Warhammer 40K: 10 Worst Things The Imperium Has Ever Done

The Milky Way has become one of the bloodiest battlefields in human history, split in half by a tear in the space-time continuum pouring out endless hordes of monsters battling for dominance amongst several other massive armies of terrifying Xenos.

And in the center of this galaxy-spanning cycle of warfare stands the grand Imperium of Man, a once-mighty galactic empire now slowly crumbling from pressures within and without preparing for the end times and humanity's eventual extension.

While this may seem like a prediction for 2021, in fact, this is just the fantastic gothic world of Warhammer 40K. In which humanity has dominated the Milky Way for tens of thousands of years and has also become trapped in a series of ever-growing conflicts that have claimed the lives of billions of people.

And while we of course don't want humanity to fade away from the galaxy, the methods the Imperium of Man has used to keep its empire intact have been rather horrific in some cases.

From wiping out entire planets to suppressing trillions of people, to the very complicated nature of the so-called God-Emperor, it's quite appalling just how the Imperium of Man has survived for so long.

Hive Worlds are very similar to the capital planet of Coruscant from the Star Wars universe, in that they are worlds that turn into massive cities with several layers reaching high into the atmosphere and containing billions of Imperial citizens ranging in class from the highest rulers to the lowest gangsters.

Obviously in a world-building system that creates cities larger than Earth's continents there would be problems such as the 40K version of climate change which turns any habitable world full of life into a polluted depressing dystopian hub of human suffering, including the largest Hive World, Holy Terra.

The class system of Hive Worlds literally puts the poorest people on the lower levels where they are exposed to the most toxins and radiation, along with the least amount of food and the most amount of crime.

Hive Worlds create so many toxins devastating their environments that the citizens of Hive Worlds rely entirely on trade from other worlds to get the most basic of natural resources. The massive Hive Cities produce much-needed factory production lines creating armor, weapons, and an endless supply of soldiers for the Imperial army and navy.