WHYYYYYYYYYYYY

Why does anybody in-universe want to live in the Imperium of Man? I mean, being an ordinary citizen in a shitty Hive City. Why don't ordinary Imperial citizens defect en-masse to the Tau, Chaos, or anybody that's not the Imperium? And I mean, everybody, not just your typical cults, and things like that. Man, i'd rather be raped by a Tyranid than live in that system.

>Why don't ordinary Imperial citizens defect to Chaos?
>not just your typical cults
What the fuck do you think 'defecting to Chaos' entails, user? Keeping your free will and the majority of your skin and living a joyful life with papa Nurgle?

The average imperial citizen has no means to leave their planet and is indoctrinated from birth to love the imperium.

Also no one knows chaos exists. It’s the best kept secret in the imperium.

>Keeping your free will and the majority of your skin and living a joyful life with papa Nurgle?

but that happens all the same living in a Hive City. You lose your skin and limbs working, have the life expectancy of a dog and get plague after plague, for which you are drugged and only treated if you are unable to keep working 20 hour shifts.

might as well have fun while you're losing your skin and free will.

Because an ordinary citizen has no fucking idea of what's happening outside his/her planet in most cases. Besides, with all the imperial propaganda, they might just think than the Tau are the worst of the worst, and the life they have within the Imperium is a blessing full of benefits, even if it is utterly shit.

>Joining with evil xenos who want to kill you all, use you as slave labor, and bring ruin to the God-Emperor's works
>Turning from the God-Emperor's light to embrace the tainted creed of recidivists and mutants
Stop using your master's laslines and get back to work, user. You obviously don't understand why people still voted for Mugabe.

Why does the Imperium build Hive cities? I understand mega cities exist due to natural sprawl. But Hive cities instead build up and are absolute lawless nightmares in the lower half. That's just asking for chaos cults. Guilliman should outlaw building new Hives. And bring back classical architecture.

>Why don't ordinary Imperial citizens defect en-masse
Do you want your planet to be bombed into a nuclear hellscape? Cuz that's how you get your planet bombed into a nuclear hellscape.

Why don't you ask the people from Krieg how rebelling against the Imperium went for them?

And the surviving Kriegers were the actual loyalists!