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How come so many chapters have unknown primarchs ? (self.40klore)

submitted 11 months ago by yourNewFavouriteUser to c/[email protected]

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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.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know of any supporting evidence, but it's possible some of these Chapters are operating under a polite fiction. These Chapters could be from Traitor Legions, but proved themselves loyal beyond a doubt. The powers that be pretend the Primarchs are unknown to keep these Chapters, instead of purging them.

There is also a chance that a Geneseed pool can mutate enough (possibly even intentionally) to not be clearly tied to a Primarch, without being so mutated as to fail the genetic testing.

Both options are speculation on my part.

[–] yourNewFavouriteUser 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah I never thought about loyalist successors of traitors legions, that makes sense

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Late to the party, but i also suspect that the DNA/genetic material of the primarch's is closely guarded. I'm forgetting the name of the head of the mechanicum but didn't the emperor specifically gift him primarch genetic material so the primaris Marines could be made? That may indicate that the material of more rare and less accessible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.