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I know the minderasing thing is kind of settled, but I just wanted to bring up an example of a chapter that doesn't mind wipe it's recruits, the Salamanders. When off duty they dont' actually stay at the monastery, but return to the planet to apparently train and hang there or something. Then again they don't follow the codex astartes...

Oh and there are rare cases of Legion Marines living to the current date. The salamanders apparently found one hooked into a pre heresey ship...though it was mostly the ship doing all the work @_@

grey knights dont have their memory erased its that over time and constant pray and practice fades memory because they were only around 14 when they are inducted same with all other marines they are taken at adolescence

Munch Munch! wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:Well you can tell space marines are no mere humans but beings of immense power. So space marines are not noobs. They are the elite of soceity.

And yet, ironically most SM players are 6 year olds who have no concept of strategy.

So ironic...yet so true.

I had a weird dream last night about the 6th edition Space Marine codex where it has a section with rules for players 25 and over, because (and I quote) "Space Marine players are not the smartest guys around."

Not a dig at SM players, that's what my dream actually had it in. Made me lol.

What sorcery is this? Everyone needs ribs.

Marines aren't immortal at all. In the new Salamander book they find a Salamander who has been watching over his brotheran since the Horus Heresy and he has almost decayed to the point of death, so they have EXTREMELY long lives (shortened by war of course) but they are not immortal.

EzeKK wrote:Marines aren't immortal at all. In the new Salamander book they find a Salamander who has been watching over his brotheran since the Horus Heresy and he has almost decayed to the point of death, so they have EXTREMELY long lives (shortened by war of course) but they are not immortal.

Protip: Almost Dead is not the same as Dead.

Havokas wrote:Space Marines are not Immortal just very long lived. the HH books do not state that space marines live forever

Actually they do, in the very first one...

From Horus Rising...

"the astartes, like the primarchs, were immortals. Age would not wither them, nor bring them down. They would live forever...five thousand years, ten thousand, beyond even that into some unimaginable millennium. Save for the scythe of war."

Far more current and explicit than something hidden away in an old Blood Angels codex.

Forlorne wrote:In HH marines are described as immortal but they die in battle before they get too live too long

spot on.

To add to that in the same book it describes how Iacton Qruze is shows signs of age in his apearance. Which suggest while they are immortal they can still visably age.

god... the during the HH books they thought they were.. because NONE had lived long enough to find out.

they do die eventually of old age. most that live anything more than 2000 years have an outside force get them there for example the warp where time dose not really exist.

following some of your logic Horus is not a traitor... its in the first book so its fluff that he isn't...

Havokas wrote:god... the during the HH books they thought they were.. because NONE had lived long enough to find out.

they do die eventually of old age. most that live anything more than 2000 years have an outside force get them there for example the warp where time dose not really exist.

following some of your logic Horus is not a traitor... its in the first book so its fluff that he isn't...