Editing Space Marine Inductii (section)

==Training and Gene-seed==

When the civil war ramped up to eleven and new Marines were needed as soon as possible, there was not enough time for these recruits to go through the full training that the pre-Istvaan Legionaries had, so all legions had to shorten the training process for their Inductii. For most legions this meant using [[Minotaurs|psycho-indoctrination to give the Inductii years worth of experience in a few hours]] and throwing them through the harshest training as fast as possible to weed out the weak as quickly as possible, and while faster this process had some side effects of making the new recruits a little mentally unstable, and a bit cruder in terms of tactics. Flash-indoctrination was also used which literally ripped the memories of dead Veterans and uploaded them to the brains of the new recruits, though this was viewed with disgust by many of the Legionaries. Inductii were also only trained in specific tactics that they were expected to be used, such as the Inductii raised on [[Terra]] for the [[Imperial Fists]] being trained in defensive Siege tactics and fuck all else, while the [[Raven Guard]] focused on [[Reasonable Marines|guerrilla warfare and infiltration]]. A few legions even skipped the training and said "fuck it, baptise them in fire" and would throw the Inductii into the front line, both as "training" and as meat shields for more veteran Legionaries, a tactic common with the [[World Eaters]] and some groups of [[Blood Angels]]. Not all the Legions took such a disposable approach to the Inductii, as the [[Salamanders]], [[Ultramarines]], [[Dark Angels]] and [[Emperors Children]] all trained their Inductii as well as they could and equipped them with better weapons to close any gaps in skill between the Inductii and the other Legionaries, however the Inductii would typically have to go without a lot of the special war gear that had been available to their brothers, simply as there was no longer time or resources to waste on giving every Sergeant [[Artificer Armour]].

The [[Gene-seed]] implementation process was also sped up in an attempt to get boots on the ground faster, with the slow multi-phase implementation being thrown to the wind by most legions and multiple implementations being done at the same time. Because of this the Inductii experienced a far higher recruit fatality and Gene-seed rejection rate than before, as well as Gene-seed flaws becoming more prevalent, such as the [[Thousand Sons]] Inductii experiencing more cases of the Flesh Change. In a few cases, certain Gene-seed was skipped or not implemented to speed up recruitment. Some of the [[Word Bearers]] deployed to distant war zones would not implant the Black Carapace until after an Inductii's first battle, [[Scout Squad|with the survivors having earned the right to use power armour AFTER their first battle]]. The [[Iron Hands]] would supplement certain organs with forbidden Dark Age of Technology augments, as it was faster to build and implant these augments than it was to grow and implant the Gene-seed organs, and it helped ease some the problems of collecting the Iron Hands Gene-seed when most of it had been lost after [[Drop Site Massacre|Istvaan V]].

Some of the more stable parts of the galaxy could take more their time with the Gene-seed implementation process, for example the [[Ultramarines]] relied solely on different training techniques to speed up the creation process and kept the Gene-seed implementation process the same, and the [[Imperial Fists]] on [[Terra]] could also take longer with the Gene-seed implants as they waited for [[Horus]], however still decided to shorten the process by delaying the implantation of the Betcher’s Gland and Sus-an Membrane, as their functions were seen a non-factors for the fighting that was to come to Terra. This meant that the both the Betcher's Gland and Sus-an Membrane atrophied in the Imperial Fists and would over time would become non-functional throughout the Legion and later Chapters. For the legions who hadn't had the luxury of time, the rushed implementation process of the Gene-seed left it permanently degraded and damaged, and would led to long term effects such as the already mentioned Imperial Fists flaws, and it most likely contributed to the flaws and malfunctioning organs seen throughout the post-heresy Chapters, such as the [[Raven Guard]] and [[Space Wolves]].

As far as equipment goes, as you can see from the images, initially, nearly all Inductii were given the advanced [[Mark VI: Corvus Armour]]. The fluff reason given is that even though Beakie armour was incredibly new and costly to make, towards the latter stages of the Horus Heresy multiple Legions and [[Forge World]]s on both sides of the war, had received the STC to produce it and so it was becoming the most common armour mark in the run up to the [[Siege of Terra]] (the real reason is the a new model kit of Mark VI marines was made, and [[GW|Gee Dubs]] wants you to buy it). Whatever was the case, it was likely that the issuing of Beakie armour was not fully sustainable and as demand outstrip supply, the majority of the Inductii like their Legionnaire seniors, would be equipped with [[Mark V: Heresy Armour]] and what ever spare suits of armour they could scavenge as supplies grew low. For weapons, it varies a lot since the roles of an Inductii differed from legion to legion.