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In the 41st millennium what do people do for entertainment

Human life is cheaper than bullets. Why would the Imperium expend any resources on entertainment?

Short answer: There is no entertainment unless you're Dark Eldar or Chaos.

Regular stuff, read a book, I assume that they have something akin to movies, perhaps almost propaganda movies, something like Avatar that portrays the filthy xenos as bad and the humans as good. Overall it will probably vary from world to world. In a civilized world you might see a movie, on a feral world you might try and get into a fight or some other violent game.

Bars, They do have television. And movies.

Depends on what kind of planet you live on. The majority of Imperial Worlds are pretty much 21st-century equivalents, with television, movies, theater, opera and everything else, though the government tends to have much broader control over what is shown.

Reading about saints, drinking, watching sports, participating in sports, hunting, going on pilgrimages, flagellating themselves, breaking the law, etc... the same things humans have done since the dawn of time. Every conceivable variety of culture exists in the Imperium.

Of course on some worlds, almost all of the above would be breaking the law

As always it varies greatly depending on the world. The Imperium is not a totalitarian state, it is a feudal empire with totalitarian local governments.

Books, movies, video games, holo vids, neural links, un counted varieties of sports, music, and theatre. Life in the Imperium is incredibly diverse.

There is mention of "Holofilms" or soem type of movie device in a few books.

If ther eis such a thing then there would be Holotheathers that would play movies and as you would expect would be heavily controled by the IMperium to portray the Space Marine/Guardsmen and anyone Imperial (Expecially the Emperor) as really good and Xenos as "Stupid, brutish, creatures that only deserve death" no matter what kind.
Holofilms would likly be on more high tech planets.

Other lower tech worlds would possible have traditional theater or even oral story telling.

Books exist to a degree (and as you can imagine as censored to oblivion by the Imperium.)

Toys exist in 40k, from clockwork Titans that walk about and go "pew pew" to dolls, and other toys.

Wouldn't it be ironic if there was mention of little toy soldiers used in a war style game?
like if a Guardsmen was playing with little model soldiers to smite the little plastic xenos with dice and all that jazz?

Television exists and what they broadcast is again "Xenos and Heretics Bad! Imperium Good" besides the local weather and the daily output of the local forgeworld to the highway accident between a Leman Russ and a Truck. This is Valkarie 9, Forge world news.....


But what i've wondered is if there was sports. like football, soccer (aka football outside the US), tennis and so on.

Engine of War wrote:
But what i've wondered is if there was sports. like football, soccer (aka football outside the US), tennis and so on.

Yes, thousands of varieties, varying according to the traditions and culture of the planet.

Everything that exists now is still there.

Of course there is alot that is illegal(namely certain Drugs)


Naturally there is no freedom of the press and anything disrespectful of the Emperor or the Government is forbidden.

There will be soap operas, dramas, comedies, etc...

Xenos will of course never be glorified on the TV. Evil bad guys who always lose in the end, if they are even discussed.

But again, most things like drug use are going to come down to the laws of individual worlds. It is rare for the Imperium itself to get involved in nitty gritty laws like that.

Entertainment=idleness.

AND IDLENESS=HERESY, THEREFORE ENTERTAINMENT=HERESY.

The Ecclesiarchy is not a monolithic organization with monolithic commandments and laws. There are countless creeds and cults.

And just as in the real world, there is often a difference between religion dogma and how the populace acts.

Quotes like that are meant to gives examples of what tenets of an imperial cult may be, not to define the beliefs the entire Ecclesiarchy.

riplikash wrote:But again, most things like drug use are going to come down to the laws of individual worlds. It is rare for the Imperium itself to get involved in nitty gritty laws like that.

The drugs that are illegal on a galactic level will be things associated with Chaos(and drugs in general will attract Slannesh)

Things like Flects are delt with by the Inquisition.

Grey Templar wrote:

riplikash wrote:But again, most things like drug use are going to come down to the laws of individual worlds. It is rare for the Imperium itself to get involved in nitty gritty laws like that.

The drugs that are illegal on a galactic level will be things associated with Chaos(and drugs in general will attract Slannesh)

Things like Flects are delt with by the Inquisition.

Exactly.

Lets look at this with some realism. As long as man has been around, 5,000 years plus (depending on your beliefs) man, well, men have found prostitutes and there like as entertainment. As a soldier, when deployed or in the field, I can tell you I think of what me and the wife will do later, but, that is a different story for a different time.

If you're a Guardsman, you're never going home to see your wife again.

Prostitutes? The world's oldest profession is still around, they are commonly called joy-girls (or joy-boys) in much of the fluff.

Psienesis wrote:If you're a Guardsman, you're never going home to see your wife again.

The guard is also not a monolithic organization. Different regimens have different policies for terms of service. Plenty of guardsmen will go home someday.

Psienesis wrote:If you're a Guardsman, you're never going home to see your wife again.

You might, it sure as hell wouldn't be easy. It would probably be like the Odyssey because you would pretty much have to hitch a ride back hopping from world to world only to find out when you get back that your wife is dead or remarried.

But yeah, the Imperium has whores, and odds are they aren't outright outlawed.

riplikash wrote:

Psienesis wrote:If you're a Guardsman, you're never going home to see your wife again.

The guard is also not a monolithic organization. Different regimens have different policies for terms of service. Plenty of guardsmen will go home someday.

Actually, the Departmento Munitorum *is* fairly monolithic and all-encompassing when it comes to the Guard. *Some* regiments might go home (alive) but most probably will not, as there's always another war, another battle, another front that veteran soldiers could be sent to.

Psienesis wrote:If you're a Guardsman, you're never going home to see your wife again..

actully there is mention that officers or those that are lucky get to have their familys come with them. The familys of the fighting men will stay aboard the orbiting space craft while the husands or wives (or both together) in uniform will go down and do their duty leaving their loved ones in (reletive) safty aboard the space craft.

Psienesis wrote:

riplikash wrote:

Psienesis wrote:If you're a Guardsman, you're never going home to see your wife again.

The guard is also not a monolithic organization. Different regimens have different policies for terms of service. Plenty of guardsmen will go home someday.

Actually, the Departmento Munitorum *is* fairly monolithic and all-encompassing when it comes to the Guard. *Some* regiments might go home (alive) but most probably will not, as there's always another war, another battle, another front that veteran soldiers could be sent to.

While the munitorium may be, the leave the internal management of the regimens to the regimens. If a solder lives through his tour of service he will be allowed to go home. Of course, depending on the regimen that tour may be 5 years, 25 years, or 100 years.

And the galaxy is a big place. While there are horrible battlefields with high casualty rates, there are just as many lesser wars where the odds are more even, or even wars against more primitive powers or rebels where the guard dominates the opposition.

I wouldn't even try to guess at percentages, but many will go home.

Guardsmen tend to hook up with other Guardsmen. The IG is an equal opprotunity employer.

If casualities are suffered, they get suffed with remnants from other regiments.

If a regiment is lucky they might get rewarded with a planet to settle. They basically become the new PDF and the first colonists.

riplikash wrote:

Psienesis wrote:

riplikash wrote:

Psienesis wrote:If you're a Guardsman, you're never going home to see your wife again.

The guard is also not a monolithic organization. Different regimens have different policies for terms of service. Plenty of guardsmen will go home someday.

Actually, the Departmento Munitorum *is* fairly monolithic and all-encompassing when it comes to the Guard. *Some* regiments might go home (alive) but most probably will not, as there's always another war, another battle, another front that veteran soldiers could be sent to.

While the munitorium may be, the leave the internal management of the regimens to the regimens. If a solder lives through his tour of service he will be allowed to go home. Of course, depending on the regimen that tour may be 5 years, 25 years, or 100 years.

And the galaxy is a big place. While there are horrible battlefields with high casualty rates, there are just as many lesser wars where the odds are more even, or even wars against more primitive powers or rebels where the guard dominates the opposition.

I wouldn't even try to guess at percentages, but many will go home.

99% of all wars in the Imperium are between humans and other humans or humans and pretty much equal species (physically) the only reason they aren't as prominent in the fluff is because they aren't as cool as humans vs. Orks or Tyranids or CSM.


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Grey Templar wrote:Guardsmen tend to hook up with other Guardsmen. The IG is an equal opprotunity employer.

The IG doesn't care about gender at all, some regiments are all male, some are all female, odds are some worlds only field female regiments (a cookie to the first one that can find fluff of a female guard regiment based off of the Amazon warriors).