Why doesn't the imperium try to restart technology.
Just get a planet empty of people, and raise kids only on that planet
Teach them up to steam technology and teach them enough about the emperor to have them be loyal.
We have better communications technology and it took us like 2 thousand years.
Because it took 20000 years the last time.
There are already perfect everything, you just have to find the stc for it.
Should we spend thousands of years reinventing the wheel or that same time finding the blueprints?
How do we have better communications technology than the Imperium?
Also, why up to the Age of Steam? Their technological level is a fuckton further ahead than that - the Age of Strife, when human technological advances began to stall, is 23,000 years ahead of where we are now.
We have cell phones which are very small compared to a vox caster and act as a cogitator.
Because that would be heresy. Duh.
The Imperium has a level of technology on the level of the most advanced races in the galaxy (Tau is primitive by comparison). It's a question of logistics and how petty the Cult Mechanicus is feeling today.
When you have a galaxy spanning empire and you need to arm trillions of soldiers, you give them something that's easy to make, easy to supply for, and reliable. Thus, for the Imperium's purposes, the Lasgun and to a lesser extent the Bolter are the best weapons for the Imperium's soldiers.
Same goes for all the other weapons, vehicles and armor that the Imperium utilizes.
Then you have the Mechanicus. They have technology that can compete with any faction in the Galaxy, but, they're also hoarders. They could spread the knowledge out to different worlds, ensure that these superior weapons and schematics reach the people that actually need it to defend against the horrors of the Galaxy. But Tech Priests would rather keep it all to themselves, in ancient vaults deep under their Forgeworlds. They don't even share this technology between their Forgeworlds, so when these planets fall to enemies, the technology they kept there is lost forever.
And its lost forever because the AM will never let humanity do any kind of research to relearn all this lost knowledge.
So really, the Cult Mechanicus is the real reason the Imperium is in such a fucked state.
Delet
Except they have comm beads.
Yea but can they play flappy bird?
Can you?
Yea but those can't access wifi or texting programs or games, or anything that isn't talking with someone.
Also we have many versions of com beads
a vox caster is typically a backpack sized unit, when talking about 40k. It is not a cell phone, it is a mobile radio set. And it can reach the geo-sync orbit of a 3 km long battleship to give fire support.. A cell phone requires land-based towers. you are retarded.
The Imperium doesn't have bad tech. They have little to no technological advancement (not the same thing), and the Ad Mech doesn't like giving its toys away. The Ad Mech beats the Tau easily, and rivals Eldar in some parts. It's also fairly reasonably why the Imperium doesn't invent any new tech, since SCT's exist.
Also why make some super tacticool mecha-beyblade-anime-tanksuit when you can just produce shittier tanks at a 100000 to 1 ratio. Over designed and costly war engines lose to simple but easily produced engines.
>Ad mech tech superior to T'au
then why do plasma calivers Get Hot?
Becaue shitty troll threads for the umpteenth time.
Yea but,
The Russians had better tanks than the imperial guard in ww2
And we have cool stuff like attack helicopters
We have reason to believe that the Leman Russ tank was a tractor.
Well it's true that the imperium far surpasses us in weapons tech and logistics. We are better at warfare and inventing then they are.
So much better.
I'm not trolling
I'm trying to write some fluff for a space marines chapter.
It's a legit question
Pretty much the only instance. Ad Mech has ancient technology beyond anything the Tau has. Phospex also beats plasma in almost every way. Also the Tau will always have the least potential compared to other 40k factions because they don't have psyker tech.
>The Russians had better tanks than the imperial guard in ww2
lolwhat
Well the necrons don't have pyskers and they seem to be doing all right.
But they are space Egyptian techno-wizards
No, you are a shit troll, because if you knew enough about 40k to do that, you'd understand why the admech are the way they are.
Kindly die quickly, rather than slowly.
True. But even the Necrons suffer greatly from their lack of psyker stuff. Most importantly they (current canon) don't have their own FTL method.
attack helicopters suck dick compared to IG flyers
>so much better
Yeah let's see our world deal with a demonic invasion. A small one.
Just play the Mentor Legion instead of writing a fedora-tipping special snowflakes; the Mentor Legion is the official test-bed chapter for any military advancements the Admech comes up with for widespread use among the Astartes.
Wow you must have not been hugged enough as a child
But anyways to your point
I understand the whole rotting tech thing and that they have tons of tech already but never use it.
But at least someone has to understand that searching for an uncorrupted STC for thousands of years is getting them nowhere quick.
Add to that the corrupt society that the imperium is, and the crappy state of the imperium at large. At least someone must have tried starting at square one again.
This is right up rogue inquisitior or magos or rogue trader alley.
Especially if that person grew up on a feral or frontier world where the relentless bureaucracy doesn't exist meaningfully
>Implying there are stcs for everything despite a lot of archives had been destroyed
I just want a chapter full of tacticool engieers they have custom Bolters and crap.
And to use tactics that actually fit supersoldiers. Running straight for the enemy is guard work.
As for the fedora tipping, nah, I want to have them revere the emperor above all others
>but never use it.
They use it constantly. They just don't give them to the rest of the Imperium. The Ad Mech's armed forces easily rival the non-ad mech Imperium.
>At least someone must have tried starting at square one again.
>This is right up rogue inquisitior or magos or rogue trader alley.
It's heretek magos stuff, specifically. Yeah it's probably happened once or twice. But if it didn't end badly and horrifically, it has no place in 40k.
Allowing it to succeed would go against the premise of the setting and its tone requirements. It'd be like coming up with a klan of peaceful orks who don't get annihilated by every other ork klan
wrong, guards stay entrenched and shoot at the enemy.
Supersoldiers (such as orks and space marines) are supersoldiers because they can make "run straight for the enemy" a viable tactic thanks to their superhuman attributes.
If you want custom bolters play the Deathwatch. Or the Mentor Legion with Deathwatch rules I guess.
The way I have it it is just starting out.
They are about our tech level.
The rogue trader that is funding the project drops like a flak vest every hundred years or so. They reverse enigeer it thinking it is a gift from the emperor. The space marines steal tactically smart people and make them space marines.
So a small but tactical chapter.
Yea but something bad will probably happen. But with a chapter looking out for the planets best interest will help keep he planets grim darkness as low as possible
>We have reason to believe that the Leman Russ tank was a tractor.
the Raptors are the official "khaki tacticool operator sneaky go go go deploy" chapter. They don't have super-special gear but they use it in a tacticool way. They wear camouflage colors, which, as the Fire Hawks say, is the livery of cowards.
Well first off you have to make it so that the chapter doesn't know what's really going on with their recruiting world. Cause it's not something the High Lords would allow.
Well it depends.
Space Wolves love the charge tactic.
But legions like the alpha legion, raven guard and the white scars employ completely different tactics.
It kind of depends on the chapter.
The alpha legions stealth tactics tend to work really good.
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
Imagine how much havoc a space marine in the wrong place can cause
Well, yea
Yea but I kind of want to make my own dudes
Because what if daemons are responsible for their inspiration. What if a hundred years down the line they rise up and try to enslave humanity as the iron men did? Lessons they have learned from burned hands has made them leary of trusting stoves (in this case free and unchecked progress)
Phosphex is comparable to plasma. They serve entirely different functions. Also, phosphex makes the ground you use it on toxic for indefinite periods of time with no clean up methods. Plasma just explodes.
This is why.
Even if you pulled this off, you'd need to gut the entirety of the Imperium's tech base if you didn't want rouge chaos possessed code to send us right back where we started. A single rouge program and we got The Iron Minds 2.0.
Every tank, every lasgun, every ship, every Titan, every Vox unit. Anything that can hold data, would need to be scraped so as to not come into contact with your new system, which by the way is, according to nine tenths of the Imperium, highly heretical and in need of virus bombing.
Because good luck
1) preventing heresy
2) protecting the place when some bad happens
Without influencing (probably tainting) the experiment.
Yeah but the necrons are a bit beyond normal technological levels
No one comes close to their shit
Since when, they used to have FTL themselves
Or do you mean the dolmen gates?