Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-20282318-20140210075721/@comment-20282318-20140211050954

Truthfully, I figured that Games Workshop simply did'nt want to make their table top game any more confusing than it already is by having such concepts "In the Game". I thought that there must be someplace where they out right stated that Augmentation process that turns a Human into an Astartes would take away their Reproductive drive, causing the Astartes to be Solely focused upon War and Martial Discipline but I have'nt even been able to find a statment to that nature. While this statment would seem to be true simply by the fact that Astartes dedicate themselves to their task, even unto death, there seems to be a recurrent theme in many of the books that asks "What will they do when the War is over?". The answer often given is that "War will never end" (which we know to be true as long as Games Workshop is making money) but this answer often comes from characters that will inevitably be corrupted by the Ruinous Powers, often becoming Berserkers of Khorne, dedicated to unending blood shed. I suppose that my real intent in this question is to determine whether there is anything to keep all of the Astartes from ultimately devolving into one form of Chaos or another. If there's no incentive for a peaceful existence, then on a long enough timeline (and Astartes have Forever) they will either Die, or fall into temptation (Chaos). This is basicly a mathmatical certainty. Anytime you introduce an infinite Variable into an equation, then the outcome becomes inevitable. In this case the old axiom "It's simply a matter of Time".