But why would the echlesiarry or administratum be ok with that? I don't get it.
It's totally ok to wait in line for years, where people have years to think about how horrid the system is and possibly turn to chaos in the hundreds.
Wasting time and food on standing in line, for FUCKING 15+ years!!! while you could pick up a lasgun and die in the emperors name!
Except they don't think about that. They think about the fact that they are literally on the most holy planet in the entire galaxy and they are living an insanely privileged life for having done so. That's why they're waiting to begin with. They're not wasting any food that wasn't their own and the difference between their output and the boost in faith their pilgrimage brings makes it perfectly in line with both the Ecclesiarchy and the Administratum.
>Thinking production and efficiency won't take a back seat to religious beliefs
Some of the were IG veterans or war of faith survivors that earn their right to pilgrimage. Their is also mention of a noble with the equivalent of a 40k RV
>delusional characters doomed to failure
In 40k? Get outta town.
Guy Haley is twice as good as Thorpe ever was. Thorpe writing anything other than short stories was a disaster.
>but the Dark Eldar series
Because Thorpe had nothing to do with it.
His short stories are decent though. Same with Kyme. But I don't want either one of them touching a 40k novel. John French and Rob Sanders are both really enjoyable as well.
you WHAT m8?
Guy Haley and Chris Wraight are the best writers BL has ever had (not a very high mark tbqh).
If anyone epithomizes new-BL, it's ADB.