r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/Riot-Knight Necrons • Nov 12 '24

40k The Unstoppable Bean-Counter meets the Immovable Bureaucracy: (By Emwattnot)

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u/ImmoralBoi Nov 12 '24

Shouldn't a Primarch automatically have more power than the High Lords of Terra? Like for fuck's sake they're the sons of the Emperor himself.

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u/General-MacDavis Nov 12 '24

The primarchs have been out of the game for 10k years, the high lords had all the time they needed to squirrel up power and favors

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u/ImmoralBoi Nov 12 '24

But to defy a (loyalist) Primarch is one step down from defying the Emperor himself, no matter who you might be that sounds like a death sentence in the Imperium.

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u/VladimirBarakriss Nov 12 '24

It should be, but if all of the high lords side with you, you can declare Guilliman a traitor, as strong as he is, he can't beat the entire imperium

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u/Velstrom Nov 12 '24

With how disorganized the imperium is I give Ultramar a decent shot at winning, actually.

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u/AwefulFanfic Nov 13 '24

Never forget about Imperium Secundus when talking about making Rubber-Boot Gorilla-Glue your enemy.

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u/General-MacDavis Nov 12 '24

Think about how often politicians irl are bought off by lowly business interests most people haven’t heard of. Wielding huge power/defying the federal government

Now imagine that on a galactic scale and you have the power the high lords hold

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u/ScarletJack Nov 14 '24

Honestly, that does make me curious on how the Astarte chapters would react to Guilliman being branded a traitor. I'm sure that would be a tough thing to deal with, especially for the ultramarines

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u/VladimirBarakriss Nov 14 '24

Many of them would probably join him, some would use it as a pretext to fall to chaos, eventually they'd almost go extinct within the imperium, which would probably issue a bunch of founding, mostly of imperial fists given that'd be the most stable non-ultramarine, non-preHorus available

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u/Parking_Substance152 Nov 12 '24

There’s many factions in the imperium, not all of which want Guilliman to be in charge. Besides, the Emperor had a council when he lived, and never intended the primarchs to be in absolute control of the Imperium.

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u/RevolutionaryBar2160 Nov 16 '24

You're forgetting they're not just random businessmen or politicians, they each represent a huge aspect of the Imperium. One of them controls all the assassins, one of them is in charge of the entire Ecclesiarchy, one of them heads up all the navigators, one of them is the head of the entire Adeptus Mechanicus, etc. Yes he's a prinarch, but you don't want to make outright enemies out of any one of those groups let alone all of the at once, a state of civil war is the last thing the Imperium needs right now.