Dogmatic/Mindless Xenophobia is one of the domains of the Abomination, so yes it is definitely connected to Chaos Cults. Also absolutely not, something that's only connected to 1 of the 5 Chaos Gods is still connected to Chaos. If that's your reasoning we might as well institute daily orgies and protect ourselves from all Chaos Gods not Slaanesh. At least things will be more fun that way.
I noticed.
The abomination is a God of Xenophobia.
For a start the Tau are not immune to chaos they are just beneath its notice. They like the Quartok are so far behind on their psycic evolution that their souls are not yet large enough for them to be worth eating. The amount of effort Chaos expends doing that would be less than the amount of power they get from it.
Nah, xenos and demons are different entities. The reason people want xenophobia reduced is because it is one of the core tenants of the Abomination, ergo we need to avoid it due to its memetic potential. There's also the issue with the People of Avernus; if we practice Imperium approved xenophobia, the hivemind will swing back harder than the full Trust can.
IIRC I believe the statement on that was if we tried it the Planet Mind would do things to us that would traumatise the Trust for millennia assuming it didn't just come after them.
Pretty much.
Loved the omake, matches my own feelings somewhat.
Khorne was never xenophobia. He has always been about hating everyone equally. The stagnation the Abomination represents is not the same kind of stagnation that Nurgle represents. Nurgle's stagnation is more like a stagnant pool of water, rotting and decaying. The Abomination's stagnation instead represents unchanging stasis, like an office drone who's stuck doing the same dreary work day after day. It's the same word but they're thematically distinct.
"Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows, only that it flows."
No, what I mean is that Emperor was almost Chaos God powerful even when alive, so his death would never be a simple affair. Chaos Gods just made sure that he can't actually do anything and then upped the pressure on the Imperium so it went full on xenophoby, stagnation and blind faith to protect itself, thus making sure that giant mass of psychic energy left after Emperor dies is appropriately coloured.
Not in Embers he wasn't. Also the Chaos Gods didn't push Humanity towards extremism, the Imperium did that all on its own.
But if the Quartok betrayed us then it wouldn't be dogmatic. It would be justified.
Really if you take the chaos gods at face value then everything feeds them. No natural species can even exist without there being reproduction, which is the domain of Slaanesh. Avernus with all its super plagues should pretty much be a Nurgle daemon world. Or maybe a Khorne one for the way the blood is constantly flowing.
Innovation would be far easier if we didn't have the admech at all. If we'd just abolished the admech for being "faith" driven and thus worshippers of the abomination by your standard we'd have been better off now.
Psychic evolution leading to bigger souls wouldn't make any sense in 40k though. Given the sheer lethality of Chaos, evolution should have enormous selective pressure against souls vulnerable to chaos. I'd expect smaller souls via evolution over time.
We had two separate backup plans beyond that. There was very little danger left. She basically waited until we had let ourselves be beat bloody for the opportunity to finally get some catharsis by slaughtering them and swooped in to steal the kill. If she'd showed up a week ago and saved millions of lives I might be more generous. Instead she showed up just in time to steal kills we were going to get nearly for free, and what was inevitably going to be an awesome trait.
Eh, I feel maybe, she'd be pretty eager to join and then over the course of a month or so she'd notice all the differences between what she remembers and what she idealised and lose it.
IRL? No its more like we crossed a finish line in a race which killed almost every racer before they got halfway.
It proves the xenophobic conservatives right and cements their position, which is what Shard meant when he said it'd damage us bad. The Conservatives will have the perfect example of the folly of trying to tolerate and understand xenos, and we'll never be able to leave the pit of dogmatic xenophobia.
In this hypothetical scenario, the Conservatives aren't the bad guys. If even the Quartok are traitors who want to see humanity's downfall, then it really is folly to try to tolerate and understand xenos. They wouldn't be arguing in favour of stupidity, they'd be arguing in favour of common sense and providing the correct course of action.
Khorne was all hatred including xenophobia it just wasn't a major part of his portfolio.
That doesn't matter.
Yeaaaah no.
Take it up with the Emperor he declared that humanities evolution into a psycic species is a thing and that could happen with other species.
I agree, but damage will have been done anyway. The common Trust citizen is so racist and xenophobic that the next time a friendly xeno race turns up people will ignore rationality and jump straight to the "correct" course of action ie. extermination, all based on this Quartok example. To them the last time the Trust tried to tolerate some xenos, the aliens stayed loyal and friendly for decades before turning out to be a massive Trojan Horse. It'll likely take longer than the timeframe of this Quest for us to dig the resultant Xeno=KILL zeitgeist out of the Imperial Trust. And until it's gone it's going to stay as a powerful vector for Abomination corruption.
I don't think it does. Chaos is raw emotion. Refined emotion, such as that expressed by the most pure of beings (such as the Emperor and his Living Saints) do not feed the Chaos Gods. Chaos is, before all else, chaos. Order in all its forms, including emotions, gives them nothing. If anything, given that the Emperor is Anathema to Chaos, Saint Lin's pure, non-chaotic, and Emperor-derived faith should harm the Abomination.
Faith is faith.
