What was the Imperium like post-heresy?

[Midwest]

Most of the more light hearted stuff was because of the 2000ad comic influence, Rick Priestly had been working on the Judge Dredd RPG just before starting Rogue Trader.

Personally I liked the humor. There's an interview with RP and someone else, maybe John Stallard, and IIRC Rick also mentions that the background was a bit of a rebellion against the 'serious' slant of sci-fi at the time. He felt it took itself too seriously and the original 40k background was meant to be a bit of a tweak on that.

 

 

The rise of the Imperial cult came after the immediate time of the heresy as various pro-emperor cults sprung up all over the place with the most successful being the Temple of the Saviour Emperor.

I'm curious if they'll ever show how exactly the Imperium of the Imperial Truth gave into the worship of the Emperor. Presumably if it's not official until the 32nd millennium, it must have been slow ala the historical parallel of Christianity one assumes.

 

A religious civil war, so to speak - atheists vs Emperorians as it were - would be interesting tho'. :P

[Salisbury]

I think a clear answer comes out of a selection from the Chaos Space Marines codex. It speaks quite frequently of continued heresies after the death of Horus. It seems to me that I've also read something about the existence of the inquisition partially serving as an agent by which the Imperium may blot out the documentations of heresies past, and current in order to limit the risk of a new rebellion. So, I would say that it is a fair claim if one were to say that the heretical products of the Horus Heresy are still in full swing in the 41st century. There are just less full-scale invasions of Earth.