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[40k] A what-if concerning the IoM's intolerance of xeno tech

I've been thinking on this one for a bit and I'm not entirely sure how to apply the 'kill all xenos' rule to this. Say a group other than the AM (who would just hide it) finds a compatible ftl drive that completely bypasses the warp (a la Star Wars), uncorrupted, with the only downside being that it's a filthy xeno's design. Obviously this is a *massive* improvement over the current warp-drive design. Would it be destroyed?
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Probably. 


The Emperor himself actually had some pretty good justification for his "kill all xenos" madate, but as usual the Imperium took it a bit to far after his battle with Horus.


See, during the great crusade, humanity was just pulling itself back from the scraps that were left from the age of strife.  And it's a bug scary galaxy, full of Orks (which will kill you), Eldar (which will mind rape you), Dark Eldar (which will mind rape you, then rape you, then MAYBE kill you), and Chaos (which will do all of the above.)  And that's not counting the various death world xenos, tyranid scouts, and what have you.


All in all, it's a big scary galaxy out there that's not exactly friendly to humanity as a whole.  And literally the only thing the Big E cares about it making sure that humanity prospers.    Sometimes this means going a bit far with some things,  but when your toaster could summon demonettes from the realm of Slaneesh just because you put rye bread in instead of wheat, it's better safe then sorry when it comes to technology.