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Well do they?

Only the rich.

Maybe some still get a 'official' ride from their company. Again, status and/or money grant access to individual transport.

Hmmm and what about space marines? Do they get leave?(i doubt it, but makes you wonder) and where do they go if the do get leave? haha

space marines don't get leave, they don't like time off as told in the 3rd edition codex

BluntmanDC wrote:space marines don't get leave, they don't like time off as told in the 3rd edition codex

I'll never be a space marine screw that.

It depends on the world, some worlds have horse drawn carriages whereas some have hovercars for everyone and his wife... Hell some worlds have hover-horse drawn carriages.

Shadowmarine wrote:

BluntmanDC wrote:space marines don't get leave, they don't like time off as told in the 3rd edition codex

I'll never be a space marine screw that.

why take leave when your family is likely dead and buried, and everyone you knew thinks you've gone to join the gods, plus an eternity of bestriding the battlefield as a living engine of untouchable destruction sounds like a fair trade to me. I'd do it in a heartbeat.


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corpsesarefun wrote:It depends on the world, some worlds have horse drawn carriages whereas some have hovercars for everyone and his wife... Hell some worlds have hover-horse drawn carriages.

or hovering horses pulling carriages

MrDAKKA wrote:Well do they?

It depends entirely on the planet, its technology level and the average wealth of your inhabitant. Some pre black powder colonies only have horse and cart (if that) and some have combustion engine vehicles. Whilst some advanced planets have hover-cars and anti gravity based personal transports. Whilst other worlds have dirigibles and airships. It depends on each world on an individual basis.

Lexx wrote:

MrDAKKA wrote:Well do they?

It depends entirely on the planet, its technology level and the average wealth of your inhabitant. Some pre black powder colonies only have horse and cart (if that) and some have combustion engine vehicles. Whilst some advanced planets have hover-cars and anti gravity based personal transports. Whilst other worlds have dirigibles and airships. It depends on each world on an individual basis.

On a side note, I think it's funny that all of these independent human colonies and most of the alien races all magically follow the exact same technological evolution as we have in the real world. It seems a bit silly to me.

Lexx wrote:

MrDAKKA wrote:Well do they?

It depends entirely on the planet, its technology level and the average wealth of your inhabitant. Some pre black powder colonies only have horse and cart (if that) and some have combustion engine vehicles. Whilst some advanced planets have hover-cars and anti gravity based personal transports. Whilst other worlds have dirigibles and airships. It depends on each world on an individual basis.

I'd actually have to question the anti-gravity cars, seeing as the Imperial anti-grav tech is higly complicated and unreliable at best. Hence why even the Astartes only have 1 skimmer, the Land Speeder.

there is a big difference between a car/truck that can maintain a standard 3 inches off the ground on a road and an anti-grav vehicule that is useful as a fast attack craft

My soldiers come from a planet that is reasonably technologically advanced. If they can produce their own lasguns, they can produce their own automobiles.

Of course, whether they run on petroleum is entirely another matter.

In the novels, there are several allusions to military-issue vehicles for dignitaries and officials. In Ciaphas Cain: Hero of The Imperium, he attends a public function via a groundcar (with a Chimera following behind, of course). I imagine that wealthier citizens likely have entire fleets of vehicles, but most of the poor tend to live in shacks and tenements directly next to their workplaces, so the need for a vehicle is eliminated.

Brother Heinrich wrote:
why take leave when your family is likely dead and buried, and everyone you knew thinks you've gone to join the gods

Women? They love a man in uniform. Think of the pick up lines. "Yeah, every part of me is genetically enhanced"

Think of the pick up lines. "Yeah, every part of me is genetically enhanced"

They are pumped full of steroids, though. I'm not certain that engorging the family jewels is the top priority when modifying a Space Marine.

Shrouger wrote:

Think of the pick up lines. "Yeah, every part of me is genetically enhanced"

They are pumped full of steroids, though. I'm not certain that engorging the family jewels is the top priority when modifying a Space Marine.

Are you suggesting that the massive pauldrons, weapons, vehicles and spaceships are compensation for something?

HERESY!

I think our friends the SM are much more human than they let on...

Well they are only conditioned to have no interest in sex. Look what happens when they indulge themselves... Emperor's Children.

YES CARS EXIST! It's in several novels. And yes they go from gas guzzlers to hover cars

Why do we keep getting all of these threads asking about some aspect of Imperial life that act as if all of the uncounted (literally) worlds of the Imperium, from Ogryn Death Worlds to inhabited gas giants, all have the exact same level of technology, the same culture, the same population, and the same philosophy?

Does it really tell anyone anything useful to say that some Imperial civilians have cars, or some Imperial civilians are racist, or whatever?

It's like saying "some Earthlings have one leg", only worse.

Are there people out there who imagine that in tens of thousands of Imperial Worlds, NONE of those worlds have ANY civilians who own automobiles?

These sorts of topics really act as a springboard for more debate on the more profound aspects of the question; why do some worlds have cars and others not? What does owning a car mean in the Imperium? (if most military officials own it, is it really a point of status or just an indication of military rank?)

Nah, I don't think so. Everything I've read suggests that they work close to home, and buy things close to home. They have a lot of trains though.

Da Butcha wrote:
Why do we keep getting all of these threads asking about some aspect of Imperial life that act as if all of the uncounted (literally) worlds of the Imperium, from Ogryn Death Worlds to inhabited gas giants, all have the exact same level of technology, the same culture, the same population, and the same philosophy?

The OP didn't ask if all civilians have cars, or if all world have cars. He simple asked 'do imperial citizens have cars?'

The OP obviously didn't know the answer (I didn't either to be honest), and the question was answered. When I heard the answer was 'yes', I didn't assume that it was the same on every world; but now I know some citizens on some worlds have cars.

I understand how you can be irritated if people started acting like every IoM world is the same, but that's not what I got out of the statement of 'yes'. Most forum users get that fluff details aren't represented the same way across the 40k universe.

As others have said it depends on the world. The most I've seen have been in the Ultrmarines novels. In Nightbringer many of the nobles who own various factories travel around in horse drawn carriages while the wealthier ones have carriages equipped with anti grav technology.

Then in the Warriors of Ultramar book the city/planet is being evacuated prior to a Tyranid invasion and a normal every day ground based truck gets stuck on it's way out of the city until a Ultrmarines seargent picks it up and moves it out, right behind that truck was a normal limo with a merchant inside who also had his own spaceship. In the same book a bunch of Grox ranchers use horses.

So just like everyone else said it depends on the world and a persons social and financial level. Deathworlders may travel on local wildlife or on foot, hivers may not need a vehicle as they live in such a cramped space. So it all depends

And if someone dosen't want to discuss points or ask questions like these that exist in the 40k universe (be it they think it's trivial or unimportant or won't change anything) that's fine it's your opinion. But don't waste the time of others who would like to discuss it just because you don't care.

Depends a lot on the technological level of the planet and the relative wealth of the occupants mainly.

The richer tend to have their own private transport.

Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn/Ravenor books mention this several times.

it all depends on the tech level of the planet

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Lexx wrote:

MrDAKKA wrote:Well do they?

It depends entirely on the planet, its technology level and the average wealth of your inhabitant. Some pre black powder colonies only have horse and cart (if that) and some have combustion engine vehicles. Whilst some advanced planets have hover-cars and anti gravity based personal transports. Whilst other worlds have dirigibles and airships. It depends on each world on an individual basis.

I'd actually have to question the anti-gravity cars, seeing as the Imperial anti-grav tech is higly complicated and unreliable at best. Hence why even the Astartes only have 1 skimmer, the Land Speeder.

Guess you've never read Warped Stars.Anti-gravity technology isn't that rare,it's rare on galactic scale.Look at Grav Chutes or planet Harakon.