Warhammer 40k fluff thread VI: They see me Ward'en, they haten

[Carry2]

I don't discard it, but I do regard it as a bombastic and overblown marketing tool / propaganda, and can point to sources that prove it to be so.

And I regard the numbers given by the canon sources as very far from trustworthy.

I just find it difficult to imagine how a civilisation that most closely resembles some blend of Aztec priest-theocracy (without the philosophical education), Catholic Inquisition (without the due process) and Puritan witch-hunts (without the clean living), crossed with the war-economics of WWII Russia and the social stratification of 19th century Brazil, could by any stretch of the imagination not be an extraordinarily unpleasant place to live. (On average.)