That, and there's a strong political factor against the Mechanicus becoming over-mighty. Ever since the Horus Heresy the Imperium is neurotic about keeping the balance of power between each and every branch of government, doubly so between Adeptus Terra and Adeptus Mechanicus. So if the Mechanicus starts building Forgeworlds everywhere they'll receive a harsh backlash from all the other factions for upsetting the balance.
Volkite weapons are considered sacred high-tech by the Mechanicus and are thus limited to the most prestigious Forgeworlds only.
Even we don't have the Vulkite weapons. They are one of the few imperial techs worth going out of our way for.
Like a lot of things its just a Dark Age weapon the Admech happened to have the STC for.
While no doubt there are such arrangements, especially with the older and more prestigious Forge Worlds, the fact remains that the Mechanicus was already in the process of establishing replacements for Fecundia after a mere six thousand years, and started long before the world was threatened by Hive Fleet Krakken. In addition, shipping in resources from other systems via the Warp is likely far more expensive and inefficient than mining them in the same system.
On the tabletop, Volkites are S:5 AP:5, compared to the S: AP:5 of the bolter. They also have somewhat shorter range. On the other hand, the Deflagrate ability means that any unsaved wound causes a second automatic hit with the same profile (minus deflagrate - wounds will not indefinitely chain). While somewhat lacking compared to the Impaler or Neutron laser weapons when facing heavily armored foes, they should prove even more effective against anything wearing flak-armor equivalent or worse, such as the average Guardsman, Ork Boy, or Tyranid 'gaunt. Compared to bolters, Volkites are generally considered superior assault weapons, especially against massed infantry or light vehicles.
I can't speak table top, buuut, Volkites are actually really good against large numbers of fleashy enemies, hell they're pretty much taylor made for anti nid duties as they disintergrate the bio material.
This is in the Imperial Trust Systems Index.
And that's with population control measures in place. Midgard can support all colonization projects by itself, provided we give them ships.
Sorry to bring it back to the tangent, but the reason it was too expensive was because even back then they simply didn't have our production STCs.
Plenty, they are a hive world with a population of over 150 billion people, they've got the numbers.
If we do, which I'm going to assume for now assuming Grenade Launchers didn't replace them entirely, then they were included in the generic wargear upgrade in the datacore.
We actually haven't deployed plasma flamers yet and even if we had they'd be Helguard only as they'll roast anyone not using shock trooper Armour.
they have access to all the tech that you do
Yes, but do they have the industry to produce it?
I see no reason why they would not be able to create the industry to do so, especially with the admech being much more willing to build large forges.
they are setting things but for them to be administrators, remember they are former Ultramarines
