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 Pouncey wrote:
Given that Space Marines draw their numbers from previously-ordinary Imperial citizens, at what point do they convince their recruits that the Emperor is not a God?

It probably depends where they're from. For a lot it probably gets tied in with the explanation there's multiple planets.

the ancient wrote:

Maximus Bitch wrote:


were they warrior monks back in 2nd ed?

It sort of happened around the time 3rd came out.
Most just thought of the Emp as a well ard granddaddy until the templars came along.
But they arent child soldier/ criminals now either. Andy took the criminal soldiers to star craft.

Except as I noted previously in this thread that's wrong - they were always from the very first book

Warrior Monks

- they then changed as more background was added for individual chapters.

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
Given that Space Marines draw their numbers from previously-ordinary Imperial citizens, at what point do they convince their recruits that the Emperor is not a God?

It probably depends where they're from. For a lot it probably gets tied in with the explanation there's multiple planets.

There's a planet in the Imperium where humans are not required to worship the Emperor as a God?

Does the Ecclesiarchy know about this?

Sign of the times my man, sign of the times. Or woman.
Im sure your pop or nan has done some pretty fantastic gak.
Astartes started out as scum bag crims that had a love for smashing gak up. Every chapter still has the child soldier test.

 Pouncey wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
Given that Space Marines draw their numbers from previously-ordinary Imperial citizens, at what point do they convince their recruits that the Emperor is not a God?

It probably depends where they're from. For a lot it probably gets tied in with the explanation there's multiple planets.

There's a planet in the Imperium where humans are not required to worship the Emperor as a God?

Does the Ecclesiarchy know about this?

You realise that the people taken are teenagers? So considering everything going in their day to day lives on Death Worlds they probably don't stop to ponder the intricacies of the Emperor.

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
Given that Space Marines draw their numbers from previously-ordinary Imperial citizens, at what point do they convince their recruits that the Emperor is not a God?

It probably depends where they're from. For a lot it probably gets tied in with the explanation there's multiple planets.

There's a planet in the Imperium where humans are not required to worship the Emperor as a God?

Does the Ecclesiarchy know about this?

You realise that the people taken are teenagers? So considering everything going in their day to day lives on Death Worlds they probably don't stop to ponder the intricacies of the Emperor.

The Ecclesiarchy lets teenagers not worship the Emperor?

 Mr Morden wrote:

the ancient wrote:

Maximus Bitch wrote:


were they warrior monks back in 2nd ed?

It sort of happened around the time 3rd came out.
Most just thought of the Emp as a well ard granddaddy until the templars came along.
But they arent child soldier/ criminals now either. Andy took the criminal soldiers to star craft.

Except as I noted previously in this thread that's wrong - they were always from the very first book

Warrior Monks

- they then changed as more background was added for individual chapters.

Which flys in the face of being them being criminal/ child soldiers. Though ADB tried to hint at it in MOM.

 Pouncey wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
Given that Space Marines draw their numbers from previously-ordinary Imperial citizens, at what point do they convince their recruits that the Emperor is not a God?

It probably depends where they're from. For a lot it probably gets tied in with the explanation there's multiple planets.

There's a planet in the Imperium where humans are not required to worship the Emperor as a God?

Does the Ecclesiarchy know about this?

You realise that the people taken are teenagers? So considering everything going in their day to day lives on Death Worlds they probably don't stop to ponder the intricacies of the Emperor.

The Ecclesiarchy lets teenagers not worship the Emperor?

No but they don't go to hellholes and dictate exactly what they do every second.

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Pouncey wrote:
Given that Space Marines draw their numbers from previously-ordinary Imperial citizens, at what point do they convince their recruits that the Emperor is not a God?

It probably depends where they're from. For a lot it probably gets tied in with the explanation there's multiple planets.

There's a planet in the Imperium where humans are not required to worship the Emperor as a God?

Does the Ecclesiarchy know about this?

You realise that the people taken are teenagers? So considering everything going in their day to day lives on Death Worlds they probably don't stop to ponder the intricacies of the Emperor.

The Ecclesiarchy lets teenagers not worship the Emperor?

No but they don't go to hellholes and dictate exactly what they do every second.

Of course not.

They just teach them that the Emperor is a God, probably in their impressionable years as children. Then the humans on Death Worlds do the worshipping on their own.