@merulezall: I have read around 20 of their books..... if this is in reference to the numbers I have yet to see a number from Warhammer that is larger than 365 trillion....unless you can point me in that direction..
First population doesnt matter, not everyone is armed an avg ripper swarm is going to feed off that pop like nothing.
Second you think Trillions are high, really? Even the Covenant from halo is catching up in the trillions.
Regardless proof before I smash your pathetic statement,
Starships, right before the great crusade the IoM had hundreds of thousands of ships formed into 7 fleets as stated down below. I'd like to add, this before the HH where they had even more fleets for each Primarch which was at least 20 more fleets
When the time came to leave Terra, it was a great moment. Not even the triumph at Ullanor can compare with the moment of grief as an entire world wept to see the architect of Unification depart. The alliance of Terra and Mars was complete, and the Mechanicum had outdone itself, building fleets of ships to allow the Emperor to take to the stars and complete his Great Crusade of Unity. The skies over Terra were thick with starships, hundreds of thousands of them organised into more than seven thousand fleets, reserve groups and secondary, follow-on forces. It was an armada designed to conquer the galaxy and that was exactly what we set out to do.
- A Thousand Sons
The max seen for the GE was what the op said, at their height and from fellow viners they stated the Empire had only 22,000 ISDs and 3 SSDs. No other ships matter because no other ships are spitting out enough firepower to make it so, furthermore their defenses would get wrecked. I'd also like to add,
Just on one planet held this much,
Dekla Penninsula
Resistance against daemonic incursion concentrated in this area. Refugees and military forces eventually overwhelmed by rampant daemonic host of inestimable size. Approximate casualties: 1.2 billion. Minds with true purpose and faith never wholly lost.
Warhammer: 4th Daemon Codex.
The planet wasn't even a hive planet. it had 1.2 billion people on it, theres still 999,999 worlds out there!!
Just in case you don't believe the million worlds quote for some reason, even though people like me who aren't even well versed in the 40k universe, know
The Emperor
This is the time of the Emperor, the Age of the Imperium. It is an epoch of war already ten thousand years old. In this war mere survival is justly hailed as a victory. Defeat can only lead to the irrevocable end of humanity and to the destruction of the very fabric of the universe. It is a war waged across the galaxy -- in the darkness of space, on a million worlds---
Warhammer: 5th Rulebook Edition.
And holy terra itself,
The spiritual heart of the Imperium is ancient Terra, cradle of the human race. Terra is a sprawling hive of towering metal spires, gothic cathedrals and ancient ruins. Untold billions shuffle through the polluted air, mindlessly eking out their miserable existence beneath the empty gaze of gargoyles and weeping angels.
Warhammer: 5th Rulebook Edition.
Furthermore
Planet Minea in Ultima Segmentum alone have 154,000,000,000 people in the Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook as stated
Ichar IV have 500,000,000,000 people in the Codex: Tyranids 3rd Edition as stated
Billions of people can live on one Hive World ( population can vary from 25 to 500 billion as listed above ), and there are approximately 32,380 Hive Worlds in the Imperium. in the Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook you can also find this as well. The Imo also is known to be a million worlds strong, and even if do we 1 million for some dumb reason times a million worlds or so, that comes out to 1 trillion. Seriously as I've already pointed out and quoted, this is not the case and the avg is far above this even in the rules books. So this so called "I read 20 books har har" is non sense imo, because you are either completely clueless, or just like your icon, most likely so biased it's not even funny.
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