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How come so many chapters have unknown primarchs ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/40klore

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Hi, as title says. Seeing how the the gene seed are supposed to be tested regularly by the admech for mutation / chaos corruption, shouldn't it be super easy to run a quick analysis from a gene seed dna sample to and get a match that way ?

I get that 10000 years is a long time, but some dna material from the primarchs has to still be in there for the space marine making process to work right ? For the same reason the blood angels successor chapters still have the red thirst inherited from sanguinus.

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[–] Omnificer 1 points 7 months ago

Yea, Belisarius Cawl has stable gene-seeds for all of the Primarchs that he is using to make the Primaris Marines, though he's under orders to only use Loyalist Primarch gene-seeds.

Very few Chapters have a complete stable gene-seed, which leads to a lot of the various quirks. And even the application of the gene-seed isn't consistent which changes things even more. Blood Angels and Space Wolves are supposed to have severe genetic instability for example.