Poll: Would you join the Space Marines?
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Actually, if the allternative would be bing recruited into the Imperial guard, I'd take my chances with the Spacemarine training
OK so I just read that in the voice of the narrator from Dawn of War Dark Crusade. It got a bit creepy.Neverhoodian said:
I'm not gonna lie.
Boo hoo hoo. You have to have hard training where you might die, and then you become a super human with the Imperium's best weaponry and armour, brainwashed into doing and believing what you're told!
Anyone who doesn't do what they're told in the 41st Millenium gets killed (usually worse) anyway. There are no atheists in the future, and if there are, THEY are the deluded ones, what with there literally being gods, souls, hell, demons and a man who, whether he really is a god or not, (we don't even know canonically for sure) is at least a really really awesome wizard who watches over all humanity(there's countless numbers of them at this point), guides their ships through hell, can sense the deaths of every one of them (which makes him cry magic healing tears) and implanting an extremely diluted form of his genes into someone turns him into a nigh unstoppable superman. I don't actually care if he's a real god or not at that point. He knows if the hypothetical fictional me dies in his name, and can save my soul from the demons if I was a pretty cool guy. I don't mind tossing him a few prayers now and then, and probably don't need much brainwashing to be convinced that the very real man who helps my spaceship not get lost in hell is the deity for me.
Of course, the training and surgery fatality rate is high, but they usually recruit from planets/areas with fatally harsh living conditions in the first place anyway. I'm probably already wrestling firebreathing spacelionbears and sabretoothed spacekangaroozards just to get out the front door (think Australia in space).
Besides, once again, this is the 41st millenium, all that training, genetic engineering and the best weapons and armour available, is all really going to come in handy, because chances are better than not that something is landing on my planet and trying to pull my head off one way or another. It'd be nice to be able to do the same back to it.
Anyone who doesn't do what they're told in the 41st Millenium gets killed (usually worse) anyway. There are no atheists in the future, and if there are, THEY are the deluded ones, what with there literally being gods, souls, hell, demons and a man who, whether he really is a god or not, (we don't even know canonically for sure) is at least a really really awesome wizard who watches over all humanity(there's countless numbers of them at this point), guides their ships through hell, can sense the deaths of every one of them (which makes him cry magic healing tears) and implanting an extremely diluted form of his genes into someone turns him into a nigh unstoppable superman. I don't actually care if he's a real god or not at that point. He knows if the hypothetical fictional me dies in his name, and can save my soul from the demons if I was a pretty cool guy. I don't mind tossing him a few prayers now and then, and probably don't need much brainwashing to be convinced that the very real man who helps my spaceship not get lost in hell is the deity for me.
Of course, the training and surgery fatality rate is high, but they usually recruit from planets/areas with fatally harsh living conditions in the first place anyway. I'm probably already wrestling firebreathing spacelionbears and sabretoothed spacekangaroozards just to get out the front door (think Australia in space).
Besides, once again, this is the 41st millenium, all that training, genetic engineering and the best weapons and armour available, is all really going to come in handy, because chances are better than not that something is landing on my planet and trying to pull my head off one way or another. It'd be nice to be able to do the same back to it.
No I'd rather be a wealthy corrupt shithead in some backwater planet well the fuck away from the tyranids, orcs, chaos legions, eldar, tau and other assorted nasties.
Actually the Tau don't sound too bad, I'd probably defect to them if given the chance.
Actually the Tau don't sound too bad, I'd probably defect to them if given the chance.
Planetary defense forces on a civilized world or a garden world and not being good enough to be recruited into the guard, is prolly the best place for a commoner to be in the imperium.
If the xenos attack, you die, but atleast you don't go following trouble like the equally squishy imperial guard.
Navy might also work out and the inquisition is best if you're a villain.
Imperial guard is bad.
Space marines is worse, because you'll become a brainwashed fanatic who can only fight, train and pray.
If the xenos attack, you die, but atleast you don't go following trouble like the equally squishy imperial guard.
Navy might also work out and the inquisition is best if you're a villain.
Imperial guard is bad.
Space marines is worse, because you'll become a brainwashed fanatic who can only fight, train and pray.
i would probably chose to join the tau insted, why? Well i'll tell you.
(reasons)
1.)the tau have awesome tech like pulsh rifle and big mech suits like the xv-88 broadside suit.
2.)They will not send me to my death without a second thougt.
3.)I will be far away from the suicidal imperium. And thats three reasons that the tau are better then the imperium including the space marines.
(reasons)
1.)the tau have awesome tech like pulsh rifle and big mech suits like the xv-88 broadside suit.
2.)They will not send me to my death without a second thougt.
3.)I will be far away from the suicidal imperium. And thats three reasons that the tau are better then the imperium including the space marines.
You don't JOIN the Space Marines.agentorange98 said:
You are Chosen by the Space Marines.
That said I think life in the 40k universe is pretty shit. The race I would choose to be myself is a Space Ork, mainly because their biggest thrill in their life is Killing and WAAAAGH!
You don't choose to become a space marine, they choose you. It is cool but if you fail the consequences are terrible worse then death in some ways.
If you fail training you could be brainwashed and converted into a slave servitor.
but if you get though training survive the enhancements, operations, strict regiment etc. Then you live to fight.
Do I want all that...no
If you fail training you could be brainwashed and converted into a slave servitor.
but if you get though training survive the enhancements, operations, strict regiment etc. Then you live to fight.
Do I want all that...no
Like everyone else have said, you don't quite "join" them as much as "be forced at a young age to become them, if you survive the mutations and all that jazz".
But if we just say "If you could be one, would you?" Then I'd still say no probably. Don't quite know why.
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But if we just say "If you could be one, would you?" Then I'd still say no probably. Don't quite know why.
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