Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-67.197.44.118-20130216115719/@comment-173.79.249.251-20130315021311

All the times we've seen the Alpha Legion post-heresy, they've been supporting Chaos. And in ways that only a traitor would (such as getting gene seed to deliver to Abaddon, or supporting the siege of Vraks only for the Alpha Legion commander to get his sorry butt captured by the Dark Angels). Hell, other traitor legions backstab and kill chaos followers more often than the Alpha Legion does! If they're closet loyalists, they're being really stupid about it. The whole "Make Chaos win so that Horus destroys the galaxy and kills Chaos" thing doesn't really work when Horus is deader than dead. That and it assumes the chaos gods (Tzeench,especially, who's whole spiel is that he wants to keep going forever. And Nurgle, who's the embodiment of the will to live) will be stupid enough to let themselves self destruct after taking down the imperium.

...though I suppose it's possible that maybe that Alpha Legionaire was lying when he said he was getting that gene seed for Abaddon. And maybe that Alpha Legionaire Arkos the Faithless that got caught by the Dark Angels in Vraks got caught on purpose so he could give them vital information. There's no proof to back any of that up though.

As an aside, Omegon isn't loyal to Alpharius. IIRC, one of the short stories in "The Primarchs" was Omegon plotting against Alpharius. Then again, with the Alpha Legion, maybe neither of the primarchs in there were Alpharius or Omegon. *shrug*