The Catachans were/are also a weird mix of various action movie tropes. Part Rambo, part Predator, part general Vietnam flick, and having a black dude around to represent Carl Weathers and his role in the world's manliest handshake is fine. You also have Alien with Ellen Ripley and Vasquez, so again, chicks kicking ass is fine so long as they actually look the part and aren't 5' waifs taking down Andre the Giant with their bare hands like Hollywood has them do these days.
Honestly, I think they probably tried and the process just didn't play nice with them and their biology.
Laugh all you like, monkey boy, the Sisters of Silence, female Guard, and the Soriatas are way more interesting and cool than the Spehs Muhrines will ever be. I'll die on this hill, body with a dead man switch and a suicide vest.
Touch a nerve?
The fucking what? And I don't mean just because you spelled it wrong. Sisters, they are the sisters of battle. SoB. Not the fucking Trademarkius Sororitas.
I'll have you know that "Put grandpa back on his chair" is the best prank ever from Malcador, forcing the grey knights to fight their way through the heart of the imperium, the custodes, sisters of silence shutting off their special snowflake powers, titans, etc. to force the emperor back onto the throne in the event he somehow ascends to godhood.
Look man, its all cool. Those hulking chicks with the five o'clock shadow are totally women. No way would the Ecclesiarchy ever dream of violating the Decree Passive by maintaining men under arms.
I like the idea that the custodies are these sort of wise warrior poets who a lot of depth to them and are capable of many things, but making them smooth operators/courtiers capable of political intrigue just isn't it.
I just wish that genuinely sexist pricks would catch a case of terminal crotch rot, that's all.
Awww, you're a charmer.
Ehh, I've seen the pics of Catachan women. Muscle mommies, yea, but no bearded ladies...
On the other hand, a grey eminence who could crush steel with his bare hands sounds hilarious. But that'd beg the question why they aren't ruling themselves.
It's a good question to ask even now, it never crossed my mind and I don't think it did the writers either. Why not eliminate any possible threat to the emperor including poor decisions by leadership? Just become the leadership. I wish we could go back to the days where they were simply secret service with power armor, but people like them as they are.
I've never owned a space marine army and I've never been a big fan of them and I have to say that this kind of take is either rage bait or is simply contrarian.
One of my many, many autistic theories is that Catachan was the homeworld of one of the Lost Primarchs and as such the Emperor declared it off limits to the other Primarchs which eventually became just another unsaid and unwritten rule for the later Chapters (as for the other Lost Primarch homeworld I'm actually betting San Leor, the OG home of the Sororitas, which kinda ties in to my other autistic theory that Goge Vandire was legit inspired/possessed by a shard of the Emperor that had gone batshit insane which is why he randomly selected a cult on a seemingly backwater world and quickly turned them into a millions strong Astartes-Lite force with boobies)
I've thought about this a lot, and there's really no way to make the Terminus Decree make sense. It's like you said, the resistance they'd face trying to pull this off would be astronomical. And that's not even touching on Big E Himself.
How incredibly bold and courageous.
Well it's even dumber since the "terminus level" weapon that was also stashed on Titan by order of Malcador with the Grey Knights was the fucking anti astartes plague made by Basilio Fo, which would actually make more sense as a terminus decree, was written and released before the fucking codex with the stupid prank version written in it.
