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Sorry.

No prob, man. It's my fault (as I get that reaction far too often).

You dont have to apoligize. They should make a sarcasm orkmicon or whatever the smileys are called.

deadratman wrote:You dont have to apoligize. They should make a sarcasm orkmicon or whatever the smileys are called.

Grinz?

So, my theory on at least one of the missing Chapters:

Rainbow Warriors. Once upon a time in Rogue Trader mention was made of thier existance...before the conspiracy to erase thier memory from Imperial record was carried out!

You see, they had a fabulous idea...their Codex allowed for "Tactical Redecorating" which let you arrange your opponents forces in a more aesthetically pleasing fashion. A more heinous power was "Strategic Makeovers" the effects of which cannot be mentioned, as to this day it still drives Leman Russ to drink excessively.

Ultimately, their success was thier undoing. The Inquisitors of the Adeptus Marketus had coined the phrase we all know 'In the grim darkness of the future...' and the Rainbow Warriors were inadvertently campaigning against that. So, for those with knowledge of such things- it was no surprise when Inquisition sent every last Rainbow Warrior on insurmountable tasks, Redecorating the Warp, Teaching Fashion Sense to the Hive Fleets and Ork Waaghs.

Alas...the tales of thier mighty conquests are relegated to some dusty closet where only the lonely, but well dressed, lexicanum servitors visit.

So what your saying is that you think the rainbow queers are an "unknown legion"

deadratman wrote:So what your saying is that you think the rainbow queers are an "unknown legion"

Are you asking a question, or making a statement?

I said its a theory....first sentence...

It was a question my kind sir or madam.

deadratman wrote:It was a question my kind sir or madam.

Puttin a ?? on the end helps clarify that

Mistress of minis wrote:So, my theory on at least one of the missing Chapters:

And I said theory, and Im talkin about the now defunct Rainbow Warriors- who did exist in Rogure Trader era fluff. And suddenly disappeared....

Sorry. Just tryin to be polite.

Mistress of minis wrote:And I said theory, and Im talkin about the now defunct Rainbow Warriors- who did exist in Rogure Trader era fluff. And suddenly disappeared....

I think the point has been lost. This theory was meant to comment entertainingly about GW's commitment to marketability rather than continuity, no?

Wait- you mean GW adjusts the fluff to fit predicted saales patterns?

So....the Rainbow Warriors really arent helping the Squats find the pot of gold at the end of thier rainbows?!?! Say it aint so! :p

I am sorry but that is the truth. GW doesn't make minatures because they love people, they do it cause of the money. But your not totally wrong. The rainbow warriors probly do help the squats find the gold at the end the rainbow but on the way home a rainbow warrior parks in his garage and decides to "have a little chat about the money out back" if you know what I mean.

The only Rainbow Warrior I've heard of was the Greenpeace ship blown up by the French back in the 80s.

cadbren wrote:The only Rainbow Warrior I've heard of was the Greenpeace ship blown up by the French back in the 80s.

. . . simply can't resist . . .

FOR THE WOLFTIME (FtW)!

This is exactly why I can't understand why so many of my countrymen disdain the great Gallic people.

cadbren wrote:The only Rainbow Warrior I've heard of was the Greenpeace ship blown up by the French back in the 80s.

Wait a second.
Rainbow Warriors are Space Marines.
Chaos blows up Space Marines.
French blew up Rainbow Warrior.
OMG!!! The French are CHAOS! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!

Good thing that Rainbow Warriors are not Space Marines at all. ::prepares instruments of torture:: Isn't that right, EF?

Instruments of torture?

A Sisters of Battle player?

A Space Wolves player?

I like where this is going. Please continue.

lol!
Of course Dorothy is in 40k as well (read Deamon Codex fluff) "Somewhere, over the Rainbow..."

Cheese Elemental wrote:Instruments of torture?

A Sisters of Battle player?

A Space Wolves player?

I like where this is going. Please continue.

Hey . . . I have both Inquisitorial Codices, read Eisenhorn, and play Dark Heresy. And I have a growing devotion to the Sisters of Silence.
For my theme song see "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash.

I still don't get who the Sisters of Silence are! Psycic nulls yeah, but are they on par with the custodes...or what?

The Custodes and the Sisters are, according the Visions of Heresy book, the "hands of the Emperor."

A whole legion of sisters...The Emprahs "hands" must be busy...

*sigh*

Emperors Faithful wrote:I still don't get who the Sisters of Silence are! Psycic nulls yeah, but are they on par with the custodes...or what?

Sisters of silence support other units in fights against psykers. ( alongside the custodes to hold the secret webway gate ).
They also crew the black ships and keep the psykers in check.

Wouldn't see them as gene-enhanced warriors, but naturally mutants with enough training to be on par with stormtroopers.

Spotted some sisters at the cover of the coming SW-HH novel ...could be interesting to find them with russ.

Manchu on the disussion about Deamonhunters being Bounty and deamons being the spill thats completely wrong.....there called plenty now.

I dont think the sisters of silence are in Galaxy in flaemes, just re-read it recently, i cant wait to the SW HH book, and then its thousand sons.

I have to admit now, im wrong there is a million space marines :(.

Putting aside that GW just want us to buy a legions amount of marines, seems like we covered all basic and reasonable theories, so we need put some crazy one up.

Robert Guillaman was SO perfect cause he ate the other primarchs, and the Ultraprats ate the other legions, making them so perfect.

Didn't the Rainbow Warriors recently reappear somewhere?

In the "How to Paint Space Marines Book"?

Maybe online, in the Gallery of Marine Chapters?

Bottom line: they're still around. Kind of.

Xav wrote:Manchu on the disussion about Deamonhunters being Bounty and deamons being the spill thats completely wrong.....there called plenty now.

Don't get it.

Xav wrote:I dont think the sisters of silence are in Galaxy in flaemes, just re-read it recently

Correct, my mistake.

Alpharius wrote:Didn't the Rainbow Warriors recently reappear somewhere?

In the "How to Paint Space Marines Book"?

Maybe online, in the Gallery of Marine Chapters?

Bottom line: they're still around. Kind of.

They show up in neither place these days. (Note, however, that the Chapter Gallery is far reduced.) Their chapter symbol, turned yellow, is now that of the Death Strike Chapter. The symbol (without color) appears in the 5th Edition Space Marine Codex Star Map (of Chapter Homeworlds), on page 30. Given that the planet indicated is called "Prism" it most likely refers to the Rainbow Warriors. The notation given is "<<record deleted>>". Perhaps there is a connection between the Death Strike and Rainbow Warriors Chapters. Could the Death Strike be a successor? Nothing in Rogue Trader suggests that the Rainbow Warriors are a First Founding Chapter. I would guess they are successors of the Ultramarines.

a Lexicanum user wrote:In [Rogue Trader] a Rainbow Warrior is illustrated being shot by an Adepta Sororitas.

This is supposedly from pages 225-26 but I don't have a copy so cannot verify that information. Rogue Trader apparently claims that the Sororitas work to maintain the genetic purity of the Space Marines . . . How's that for all you guys who think it takes an explicit recton to get rid of old fluff?

It's iffy using really old material because the fluff has changed so much. Compare this from WD97:

Chapter Ultra-Marine of the Legiones Astartes was founded during the inter-legionary wars of the thirty second millennium. Tradition places the date at 4001001.M32 - the very first day of the millenium. The chapter is therefore over eight thousand years old, making it a chapter of the third founding. Upon its inception, the Emperor gave the chapter the number 13 - formerly the number of one of the treacher-legions now banished to the Eye of Terror 'without number and name and with all honours erased.'

Along with their number, the new chapter received the gene-sperm, implant zygotes, ritual, and other paraphenalia of indoctrination previously entrusted to the banished 13th legion. The chapter's founder was Roboute Gulliman whose bones now lie in the Reclusium on Macragge.

Manchu it happens that Bounty the toilet paper you described as the Deamnhunters has changed its name to Plenty, i was trying to be witty but obviously failing.