How would the Imperium treat a newly found colony that can produce Spartan IIs and IIIs...

>several orders of magnitude
Its estimated that at any given time there are approximately 1,000,000 worlds at ant given time, accounting for the natural growth of the Imperium and fall of planets at any time

All the Space Marine Chapters have their own process for recruiting. I reckon let them keep their process, and anyone who doesn't make the cut get the Spartan job.

That'd work, maybe, for the Ultramarines (whose process probably doesn't entail something like putting the hundred or so people who pass the genetic screenings and what not into a pit and making them fight to the death until like ten are left), and then, the ones who don't make the cut would probably still rather be Chapter Serfs than go and be SPARTANS.

>Rampant
>AI
it is at that point that the research goes into the trash and is thrown into a blackhole, along with every AI they can find

>Mjolnir armour is inherently superior to carapace armor on an individual level, but yeah - it's unlikely to be able to be produced on a mass scale.

They can mass produce the armor all they want, the problem is they can't mass produce the troops.

The UNSC actually has the armor before the spartans themselves. In the books, you see them put an unmodified human into the suit. The first time he moves his arm, the armor moves too fast for his frail human body to keep up and it breaks his arm in 5 places. The pain of which causes him to recoil, causing various breaks and ruptures in the rest of his body. He was dead within seconds of turning it on.

The spartan IIs are made to survive using the armor, peak physical condition augmented with armored bones and cybernetic enhancements + gene therapies. They are literally Space Marines, just without 40ks lore multiplier.

If you mass produce Mjolnir armor for the guard without doing the rest of the enhancements, all you have done is make convenient guardsmen pulping machines.

>They can mass produce the armor all they want, the problem is they can't mass produce the troops.

What makes you think that?

See >Its estimated that at any given time there are approximately 1,000,000 worlds at ant given time, accounting for the natural growth of the Imperium and fall of planets at any time

If there's one thing they can do, it's mass-produce troops.

Shit, the 40k setting could mass produce Space Marines if they didn't have the whole religious aspect to their creation and had preserved the scientific knowledge of the process.

I now want to see Forerunner AI as a faction in the tabletop for 40K. Guilty Spark and his fellow Custodians go full Rampant and decide to wipe everything out.

They juuuust need to trick a human into firing the goddamn rings.

>bioengineered warrior race
Spartan-IIs are taken from their homes at the age of six. They're taken away from their families and raised as a soldier. In addition to having their humanity whipped out of them, they also have genetic engineering turning them into super humans. The book "Fall of Reach" goes so far as to describe Kelly as being difficult to follow her movements due to her speed, Linda as an impossibly good sniper, with awesome awareness, not to mention John's bullshit luck practically being a deus ex machina. Their adaptability and what i'm going to call weapon instinct allows them to find alien weapons and simply know how they work. The books also constantly reference the SPARTAN-IIs as far superior to humans and how awesome they are.

And that's all without their Mjolnir power armour, which augments all of their nature abilities even farther.

What this nigger says is all true. The only issue I have with what he says is implying that the UNSC, on its own or after being absorbed by the Imperium, wouldn't be willing to kidnap shitloads of kids and make shitloads of spartans.

>wouldn't be willing to kidnap shitloads of kids and make shitloads of spartans.
Yea, I agree there, considering what the S-III program was. The UNSC would certainly try to outpace the Imperium's production. However, considering the fact the UNSC doesn't have plans to recruit babies conceived when mixed regiments go through the Warp for a few months, they simply won't be able to.

They'll damn well try, however.

Also, your post made me realize that the UNSC would probably DESPERATELY try to kill/capture/disect a Space Marine, thinking that the Marines were the leaders of the entire Imperium somehow. Either that, or the initial contact would go "oh, we're both humans!" and then the ONI would have a shitstorm trying to fight Inquisitors.

UNSC vs IoM would be much quieter than these threads imply, IMO.

Technically the UNSC 'smart' AIs are brains (usually harvested from recently deceased donors but in very rare cases cloned) that are then digitized. The UNSC might be able to swing this as humans joining with the glorious machine spirits, and the AdMech might buy this. The UNSC also uses 'dumb' AIs but those aren't usually sapient and are really more complex guidance systems or VIs.