Comment on Goes right over some people's heads, I tell ya
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 5 days agoT’au and Leagues of Votann are both doing well and not horrible places to live. The Craftworlds are nice enough.
James Workshop has been pretty fucking direct and consistent that the IoM is horrible and it’s largely humanity in general and Big E specifically to blame.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I thought it was more the fanatical religious cult that formed around the emperor rather than him as a person that turned the imperium to shit
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 4 days ago
He was a fedoraclad, Reddit-atheist, autocrat with delusions of grandeur, a messiah complex, and a love of violence without regard for the agency or even the sapience and will of other people long before he was installed on the chair and became a god.
Here is a story from during the Unification Wars on Earth, which long predate the Crusade and Hersey (and therefore are more than 11,000 years before the setting of 40k), which provides some insight into what a douchecanoe Big E has always been.