User blog comment:Imposter101/I'm back and with a rant/@comment-1932673-20110925205026

Well first off, the there couldn't be a huge number of loyal traitors in the L9 as the traitor primarchs were quite through with purging their legions. At Istvaan the entireties of the SoH, DG, EC and WE were present, so all the loyalists from those legions were slaughtered. Only Garro escaped and he lost half of his few men. Garviel Loken survived but was a complete loon. Lorgar was the most effective with his purges so loyal word bearers would have been non existent. As the rest of the traitor legions, most of the loyal traitors would have been terran born and there were few of those around at the start of heresy due to attrition and the fact that the only legion to still recruit from terra were the Imp Fists. Then the loyalists would have to cover huge distances when the warp was full of storms to hinder the Emperor's legions and in small numbers and being pursued by their traitor brothers to reach safety. So in short, those marines that survived the purges would have then been slain by daemons, destroyed in a space battle or lost in the warp. The only official survival story of loyal traitors is the story of a small IW garrison on an asteroid in an underground fortress led by a terran warsmith who was one of the best strategists in the Imperium and one of the few loyalists who had the skills, cunning and resources to plant a teleport homer on his enemie's ship when they came to demand his fealty in the name of Horus. Of the garrison only a single under strength squad survived with the warsmith and an ultramarines diplomat. In short the only loyal traitors who survived to return to terra were few and because of extremely good luck, when they had been few to begin with. So there is no way the numbers of loyal traitors in the L9 can be explained. The gene vaults containing the surviving stores of geneseed of the traitor legions are stasis locked under the Imp palace and guarded by Custodians. And considering just how stubborn and religiously zealous the Imperium has become, those vaults are almost certainly never to be opened, so no new loyal traitors vould be created.