“you will worship the God-Company and you will be grateful for the opportunity to serve”

  • D3FNC [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I would guess some kind of subliminal societal trauma from losing their emperor, independence, their culture and all of their colonies in one fell swoop at the hands of a D-list, mongrel foreign power

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      1 year ago

      this actually also goes into the construction of the godemperor as state religion reifying fascist ultranationalism, but yeah, basically. they saw a lot of gods get killed pretty recently in cultural memory.