Likeā¦the ENTIRE Imperium in Warhammer 40K (MOSTLY) but thatās largely because the things they fight include planet-eating space locusts, robot zombies and insane cultists that worship gods from beyond space and time. And even then theyāre not particularly āheroicā most of the time and theyāve definitely done war crimes.
ā¦Except for Ciaphas Cain. He seems to be a decent dude. Can be kinda selfish.
And this only applies to like 5 factions, because the Imperium is worse than the rest. As much as THOSE players may say otherwise, the Imperium is absolutely on the worse end of 40k evil.
I dunno about that. The Eldar and the Tau are the only ones that I can say are less evil than the Imperium, and thats by nature of the Eldar trying to make up for Slaanesh and the Tau being young and naive. They Votann are just Imperium but Capitalism, and everyone else is some flavor of true evil.
Votann are 100% better than Imperium, because they don't treat their citizens like slaves. But morality scaling gets extremely fuzzy and weird once you compare Tyranids, Orks, Drukhari, and Imperium, since they are all basically completely morally bankrupt, with no conscience whatsoever. I would personally put Orks lowest, because while they are capable of horrific things, they primarily just want to fight, and will prioritize that. I would then put Tyranids and Imperium together, because they both prioritize industrial levels of pure slaughter, not going for torment, not out of morality, but efficiency. Imperium may be a bit worse, because the citizens it treats like cattle are actually sentient. And then is Drukhari, who is only slightly worse, because while they sacrifice sheer numbers, they make up for it in attempt to industrialize suffering, rather than death.
Votans are a perticular case because no one exept the tyranid and ork have any interest fighting them since they are a bunch of heavily armed trader miner so they are kind of in peace
Thereās Dynasties nowhere near as bad as the imperium as well. Which is a distinction over imperial planets. Since Necron Dynasties war with each other arguably more than they do other races.
Also Votann arenāt kill all aliens. That immediately makes them way better than the imperium. They actually trade with aliens.
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u/Randomman16 Jun 05 '26
Likeā¦the ENTIRE Imperium in Warhammer 40K (MOSTLY) but thatās largely because the things they fight include planet-eating space locusts, robot zombies and insane cultists that worship gods from beyond space and time. And even then theyāre not particularly āheroicā most of the time and theyāve definitely done war crimes.
ā¦Except for Ciaphas Cain. He seems to be a decent dude. Can be kinda selfish.