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Does anyone know how much geneseed a chapter typically keeps on hand in the geneseed stores in its monastary. With the advent of 5th edition, and the wicked new starter box deal, I think I'm finally going to get around to building the Celestial Lions army I've always wanted, and the answer to this question is relevant to my version of how the chapter survived the massacre at Armageddon.

two portions of geneseed are available per existing Marine,one is extracted when full grown.at maximum
numbers it is possible the apothecarion stores up a
1000 units.failure or losses can reduce this and not
every implanted neophyte survives.IMHO you need
5 geneseeds to create 1-2 battlebrothers.

One thing to consider too is that each marine grows two Progenoid Glands so that slowly over time a chapter could rebuild its numbers. But that would take a considerable ammount of time to rebuild but it would help over time.

Later
Gareth