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Ok look i was reading the second Space Wolfs Omnibus and it mentioned the thirteenth company surviving in the warp for basically like 7 thousand years. How the feth is that possible.

Thoughts?

in Third edition, there was a codex that was brought out for the Eye of Terror Campaign (coincidentally enough called the Eye of Terror codex), in that codex was an Army list for the thirteenth Company.

It is very possible for anyone to be running around in the warp for literally thousands(if not hundreds of thousands) of years do to the Warp being temporally non-linear. That is to say Time does not flow normally in the warp(in fact most Chaos Marines are the original marines from the Horus Heresy, and to them only a few hundred years have past).

Like Kel said, 10 days in normal time could really be 1000 years in the Warp. Time holds no sway in the warp. Which is why the chaos legions hold the hatred for killing Horus, because to them.. not much time as passed compared to the normal Imperium. Now the thirteenth company has done what it needs to survive, using the warp to fuel their needs/power making them a formidable force.

Ah i see makes sense now i new bout the time dilation affect though but dont you think the warp itself would mutate them or corrupt them too.

Gregersen wrote:Ah i see makes sense now i new bout the time dilation affect though but dont you think the warp itself would mutate them or corrupt them too.

Cause they look so normal right now?

Whether the increased percentage of 13th Company Marines who have succumbed to the Mark of the Wulfen is a result of their exposure to Eye of Terror, or whether it existed before and their increased percentage in the Company is simply due to the fact that their increased stamina and strength has allowed more of them to survive than their brethren is unknown.
-Codex: Eye of Terror, 3d Edition.

So the question remains unanswered for the most part.

The warp messes with the gene seed mutation essentially turning a lot into semi-smart wulfen that follow their wolf priests like sergeants of a squad.

Thanks to all for these bits of info. i kind of should have known all of this, but you no it dosent hurt to be more informed

To be honest there is so little actually written on the 13th i'm suprised anyone know about them anymore and where the whole "dishonored// traitor company" came from i don't know since they were meant to have been ordered to chase the Thousand Sons to extinction by Leman Russ.

Plot armor. Thats the real answer.