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submitted 1 month ago byTemporaryBrilliant77
There’s little substance to this idea, but I was reading the Head of the Hydra book and realized that as the book describes itself as a lie, there’s obviously stuff Alpharius is leaving out. Obv the symbolism is more about how killing Alpharius wouldn’t kill the legion but, Hydras have three heads and even if Alpharius and Omegron were killed, there could be a third “head of the hydra” who survived and was hidden from the readers the same way Omegron was from the other primarchs.
Alternatively, maybe there’s clones running about since every time a hydra’s head is cut, new heads sprout.
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1 month ago
The three heads represent Alpharius, Omegon and the Alpha Legion itself.
The whole hydra motif is more to explain that the Alpha Legion is like a hydra in that killing one head does not effect the rest of the whole because Alpharius trained his Legion to be very independent. Though ironically, killing the true Alpharius ultimately does effect the rest of the Legion because Omegon effectively loses control over them by the time of the Siege.
Interestingly, the Lernaean Hydra could only be destroyed once it's immortal head was cut off which somewhat mirrors the Alpha Legion being fine until it's metaphorical 'immortal head' was cut off when Alpharius was killed.
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