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[Humpty Dumpty]Why did the king or all of the king's men believe that the king's horses would be able to put together a giant anthropomorphic egg again? Horses are not exactly known for their dexterous hooves.

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Nothing in the story actually says he's an egg.



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Statistically speaking, it makes the most logical sense for women to be the only one’s allowed to carry guns.

I think that's part of the point. Obviously that's not a wise move. So it makes it clear that maybe we shouldn't judge every major decision off of "what's the most logical?"


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Whats going on with 40k and a woman space marine?

Honestly I don't think Space Marines even need that much work for it. I mean, recent lore has been all about Belisarius Cawl and his creation of the Primaris Space Marines. It'd be a bit dumb if he spent 10,000 years trying to improve Space Marines and didn't at least think to try to double the potential recruitment pool.


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Whats going on with 40k and a woman space marine?

40k is a walking retcon. You would be incredibly hard pressed to find an aspect of 40k lore that's been around since the inception and not been retconned.

But here's a list of highlights!

Just recently, the Rogal Dorn Tank was added to the game. A brand new model of tank never seen before. The lore explanation? It's a big galaxy, of course you haven't seen everything.

The old Squats (Space Dwarves) retconned out of existence in 2nd edition were brought back as the Leagues of Votann! Turns out they've just been chilling in their empire in the Galactic Core for the past 10,000 years and no one who bothered to check came back alive.

The Beast, the big Ork Warboss rivalling the power of an Ancient Krork, who united so many forced of Orks against the Imperium and set the precedent for what many Warbosses strive to do, and established the major modern Ork Kultures/Clans, is actually SIX different Orks.

On the topic of The Beast, the creation of the Deathwatch was retconned to be the Imperium's reaction to almost being decimated by The Beast, instead of being created by a group of Inquisitors during the Apocryphon Conclave of Orphite IV.

The Tau, the little blue aliens running their little upstart empire, just full on didn't exist before 3rd edition. But even after that, they had FTL travel capabilities. Up until they didn't, which is currently the canon for them. (Well, they've got very minor FTL attempts that don't tend to go well).

Don't even get me started on the major recton about the Necron and their C'Tan Overlords/Slaves.

Plus there's that whole thing about Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade. It's happened twice now. The first being a major real world event that GW ran, but retconned because the results were (probably) faked. Then, the newest version from the tail end of 7th edition, also retcons his previous 12 Black Crusades, not to be failures, but secret successes preparing for the 13th.

Hell, the entire reason the Emperor is even interred in the Golden Throne was retconned all the way back in 2nd Edition!

I could go on and on. I'm sure you get the point though.


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Whats going on with 40k and a woman space marine?

Arguably three.

Normal Space Marines are called Firstborn now, after 8th edition and the Era Indomitus introduced Primaris Space Marines. At least Firstborn can be upgraded into Primaris.


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Whats going on with 40k and a woman space marine?

I will also add that this hasn't been completely sudden.

Black Library Author Aaron Dembski-Boden wanted to write them into his Horus Heresy novel "The Master of Mankind" almost a full decade ago, and was shot down by a higher up (notably one of the only times this has happened), citing the fact that the models had already been made without female heads as a reasoning. Basically telling him "we don't have minis to sell, don't bother writing about them". This was also right on the heels of the Chapter House Lawsuit, where GW was essentially told "if you produce rules/lore without miniatures, it is not infringing on your IP if a separate company makes a miniature for that".

Back in 2022, another Horus Heresy novel written by ADB released. In it, it describes the Emperor's personal guard as "men and women clad in the same gold as the ship". The Custodes are, famously, clad in the same golden armor that the Emperor uses for fucking everything of his. The Custodes rulebook from around this time also silently dropped most references to gender in the general Custodes lore, only mentioning that "Terran Nobles gladly give their Sons to the forces of the Custodes", though immediately following it with "though none besides the Custodes themselves truly know the criteria required".

Basically, it's been a long time coming. Nowhere near as sudden as people are acting.


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[Invincible] Atom Eve, Dupli-Kate, Rex-plode, Shrinking Rae ... why do so many heroes have names referencing their Secret Identities?

Yeah no those were awful examples on my part lmfao