He has sat immobile, his body slowly crumbling, within the Golden Throne of Terra for over 10,000 standard years. Although once a living man, His shattered, decaying body can no longer support life, and it is kept intact only by the cybernetic mechanisms of the Golden Throne and a potent mind itself sustained by the daily sacrifice of thousands of lives. The Emperor chose to sacrifice His immortal life at the end of the Horus Heresy in the service and protection of Mankind. To humanity's countless trillions across the galaxy-spanning Imperium, He is nothing less than God.- Warhammer 40k wikia: Emperor of Mankind
Jag kände till det där lite grann och har väl aldrig funderat så mycket över det ... Tills jag såg en kommentar från upphovsmannen:
The whole idea of the Emperor is that you don't know whether he's alive or dead. The whole Imperium might be running on superstition. There's no guarantee that the Emperor is anything other than a corpse with a residual mental ability to direct spacecraft. It's got some parallels with religious beliefs and principles, and I think a lot of that got missed and overwritten.- Rick Priestly, intervjuad av Owen Duffy för Cardboard Sandwich 11 december 2015 [arkiverad]
Ett gigantiskt imperium som i grunden styrs av en stor vanföreställning? Tanken känns, på något sätt, inte så avlägsen. Kanske folk år 40 000 fungerar lite annorlunda än vad vi gjort de senaste 40 000 åren, men förmodligen inte; förmodligen kommer vi fortfarande att vara primater som nyss rest på oss, styrda av samma enkla behov och mekanismer.
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