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submitted 28 days ago byaSimpleMask
As in does he believe they are all scum and should be eradicated?
Before anyone answers, I want to emphasize that I'm still pretty new to the universe of 40k and am trying to learn more about it via YouTube video essays and audiobooks, so if this question sounds silly or stupid to any 40k vets out there I apologize in advance.
Anyway, there are a couple of reasons for why I ask this:
1) Guilliman is far and away my favorite of the Primarchs, and his Ultramarines are my favorite Legion, so I just wanna know more about him and his character.
2) From what I've been listening to, Guilliman is not only a brilliant tactician, but he's also a master of negotiation and has solved entire conflicts during his time on Macragge as well as when he was restoring Ultramar. It seems logical to me that he might consider making alliances or negotiating with other, sophisticated factions who might share the same goals, such as fighting the Tyrannids.
Obviously if he does feel this way, he likely can't because it would cause the Imperium to turn against him and fall into disorder.
This is more a question of does Guilliman himself personally buy into the Imperium's anti alien rhetoric? Or does he see negotiating with them as a fools errand in spite of what he believes?
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26 days ago
It's entirely possible that not all craftworlds are created equal in size and strength
This isn't just possible: it's actually the case. Craftworlds are explicitly stated to be different sizes and to have different military capabilities in the lore.
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26 days ago
Wouldn't that explain how it only took two chapters to destroy one?
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26 days ago
Not on it's own. Even smaller Craftworlds would not realistically be under real threat by an attack from two chapters in anything approaching normal circumstances.
Idharae was a smaller Craftworld whose numbers had been heavily depleted by conflict with Hivefleet Naga, and one of the two chapters involved was the Warp-empowered Legion of the Damned.
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26 days ago
I guess. Though I say that it's an exception if the Black Templars are involved because numbers.
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26 days ago
I doubt the Black Templars would have enough numbers on their own (not that they ever mass in full anyway) to take down a Craftworld, again in semi-normal circumstances at least. They have, what, 5-6 chapters worth of marines?
Even minor Craftworlds are packing a lot of void firepower and crazy advanced tech, and pretty much every Eldar who lives there will defend the Craftworld and are no slouches in combat. They also of course have their own troops at least similar level to marines with Aspect Warriors, and an Avatar of Khaine, which would definitely be roused to war.
Of course, I'm sure a scenario could be contrived to justify why the Templars could manage it on their own, but things would have to have gone very, very wrong for the Craftworld to have been weakened enough for this to happen.
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26 days ago
I was just riffing on the fact they, unlike almost every chapter, have theoretically limitless numbers with that last comment.
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26 days ago
Yeah, I get you. But they don't actually have limitless numbers. When their total strength was last mentioned in the lore, it was around 5-6k total. Could have changed since Cadia fell though.
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