Why could The Emperor not Regenerate?

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**Judge Dredd**

Ashiraya wrote:
IllumiNini wrote:
I remember in one of the first three HH novels (I'm pretty sure it was 'False Gods'), they came across a tchnocracy who had at least one STC and their technology (with the exception of the gene forging) was near indentical to the Soace Marines. They still got rompastomped over a 10 month period.

The Auretian Technocracy, I remember. They had boltguns and power armour and everything, and they were still massacred because - as the books made clear - it is the man inside the armour that makes all the difference.

But that is not really on the topic. The notion that the throne keeps him from regenerating and that leaving the throne long enough to regenerate would doom the Imperium seems most plausible.

I like this one the most

There is something fascinating in thinking that a being of that power could in theory regenerate or reincarnate if let go but he's keep from doing it by both that machine and the necessity of the Imperium to have him there.