Because Emps loves humanity

there is an anime aspect to it though

SPEHS MEHREENS are not humanity, they are the weapons of humanity

"look at this kids dramatic backstory where hes all like loyal/tortured/determined" or something

After all, he might have had a plan to turn the legions on each other once they conquered the galaxy

Well in numerous counts of heretics attempting to recreate SPESS MAREHNS has failed absolutely horribly. The genetic complexity never allowed for any self replication, also known as _fucking_

probably harder to set that up with clones

And when they tried to make a model that could do it, it was either dead, or sucked

Or was just a chaos space marine, which doesn't count

wouldnt be surprised if it one day turned out to be related to warp fuckery in some way

They are closer to being manufactured then anything and thus cannot naturally breed

Makes sense to me

It's all warp fuckery

well everything is warp fuckery technically

If it isn't warp fuckery, it's tyranids.

but i mean in some more involved way that isnt led on in some way

Tyranigs

The way to recreate a SPEHS MEHREEN is, well, unpleasant. Chaos has daemonculabas and they're top tier nightmare fuel gore.

Tyranids would have a better chance at making a space marine that could reproduce, but you don't want that outcome

Cloning even works on primarchs

hey does anyone of you remember the book Carl promoted? The one about cult behaviour?

There've been a couple

"wrong way home" or something wasnt it?

Though Fabulous Bile only tried Horus and Ferrus and Horus has no soul because Emps made sure to stomp on that shit, while Ferrus kept being furiously loyal so they had to put him down <:smugon:512048583806025739>

Space marine reproduction isn't even important just let chapters be not capped at 1k

>implying they respect that

Black templar master race

Not gonna change until the god emperor is reanimated.

one idea for not letting them reproduce might be the heirarchy that the emperor wants

The Emperor is dead son

> Not wanting regular humans to be replaced by not humans that are SM

S&M!? No, we don't want to be replaced by Dark Eldar!

They will not replace us!

Space dad didn't want that as marines aren't exactly human

What I said and it makes perfect sense

They're just... better... what we _could_ be if we don't fuck up

Just like he created primarchs to be his weapons, MEHREENS are just more stable thunder warriors.

Sadly we keep fucking up. Sorry, dad.

And it's possible after the great crusade he planned to slowly make them extinct

Seems like he thinks *psyker master race* and wanted to steer humanity towards that

Literally going towards what the Eldar did