<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=79973.msg3524035#msg3524035">Quote from: uoheinrich on 23-08-2010, 23:37:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The Ecclesiarchy OWES the Imperium big time. They need this, they need that. They don't have sisters of battle all the time. They have to rely on the munitorum A LOT! and the munitorum is so big it needs to be downsized enough that you don't need all those stupid things done by 500 people at the same time when it can be easily done by 250.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>The ecclesiarchy is not a church seperate from the imperum. they are PART of the imperum, just as the Adeptus Mechanus is the are the craftsmen and arms, the various armies of the imperum are it's weapons (IG are the big fucking hammer, Space marines are the Sword, and the inquisition is the knife in their backs) the Ecclesiarchy is the heart of the imperum, they are it's soul. this is not a secular empire, it is a species focused, militant theocarcy, ruled by a council of those who've climbed to the top of their powerstructures that rules a massive sporaticly connected confederacy of independent sectors and planets that are closer to dictatorships and monarachies then actual members of the imperum.<br/>in the imperum,<span class="bbc_u">The State is the Church</span><br/>the imperum's finances are strained because they defend everything at once against billions of worlds, if someone (Ie: the emperor) had a birds eye view of the imperum they could make overarching and just decisions.<br/>the reality is the imperum has many competeing interists each as petty as people can be nowadays, all humans fighting and competing for influence in an empire that stretches to far and wide it strains the imagination.<br/>it's nearly impossible to comprehend the number of worlds in the imperum, and people on those worlds, now imagine tryong to organize that gigantic tangled mess into somthing coheisive.<br/>The Emperor did...<br/>also is it any wonder why chaos worshipers say "Fuck it" and go insane?<br/>"sanity is for the weak" no my friend... in a universe like this, only the strongest can stay sane when they see that big picture.<br/>also that's why I look down on chaos worshipers in the game, they didn't have the balls to say no to the chaos gods.<br/>which is funny because the way the Chaos gods treat their lesser followers... it's the ultimate abusive relationship. "you left the imperum and turned on everyone who ever cared about you... good job, now get up on the altar and let the nice man rip your intestines out."<br/>yeah... just say no to chaos okay kids...