>>5457621>How many sacrificed people would it take to send a low-population planet into the Immaterium?In the words of Sindri 'all power demands sacrifice'. I have my doubts that even all the people of a low power world are enough to summon a major warp rift. From the examples I'm aware of the two main ways to do so are:
-Mass sacrifices like the civilized world of Tartarus from Dawn of War, including that of a major Ork Warband, the Chaos Sorcerer, and the presence of a rare powerful item like the Maledictum. Basically just massacring a world isn't enough to cut it, as the Imperium does so on a regular basis
-Another, extremely rare example, is the use of about several dozen captured navigator eyes and a powerful psyker
But in any case, I feel we should ideally have additional defenses to render our realm safe from warp incursions even with the presence of cultists by merits of:
-An increased proliferation of Null Nobilite
-Eventual discovery and activation of more Blackstone Technologies, the empowerment of our existing Blackstone Fortress, and the potentiality of finding more
-The simple fact that we have an anti-psyker policy. Knight worlds tend to slay theirs, and those we do find we just load onto the blackships
In an ideal scenario we have a sort of low grade 'Pariah Nexus' effect going on around our worlds.
>that we don't have inquisitorshttps://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Prefecture_MagisteriumTechnically we do through the Prefecture Magisterium, we just need to increase their power and influence. And then that's not including the Null Nobilite
>that our forces have no experience dealing with demonsFundamentally I disagree with this, because there's plenty of examples of Techsorcism in the Cult Mechanicus. The use of holy oils, rites of banishment, prayer scrolls and the likes. We're basically a knock-off version of the Ecclesiarchy before the Ecclesiarchy, and our religion accepts the existence of demons of the warp which we are allowed to propegate via the Treaty of Mars. It's just we're more focused on the kind that infest machines, but the Cult is well aware that many demon viruses can also corrupt the human users.
>Paying a fraction of our resources to lessen the chances of desperate people becoming unwanted portals to hell seems like a good price to meAnd honestly, ultimately, I agree. If we CAN improve the lives of our peasants, even (or ideally) through a trickle down effect, I'd be all for it. I have many ideas on ways to actually improve the lives of the commoners.
I am just suspicious if we will actually get the chance to do so or we won't be forced to pick between it and something else of a higher priority like we always do. We may have many plans, but it's usually the case that our time is limited and the plans get chopped up and we have to pick which ones are the most important. The lives of an extremely small minority population are low in priority compared to many other more powerful ways we can pre-empt Chaos.
