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so what are the weirdest things that the Imperium (or anyone in it) has done?

Using Ultramahriin geneseed on most SM..

Haha Win sir win!!

Hating every single Xenos species. At least interact with them in a non-hostile way first, not every race wants to destroy them. Tau are not part of this few who should be interacted with.

Hate is the official Imperial dogma, but it seems like aliens are related to on a case by case basis. We've seen several cases where aliens are ignored or deemed useful to the Imperium. Some races are treated as friendly (or at least non-hostile) and dealt with sometimes, and treated as enemies and made war on at other times. I'm thinking of the Eldar, who are sometimes allowed to pass through Imperial space. There are even Eldar diplomats that sometimes visit Imperial planets.

Some inquisitors make use of aliens (like Kroot mercenaries) and some Imperial planets are allowed to trade with tolerated aliens. These seem to be planets far away from mainstream Imperial influence though. It seems like some parts of the Imperium are more tolerant than others.

jake is right about that.

There are specific and isolated cases, but The Imperiums main-stream response and policy is that all Xenos must be purged. Sure, some are traded with and accepted (loosely), but they're still treated as un-clean and inferior, with open hatred.

Hatred is the Emperor's gift to Humanity.

Order an Inquisitor to kill an Inquisitor, but actually was a test to see if the Inquisitor in question was worth keeping alive due to his research, but ultimately, send the Inquisitor who was sent to kill the Inquisitor to his death.

Phew!

Oh god. Another one of these "That's so weird!!" threads...

It's so weird that the imperium even exists. Isn't that the weirdest things? I can't understand it!

Magnets.

Devastator wrote:Magnets.

Yeah magnets are weird. Its also weird that pope benedict looks like uncle fester from adams family

Toastedandy wrote: Its also weird that pope benedict looks like uncle fester from adams family

Uncle fester is in the Imperium?


A truly weird place if he is.

Heretics! You DARE question the God-Emperor's servants? Taste the lash of my power armored high-heeled kneeboot!

Honestly, high heels as standard boots for all-female combat units? Da ? How many RL military personnel do you see wearing high heels as part of their uniform?

Okay, fine, OUTSIDE the realm of television.

Now, if the heel came with an extending hidden blade that could be used as a weapon, that'd be different. Slightly.

They started ignoring Big E and his biggest teaching about no Gods. If you don't believe in chaos it gets weaker. If he ever came back he'd probably reconquer his own empire

Chenkov...
He may be grimdark and awesome but the man is a hopeless commander... unless he applies some of that unyielding determination to learning tactics...

iproxtaco wrote:Hating every single Xenos species. At least interact with them in a non-hostile way first, not every race wants to destroy them. Tau are not part of this few who should be interacted with.

The anti-xenos dogma really only started after the Horus Heresy. Not to say Imperial-xenos relations were good before then, but it wasn't a situation of outright hate, more like tolerable co-existence.

After? Lol, tell that to the Diasporex who were annihilated by the Iron Hands for being allies with aliens. Or perhaps that nameless human civilization exterminated by the Luna Wolves because at one point they had used alien DNA to cure themselves of some congenital disease, and some traces still remained in their genome. In Fulgrim it is said the Imperia mandate is to exterminate all Xenos.


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Nicholas wrote:They started ignoring Big E and his biggest teaching about no Gods. :

That ignorance is what made it so easy for Chaos to corrupt them.