Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

This article is to explain so far the differences between the Emperor and Vito in the Emperor's "Wait for me to resurrect and counterattack" plan. I believe some readers may not understand it yet. Please update without taking up the time. In the absence of space, I will explain it here.

First of all, regarding the difference between the positioning of Emperor and Vito, have you noticed a word that is used repeatedly in the article? "Guardian of mankind" or "Guardian of mankind" and the title in the Emperor's text is "Protector of civilization" don't seem to be very different, right? But actually the difference is huge.

The biggest difference is that the Emperor wants to "continue" human civilization, not the thousands of individuals in this civilization. What he wants to do is to continue human beings as a civilization and an existence, and to continue the concept of human beings. Rather than all individuals in this collective, this is the contradiction between civilization and people mentioned in philosophy.

In human terms, for the emperor, he is like a P Club player, playing a game. In this game, his playing camp is human. What he has to do is to let his camp continue to fight, then He only considers this issue when clicking various options, and does not care about everyone among them. Even if he deletes everyone on the chessboard and recreates people, after all, "humanity" still exists as a civilization.

So this is the contradiction. The Emperor’s resurrection plan and the counter-killing plan finally fell to the ground and waited for him to be resurrected. How many people will be left in this universe, or in other words, whether there will be any humans left is unknown. After all, no one knows the Emperor. If the emperor ascends, will he kill all mankind like Slaanesh and become the evil god of the sixth heaven?

Or the simplest thing, the emperor's resurrection time is who knows, a week? A month? One year or a hundred years? When he is resurrected and returns, it will be a question of whether there are still any living people in the empire, but the emperor actually doesn't care, because he doesn't care whether there are still humans alive in this "universe". He can completely put everything in the new universe. After the death of Aliens and Chaos, cloning technology is used to create a new generation of humans, a generation of new humans who have no memory of the past empire and no idea of ​​what happened in the past to continue civilization.

So for the Emperor, his purpose is now so crazy. In other words, he can blow up the entire galaxy, kill all life in the galaxy, restart the galaxy like the Forerunners in Halo, and then start the life cycle again. Yes, because what he wants to continue is civilization, not a society composed of people.

This is the biggest conflict between him and Vito. Vito is the guardian of mankind, and his experience has led Vito to protect the society of the empire, or the humans who are still alive. For Vito These talents are human civilization.

Every collective is composed of countless individuals. If the individuals are gone, the collective will disappear, and the "new humans" created by the Emperor are new ones who have no memory of past humans or even know the past. Whether a generation of humans can be considered the descendants of humans in the current empire is a question. After all, they are clones of artificial beings like Krieg, and besides, they don’t remember the current humans.

So for Vito, the Emperor's plan is completely unacceptable. His behavior of simply restarting the game is what Vito hates the most. He is purely treating the entire world and universe as a game, playing with the four gods. game, so Vito has always hated the concept of "great game" in the article, and this is also the reason for the scene when he got angry with Tzeentch.

I wonder if you have noticed it? In Vito's text, from the past to the present, he only gets angry because of two "people", Tzeentch and the Emperor. In a sense, the two are quite similar on this issue. Tzeentch also doesn't care about believers at all, only cares about the last " The other gods like Slaanesh, Khorne and Nurgle will still care about their followers to some extent, but Tzeentch is the kind who doesn't care at all.

For Vito, if we all die now, and everyone dies, then the "beautiful future" created by the Emperor will be meaningless to current humanity, and no one will feel happy about the greatness after death. Because you are already dead, everything that happens after that has nothing to do with you. Besides, this is 40K, so even if you die, you may not be able to die well.

What he wants to protect is the people he cares about, loves and becomes friends with. What Vito loves is human society. Pay attention to the difference. It is society rather than civilization. Society is composed of the people in it, but civilization is different. Civilization is a cultural concept, an ideological concept. What the Emperor wants is for Vito to give up everyone, give up Cole, give up Celestine, Lilith (okay, okay, I know she may not count) and Bell, Ragnar and the others, let them die in order to continue human civilization.

In other words, give up Vito's humanity as a "human" and become a true god like him.

(So ​​Vito often scolds the emperor as a bastard who likes to talk about philosophy. His concept has always been this very broad thing, a typical philosopher's thinking.)

So the difference between Vito and the Emperor is here. One is to protect the people around him, and the other is to continue human civilization and let all these people die now, as long as human civilization can be reborn in the new world. .

Although the Emperor seems to have made it clear that in this new world he will invite Vito to create new humans together. The possible positioning is that the Emperor is the creator god, and Vito is the god of war. The emperor is here to teach people the new humanity. Civilization and development, society, etc., and Vito came to teach new humans how to protect themselves, create armies and force, etc. In short, they are civilized gods similar to the Eldar, although there are only these two here.

(By the way, would it be better if Vito was a woman? Look, the God-Emperor and the Queen are a good match, right? No, no, no, Mr. Inquisitor, I mean, BOMM! Heretic!)

But obviously, for the Emperor's method, Vito's reaction was as stated in the article, "You are the most bastard bastard that has ever been born in the history of mankind." (Are you interested in knowing more about Erebus? He will let you I think everyone looks like a white lotus)

This is the current disagreement between the Emperor and Vito. Do you understand? In fact, there is no standard answer to this question, and there is not even a right or wrong answer. Should we sacrifice all individuals to continue civilization, or should we resolutely defend the people who are living now? But who is willing to be the "majority of victims"? Or would you rather?

The answer to this question can be explained in any way, but it is actually unsolvable. This is also the biggest problem that has troubled the protagonist for so many years. He knows that mankind has been slowly bleeding, but although this universe is cruel, people are at least still alive, and the Emperor's Although that set can make a comeback, everyone will die.

Who is more reasonable depends on everyone's position. Again, there is no right or wrong. Everyone is welcome to actively discuss this.

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