is that it wasn't "stagnant" because they were constantly painting in the massive holes in the timeline, adjusting details, inserting whole new factions, overhauling old ones, and so on. It was a setting functioning as a big fuzzy canvas for Your Dudes, with the secret of the Lost...

Not seen a full dive into it, but it's surprisingly fittable for pretty much every version's underlying mechanics since the scale escalation is quite naturally extendable to The Fate Of Planets.

This is the biggest bit of wonk: Baneblades are, in fact, drastically more technologically complex than Knights. Most obviously the fusion-based power supply that allows for mounting a select few Battle Titan weapons like the Volcano Cannon, but the commonality of true plasma weapons versus...

Probably because Knight Engines already have neural interfaces that allow for the full agility of the hardware, so sticking an Astartes in one is mostly pointless as you can only get so much more from reaction time, so you'd need to redo a lot of systems to USE the pilot's enhanced abilities. I...

Well, this part necessitates Durasnow defenses to be that extreme, fully-fledged bullet-timer Astartes brick the impact of baselines too hard and raise questions about the bikes. But they do meet the demands of combing a large reference library of strategies in the middle of a battle, even if...

Probably the psi-servitors the Mechanicum uses, or Men of Iron techbase stuff involving wormholes. Noosphere technology may be derived from a remnant, given its apparent immunity to the warp-contamination of Scrapcode.

As an answer to the issue of manufacturing, an addendum to the suicide-kill situation. It'd take some fucky matters to go from raw natural materials to a weapon good for getting through Lucius' Power Armor, but with an Astartes doing the stabbing it's a much lower bar.

Killed by an Astartes Techpriest who McGuyvered the kit from scratch in person with only on-site tools they themselves made? Going down the list to force the bluntest resurrection possible, such as having some callous asshole who doesn't take any note of who it is he's killed at all, or...

I thought that the training period actually was about a decade under the Codex Astartes, so all full Battle-Brothers of Codex-compliant Chapters are ready for Proginoid extraction in the event of their death by not-total-obliteration means... Which, given the lines of what it takes to kill an...

The field equipment doesn't have long-ranged artillery or much in the way of on the ground logistics, since Codex-based doctrine is for Astartes to be shock assault forces rather than self-contained campaign troops.

It's stuff like basic maintenance of mass equipment, the gruntwork aspects of operating the ships, and generally any task where being an Astartes is a negligible impact. Everything on the ground is Astartes when speaking of the Chapter proper, though some certainly have Chapter Serfs behaving as...

Eh, they'd do it in a heartbeat if they could afford it. Realistically, it'd be for heavy weapon crews that could use the strength to save a warm body on the front and reduce the bother of having somebody else fall back to re-man the heavy flamer, alongside vehicle crews to accelerate manual...

To quote Lexicanum: So no, it's explicit that their abilities are reliant on their personal powers, and it's a fraction of the Emperor's, a description at odds with the "Switchboard" analogy. Though in line with the communcation blackout from the Astronomicon blacking out. Also, this ritual is...

I, personally, headcanon that the Imperium's measuring equipment is a method that aggregates the strength of the "Warp Shadow" of the Soul (responsible for Psykers being powerless in the vecinity of Necron Pylons, while still having personal power), the realspace psychic presence (which forms...

I honestly wonder what modern AI types would do in that version of 40k, given they're algorithms to construct algorithms, rather than a genuinely internally intelligent process. They're part monkey-cage, part artificial evolution, not self-designing intelligence. There's also the consideration...