User blog comment:Gorbaz/Timelines and stuff/@comment-2253300-20120809155406/@comment-2253300-20120809205440

Dirge they do it a lot because it works. The good guys have to be on the ropes. Otherwise it doesn't make for a good story. Secondly just because you can't have the Astartes does not mean you can't have Super-Soldiers. They can come up with a different (yet inferior) form of Astartes.