Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-2253300-20130211000751/@comment-7186329-20130411172912

To the anon, again great statement, and again not quite acurate.

The IG rarely live to see retirement, only high ranking officials, such as commisars may be allowed to retire after decades of service. A huge continuity error? Not at all. Knowledge of Chaos, and being corrupted by Chaos are two separete things. The Imperium executes anyone corrupted by Chaos, because a single chaos worshipper may corrupt or destroy an entire world. Chaos does not manifest itself as frequently as you may believe, and even if it does the authorities of that world, such as the Adeptus Arbiters or Inquisition, that are mandatorily placed there can take care of the problem. That `taking care` is to execute normal imperial citizens and memory wipe for guardsman. Consider that, as I said, the IG is mircromanaged at every level, they rarely have contact with someone outside the IG, and rarely live to see retierment. A billion people cannot keep a secret, but not even a few million of the IG ,probably, have ever retired. And the Imperium does have the resources to erase the memory of a few bilion people, or kill them, do not underestimate that. An Exterminatus is implemented much more rarely than you might think, and Only in Extreme cases.

Did you read this discussion entierly? They CSM did not turn because they `felt like it`, it was a power struggle, and The Emperor won. On Terra there already is a lot of distrust, fear and hatred towards Space Marines, because legends are passed down to what CSM did when they attacket Terra.

Nope, people do not know of Chaos, and IF Chaos tryies to brainwash them then there are the public first who report the to the Adeptus Arbiters, who either take care of the problem or report it to the Inquisition.

Cadia is a special place, there are numerous inquisitors stationed there, and what their knowledge of Chaos and the HH is, remains unknown. And the people there might think that they are attacked by traitors, with gruesome mutations and alliens, not necessarily Chaos Space Marines. Keep that in mind please.