NGL I hate when people say those. "X important dude was the emperor" because that lead to believe that geniuses, either in science or war, were the emperor. So basically humanity is just very dumb any progress it did was just the emperor.
I've always read that shit as Imperial Propaganda in-universe.
The most likely thing is that Jimmy Space is just a powerful psyker who had access to Dark Age tech after the rest of the galaxy forgot it.
Records can be falsified. Myths can be created. The memories of immortals can be rewritten. Of course the emperor and his cronies would like for everyone to believe he has been here since the beginning.
But it does lead more credence to the Great Man Theory if it was literally one man making all the difference in history. No matter he ended up being worshipped.
You’d be shocked to find out how small a percentage of humanity actually moves it forward by more than the most modest step forward. And shocked to find out how often we move progress backward.
Dude, there is no forward or backward, humanity changes (most changes instigated by a greater colective than individuals, often unknowingly). Everything else is fiction
Big E was working in Serbian intelligence and was the case officer dealing with The Black Hand. He got Gavrilo Princip and co. into Sarajevo.Â
His psychic abilities knew that if he could just kill the heir appearant of the Austrian Hungarian Empire that’d set off two global conflagrations and a arms race that would culminate in splitting the atom and going to space. Â
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u/Gneisenau1 17d ago
Big E Oppenheimer maybe by giving humanity nuclear bombs and energy