Yeah, mainly because there is a decent chance that we will be deployed with our Wyrdvanes there to check what happens...
We have probably caught the Shadow of the Warp fucking around with the coms before the proper attack, so we will probably be sent to Tyran to check things out...
Genestealers have been around in the Milky Way for longer than there has been an Imperium. Presumably, you were talking about the hybrids? Even the most human-looking are not that difficult to spot if you have a regular human for comparison, that's the whole reason they usually go for initially infiltrating any industry where the safety equipment is full-body suits with covered helmets.
Yeah, but if we want to really recognize some aberrant thoughts, without having a body check? Say, we go through a industrial district, and want to find out the hideout of local genestealer cult?
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Trying to walk through an industrial district, scanning for Genestealer cultists is a real good way to get Sanctus'd.
Well, more advance warning than OTL's 'Kryptmann goes to investigate planets nobody's heard from in years and discovers them to now be lifeless rocks, and lucks into finding the hard drive of a Magos that witnessed the Tyranids'. Which means more time to prepare and muster forces together. More immediate knowledge of the Shadow of the Warp they generate, possibly.
Raising the alarm early allows the Navy, the Astra Militarun, and UItramrines to prepare, get reinforcements and not be caught by surprise...
Here is the thing, what we have seen the progressive loss of comms is caused by the Shadow in the Warp that precedes the Tyranid fleets, but AFAIK worlds can be affected by the Shadow in the Warp for months before the Tyranid fleet even arrives...
Thanks you. I try to really emphasize the fact the Imperium is such a huge all-consuming state that there isn't really a 'living outside'. It is a massive state bigger than everyone, and most people live inside like rats inside an old cargo ship. I like the mixture of genuine grimdark, and lovable absurdity.
Planetary populations don't usually get evacuated if the Imperium has to full-on abandon a planet. For one thing, it usually isn't physically possible for them; if there is enough voidfaring ships around the planet to carry out millions, let alone billions of people, they definitely have enough to achieve orbital supremacy and just bombard the enemy on the surface to slag instead (even the most lightweight merchant freighters are armed with a couple of macrocannons). What will usually get evacuated are Imperial Adepts and surviving Guard regiments (except for an unlucky few assigned to rearguard actions).
Is this a common view in the Imperium or is it more like each Segmentum shits on each other for one reason or another, but no one can give Ultramar crap because of Roboute?
Well, IIRC if after the imperial Imperial Adepts, the surviving Guard regiments, and the nobles get evacuated and if there is still some space left, they try to evacuate civilians... In the best of cases, it is a single-digit percentage of the original population but it is still better than nothing.
It might have to do with Ultima's command resources are stretched rather thin; the Segmentum alone is bigger than the other four Segmentae combined.
