Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-91.224.27.226-20131031140001/@comment-3258762-20140102134337

Slug gunner fan wrote: So what about Kurze? He was raised on a planet with effectively no natural light, so I'm guessing he's pale bone-white or something due to lack of pigment. However this would not be natural for him, it would happen over time (like a natural tan but in reverse), so most of the original Night Lords would be the same skin colour as he was at birth before losing any pigment. The later generation of Night Lords, who were recruited from Nostromo,

Back on the original topic: Maybe the II and XI Legions were early "prottypes" at creating "commando" Space Marines, but they were abysmal failures at covert ops, so they were discarded. Corax's and Alpharius' Legions were re-tasked for the covert ops job, and by happy coincidence their Primarchs were conveniently right for the job. But no Legion had an established fighting style above their Primarch. Look at the Death Guard, they were fairly covert-ops until Mortarion got their hands on them, and they turned into the guys who keeps marching no matter what.

And, apparently, all Primarchs, including Alpharius and Omegon, seemed to know the 2nd and 11th Primarch, meaning the execution had to be done just a few years before the HH.