• ShaggySnacks
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    1,000 per day. Every day. For Ten. Thousand. Years. So you know, just a drop in the bucket, no big deal.

    3,650,000,000 psykers are sacrificed since the Emperor went on the Golden Throne. That’s just over half the population of Earth.

    Writers have issue with scope. 1,000 a day seems shocking until you compare it a 1,000 out of a galaxy of trillions or whatever comes next. It is a literal drop in the bucket.

    I think the 1,000 was picked cause it’s high enough of a number for our brains to be like “That’s terrible!”

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      Honestly I keep forgetting the Imperium supposedly controls over 1 million worlds.

      They really do have a problem with scope.

      Space marines are bad ass in a fight but there’s only 1000 per chapter if they’re adhering to the codex, but that’s nowhere near enough for an entire galaxy.

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        Even at a planet scale, 1k troops are not enough. Sure, each is worth 100 men or whatever, but that makes them always spread too thin. In a planetary invasion, which orks and 'nids often do, if they can’t trick the enemy into chokepoints, they’re fucked big time.

        The Armageddon war had, what, 20 chapters deploying marines there? And that’s with massive support from the local IG regiment, plus space navy

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        Totally agree. Space Marines are demi-god, death machines however there would be no way a 1,000 of them could take an entire planet, as you correctly pointed an entire galaxy.

        My head cannon is that the Guard does all the work and their achievements are forgotten while the Space Marines get all the credit.

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        Well they don’t want to sacrifice all of their psykers. It is cheap, just a small part in the vast war machine.