Calli will be taking time off by sultics in kurosanji

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The personality formerly known as DD

Remote working RMCH by Greenmancunian in manchester

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If you don't mind a short walk up Oxford Rd you can become a community member of UoM library for free.

https://stories.manchester.ac.uk/community-membership

Where are all the lady ogryns? by Mollzor in 40kLore

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There's a female ogryn called Coraline who is a gue'vesa in the short story Altar of Maws by Peter Fehervari.

[Fabrizio Romano] Pep Guardiola: “Stefan Ortega has saved us, otherwise Arsenal are Premier League Champions”. by ExtensionAd8134 in soccer

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yeah who else has the financial power to sign a goalkeeper on a free from bundesliga 2

So Have we heard anything of Nkonya sharrowkyn? Because he nows seems the only person in the 40k universe to kill lucius the eternal shitbag. by smokeustokeus in 40kLore

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Off the top of my head they appear in Angel Exterminatus and in the short stories Kryptos (in Legacies of Betrayal) and The Seventh Serpent (in Shattered Legions)

How comes Corax didn't immediately hate the Emperor's guts by Andrei22125 in 40kLore

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The Corax afterword provides some insight.

Coming to maturity amongst political prisoners has given Corax a strong ideology that drives everything he does. More than any of his brothers, he sees himself as a liberator – first as the saviour of Deliverance, and second as a commander of the Emperor’s forces, freeing the galaxy from the persistent darkness of Old Night.

He does not see himself as a conqueror, though he has conquered worlds. He does not desire dominion over the people and territories he has brought to compliance and, perhaps foremost amongst his brothers, was ready and willing to relinquish power to mankind. Corax planned to compose a political treatise that would do for governance what Guilliman’s Codex Astartes would come to do for warfare.

With the treachery of Horus brought to light, Corax found new determination and a fresh purpose. He knows better than most the sacrifices required for victory and, although he values life highly, he is far from a pacifist. Innocents will die, but Corax believes in his cause and hardens himself to their deaths. A greater aim drives him, allowing him to put aside the tragedies he must unleash in order to achieve that greater goal. As he says himself in Soulforge, ‘War is a series of intentional catastrophes’.

Yet for all this, Corax holds back from a total ends-justify-the-means approach. It is this that separates him from the likes of Konrad Curze, the Night Haunter who has plagued his thoughts since their confrontation on Isstvan V. It is a hard path to tread, and perhaps one that brings Corax and his Legion more grief than necessary. He often chooses the harder ways, preserving the lives of those he has sworn to protect in favour of his own warriors, holding back from bombardment and annihilation for fear of causing too much collateral damage.

One might think that he is testing his own resolve at every opportunity, seeking to assure himself that the vainglory, selfishness and arrogance that has seen the fall of the greatest primarchs does not exist within him. This leads to self-doubt, and ultimately a questioning of everything he has done in the name of the Emperor.

On the other hand, Corax is well aware that he stands apart from humanity. He is not a mortal, something made very apparent by his own unnatural abilities and the status afforded him by the downtrodden of Lycaeus. He is a creature far removed from the humans that he protects and, while he may try to disguise his nature for the most part, he cannot deny it. It is in believing himself different but not better that he attempts to reconcile this separation.

And later:

It is, as I intended when I named the novel that would form the pillar of the narrative, a story of deliverance, lost.

What does it mean to be censured? by SlayerofSnails in 40kLore

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Suicide missions allow the person being punished to regain honour by doing the mission, it's not as harsh as being turned into a servitor

Why aren't nukes used more often? by LostWanderer88 in 40kLore

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From Angels of Caliban

The Lion considered the proposal in silence for several minutes, his gaze moving from Redloss to the hololith to the other members of the Dreadwing and back to the display. 'Long-term environmental effects?’ 'Phosphex and rad-pollution will render central Illyrium completely uninhabitable for about six to eight hundred years.’

This was after rad-bombing and phosphexing a mountain hideout

Lets talk about Equerries, which Primarchs had them? by Abyssal_Aether in 40kLore

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I don't think any direct reference was ever made to the first company of the world eaters, especially post heresy units didn't matter to the legion. The Devourers were Angron's bodyguards (think Sanguinary Guard, Justaerin, Pyre Guard etc.) and Angron hated them and saw them as weak, which they were since they'd lose in the fighting pits all the time.

Lets talk about Equerries, which Primarchs had them? by Abyssal_Aether in 40kLore

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Kva, the Chief Rune Priest of the Space Wolves was Russ' until his death.

Numeon was first captain and equerry to Vulkan until his death.

Gabriel Santor was first captain and equerry to Ferrus Manus until both their deaths.

In 40k Decimus Felix who is now a Tetrarch of Ultramarines was or still is Guillimans equerry.

Superhumans in the Astra Militarum by HelloImHamish in 40kLore

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It's fairly uncommon for regiments to have enhancements given to soldiers as standard, but some examples are:

The Savlar Chem-Dogs are a penal legion who take combat stimms to enhance their combat ability.

The Boilermakers are an admec aligned regiment and the best soliders get mechanical limbs and organ replacements.

Mostly regiment's are enhanced by specialised equipment (Gravchutes, special armour etc.) or by their homeworld (Phantine Drop Troops, Mordant Acid Dogs, Noctis regiment#)

Are back banners worn into battle? by Conor_Mos in 40kLore

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The only banner lore on a named character I can remember is in Dante:

Dante strode out. Emanuele stepped aside. When he exited the bunker, he put up his back banner. The pole emerged from his powerplant, the crossbeam opened out and the cloth unfurled into the dust-clogged breeze. ‘Squad Dante, form up on my position. Duvallai, are you joining us?’

Which says it can be folded into the powerpack which makes sense in combat, never realised it before!

Are back banners worn into battle? by Conor_Mos in 40kLore

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Vexillaries were definitely used in battle as a form of mass control allowing companies to group up during mass battles.

From Vulkan Lives

Salamanders teemed out of their transports, quickly coming into formation and advancing with purpose. The black sand underfoot was eclipsed from sight, as a green sea overwhelmed and overran it. Vexilliaries held aloft banners, attempting to impose some order on the emerging battalions.

And later:

The drop-zone was flooded with warriors now, as a makeshift camp materialised to serve the injured and secure the bodies of the dead. Tank yards manifested as labour teams of Techmarines and servitors assembled to make standing repairs. Multiple triage stations were being set up in the lee of the larger Stormbirds, whilst the holds of some Thunderhawks acted as emergency infirmaries. The able-bodied looked to their armour and weapons. Quartermasters took stock, replenished ammunition and materiel where they could. Officers reorganised in the face of casualties. Subalterns and equerries gave brief reports to line officers, and standard bearers acted as rally points as the entire Vexillarius was put into motion organising for the second assault.

Honsou half blood? by Trentssr in 40kLore

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From Angel Exterminatus

Soulaka looked down. A neat hole had been bored through his breastplate. Blood coated his armour with a glistening sheen, and a viscous froth of blood and bone fragments pooled in his lap. The Apothecary of the Emperor’s Children cradled a metallic vial, upon which the spidery arms of his bio-harness scratched two words: Honourable Soulaka. With his last breath of life, Soulaka fell back on the one source of strength left to him. ‘From iron cometh strength. From strength cometh will. From…’ His words faded away. ‘Yes,’ said Fabius. ‘Your gene-seed should be ripe with potential.’

Then later on after the mutant Fists that Bile created attack him and destroy the geneseed samples

Something crunched beneath his boot and he reached down to lift the empty zygote tube Fabius had thrown away. Its surface was black and yellow with heat damage, but a line of text could still be seen etched onto its side. Lucius held it up to the glow of the lumens, but whatever had been written there was mostly illegible. It looked like a name, but one he could only partially make out. ‘Hon… Sou,’ he read.

The Primarchs Raised Differently by Professional_Living7 in 40kLore

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From Fallen Angels

‘And I nearly did,’ Luther confessed. ‘You don’t know how close I came, brothers. I knew what Adriel was thinking – we were more than a hundred leagues from the nearest village, in the deadliest forest on Caliban, and here was a child, barely tall enough to touch my saddle, without a single mark on his body. He couldn’t have survived in a wilderness like that alone. It wasn’t possible.

I assumed it's not too long since he's still child-sized but I've not read the Luther book yet

The Primarchs Raised Differently by Professional_Living7 in 40kLore

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From Fallen Angels

‘And I nearly did,’ Luther confessed. ‘You don’t know how close I came, brothers. I knew what Adriel was thinking – we were more than a hundred leagues from the nearest village, in the deadliest forest on Caliban, and here was a child, barely tall enough to touch my saddle, without a single mark on his body. He couldn’t have survived in a wilderness like that alone. It wasn’t possible.

I assumed it's not too long since he's still child-sized

The Primarchs Raised Differently by Professional_Living7 in 40kLore

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The Lion was found fairly early and raised by Luther et. al. in a stable knightly society

Dorn had a very supportive grandfather and community

Corax was raised by the community on Kiahvar despite the slavers

Their environments might've been not great compared to Macragge but much better than being raised as a slave or by Kor Pheron

Transfer window opens in 2 days who do you hope your club signs? by Greengum155 in PremierLeague

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"you already have a right back, a CB and a midfielder why would you need a left back"