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Greetings, friends.
I immediately apologize for the sheet of text, please be patient.
Don't be intimidated by the topic name... here I only suggest to fantasize on the topic "what will happen if..."
I will immediately make a lyrical digression, personally I have an agnostic attitude to extraterrestrial intelligent life. Because it's just a fantasy.
And so.
I think many Americans, Englishmen and not only, are well acquainted with the Warhammer 40,000 universe, well, or at least have heard about it and have a general idea of what it is about.
For those who do not know, I will try to be as brief as possible... I must say that the universe is very much inspired by Heinlein's Starship Troopers... in general, at the turn of 30,000, humanity has captured most of the habitable planets in the galaxy and at this time on Earth, the emperor comes to power... calling himself modestly "emperor", well, or "emperor of mankind", who begins a crusade through the gallactics to unite all of humanity under his rule, which is in a fragmented state of different confederations, empires, and in some places even degraded. The further development of the story in the context of the topic is not so important, except for the fact that in general, the goals set by the emperor were fulfilled, even if not quite as planned.
This is one of the few fantasy franchises that are quite popular, where in fact the authors consider the future of humanity an extremely fascist, xenophobic and irreconcilable society in relation to other intelligent species of the galaxy. The official doctrine of the Imperium completely prohibits peaceful interaction with other intelligent life forms, with strangers, of course, not without exceptions, someone can, but... it's not that important. And for most good citizens of the Imperium, any contact with outsiders must end with the use of weapons. This is one of the main pillars of the Imperium - death to the Xenos.
Of course, in many works of fiction of this franchise, this question was explained by lor, that for a very long history of mankind, people have repeatedly tried to peacefully coexist with different xenos, but inevitably over time they found themselves in a subordinate position, this is the main stone in the garden of democracy, that people without totalitarian leadership are extremely divided and therefore other species can easily take advantage of this.
In general, for me it is very strange that such fiction is popular in the Western world, especially now, because it does not really correspond to the spirit of Western values... but that's not the point.
In this topic, I propose to fantasize on the question of how much such a future is real (if of course other intelligent types of life exist), where humanity will come to a conclusion like the Warhammer 40k Imperium. That we can't co-exist with other intelligent species and they need to be destroyed.
I immediately apologize for the sheet of text, please be patient.
Don't be intimidated by the topic name... here I only suggest to fantasize on the topic "what will happen if..."
I will immediately make a lyrical digression, personally I have an agnostic attitude to extraterrestrial intelligent life. Because it's just a fantasy.
And so.
I think many Americans, Englishmen and not only, are well acquainted with the Warhammer 40,000 universe, well, or at least have heard about it and have a general idea of what it is about.
For those who do not know, I will try to be as brief as possible... I must say that the universe is very much inspired by Heinlein's Starship Troopers... in general, at the turn of 30,000, humanity has captured most of the habitable planets in the galaxy and at this time on Earth, the emperor comes to power... calling himself modestly "emperor", well, or "emperor of mankind", who begins a crusade through the gallactics to unite all of humanity under his rule, which is in a fragmented state of different confederations, empires, and in some places even degraded. The further development of the story in the context of the topic is not so important, except for the fact that in general, the goals set by the emperor were fulfilled, even if not quite as planned.
This is one of the few fantasy franchises that are quite popular, where in fact the authors consider the future of humanity an extremely fascist, xenophobic and irreconcilable society in relation to other intelligent species of the galaxy. The official doctrine of the Imperium completely prohibits peaceful interaction with other intelligent life forms, with strangers, of course, not without exceptions, someone can, but... it's not that important. And for most good citizens of the Imperium, any contact with outsiders must end with the use of weapons. This is one of the main pillars of the Imperium - death to the Xenos.
Of course, in many works of fiction of this franchise, this question was explained by lor, that for a very long history of mankind, people have repeatedly tried to peacefully coexist with different xenos, but inevitably over time they found themselves in a subordinate position, this is the main stone in the garden of democracy, that people without totalitarian leadership are extremely divided and therefore other species can easily take advantage of this.
In general, for me it is very strange that such fiction is popular in the Western world, especially now, because it does not really correspond to the spirit of Western values... but that's not the point.
In this topic, I propose to fantasize on the question of how much such a future is real (if of course other intelligent types of life exist), where humanity will come to a conclusion like the Warhammer 40k Imperium. That we can't co-exist with other intelligent species and they need to be destroyed.