If there were any truth to that, there wouldn't have been more than one Black Crusade. The Emperor's blessings are not so glaringly obvious. What does it say that the slaves to darkness needed ten thousand years of fighting to break through one bulwark?
Ah, so you admit that the Ruinous Powers' "blessings" are in fact so weak and utterly useless that mere physical presence can overcome them. Good, I'm glad we are in agreement.
That plan addresses exactly zero of my priorities: shields, sensors, and recon.
You seem to be doing your damndest to derail this thread with a stupid in-character argument about power levels, and it's not interesting or relevant at all. Please stop.
I am willing to support the first two in a plan. For the earlier stated reasons I am completely unwilling to support the last one at this time and I don't find the third one to be of much current interest.
When asked to stop trolling and disrupting the thread, the correct response is not to try to get the last word in.
Are you being insufferable on purpose? Because you seem like you're being insufferable on purpose. I was not speaking "in character" and I would appreciate if you did not accuse me, personally, of the Imperium's many sins.
The tyrant you speak of has suffered from mortal wounds inflicted in betrayal for ten thousand years, not wavering in his vigil for a single second powering a construct so strenuous that the most powerful human psyker to ever live was reduced to ash in a matter of hours. He has kept Chaos from consuming the galaxy for ten thousand years, even as all he sought to build has been unmade. That you dismiss this sacrifice and think nothing in sympathy dams your credibility far worse than anything else you have said.
Then why are you in this thread, where the central conceit is that why are playing an at least nominally loyal Imperial remnant state in the setting of Warhammer, as laid out in the title? Genuine question.
Do you really think having a shrine in space would help with missionary work, more so than bringing missionaries simply by putting missionaries on a ship? And would building a shrine on a ship even need a design action?
The shrine in space is how you put missionaries on a ship though? Or that's the intention at least, for it to be a religious base full of talky religious people drawn from the orders whom specializing in converting people to the proper imperial faith and scholars of said faith in general, as well as missionaries? Also it's literally based on a Rogue Trader RPG ship component which actually does the 'detatch the shrine from the ship and drop it onto the planet from orbit' trick which is what I was referencing. As well as the other Rogue Trader RPG ship component which is a shrine that just is in the ship instead of the Drop-Temples drop-ness.
From an engineering perspective, though, that just sounds like a barely-modified troop deck. The only non-routine challenges involved are artistic, and we'd want to outsource that to the missionaries themselves anyway.
I would allow simply sending ships. Such a Design action might help though, as ideas can always travel both ways.
In space? Rather pointless outside of esoteric mechanisms due to hulls being made to resist similar natural phenomenon. On the ground they are merely unreliable as most military infrastructure is similarly protected as well as highly durable while exposed infantry are more vulnerable.
