Salute, Escapists.
There are two popular interstellar futures within the nerd community: The Federation of planets from Star Trek and the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40k.
Despite both attempting to represent a utopia, they may easily be considered polar opposites. The Imperium is ruled with an iron fist by an immortal monarch and possesses the largest military in the galaxy, a devout religious following and an absurd military-industrial complex. The Federation is based on an idealized version of the West, putting democracy, diplomacy, free trade and technological progress at the forefront of its society.
For the sake of the argument we'll take TNG Federation and Post-Collapse Imperium to have a more equal playing field.
While the Imperium outnumbers the Federation, they are fairly xenophobic and technologically stagnant, which makes their weapons and armour fairly easy to reverse-engineer.
A major difference between the Federation and the Imperium is their ground troops. One has a ban on advanced genetic engineering, while the other has a ban on the creation of sentient machines. It's rather clear that a Redshirt would't stand a chance against a Grey Angel or the Guard, which would give one an advantage in planetary raids. However, the Federation's ship building technology is progressing at an tremedious rate, while the Imperium forgot most of its ship-building techniques since the Horus Heresy.
So guys, who would win in a large scale war? If there would be a winner, that is.
There are two popular interstellar futures within the nerd community: The Federation of planets from Star Trek and the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40k.
Despite both attempting to represent a utopia, they may easily be considered polar opposites. The Imperium is ruled with an iron fist by an immortal monarch and possesses the largest military in the galaxy, a devout religious following and an absurd military-industrial complex. The Federation is based on an idealized version of the West, putting democracy, diplomacy, free trade and technological progress at the forefront of its society.
For the sake of the argument we'll take TNG Federation and Post-Collapse Imperium to have a more equal playing field.
While the Imperium outnumbers the Federation, they are fairly xenophobic and technologically stagnant, which makes their weapons and armour fairly easy to reverse-engineer.
A major difference between the Federation and the Imperium is their ground troops. One has a ban on advanced genetic engineering, while the other has a ban on the creation of sentient machines. It's rather clear that a Redshirt would't stand a chance against a Grey Angel or the Guard, which would give one an advantage in planetary raids. However, the Federation's ship building technology is progressing at an tremedious rate, while the Imperium forgot most of its ship-building techniques since the Horus Heresy.
So guys, who would win in a large scale war? If there would be a winner, that is.