Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7699236-20150618150629/@comment-8881468-20160104144011

Scars mentioned a discussion between Rogal Dorn and Malcador that explicitly states that no primarch was female.

the storm of iron.. daemon posessed armor that can change at a whim... also not a pattern for everybody.

mentioning technology: you mean we simply make a female space marine by taking off all appendages and organs and simply slap a head on a mechanical body and then put that into a power armour.

stereotypes are quite a good starting point for constructing themes and races.

let us delve into that for a minute:  the different cultures in the warhammer fantasy realm are quite obvious: Roman ERmpire0 Empire, old France is bretonia, russian stereotypes is kislev azteks are lizzardmen, tomb kings and egyptians... you simply offer structure and a culture from which to work a role. Let us not talk about squats and dwarves, we are talk9ing over a millenia of contructing them if you are familiar with central european mythology and sagas.

take the jedi: monastic order and a tad of supernatural powers and a bit of flair form lightsabers. Take the klingons: mix a bit of mongols with spartans and some other warrior ethos and you got em. Heck the romulans were simply the cold war view on the chinese wereas the klingons were the soviets. take our idea of vampires.. all simply based on a myth surrounding a lord from transsylvania that like to torture and execute people using spiked logs.

problem with canon is, that if you have several sources over different books that introduce themes topics and issues, they become unchangeable without a complete reboot

as for the dreadnought: nothing w specificcally stated a dreadnought is simply a walking sarcophagus, unless they explicitly state things like weapons and the likes we cannot say that they did not exist (easy way out but feasible way out)

just as a sidenote: space marines are generally taken from unmodified human stock, hence your argument of genetic alteration or cybernetics is imo a tad flawed.

GW has good enough reasons to justify their policies