>>5416149Heterogeneousity is never an irrelevant variable.
We don't like to think about it, but even in the real world, all it takes is a few relatively minor variances in ethnicity and culture before social cohesion starts deteriorating.
That's just between regular humans doing regular human things. Trying to kickstart some sort of xenos federation from abducted alien children, POWs, and Volunteers(?) - in 40k no less, while we're in bed with the Imperium - is a recipe for a razorcircus-styled catastrophe of the highest order.
Just don't.
Finish correcting the myriad faults in the Imperium before you even consider entertaining the notion of tackling a project this monumentally ambitious.
