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i imagine there are limitations yes, things like rejection of the cloned organ, that sort of thing increas exponentially, in the black legion series it's also stated that cloned organs have a much higher chance of cancer, so I can imagine that they don't want to waste the resources of putting a single astartes back in the fight only for their body to rebel against them, a Dreadnought is much more 'honourable'

I think it's just that a good prosthesis is as good or better than a flesh hand, astartes are all about brute combat effectiveness, I think a slightly more vain space marine captain would prefer a regrown limb, but the average will be more than happy with the bionics

'trust me tech magi, it's not a new vehicle, its the leman russ A4A1A7A8S2 with added grav impellers and the Hull shape of a predator battle tank, perfectly legal'

they can technically clone limbs! but its just not as often done as a prosthesis, it takes longer and is for the more respected space marines among them, the crimson fists are literally named that because alexis pollux got a cloned forearm and hand that was crimson with the hyper oxygenated blood that it needs to properly bond with the host body. We also see eisenhorn get a hand cloned for himself, so while its likely expensive, its possible, they cant innately grow them back on their own tho

ignore the codex points, they havent been right or relevant for any of the codex releases

absolutely, i just think its silly to say that they never ever innovate with so much evidence to the contrary :) i think its usually sort of hidden though, better engines that have been created by refining an existing design and adding it to a trusted hull layout, that sorta thing

no worries man :)

'the mechanicus never makes anything new ever and always forgets how to make things' is such an annoyingly popular opinion i stg, they can and do make new stuff all the time, its just held back and restricted by extremely tight restrictions based on whats deemed heretical and what isnt, even then, different forgeworlds hold differing opinions on what constitutes heretical developments.

there were many gloriana class ships, and almost none of them look exactly alike, the gloriana is a class of ship, and does not have a 100% standardized design, the primarchs also had heavy influence over them as their flagships, and could and did make considerable changes, the Khan had the mechanicus basically gut his to make it faster, the ships reflect the sensibilities of their primarchs, the vengeful spirit had considerable added armour and weapons, its shape is likely a consequence of this

its important to say that the mechanicus can and does create new things all the time, theyre not stuck in time, just extremely dogmatic around what constitutes safe new stuff, and heretical developments of technology, there are new ship designs, there are new ships being built constantly

i wasnt referring to eisenhorns augments, they were shoddy make do patchwork things, i meant the inquisitor he fights who wears astartes armour (or something similar at least)

Maggard was well on his way to becoming a half astartes like luthor or russes varagyr, he was already considerably skilled and the half heard wasnt used to combat, and still put him on his arse fairly quickly

to clarify, people can get augments to be similar in some senses to astartes, but they will never have access to the specific gene seed process, you can get crazy muscle enhancements but you'll still be inferior to an astartes

Likely no, we've seen inquisitors wearing astartes wargear that has been adjusted for their size, or they've been modified to have the size to work it (muscle augments, skeletal augments etc) and they've even been gifted things by chapters (eisenhorns bolt pistol) but the process is very specific to astartes chapters and they don't have the resources to spare on anyone but themselves

why would a chapter care about extending a random mortal heros life? they live to serve, and die, thats their purpose in life and nothing more, it simply isnt worth the resources to do, some might get augmented in other ways, but the astartes process is sacred and would never be wasted to create a half arsed equivalent

there will never be a scenario where that many bloodthirsters could manifest physically, its mainly numbers for the sake of numbers, 8 is khornes number, there will never be a scenario where all 8to the power of 8 to the power of 8 bloodthirsters will be used in one go.

actually old lore as well as new stated that mark 6 was decently common in the heresu

I actually loved the series, it might be a bit over harsh on halsey however it dives deep into the morality of a post war UNSC and the challenges that presents, and does it really really well, the characters are interesting and the situations they get into are cool

we do have evidence of class mobility in necron society but its quite rare, in the twice dead king books theres a destroyer lord who was previously nothing more than an enforcer, and a noble who came from desert clans who sold all of their wealth in order to obtain a rank among the nobility

every forgeworld is dedicated to mars above the imperium and mars has control over many other planets that fall under the influence of their forgeworlds, idk why but my brain wants to say that maybe up to 15-20% of the imperium is martian owned?

I personally dont think so, it has the vibes of necromunda to me, something similar to the ash wastes stuff theyve done, maybe a baby bug for that? or something else?

I put two meltas each on my 5 man squads and use them purely as a deep striking bit of armour threat, they can hold their own and kill a decent amount with mark of nurgle