> the humans really are the bad guys The fact that the Salamanders are praised because they think of the people before nuking a planet really does tell you qui

> the humans really are the bad guys The fact that the Salamanders are praised because they think of the people before nuking a planet really does tell you quite a lot about the shining beacon of Humanity that the Adeptus Astartes are supposed to be. > I mean, so are lots of other factions, but that's the dark future of the 41st millenium for you. Basically, it’s a setting where there are no good guys. Except maybe the Tau, but nobody likes them anyway. The fact that humans are actually quite terrible from a moral perspective, and that most other factions have aspects you can sympathise with is actually very interesting, and makes the universe compelling. For example Nurgle followers really are benevolent good guys from their perspective, and that is very well documented. There is basically only the Drukhari (and tyranids, but that’s different because they have no moral compass whatsoever) that are really purely evil, even from their point of view.