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The Primaris Apothecary is standing over a dead Marine holding a vial of Space Marine Juice.
However that's post extraction rather than mid. There's art of it but not a mini, at least not an official one.

And how old was that Marine?


Ahhhhhh! Now they see it! Now they feel the pinch! 🤣🤣

My understanding is that of the two, one is located in a place that is easily harvestable on a full marine and is harvested as soon as it is mature. the other is deeper in the chest and usually is only harvested on death.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I still stand by my, unsupported, speculation there’s seemingly little preventing a Marine, post geneseed extraction, having a new, nascent organ implanted, so over their lifetime each Marine can keep being harvested.

honestly i agree. it makes more sense to implant a new one once one is harvested from a live marine, especially with marine careers potentially lasting centuries. otherwise each dead marine can only ever produce at most two replacements, possibly only one, which would make recovery from heavy losses super slow.

 Irbis wrote:
. But nooo, he has a frakking drill, that is used to ruin the set of armor (but magically doesnt damage fragile organ behind said armor despite said drill being tapered, not cylindrical, meaning it has to go in really deep to make sizable hole). And yet, you have relic suits of armor 10K years old everywhere without dozens of holes marking past procedures. Oh, and that magical armor piercing drill somehow virtually never shows up in tabletop statline (despite user medical knowledge making it extra deadly) and most of the time Apothecary has to use his fists or something silly like that in combat. Go figure

As someone with medical knowledge, it doesn't give me any real advantages to leverage in a fight except maybe if I were to try and warcrime an incapacitated combatant.

Plus the reductor is a tool with a specific purpose. Using it in combat is likely to damage it and make it suck at it's job when the marine's fists are already a very deadly weapon and there is a literal chainblade on the narthecium that is going to be preferable than the reductor. The reductor is designed to penetrate stationary, undefended armour because the wearer is dead. That is not the same as fighting an opponent who is fighting back. A welding torch can take apart a main battle tank but you don't see people running round using them against active enemy tanks in Ukraine.

Finally we know power armour is repaired and new suits are produced. They are not irreplaceable and it is quite likely the front of the suits can be easily repaired after extraction. Old suits do probably suffer from the ship of Theseus problem in which very little of the suit is original after thousands of years of combat and repairs.

Haighus wrote: A welding torch can take apart a main battle tank but you don't see people running round using them against active enemy tanks in Ukraine.

Except for Burna Boyz. But I’ll grant you they’re a bit special in every way. The loonies.

I have also long maintained the head canon that marines grow multiple sets of progenoid glands during their long lives. Should be plenty of sets from Dante by now!

With “well after 40K became itself as we know it today” real world very vague knowledge of Stem Cells?

It does make me wonder exactly how the Progenoid works. And I wouldn’t put it past the abject science ignoring stupidity of Classic 40K that it somehow gathers Stem Cells from each implanted organ, but in different strains, so you can only culture so many of each implant from them and I’ve completely forgotten my point, must try harder.