Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24909831-20180328154848

The Canon policy has been changed in 28 March by myself and I want to clarify it for a few reasons.

This part: *...permanent Adepta Sororitas/Grey Knights/Deathwatch detachment was replaced with this: *...permanent detachment from another Imperial organization.
 * ...permanent Adeptus Mechanicus task force detachment
 * ...permanent Inquisition task force/inquisitor detachment

I made this change because of the recent NCF debate regarding article Abyss Gazers. The spirit of the earlier canon policy line was that Astartes chapters would not have any detachment from Imperial organizations in order to eliminate the possible idea of army-building where a chapter has liege-vassal sort relation with Imperial Guard regiments or Adepta Sororitas orders. It was also to prevent the ideas of liege-vassal sort of relation between inquisitor(s) and a chapter.

In general, the idea of that part of the canon policy was that Space Marines would not be ruled by anyone else and they would not rule anyone else. However, because of the sloppy policy-writing (by myself it seems), it did allow quite a few loopholes, especially since the 8th Edition.

Therefore I saw appropriate, and obliged, to change the policy to reflect the original idea. 