PeZook wrote:Who said the interactions were pleasant?
Sidney Hank?
Shroom Man 777 wrote:Not to mention, the guy is an Umerian official and stuff. That's like CEID mindjacking Sidney Hank for his... pleasant interactions with Unit T-X.
Actually, Geppetto is
not a Umerian official, just a Umerian Type Four-with-extensive-list-of-modifiers citizen. Though his 'senior self' has several ongoing contracts with the Technocracy, and he's a valued consultant on issues touching on his specialty, Geppetto is a private citizen.
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Heh.. more or less correct... but ah... you can't expect a man to be everywhere at once. That's the point of a civil service, albeit one that is huge and byzantine as to be expected.
Yes. I'm looking at the historical record of the 'real' God-Emperor as much as anything else, since you seem to have imported the essential nature of the man more or less wholesale. The entire passage:
“Very true. This is the first thing to remember about Heraclius: that he is in many ways his own greatest foil. The Emperor is prone to create that which will undermine his ambitions in the future, for he does not easily perceive the flaws in his creations once they are in operation. He is by nature a maker; he is not by nature a maintainer of that which he has made. So long as something continues to fulfill the broad outlines of his purpose, he tends to be lax about supervising the details. Instead, he prefers to turn to the next grand project of construction or conquest. Many of the inefficiencies of the Byzantine state result from this, when his old creations start to go astray from lack of close supervision while he is distracted by his new ones.”
Was in large part an allusion to the Horus Heresy.
As for secret projects... hmm... The Emperor has plans yes... and he thinks in terms of the centuries...
My read is that he's a man with century-scale plans, but (like any normal human) a decade-scale attention span at best. He compensates by force of will... but there's a natural tendency, once he's got something running that he's been working on for three hundred years, to abandon it and
let it run.
That's even more true when the previous Great Project is distracting him from the next one. So arguably the God-Emperor has a bit of a monomania problem, though monomania isn't really the right word; it's not bad enough to be accurately described that way.
This can turn round and bite him in the ass at times, with the Horus Heresy and the runup to it being the most obvious symptoms. The Emperor got increasingly out of touch with the Primarchs- partly a matter of necessity, yes, but I get the feeling that he wasn't really trying to supervise them, not even on the minimal level needed to say things like "Angron is painting his room red, collecting skulls, and listening to heavy metal music with the volume turned up to 'Murderdeathshatter your Skullfucking Planet?' What is this shit? I'd better go upstairs and give the boy a good talking-to!" On the occasions when he
did censure one of the Space Marine Legions for misbehavior, he usually did it ineffectively and with excessive brusqueness, with the result that they became more alienated and thus more vulnerable to subversion, not less.
And yes you can say "Well of course he couldn't supervise the Great Crusade personally, it had gotten too big and he was busy working on the Human Webway/Golden Throne/Astronomican complex." But in a sense that's the point: he was too busy working on a project that consumed virtually all his time and efforts, with an eye to completing it as fast as possible, to keep an eye on the
previous project that had consumed virtually all his time and efforts.
Thus, the main conclusion of my analysis: the God-Emperor is in some ways his own worst enemy, and he is often constrained in his actions by the intangible bounds created by his own past Great Projects.
Also, just out of curiosity, which if any of the Primarchs is "Aurelian Komnenos" of the "Anatolian Guard" supposed to be reminiscent of? The focus on siege warfare reminds me of Dorn... or Perturabo.
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
). And I can't spend as much Net time as I used to from now until the end of January because I have to start studying for my comprehensive exams (provided the file thing gets sorted out so I can properly enroll for it). So I have to play catch up with the game again.
