Robert Evans

Yeah.

It was nicer back then when they had to pretend.

It was a bit... And I do love the quote, it could be Dune.

It could be, but it's not.

Like Warhammer is kind of like a lot of Warhammer was originally ripping off Dune and the emperor characters based heavily on, on, uh, Leo Atreides, right?

Like there's, that's certainly like, like Warhammer is essentially all of the sci-fi that was big in the 1980s and before getting put into a blender and like merged together.

Right.

As we'll talk about.

Yes.

Yeah.

So like the journalist there is correct.

Like, yeah, I mean, they could have been.

But in this case, they definitely weren't.

They were talking about the emperor from 40K.

Now, a big part of the appeal of the god emperor character for these people is that he was explicitly in the lore of the game genocidal.

The way the backstory goes, you know, Warhammer 40,000 is set in the 41st millennium, like 40, like 39 or so thousand years into the future.

But in the lore of the game, in like the year 30,000 or so, about 10,000 years before the current day of the setting, the Emperor, while he was still alive and healthy, launched a great crusade after unifying Earth.

You know, there had been a big space empire before, but it all crashed after the AI, you know, went crazy and fucked everything up.

So Earth was just like this warring mess of techno-barbarians and shit.

And the Emperor takes over, he unifies Earth, and he makes a bunch of