People make fun of 40k for how outlandish some of the scale is, but I think it’s the only canon that understands the massive amount of resources a galactic-wide empire would have at their disposal. Doubly so when it’s willing to genocide any alien races, strip mine the planet they were on, and ignore even a pretense of caring about human rights. But even a more benign empire should have ridiculous amounts of ships and weapons and people available to it.
While not a 40k nerd by any stretch, what I’ve been exposed to absolutely tracks with this assessment. The writers behind it very clearly did some deep thought-exercises about the possible ramifications of such mind-boggling scale. Including what values might be normalized if you toss out the idea that mankind itself has such an inconceivably enormous headcount that extinction isn’t even a consideration, no matter what happens.
People make fun of 40k for how outlandish some of the scale is, but I think it’s the only canon that understands the massive amount of resources a galactic-wide empire would have at their disposal. Doubly so when it’s willing to genocide any alien races, strip mine the planet they were on, and ignore even a pretense of caring about human rights. But even a more benign empire should have ridiculous amounts of ships and weapons and people available to it.
While not a 40k nerd by any stretch, what I’ve been exposed to absolutely tracks with this assessment. The writers behind it very clearly did some deep thought-exercises about the possible ramifications of such mind-boggling scale. Including what values might be normalized if you toss out the idea that mankind itself has such an inconceivably enormous headcount that extinction isn’t even a consideration, no matter what happens.