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@Montonius

Alpha Legion page

1 History

1.4 Notable Campaigns

- Raven Guard Infiltration (Unknown Date.M31)

3rd to last sentence: "The Alpha Legion had been assured by the Tech-Adepts of the Dark Mechanicus that this daemonic taint could be removed once the Primarch gene-stock was in the hands of the Traitors, but this assertion proved to be incorrect and the pure Primarch genetic material's benefits were lost to all sides in the conflict as a result."

So you see my confusion - the first part of the sentence is true, that's in Deliverance Lost - but the latter part is pure conjecture, b/c nowhere in the novel does it mention that and I'd never even heard of either Corax or Alpharius/Omegon having the Primarch gene-data in anything outside this novel. I mean, yes, it could be true, but the argument that Alpharius or Omegon were able to purify the data and simply haven't used it is equally as strong

- Alpharius/Omegon are in fact not loyal to Chaos or their Traitor brothers (at least, as far as we've been led to believe) and so may simply have chosen not to use the data despite possibly being able to correct the taint

- That they haven't used the data in any noticeable way is no proof to the fact that the data was lost, it's in their nature to be secretive, unless something canonical explicitly states otherwise

One thought as I reread that again though is that whoever penned those words may simply have meant to say that neither the Traitors nor the Loyalists were able to use the data and it was lost to them, but they weren't including the Alpha Legion in either of those groupings. If this is the case, maybe consider rewording it to specify that it was lost to the Loyalists, the tainted data Horus and Fabius received was unusable, and that it remains unknown what happened to the gene-data that Alpharius/Omegon kept.

Heh, sorry if I'm being a pain in the ass about this, I'm very aware that this is a very minor point in the overall scheme of things and need not be made a fuss over until GW / BL tells us one way or the other what happened. I just happen to be a fan of the idea that Alpharius/Omegon still has the data and is still working to purify it / has successfully done it and taken 10,000 years to put the plans in motion; seeing something blatantly tell me my fantasies are false kinda grinds my gears when technically it's still an unknown.