it's unsurprising he would want a separate warrior class that are loyal only to him and his handcrafted tools/sons (oops)
This contradicts the lore. The Emperor and Malcador knew that the Heresy would happen in advance and were preparing in advance. They knew that those soldiers would not be loyal to the Emperor. Unless your point is that he wanted to deliberately arm the other side, in which case I don't see what sources you can back your claim with.
Look I'll admit I play fast and loose with 40k lore, I like 40k despite GW, not because of them. They had/have some interesting ideas for the setting but I don't take their word as gospel as quite frankly it's all made up so I happily ignore what I don't like. I don't know the deep lore of the emperor & malcador because it's more interesting to me when we barely knew anything about that entire period. I really don't like the idea that he saw it coming tbh, it's boring and verges too close to the "he's a literal god" part of 40k. So fair enough if he knew half would be traitors and not unbreakably loyal, but that's one of the parts of the lore I'll continue to not bother with.
I really don't like the idea that he saw it coming tbh
Neither do I.
My overarching point is that at least 40k is a wasted setting. It has a bunch of compelling ideas which it fails to utilise.
In general, I find it not worth in the slightest to engage with the setting. I'm an unfortunate person who hyperfocused on reading about it randomly at some point about 20 years ago.
This contradicts the lore. The Emperor and Malcador knew that the Heresy would happen in advance and were preparing in advance. They knew that those soldiers would not be loyal to the Emperor. Unless your point is that he wanted to deliberately arm the other side, in which case I don't see what sources you can back your claim with.
Look I'll admit I play fast and loose with 40k lore, I like 40k despite GW, not because of them. They had/have some interesting ideas for the setting but I don't take their word as gospel as quite frankly it's all made up so I happily ignore what I don't like. I don't know the deep lore of the emperor & malcador because it's more interesting to me when we barely knew anything about that entire period. I really don't like the idea that he saw it coming tbh, it's boring and verges too close to the "he's a literal god" part of 40k. So fair enough if he knew half would be traitors and not unbreakably loyal, but that's one of the parts of the lore I'll continue to not bother with.
Neither do I.
My overarching point is that at least 40k is a wasted setting. It has a bunch of compelling ideas which it fails to utilise.
In general, I find it not worth in the slightest to engage with the setting. I'm an unfortunate person who hyperfocused on reading about it randomly at some point about 20 years ago.