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AKA Chuds are crying that there are now Women Custodes Models instead of their boys only stuff.
turist in chief is mad jajajja
CW transphobia, Chud cries about Canon and how GW ruined Warhammer 40k for ever because they made new miniatures
tweet link of him crying on stream about 40k being ruined
lol
Boil all Chuds
"im new but i think making fun of chuds is bad"
I kind of thought the "no women space marines" thing was part of the Imperium being a repressive patriarchal hellhole. I don't know how to feel about "the Imperium (who are still definitely space Nazis) are actually inclusive when recruiting their elite fascist supersoldiers."
I guess overall it's good if people feel included, even if it makes the satire less effective.
I also guess that the people complaining thought the Imperium was "cool," so like... satire is kind of dead anyway.
Custodes are each engineered on an individual level and drawn from earth's noble houses. Each one is uniquely modified to turn them into supersoldiers. There's some speculation they may have been the Men of Gold from the Age of Strife when the Men of Stone (regular humans) fought the Men of Iron (rogue AI). Or they share some part of that process. Regardless, the Emperor used parts of his own genetic material in their creation. Custodes can be men, women, or nonbinary, etc. because their creation process involves custom built organs, gene editing, and so on.
Space Marines were designed to replace Thinder Warriors and use the genetic material of their primarchs, who were made from the Emperor's genetic material. Primarchs were likely also made using warp fuckery the Emperor stole from the Chaos Gods. Organ transplants, hormone treatments, and geneseed are used to turn usually children into Space Marines. Some chapters draw from adult populations, though the failure rate is higher. The creation of marines is a brutal process. Often, candidates die from their bodies rejecting organs, go insane from geneseed, and so on.
Custodes take much longer to make with technology kept so secret it's only known to the Custodes back on Terra. However, the failure rate is much, much lower than marines because it uses such an involved process and because it's using scientific genetic engineering without the use of space magic from literal hell. Thus, turning an adult woman into Custodes is "easier" than turning boys into basic marines. It wouldn't matter anyway because the process of making marines would leave them male-presenting.
Anywho, that's the wishy-washy fluff reason why there are female Custodes but only male Space Marines. Personally, I don't think Custodes should be a playable faction in 40k because Space Marines are already super rare. And there are already super, duper rare special Space Marines. Custodes as a faction outside of Horus Heresy are like "But I have an invisible force field!" level of super, duper, uber rare Space Marine.
Modern GW is too chickenshit to come out and say "Yes, the Imperium are patriarchal, the Emperor was just a sexist incel, and no, chuds still aren't allowed take your money elsewhere." Some former GW staff went on to make Trench Crusade and have stated this opinion loudly and clearly, so it's not like this is something new being injected into modern 40k.
🔥 Tinder Warriors
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There were female space marines in the first book, they got pruned as part of the franchise's long march away from satire and towards marketability.
Were they? There were the "female warrior" (Jayne and Gabs) models which are definitely in proto-power armor, and were released after Rogue Trader, but I don't recall them ever being mentioned in the book itself.
I think those might be what I was thinking about, actually
Having the space Nazis employ women fash supersoldiers is like an even worse version of the "more women drone pilots" school of inclusivity.
Granted, there are lots of good reasons to depict fascists that way (idk, look at The Boys or something) and I have no idea if that's what GW is going for, but I don't think this is really what inclusivity is or should be.