(So, I figured I'd spend a chapter responding to reviews. Thank you to everyone that has read this story! I really appreciate it.)
Guest: "Short question, do you use the manga or the anime since there is a lot more interesting stuff in the manga than in the rather lackluster anime?"
Right now it's currently set before the manga and anime diverge. It'll follow the manga for the most part, but with some changes.
Guest: "This is really meh"
Thanks I guess. I'd prefer this to be meh than to be bad.
BeeBadidoo: "Hmm, I like that you're showcasing the differences in the Imperial Cult with Ollm's planet being different with a lot of focus toward the water I guess he came from a place with a lot of water or a water world, it's something that gets overlooked a lot. I think you did a good job at writing a lower Tech-priest with Jeshua not being as strange as the Higher Mechanicus yet still having his own detachment from Humanity. I can't really talk a lot about Soul Eater because I don't know anything about it."
First of all, thank you very much for reading. I wanted to really think about how a primitive, backwater religion would develop into the Imperial Cult, seeing as how missionaries actively utilise native religions in order to make them accept the Emperor. It's quite difficult to write characters detached from humanity that don't go down the generic route, but I hope I'm doing ok. And on that last point, I mostly just chose Soul Eater for this because... well, I was absolutely out of my own head. I've really been struggling with making sense of how it'd fit into Imperial Society.
Guest: "uhm yeah... the an Imperial ship is outside of their own territory and sends a general distress call. Because in 40k where basically everyone is at war with everyone that's what you do. The Imperium does not ask random strangers for help. They shoot them. Or if they're human they try to annex them, declare them heretics if they refuse and shoot them."
Thank you for reading! I know, it seems a bit stupid to have the Imperium (of all people) be nice for a change. But I wanted to, you know, write a crossover that I had fun writing and with interesting character interaction. Not one where there's a brutal, short war over the control of Earth. Though that could be fun. As for the annexation... historically, annexations take place after an underdeveloped nation is fully reliant on another, more powerful one. It's how the Romans took out a lot of territory. Trust me, the Imperials are NOT here for friendship and sunshine. As for the distress call, I think it'd be normal for a ship that's just barely still powered, full of people who are just barely alive to send out messages.
Guest: "ok, the Imperium is stupid but not that stupid. They are somewhere in nowhere, can't go back on their own and the only place they can go to can have everything from a human civilisation (of which there is one) or nightmarish eldritch monsters (which are there too)."
Thanks for reading! I'm not entirely sure what point is being made here. If you're saying that the Imperium wouldn't go somewhere that's potentially dangerous, then buddy I have news for you.
See you all soon.
