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Manifestations of the Emperors Will are only possible through the Immaterium, are they not?
All this to say: Genuinely terrifying and comic relief don't have to be mutually exclusive, and the interplay can even make them more terrifying in the long run.
No it is not fascist, it doe not have the ability to be fascist, it lacks the totalitarian control required. Inquisitors are few and far between, some worlds only have 1 judge and a handful of Arbites, the Judge acting as Supreme Court of the planet and the arbites acting as a sort of fbi for the judge. Some worlds are democractic, someworlds are ruled by dynastic rulers some are dictatorships ruled under a governer .
If you supply the Imperial Tithe and you follow the Imperial Truth (The Worship of the God Emperor not the Science one...) then you can pretty much do whatever you want which would not be able to happen in a fascist polity.
People who call the IoM Fascist either don't know what Fascism even is or are being wilfully ignorant so that they can stretch the definitions.
Abhor the Tourist, Gatekeep the Tourist.. Suffer not the Tourist to "fix"
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LOOK UP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AUTHORITARIAN AND TOTALITARIAN, THEY ARE NO THE SAME
I'd hate to live in both societies but if I had to choose I'd live in an authoritarian hellhole than a totalitarian hellhole
Their most heinous war crime is just one commander wiping out human colony that are part of the tau empire because he went through the warp without a gellar field and seen some ♥♥♥♥.
EVERYTHING the Empire faces is horrible. And that horrible stuff can be brought on by a SINGLE person getting out of line. Latent psychic powers? Read a weird book you were told you shouldn't touch? Bam, you get possessed and become a Daemonhost. Bam, Word Bearer invasion. Bam, Exterminatus - entire planet is now dead. And that's ONE person getting out of line. And in a Hive City for example there are untold quadruple-hilari-clownshobillions of people. And on a really densely populated world there are SEVERAL Hive CIties. So what do you do? You keep the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PEASANTS IN LINE, and you build your entire society around MAKING SURE THEY STAY IN LINE. Because your entire galactic civilization is on a knife's edge 24/7/365/M.41
When your entire planet can collapse because one guy prays for a little help with his cough, maybe you tell him to just leave it to the Imperial Health Service. Or maybe you just shoot him because he just started actively rotting...
Food for thought!
The imperium suffers from a mix of overextending and hyperbloated bureaucracy (which is to be expected when you have to control the accountability and logistics of such a massive empire.) while fending off powerful enemies with tools that are usually the only option available.
Humanity in 40k is the result of "what if terminator happened in starwars, and the force was a reflection of our nature as living beings, both good and bad"
So, AI rebelled, humanity barely survived, and ended in a post apocalyptic scenario. The emperor appeared, and united humanity, then went on an expansionist crusade.
So, they just went and invaded their neighbors in a xenohpobic crusade, which is evil, right?
Well... there is a problem. It is similar to trying to play an RTS in a passive way. If you don't take your opponents resources, you grow slowly, while the other players who DO take each other's resources grow exponentially. Once they find you, it's over.
So, terrible creatures and living weapons left from an ancient war live somewhere in the galaxy, and trying a diplomatic approach is too slow and ineffective to mount a proper defense, so humanity goes into the offensive. They expand and create a large empire capable of defending themselves against living apocalypses such as orks and tyranids. But there is this thing known as Chaos.
Chaos itself is not evil, but tends to go to the extremes. Each chaos god represents specific parts of our nature. For example, nurgle is death and rebirth. Everything rots, but new life sprouts and feeds from the corpses. Diseases will spread freely because, in nurgles eyes, the lives of the bacteria matter as much as yours, and deserve to live too. Finally, he represents the end of things, everything will end at some point, not only your life, but also things like joy and suffering)
Other gods like Tzeench represent things like change, knowledge and scheming, but also hope and potential. With Tzeench, no matter how bad things get, there is hope that things will get better.
Since they are just manifestations of nature, who were born from the emotions and actions of living beings, they are bound to their nature. (if somehow tzeench defeated every single enemy he had, and ended up alone, he would scheme against himself, eternally changing, maybe hoping a new opponent would be born, since stasis is anathema to him)
The problem with chaos, is that it is "infectious".
If you find a trinket related to chaos in someway, it will affect you. It may be just a wooden "toy" you found in the sand, but it still a gate to it's influence, and will slowly affect you more and more. It may be a slow process, maybe you just ended up liking that toy, so you started making more, thinking more people would like it, and maybe nothing important will happen in your lifetime. But the symbol will spread, or a name, or anything. Just knowing the name of a chaos god put you at risk, and spreads like a virulent plague.
And similarly, the horus heresy happened, corrupting many, and leading to humanity to shatter and barely cling to their empire. With the emperor half-dead, no one can properly lead his empire in the way he planned, and humans, as imperfect as we are, yearn for a protector. This turned the empereor, someone who hated religion, as it led to chaos, into this symbol and, ironically, into a god.
So, people become fiercely religious, the galaxy is scary, the empire is so big that cities are dystopic, it is a logistical nightmare that is impossible to manage, and the only person capable to properly rule it is rotting in a throne, kept alive by sacrificing tons of psykers daily.
In essence, this is the world in which the imperium exists. It desperately tries to fight against powerful enemies that require an ungodly amount of resources and manpower to stand a chance against it. And internally, chaos can pop from anywhere, and things like mercy can easily turn an act of kindness into an interplanetary insurrection that kills billions and damages a system that is already hanging by a thread.
The Imperium is not evil, but rather just the result of humanity trying to survive against overwhelming odds by doing anything it takes.
...and as i said before, most factions have their own circunstances, even the sadistic Drukari, who can be compared to the protagonist of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Using suffering as a tool to protect themselves from a terrible and everpresent being constantly hunting them down.
You could say the four big obvious chaos gods are evil, that's pretty fair. But that's different from chaos/warp.
In fact, many believe the Emperor today to actually just be a chaos god. A being created by humanity's collective belief in the god(/corpse)-emperor. And the Living Saints as his greater daemons/daemon princes (they basically have superpowers like being able to resurrect from the dead, have their powers weaken if exposed to anti-warp stuff, etc.).
And of the four chaos gods... Two aren't strictly evil... just incompatible.
You have Nurgle who, as far as he knows, is doing us a favor by infecting us.
Then you have Khorne who cares not for which blood flows so long as it flows.
In 40k, anything that enables humans to survive is good, anything that impedes that is bad.
So that is the logic that allows what we consider to be atrocity's as nothing more than unfortunate decision, if doing it ultimately benefits the Imperium chances of survival, then they lament it, do it and carry on.
To understand 40k, you have to ask yourself what would you do to survive, imagine the world as you know it has collapsed, society is falling apart, no jobs, no money, no reliable access to food or clean water, just what lines would you cross to survive? what things do you consider reprehensible now, while your safe and warm with a stocked fridge and power and water, I can guarantee they would all go out of the window in a heart beat.
Survival has no room for morals, only when humans suspend that imperative are we capable of having morals, and trying to live by them.