Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-69.143.134.163-20150419161351/@comment-8881468-20150520162301

definite sources are the codices and the novels actually given and if you have actual statements in various sources offered by games workshop that all counter the rumor named in one source, you can assume that rumor to be just that, a rumor with no evidence supporting it.

The problem is that with saying they were absorbed into the smurfs, you would have to retconn several codices and novels all the way from unremembered empire to horus rising and a good chunk of the current w40k lore. basics like the vaunted codex astartes would be in doubt as much as genetic purity of gene seed ^^

GW does not use it because they would have to fuill the void of the legion with fact and as such you would remove the possibility of filling up the information for yourself as you put together your own new chapter/legion

@ Attank There are 2 space wolves actions with info deleted in the hh timeline that was offered in the 3rd factbook to the heresy (or was it volume 4, I cannot remem,ber right now)