>>87675928While it is corrupt and inefficient now and does engage in evil shit from time to time:
1) everyone other faction except the tau meme is worse, and tau only works because they are tiny
2) its only like that because literal space hell united against the imperium because they had an actual chance at winning
>IMPERIUM IS EVILMeanwhile chaos gods just want to destroy the universe and feed on your souls for eternity, while raping your entire being in some sort of flavour depending on which faction you choose (become a mindless junkie, become a 15th angled 18eyed bird, become a mindless drooling bloodthirsty retard that literally feels nothing and sees nothing (literal grayscale) outside of blood, literally serve as an incubator to diseases and parasites and be fine with it because grandaddy midnrapes you to see him as a family member and to not feel pain while your insides slough off)
Meanwhile orks just want to straight up murder you and have fun engaging in torture/brutal slavery of any humans they don't instantly kill
Meanwhile the eldar just want to go back to the good old days and would skin you alive if it meant their race benefited in the slightest
Meanwhile the necrons just want to go back to the good old days and would skin you alive if it meant their race benefited in the slightest, and then half of them just want to kill you because they are actually literally insane due to a murder-curse
Not all evils that the imperium engages in are necessary or the best path possible, but by god too many of them are, and for an empire that big and fucked some of this shit is inevitable.
>JUST MAKE IT SMALLER THENThen they wouldn't survive. Just as 1 example out of a million universe ending scenarios that you have to actively stop every single day: You just need to ignore the works or armageddon for 100 years and you have fucking krorks flying around in moon sized ships