jyrki.saari_at_... wrote:
>
> [snip]
> Just one point: the Heresy wasn't the major catastrophe; The age of strife
> was. That's where the tech level took a quantum leap backwards. The Imperium
> ha actually yet to recover from the Age of Strife technologically, they
> don't have the STC anymore which was the basis of tecnological knowledge.
> The technology is buried under quasi-religious rituals and mysticism and
> progresses only at very slow pace. The training of technician consists more
> of learning a couple of thousand pages of litanies by heart than
> understanding the REAL mechanics of technology. Only unusually brilliant
> minds can actually see through the mumbo-jumbo well enough to actually
> design something new.
In effect if you pay attention to the development rate of country where
religion it's the real power of government you see always something
similar to the 40k universe.
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Received on Fri May 26 2000 - 15:38:30 UTC