Ah yes, the genetically modified, cloned, super-soldiers who all hail an iconic god-emperor, who in reality died long ago. They gleefully genocide their way through the universe in the name of this corpse that never cared about them in the first place. They all internalise insane amounts of trauma and death and claim it to be a good thing.
Definitely don't think about the parallels with current hegemonies on Earth that also cultishly worship long-dead symbols that justify suffering of the masses, depersonalisation, eugenics, and genocide.
To me, 40k's spes mariens were always a warning to society - This is the direction you're headed if you keep this shit up.
In fairness to The God-Emperor of Mankind, the daily sacrifice of thousands of psykers to maintain his corpse isn't so bad. We sacrificed many more to COVID-19 so the line would keep going up!
He's at least waging psychic warfare within the Warp on Mankind's behalf—what have the stonks done to help YOU ever?
I hate myself for this but... That's warhammer 40k, this guy said warhammer fantasy. Which is just d and d, which is just Tolkien. So still allegorical but no spess marines involved.
Ah yes, the genetically modified, cloned, super-soldiers who all hail an iconic god-emperor, who in reality died long ago. They gleefully genocide their way through the universe in the name of this corpse that never cared about them in the first place. They all internalise insane amounts of trauma and death and claim it to be a good thing.
Definitely don't think about the parallels with current hegemonies on Earth that also cultishly worship long-dead symbols that justify suffering of the masses, depersonalisation, eugenics, and genocide.
To me, 40k's spes mariens were always a warning to society - This is the direction you're headed if you keep this shit up.
In fairness to The God-Emperor of Mankind, the daily sacrifice of thousands of psykers to maintain his corpse isn't so bad. We sacrificed many more to COVID-19 so the line would keep going up!
He's at least waging psychic warfare within the Warp on Mankind's behalf—what have the stonks done to help YOU ever?
"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war." yeah, it sure doesn't sound like it has anything to do with our future.
I hate myself for this but... That's warhammer 40k, this guy said warhammer fantasy. Which is just d and d, which is just Tolkien. So still allegorical but no spess marines involved.
Newest version has Ground Marines now, also called Sigmarines.
Dangit, for some reason I saw a similar comment elsewhere and thought it was the other way around. I know nothing of ol' Warhammer Fantasy.