Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24383134-20140105071847/@comment-37.152.33.225-20140111104707

@Novajester - well said, I think of the astartes in the arp in the same way. When people say Abaddon and chaos marines have over 10 thousand years experience, I always think, well, not literally 10 thousand years as it is not that long where they have been dwelling.

On the Emperor being a perpetual, I would say he 100% is, seems unlikely that he would make one of the Primarchs 'better' than him at anything. But again, I agree, if he is required to die I guess the main reason for not doing so is his mind holding back the tides of chaos, and that even in the time it would take him to rebirth/regen, humanity could be lost without him.

On the longevity topic, as I said I find it strange, I'm sure I erad from Loken in the first HH book that all astartes were immortal, but there seems to be far too few in the current era to confirm this, other than Bjorn etc.