Yeah, I really don't buy that.Cecilo said:I understand your points, however there really isn't that much to celebrate in the Imperium or in Imperial Space. Most planets are constantly working to meet their Imperial Tithe, either in forces, food, goods, weapons or Armor. Many worlds have a festival near the time that ships come to take the Tithe, but really life in the Imperium sucks.Muspelheim said:The Crow is revenge porn. Quite delightful revenge porn. Breaking out the guns and ushering the scum of mankind to their graves does not work in reality, but it's a pleasant fantasy to indulge in.
Now, I play (or played, I might be back, but it's not impossible I won't) WoW entirely for the roleplaying. And Warcraft is not a very dark world, thankfully. I've never been a huge fan of "dark", miserable fantasy. At least not the kind that is dark and terrible for its own sake. Unfortunately, people seem to think Warcraft is indeed a dark setting, and roleplay thereafter. That is, playing haggard old veterans with eyepatches that have lost all compassion and hope in some bloodied battlefield or an enemy torture chamber. They are mainly standing about being aggressive and shout "Harlot!" in the taverns. That, or they pretend it's Game of Thrones they're actually playing. The term "grimderp" was very, very fitting.
Everything is dark and horrible, no one likes anything or anyone or did once but lost it. It's like the boring parts of Warhammer 40.000 put forth as an ideal.
It's attempts at being "mature" immediately foiled by the fact that the forests outside are filled with colourful cartoon Hyenamen, battling with the gurgling fish people in the ponds for turf.
Speaking of flippin' Warhammer 40-flippin-K... Both its audience and the writers, I feel, focus far too much on how terrible everything is. It's an interesting universe, but we never get to see anything but the bog standard suffering, war and big men in armour hitting each other.
At least give us a glimpse of something pleasant. There must be planets that are rather nice, or something that makes fighting worth it. If there is nothing worth defending, then why fight at all?
Now, I understand why grimderpness can seem like the pinnacle of maturity. Hell, I was like that, once. I had it all figured out, at last. Everything was rubbish, and portraying dark realities was the only thing that resonated with any sort of truth to it. Then I outgrew it.
Dark and grim storylines and elements lose their impact without anything light and cheerful to contrast them with.
You either live on a forgeworld, which is a world that is loaded with manufactures and is polluted to all hell, you'll probably die either from an invasion or a factory accident.
A recruit world, in which case your life probably sucks already, because it is a desert, barren ice land, or such.
A Hive World, in which case if you aren't rich you are fighting for your life every day on the streets.
And if that wasn't enough, for every million guardsmen that die, they take another two million in recruits. You will more than likely be drafted or incentized to sign up, if the Tech Priests, or Space Marines haven't taken you. Otherwise you are a farmer or factory worker, more than likely to be killed in the event of an invasion.
Life in the Imperium Sucks and the only reason you, your family, and your friends exist is to do your job, breed, and probably die for the Imperium, So humanity can survive, so the Emperor can someday be revived somehow, so he can kill the gods of Chaos, so he can kill off all the Psykers, so Chaos doesn't get reborn and Humanity, Finally, at that point will kill off all the Aliens, except possibly the Tau since they are lacking Psychic powers. So People can live in peace.
Thats the Point of the Imperium, to kill all psychic people. Possibly so the Emperor becomes a real god. they weren't really clear on what the Emperor would do after all is said and done.
Firstly, most planets don't get invaded regularly. You could spend generations working in a factory without war ever coming to you.
Secondly, even if it did, most of the time most of the population would survive.
The Emperor's armies are vast, but the odds of any one individual being called up are fairly small. You need lots of people to keep the place running for every soldier you send off. Even if you do get called up, you could get sent to garrison somewhere and be forgotten about (which is supposed to happen after a time anyway).
You are quite likely to live out your life peacefully herding groxen on some backwater nobody cares about.