Broke: Space Marines can't be feeeeeemale because the geneseed chemicals only work on men
Woke: That doesn't even make sense, stop being weird
Bespoke: Space Marines can't be feeeeeemale because they're all gay for each other. It's just a giant polycule. they ain't talking about war when they call each other "battle brother".
This is an actual passage from one of the books I cribbed online (I refuse to read any of their pro-fascist books)
It's gay as fuck
Santor watched as Ferrus Manus stood nearly naked before him, his servants washing his iron hard flesh and applying oils before scraping him clean with razor edged knives. [...]
‘I am your humble servant,’ said Santor.
Ferrus Manus waved away his armourers and moved to stand before Santor. Though Santor was tall for an Astartes and was clad in his full armour, the primarch still towered over him, his silver eyes shining and without pupils. Santor suppressed a shiver, for those eyes were like chips of napped flint, hard, unforgiving and sharp. The scent of lapping powder and oil was strong on his flesh, and Santor felt his soul open up beneath that gaze, his every weakness and imperfection laid bare.
‘You are much more than that to me, Santor,’ said Ferrus Manus, placing his hands on his equerry’s shoulder guards.
I have read less suggestive media on literotica
Just finished reading this book. Fantastic book.
the geneseed is stored in the holy prostate and the apothecaries gently massage it to get it out
masterstroke: warhammer lore reeks now, the setting takes itself too seriously and isn't enjoyable satire anymore, and if they released women space marines in 2002 they would have just said "The Lost Primarch Guineverus brings her cyberglaive to the empire's aid as Amazis Prime is released from the warp along with the previously thought lost Venusian Geneseed, buy our new figures to fight for the empire" or something instead of this weird beating around the bush to appease the unironic nazi ass fanbase
not that the setting wasn't always cryptonazi with the tradcath aesthetic but the pandering has become real and any pretense of satire or goofy elements has pretty much been abandoned
RETVRN to dawn of war 1 cutscenes, franchise fuckin peaked there
If the Emperor had a Text-To-Speech Device is the only 40k canon I accept
I, Cato Sicarius, concur with this statement!
Begging Hexbears to plz read the Warhammer crime novels or you know anything past 2014
It's not 2009 anymore, the lore rebounded, the satire returned and everything lorewise is pretty decent, besides the BULLSHIT neglect of the Leagues of Votann and the occasional dipping into ugly tacticool aesthetics
I say this as someone who does enjoy some 40k media. It’s not a real satire.
It can’t be a satire until there’s a real alternative shown to the empire, at least hypothetically. Not while there are things in the lore that actually ‘justify’ a fascist response. Not until every rebellion stops being chaos or genestealers.
Speaking of genestealers, take them as an example. Nothing about them adds to a satire of fascism. They do the opposite. They show fascism as correct. Evil outsiders coming into poison the bloodlines of the people, to drive them to madness and revolution, and the only solution is to kill all of them. That’s not a satire.
To GW's credit and I mean this in the most CRITICAL support way possible, they do seem to be slowly working up the courage to bring back female marines
They really need to rip the band-aid off and ignore the chuds
Incoming solution from GW: bile virus bombs sisters of battle to make them SUPER-totally-not-space-marines. Similarly to how blanks make people mega uncomfortable, "Sisters of Marines" give of a psychic field that reverts space marines anti-horny bonk mechanism. Sisters and marines procreate to produce turbomarines that found the Imperial Astartes power party and restart the Horus heresy to try and claim their rightful possession of the.imperium of man, as mankind clearly cannot self govern.
I agree that Bile is the key, he becomes the chaos version of Cawl and introduces female space marines into the setting, the chuds can't get angry (tho they still will) because hey it's the "bad guys" who did it, it's out of our hands here at GW "oooooh that tricky Bile he's such a cad"
The chuds are probably dumb enough to get unironically mad at a fictional character and direct their anger away from the new faction
Games Workshop just needs to say that either Fabius Bile or Belisarius Cawl reworked some gene seed to work on women. Boom. Done. Seriously not that hard. Cawl created the Primaris and Fabius has been cloning primarchs. They can do it ffs.
In the book "Genefather" Fabius present his best creation and it's a woman, who could together with Bile defeat Alpha Primus, so that's already on the level above ordinary marine.
The problem is that if they do this they can't sell Space Marines & Sisters of Battle as two separate armies.
There are two ways they could go about adding FSM. The first is say "going through the process of becoming a space marine makes whoever did, regardless of AGAB, look like a big beefy manly man" and introduce no new models. The second is to release an upgrade sprue (estimated price: $30USD) with 20 femme-looking heads. Neither would cut into SoB sales.
Baroque: women could be marines, there's nothing stopping this from happening, but the emperor thought that girls were icky and had cooties and lied about it.
Mostly unrelated,
Some poster on sigmarxism's keystroke: actually there are no female Space Marines because WH40K consumers are misogynists who refused to buy them when they used to exist and lore is just a trick to keep you in GW's media ecosystem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sigmarxism/comments/11wt3kp/the_plague_of_diegetic_essentialism_or_how_i/
EDIT: replaced link with one without tracking
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It would be SOOOOO easy for them to just say that AFAB people can undergo the Spacemarinification process, you just end up with a being that is physically indistinguishable from an AMAB Space Marine.
Either invent some "gene-wash" process that tweaks literally a single one out of four dozen chromosomes, or, frankly, say there always was one and the chapters using it just didn't broadcast the fact.
It's the laziest option that resolves the problem, while also being almost kind of interesting - a warrior order that doesn't select only men, but that joining causes you to become a man.
In fact fuck it, I paint Space Marines, from now on under their armor half my dudes have non-functioning vaginas instead of non-functioning penises.
well, Astarte is an ancient Levantine goddess of war, so essentially Adeptus Astartes already have a bit of the Female Chaos Dragon in them if you think about it
Space Marines are all eggs, confirmed
I was actually thinking about it the other day and I can buy that it only worked on male subjects because the genetic technology was rushed and shitty. I would think there would be zero constraints on custodians because they're supposedly each "custom edited" or whatever, and it would be very easy for them to be like "oh yeah, Belisarius Cawl fixed that shit in the Primarus Marines now."
I know that the real reason is because the IP is created by turbo nerds on terf island in the late 70's though, which makes me care basically nothing about maintaining that part of the continuity.
I was actually thinking about it the other day and I can buy that it only worked on male subjects because the genetic technology was rushed and shitty.
The text is of course inconsistent, but I get the impression that Big E gets way too much credit for being a super genius mad scientist and is instead just cribbing from dark age tech that he doesn't fully understand. The Space Marine and Primarch program in particular gets a lot of pushback from other characters who are in positions of trust and power, with Malcador going so far as to asking "yo, why are they all dudes" and not getting a really satisfactory answer. The writers mostly play it straight, but the setting is ridiculous and reflective of sexism IRL.
with Malcador going so far as to asking "yo, why are they all dudes"
Unironically one of my favorite lore tidbits
He definitely is a super genius mad scientist but he gets credit for omniscience that he absolutely doesn't possess. In-lore you could say that he (or really his team) figured out how to do it for males first and since he was all gas no brakes he just sent it. Then if someone asks why your super incredible trans-human technology only works on half the people you either admit your shortcoming or you say "it's because dudes rock obviously" and pretend you meant to do that.
Again though, the reality is that they thought it would be cooler that way and wrote themselves into a corner way before they realized anyone who doesn't spend their weekends at the comic books store in the 80's would ever see it.
The "rushed and shitty" explanation is literally canon. The Imperium was a oh-shit-oh-fuck moment by the Emperor to try and unite humanity to stave off total extinction by smashing the major threats to humanity's survival while also collecting enough resources to breach the webway so that Old Night couldn't happen again when the warp gets too fucky to traverse.
Of course the Emperor is also an idiot who failed to realize that Chaos would never allow such an outcome, so all of this blew up in his face and now everything is terrible forever.
Astartes are all male because Big E was both desperate enough and utilitarian enough to think that it'd be easier to make geneseed work for the sex that already starts off with more physicality and aggression by default for his rabid disposable shock troops than to try and make sure it all jives with any and all possible recruits (and is totally fine with ludicrous attrition from the implantation process even with those parameters, because they were never going to stick around long term in his vision anyway). Nobody's fucked with that since because the original work is considered sacred beyond compare and the only people both smart enough and free spirited enough to fuck with it are either desperately trying to pump out even more Astartes to keep the Imperium crawling along longer and don't have time to futz with the gender settings or are busy creating a new race of superhumans that does include all genders.
Heresy is stored in the balls
FtM space marines are not outside the possibility of geneseed
Most space marines start the process before puberty so they could work it out pretty easy
You inject people with alpha male super testosterone as a child, you're going to end up at the same place regardless of agab
transcend: I have the cash, the means and the materials to make any plastic board game pieces I want
Bebroke: Space Marines can't be feeeeemale because they lost the technology for turning feeeemales into Space Marines and therefore that technology is heretical
So a couple years ago my ex asks me for my opinion. I didn't know anything about Warhammer at the time but he was all pissy and wanted to know if I thought his game was anti-feminist. "Some woman on the internet says they should be allowed to play women Astartes!"
...I didn't know what that meant. So, I asked some questions, followed up on them, and I'll tell you what I boiled it down to;
"In this super future game where science can grow people from cells, it can only grow men, and that's because they're clones of some guy?"
"Okay... but they're not actually clones of that guy. Or the guys they're patterned off. So why is it that whatever magic super future science stuff you're suspending your disbelief for, you can't suspend it long enough to make women?"
Never have gotten an answer to that one.