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Originally Posted by Critteranne
Some fans believe it's best read as a satire of the dark setting. (Games Workshop has confirmed that it's a satire.) The Imperium of Man is supposed to be the good guys. But... are they really?  |
GW have described WH40K as satire but given what I have learned about the setting not everyone who is writing in universe is on board. Personally, I think it's more farce than satire. It's just too ham-fisted to be satire.
There are no good guy factions in WH40K, just various degrees of comic book evil. And Orks. The T'au originally were intended to fill that space but enough fans of the setting complained that they weren't sufficiently comic book evil so GW turned them into a nation of brainwashed puppets under another batch of farcially evil overlords.