What setting is between 40k and star wars?
What they have in common:
-Mind science powers that connect to a metaphysical reality
-Surprising ubiquitousness of melee combat despite devastating weapons and strategic orbital bombardment options available
-Scifi FTL setting
-Both descendents of Dune, complete with lasguns, personal shields and god-emperors of the galaxy
-Both make references to ancient elder Empires upon whose ruins humanity steps
What they differ in:
-40k has bigger, fatter men, hitting other bigger fatter men
-Star wars is oppressed by a cruel and tyrannical government which exterminates entire worlds for disobedience
40k is oppressed by a cruel and tyrannical government which exterminates entire worlds for disobedience. They are mankind's only hope
-Star wars aliens and droids are cool. 40k aliens and droids are haram
-Star wars jedi mind science taps into a metaphysical zoroastrian dichotomy. 40k psyker mind science taps into the cosmic atman noosphere
-Old tech in star wars is nostlagic. Old tech in 40k is sacred and leagues better than whatever tripe you're allowed to invent without causing tech-heresy purges
Which suggests that the mean average of the two is probably Halo or Mass Effect
-Halo marines are fatter armoured than star wars, but slimmer armoured than the phattest and thiccest 40k space marine
-Surprising abundance of melee combat despite availability of devastating weapons & strategic orbital bombardment options being available
-Scifi FTL settings
-Both Halo and Mass Effect 3rd generational descendents of Dune
-Both make references to elder empires upon whose ruins humanity steps
-Mass Effect has mind science, Halo not really
-Aliens are sometimes cool, sometimes haram
-Old tech is sometimes better, but there's also no tech stagnation, people are constantly trying to make new stuff (albeit in Halo there is some
economic stagnation)
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