Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140118095944/@comment-109.149.151.22-20150119165919

That refers to them been difficult to merge, as opposed to impossible. We are also talking about hardened, experienced troops who are over conditioned in their personal and legion ways.

It is entirely possible that newer marines/new recruits would be, as a product less conditioning, be easier to merge.

The Blood Angles had many of their 2nd et al founding chapters provide them with replacements after Baal (I think was heavily attacked). The various drop site survivors banded together well enough to fight together and cause grief for the traitors all over the place. The loyal members of the traitor legions banded together and developed enough common method of fighting to form the proto-inquisition...so clearly, where there is a will, there is a way.

You also fail to understand emotional states, any group of survivors of a established organisation will fight to retain whatever they can of the old ways, as it gives them comfort in it's traditional, easily understood whilst keeping a memory of the pre-conflict times. We see it all the time in companies who go bust, old employees don't always take change very well, the legions would be no different as it is undeniable that marines suffer all to human emotions too. There is a story of a rebel Raven Guard joining the Konrads legion, or even stories of exiled Ultramarine captains coming across long standing lost marines fighting on the Iron Warriors daemon world, successful, sustained joint working, effectively creating a chapter of dispossessed marines.

You also fail to add that the White scars began to teach their battle cant to fellow survivors, to aid joint working. I forget which book this was in to be honest. So as per many threads ago, the POTENTIAL POSSIBILTY that a merging (in some form) of a lost legion with the Ultramarines is still a POSSIBILITY. No one is claiming it is a definitive, bar you, who side on the negative.

Failure to accept this is bull headed, arrogant, ignorant and demonstrates a lack of real world understanding, whilst trying to hide behind a few ambiguous quotes. Why do you think that even a single page represents the sum of what is going on in an entire galaxy.