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Are Primaris Marines vat-clones. I am not to sure where the idea, that Primaris Marines, are vat grown. I have looked up all the community posts about them and searched for "vat", and got nadda. Nor could I find anything on the rumour thread first post summary. Was it a facebook thing?

If I recall correctly, in the old Index Astartes it is mentioned that they use vat-grown slaves to multiply out, over 55 years, to create a chapters worth of geneseed. So are the vat-grown Primaris just refering to the ones that had their geneseed grown in a vat, but was actually implanted in a normal human? So are Primaris Marines all Terran or something? Plenty of desposable humans on ancient Terra.

I honestly want to know where it came from, because we could be wrong and it snowballed.

I believe that they mentioned on the Warhammer community that the Primaris are a mixture of Vat Cloned warriors grown on Mars as well as regular astartes repurposed and augmented to be Primaris.

 Aetare wrote:
I believe that they mentioned on the Warhammer community that the Primaris are a mixture of Vat Cloned warriors grown on Mars as well as regular astartes repurposed and augmented to be Primaris.

Unfortunately I looked there, and there was no mention. I went to every single 8th ed article and went Ctrl+F vat ; and the results were either Avatar of Khaine or Private Jenkins.

So far I have no proof. Am I missing something? Can someone PLEASE point me exactly where.

all the primaris we see in Dark Imperium are would be space Marine Aspirants recruited into the Primaris program. some as far back as the Heresy's aftermath

In the Dark Imperium novel, they were all taken from their Legion recruiting worlds during the Horus Heresy and mostly kept in stasis for the last 10,000 years. Some of them even remember Guilliman from before he died!