• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    20 days ago

    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!”

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      20 days ago

      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.