It's not putting all the eggs in one basket. It's just putting all the elites there. Asgard would still be producing all the Knights, no one seems to care about that. Vanaheim would still be producing the overwhelming majority of naval forces, and no one cares about that. Midgard produces the overwhelming majority of the guard as well. It's not arguing for the entire military to be drawn from one planet, just the elites.
The Trust simply isn't in the position the Imperium was where it could afford to be hideously inefficient and survive due to sheer size. The Trust is small enough that it has to be efficient to survive. The threat of a core planet's governor betraying simply isn't anywhere near as high as the external threats to us.
Though I'd also argue that the sheer inefficiencies that were introduced as an attempt to prevent another Horus event actually did more damage to the Imperium than having such an event every thousand years.
Well...isn't it.
All the elite eggs in one basket that is.
I mean personally I'm not happy about the fact that Vanaheim produces most of our ships because as was demonstrated with the recent decision on where to send the Waargh we really have to shape everything around the fact that most of our ships are made there. As for Midgard, that's a result of happenstance more than anything else. Midgard is just the Hive world, with luck it won't be alone soon.
Ensuring all elites are made on Avernus does make sense from a purely efficiency based perspective that you're going for, but as has already been stated it'll never fly with the other members of the Trust and I'm doubtful your plan would have major impact on two fronts.
1. Even if we're constantly conscripting anyone who makes it into the PDF we'll never match the numbers of the Chosen or Svartalfguard, even before the fact that we can't conscript everyone comes into account and the higher up you go there are fewer and fewer candidates for Helguard ect.
2. A dependency problem. All it takes is something cutting us off for us to collapse and the Trust to be badly weakened (already a problem, but lets not exacerbate it).
And yeah a lot of the inefficiencies were introduced to prevent...well first Horus, then to prevent the necessity of a second beheading and then to stop a Goge Vandir from appearing again. In fairness the paranoia was with good reason and it stopped the mostly awful governors from ****ing shit up and meant when the Lords did do something things were done.
This paranoia hasn't stopped. Technically it'd be much more efficient to give the Inquisition control of our spy nets and internal security (they are much better at it than the majority of the worlds), but we don't do that either because it'd give them too much power. Similar logic here as to most worlds even trust ones, an Avernite army can only really be countered by other mass elites...or too many dead guys to count.
If their artisans made relic armor for us, then it would cost the same thing.
Nah fair amount more, due to transport and our inability to maintain it.
Not because we wouldn't have enough resources under your proposal, but because we just wouldn't have enough artisans, who we cannot move from Svartalfheim to Avernus (well unless we want a lot of dead artisans.)
There's a reason they don't just sacrifice all their people right now. Most sacrifices are for immediate effect rituals that aren't as useful years in advance of any attack. By starving them now they don't have those billions to fuel rituals when they actually want to attack you later. Plus their industry declines from lack of population which means less stuff to throw at you later.
Rituals yes, compacts and contracts with Daemons though. Those can be arranged far in advance and take a lot of souls as well and if you have a glut of souls from an angry populace this is the perfect time to be making deals that ordinarily you'd take more time on.
Unless of course they do what they always do, which is raid other less fortified targets. It'll be harder to do that later on as the weak polities get smashed, but I'm pretty sure the Tzeenchian domain at least can just ride in with their super weapon make a list of demands collect and leave.
Suddenly tada they've got a new population and all the military equipment they could need for a while.
Yet an increase of 133% in Alphas you find insignificant?
Given the number of nat 100s needed to create an alpha it can to an extent.
But, to solve this
@Durin
1. Does Rotbart and his advisers think that any proposition to redirect planatary resources currently used for the creation, maintenance and use of elite units from other worlds (like the Svartalfguard, the Jotun, Chosen and Fire Giants) to Avernus to facilitate the creation of additional Avernite elites (who are under all objective measurements we can find superior) be acceptable either politically or practically.
. Then as the "King" of the planet we could send them on random fetch quests.
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