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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Huh this gives me a few ideas and I have a few explanations
1. Radiant is kinda like Egypt in the sense that it's culture and traditions have survived for a huge chunk of human history. The "problem"(for the ecclesiarchy, nobility and chaos but more specifically the imperial fists) it still acts and operates in a similar way as it began, ie like it's still in the tyrantsverse era and through it's own machinations and others any attempt to make it grimdark or like most "heroic" 40k planets tend to crash and burn hard.Hell it took a 3 week long debate by emps to get them to agree to even join the imperium (they have the transcripts on Radiant for Radiant and inquisitorial eyes only and it's considered alone of the best debates in history and their have been 3 million threadbans just for arguing who was right. It is considered the best debate about freedom and tyranny in existence) and even then they were more of an ally and they were promised full control of the iterators and had a bunch of other benefits a la the mechanicus.
2.Bold Contemplation wasn't the only one at the last church Uriah was there too. Thanks to RH emps being different the debate was even more spirited and undecided (also it's in Radiants records and rivals the Radiant-Emperor debates in terms of threadbans) and at the end he allowed both to stay their with the church since he considered it a historical artifact and because he said to Contemplation that if he was right their would be no living thing that would go back to the church to willingly worship but if she was right eventually they would have a full congregation. Fast forward to the Heresy Perty and the iron warriors are wrecking historical sites in order to make room for defences and he gets into a debate with Contemplation that boils down to Perty saying "I will do whatever it takes to protect the homeworld and if it involves blowing this up I will. Also I've already caused worse damage to Terra's cultural heritage than anyone else in the history of man so how is a single church going to make a difference" with Contemplation replying with "what's the point of willing to protect the planet if it's going to end up as an artless corpse world either way. Also every single thing counts and even if it's one or two artifacts are protected than that will make a world of difference". This ended up with the church being to moved to Radiant and Perty breaking down in a remorseful crying fit due to his stress and horror.The crying fit is actually canon in RH and even in the 41st millennium the population hates all astartes on site thanks to what the RH iron warriors did,they also have a severe case of hemophobia so bad that even inquisitors and gangers will make their killings as bloodless as possible if their forced to kill and most of the time they will execute people by moving them to the room and killing them so they don't violate the spirit of the oath slash hemophobia.
3. It's complicated for the VdCb since while most of the core group like Kusanagi are alive the VdCb has been forced to have highly exclusive recruitment over the millennia due to attrition. While "Official" imperial history of the low level secret variety has the VdCb join the emperor and is similar to how you described it. Chaos says that the VdCb nearly killed the emperor and are kindred spirits.The reality is much different. When they did meet they did try and kill him and the emperor did talk with them and explained his plans for humanity. Essentially it boiled to him reuniting all of humanity and creating the webway for fast and easy transportation before releasing a improved version of the Box with every single STC known to man inside it and giving it too pro democracy groups before using the custodes and astartes legions as bastions and killing the imperial apparatus on one fell swoop so humanity could live freely without gods or the scars of the great crusade. When the VdCb called bullshit on this and pointed he was a tyrant he showed that his life was shit and he already tried to rule humanity from the shadows by creating the Charters. Essentially the reason why RH emps retained his emotions was because he tried advancing humanity by creating the Charters and when he realized how much he fucked up he decided to self exile himself to a small research base on a insignificant planet that was called Radiant. He didn't cause the revolution or even influence it, he actually lost all hope in humanity and himself and was surprised when the reveloution happened and stayed on the lab team as a simple lab tech. So while emps did come to an accord with the VdCb it was essentially a letter of marque allowing the VdCb as much latitude as the custodes or Ordo Sinister as long as they didn't assainate anyone to high like a primarch or high Lord. In addition when emps rolled.oit the Box 2.0 they were in charge of killing the imperial high command and preventing imperial remnants from popping up.
This is a catastrophic misreading of both the AIC and the 40k Imperium.
Based on literally the verbatim text of the Roboutian Heresy, what would have happened was that the Emperor would have demanded that the AIC submit or die, they would have refused to join a literal monarchal empire, and the Imperium would have unleashed its assassins and its armies and its titans to try to force them into compliance. Because a slightly nicer and more sane fascist... is still a fascist!