"For a child to become one of the Legio Custodes, it is known that they must begin the process in their late infancy and certainly before adolescence has taken hold on their physical structure. This stands in stark contrast to the Space Marines whose implantation is only possible after adolescence and best served before full maturity. This may link to a second of the few known facts about the creation of the Legio Custodes: that the gene-craft and alchemistry that transforms them is as absolute as it is subtle, and worked upon the smallest conceivable microscopic level of their genome and cellular structure. It is a process that effects such change on the mortal human form that, when complete, unless they suffer such massive bodily harm as to forcibly end their lives, they are effectively immortal, without perceptible ageing taking place after full maturity."
"For a child to become one of the Legio Custodes...
"Not then for the Legio Custodes the pattern of surgical grafting and organ implantation that creates a Space Marine, no such crudities
of augmentation at all mar the Custodian; what creates them is as invisible as it is potent, worked upon the core genetics and at a deep cellular level, and perhaps tailored to each specific inductee. There are those who insist that so invisible and yet so powerful this process is that it crosses over into a metaphysical realm ofbiomancy and psychic manipulation on a level unguessed at. Given that it is said that the Emperor Himself has overseen the creation of every single Custodian Guard who has ever lived, this may well be true.
The peerless warriors who then result from this arcane process are a rare breed indeed, and not to be squandered recklessly on the battlefield. They were created with a single purpose in mind; to be the Emperor's own elite guard. They were a force created both to defend the Emperor from physical harm wherever the Great Crusade might take Him, to stand watch over His private domains and most guarded secrets, and to serve as the direct agents of His will-as His personal emissaries-be that will to protect, to venture, to claim, to keep secret, or to execute without remorse."
Sauce?
Horus Heresy: Inferno
page 114
>whats that, we're releasing more shit?
>oh, well obviously the emporer had some even MORE secret guards that have even COOLER augmentations than the stormtroopers, and they're about 1000x more powerful than them.
>oh, and they're more powerful than that new chapter of secret guards we introduced in the last splatbook who were forged in the middle of a sun and absorbed all its energy in the process, that was cool but its time to sell more minis guys
Custodes have been part of the fluff since Rogue Trader. Are you literally retarded?
Still inferior to Ultramarines.
Fuck off Ward
To be fair, in RT they were just a human honor guard.
But on that note Spess Mehreens were basically bad ass space cops.
I think he might literally be retarded
>these marines are like SUPER marines guys they're sooooo cool
>Eldar laughing in distance
>all that effort and they still get slaughtered in the dozens by a bunch of elf clowns
Said elf clowns also got slaughtered by a small Deathwatch Hill-Team
The Fluff Moves
*Kill-Team
Too late. It was a Hill-team. GW have ran with your idea and are even now producing figures of the elite Hill-team.
I hope you are happy with yourself
this is like the third time i've seen someone call RT space marines space cops. are you the same guy that just goes around cop-posting?
>The infamous duo, Hank Hill and Bobby Hill form Hill Team.
Fags with 0 combat xp
And if you are so old say something about this fucked up imperium
>The hill team
Watch out for that old arch militant , he killed fiddy orks
>Zero combat xp
I mean, if fighting each other and, very occasionally, the Assassinorum in things like the Blood Games don't count as xp, sure. They still rip Marines to pieces pretty easily, though.
>Say something about this fucked up Imperium
Like what? The Imperium has always done what it had to do in order to survive, it's by no means a perfect system but nobody until now had the ability to change it without resulting in Humanity falling. If the Imperial Creed or Inquisition didn't exist, everyone would be Chaos's plaything right now, for example.
>"Deal with it, heretic."
Tonight on Space Cops! These Orks have customised their own vehicle and are tearing down a highway at breakneck speed!
Space Marines borrowed more heavily from judge dredd originally and in addition to being the Imperiums shock troops were their instrument of civilian oppression, a role eventually taken over by the Arbites as the Space Marines became more like Saudakaur