Robert Evans

gene-modified super soldiers called Space Marines.

And he sends them out into the galaxy to commit mass genocide against all of the different alien species that he considered a threat in any human world that wouldn't bend the knee to him, right?

They just do thousands of genocides out in the galaxy.

They take over like a million worlds.

And this all does end badly for the emperor,

Like, his sons, who were his main generals that he had created in a lab, too, eventually a bunch of them betray them, and he's badly wounded, and he has to be on, like, this life support system forever and ever, which leads to the nightmare future that the game itself is set in.

But the fact that, like, none of this works for the Emperor, and that, again, kind of...

in in the lore you're not supposed to be like ah the emperor what a good guy who was doing a good thing you're supposed to be like oh he's just like wiping people out for no reason like he was just a real real dick yeah like people always like to say like oh it's you know and nobody's good in the world of warhammer 4k which is true yes um but specifically the imperium is horrible

Yeah.

Absolutely horrible.

And in the books about this genocide, there's moments where your favorite characters are wiping out a species, and the last members of the species will be like, we just wanted to be left alone.

They're not subtle.

The writers are not super subtle about them being the baddies.

Subtle is not something you can apply to this game.

However, some people fail to see the broader message in the lore and just hone in on the things that appeal to them.

And there's a great 4chan post I found from, I think, July 21st, 2015, where someone posts a picture and it's yet another one of those like...

photoshop things where you've got like donald trump in the place of a space marine year is now 40 000 trump turned out to be the god emperor and initiated the imperium of man killing xenos all day every day in his honor life is good

And again, like in the game, things aren't good in the 41st millennium.

The emperor's stuck in a life support chair and everyone worships him, even though he was a major atheist and everything's falling apart all the time.

Life is not, in fact, good.