Subject: Thank you for reading!
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Posted on: 2022-07-08 08:47:43 UTC

I'm glad you've enjoyed it so far. =]

Splitting the Legions into Chapters was technically an invention of Guilliman, yes. However, splitting the Legions at all was going to happen anyway. The Heresy was as bad as it was in either timeline because the leader of the traitor faction only had to sway, like, nine other dudes to get the overwhelming majority of their power-armoured transhuman demigods; splitting the Legiones Astartes into self-contained micro-legions with their own independence and territories prevents that happening again. At least, it does in theory.

As to why the geneseed of Alpharius is still used: the other Primarchs knew he himself never turned. The line was still pure, and he cast off the colours of his treacherous sons to fight as a Black Shield. Plus, it's Perturabo masterminding the rebuilding of the Imperium, and I've always had this sense that Perturabo is the kind of person who keeps a drawer full of bits of string because you never know when you might need one. He knows that the sins of Omegon are not those of Alpharius, and so the Hydra Shields chapter is born.

To tell the truth, getting your feedback and thoughts was one of the big motivators for putting this in a Google Doc in the first place. This is the kind of thing you've enjoyed doing in the past, in a setting you enjoy, and to have you miss out just because you don't use Discord seemed... wrong to me. So yeah. Glad you can take part in the madness. =]

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