I figured I'd spread my taint to other forums, so. I think Palpatine.
Becouse in WH40 IoM is still best option.Except Tau,but they are small.Besides...Emprah is cool,and WH40 is tabletop game where important think is how cool you like.
I think this discussion belongs here
Also, weird how I see guys making fanfics basically whitewashing a guy responsible for multiple mass genocides and turning the children of those he conquered into indoctrinated super-jannisaries
Becouse in WH40 IoM is still best option.Except Tau,but they are small.Besides...Emprah is cool,and WH40 is tabletop game where important think is how cool you like.
And let be frank - all WH40 factions fighting any thinking and advanced enemy would be slaughtered.
He could if that was RL.But he live in tabletoop game with two rules - cool and grimdark.That is why Angron friends must die.Guy could have at the very least avoided the mistakes that lead to part of the primarchs resenting him, like have Angron rescued with his gladiator friends
He could if that was RL.But he live in tabletoop game with two rules - cool and grimdark.That is why Angron friends must die.
In RL Angron would betray him earlier.
Althought - Emprah really acted like idiot there.But...his Crusade motto "burn churches,pray to computers" was idiotic as well.
I'd choose EOMK every single time before the space commies. Theocracy (and every be other government ever) is better then communism. Screw the Tau.Becouse in WH40 IoM is still best option.Except Tau,but they are small.Besides...Emprah is cool,and WH40 is tabletop game where important think is how cool you like.
And let be frank - all WH40 factions fighting any thinking and advanced enemy would be slaughtered.
I'd choose EOMK every single time before the space commies. Theocracy (and every be other government ever) is better then communism. Screw the Tau.
Anyway it's obviously the emperor he did crazy crap to save humanity. Where Sheev just did stuff for power and lulz. Intent matters and emps has a far better one then Sheev by far.
The imperium is the Holy Roman Empire not Soviets but ok.Tau are space commies,but IoM are space soviets.So,both are equilly bad.
And Farsight enclave are not commies, so they could be last hope.
The imperium is the Holy Roman Empire not Soviets but ok.
Yep a fairly loose feudal imperial confederation/theocracy Holy Roman Empire writ large.The Imperium also has a surprising amount of autonomy given to each of its worlds or sub-empires, even allows a variation of how you worship the Emperor and does that thing with how you can say “the Great Spirit” is merely “Yahweh in another form” for conversion without having to use military force
Yep a fairly loose feudal imperial confederation/theocracy Holy Roman Empire writ large.
That would be a justification to side with him (if you found it compelling) but not to attempt to lionize him away from his canonical portrayal. In fact I would say definitionally whitewashing a character is bitterly rejecting the reality of them.Becouse in WH40 IoM is still best option.Except Tau,but they are small.Besides...Emprah is cool,and WH40 is tabletop game where important think is how cool you like.
I disagree. The empire depicted in movies and the EU was an intermediary thing, with Palpatine's vision of the empire being one of perpeptual suffering and where he would feed on and be immortal.If you had to live under one of them, Palpatine is the better choice. His Empire, even at the height of his evilness, was better run and generally a better place to live than the IoM.
He'd probably stillbe in hiding actually.If the God Emperor of Mankind, instead of ruling the Imperium in the 40K galaxy, instead ruled the Galactic Empire, how different would his reign be and how different would this Galactic Empire be from the canon Galactic Empire or the Imperium?
I think a good case could be made that things are so bad under the GEOM’s rule because the galaxy itself is terrible, with Chaos an ever present threat along with evil aliens who want to destroy humanity. If the GEOM ruled an empire as relatively free of threats as the Galactic Empire, could he afford to be kinder and would he be?
I’d prefer to live under Palpy, not because his empire is better run, but because Warhammer galaxy is completely fucked up even without any humans input compared to Star wars Galaxy.If you had to live under one of them, Palpatine is the better choice. His Empire, even at the height of his evilness, was better run and generally a better place to live than the IoM.
Personally though? Palpatine is a great deal more evil than the Emperor. The Emperor does "evil" because it is necessary for human survival and prevents greater "evils". Palpatine does evil because it amuses him.