Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7699236-20150618150629/@comment-14745711-20170328033051

A fictional universe can only work if it develops a clear system of rules by which it functions. If you just go around breaking those rules all the time because "hey it's fictional" your audience just won't take you seriously, or have a reason to get invested as they have nothing to hold onto. As a general rule the best policy is to lay out a set of cans and can'ts at the beginning and stick to those. It is established within 40k cannon that astrates are male, and male only. This is not a sexist policy, as the Imperium as a whole does not believe in discrimination amongst the human species, indeed they are a society which (technically) has full legal racial and gender equality.

Space Marines are men, and that is all. Now can we please leave this thread to rest in peace?