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General Discussion / Re: WH40K general discussion thread: Baby's first Exterminatus.
« on: October 08, 2018, 04:45:16 pm »Older colony ships, sure, but I thought the WH40K setting had FTL tech?Well, sure, Warp travel does let you get to places faster than physically possible, but it's expensive, dangerous (AS FUCK) and even if it goes right it's often weird. There is a chance of arriving earlier than you departed, a week journey is actually a thousand years trip, and so on. Usually it's within a lifetime to get from one part of Galaxy to another, but it's very uncertain usually. Imperium is connected, but civilians will usually never see any other place, and if they do it's usually pretty deadly for them (becoming a Guardsman). As far as I'm concerned due to the over-reaching long arms of Administratum talk between people of two planets is usually within realm of possible. It's like same language family - less like English and like, whatever Australians speak, and more like Slavic languages. Some are odd, words don't neccesarily mean the same but with a bit of creative hand waving you can get the point accross. Also, presumably most guardsmen understand commands the same, as the Primers usually have same content (there are some variations), and that's the important bit. I think the written word remains roughly the same which helps a lot.