The Siege of Terra: Sons of the Selenar

[Biscuittzz]

I mean in a universe of warp travel, daemons, time travel and resurrections, being annoyed that an overly large humanoid can make themselves slightly innocuous is on the lower scale of immersion-breaking for me.

 

Granted McNeil didn't help with his descriptions. Thorpe, for all his woes, did a good job of going more in depth in the greater RG storyline. Both him and Haley do a good job of crediting the stealthy abilities to both psychic and technological means. 

[SkimaskMohawk]

I too thought it was awesome. When I was 15.

 

I went back to read the later books last year for some raven guard-painting inspiration, and every raven guard is this overly sick melee combatant, who also have perfect stealth techniques and are the only ones to think of sabotage/assassination/infiltration tactics. None of them have a character.

 

Honestly, no writer seems to have quite gotten them right. They're either the aforementioned walking stereotype, or just normal guys who actually seem pretty bad at being baseline marines, let alone covert-ops masters. The best for me was Reynolds' in Apocalypse and Haley's in Corax since he basically tried to salvage thorpe's attempts.

[Kelborn]

And time out.

 

This thread will be reviewed for now.

[Kelborn]

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Reviewed, purged and released again.

 

Please enjoy the discussion about the Sons of the Selenar novella by Graham McNeill.

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Edited September 8, 2020 by Kelborn

[mc warhammer]

i'll probably never read this book, but can anyone confirm for me if it contains info that amounts to the primarchs we know being cloned from original templates and that those templates are hidden in a vault on lunar by the selenar? i just read a discussion on another forum with these claims.

Edited October 11, 2021 by mc warhammer

[Noserenda]

Pretty sure i would remember something that earth shattering, i suspect someone is extrapolating wildly or playing chinese whispers.

[Knockagh]

i'll probably never read this book, but can anyone confirm for me if it contains info that amounts to the primarchs we know being cloned from original templates and that those templates are hidden in a vault on lunar by the selenar? i just read a discussion on another forum with these claims.

No doesn’t happen. If you get a chance though do read it. Great book

[Noserenda]

Ehhh its ok, read it if you like the Siyphium (sp?) crew.

I have thought about what the person may have been getting at though, i think in Solar war its mentioned that a lot of the original mass production of space marines was done on Luna and so they have those facilities and clean original copies of the various geneseeds in large amounts. Afaik the Selenar were never directly involved in the Primarch project that predated the Space marines.

[mc warhammer]

Pretty sure i would remember something that earth shattering, i suspect someone is extrapolating wildly or playing chinese whispers.

ha, i figured. though in this case, it's wild extrapolation (i dig this term btw), the dude literally told me it was in the book and where to look for it...but it wasn't there. he's since gone quiet though. thanks for clarifying.

 

i'll probably never read this book, but can anyone confirm for me if it contains info that amounts to the primarchs we know being cloned from original templates and that those templates are hidden in a vault on lunar by the selenar? i just read a discussion on another forum with these claims.

No doesn’t happen. If you get a chance though do read it. Great book

 

yeah, i might circle back once the siege is done. i'm hot and cold on mcneil.

Edited October 12, 2021 by mc warhammer

[SkimaskMohawk]

I think that whole thing is an assumption from a different book. Valdor has Malcador mention that he needs to store material on Luna, but this is after the scattering iirc.