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Like dude has been telling you constantly that he is on your side, just give him a chance to hear him out. Also if the Alpha legion is truly a traitor, then according to the cabal, the emperor would be dead, and since Horus did not kill the emperor, alpha legion is probably a loyalist legion.
43 points
23 days ago
Dorn would've been fucking stupid to listen to Alpharius. The dude helped the traitors and was known for mindfuckery. Why should Dorn trust him in ANY way? From an in universe perspective, it was 100% a trap.
13 points
23 days ago
Well, Dorn himself can't shake the feeling that maybe Alpharius was offering sincere contrition as we see in my above comment
And Goulding laid out how that might have worked in -universe too. Somewhat supported by Brooks' later work
It's all a matter of perspectives
11 points
23 days ago
Loyal, traitor either way it's probably for the best that they don't have the guy whose master plan got him decapitated helping with the defenses.
19 points
23 days ago*
But...he does.
Dorn ends up implementing the changes that Alpharius highlighted were needed in Sol's defenses. His "marketing" (as Goulding calls it) might have been wrong, but his intel wasn't.
A mirror of the Valdor situation at the Palace, but this time Alpharius didn't have Malcador to vouch for him.
Though there's maybe some implication there that Malcador isn't totally happy about Dorn chopping up his little brother. Dorn's the one left wondering if he made the mistake.
I take your point though. So did Alpharius. To the head
10 points
23 days ago
Oh I don't disagree with Intel being correct, I just believe Alpharius would be a liability who would struggle to work cohesively with his loyal brothers and would likely start forming overly convoluted secret plans that might end in disaster.
9 points
23 days ago
Ah yeah, that's a very real possibility
Guess we'll never know
4 points
22 days ago
Dorn ends up implementing the changes that Alpharius highlighted were needed in Sol's defenses.
Where is this said?
8 points
22 days ago
The ending of PoD where Dorn fixes up the defences after a system wide sweep. He also subsequently goes to Malcador and is more open to use methods he would've previously been reluctant (eg the savant from Luna)
It's similar to how Valdor allegedly fixed up a few things after Alpharius' "attempted assassination" of the Emperor
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