Mars vs Terra

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**PhillyT**

Bran Dawri wrote:
PhillyT wrote:
Again, the Astra Militarum would hold off the Ad Mechs and the Astartes would crush them. Anywhere there was a real issue, send in the black ships to exterminate.

Unless their own sovereignty or existence is threatened, Space Marines tend to stay out of large-scale internecine conflicts within the larger Imperium. Case in point, the reign of Vandire - Marines didn't get involved until they were ordered to start worshipping the Emperor as a God, something which most Marines don't want to do. So as long as neither side starts sporting odd tentacles or threatening or shortchanging the Marines, most Marine Chapters would stay out of the fight.

Furthermore, the AdMech Explorator Fleets are easily capable by numbers alone to crush what few ships the Imperium will have left after the order to sabotage goes out to all senior Enginseers and Techpriests. That includes Space Marine fleets.

Isn't the assumption Ad Mech versus Terra, which is everyone other than the ad mech?

**Psienesis**

Marines didn't get involved until they were ordered to start worshipping the Emperor as a God, something which most Marines don't want to do. So as long as neither side starts sporting odd tentacles or threatening or shortchanging the Marines, most Marine Chapters would stay out of the fight.

Uh... that's not why they got involved. Also, there's, like, 35 studio-mentioned Chapters that *do* worship the Emperor as a god. I have a list of them, culled from numerous sources, sitting around on these forums somewhere.