Holy Terra EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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What about my GIRTH in 40k

That kow-tow in the early part was almost convincing! Seems we have time to practice still! :P

Great vid pls what is the music of the video

RA endings be like: Soviet national anthem intensifies

🤣 Thanks!! I needed that chuckle!!

Now I am imagining this epic hard fought battle where the nids desperately break through Terra's defences, salivating at all the rich biomass EVERYWHERE. Then they land and start pouring out, and all they see is this half starved mass of humanity. The humans pause, then cry. "BLESSED EMPEROR, FOOD! SO MUCH FOOD!" As one. Then this living tide of quadrillions of people wash over the tyranids and start fucking eating them like zombies. The hivemind starts murdering, but there's just an unbelievable amount of people. And the invasion ends with the nids being roasted on big reeking bonfires in the streets. And all the populace is oddly happy, because for the first time in a long time, they're stuffed to the gills with food.

@@bonefetcherbrimley7740 why do i feel likr Nids have a fishy taste and smell but worse like that combined with cooking a giant cockroach

Uno reverse card

The roles are reversed, humans would be rushing to consume the tyranids while the tyranids try to flee with their hive fleet before they’re all eaten

No holy water but all you need holy dirt

"I've got a jar of dirt"

*holey dirt

Who is Holly?

@@JurkeBones, Dammit, I did it again.

Yep, definitely. Like “The Pitt” and “Ronto” in Fallout

I thought they called it merica.

@@williamfrancis5367 they call it Merica, however this was only tens of thousands years later.

dont forget trade value, an unbelievable amount of it.

And it would be a Relic World with 25 ruined arcologies to clear

And perhaps what’s behind the golden throne digsite

@@nikp3649 My guess would be that it's another shard of the Void Dragon and that's why you need to be an Alpha infinity plus leet psyker to use it, coz you basically have to mind wrestle with a C'Tan.

It's a shroud arcology world since there is a "shroud" rift in the palace and theres a psychic beacon/emanator. Fits the description "the veil is weak in this world" thing cause if Emps dies chaos invades terra

"We're leaving" best line when you literally see hell.

@@jkee9760 A sound decision if you ever find yourself in any kind of haunted house, even if that haunted house is actually a derilict spaceship. :)

One thing that makes that movie so great is that the crew aren't idiots and they often make sensible decisions. Most horror movie have a group of protagonists that could solve their problems by not being mentally retarded for 5 minutes.

i ugguh-rheee with that

The deleted scenes from that movie would further prove your point.

Well i haven't seen an 18 Foot Tall *Man* , with Pecks the size of a Door who's *Definitely* not a God strutting about

@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen That's because he is not really 18 foot tall long haired shining man, he uses his warp magic to look like what he consider to be 'perfection', in reality, without use of warp, genetics, or anything, the Sisters of Silence said he looks like average middle eastern, old, shivered up dude. The whole looking like a god, or any other form he is taking are result of Emp's insecurities.

@@michasalamon8315 and his inspiring idea , he made so much things golden or preety not because its practical but because its inspiring , custodes said that unpainted un marked armor would be 100%ok with them but Big E decided that golden 10 feet tall knigths with eagle ornaments are more inspiring than guys in simple grey power armor

Star Wars takes place a long time ago. Also it's not really an optimistic setting eather. Slavery is common empires are consistently just bombarding planets. About the only optimistic thing is the Jedi code that can be summed up as there's meaning in suffering. 40k really isn't that unique in this regard. Most Sci Fi is fairly depressing. Star Trek and The Foundation being the only big series that come to mind as optimistic.

@@myself2noone i only read articles on foundation but it feels rather neutral in between optimism and darkness. But earth being a paradise in trek. Oh too optimistic indeed

citizen: wait...WHAT did you say the foods made from?!!?

@@crispylizard4348Arbitrator walking by : "it's good old Soylent Green. Now shut up and eat your ration bar, citizen"

@Howlrunner "wait, you guys can moove?"

There are times where the Imperium does make things worse for the common person and there are times where they don't.

They do. The Inquisition despite their enormous power is only concerned with Chaos or Xeno cults. They don't really care about human criminals that are still loyalist. In fact criminal gangs constantly help the Imperium suppress chaos cults and the like. The Imperium's elite has given up on the idea of progress ever since the Horus Heresy. It is changing now with Guilliman though, who is very much a Law and Order kind of guy.

The Imperium only cares about humanity as a whole, it's collectivism to the extreme. If 10 trillion must die here to save 12 trillion there, then so be it. that's the logic.

They make life on certain planets e.g space marine recruitment worlds really hard to produce hardier soldiers. However, many people in setting have (rightfully) pointed out that that's a shit idea

If things work for them a certain way, they will leave it be. They are very terribly busy. More work to make something worse is not worth it. It exists enough on it's own. I cannot stress enough the extremes of the struggle of how busy they are keeping everything going. No computers. Everything copied and re-copied by hand, with records on everyone. Tracking all needs and requirements and routes and supply security, constantly adjusting and changing with billions of scribes chained to desks before going completely mad from it.

I get your point as an Isaac Arthur subscriber myself, but this is 40k and shit just has to be like that for some reason

Time stamp pls

@@jacextreme6432 It's the direct result of a few edge lord try hard writers making some grim derp shit in the lore, and fan boys who believe nothing gw does should ever be criticized for an instant.

Terra could recover, but I think the politics and religious dogma keep it the way it is. They've fortified themselves into a siege mentality and are looking to fight harder, not smarter. It would take a few hundred years of planning and re-terraforming to make it self sufficient again, plus shipping a large amount of the surplus population off world. I am sure the Big E would be all for it, if he wasn't trying to be the North Star for the Warp as well as stave off Chaotic incursions.

From Isaac Arthur's video "Ecumenopolises" -The challenge is getting rid of heat. Just the 1Quadrillion population would turn Earth into Venus. The biggest industry on Terra must be sci-fi radiators to stop the planet melting. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XAJeYe-abUA.html

I like this idea, ALOT. Event Horizon was a film I decided to watch (when it was originally released) for the cool sci-fi concepts. I was not prepared for the… ballet of death… the ensuing mental murder-spree within the film. I wasn’t even *into* the horror genre, and knew nothing of WH40k either. You can well imagine the raw impact it had on my virginious eyes. 👹👿

The movie was actually inspired by 40k

@@LazzarrusLong It is truly 40k-lite

@@aceofspadesguy4913 No it wasn't.

@@mgDuckyyy The director of the movie has repeatedly stated he was a fan and inspired by 40k when making it. So yes it was.

Terra:become human

Skynet minus the Time Traveling Governor of California

If only we had some actual info from this time period.

@@bloodangel19 *dirt*

@@robertnelson9599 well, in death of integrity, an stc with ai said that humanity was on the brink of ascending, so i would say around halo precursor level

Imagine seeing chaos cultists and gene stealers going a WEST side stories dance off for spots on the block to recruit people.

There would probably be a riot of thousands of emperor worshippers who would charge them and beat them to death anyways. Chaos cults are probably very difficult to grow since one whiff of their existence means judgement by the millions of crazy religious zealots who wish to please the emperor on his holy world.

The Custodes don't care about Chaos Cults UNTIL they threaten the Imperial Palace Then they destroy them even if the Cultists have Heavy Weapons and Tanks

@@jkee9760 and its so crazy it might just work if it was tzeentch slannesh would probably open a bdsm brothel to attract patrons Korhne would probably host a gladiator tournament and Nurgle... i'm not sure what nurgle would do. maybe a mental therapy clinic

@@kaelkirkby9191 Then we have Stripper Custodes patrolling around and kicking ass

Yea current Imperium is just a shadow compared to what it used to be. That's why they try to scavenge every bit of stc they can get their hands on. Imagine if the current Imperium is still kicking ass across the galaxy, what they could do in the golden age of technology. Hell, the bloody terminator power armor were just mining equipment used before.

Well STC are in my opinion the pinnacle of human technology for humanity in 40k. I mean they are essentially a how to guide in making an advance civilisation for dummies. Said tech doesn't fit in 40k at all but humanity still made it. It's contrived how GW handles the lore surrounding the STC but they're still useful nontheless.

To be fair, the astartes armour is litteral fucking janitor wear that they they used to clean up biohazards and shit, before they foudn the STC for the shit and used it as war armour.

@@honkhonk8009 really?

@@marketgardener8957 yep, and terminator armour was originally a mining suit for hazardous conditions

would be really nice to have another golden age

Well the only other factions at the time were the Orks and the Aeldari... The Orks got obliterated and the Aeldari didn't gave a shit xD I think GW din't do the Aeldari-Empire justice by just stating "Yeah they just signed treaties with humans idc" like what? The Aeldari-Empire was 60mil years old when humans made contact with them. They were probably in decline before the humans even evolved and were way to focused on hedonism and ecstacy to care for some monkeys, who just found out how the warp worked. If humanity won any battles against the Aeldari, then it were probably small regional wars with individual Aeldari nobles since the Empire was never centralized or ruled by one government (The Aeldari had a tribe like culture). If the Aeldari were at their true peak along with humanity, then we would be fucked. They would probably just steal our sun and put it in the webway leaving Terra to freeze xD Ok enough space elve cock sucking xD But yeah, that's my take on it

@@Julian-vl7vn If the Eldar stole our sun, we (humanity during the golden age) would just make a new one or something else that works just as good. Humanity during this period of time was practically on the same level as the hyper advanced precursor races you hear about in other settings. Except that there was a lot less mysticism and a lot more technology.

@@ojarsvitols1641 Considering that Terra during that time would have the know how to build a sun in a matter of hours I doubt it. If the sun goes whoosh from one second to another we would have like what, 24 hours before the sol system is dead? I'm not downplaying humanity during their golden age. I'm upset that everyones downplaying the Aeldari-Empire and compare it to the humans in their prime when the Aeldari were stagnating and declining for millions of years. I'm saying that the Aeldari during their prime would mop the floor with humanity in theirs. And if all the arguments couldn't convince you I only have 1 name: Khaela Mensha Khaine!

@@ojarsvitols1641 The Golden Age of Mankind is the age of experimentation, meaning countless prototypes and not true Op-ness. Humanity doesn't become a galactic superpower in just 7 thousand years, the warp drive was invented in 18k and the galactic shitshow started at 25k. Humans weren't on their peak and was just starting to colonize, that is why they have focused more on standard templates, colonies just built OP techs using those standard templates thousands of years after the rifts and scattering began. A 7 thousand year old Human empire does not rival the sheer technological progress and warp ascendancy of millions of years old Aeldari Empire. Even a declining year 18k - 25k Eldari is still millions of times powerful than a starting human empire. I too am not downplaying humans, but compared to a race genetically engineered by Old Ones and inherited their tech, golden age humans just don't stand a chance. Old one tech and ancient war in heaven Aeldari techno-sorcerous weaponry that is barely understood by the year 18k-25k Eldar is still incomprehensibly more powerful than what humans can build during the Golden Ages. Such weaponries were used to kill gods and destroy reality itself. A dying lion is still a lion, still more powerful than newly birthed cubs. The weakening Crone Goddesses Morai-heg can still foresee the future and what humans will do if they threaten the very existence of the Eldar thousands of years before they even leave Terra, a weak dying goddess is still a goddess. Even some Eldar saw their fall thousands of years before it happening, that's why remnants of such awesome xeno empire survived. What can human computing do against species that have insane precognitive powers and a literal goddess that can see the future. Humans don't have the technomany of the Necrons nor their C'tan influenced supercomputing machineries that rivals even the Eldar God's precognitive powers. To those who say "But! but! Eeldar signed peace treaties and non aggression pacts with them!" the Eldar empire is massive, and they occupy the entire galactic center, they acted more like shattered kingdoms. Some xenophile/merchant Eldar does not represent the 90% uncaring hedonistic majority situated in the center of the galaxy. That is the equivalent of saying that merchant-like and somewhat xenophile ROUGUE TRADERS represent the Imperium and the rest of humanity. Eldar have integrated sorcery to their technology, to the point they literally can wish anything to existence. Sorcery have shown us capabilities such as devouring a literal sun to open a warp portal ala Ahriman, Eldar can do much more insane feats of magic than Ahriman. The Eldar can safely ascend to a state of divinity during those times, they have dark muses, those COUNTLESS dark muses are living GODS that are PRIMARCH level strength and are alpha+ psychers. Worship of the Dark Muses started in 19k - 24k, with each representing some kind of carnal sin or pleasure, countless depraved living gods roamed the center of the galaxy. With the War God Khaine during those times kept fed with power along with the countless dark muses ruling at the center of the galaxy, challenging the Eldar for galactic supremacy is just ridiculous. Fighting with a complete, well-fed with worship, juiced up for millions of years, and unbroken War God Kaela Mensha Khaine is just suicide, so war with the cocaine filled horny Eldar is pointless. The fall of the Insane Eldar dominion and the rise of Humanity in 30k shows just how big brain and great the plan of the emperor is. He waited for the Eldar to kill themselves since not even golden age humanity nor any other million year old xeno species can challenge them, only the Eldar can destroy themselves.

Team Four Star forever

*Dies in the same god damned episode where they came back*

If by Aeldari tech you mean the webway gate in the palace ... I am pretty sure he had that one transported there. Just like the one on Mars.

And Just happen to all other celestial bodies in The system having the same size and position of the original Sol system?

Personally I always likes the idea that 40k shares our timeline. Like, the Emps could be walking around shaking his head at tiktok and the Corona virus

@@undeadeskimo1531 now what Content would *He* be into?

@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen Based on the Imperial Truth.... prolly Reddit.

Imagine how fucked must be living near the mantle.

I don’t think going into the mantle is really possible, or habitable.

@@Cooldude-ko7ps Yeah, maybe the city's bottom is not that deep, tho the surface of Terra's city structure is probably very high above the crust.

@@Cooldude-ko7psNeither is 99% of the stuff in WH40K. Honestly off all the stuff in 40K, the idea of cities extending into the mantle isn’t even remotely crazy

@@damonedrington3453 I believe its stated somewhere, that the golden thrones tech and stuff expands into the mantle of the earth

And the Emperor... oh how fucked we are.

greta pls...

I honestly can't us making it to the end of the century 😂

@@jackstrayfeald1007 what century? Think about decade! 🤣

@@jackstrayfeald1007 The human race will still be there in a hundred years. Society will have collapsed though.

Agreed

Same, I liked the old phrase.

I‘m good with the intro. Catchy, short enough to not be anoying, but i guess thats totally up to personal flavor.

Nah they should do a game where you try to recruit humans as either a Chaos cultists or a gene stealer and you just keep getting ignored so you try to do grass roots stuff by handing out fliers and petitions

They’d be annihilated in about 2.5 seconds by the Emperor Titans stationed in the planet to prevent that very thing.

@@DrugsAreForWinners or by a squad of custodes

@@viniciusdomenighi6439 or by Gulliman with his flaming sword

yeah, i see the alternate names as lost in translation over the millenias and not as a proof of an alternate universe. for me 40K is a possible future in our timeline.

Exactly. 38,000 years of language change and devastation have left the names changed. A good modern example is Kandahar in Afghanistan, a corruption of the old name Iskandar which was how the people pronounced Alexander

Exactly my thoughts

Perhaps with Merica, Germania and Britania were the those territories' names when they were colonies of the Roman empire, given that high gothic seems to be latin, it makes sense.

@@Cordis-Ater when was America a colony of the Roman Empire?! No, it’s just a linguistic change over millennia. The same way Angleland is now England and Francia is France

Wouldn't mind being in the Mechanicus

As shitty as it is, at least people believe in something and go out of the House to do stuff. Granted, they commit warcrimes when they do

@@lukasd.4389 Well its something

Stop

Oh no, you dont want 40K instead of our reality!

it is latin actually terra means earth (im a genius)

"You named a planet "Dirt" Father." ~ Rogal Dorn

@@SaltineChips cant get the tts scene outta my mind aha

"from italian". lol'd.

It's well known that the battle cry of the Solar Auxilia stationed on Terra during the Horus Heresy was "HEY PIZZA MAMA" [LOUD ITALIAN NOISES]

In the siege of Terra novels it’s revealed that the emperor had been planning on terraforming Terra by planting new flora and re seeding oceans, you can thank Horus for its state of decay

@@Kingedwardiii2003 never read those novels. I'm currently in the middle of master of mankind

@@NATEDOG that’s a good one I was on that a few weeks ago I’ve been binge listening to the books at work I’m on the first wall rn

Slaanesh approves.

Well, ots 40k years in the future. Assuming that humanity went back to historical fertility rates (3, 4 children per women) during the space faring era, one would assume that today's 7 billion people could have easily turned into the hundreds of quadrilions.

That’s not a high bar to beat unfortunately

Underrated indeed

Saldy,

I smell some heresy!! If our future will result into THE GOD EMPREROR OF MANKIND show up and save us, you should be happy and rejoice......tsk tsk.

With all the deamons and eldar and tau and stuff😳 can't wait

Still we get a golden god skeleton emperor and a glorious aryan overlord so things at least have some ups

No, importing food on a planet scale would be near impossible food would need to be grown in labs on planet which limits the total population. Basically earth would collapse and humanity on it would die off before it gets as bad as 40k holy terra.

Maybe.

No no he cares about humanity

@Aquarium Gravel So he's like Hitler, or Mao, or really most dictators?

Maybe if the AIs mistook his orders and decided to kill all of humanity instead of aiding him take over. Even still If it wasn't for the robot uprising he could've probably simply given humanity a way into the webgates eventually when the warps fail while the men of iron kept the demons at bay. The Emperor seems to abhor everything that has come from the age of strife, from a divided humanity to religion fanaticism to most obviously the empowering of Chaos against a weaker humanity. I'm not saying it's not possible but from what I understand it would just kind of make this man, who is supposed to be the smartest man ever, kind of dumb by almost causing the extinction to the very Empire he wanted to save only so he could regress it eons in time to a state where it's extinction is still a possibility

@@ARandomPersonHuman He's a dictator who knows the dangers of the Warp, so wouldn't really want a powerful army that's largely immune to chaos to be destroyed. If it was due to the Emps tampering, I would say it was accidental rather than deliberate.

Terra is not only supreme capital like Coruscant capital of republic/empire, center of economy and power politic seat.. Terra is Humanity Mecca, You should know human society of Imperium of Man is extremely deep engraved on Imperial Cult Religion, Terra is not only capital site, Its Holiest site and like Mecca of 40k, There are Trillions of being every year from Milions of Ship are entering Terra just simply for religious purpose and also home to Humanity and home to God Emperor himself, Which everyone in Imperium is literally fanatized fir

I mean Terra is also Planet-Wide city, not only Planet-Wide but Complete Hive World where there is no existed of such "Ocean & Ground Soil" Because everything have been dialled up to 10-20 km Hive Cities cramped into entire whole terra, Which only differentiate of Imperial Palace that far larger... And also the Lore stated Terra have Quadrillions population

Terra is said to have a population in the quadrillions, the underhives of Terra are also filled with d*mons from the warp and the worst kinds of xenos who prey on the weak

Does not compute.

yup. Imagine your capitol got nuked and your president (which you worship as a literal God) got obliterated. And now all the freeways in your country have demons which have a 100% chance of possessing you the second you get near it.

@@adamjohnson2914 When north Korea falls we won't need to imagine

@@An_Ian ?

@@SleepyKataphrakt looks like the guy I replied to had his comment deleted

@williampg gois God that was hard to read. Its one big run on sentence. Please use punctuation William!

Now that would would be insane

Maybe when the pyskers committed there mass ritual suicide a shard or multiple c’tan shards somehow combined with souls in the ritual and shared there power with the emperor. Becoming a being of the material and immaterial.

Why? They are responsible for almost all succesful species of the 40k galaxy.

Yeah I like that Man Emperor's explanation in Text to Speech, "perhaps they pushed the boat out but they certainly didn't fucking build it". m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FyeoBm5QFnA.html @ 13:25

@@MrFallenone It is bs though.

wtf are you people doing here?

Peak TTS reference to say the least on that too lol

It's dead in minutes. Between the 10,000, the arbities, the inquisition, and the imperial fists? I'd give it 45 minutes

No it's spacemace 69

Orks land on terra Ork: WAAAAAAGH!!! Humie: Food? Mushroom? Mushrooms!!! Hey everyone the emperor brought mushrooms!!! Ork: Hol up.

The hooligan fungas who *literally* exist to kill, fight, die, who have fought existential space bugs, space elves, spoopy metal skeleton men, ULTRA-BDSM Space Elves, and a dozen dozen other species, were afraid to fight lil ol' ud

@@Callsign_Bear Not exactly fear just not fun to fight someone who obliterates you before you even know they are there using things like nanite swarms or mass produced titans

@@Callsign_Bear Well not my fault ork taste great.

Well the elves put the milky in milky way galaxy.

fair perhaps, but there are always new people to the scene where more basic videos can help?

Did you mean "Krishna" ?

@@danyael777 yes. I was let's say a good beer or two deep writing this

Actually, considering the level of zealotry and fanaticism that the people of Holy Terra seem to have for the Emperor, the average lifespan of these cultists once they "come out" ios probably like 8 hours, before they are eaten by mobs.

@@gustavoritter7321 30 mins before some black templars or inquisitors show up

Second

Third

11th

60th or some shit

XD XD XD .... and then there's time dilation.^^ Btw, how did the offspring get off the generations arch?

@@danyael777 I just kinda assumed in this example the guy had kids prior to leaving

@@zaczane I see, shitty dad issues .... 😉

@@danyael777 well that does seem to rampant in 40k 🤣🤣

@@zaczane LOL

I agree before the warmonger idiots ruin the earth the people in charge had to use the nuclear option and it worked even if the cost was high.

Humanity was stronger, chaos wasn't as powerful, perpetuals did not rule humans, all the known perpetuals hung out with the big E, they were doing perpetual stuff in the Himalayas

@@cromulom2223 it’s this that makes no sense, they were stronger and had more advanced technology without the leadership of perpetuals, why could the emperor not do that? Why would he not lead humanity at their strongest

@@whateyatalkinabout4972 because going up to a leader that shoots micro black holes out of gun and saying you want to take control is a bad idea, also they had weapons that could kill perpetual or atleast incapacitate them

@@cromulom2223 this makes sense, but is it recorded they had such weapons? The emperor is by far the strongest of the perpetuals so I’d say killing him would have been far more difficult otherwise it would have happened. Fulgurite is the only confirmed way to ensure a perpetual stays dead and even that is questionable because once it was removed from Vulkan he was resurrected. It’s still unknown if that was his final life or if he still retains his perpetual powers. Hopefully the new squats release sheds some light on what tech they had. It’s said that the squats retained much of the history from the age of strife and old night

@@whateyatalkinabout4972 they could have a fair fight with golden age necrons if they were alive

There's also tons of other examples in Sci-fi where the name Terra is used. I don't think it being called that in WH40K is particularly special.

Computer assisted maybe? Could also have been slower or less effective. Just a guess.

The birth of Slaneesh messed up the Warp big time

The answer is rather simple. As you know, the warp is a direct reflection of the state of mind of beings with a "soul". During the Dark Age of Technology, most beings in the Milkyway Galaxy were pretty happy with the way things were, so the Warp was a quiet calm place compared to its current state. In fact, it was so calm that jumps with a range of about 4 light years were no problem at all, even without the guidance of a navigator. In addition to that, mankind had the technology to calculate routes within the Warp with devices like the Void Abacus, so navigators were only needed for jumps further away than 25ish light years. When the Men of Iron rebelled and the Eldar murderfucked Slaanesh into existence, that all changed drastically. Slaanesh's birth alone caused a fuckton of warp storms to happen and the misery most living beings experienced during that time didn't help the problem at all. Even 5000 years later, when the Age of Strife came to a close, the situation hadn't gotten much better, except for fewer and weaker warp storms maybe. Mankind wasn't even able to jump to the next star system without navigators and their former technology was just lost almost completely, so Big E introduced the Astronomican as a beacon to facilitate the navigator's work of calculating warp routes, while he worked on the Web Way Project in order to eventually solve the problem for good. In the current lore, the Astronomican is needed more than ever before, since the forming of the Cicatrix Maledictum after the fall of Cadia made the Warp almost as unstable as it has been 17.000 years ago.

@@mutonzi6427 Yeah I know but it settled after about 5000 years now in the current 42M they have to use the asto but before they didnt

Na, the long term plan is to nuke Terra when the emperor rises up from the throne and restart on Ultramar. 100%

He is the one who made is a giant supercity what are you talking about?

@@gabrielandradeferraz386 Maybe he would deport a lot of them with the help of Guiliman once the Great Crusade is over? Any sensible leader would make the capital of their empire a beautiful thing, not a hell on earth, literally

Quadrillions, according to The Carrion Throne

You can't take numbers too srsly in 40k. Remember the "Ultramarines fight on a 1000" worlds deal or something to that effect

@@bloodangel19 With all their successors I believe that

@@kellerblair2952 no, it's not that it's too much, it's way too fucking low. Ultramar has 500 worlds. Over half of the active marines in the galaxy are Ultramarines of sorts. Just a 1000 worlds makes no sense

@@bloodangel19 Well it sounds a lot catchier than we are murdering on a million worlds

More like 10⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰% deadlier.

no it is as dangerous as the biggest crime ridden city if multiplied by 40,000

Human population once stood at about 5,000 to 10,000 individuals during the Toba Catastrophe. Now it is almost 8 billion, that is about 1,000,000 time more. Is it really unrealistic that human population 40,000 years from now would be at least 1,000,000 times more than it is today? I really don't think so.

@@gustavoritter7321 it's not that it's impossible to breed that much, it's that it's too many people per square meter of surface, especially since large swathes of it are covered in various facilities and megastructures. There's a limit on how many people you can cram together for the population to remain viable and even remotely possible to maintan. At some point diseases will become so widespread and so easily transferable that entire continent-sized areas will start dying out en-masse.

@@levishaun8334 "much, it's that it's too many people per square meter of surface" Not really. Look up Matrioshka worlds or ecumenopolises. There is some good videos on RU-vid and good articles on the internet about it. You could definitely have some worlds like that. The biggest problem would actually be heat recycling believe it or not. "large swathes of it are covered in various facilities and megastructures" Actually you can an entire layers of it just for that. "There's a limit on how many people you can cram together for the population to remain viable and even remotely possible to maintan" For a purely planetary civilization, sure. But not for one that has the resources of an entire galaxy. The only thing 40k gets wrong actually is how freaking poor Earth would be in that situation. "At some point diseases will become so widespread and so easily transferable that entire continent-sized areas will start dying out en-masse" LOL, not really. First, advanced civilization would also obviously have advanced antibiotics, second, dense cities are on average actually way less prone to disease outbreaks than less dense settlements.

@@gustavoritter7321 we're talking about 40k here. I know the basics, I'm a huge fan of several futurist RU-vid channels myself... but in 40k the absolute majority of Terra's populous live in abject poverty, absolute squalor with nobody really giving a shit. No access to medicine, barely any food, gangs everywhere, probably cults popping up all over the place etc. Terra is probably worse off than many hive worlds out there in terms of quality of life for the average citizen.

@@levishaun8334 "but in 40k the absolute majority of Terra's populous live in abject poverty, absolute squalor with nobody really giving a shit." Yeah that is really a mistake on the part of the writters. Any barely galactic civilization would be so rich as to make every citizen pretty much live like a billionaire does in our world. Just as today's middle class has standards of living better than medieval nobles and even kings. I guess an in universe explanation for this is the fact that even though the Imperium is vast, it is not truly advanced. Much of their technology is crap, rusty and badly assembled. The Imperium is basically a spacefaring North Korea. I guess that is the consequence of ten thousand years of a ossified government that basically has given all of its industrial and technological capacity to a bunch of uncreative, stagnant and frankly idiotic "tech priests" instead of harnessing the creative spirit of its quadrillions of human minds, which are pretty much bound to have at least some trillions of Einsteins and Newtons. If the Imperium ever got some competent leadership, instead of a dozen of so called "noblemen" whose main objective is protecting their own social positions, they would probably be harnessing the immense energetic power of black holes, dumping travel through the immaterium for true "warp travel" Star Trek style an building rings around Holy Terra, Jupiter, Saturn... the whole deal, in order to decrowd and feed Earth. But I guess by that point, inside the universe, humanity would become so overpowered and incredibly potent that it would completely destroy all of its enemies with a blink of an eye and make it all very boring.

No that one is still in the tower of the sigilite ... unless someone stole it.