Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141206200938/@comment-217.234.125.242-20150104131336

the codex is post heresy, not  as mentioned, the crusade year 150 or year 100, when we have the latest mention of the 2 legions that were purged from imperial history

source: age of darkness anthology  "rules of engagement" story.

or "fear to tread" wherew a sergeant of the ultramarines is send to censure because he ran simulaitons of how astartes fight astartes.

trust me when saying that this is not about stress, even if it was, under stress you would act more instinctively and drawing more from your routines, which wouold bring us back to the "original legion modus operandi"

the problem is, that you wanna go for a child mode, aka one of constant learning and change, instead of looking at a mature person with routine responses ( which all legionaries with their training and indoctrination are)

but meh, let's get sth out there...

in "imperial glory" we find a stromtrooper sergeant getting mind scrubbed by the comnmissariat, aka: he should have no memory of his life prior to that procedure, yet his skills and behavior still come through and he acts on what he knew before that procedure.

the last part of my post shows the only source of a conjecture that the ultramarines could have absorbed somebody, however many arguments speak against it, yet you simply fail to see common sense or to apply the sources that the canon offers.