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alright. let's go over it step by step.
The Anatolien is experiencing some manner of shock at current events and can undergo some degree of shift in their view of the future of mankind that we are able to influence. okay, sure, I buy that. Wog and simply good writing to have characters capable of growing. same for the empire. if he can change it can change too. probably still going to be an empire though, though it's from could determine how mutually tolerable we may be able to be to eachother.
the thing is, we aren't the only ones who can have an influence are we. Beil-tan's impact is obvious, and whatever they agree to here, we certainly aren't going to get Iyanden to restrain there actions against Man inhabited Maiden worlds. we aren't influencing how the Asuryani treat mankind either, and good luck policing conflict between Man and the dragonlords aligned with Saim-han over maiden worlds, let alone independent ones or ones Beil-tan is press-ganging into service.
except we are planning to align ourselves with 3 factions as heavily cooperative allies, so that means investing heavily in earning the political capitol to somewhat restrain conflict between them and budding mankind to some degree. just ignore the loss of the opportunity to use the political capitol for things like tech, or joint military ventures, or trading us useful relics.
then on top of everything we have to do to keep them playing nice with the Mankind, we still have to invest in positive relationship with some humans planets. serious favors and getting heavily involved in a few primarchs stories for the better, while we juggle our personal issues and those of our closest allies (like how we suspect Meros is cursed and going to keep ending up in difficult situations) and cooperate with the adaptionists, aid the Survivalists, and do some moderate favors at minimum for saim-han.
starting to see the problems here?
now let's get into what hasn't been brought up. Chaos. Now, before we even get into the imperium of man and what chaos could do their to throw a wrench into things let's focus on the Aeldari for a sec.
we are part of the adaptionists. a group of brave souls who, faced with the pull of she who thirsts, resolved to find innovated solutions, and, we are slightly spooked but not particularly surprised to have confirmed, ended up earning priority attention from the ruinous ones for our efforts. the two craftworlds of some prominence besides us when it comes to the Adaptionist are both worlds that apparently died in canon, and, so are we.
now I can't speak for everyone else, but that inspires a fathomless ocean of nope in the core of my psyche. dealing with it is really high up on my priority list. maybe by taking Starlances a step further and developing some kind of plus ultra lance to fit on the serpent of the stars sword of vaul class and finding chaos fortresses to test it on. Maybe by teaming up with Muirgaythh to trap as many Ruinous Ones Servants as possible. Regardless, it's definitely a priority I hold above getting along with the imperium or helping it's primarchs.
Then we have current and present threat to the survivalists. Craft worlds worried that some of there might just not end up making it to the end of the first bi centennial anniversary of the fall. Seems likely to be a bunch of noteworthy hero units, relics, exotics some of them bought with there eye of terror points. Probably a good thing to try and stop those being lost to the Ruinous ones forces. Big priority. Certainly more so than the imperium of man.
Saim-han and the Dragonlords. A big faction that has always liked us. Fairly strong too, and invested on acting as a check to Beil-Tan's kinslaying and mugging. We definitely want to do this faction some favours and stay in there good book. Who knows, maybe we can leverage those favours into encouraging them to help us defend the Survivalist worlds. Of course, if we are spending political capital on keeping conflicts with Humans to a minimum I guess we don't have enough left over.
Then there is the imperium. The amount of shenanigans Tzeench can pull alone, to say nothing of Slaanesh or the Lord of skulls. False flag assassinations, nudging the Drukhari to enslave their people, guideline them to build settlements over important relic vaults on maiden worlds. Just a lot that can be nudged to go horribly wrong that influences things as well.
So that's the reality of the situation. Influencing mankind and it's god emperor is possible for multiple groups in the Galaxy, and we are busy trying to align with three of them we either need to expend an monumental amount of effort to effect how they treat human, or turn on later in the name of allying with humanity. Even if we do that, we still have to worry about Beil-tan or the Chaos gods mucking things up on us.
I'm not up for that. I'm going to focus primarily on the Adaptionists & Survivalists, and a little on Saim-Hann, Iyanden, and the Asuryani. I have no resources or effort to spare for Anatolian, his empire, or his primarchs. I doubt that will change by turn 40.
The Anatolien is experiencing some manner of shock at current events and can undergo some degree of shift in their view of the future of mankind that we are able to influence. okay, sure, I buy that. Wog and simply good writing to have characters capable of growing. same for the empire. if he can change it can change too. probably still going to be an empire though, though it's from could determine how mutually tolerable we may be able to be to eachother.
the thing is, we aren't the only ones who can have an influence are we. Beil-tan's impact is obvious, and whatever they agree to here, we certainly aren't going to get Iyanden to restrain there actions against Man inhabited Maiden worlds. we aren't influencing how the Asuryani treat mankind either, and good luck policing conflict between Man and the dragonlords aligned with Saim-han over maiden worlds, let alone independent ones or ones Beil-tan is press-ganging into service.
except we are planning to align ourselves with 3 factions as heavily cooperative allies, so that means investing heavily in earning the political capitol to somewhat restrain conflict between them and budding mankind to some degree. just ignore the loss of the opportunity to use the political capitol for things like tech, or joint military ventures, or trading us useful relics.
then on top of everything we have to do to keep them playing nice with the Mankind, we still have to invest in positive relationship with some humans planets. serious favors and getting heavily involved in a few primarchs stories for the better, while we juggle our personal issues and those of our closest allies (like how we suspect Meros is cursed and going to keep ending up in difficult situations) and cooperate with the adaptionists, aid the Survivalists, and do some moderate favors at minimum for saim-han.
starting to see the problems here?
now let's get into what hasn't been brought up. Chaos. Now, before we even get into the imperium of man and what chaos could do their to throw a wrench into things let's focus on the Aeldari for a sec.
we are part of the adaptionists. a group of brave souls who, faced with the pull of she who thirsts, resolved to find innovated solutions, and, we are slightly spooked but not particularly surprised to have confirmed, ended up earning priority attention from the ruinous ones for our efforts. the two craftworlds of some prominence besides us when it comes to the Adaptionist are both worlds that apparently died in canon, and, so are we.
now I can't speak for everyone else, but that inspires a fathomless ocean of nope in the core of my psyche. dealing with it is really high up on my priority list. maybe by taking Starlances a step further and developing some kind of plus ultra lance to fit on the serpent of the stars sword of vaul class and finding chaos fortresses to test it on. Maybe by teaming up with Muirgaythh to trap as many Ruinous Ones Servants as possible. Regardless, it's definitely a priority I hold above getting along with the imperium or helping it's primarchs.
Then we have current and present threat to the survivalists. Craft worlds worried that some of there might just not end up making it to the end of the first bi centennial anniversary of the fall. Seems likely to be a bunch of noteworthy hero units, relics, exotics some of them bought with there eye of terror points. Probably a good thing to try and stop those being lost to the Ruinous ones forces. Big priority. Certainly more so than the imperium of man.
Saim-han and the Dragonlords. A big faction that has always liked us. Fairly strong too, and invested on acting as a check to Beil-Tan's kinslaying and mugging. We definitely want to do this faction some favours and stay in there good book. Who knows, maybe we can leverage those favours into encouraging them to help us defend the Survivalist worlds. Of course, if we are spending political capital on keeping conflicts with Humans to a minimum I guess we don't have enough left over.
Then there is the imperium. The amount of shenanigans Tzeench can pull alone, to say nothing of Slaanesh or the Lord of skulls. False flag assassinations, nudging the Drukhari to enslave their people, guideline them to build settlements over important relic vaults on maiden worlds. Just a lot that can be nudged to go horribly wrong that influences things as well.
So that's the reality of the situation. Influencing mankind and it's god emperor is possible for multiple groups in the Galaxy, and we are busy trying to align with three of them we either need to expend an monumental amount of effort to effect how they treat human, or turn on later in the name of allying with humanity. Even if we do that, we still have to worry about Beil-tan or the Chaos gods mucking things up on us.
I'm not up for that. I'm going to focus primarily on the Adaptionists & Survivalists, and a little on Saim-Hann, Iyanden, and the Asuryani. I have no resources or effort to spare for Anatolian, his empire, or his primarchs. I doubt that will change by turn 40.
Yes, which is why he looped himself back as a god tier Psycher. The emperor is still forming as you said. It's a little premature to assume he isn't somewhat interested in Psycher power.
That kind of thing sounds like a five century project to arrange, that as I highlight above, is more resource intensive than just strengthening our group and nominal allies and raising up petalcutter's wielder as the leader of a great save Isha Aeldari grand Army.
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