Why is the There No New Technology - Warhammer 40k Lore #shorts

Why is the Imperium so technologically clueless?

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[TabletopTitans]

Have you read Isaac Asimov's Empire? A lot of this comes from that series

[braith]

Chaos is the main reason. The Imperium created entirely new classes of battleship at one point that worked mainly as carriers and long range support firing vessels and they all fell to Chaos.

There's also the fact that, while they do create new weapon systems, they're generally inferior to their Dark Age counterparts, so yes, they can make plasma macro canons, but that communications tower that's able to send signals through even the Nid's interference is absolutely irreplaceable.

[briantarigan]

It really makes Belisarius Cawl a much more endearing character, that's not to mention that The AdMech codex specifies that not every Forgeworld considers innovation outright Heresy - Ryza being the example given. Every Forge has it's own version of the Omnissiahian Creed, with some hewing quite closely to Martian orthodoxy, and others straying a hair's breadth from being Hereteks

[OneBiasedOpinion]

Bottom line is: because Games Workshop wants it to stay that way.

[ranugunarsavahastanon-bela]

The main difference between T'au and the other races are the strongest weapons of other races are the most ancient, while t'aus strongest weapons are the newest ones

[yomogami]

odd as the reality is that humans experience technological innovation during war

[MrTurbowhitey]

The Emperor's worst mistake was not glassing Lorgars homeworld when he first found it. It was allowing a cult of technophile zealots to survive

[Corristo]

Luetin put it like this: They can fix the engine, but they can't build a new one.

And quite often the designs are simply lost. Those maybe two dozen Emperor Class Titans? Yeah, that's all there is, no more can be made and every loss is permanent.
The Adeptus Mechanicus, then the Mechanicum, sees machines the way it does because during their fight for survival on Mars during the Age of Strife, keeping machines running was the key to survival. You didn't tinker with the water recycler or oxygenator to try and make it better. You kept it running and prayed that it kept working. Literally. Do that for hundreds, if not thousands of years and you've got a cult on your hand that worships machines and abhors innovation.

[PaladinBerserkerJedi]

Desperation breeds innovation and progress. It seems the Imperium has not been desperately pushed to the point that they **HAVE** to change their ways in order to survive. They **WILL** or **DIE**. It's that simple.

[DrFPanza]

The Void Dragon, imprisoned in the Noctis Labyrinth on Mars, is a shard of the C'tan called DEVOURER OF KNOWLEDGE. I wonder if it has anything to do with the Imperium woes...

[DeusExAngelo]

Another reason is that while within the setting Imperium's technology development had stagnated...said tech is still absurdly advanced and powerful.

They still possess a stockpile of weapons that can scour life away from a planet. They still possess the means to make augmented super-humans that are a cross between mobile artillery and elite infantry.

[Bella_The_Chef]

Not only that but innovation is a crime punishable by death, not kidding that’s how an ad mech book starts because the MC dared to make their magnifier glasses more magnified

[imalwayshungryyeesh]

Waiting for Taus at their peak tech. Im surprised they still don't have world star ending weapons lol.

[tiredman]

Imperium: No technological advancement
Caul: I'll ignore that

[solarisveritatis]

Also needs to point out that the ritualization and seemingly irrational reveration of old technologies also further reflect the dependency on, and the loss of knowledge.

The Mechanicus, with all their ingenuity, is only a mechanic trying to do the engineer's job.

[the_infinexos]

The Imperium. If "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" was a dictatorship

[Lyndonmaman]

Mechanicum: "Does it work?"

Imperial Citizenry: "Well I mean kinda, but-"

Mechanicum: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[furanduron]

Its like you have a gun to defend yourself against monsters but occasionally shoot yourself with is.

[joshuaaxford]

Stagnation will lead to collapse, and survival has tended to drive progress.

[ernstbergerbrent]

Other than the Primaris marines and their grav tech. Maybe Bobby G will change that. Especially since he ordered the creation of the Primaris marines.