>>19289609
cont.
Some see this as a physical conflict, to be fought and won with bolt, shell, and sword. But this is really a war of wills, a battle for Humanity's very soul. The species itself stands on the brink of destruction, and very little can be done to staunch the slow bleeding of the Imperium. Forget how science and progress can help us. Everything has become religion now, and ritualized, even the powering on of the sacred machine spirits of guns and tanks. Forget understanding and tolerance, because if the Imperium must survive, it must survive through a cruel and bloody regime, a machine of continuous sorrow and sacrifice that grinds millions under its heel each day so that the Imperium can live another day. Humanity sells lives to combat relentless enemies, within and without, and they, like us, will give no ground. The universe is a charnel house, a cemetery waiting for the slow genocide of humanity.
But we won't go down without a fight.