User blog comment:Supahbadmarine/Canon Policy Discussion 2:Empire and Xenos/@comment-2253300-20131108081310/@comment-8395098-20131108092600

i fairly much agree with you, for any extra-galactic force to wage war within the imperium your going to need either some "transwarp node" (see star trek) or to go like the nids and take the battlestar galactica approach...otherwise considering the distance between the milky way and the closest galaxy it should go to stand that your forces could traverse teh milky way several times before a releif force even comes to stop you initial attack.

Also being able to wage war here means you have little to no troubles back home that would stop you from sending your forces rediculusly far away.

Problems with a Transwarp approach #1 setting up a way point here...aka how the fuck did they get to the milky way? problem #2 if you built it you still out tech us all (DE and Crons included) and finally problem #3 your all comming from one point, so if you don't out tech us someone will find that gate and it will be destroyed or stolen...and if it's stolen then we go into fanfiction.

problems with the battlestar galactica (aka the settlers of the new world) approach. either your going to be insignificant (pisses you off, leaves everyone else meh) or your going to overpower yourself and then let the rage and NCF fly.