Been hearing a lot of rumblings from normal people in the warhammer community they are tired of fascists worshipping the imperium of man in their community.

is it like a human supremacist group in the lore or something like the empire in Star Wars?

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Its numberless legions of soldiers and zealots bludgeon their way across the galaxy, delivering death to anyone and anything that doesn’t adhere to their blinkered view of purity. Almost every man and woman toils in misery either on the battlefield – where survival is measured in hours – or in the countless manufactorums and hive slums that fuel the Imperial war machine. All of this in slavish servitude to the living corpse of a God-Emperor whose commandments are at best only half-remembered, twisted by time and the fallibility of Humanity.

    Warhammer 40,000 isn’t just grimdark. It’s the grimmest, darkest.

    The Imperium of Man stands as a cautionary tale of what could happen should the very worst of Humanity’s lust for power and extreme, unyielding xenophobia set in. Like so many aspects of Warhammer 40,000, the Imperium of Man is satirical.

    https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/19/the-imperium-is-driven-by-hate-warhammer-is-not/

      • Staines [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 years ago

        The difference between the empire in Star Wars and the Imperium is that the Imperium is essentially inescapable.

        It has endured for 10,000 years, it has a million worlds. Non-human intelligence is mistrusted at absolute best. Separatism is not tolerated, Alderon was just Tuesday morning, and probably literally a quadrillion people thought they deserved it anyway. Communications and travel can take hundreds of years depending on the conditions, so a response fleet might not even arrive in your lifetime, or your children’s lifetime, but it will come, and even a low estimate of the Imperiums levy would mean they command around a trillion soldiers.

        Basically the Imperium of Man is a suffocating, unstoppable, grinding hate machine.

        It is human society twisted into eternal, nightmarish, inescapable horror.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 years ago

          The Imperium of Man is simultaneously invincible and on the brink of collapse at the same time. It’s one of the disadvantages of a setting meant for wargames instead of a tabletop game where you create your own narrative: because the players don’t want their preferred faction to become obsolete, the setting is in stasis. Nobody can win or lose in any way which matters.

          …Old figurines become obsolete anyways due to better stuff coming out. Gotta make the dosh.

          • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            3 years ago

            The Imperium of Man is simultaneously invincible and on the brink of collapse at the same time.

            Ironically (or probably not a coincidence) the fascist propaganda; “We’re powerful and unbeatable” but also “We’re falling apart and being destroyed”.