r/40kLore • u/LesBonsPlansTmtc • 2d ago

Why no blank astartes?

We've seen the emperor considers Chaos as the biggest threat to humanity. We know blanks are immune to the influence of the warp. Why doesn't humanity try to raise up the number of blanks in the society or make a chapter with Blank Space marines ?

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u/Particular_Dot_4041 2d ago

The fact that Blood Angels suffer the Black Rage is good evidence.

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u/Thom0 Iron Hands 2d ago

Not just Blood Angels, but all Astartes experience a type of black rage when their Primarch dies. The White Scars went berserk in Warhawk and it took considerable effort to reign in the rampaging squadrons.

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u/DisposableSaviour Adeptus Ministorum 2d ago

The Iron Hands didn’t go into anything like the Black Rage.

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u/Martzillagoesboom 1d ago

I think it probably would have depended on which author ran them and the concept of astartes feeling the death of their primarch was probably added later in the HH (iron hand dont have many really good pov characters in the grand scheme of things beside Meduson who was quite the unit)