Why is it that Alfheim produces so much EM compared to Midgard though? Midgard has tons of money to invest in building factories.
Money, but comparatively not people.
We sent a lot of tech priests to Alfheim when we bought them from Atlas and Zaren gave them a continent to use as they please.
Except the Admech aren't the only experts. Muspelheim's got experts that aren't Admech and are clearly better than the Admech.
I don't think you quite understand how interconnected the Admech were with the Imperium, they weren't everywhere, but it was a close thing, if we had tried to get rid of them then and if we try now it would be disastrous, not because we don't have people who can maintain ships, but because the Admech can very easily hold many of the Trust's key industrial centre's hostage.
Vanaheim's shipyards, our orbital mines, the reactors of just about every fleet sans Muspelheim and Nilfheim, stealth fleets who are not exactly capable of stopping a Legend Class Dreadnaught.
Combine this with the fact that we didn't know about the Muspal being what they were at the time of the Trust's formation, the fact that their population size was a literal fraction of what it is now and I doubt they've got enough people to replace the admech now, and the fact that they hadn't brought their factories online or started their massive education/juvnat programmes.
In short, like we've had to dela with for centuries the Admech's gotta stay, unless of course we want to blow ourselves up.
-Y5: On Religious Gods
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@Enjou please do the Path of Ascension, we need to figure out what's happening to Ridcully what can go right, what can go wrong and what can go wrong ect.
The thing is, you won't convince a tech priest that your technology management practices are good just by showing them wonders and apparent success and rightly so. Machine spirits are real, they affect the behaviour and performance of complex machines and some of them are malicious. The Men of Iron, the Dark Mechanicus, the Eldar and the Orks can all build in ways the Adeptus Mechanicus can't but replicating their methods ranges from impossible to abominable to suicidal. All too often stories like Avernus or Callamus are too good to be true.
PHFA. Machine spirits that conveniently only turn up when an admech is near by, require constant placation and lubrication with holy oils and covering with incense, otherwise they won't work properly.
Its the same as the Catholic church doing mass in Latin, making sure things look much more mystical than they actually are to make sure the masses never investigate, this has been a bullshit technique since days of old.
Hell I can even give evidence for it being nonsense, a geller field in a space hulk, with survivors in a deathwatch module. The shield is the only thing keeping them alive and the only person keeping the shield running, is a lowly ratling who doesn't know any of the "holy rites to placate the machine" he just does his savant maintenance and the "machine spirit" doesn't bother him, to the point that when
Of course millennia of belief may have created small warp things there, but I doubt the admech in its entirety has the juice to give all human technology psudo souls.
That's not to say "machine spirits" don't exist, their just in advanced technology and programming, like Landraiders, Knights or maybe Titans seeing as the next step in the Titan creation process literally requires Tranth to create a machine spirit, giving credence to this.
Of course if you're talking about this in a theological sense disregard my tired barely awake rant.
