How have thinks not changed in the 40k universe? There are so

This doesn't deserve a whole thread but I will try to clear it up.

40k is a specific time frame.
Things are always changing but our point of reference is always the same one.

Stories set on earth in the year 2000 will always describe humanity as a whole in similar terms.

Now 40k is meant to be set in our universe but we haven't mastered AI, nuked our own oceans or started colonizing other planets yet.

The sad part about the 40k universe is it describes a setting where humanity has past it's prime and is a dying old man.

But things did change, and they all helped create 40k as we know it. The beast, vandire and all the events like that shaped an Imperium that was different from the one that was before and the one that would come after.

>>54322378
>The sad part about the 40k universe is it describes a setting where humanity has past it's prime and is a dying old man.
Wrong. That's the Eldar. Humanity received two impossibly powerful, extinction-level blows, and still kept moving forward. There is still hope for victory and salvation.

Your text isn't much clear... but i suppose you mean why things didn't changed much from the 30k to 40k? Well, the writers have no sense of scale, what 10k years entail. It would be impossible to a galactic empire be technologically stagnant or even devolve. Human beings are intelligent, if our societies changed in such small timeframe, even less a 10k human civilization.
If they reduced the span between the Horus Heresy and the modern setting to a millenia, about 2, it would make more sense.

>>54323780
>Human beings are intelligent

Everyone who is intelligent is either killed or chaos explodes from their heads. The setting has antibodies against anything that can change it, and you can't resist them unless you have the power of PLOT like Bobby G or Cawl.

>>54323822
Yes, i supposed that's the "grimdark" part, forced by the writers/GW.

>>54323315
Maybe now that girlyman and the double marines exist, but not before. There was only certainty of decline and inevitable wasting failure.

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>>54322378
>Now 40k is meant to be set in our universe but we haven't mastered AI, nuked our own oceans or started colonizing other planets yet
Excuse me?

>>54325243
...so according to you we, in the year 2017, have mastered AI, nuked our own oceans and started colonizing other planets? Because that's what he meant

Why does Horus look like Red Foreman?

>>54325524

how's life under that rock?