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 Overread wrote:

You see the same thing in the Inquisition novels; ideals and concepts that should be strict law and rules being broken everywhere (many times by the Inquisition itself).

The Inquisition don't break the law, they are the law! (well, till they aren't of course)

 Overread wrote:

Heck who knows Necromunda's crimes might well be logged, recorded, filed and left for dealing with. It's just in a huge pile of papers in a draw in an archive in a whole warehouse which his connected to an administrative building for dealing with overflow from the overflow of crimes to be dealt with. Ergo its not that the Imperium hasn't noticed, it just hasn't processed it yet.

Indeed. Given the immense bureaucratic lag in the imperium, I suspect that many criminals may well be tried long after they are dead. The system (mostly) works, it just works very very slowly sometimes.


Grav-tech isn't that rare in the Imperium at all, its just that grav-tech that's of a sufficiently robust nature to be used by the military is. Combat vehicles that can be put out of action by the most minor of dings are not going to be especially popular - even in the IoM with its rather poor regard for the individual fighting man, they still want them to be at least moderately combat effective. Their logistics are hard enough without having to add some esoteric repair components for something that breaks down all the time; and may require very specialized knowledge to repair it.