Editing Relictors (section)

==Gene-Seed==
In one moment of derp, it's stated that their Gene-Seed stock is composed from both the [[Dark Angels]] and the [[Ultramarines]] making them a hybrid Chapter.

What is not so clear is what this actually means to them genetically, if whether their gene-seed is actually a crossbreed of the two, which makes them almost entirely unique in the 40k universe for being a "stable" attempt at dicking with the Astartes gene-pool ''(see the [[Cursed Founding]] as to why this is considered a bad idea, and see the Horus Heresy series for why manufacturing "new" gene-seed is all but impossible)''.

It is equally possible that the Chapter is simply made up of brothers from two different bloodlines, which doesn't necessitate mixing gene-seed. Which makes one wonder why the legions weren't all made that way. Each one (and the later Chapters) were/are quite selfish about most of their recruiting worlds. Yet, there will be plenty of members of the populace suitable for a different legion than the one recruiting there. The Chapters have not be mentioned to find such people and send them to the right legion for recruitment and probably grow old and die never knowing they could've been Space Marines. Mixed heritage in Legions and Chapters would have efficiently fixed this while allowing for the instinctive specialties designed into their genetics to complement each other within the Legion/Chapter to kick even more ass. However, if they are descended from the Dark Angels, it goes a long way to explaining their predilection for quitting battlefields without warning and being anything but team-players.

That they are descended from the Dark Angels is now seeming more likely, as [[Chaplain]] [[Asmodai]] made a deal with a Relictors Captain to capture a member of the Black Legion in exchange for an artefact of unknown provenance, which was ''"rightfully"'' Asmodai's to give, and was ''"rightfully"'' the Relictor Captain's to protect, and was kept in a locked box until the mission was completed. After capturing the traitor, Asmodai lived up to his end of the bargain and told the Relictor that the box was keyed to specific genetic markers and would open for the captain just as it would for the Dark Angel. Not quite an explicit confirmation of the Relictor's origins, but certainly an implicit one.

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