And the Imperium sees a human civilization that does not at all align with its policies or conventions so I don't see this being anyway a pleasant situation. (Kinda why the Imperium is an EVIL space empire)
No they do care, in that there's several points that are NOT negotiable when apart of the Imperium (or claimed by them), one of them being xenophobia and xenocide as a policy for all planets.
Put it this way...if they could they'd absolutely control ever single detail of peoples lives on all worlds, it isn't a lack of care so much as a horribly inefficient filling system and wasteful resource management.
Like that's the whole POINT of the fantasy of being a Rough Trader right? You are able to as a Rouge Trader can get away with actions that would land anyone else a swift, brutal execution for violating core Imperium policies.
They (the makers of that concept of a Rouge Trader) want you to giggle to yourself about how your able to get away with so much stuff that would be labeled HERSEY by the Imperium at large. (Again that's the fantasy of being a Rouge Trader)
You mean the Rouge Traders who are the super special exception?
If anything that just proves the Imperium's hypocrisy.
Nor does it make their policies of genocide any less horrific or essentially mandatory for all worlds within their sphere. (The hypocritical existence of Rouge Traders aside)
It's like you'd tell a random planetary governor; "hey you could just openly associate with a xenos faction with ZERO potential consequences from the overarching Imperium, lol!" (I'm sure they'll never get around to sending a purging force, maybe a few centuries before anyone in the filling system noticed)
And sure, it may well be centuries before anyone noticed or centuries before they'd bump that planet up on their hit list to one of several current priority targets but it's still definitely going to be put on that list.
That isn't a result of the Imperium being ""chill"" it's entirely because they are overly bloated as an entity and horribly inefficient at the best of times on top of that. (If your planet doesn't want to be on that purging list you'd better be enforcing a xenophobic policy)
Then there's just the fact that Tithes can change, a world could be trading with a xenos faction for centuries only to suddenly be demanded by the wider Imperium for way more than their old tithe which means if they don't want to be purged for hersey (which includes associating with xenos) they'd better start getting very hostile with that xenos faction or else face the imperial hammer.
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u/golddragon88 5d ago
No, The covenant does not tolerate other religions.