Editing Interex (section)

==But were the Interex truly immune to Chaos?==
Let us consider for a moment a few points: first off the Interex had received help from [[eldar|other alien races with some experience on dealing with Chaos]]; indeed, this is an advantage which may not have been wielded by many human civilizations in the setting. Said alien races are not particularly well-known for helping out humans unless they get something in return, and that something could be (and knowing the Eldar, probably was) having them unknowingly act as a distraction so Chaos would go after them instead of the Eldar. The Kinebranch may have been benign, but they are thus far the exception that proves the rule in the galaxy. And we don't know what their intentions were for the humans of the Interex in the long run either- it wouldn't be the first time a xenos "ally" turned on humanity when it had an opportunity to do so.

Secondly there is the simple fact that the Interex was a [[Eldar#History|post-scarcity economy]]; this alone means that next to no one would like to attempt to deal with enemy forces out of physical desperation, which is often one of the major reasons why Chaos takes hold in the poverty-stricken worlds of the Imperium. Like in real life, the vast majority of people will not feel any interest in joining the enemy or a strange cult when things go well.

Thirdly, the Interex was a collection of small territories when compared with the Imperium, so [[Ultramarines|it was far easier for them to manage their population and bring education to the masses while keeping a better control over them]], [[tau|and if this sounds familiar to you, great, you are paying attention]]. Problem is, that falls apart as soon as the population expands too far and the small population also means that they'd be easy prey for the Necrons, Tyranids, or a sufficiently large WAAGH!.

Finally, Chaos really didn't ''need'' to corrupt anyone to take hold over the Interex - all it needed was to use someone to wipe them out on their behalf. It also might have been possible for Chaos to corrupt some of them eventually. As Radical Inquisitors have shown, being fully educated on what Chaos is and its dangers doesn't prevent you from falling to it, and in some cases it actually accelerates the fall by fostering the idea that you know more about Chaos than you really do. In the Interex's case, their awareness of Chaos led them into a state of complacency that allowed the Ruinous Powers to destroy them with the help of outside agents- they were so certain that they could recognize a plot of the Dark Gods that they never considered the possibility of them using proxies, nor did they imagine that keeping a Daemon Weapon around even if they never intended to use it would be all that said proxy needed to tear them apart on the spot.

Ultimately it can be recognized that the Interex looked like a possible path for a better future for mankind, but all it takes to fuck it up is one guy willing to take advantage of a bad decision like choosing to keep and study a Daemon Weapon (or any Chaos artifact really) instead of destroying it. So, they could be seen as a case in point that the Emperor's way is the right way since it isn't nearly as vulnerable to one asstard fucking everything up. Oh, sure, one asstard can ''try'' to and do a lot of damage, but ten thousand years and a Great Rift later, the Imperium is still kicking ass whereas the Interex are extinct.