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Hello everyone! I have a few simple questions: Lets asume a squad of Space Marines got lost during warp travel around the time of the HH.
1.) Could they possibly re-enter real space in the current time and still be living, despite 10k years passed?
2.) How much of a fluff murder would I be to incorporate one or two such squads in my Blood Angels army?
3.)What effect would such a time shift have to the SM's, except massive Investigation through the Inquisition and confuson over the current Events?
4.) Would these squads be folded back into the original chapters, moved to the Deathwatch or just destroyed by the Inquisition?

Thanks for any answers

1) We know Warp Time Travel is possible, with no noticeable aging effects (like Lysander), but I don't think we've seen 10k years of it. Lysander was only about 1,000 years.

2) It would be a cool touch, you could use them as veterans (or normal Marines, your pick). Fluff Murder? Possibly, some of the more zealous chapters may kill them since they might be "tainted". Not too up-to-date on BA stuff.

3) If I remember the bit from Lysander, it didn't have a whole lot of an effect. Most of his damage came from the fact he reappeared surrounded by his Chapters most hated enemies (and his was unarmed.). He still showed an equal amount of strength for a Space Marine Captain, however.

4) Most likely destroyed by the Inquisition if it was for too long (Lysander lived because he slaughtered a ton of Chaos followers just after getting out, proving loyalty). Depending on how close the chapter was to the Inqui, they may just fold back in quietly.

Hope I could be of some use, and if anyone else comes along saying something different fluff wise then I did, believe them. It's been a little while

washout77 is mostly correct, but the last point about what happens to the Marines largely depends on who discovers them first. Both the Inquisition and the Blood Angels themselves would take any chance they could to sweep them up without the other ever knowing.
If the Inquisition got to them first, they would probably never see the outside again... too many probing questions about history followed by execution or Servitor-hood for knowing too much. On the flipside, the Blood Angels would probably ask the same questions but never let on to outsiders who the Marines really were - they'd be assimilated back into the Chapter. All of the fluff regarding not just the Black Rage and the Red Thirst, but things like the Baal Predator shows us they know how to keep things tucked away.

Space wolf 13th company is still lost in the warp. Presumably along with their primarch. Time in the warp flows both ways, which is why space hulks are usually sexy exciting parts of the 40k lore. As to what the inquisition would do? Hard to say. you have the puritans and the libertines in the inquisiotion, and the two but hheads on a regular basis. (instead of butt heads, read "play nice at social functions, but ouright do their best to kill eachother when not under parental supervision")

1) Yes, because 10,000 years may not have passed in the Warp. It could have been only a few seconds. Heck, there are even instances of ships exiting warp space before they left. There is a tale of an Imperial Cruiser arriving at its homeworld 500 years before it was built. The ship, being unidentified, was destroyed by the defending fleet.

2) No big deal. They pop out, are a little confused. BAs pick them up before anyone else does and quietly integrate them back in.

3) No physical effects. Just some major confusion.

4) If they were a loyalist marine, they would be heavily interrogated about what happened. By chapter or inquisition. As for what the inquisition would do with them, depends on the inquisitor.