Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140118095944/@comment-3258762-20140119185713

Vaughn891 wrote: Legionaire22 you're saying there is no way that the remaining legionaires from the mystery legions could be incorporated into the ultramarines or any other legion because they would stand out too much. I am saying they could due to differences in appearance this would only be possible if they didn't have some kind of predominant trait like the black skin all Salamanders have. I really don't think the Emperor would waste and destroy all the remaining legionaires from those legions after their primarchs or slain or imprisoned. He would have found some use for them. Callu's statement also works in my favor they could have changed the appearances of the legionaires so they fit in with the ultramarines or whatever legion they were in. I'm sorry, how does Callum's statement work for you? You're talking about changing a persons entire appearance (Something only Alpha Legionnaires have been known to do) whilst he's talking about how an Astartes would look more like his Primarch than a son would look alike his biological father.

And even if they didn't have any sort of difference in appearance, if they didn't have a different skin colour and bone structure, then would Guilliman, one of the by far most intelligent Primarchs in matters of tactics and strategy, trust that a legion whose father has been slain, whose entire culture has been wiped out, will just simply go "Yeah, sure, we'll become Ultramarines. We'll never talk about our culture again."

No, he wouldn't. And it's not a matter of Guilliman going "Oh, that's fine, you can keep your culture going!" In all instances of a legion going rogue, their planets and all traces of their culture has been wiped out, you can just see what happened at Prospero and to all the Traitor homeworlds. As such, Guilliman can't go "Keep your culture" because that would be in direct violation of the Emperor's orders.