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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8701481" data-attributes="member: 4534">I don't think you actually need to explain all of that in order to tell a good story.  In Star Wars, we learn that there's an emperor, that he's seized complete political power by dissolving the senate, there's a growing rebellion against his rule, and not so long ago there there was a Clone War.  This wasn't a giant exposition dump, we got just enough detail to understand what was going on without being overwhelmed, and get a sense that the galaxy was a big place with things going on.  So go ahead and invoke the Emperor's name, but that doens't mean you have to cram a lot of back trivia in there.  If the Horus Heresy and the Primarchs aren't relevant to the plot there's no reason to mention them.  Certainly bring up the Emperor with phrases like "The Emperor Protects" or have a scene where a preacher in the background speaks about the Emperor of Man sitting upon his golden throne on Holy Terra, but there's no need to mention that the throne keeps him alive or that he serves as an actual beacon that makes navigating the warp possible.  And about the warp?  It should be trivally easy to just bring up the fact that a Geller shield is necessary to keep the bad things out while traveling through the warp.  We don't need an indepth explanation anymore than we need one for warp speed in Star Trek.  Bite sized chunks.  Just introduce the elements needed to tell a specific story.</blockquote>

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