User blog comment:Vivaporius/AT Idea: Imperial Civil War/@comment-3341288-20120410231117/@comment-3258762-20120411190926

The major issue with this (apart from the whole breaking of the logic behind DNA and such, but lets face it, this is 40k) is that the real Emperor has existed for millenia. He is described as being ALL the prophets, meant to show the world stuff, but, after being nailed onto a cross and fighting against Adolf Hitler at the head of the British Empire, he realized that the only way to get people to agree is to kill other people. Thus, he has had extreme amounts of time to hone his skills to near perfection, nearly even rivalling Tzeentch (note: Yes. The Emperor is said to almost rival Tzeentch in psychic power) a newly created Emperor will NOT have these powers.