Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25222488-20160902003110/@comment-26420219-20160912121835

@shingster : Moloc’s reputation is both sinister and mysterious as he has not only bested or slain several renagade Space Marines but his true identity is a mystery, What is known is that the warrior posing as Asterion Moloc is not truly indestructible and as already undergone severe augmentic replacement to the point where he is more machine than men. Imperial Armour Twelve - The Fall of Orpheus even states that it was not the first time during Moloc’s reign that he had been  retrieved miracuously alive after facing a great foe. (six incidents at least if I recall correctly), and that his cotinued survival has led to many rumours. If Moloc has truly been the same individual for the last 500 years, than he is truly resilient ( or virtually indestructible), but the canon allows certain other interpretations, one of them being that the name is in fact inherited with the position of Chapter Master (Like the squad denominations in the Iron Snakes Chapter, or the Oath-names of the Imperial Fists) or that the whole identity of Asterion Moloc is in fact a conscience implanted into a warrior or even downloaded into a (mostly) cybernetic body.

@General Patton: Yes, I did compare Australia and W40k, because isn’t Australia a prototype Death World already? ^^