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Kid_Kyoto wrote:So we all agree there are crippled marines and they are put to good use. Would driving a Rhino be that far outside posibility?

It's possible for your chapter.

Colep715 wrote:

Pacific wrote:Come to think of it though, I can't think of a single example even in BL where the driver of a Rhino (or Land Raider for that matter) has been mentioned.

In the book "Brothers of the Snake" it is mentioned. I don't have the book in front of me as I'm not at home, but they say brother so and so drove the rhino but he was stripped to the waste of his armour so that he could fit into the drivers compartment. When they got to the town they were driving to they just got out and re-armoured him.

When I get home I will look up the exact reference and post the actual quote.

Ah don't worry about page references mate

I think I remember the passage you are talking about now actually.

We are of course all forgetting one of the oldest bits of fluff surrounding 'useless' marines; honorable euthanasia. I believe this happens to marines which have been lobotomised in some way (reduced to vegetables), or perhaps also damaged beyond repair (perhaps paralysed from the waist down for instance). The distinction between this and the 'Emperor's mercy' is that AFAIK the latter is the name given to putting a marine out of his misery on the battlefield, at the hands of an apothecary.

Crippled Marines not worthy of a Dreadnought are given the Emperor's Mercy so that they can use the gene-seed to make more.