User blog comment:Khalael/Canon Policy Discussion 1: Space Marines/@comment-8395098-20131103062450/@comment-8464494-20131105155442

Also in terms of numbers, could the chapter at one point have been over codex regs. by a considerable number and then lost most of those numbers to some calimity of some sort? Say you had a chapter of highly prolific SM with lotsa gene-seed that the built up tediously and then all twas lost in a bitch of an invasion or a skiddly doo warp storm summoned up by a Scorcerer?