Okay, so, each person is allocated 10,000 square feet of space, but only 1,000 of that is for food. the other 9,000 is much less mutable with the introduction of new technologies so let's assume only the food production area is affected. 1000/2.7=~370.4 1000-370.4=629.6 square feet of freed up space. The new amount of space each person needs is ~9370.4 square feet so for every 14.88 people there is now room for one additional person This is actually only an increase by about 6.7%. Still objectively a lot on the scales we're working on but not that big a deal, big picture.
So what, there is a ork waaagh with moons and planets as battleships. Like the time to conserve resources has long past. The entire point of the great rush of the crusade, to prevent the orks from escalating. Well they have escalated .
I have, upon further reflection, noted an unaccounted for (and unaccountable by me) variable. The communal 8,000 square feet presumably includes factories and stuff which are now fully obsolete but the numbers I have don't break it up that far so we can't calculate its effect with any precision.
Yes we can handle battle moons without even glorianas or preferably the designs for the phalanx. Totally makes sense. That thing is so big that if all our ships opened fired it wouldn't dent its shield, just like theater shields but even worse.
Well the problem is that the 8,000 feet is to cover everything that isn't farms and apartments. Stores, parks, schools, clubs, everything. We can't know how much of that is factory.
They can reproduce, they just have no sex drive. Like, Emps didn't want Astartes to multiply naturally. Also, you could say it partly helps against Slaneesh.I think Emps had better things to do than worry about Astartes being capable of having sex, just saying
Though to answer your original question, yes, they should, simply by dint of Emps&Seras not bothering to mess with the reproductive capabilities of the Astartes, because... well, they had no reason to do so. So yes, they're very much capable of having sex >.>
Sorry Ilbgar, but I think it's ridiculous that the bonus is that great. A) There wasn't ever a need for that much food by DAoT humanity and B) That's just plain ridiculous, it males no sense if you look at canon. Like, Emps would have given the designs over to the Mechanicum and told them to produce these to feed the GC in canon, whoch he didn't.
Didn't he specifically sterilize the Primarchs so they couldn't reproduce?
Well, otherwise things like Agri worlds wouldn't be needed anymore.
Why wouldn't they use hydroponics then? If Emps had them, he would handed those out, because then he could use the former Agri worlds as Hive/Factory worlds to fuel the Great Crusade.
Well, can you then explain why Agri Worlds were still needed? This just seems like a pointless number creep. DAoT humanity didn't have as many humans as even the fledgling Imperium during the GC. Why should they have gone so hard on food production then?
