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The difference between the empire in Star Wars and the Imperium is that the Imperium is essentially inescapable.
It has endured for 10,000 years, it has a million worlds. Non-human intelligence is mistrusted at absolute best. Separatism is not tolerated, Alderon was just Tuesday morning, and probably literally a quadrillion people thought they deserved it anyway. Communications and travel can take hundreds of years depending on the conditions, so a response fleet might not even arrive in your lifetime, or your children's lifetime, but it will come, and even a low estimate of the Imperiums levy would mean they command around a trillion soldiers.
Basically the Imperium of Man is a suffocating, unstoppable, grinding hate machine.
It is human society twisted into eternal, nightmarish, inescapable horror.
The Imperium of Man is simultaneously invincible and on the brink of collapse at the same time. It's one of the disadvantages of a setting meant for wargames instead of a tabletop game where you create your own narrative: because the players don't want their preferred faction to become obsolete, the setting is in stasis. Nobody can win or lose in any way which matters.
...Old figurines become obsolete anyways due to better stuff coming out. Gotta make the dosh.
Ironically (or probably not a coincidence) the fascist propaganda; "We're powerful and unbeatable" but also "We're falling apart and being destroyed".