Chaos has won.

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**OverwatchCNC**

Hawkward wrote:The Emperor is a catatonic corpse, incapable of either physically fighting the Chaos gods or dying and becoming one of them.

The Imperium has become fanatical and religious, the precise opposite of what the Emperor intended.

Technology has stagnated, and as alien and supernatural threats loom humanity drifts deeper and deeper into despair - thus feeding Nurgle.

The Imperium is in a constant state of war and bloodshed, hateful against anything and everything - thus feeding Khorne.

Those at the highest levels of the Imperium scheme and plot and hoard knowledge - thus feeding Tzeentch.

Those same schemers and aristocrats sate their desires in extravagant ways as the masses hunger and lust for the pleasures denied to them - thus feeding Slaanesh.

Abaddon the Despoiler leads Crusade after Crusade, never winning but always posing enough of a threat to terrorize the entire Imperium.

Chaos won the Horus Heresy. It just didn't win in the spectacular, apocalyptic way everyone expected. Horus didn't need to slay the Emperor. Abaddon didn't have to sit on the Golden Throne. Cadia didn't have to be overrun and pillaged. Terra didn't have to burn. The Ecclesiarchy didn't have to bow to Chaos. That would have made it all too easy, too messy. Chaos won in an insidious and tidy way, a way that will forever ensure its dominance over the Galaxy. It allows humanity to live, feeding it with its emotions and lusts without the species even knowing.

Humanity spirals into a never-ending hell of hatred and ignorance, dying not with a triumphant final battle, but instead with a futile whimper of defiance, a whimper that is drowned out by the laughter of thirsting gods.

Chaos won.

I am coming a little late to the thread but I would have to say I agree with this sentiment.

**Snarky**

Hawkward wrote:

Technology has stagnated, and as alien and supernatural threats loom humanity drifts deeper and deeper into despair - thus feeding Nurgle.

Not exactly true, the Macharius tank is an example of a new innovation based on cross referencing to past successful tank designs. I think the background skews the mechanicus too much in that they don't understand how anything works, which doesn't really make any sense, especially since they have to maintain the darn things, and to do that you need to have some idea on how it works.

**Praxiss**

Surely then they would be allowed to reverse engineer things. You would think it wouldnt be major stretch to take a speeder and RE a jetbike.

**Kanluwen**

Praxiss wrote:Surely then they would be allowed to reverse engineer things. You would think it wouldnt be major stretch to take a speeder and RE a jetbike.

A speeder doesn't work on the same principles as a jetbike.

A 'jetbike' is always in motion, it cannot hover, etc.

The Land Speeder, however, uses anti-gravity to keep it afloat and allow it to hover. For forward momentum, it uses turbines that are primitive and crude when compared to the finesse of the jetbike.

And "reverse engineering" in the Imperium is tantamount to Heresy. For good reason too.

If you take something apart and don't know how to fix it: congrats. You just destroyed a relic of ages past.