Isn't Luthor in stasis? Guilliman certainly is, time isn't flowing for him at all, or very slowly if you believe the self-healing claims.
Isn't Luthor in stasis? Guilliman certainly is, time isn't flowing for him at all, or very slowly if you believe the self-healing claims.
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According to the Emperors Children HH book, can't remember it's name. The marines of that era were immortal. I guess the horus heresy and the years after lost a lot of the pure tech so they don't have the full pure transformation to marine.
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In one of the non horus heresy novels, An iron warriors or salamanders one I think, there is a isolated iron warriors outpost and a space marine chapter possibly salamanders or one of the other loyalist legions from Istvan V go there to find the wreckage of an old cruiser that crash landed there. Orks, well hundreds of thousands of orks attack from small moon looking space hulks, and in the end they find a 10,000 year old space marine who is almost rusted into his chair with weak limbs, and on the verge of death after guarding the armour stored in the cruiser. His progenoid glands were useless and could not be used, and they mercifully killed him after determining that they could not get him out without killing him, or something like that.
It has been a while since I read the novel, so details are sketchy. But i do remember he was on the verge of death, and looked like a weakened space marine with grey hair, and age lines.
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could be from the lack of sustenance and hygiene that he was in such poor condiction when he was found.
Well, I'm not sure about these super long lived marines you guys speak of... I've always thought Dante was the oldest canon marine?
As for the immortality question - yes.
Marines are functionally immortal, they don't die merely continue on, although their effectiveness in combat seems to drop past their 4th or 5th century nowadays except in rare cases it seems.
The original founding marines were probably as the Emperor intended - immortal, unendingly tough and the perfect shock troops. 10,000 years on I reckon the Mechs struggle to keep the process going as well as He did.
I do however think without all that training and the genhancing chemicals swimming in their blood, they'd probably only live maybe twice as long as a human. Their size, metabolism and enhanced physiques would shorten their otherwise augmented lifespan.
Aren't you guys forgetting the Fallen? Those dark angels that betrayed the lion? They are still alive or the Dark Angels chapter would've stop going after them already...
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