BobTheNinja
Sword of Possibility
- Location
- Multiverse Sector Texas
I occasionally dabble in 40K fiction, mainly novels and fanfiction, and lately I'm interested in exploring the idea of human civilizations that either developed apart from or split away from the Imperium of Man, especially ones that don't have unthinking, fanatical intolerance as their core values.
A problem I see with this is that it seems like any alternative human civs in canon beyond a single star system are basically doomed to fail. Even if they somehow don't get nommed by hostile aliens, they more often than not seem to end up falling to Chaos corruption or incursion.
What I want to know is whether this is a purely narrative conceit in order to keep the Imperium of Man the only relevant human faction in the setting, or if there are actual in-universe reasons as to why non-Imperial, interstellar human civilizations cannot exist without falling to Chaos.
Basically, is it actually impossible for a larger space-faring human society to survive this universe without having a zealous, intolerant, take-no-prisoners worldview?
A problem I see with this is that it seems like any alternative human civs in canon beyond a single star system are basically doomed to fail. Even if they somehow don't get nommed by hostile aliens, they more often than not seem to end up falling to Chaos corruption or incursion.
What I want to know is whether this is a purely narrative conceit in order to keep the Imperium of Man the only relevant human faction in the setting, or if there are actual in-universe reasons as to why non-Imperial, interstellar human civilizations cannot exist without falling to Chaos.
Basically, is it actually impossible for a larger space-faring human society to survive this universe without having a zealous, intolerant, take-no-prisoners worldview?
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