Why can't space marines have girlfriends or boyfriends?

why can't space marines have girlfriends or boyfriends?

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There is nothing that universally prohibits them. They just have:

>no sex drive
>no free time
>no desire to engage in that kind of behavior.

Space marines are pre-teens who get chemically castrated and shot full of growth hormones to make them demi-gods, psychologically indoctrinated to by hyper-religious zealots, then thrown into the worst possible war zones until they die a violent death. This can take upwards of hundreds and even possibly thousands of years to happen, as Space Marines are extremely good at what they do.

They are genetically-engineered weapons, and no longer "people" in the traditional sense. Sex does not even remotely enter the picture for them.

So they can be more relatable to the average 40k player

Because they're neutered. The Emperor DID NOT want them to replace humanity, so he made them unable to reproduce.

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Only girlfriend I need is right here and shes a thirsty cunt!.

My guys have wives, girlfriends, & even sons.
But most marines aren't into that

>so he made them unable to reproduce.
None of what a Space Marine undergoes changes his genetic make-up.

I know this is just low quality bait but even if they weren't transformed into hyper aggressive murder machines the psycho-indoctrination probably eradicates any ability for that sort of desire.

Even if a marine felt somebody was attractive they probably don't even consider a 'relationship' a possibility worth attempting considering their line of work and survival rate.

>average life span of 200 years
>they all bury their wives, sons and grandsons

brutal

They're chemically neutered, dude.

Same reasons Janissaries couldn't.

So... he struck the living flesh, user

Yeah, that's life as a living weapon. Most are still distant to there wives & family. But there is always the chance of a son, grandson, or nephew joining the ranks. Think of the relationship between a knight in a decades long war, who never even saw his son get born, but sent letters or whatever. Like the Odyessy

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In Rynn's World, the Crimson Fist had tried repoduce potential recruit by breeding with marines and female but was putting down on ice for some reason.

Emperor's children have girlfriends(male)

>EC have girlfriends (¿?)
FTFY

Pretty sure user's point is if they aren't genetically augmented then they have nothing to pass down to children, so they aren't a threat to replacing humanity through breeding.

IIRC the children were just normal humans and even then, not particularly receptive to augmentations.

>None of what a Space Marine undergoes changes his genetic make-up.
Explain the Wulfen, then.

They don't get hard because of the genetic modifications. Anyone stating something else is a tumblr fag who should take the knot. End of topic

emperors children have girlfriends/boyfriends

Got to wonder how they've fixed the problems of chemical castration by the far-off years of 40k. Real world that shit would fuck with their hormones. It targets testosterone in the attempt to remove the urge for sex and violence, especially combined. Doesn't really sound like typical Space Marines, though. Chemical castration also isn't 100% effective and is reversible.

You'd be better off just mentioning gene-seed. Wulfen are because, you know, wolves are sexy and sometimes a man gets urges. Every member of the Space Wolves is doing it! Don't judge!

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Its not that they cant, its that theres no time. They spend all their time serving the emperor, training or praying. The only people they have long term contact with are other marines and fraternization like that in the military can cause issues like placing your lover above the mission.

>come over bae, can't too busy purging.jpg

>somewhere in the vastness of the galaxy there is a Space Marine chapter that has committed the worst heresy since Horus
>the Chad Marines decided to a man that instead of fighting they'd just like to bang hot chicks around the clock
>finally there was a cause to bridge the animosity between Loyalist and Traitor Marines as they unite to stop their common foe!

The whole point of the gene seed is doing that.

>Space marines are pre-teens who get chemically castrated and shot full of growth hormones to make them demi-gods,
I thought they where biologicly grown? Like how the fuck do you grow 2 more hearts out of the womb?

Surgery

Seems like he got you pretty good.

Only chapter who would probably be into that are the space wolves and even then they'd have to stop drinking long enough to do it

Except it doesn't change their genetics, it changes their physiology. It doesn't change the DNA that they would in theory pass on to progeny if they reproduced. Ergo the distinction between them and gland warriors.

Because it would make them less usefull.
A marine should care about no one except the Imperium itself.

It's almost like it's science fiction

Biological implants, more or less. Just that those implants kill 99.999% of the population so not many people can become space marines

Imagine it like this.

It took a "magical" reality bending being to make pre-heresy captain of the First Company of the Emperors Children to go: "damn that's one hot momma".

It does change. That's why some Luna Wolves/SoH look like Horus and the Night Lords develop black eyes

Better question, why didnt we heard about lesbian orgies amongst sisters of battles.

Better question is why can't I get a girlfriend?

Physiological change =\ genetic changes.

>Science fiction
>Science doesn't matter
Hmmmm...

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The Night Lords and SoH doesn't have more transplants than any other startes and yet they develop characteristics of their primarchs.

Who knows? Fat perharps?

Actually, yup, I completely read something wrong. I still maintain that most changes they undergo are physiological and not inherently genetic, but there is some gene manipulation going on.

Because the Imperium has spent a lot of time and Throne Gelt turning them into the Emperors soldiers to fight his wars not fucking frolic in the flowers.

Aren't the Salamanders slight exceptions to this?

>All the glorious butthurt that would be triggered if GW made same sex relationships between Sisters canon.

NL don't develop black eyes. Nostramans had black eyes because of natural evolution.

Carcharodons do get black eyes however, because of their gene seed indeed.

It's lesbian sex, people wouldn't give a shit/would be aroused.

>chemical castration
This has never been confirmed and in fact some of the Horus Heresy novels directly contradict this idea. Pretty sure I remember reading that the Space Wolves had sex and drank alcohol I'm their spare time on Fenris

They spend times with their family, but it's probably uncles, parents, nephews, etc.

>butthurt
But yuri is the purest form of love. They're girls user, if they aren't doing gay things to each other then what are they good for?

In the NL trilogy it's said that they get black eyes after the transplants. Sahall had black eyes too, and he was terran

Some do.

Eviserator is the only chain weapon that looks good.

Hence the "fiction" idiot. It only matters in the subject matter.

It doesn't mean it should make no sense.

>what is suspension of disbelief
You're a dumbass tbqhwy
As long as the setting maintains internal consistency on what is possible then its fine.

That's just a few chapters, Space Wolves do trials to see which man can be a space marine. I think Ultramarines hold tournaments to see who the best person is to be a space marine. Black Templars just get people and throw them into the battlefield, whoever survives gets to be a neophyte.

>As long as the setting maintains internal consistency on what is possible then its fine.
It doesn't.

Wulfen are a direct result of the adulteration of baseline human genestock on Fenris by an out-of-control Dark Age of Technology genemod. The entire population has asymptomatic lycanthropy as a result of the original settlement of the planet and the Space Wolves have specifically incorporated it into their recruiting practices. Occasionally it results in them wolfing out, either during their induction trials or as a result of battle stress.

The Wulfen, specifically, have been tearassing around the Eye of Terror and are mutated by their exposure to it, but the Canis Helix doesn't appear on any other human world but Fenris and it's responsible for every monster on that benighted rock except for the ones that might be orphaned Tyranid vanguard organisms. There are no wolves on Fenris.

You're asking for logic in the 40k universe?
You realize that 40k is in the year 40,000 right?
Their technology is so far beyond what we can remotely comprehend it's not even funny. This is a humanity that has spread across the milky way, jumps into an alternate universe made of fucking thought to warp, and has bioengineering the likes of which we could never dream. Chemical castration without hormonal imbalance probably hasn't even been a problem for over 15 thousand years at this point.

Protip: Space Marines aren't castrated, and they're already hormonally imbalanced because of their augmentations.

>Implying Salamanders don't do just that

the problem isn't about being genetically modified. Space marines are closer to chimera, which is basically an individual with cells from different origins. In the space marine case, he got cells from both the original neophyte, and from the gene-seed/various implants
the problem would be that some of those foreign cells might settle in your super-dude's balls, which means that if he have snu-snu with a female citizen of the imperium, the child might receive half his DNA from glorious gene-seed

>those foreign cells might settle in your super-dude's balls
That's not how that works.

They can. They just don't, they live far longer, they have no real free time as their lives are dedicated to war 24/7, they are as monks really.

Besides, they are so mutated and big, they dont see other humans as the same species as they are, probably do not find women (or men) that attractive.

user, that doesn't count. They're just followers of Slaanesh having some good old prayer sessions together.

I don't think people would care all that much unless they pushed the relationships more than just the fact they happen. Most don't really gets all that pissed about implied lesbians.

It's more like science fantasy, but then you could just shrug and point out that there's been millennia of progress. Then backsliding, then crawling out of new dark ages, but still with much better tech than we have today even if they don't understand most of it. They were also designed by the Emprah who is weird magic super jesus god man who don't gotta explain shit. This is where the fantasy part runs amok. There are other places.

yes it does. there is at least one organ that produce super-healing cells that might settle in the balls in case of injury. There is also the fact that geneseed somehow direct the well implantation of the transplants, which may or may not imply cell migration

So those cells are going to not just settle in his balls, but somehow attach themselves to the sperm, the sperm that ends up fertilizing an egg. It will then start to replicate and produce the same affect in progeny?

>space marines returns home from crusade after being lost in the warp
>his chapter temple monastery is filled with commisars and inquisitors all there to marry his wife

Shut up, Odysseus, you know you like it.

Those are synthetic cells that it produces.
In the event of a Space Marine getting some chick knocked up though, the organs grown internally by his implanted gene-seed, if passed on, would probably kill the unborn baby and possibly even the mother. Remember that a lot of them need other implants/organs to balance out, and there's no telling what combination of organs written into the Astartes' DNA that the kid would get.

Fucker might even live to early childhood and then be permanently crippled and disfigured because his ribs fused into a bone chestplate and they couldn't grow into adult sizes properly.

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All the Terran NL recruits had been taken from the subterranean prison sinks. What do you think how did life in perpetual darkness affect them?

Because they are turboautists with a complete lack of social skills but for war

Remember that the Iron Warriors tried this. It ended well, of course.

Two new characters.

They're lesbians and married.

At one point Dante is talking and they cut him off with "Or a Woman!"

They banish Purturabo with the power of love.

>They are genetically-engineered weapons
That require baseline humans to "reproduce"; shitty bio-weapon is shitty
Plus the flesh is weak
A basic bitch gardman with superior bionics can go toe to toe with a space marine and the process to make one doesnt take decades

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Because girls are icky for the intended target audience.

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What pattern is that? looks way better than the regular rounded chainswords

>That require baseline humans to "reproduce"
innit the entire point to em tho?
Emps didn't want them to replace humanity, but to serve them.

>It's a guardfag muckin' about
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>What are Salamanders
>What are military orders

No, i wear the red of mars; Skitarii for life

They are "asexual", they only think of killing and the best ways to kill

I mean surly ya'll who are saying 'tis one way or the other have some sorces and aren't just making assumptions because I was very much under the impression that GW was keeping it vague for whatever reason (don't care, don't want to piss off fans one way or another or they just think it's funny/cleaver) but that was just my two cents.

>Space marines are pre-teens
Since when?

>implying the conscript isn't far superior
The chad marine being so great is what makes him inferior.
The conscript is a man in a field of demigods and demons.
Who cares if he pees his pants when someone shoots at him? He shoots back and that is all that will ever matter.

>no sex drive
Then why do they like to inject their seed into young boys?

Space marines being chemically castrated/infertile is actually a dumb non-canon myth, much like SoB being celibate. The more you know.

>Space marines being chemically castrated

May not be explicitly canon but considering the progenoids are supposed to override the subject's genetic make-up and are responsible for the super-puberty that turns them into seven foot mountains of muscle I dont think its surprising that their natural testicles become atrophied to an extent since the geneseed would take over all the normal functions. I mean steroid abusers tend to run into sperm production problems so an even more artificial hormone process could damage the normal testicles even more.

Doesn't the Deathwatch RPG list chem-geld as an upgrade? So going by that usually marines have functioning junk