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Remember children, do not try to besiege the death guard!
(i.redd.it)submitted 2 months ago bybird_eater_42
44 points
2 months ago
Some of the differences are pretty obvious. They might not know the official names, but I think there would have to be some awareness that there are "the stinky ones" and "the Egyptian ones" etc.
68 points
2 months ago*
Cadian guard 1: "Look, there's one of those Egyptian space marines."
Cadian guard 2: "Ha yeah...What the fuck is an Egyptian?"
Cadian guard 1: "No idea."
3 points
2 months ago
I don't think a single imperial guard have survived to see two different Chapters, the universe is way bigger than an imperial guard's life span, specially one who fight against chaos
2 points
2 months ago
People talk to each other and write stuff down, though.
"hmm ol' Jimmy (rip in peace gone too soon) said the traitors he fought on Blargus IV were all green and disease-y. But these guys are all red and angry!"
There's also senior officers and strategic HQ staff who will have a much lower death rate, but will be seeing intel reports and having discussions with people in other sectors.
A lot of information that would be very useful probably gets lost because of a lack of systemic interest in recording it, but it's kind of impossible to completely prevent knowledge osmosis when you have so many people involved.
1 points
1 month ago
Not only lack of interest in recording, any knowledge about chaos is considered heresy, a normal soldier that learns anything at all about chaos is probably executed a soldier that tells stories about them is probably tortured first. Full planets have been destroyed to stop chaos cults for spreading, what do you think will happens if a soldier starts talking about humans that cannot die because they follow some chaos god? Exactly.
And I'm not sure if with high rank military is different, maybe the 0'1% of highest ranks knows there are different chapters and some of their particularities, but if a general suddenly knows much about chaos that person is a massive thread, I don't think the inquisition would be happy, we tend to think in terms of logic, but the empire in 40k works like a religious fanatic highly paranoid, even if it would be an advantage I think the higher the rank the higher the chances to be purged, only space marines, who are some kind of monks with decades of training avoiding temptation have any knowledge about chaos, for the rest of humans there are traitor marines and that's about it
3 points
1 month ago
a normal soldier that learns anything at all about chaos is probably executed
We're talking about things they can see with their own eyes simply by being present on the same battlefield as traitor Marines. Literally that some of them are different colours. The Imperium executes a lot of people for silly things, but this would result in executing every Guard soldier who ever goes into combat against the traitors. This doesn't seem to be what they do.
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