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I had a coworker who hated warhammer40k because they had lasertanks but then lost the tech for lasertanks and that was enough for it to make the future part of it not work for them.
It is kind of ridiculous that the Imperium turns entire goddamn planets into factories but still plays the "lost technology" card for things they have working examples of. I know they're not a shining example of inquiry and skepticism in general, but you'd fucking figure the blow-shit-up department gets carte blanch. You have genius-level superhumans who are three centuries old and those guys are your soldiers. What the fuck is stopping the laser pewpew R&D effort?
Dogma. The R&D is literally heresy that gets you BLAMmed in the head
iirc the techpriests kinda do get a blank check on doing whatever they want, the inquisition is even sketchy on giving them 'oversight'
Whats stopping Imperium R&D is a mix of multiple things ranging from Byzantine beurocracy so advanced the Romans are calling it inefficient to the fact that if you build the gun wrong it gets possessed by a literal Daemon. Also the space marines are generally getting the best shit, its the guardsmen who are getting the lower grade shit.
Also the Mechanicus is building new tech its just slow as balls and usually objectively worse than golden age tech which is capable of fucking with time and using the anomolies to annihilate an enemy ship. And the ship that does that may not even be a military vessal by design.
Yeah their final arguement is it's too much sci-fantasy at it's core for them and that is pretty accurate, everything serves the lore instead of the science being... anything reality based at all.
Just wait until he hears about Battletech's LosTech..