b1soul Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Terra, with its massive population, seems to have been an excellent recruitment pool from which to draw SM aspirants. My question is...once Primarchs took over their respective legions, did they stop Terran recruitment? ...or was it the goal of every Primarch to let the Terran old guard die out? Must've been pretty depressing to be Terran if that were the case Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylight Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I can't say for certain, but I think it depended on the legion. Not only that, but Terra Kind of became the Imperial Fists domain, so I would assume most recruits went to them. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGPO Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Well established fluff is that due to their size, legions continued to recruit from all sorts of worlds unlike most of their 40k successor chapters. I see no reason that wouldn't include Terra. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 Well established fluff is that due to their size, legions continued to recruit from all sorts of worlds unlike most of their 40k successor chapters. I see no reason that wouldn't include Terra. This makes more sense to me than each legion cutting off Terran recruitment and exclusively recruiting from the Primarch homeworld Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I submit that the majority move away from Terra was what started the Heresy. Not Erebus. The Emperor was wrong. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karthak Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Well established fluff is that due to their size, legions continued to recruit from all sorts of worlds unlike most of their 40k successor chapters. I see no reason that wouldn't include Terra. This makes more sense to me than each legion cutting off Terran recruitment and exclusively recruiting from the Primarch homeworld Indeed. Weren't the Space Wolves noted as weird because they tried to recruit only from Fenris? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Well established fluff is that due to their size, legions continued to recruit from all sorts of worlds unlike most of their 40k successor chapters. I see no reason that wouldn't include Terra. This makes more sense to me than each legion cutting off Terran recruitment and exclusively recruiting from the Primarch homeworld Indeed. Weren't the Space Wolves noted as weird because they tried to recruit only from Fenris?Yes. Funnily enough, it was the Wolves who described it as weird behavior. I want to say Massacre and Betrayal have bits describing how the bigger Legions recruited from many many worlds. The Night Lords and World Eaters particularly, recruited from the very planets they conquered while some, like the Salmanders, received aspirants as tribute. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Judging by various passages in the fluff, the traitor Legions at the least (if not also the loyal Legions) probably had stopped receiving any sort of influx of Terran recruits - the culling amongst them on Isstvan would have been even more bloody had they had a higher body of Terran marines. Also to note - the Night Lords Terran marines are mentioned to have all died out in one of the FW HH books, a further piece of evidence that Terran marines had stopped being a regular source of manpower for certain Legions. Think about it - why keep supplying many Legions with recruits from one world when they each had a homeworld (with an exception) and they recruited from many other vassal worlds or conquered planets? There would be no need. The logistics would have been prohibitive, despite the dwindling minority of Terrans in most of the Legions. The only Legion I see as logically receiving Terrans recruits up until the Heresy would have been the Imperial Fists, as it was their own protected territory along with Inwit and it's worlds. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Judging by various passages in the fluff, the traitor Legions at the least (if not also the loyal Legions) probably had stopped receiving any sort of influx of Terran recruits - the culling amongst them on Isstvan would have been even more bloody had they had a higher body of Terran marines. Also to note - the Night Lords Terran marines are mentioned to have all died out in one of the FW HH books, a further piece of evidence that Terran marines had stopped being a regular source of manpower for certain Legions.That is incorrect. There was a Terran Company(The Crimson Sons) that had travelled with a Rogue Trader and were believed to have been wiped out on Istvaan V and there as also the 8th Company whose last Terran members were killed in Succoth Perfidy, but Zso Sahaal(Lord of the Night), Var Jahan(Prince of Crows), Krukesh the Pale(Prince of Crows) and Talon-master Vibius(Massacre) were last seen active. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Perhaps I misremembered that. I take that sentence back. Massacre does state the Nostramen marines increasingly outnumbered Terran marines, however, which I'll take as evidence to my point instead. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3686927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komrk Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Well the Raven Guard lost their recruiting tithe for Terra around 998 (can't remember the exact year) with no given reason so they obviously weren't getting new recruits from Terra but I have no idea about the others. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291056-terran-recruitment-after-primarch-discovery/#findComment-3687064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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