Did the Emperor conducted genetic experiments on his body?

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**IvanTih**

Did he or the armor makes him look so big?How tall,strong,fast etc....would he be without his armor?

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So no response.

**vodo40k**

I always imagine the emperor pretty much the same as any one of his sons (primarchs) perhaps a tiny bit taller and a god-like aura.

**ph34r**

IvanTih wrote:Did he or the armor makes him look so big?How tall,strong,fast etc....would he be without his armor?

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So no response.

You can't always expect an answer in 3 hours.
Subject Answer: no.
Post Answer: It's not just the armor. Very. If a sister of silence (non modified human) is 6 feet, then the Emperor is 9 feet. A custodes appears to be 8 feet. I would guess that primarchs are 8-9 feet and space marines are 7 feet.

**Kilkrazy**

The Emporer must have taken a lot of steroids or something. If he was born in Anatolia in 8,000 BC and was nine feet tall he would be the most famous person in all history.

Logic dictates he must have looked pretty ordinary until he became Emporer, then started wearing the platform shoes.

**kill dem stunties**

Or with all that wisdom gained form the mass suicide that formed his soul, he knew he should remain behind the scenes, lest he super freak everyone out >.>

**Ronin-Sage**

Perhaps he made use of his massive psychic potential and somehow "masked" his true size.

Speculating even more liberally, maybe his psionic power enhanced his physical form(or his superhuman physical attributes were his body's solution to deal with his abilities).

**Orkeosaurus**

Perhaps during the Dark Age this type of technology was more common place (and acted at the precursor to Space Marine technology).

**Morgrim**

Ronin-Sage wrote:Perhaps he made use of his massive psychic potential and somehow "masked" his true size.

Speculating even more liberally, maybe his psionic power enhanced his physical form(or his superhuman physical attributes were his body's solution to deal with his abilities).

It's been explicitly stated that Alpha Legion do a lot of their convert work by removing their power armour and using psykic shielding to move amongst the populous without attracting undue attention. It's never stated if only the psykers amongst them can do it or whether they can shield others.

**oggers**

Maybe the Emperor perfected the method used to engineer Primarchs using himself as a test subject.

**IvanTih**

I have an idea,maybe he used his powers to make himself stronger,bigger etc...After some 38k years of practicing he should be able to do that and after all he was the most powerful psyker.

**Ronin-Sage**

IvanTih wrote:I have an idea,maybe he used his powers to make himself stronger,bigger etc...After some 38k years of practicing he should be able to do that and after all he was the most powerful psyker.

No comment.

**1hadhq**

May i add the short story: "the last church" as possible explanation here?

The emperor visited a priest, but the priest didnt recognize him. Later got "enlightened" and seen him as is.
So yes, the emprah may go unnoticed if he pleases too.

**Spiff**

Before taking over, he slouched a lot so no one would notice how tall he was.

**Sarnath666**

Spiff wrote:Before taking over, he slouched a lot so no one would notice how tall he was.

ok if your 9ft tall. Slouching is hardly going to keep people from noticing your a giant, let alone slouching for thousands of years!!!

poor guy must have back problems....

**=I= White-Wolf**

hmm I asked this to my local games workshop manager only a week ago, and he said that supposedly the emperor was "the first true space marine" and that he had put all of the information into 'machines' which turned him into the living beasts that space marines are. He supposedly would of rather see if the operation killed himself then use a test subject

**Sarnath666**

...in the painting of the emperor and horus and sanguinus....horus looks almost taller than the emperor (yes i know he's on a higher step) but he must be very close to the size of a primarch

**Dark**

Perhaps it affected to the effect that the Emprah was on a power armour and Horus was on a terminator armour?

**sniperjolly**

And that Chaos is proven 10x more effective than steroids for promoting mucle growth, allowing you to littarlaly break the laws of physics. (If the gods like you)
Horus wasn't on terminator armour, he was on Chaos.

**Zio**

In descent of angels, the primarch el'jonson is described as being "a head taller" than all the normal humans around him. That's a far cry from nine feet tall. Marines just aren't THAT much bigger.
Also, the emperor probably psychically redesigned his body to make himself more glorious to behold, to further his agenda. He can "lay on hands" to machines and work out kinks, he can do petty much whatever he wants. Ah, to be an alpha level psyker, and not be (too) crazy.