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I was just wondering if new rubric marines are ever created, or if there won't be any new Rubric marine ever after Ahriman's spell. If so, are the Thousand Sons a dying legion, since every rubricae is irreplaceable?

I believe that dead rubric marines can just come back through the warp.

There have been instances in the fluff of them being made out of warp energies.

Rubricae are absolutely replaceable and new ones can be made. The process is just long, complex, and expensive.

As for recruiting, they do take on new sorcerers and can implant then with the stable geneseed that they have left just like normal.

I do recall from one of the space wolves books that there was a reoccurring thousand sons villain, just kept dying and resurrecting. And considering the origin of the current thousand sons, it seems hard to believe they'd be capable of 'recruiting'.


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jareddm wrote:
Rubricae are absolutely replaceable and new ones can be made. The process is just long, complex, and expensive.

As for recruiting, they do take on new sorcerers and can implant then with the stable geneseed that they have left just like normal.

Well, I thought that the current 1k sons were produced by some ancient ritual that ahirman did, that screwed over the chapter so bad that he was exiled from the chapter. How is that process replicated?

"Dead" rubricae can be bound back unto new armour, as shown in the William King novels.

Non-Rubricae sorcerors....are 'just' astartes sorcerors, and fresh recruitment is possible.

The real question is what happens if a normal human goes through the process of taking the gene-seed. Does he become a psyker, mutate, turn to dust or just stay human?

Mudrat wrote:
The real question is what happens if a normal human goes through the process of taking the gene-seed. Does he become a psyker, mutate, turn to dust or just stay human?

If the geneseed is stable, then nothing happens. As long as the human in question is not a latent psyker, he'll just become a Space Marine (if he survives the process). However a psychically active human, implanted with the seed of Magnus, almost certainly will have his gift activated.