The female chapter/legion thing just wouldn't work.  Rivalries between men are bad enough, but women are way worse. Add in a primarch with PMS and nobody survives.  The emperor may not have thought everything through, but I'm pretty sure he would have seen this one coming and planned otherwise. ;p

HappyDaze said:

 Personally, I prefer the daughters of the Emperor to be the Sisters of Silence, but that's cause the Sisters of Silence are arguably cooler even than Astartes. Maybe that's just me though.

professor_kylan said:

THANK YOU. I love the Sisters of Silence. Very cool idea.

 so in my group we finally decided to throw her into being a inquisitor with slightly higher psy rating and she doesn't get +2 strength and toughness bonus from suit. She also has 1 armor on head since inquisitors normally don't wear helms to show who they are and for respect. I gave her +30 fellowship, +10 to all the rest of her stats except strength and toughness. She draws from psyker tree. I gave her an ability that if she disagrees on what to do, such as the team leader (tactical marine) saying go right, and she wants to go left she rolls a fellowship test to overpower any ruling she wants with in reason (saying jump off a cliff isn't reasonable) and team leader does an opossed fellowship test to see if he is overuled. If she gets overuled then she gets -20 willpower for 1d5 hours. Not the best ability but something.

I tried the missing chapter thing but that didn't work lol

In the end with that one we found out Bill (the guy who refuses to let the there be female space marines) is the emperor and the missing chapters were Female chapters. The reason they were expulged was because they were women and nothing, even being a heritic, is worse than being a women. Found out the whole mystery of missing chapters right there. lol

Gaire said:

Gaire said:

I know, right?! One of the changes I make in the 40k canon each time I run a game is that the Sisters are the chamber militant of the Ordo Hereticus. And I don't care.

HappyDaze said:

Still doesn't work. More than once in the Horus Heresy novels, the lost Primarchs are referred to as the Emperor's lost sons. So yeah, they were dudes.

Kylan, I am totally okay with the Sisters of Silence superseding the Sororitas as Chamber Militant of the Ordo Hereticus and just leaving the Sisters of Battle as the Ecclesiarchy's personal army.

Gaire said:

In some cultures, when having a child and really wanting a boy, some girls are seen as 'lost sons' and thus the lost primarchs being girls works perfectly, from a certain point of view.

 OOh, OOh, OOh, I KNOW! Maybe the lost primarchs were…. Get this….

THE FURRY PRIMARCHS!

That could be where all thse dang furry Space Marines keep coming from. It works perfectly… from a certain point of view.

Fenrisnorth said:

 I swear to god, Fenris, this thread has already turned into a female space marine thread. If you turn it into a furry thread I will track you down and beat you solidly.

Besides, it's a well known fact that the lost Primarchs were ponies.

professor_kylan said:

They could have been pink and purple teddy bears. You can never know.

On a more serious note. The lost Primarchs were male. It has been alluded to, heavily alluded to, that the Legions of the lost Primarchs were incorporated into the Ultramarines. Which also happen to be all male.

I don't see why this is such a huge deal.  The last Deathwatch game I ran, I had a female player.  She is well aquainted with the fluff.  She knows Space Marines are males.  She rolled up a Space Wolf Assault Marine named Erik.  Didn't give it a second thought.

DJSunhammer, I got the impression from "Prospero Burns" that the Space Wolves schwacked the lost legions.

 Baradiel, similar thing in my game. Female player who is familiar with the tabletop game (has a Sisters of Battle army, the poor dear) and knows a decent amount about the fluff. Without skipping a beat she rolled  up a Space Wolves Rune Priest named Alistair and hasn't turned back. She didn't raise a stink about gender, didn't even consider for a second not playing a marine or asking to play a female marine. Now, her boyfriend who joined as a guest player for a few sessions is a different story, but that cheesetastic pyromancer of a psychic Inquisitor really didn't last long.

Baradiel said:

They did, but you have to remember that each legion had to find it's father. Those legions were 100% composed of Terran born Space Marines before their Primarch was recovered. There would be no reason to get rid of a bunch of marines that were already loyal to the Emperor and are battle proven. Thus the 'rumor' that they were folded into the Ultramarines.

DJSunhammer said:

Where is that rumor from though? Is that in any of the books, or just a fan rumor?