Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7699236-20150618150629/@comment-5832352-20160111162623

The one person in the Imperium with the capacity to figure it out is currently sitting on the Golden Throne.

The people who could do it are all dead.

Nobody could do it now because they are afraid to, the knowledge has been lost (no convenient STC's exist), and to try and do it could potentially have you branded as a heretic.

Fabius Bile probably could do it. Now you would have female Chaos Space Marines. You really want to think the Imperium would go down that route, taking his notes, and applying it? The knowledge would again be considered heretical (or worse).

On top of that: - the attrition rate for males is bad enough.

- the Imperium doesn't have a pressing need to devote precious time, resources, and lives to figuring out to double their potential pool of Astartes recruits ... especially when it could end up costing them more in the long run ... when their current process works well enough for male Astartes

- They have the Sororitas which are quite capable as is.

There is only ONE way, this would ever happen: Someone finds an STC database/output that gives the entire process of how to create a viable female Space Marine. No one has found one yet. If they did, what do you think the odds are that the Inquisition would suppress it or the Mechanicum would lock it away and spend several centuries "studying" it?