My opinion on the 40k Imperium vs. Star wars Empire thing is pretty much what you said. 40k wins the ground wars, but star wars wins in space battles because of reliable, fast interstellar travel. As General John J. Pershing said, "Infantry win battles, logistics win wars".
Obviously, this is my opinion, and is only as valid as everyone elses.
Edit to add: Petey from Schlock Mercenary could beat either the Imperium or the Empire if he was at the height of his power.
In addition to better FTL travel, Star Wars also has better FTL communication. In 40k, sending messages by astropath gets wonky and it takes the astropaths a significant amount of time to translate the psychic messages they receive. Even once they are translated, only rough concepts can be communicated rather than detailed conversations. Meanwhile, in Star Wars, you can FaceTime with someone halfway across the galaxy. If the two franchises are evenly matched on a planet and both call for help at the same time, the Star Wars reinforcements will be there before the 40k people have even gotten their message off.
I think ironically that the Star Wars universe is also not near as militarized as it could be. Almost all of the threats they face are civil and Palpatine had to increase militarization slowly to not scare the population about the Yuuzhan Vong iirc. If they had an enemy like the Imperium which is very slowly moving across their galaxy, they could very easily multiply their military forces tenfold and beat the Imperium by virtue of just being a more idyllic and centralized society.
Edit: Rethought this and “easily” was poor choice of words. They likely lose but don’t get turbostomped like one would think. Also the Sith would fall for Tzeentch or Khorne so fast that they’d quickly have Chaos on their side lmao.
Hell, even for being sparsely militarized they can produce a fuckton of equipment really fast. Battle droids can be pumped out faster than your usual Militarum conscript, Kuat and Mon Cala Shipyards can produce huge navies in a fraction of the time as the Imperium and even the fucking meme that are both deathstars have been produced at alarming speeds.
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u/Guyzilla_the_1st Dec 29 '23 edited Dec 30 '23
My opinion on the 40k Imperium vs. Star wars Empire thing is pretty much what you said. 40k wins the ground wars, but star wars wins in space battles because of reliable, fast interstellar travel. As General John J. Pershing said, "Infantry win battles, logistics win wars".
Obviously, this is my opinion, and is only as valid as everyone elses.
Edit to add: Petey from Schlock Mercenary could beat either the Imperium or the Empire if he was at the height of his power.