Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140118095944/@comment-86.147.147.99-20141221160925

I don't really see what the idea that ex-members of legion whatever-it-was-called couldn't join the Ultramarines.

Marines are not idiots, not unprofessional and don't suffer from failures to adapt and over come.

In todays Military, Police and other emergency services, joint service interoperabilty is worked into processes and made to work where a process doesn't allow it.

The rehomes marines would still have been able to train with their adoptive legion, learning any specific ways of working. As the Ultramarines are pretty much the 'Text Book' standard, this shouldn't have been as difficult as say a World Eater going over to the Raven Guard. So I don't think that this 'divided legion' jibberjabber really holds water, as in conflict you see FRIEND or FOE not THEM OTHER TYPES WHO ARE WITH US and FOE.

I'm also fairly sure that a marines genes seed can and is harvested mid-life as well as once dead, so no need to loose genetic materials. Fairly sure the gene seed pages mentions this.

No need to lie to the Ultramarines either, they could have been aware of the rehoming of the other marines and why wouldn't they welcome them, if they were proved taint-free. We don't know the reason for the purge, so can't disprove that.