>>5282053That would be cool, but I think there's a ton of room for unintended short term and long term consequences. Still, I'd rather be a legion of blanks when Chaos hits than a legion of normals.
>>5282044By the Machine God if we were so lucky. Somehow some way, if both of us can make it to that point in a satisfying manner. Even if either of us have been reduced to far beyond what we once were, barely alive consciousness that have been through so much like Cawl. But if Cawl could do it, maybe someone else could.
Maybe UZI might survive as a machine spirit
That or the Emperor granting her perpetuality to guard the Void DragonJust trying to make Talos survive into 41k sounds like a huge hurdle that I almost forgo anyone else, but if there were any way nigh short of damnation. . .
>>5282041I'd like to think it may not necessarily be that we are the most numerous in terms of astartes and acillians, but in terms of our support and just how well funded we are.
Suppose to a battle against an alien Guilliman has a Company with 1000 Tactical Marines, backed up by 3000 Ultramar auxilia. Not too shabby
Talos could show up with only 600 Techmarines of mixed Astartes/Acillian stock. But he is backed up by 2000 Combat Servitors, 2000 Tech Thralls, 1500 Skitarii, and 500 Cyberneticae. Plus superiority in equipment, augments, vehicles, ammunition, etc.
I would still rather be Talos.
It is said the Imperial Guard are the Emperor's Sledgehammer.
And the Legioness Astartes are his Scalpel.
I would propose that the 2nd Legion is the Emperor's Chain Fist.
