I don't play the table top, and you are being needlessly rude. I quite frankly don't care what arguments you make because they are the exact same I see every time the subject comes up. I don't care about the current Horus heresy lore.
Eh, I feel like at this point the stated purpose behind making Space Marines require baseline humans kind of falls apart.
No, they are saying that it's not gene editing of Space Marines themselves, but their implants. It's kind of like how if you graft a pear branch to an apple tree, you aren't going to grow apple-pear hybrids from the seeds of its fruit.
THe Space Marines are the most updated, most likely to get new sculpts, have the largest range of rules and minatures, and so on. They get by far the most attention, the most stuff happening to them. If you can't see why people might care more about a faction that gets in some years half the total updates of the entire gameline, I have to wonder.
but what will nerds do if we can't debate about the details and exactitude of impossible bullshit science, good sir
They give some of the other factions more love! I have zero problems with that. Heck, I'm a Necron fan. We have like four novels! I want some of the Space Marine love, I just don't want the Space Marines themselves to change. I think they're great the way they are.
Anthropology. Seriously, think it's a missed opportunity to look at how chapter cultures of the founders and successors develop due to events and recruiting world cultures. Like Dark Angels successor chapter finding itself given recruiting rights to a hive world, as opposed to a feudal world I read them as preferring.
There is no way for that love to be equalised when there are at least nine different Space Marine factions, compared to how many there are for all the rest. This is a farce of a suggestion, and I suspect you know that.
Even though I hate the Horus Heresy novels I'm going to bring them up for a specific point here.
Man, now I wish that the different Necron Dynasties got their own books and specific sculpts.
When you say "right" do you mean morally or financially?
Like think of the comedic potential of this: in the early days the new chapters senior leadership, company commanders and sergeant majors speak and act like old fashioned knights, contrasted with their first generation of recruits acting like the marines from generation kill. The space marine physiology would certainly permits some pretty outrageous hazing rituals if nothing else.
It's always gets me that one of the Imperial Fist's recruiting worlds is Necromunda. I can't help but picture one of the more traditional Fists interacting with a peer who was clearly an Underhive Ganger in their past life but as far as I'm aware that hasn't actually happened yet.
The fiction has rarely taken the opportunity these factoids offer. Way to often the official fiction plays a whole chapter as mono cultural at times when it really should not be.
Generously, I think the reasoning for this is so that you can mine those lore tidbits for ways in which to customize your own dudes. The stated reasoning for why there are two lost legions is exactly this; so that you can make Space Marines that don't conform to any of the norms of the other legions, and just say they were descended from one of the Lost.
I, for one, think sausage parties are great. I'm sure clam bakes are also great, but have never been invited to one.
And in all likelihood, you never will be.
