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jadebullet posted:I actually enjoyed the Soul Drinker books, at least the ones that I read. (2nd and 3rd) They weren't amazing, but I was entertained. Did they ever use their titular soul drinking ability in any of those books? Or do they continue to act like generic Chaos Space Marines? In the first book, as far as I recall, it was offhandedly mentioned at the very beginning (when Sarpedon consumed the soul of some mutant) and then completely forgotten.
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Fried Chicken posted:Well yes, in theory there isn't anything that is stopping your from growing a marine for 10 years, killing him, then growing 2 for 10 years, killing them, etc, getting an exponential increase in geneseed and creating a massive number of space marines. A mere 200 years would give you a million marines, 300 years a billion, and 400 would give you a trillion. Sounds like a perfect evil plan for a Black Library antagonist - probably a radical Inquisitor Lord or an Arch-Magos with an interest in bioengineering.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Just to be clear. He didn't 'put paedophilia into a book,' he made an oblique allusion to it for the sake of character background and an insight into the deeply imperfect culture of the 'Perfect City.' To counter the impression that the Emperor was laying waste to a wonderful city that Lorgar, who thought himself the innocent party, had created. No such excuses can be made for Abnett’s Legion, which features Imperial loyalist cohorts of girls explicitly stated to be between 13 and 16 years of age, whose “technical inability to conceive made them grotesquely promiscuous... all thinking about the next soldier boy they’d hump”. Apart from providing pedo-titillation to readers and author and serving as the butt for slut-shaming jokes scattered throughout the book, their primary role in the plot is to let John
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