Hi!
Since we live in an age where scientific innovation is rapid and never
ending we assume that it has always been thus. Own own history tells us this
is not accurate.
Think about how different life was at the dawn of civilaztion and lets say
around the fall of the Roman Empire. Not significantly different. The major
changes being how weapons were made. This is a span of 4-5 thousand years.
Given this reality a stretch of 10000 without significant leaps in
technology is not as far fetched as one may think. How fast technology
develops is dependant on how significant the prior achievements are. If you
think about 40k tech, they have pretty significant advances that permit them
to control the Empire. Necessity is the mother of invention. How much
motivation does the Empire have to discover the great next technology? Given
the religious bent and constant war non-military inventions would be low.
Just remember how many innovations were squashed by religion in our own
history.
While 10000 years IS a long time given the social climate of the Imperium I
would not be too surprised that nothing new gets done.
Peter
>[snippage]
>> Fluff. I would support the "fluff unification", but honestly, if you
>> stop to think about it, there are too many gaping holes. Imperial and
>> Eldar technology standing still for 10.000 years?? Su-u-re. Just look
>> at what we have done in the last 6000 years and then we'll talk. And
>> they even have working examples of advanced technology to study. And
>> don't get me started on the "they see it as religion" thing. Either
>> the IQ of every Mars citizen in the last 10.000 years has been below
>> 0, or this simply won't work this way.
>>
>
>sure, there are holes big enough to steer Emperor class ship through, but
>that is the challenge for us: to get (at least somewhat) consistent
>background. I know the idea of Imperial & Eldar tech standing still is
>pretty ridiculous even considering the superstitious mumbo-jumbo, but we
can
>say it has advanced VERY slowly.
>
>> And. Why didn't the empire pummel everyone else into the dirt?? Look
>> at the galaxy maps, estimate the number of worlds the empire
>> controls, and then let me know what's the limit of their resources.
>> I'd say there's no practical one. So, why didn't they just assemble a
>> fleet of 10000 X the number of orc ships and blast them into
>> oblivion?
>> And the same goes with every other race, too. Eldar are supposed to
>> be a dying race, right? so they should be few. Advanced technology
>> won't help you when the enemy has 1.000.000 soldiers for each of your
>> own.
>>
>
>For a couple of reasons:
>1) The Imperium is at war along all of its borders. They pretty much
consume
>everything they can build. They ARE expanding, but slowly.
>
>2) Astronomican has a limited range, and beyond that the warp travel
becomes
>difficult and cosiderably slower.
>
>> Sorry guys, the reality is that GW fluff is frozen in time. There's
>> no sense of an actual history. There has been the heresy, and then we
>> did a 10000 years time-warp, being told than a couple hundreds years
>> ago a bunch of psychotic aliens ate a few planets.
>> If we want to agree on "official netepic fluff", fine, but let's go
>> all the way. Let's make it CONSISTENT and BELIEVABLE.
>>
>
>Absolutely.
>
>Jyrki Saari
>
>
>>
>> Luca Lettieri
>>
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