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SilverMK2 wrote:If captured by the Eldar, there would be lots of.......... hybrid offspring in short order...

Someone better write about this s**t!..........

Isn't one of the Primarchs meant to be captured and held in Commoragh?

Pretty sure if he cant pull off an escape, your bog standard marine might struggle

Gorechild wrote:Isn't one of the Primarchs meant to be captured and held in Commoragh?

Pretty sure if he cant pull off an escape, your bog standard marine might struggle

Supposed to be Jaghatai Khan after he tried to follow some Dark Eldar through a warp rift ... not the bestest of ideas

They would probably try and escape or kill as many enemies as possible before being overwhelmed. If they were being questioned though, they may commit suicide rather than give answers to the enemy.

Lysander escaped, and kicked everyones ass into the bargain!

Yea, but his purity was in question immediately afterwards...

He was deemed fit to return to his position, but I'm sure someone is watching him...

Chaos wiggles its way into all things...if not Chaos, then 4Chan

Pilau Rice wrote:

purplefood wrote:i personally think it's a great story.

Indeed it is and I think it's also a great interpretation Huron. I prefer it to the version of him in Skull Harvest, he doesn't appear quite as mad or sadistic in that.

Here's the link to the story for those who might be interested

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Downloads/Product/PDF//m/maelstrom.pdf

There's a story in Legend of the Space Marines called The Returned about a Doom Eagle who was captured and managed to escape and also Apothecary's Honour where an Avenging Son Apothecary is captured and dissected by a World Eaters apothecary, seems they had a lot to talk about during the procedure and exchanged tips ...

I remeber the Avenging sons apothecary but wan't it Fabius Bile trying to steal gene-seed?

Kilkrazy wrote:I know it is very unlikely, but not impossible.

Would he commit suicide as soon as possible, or bide his time to try to escape and wreak vengeance?

Read the GK omnibus and you shall have your answer

the prisoner can spit ACID
no seriously, i am thinking the emperor build this as somekind of a emergency weapon, your limbs tied? spit on your enemy


so far the marine prefer to die by combat taking boatload of people

purplefood wrote:

I remeber the Avenging sons apothecary but wan't it Fabius Bile trying to steal gene-seed?

Was an Apothecary Fabrikus

Mr. Burning wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:If captured by the Eldar, there would be lots of.......... hybrid offspring in short order...

Someone better write about this s**t!..........

you want that? go read Goto

Pilau Rice wrote:

purplefood wrote:

I remeber the Avenging sons apothecary but wan't it Fabius Bile trying to steal gene-seed?

Was an Apothecary Fabrikus

Ah my mistake just looked it up similar names is all.
Still one of my favorites from the book and i wince slightly at the ending.

purplefood wrote:
Still one of my favorites from the book and i wince slightly at the ending.

indeed

BluntmanDC wrote:

Mr Nobody wrote:A dark angel would possibly commit suicide, their secrets are too important to them.

The Dark Angels are the kings of torture, seeing as they spend most of their off time toturing the fallen till they confess their sins, so i'm sure they are taught to resist torture as well as give it. Due to the physiology of a SM it would require alot to break one, they would most likely wait it out till they can rip a large piece of flesh off their captor. If they can get off the xeno/rebel/chaos world they will so they can get to an imperial ship/world and contact the chapter, if not they will go rambo and kill as many as possible.

The most supreme torture for an SM would be to get captured by the Tau and be treated with respect, consideration and all the honours of war, until he could be exchanged for prisoners of the IoM.

True torture for a few types of space marine:
**Space Wolf-like many gamers- a forced bath.

**Blood Angel-monster truck rally, or visit to a garlic farm.

**Iron Hands. Any place humid, without WD-40.

**Black templer. Small claims court.

Heh. I bet most Space Marine chapters maintain pretty hardcore SERE programs.

I think so long as the Space Marine has one battle brother in the prison, they would actively try to incite revolt and then escape.

The same things that happen whenever any soldier is captured, only they have to put him in stronger restraints and a more durable prison.

Necroman wrote:Well, on the darker scale of things, one story involves a Space Marine who infiltrates a Chaos warband. They find him out, capture him, and put him inside a dreadnought sarcophagus. He couldn't see, hear, smell, feel, move, or do anything besides think. Since they never let him into a dreadnought suit, he was doomed to that fate for however long that sarcophagus lasted for.

Ouch.

That story always creeped me out. At least he went insane within seconds of figuring out what had been done to him. At least then he wouldn't have to understand how long eternity is.

in Space Marine, the Blood Drinker marine, who has had his limbs amputated and put in a plantpot goes into stasis and awaits for someone to rescue him, as he is still carrying geneseed which could still be harvested.

Frazzled wrote:True torture for a few types of space marine:
**Space Wolf-like many gamers- a forced bath.

**Blood Angel-monster truck rally, or visit to a garlic farm.

**Iron Hands. Any place humid, without WD-40.

**Black templer. Small claims court.

Ultramarine: Codex Breaking, pointing out rowboat mistakes
Blood Rave : Indrick Baldeale

Dark Angels: Counseling
Mabey?

Fr Dark Angels it'd be a discussion of the Freedom of Information Act

Unless your a chaos marine, I don't think you can safely capture a space marine alive, they're not exactly the easiest people to subdue.

The proviso of the argument is that you can.

If you think it is not possible there isn't any point in your replying to the thread.

Well one thing I believe is that the SM have been captured before we just never hear of them except for Lysander, Uriel, Justicar Alaric all were captured and escaped.
But what about the average joe?
Well they usually fought their way out just like those famous Space Marines.
A Space marine would just go into a coma, but if it was a Iron Warriors guy. Ehh. You would be held until they tortured the hell out of you.
Don't forget Alaric almost gave up! He almost gave in!

scuddman wrote:Hmm, involving dark eldar?
You're stating the wrong question:
It's not what would happen if a sm was captured..
It's
What wouldn't happen if a sm was captured?

I'll tell you what wouldn't happen.

Heresy.

In the Word Bearers series the Dark Apostle Marduk was captured by the dark eldar.
It was bad times for the dark elder...

well it's pretty safe to assume that regardless of the chapter, any captured space marine would try to escape or die in the attempt. All the fluff seems to point towards this, the only exceptions I can see to this would be say if the marine was interred in a dreadnought sarcophagus (as in the story about the marine who tried to infiltrate the red corsairs), or if he was somehow driven insane or fell to the lure of chaos. That seems to pretty much cover all the bases. I doubt that unless you're able to corrupt the very fiber of their beliefs, like chaos seems able to do, they're going to resist and try to escape.

Could they be de-programmed, like people who are rescued from cults?

A captured SM would probably be smiling holding a homing beacon