Trek Warp Drive, trans-warp aside, is sluggish by 40k standards though (Tau aside). It was going to take Voyager decades to cross the galaxy, something that military grade Imperial ships could (though they rarely leave their assigned segmentum) do in several months/years.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Plus, Imperial Navy ships would take time to fully assimilate. Enough time for the crew or other ships to destroy the infected vessel.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Field Marshal of Cracked
or detonate their engines/ram the Borg cube
advancing the front into TV Tropes
Another thing to note, though: The only reason the Federation is able to hold off the Borg as well as it does is because they've analyzed Borg tech really well. The Imperium would find this type of analysis and innovation to be heresy.
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
Field Marshal of Cracked
but it is HERESY when you have the firepower to wipe them off the face of the galaxy!
though The Inquisition does do that sort of research on a regular basis, same goes for the Tech Priests of Mars
advancing the front into TV Tropes
PINNACLE OF MAN
Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
The former would easily escape everyone while manipulating the physics of his surroundings, thus being either an adept of Slaanesh (he is desired by every coyote around him) or Tzeentch (again, physics). Wile would be making terrible contraptions for the Tau, because the Imperium would burn Wile, as he is not human.
I am the most suitable partner for Gaia. I have some bad news. You will not make it to Eden. This is the end of your journey.
Doom guy. Nuff said.
Hm, what about Samus Aran?
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
A woman, raised by filthy xenos, parading around in pretender power armor designed by xenos? She'd have no place in the Imperium, but the Tau would love to have her.
A Radical Inquisitor might have a field day with her. Probably as a reusable Exterminatus payload.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Hi
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Yeah, I could see a Radical-minded Ordo Xenos inquisitor snapping her up as part of a retinue in no time.
I was about to say that she might not be down for that, but then I remembered that one of her games is literally a genocide mission. So... maybe...
I'll bet that the inquisitor would have to be careful about what he hires her for, though.
She's raised by xenos, outfitted by xenos, created a daemon in her own image, spent an extended period on a planet consumed by the warp, and was fully corrupted by chaos before mysteriously returning as if none of it ever happened. Then she was merged with proto-tyranid DNA and actively worked to thwart the activities of and destroy a local Imperium research station.
Field Marshal of Cracked
in other words, perfect Inquisitorial Goon Squad material!
advancing the front into TV Tropes
"So...your warp drive doesn't get you eaten by daemons if anything goes even the tiniest bit wrong?"
"Oh, no. Our flagship at one point had something go wrong with the warp drive at least once a month for seven years. Didn't get torn apart by monsters at all - well, not for that reason, anyway."
"Can we trade? I'll give you literally anything for your ship."