Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-2.221.112.151-20130917212029

Progenoid are traditionally depicted as producing one set of geneseed per organ, making two per marine, but those numbers just dont add up. Firstly Apothecaries cant get every gene seed from the dead, and often aren't deployed on smaller missions. Lets be generous and say they get half the gene seeds. But then not every geneseed produces pure implants, due to mutation, degeneration and corruption. Then we have to account for the fact that many scouts dont accept the implants and die due to complications, of those that live many scouts are lost before they reach the rank of full battle brother. Once they are marines it still takes 5-10years before their progenoids fully mature...

I think to be realistic you would need 4-5 sets of implants from each progenoid, potentially making 8-10 sets from each marine. That would be much more sustainable. 