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Its not instant scar tissue. Its an almost instant blood clot over the wound, relatively speaking to normal human clotting. It only takes humans around 3 minutes to fully clot, assuming the wound isn't too large to clot over. If a marine clotted in 20-30 seconds that would be "instant" relatively speaking.

With faster healing in general, a marine would form scar tissue much faster than a human.

Actually the entire concept of space warfare by transporting the troops and not producing the troops/vehicles on site is ridiculous. To leave a planet's gravity well you have to expend energy AT LEAST equal to the potential energy of the objects in orbit (ie a car in orbit dropped to th surface is a very big boom). Thus for the energy cost of lifting 1000 troops off planet you could bomb most 40K armies into dust or creat one heck of a fleet from asteroids and send that.

In the IoM qualified production and maintenance personel are extremely limited as well as the resources and machinery needed to make any hover vehicle. However human lives are cheap and plentiful in the IoM. Thus there is actually only an artificial limit placed on how many SM you can have (the extra gene seed is put in storage and/or confiscated by the high lords). However there is a very real limit to the number of even simple hover vehicles that can be produced. Thus if the cost of 1 land speeder w/ SM can produce 10 bike SM w/ meltaguns then the IoM would be fools to not produce mostly bike SM.

BTW dual hearts is a doable thing and would work fine in an engineered system. In a naturally evolved circulation system it would be much more likely to kill the organism and probably entirely detrimental. With a properly engineered system (essentially a complete rework of the entire circulatory system) it would work much better than a single heart system. In fact most of the human bodies physiological systems could be greatly improved even with today's engineering know how if we understood the materials we were working with better (ie the cells, hormones, genetics, proteins, etc.) Of course GW's literature on the subject is ridiculous from any scientific standpoint but that is besides the point.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Its not instant scar tissue. Its an almost instant blood clot over the wound, relatively speaking to normal human clotting. It only takes humans around 3 minutes to fully clot, assuming the wound isn't too large to clot over. If a marine clotted in 20-30 seconds that would be "instant" relatively speaking.

With faster healing in general, a marine would form scar tissue much faster than a human.

Not it isn't. It's described as near instant scar tissue. The wound swiftly scabs over and scar tissue follows within a couple seconds.

I have been on old Honda dirtbikes that had either 6inch or 8inch wheels (I can't remember) and they had no problem whatsoever with all sorts of off-road terrain. Seeing one those old beasts taken to several orders of magnitude greater, with a nice huge engine, would be hilariously fun, not to mention after adding automatic grenade launchers and armor.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Its not instant scar tissue. Its an almost instant blood clot over the wound, relatively speaking to normal human clotting. It only takes humans around 3 minutes to fully clot, assuming the wound isn't too large to clot over. If a marine clotted in 20-30 seconds that would be "instant" relatively speaking.

With faster healing in general, a marine would form scar tissue much faster than a human.

Not it isn't. It's described as near instant scar tissue. The wound swiftly scabs over and scar tissue follows within a couple seconds.

Thats why I view it as artistic license/bad writing. "Instant scar tissue" just means instant scabbing and scars in maybe a few hours if we are going to try and accurately describe what actually is going on.