Re: [Epic] Space Marine Chapters

From: sauron1 <sauron1_at_...>
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 01:06:52 -0700

Waiming Poo-Cheong wrote:
>
> > I like all the contradictions, it makes it feel like real history!
> > "Who really was there? Only the Emperor knows, and he's not telling."
> >
> Speaking of which, was Sanguinus killed at the Ultimate Gate or onboard
> Horus' barge? Most accounts (including Codex Angels of Death) record his
> demise at the hands of Horus during the Emperor's counterstrike. But I
> recall a story somewhere in one of the 2nd ED battle reports in WD (I
> think it was 'Chaos at Kadavah' or something, a Blood Angels Vs Chaos
> battle, but I can't remember which WD it was), in which a Thousand Sons
> CSM recalled seeing Sanguinus' broken (and definitely dead) body cast down
> from the Ultimate Gate on Earth or something.
>
> I don't know why, but this inconsistency has been bugging me for a couple
> of years now, and this thread just made me remember it....
>
> Plus the very same CSM also remembered Blood Angels during the Heresy as
> being bigger-sized: 'giants' compared to 41st Mil. Blood Angels. If
> Marines had been shrinking over the last 10K years, maybe that's why CSMs
> get +3 on CAF and Imp tac SMs get only a +2.
>
> Or maybe it was just 10k years of chaos-induced mindrot.....:)
>
> btw pardon this confused rambling if you don't remember ever having read
> that battle report.
>
> cheers
>
> Waiming

Sauron1 writes;Actually the Giants reference to is a comment by a Traitor
 space marine that acompanies an Epic battle report.He refers to the
Space Marines that were Original galaxy conquerors as such not the
shadows they are now.May be he sees a decline in the geanseed or just an
old warrior half remembering the"good old days"?Saginus had just
destroyed a blood thirster at the golden gates. It threw him down,to the
growns of the defenders and the cheers of the fallen,but he raised
himself up and picking it up,broke its back over his knee.the traitor
horus was fighting a weary superman when he killed Saginus. Reminds me of
the siege of Troy in the Ilad. sauron1
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