There is a push by a bunch of feminists for there to be more female representation in 40K. To the point where they want there to be female space marines, thoughts? (For those that don't know in the background, the marines are male because they are genetically modified using organs based off the male Emperor of man, and they require a XY chromosome for the process to work)

Wait, did they forget the Adepta Sororitas? Also, they can just fuck off. Yes, yes… representation is important, but fucking with Warhammer 40k because of feels is idiotic as fuck. The lore is established so damn much already that adding anything out of left field like a gigantic female space marine named Olga is going to send the franchise spiraling into a cluster-fuck of a shitstorm where you have the Veteran fans losing their shit and threatening to pull out, while the edgies begin Internet based campaings where it’s rape and murder 24\7 against some Feminist scourge from the Chaos Gods or whatever the fuck, and then… then you have the lost cause group, beginners, super politically correct, Jesus freaks, furries, and general degenerates who will go over the top in either embracing or trying to combat the change. It’ll probably cause so much crap that the franchise either reverts to core basics and has some endgame crap where it all starts from the beginning, or pulls a “Fuck you, we’re out!” and see it off to Disney or some shit. Seriously, though, the female body can’t handle the organs required by the Adeptus Astartes, if I recall correctly.

snow-anne:

maggotmaster: lmao Löl, it’s all based on the “men are stronger and soldiers needs to be strong” thing. Since the whole strength/build difference lies solely in testosterone, the answer is to just pump ludicrous amounts of testosterone into candidates that don’t have enough of it(they already pump tons of steroids and mutagenic shit into them anyway, what’s a lil’ T in comparison?). And don’t even bring up reproductive organs coz spess mehreens are pretty much sexless anyway. Lore-details can be worked around just fine, the only reason they were made male-only was obviously based on sexism(sci-fi pseudoscientific explanations for it don’t change the original reason for the decision).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans

First of all, you nerds need to fucking look up the biological differences in skeletal structure and physiology.

Second, this is fiction.

Get to know it before you push your SJW agenda on it.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Creation_of_a_Space_Marine#.U4OGwvmSxrU

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Gene-Seed

It’s all about anatomy and being able to survive the initial implantation period.

The very first “Space Marines” were the Primarchs. Which were all males. Created from The Emperor of Mankind’s geneseed.

Another way to think about it is that the gene-science used to create the Primarchs and marines was exceptionally difficult. Neither the Emperor nor a similar powerbroker ever succeeds in replicating the same Primarch -> Geneseed relationship again.

Given how precarious the geneseed mutations of male candidates were found to be, it stands to reason that there simply was not enough expertise to then also create a similar process for female marines. Even before the Heresy it’s well known among the Primarchs, Malcador and the Emperor that several legions possess unstable geneseeds. It’s even hinted that at least one of the two lost legions suffered the fate of expungement due to faulty geneseed. Hence, a process as finicky, and frankly error-prone, as the creation of a space marine probably never gets to the point where the powers that be consider expanding to female subjects.

Also note that the Emperor’s Custodians are also all male. It could simply be that the gene enhancement techniques developed during Terran unification focused only on male physiology too. There was not a need for more warriors so much as an efficient and trusted cadre of super-human ones, the Adeptus Custodes. If so, again the need for investing research and development into female enrollment is not needed when a small number of elite male warriors would suffice.

This is the 41st Millenium’s struggle. You don’t get to ask questions. You pick up a gun and fight.