Grimdank is a dumpster fire, even from a purely lore perspective. The sheer amount of idiotic takes that place spams on a daily basis, geez
"THE GALAXY IS OURS BY RIGHT"
These nerds are exactly why I hope humanity filters itself. Can't let these psychopaths do to alien life what they did to the Native Americans.
This is literally the plot of Halo, the Earthen government goes full buck wild imperialist and fascist, by killing communists, subjugating worlds, suppressing all forms of speech and proletarian action, and becoming a full military Junta government..... Which completely blows up in their face when they run into a MORE advanced fascist-imperialist power. All of a sudden humanity isn't so gung ho anymore when they're getting curb stomped by the Covanent.
Kindly stop lumping us all with colonizers and capitalists
