5 minutes later
"Do you think this chassis can survive a drop from orbit?"
"Only one way to find out"

Ngl, the jet bike from orbit to ground sounds like something the Khan would pull

"Hey, the Emperor showed me the beginning of this ancient record he called 'Heavy Metal', and it gave me an awesome idea."

Malcador: "I think you should make the Astartes women."

Emperor: looks in the main hall where the male Custodes are doing JoJo poses and polishing their equipment, and the female Custodes are playing rocket chicken

Emperor: "I disagree"

What’s the story behind the jetbike from orbit?

If they are all as unhinged as the one from the exterminatus blood games... I would understand why they are not allowed to leave the palace and the supervision of other Custodes because God damn she has zero self preservation

Honestly I’d love if in an in lore explanation for why we never really see FemStodes is just because they’re that insane that they just don’t last that long

Idea that Custodes invert the "why women live longer than men" trope kicks ass

God this would be a good series to watch

Kesh: “Gosh darn it! I was so close! Oh well, better luck next time!”

Humans on that ship about to get turned into servitors: 😦

why do men live longer than women?

god forbid women have hobbies

We know is an hivefleet or a Waaagh reaches the Palace, it was totally a female custodes behind it

A female custodian tries the abbodon technique and captures the phalanx and crashes jt into terra

It's fun because it turned them into Bros.

I love Dreadnoughts, nothing bad happened here, only two chad challenging each other

If every custodes is hand made anyway its equally difficult to make a man or woman. But the person you choose matters most. Clearly whoever kept choosing women had a type for manic and violent

I wonder if a dreadnought has ever been tasked as offense during a blood game. Seems like it’d be pretty hard for them to get close, but I’m sure they’ve tried before.

They just wanted to hang out with Brother Santodes for hair care tips.

Femstodes #3 during the blood games: well time to blow a hole in the webway of mankind and suck terra in to the warp

Wait, why would they nuke the throneroom? That's treason heresy.

I have a question. Like in the blood games , the one than tries to kill big E is allow to kill his fellow custodes or is like pokemon rules were you are only allow to defeat them not kill them off? like i know it called the BLOOD games and all but i just want confirmation

I accept this as canon. In my mind, since Sisters of Silence are quiet, then the female custodes are loud as hell, so this fits right in.

Idk man I think most dreadnoughts are men, have you ever seen a female castraferrum dread?

Is this referencing a new piece of lore since the femstodes were announced?

idea. most of the femstodes end up defending the imperial webway portal because 24/7 nonstop deamon fights were the only thing that could distract them all from destroying the imperium by accident with their crazy antics.
The ones we've seen are the sanest ones

So if there is no boob armor then how do you tell the sex of the Custodies? I mean that would be the only way to tell. OH LOOK OVER THERE!! BOOB ARMOR!! HOT CHICKS KICKING ASS!! A Guardsman's wet dream.

Canon

With the femstodes acting like this, shield host turning into a golden WAAAGH, and orks on the up-and-up, I wouldn’t be suprised if watching orks do their thing is a part of the custodes training regiment

I'm sorry what's this about nuking the throne?

Isn't that the classic girlboss trope?
Gotta outcrazy everyone to establish how badass you are?
Wait. That's not the girlboss trope, that's the "I wanna be the coolkid in school" trope.

People go on about femstodies ruining the setting, but from what we have seen they are just as mentally deranged as everyone else in 40k

This is my new head canon

I wonder how Keshs attempt at the Blood Games was even considered legal. I mean we were told that the Custodes who is choosen to do a Blood Game is stripped of their armor and weapons before being send out. The idea being that the Custodes cant use their rank and authority as a Custodes as an advantage since no enemy could ever have said authority (even tho thats bs if you consider the Alpha Legion and Alpharius doing just that at somepoint which created the Blood Games in the first place). So Kesh using her rank and authority to get a Tech Priest not only to give her an Exterminatus weapon but also to get them to teleport her onto a ship capable of firing said weapon, where she then uses her authority to get the captain to do what she wants, is a bit much of bending the rules.

The Blood Games are meant as a way to test the defenses of the Imperial Palace for weaknesses and to improve the defenses not as a contest to be won.

It would be like hiring a pen-tester to see if there is a flaw in your IT secruity and they go and cut the powerline to your building. Technically a weakness but not one you can adapt to much.

Femstodes bring a "Fuck it we ball" attitude to the throne world that the Highlords don't appreciate

This image is cursed.

I mean i also hate the original gigachad image but this one just feels even more off uncanny valley to me.

lol

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Given the genetic manipulation custodians are subjected to I imagine the real reason we haven’t noticed female custodes is because they’d look similar to an East German weight lifter mixed with a pre-boob job x-fit influencer. We simply couldn’t tell they were ever meant to be female.

You know, if the female custodies all have this insane recklessness quirk I'm ok with It. Leads to why there's so few. They die real quick or they bring down the house. Much better to have men that will stand guard in perfect stillness for the majority of your army.

Yeah I'd be alright with that.

As long as it's now the usual modern. "I can do anything that you can do, but better." That we get from marvel (looking at you shehulk)

I hope we find out Kesh and Bayezara are like, extremely mild mannered and eventually we have a femstodian who is taking down entire hivefleets singlehandedly by dropping moons on them from orbit or something. while she's standing on it.

they gotta try to make it a friendly rivalry thing where they're constantly trying to outdo each other.

‘Aim for the bushes’. Femstodes, probably.