Ohhhh a fanfic involving Warhammer 30k and then there even is a possibly loyalist Iron Warrior Techmarine! (Iron Warriors are best Legion btw)
How many Astartes are there in total on this ship? Because even the smallest ships would require a crew that would number in the high thousands at minimum if it is to run for any significant amount of time and not massively automated (which would only apply to Mechanicus or heretic vessels)

wow a new chapter only a day after the Prologue.
I really like that you have loyal thousand sons in this there the traitor legion i always felt the most sorry for all they were trying to do was save Horus and then warn the Emperor when that didn't work

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Iron warriors bets legion wut you talkin about fool!

but yer in all seriously they are my second fav legion right behind the thousand sons (if the D of a pre hersey thousand sons astartes looking like a pony didn't give it away I dunno what will)

well first off subtract non sential crew like cooks, cleaner repair servitors and serfs, medical serfs and servitors, taticains, loader servitors and gun crews you drop from needing about 10k in men to run a ship to I guess 5000, factor int hat an Astartes can in monitor more then a human you drop more crew, so in all i'd say around 3 or 4 thousand astartes aboard (excluding dreadnoughts) running the ship only about 200 to 500 operating vital systems at any given time.

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Well I kinda wrote chapter one first then the Prologue .

Yes Thousand Sons best legion (My DP should give ti away that they are my favs)

3482994 yeah Magnus and his Thousand Sons are an awesome but my favorite primarch and legion will always be Roboute Guilliman and his Ultramarines

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SOn I am disapoint

3483063 so from your reaction im guessing your an ultra hater then

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Not so much no I just fell disappoint for them since there rep is so stained with shit it gets hard to respect them at all. But I commend you in the fact you are likely an old fan of them back when they were humble dudes of awesome immune to plot armour

3483090 the new Horus Heresy books seem to be trying fix there rep The latest one the unremembered empire did a pretty good job it was an awesome book

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It did but it also proved even the black library authors and readers in on tg since every single mention of big bobby G is mis pronounced (as in each audio has it said differently)

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I'm the author of that Leman Russ one!

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I fell silly now

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I'm not mad at you!

.....Which is odd for a Khornate.

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Khorne technically doesn;t encourage mindless rage but controlled focused agression in his followers.

a Khornite who is calm and col;ercted is far more dangerous then a throthing beserker, for the beserker you can predict the calm one you cannot.

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hmm... Good point.

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=3 at my local 40k club anything imperial chaos or warp related I am the go to expert.

Xenos not so much

I had always wondered how the Horus Heresy and the Imperium by the time of 40K would have changed if loyalist survivors (in the tens of thousands, since each legion was so huge at that time and about a third of each legion canonically remained loyal) managed to make it to Terra during the Siege of Terra and fought against their traitor brethren. Given the asskicking the loyalist delivered on the Istvaan Atrocity, I'd say things would have turned out far better for everyone. Maybe the Emperor would even have been able to cleanse the "traitor" Primarchs of the Warp's taint.

I put traitor in quotes because it would be more accurate to say that Chaos basically mind-controlled them.

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I guess that is because Khorne does not give a crap if you are insane or not. However, someone with a cool, sharp mind is better able to spill more blood and keep spilling it instead of spilling a few bodies worth before being cut down.

Also, I would be suspicious of Naaman and the Dark Angels. After all, they should have been on deployment on practically the opposite side of the galaxy. Not to mention the fact Naaman is trying to implicate the survivors of a legion, not an individual. He isn't stopping at just the World Eater on the tape, he is accusing all the survivors of that legion. It makes no sense unless he wants the loyalists to be down multiple Astartes. Only then does it makes sense.

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Most likely as Horus would be caught between two forces though yes one smaller then the other but he would of had to make a decision to either press his advantage on Terra or redirect force to deal with the arrival of the new support for the Emperor and his still loyal sons.

Well logar was tricked into serving since his an weak willed mooke who needs to worship something, and then tricked horus. Magnus was sorta 'Just.As.Planned' into chaos cus Tzeench is a massive dick . Iron warriors primarch whos name I cannot spell was just mad from being shat on by his bros all the time. Conrad Kurz not really sure hes space super batman so probably some silly reason. and Mortarion he followed horus since they were just BFF's or some shit and it was Typhus he feel to nurgle and his hugs.

Well considering Naaman only knows its a World Eater aboard the strike cruiser and it would be hard to narrow down which one it exactly is it makes sense he just outright names them all traitors, but yes he does have alternate motives for branding them all as traitors.

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Thanks for pointing that out, I was planning on doing something like that but did not know for sure if.

oh trust me you'll learn to hate the heretics within this story with what they do.