Took the Iron Fortress months to get to that enviromental state. You cant say the Astartes aint efficient.

Intresting magical conflict there. TimberJack on the way?

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Well, the Iron Fortress was a purpose-built fortification, and not a barely-functional battleship forced to make a completely unplanned landing on a world without a drydock or anyplace resembling a proper starship landing location, so the comparison you’re making is a bit unfair.

No Timberjack upcoming. Let’s just say that the energies ponies use to power their magical abilities do not mix well with chaos.

I dont want to sound like that guy, but female astartes make my eye twitch, i am going to keep going. emperor preserve me.

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Severa technically isn’t female by a strict biological definition. She just preferred she/her pronouns before she became an Astartes, and that trait carried over when she was inducted into the Scions. Physically, she’s no different from any other astartes.

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I saw that in an author’s comment after I wrote it. And on thinking about it there is just no elegant way to write it in to the narrative I can think of, so it’s got to stay a note. The thought of trans marine… on one hand what do you call a space marine, what ever they want. On the other hand it’s likely going to be politically bothersome as the imperium is let’s say “opinionated’ on conformity.

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Well, GW has made it clear that the Imperium couldn’t care less about the gender identity of it’s citizens; as long as you’re worshipping the God-Emperor and obeying your superior’s orders, it doesn’t care what pronouns you use.

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sweet,

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oh, so right now it's a Spacehulk in shape of a Gloriana? yikes.