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The Adeptus Sororitas power armor is so fucking funny, because it’s this huge roomy carapace that’s 100% big enough to not only contain but comfortably contain breasts, and then there’s these giant vanity tits bolted onto the outside to make sure anyone watching knows that the wearer is a woman, since the Imperial Cult is banned from maintaining a force of “men at arms.”
Probably has the same effect as this:
If anything that’s not weird and mutated enough for a space marine. They have at least one redundant copy of every important organ crammed in there and all of them are bigger and weirder than normal organs, so they probably look really freaky out of their armor, like orks without the green skin and silly jaws.
The SoB are normal humans wearing armor made for normal humans, and the art varies as to whether the proportions make sense. I like to headcanon the boobplate on them as replaceable ablative plates bolted to the outside of the carapace, like a round penetrates one and there’s just a stack of ceramic disks inside or some shit.
I’m not sure if you are serious, considering that I’m pretty sure we have official artwork that shows them as basically normal humans, but larger and with slightly off proportions. The picture is a joke regarding terminator proportions.
Eh, GW doesn’t lean into how weird and inhuman space marines are enough because they’ve become a shallow mockery of what they used to be and are now having decisions made by the horrifying union of businessmen and nerds that grew up being way too into space marines. Canonically they’re creepy as hell and eat their enemies’ brains to gain their knowledge (that’s actual original canon btw, and I’m not sure when or if it got retconned away by some spoilsport). The only author I’ve ever seen do a good job writing space marines is Dan Abnett in one of the Gaunt’s Ghosts books that had a PoV space marine with a completely alien perspective relative to any of the human characters.
I’m pretty sure there’s also been official art that has space marines with heads roughly the size of their own ribcages before (when accounting for the bulk of their armor), which is the funniest version possible so just I’m going to canonize that right now.
Eh, GW doesn’t lean into how weird and inhuman space marines are enough
WH in general is a waste of a setting.
They really could be doing anything with it and they insisted on writing 50+ books focusing on the fascist supersoldiers with daddy issues and bolter p*rn.
I’m going to use the opportunity and say that it bothers me how space marines do not make any sense in a setting that takes itself as seriously as post-2nd edition 40k. Space marines seem to be less numerous, less capable, and more expensive to make than conventional tanks. What’s the point in having 1-2 million of them running around? Just make a bunch of tanks instead.
everyone knows all officially licensed artwork is always 100% consistent with both lore and with other artwork
Sure, but I’m yet to stumble on anything weird. Furthermore, marines in standard armours very clearly have differently-placed shoulders, compared to terminators.
I always assumed the terminators were part machine. That they’re more like a torso and a head shoved into a machine body.
That’s the dreadnoughts, which are sometimes portrayed with the occupant’s head literally sticking out the front like the mech “suits” from Kill la Kill. The terminators are supposed to just be particularly heavy suits of power armor, but the art gets kind of silly because they originated with model kits that were kind of silly and had wacky proportions because GW’s original sculptors favored extreme stylization over accurate details because of the limitations of the old mold production processes before they made it big and started being able to have plastic injection molds made in the early 2000s.
OG terminator armours were the funniest
Look sometimes you just want super armored shoulders.
And still more practical looking than their titans
We all know it’s about the pauldrons. Like 90% of entire game. Remaining 10% is about hats
Considering how many of the heresy/crusade fights are just charging into enemy fortified lines I would prefer to have that armor 😂
All of the wacky proportions essentially stem from the fact that it’s a miniatures game. The minis need to be readable at a distance, which means that certain features need to be over-emphasized, which feeds back into the artwork which portrays them with those weird proportions.
These boob-plates are installed for legal reasons. Were they not installed, the Ecclesiarchy would periodically be shot at by accident, as non-boob-plated Fleur-de-lis are heresy as all good Imperial citizens know!
Honestly Soritas armor is a perfect lore bit. The Ecclesiarchy isn’t allowed men-at-arms after a wee bit of massive civil war, but just so conveniently had a leftover all-female warrior cult that had just proven its unwavering devotion to the Imperial Cult, so everyone just shrugged and let the galaxy’s most obvious loophole take effect just so long as they make it very clear that they’re not men-at-arms.
That’s the kind of disfunctional bureaucracy that the Imperium needs to bleed at all times.
They also circumvent that law by having small elite squads of crusaders but they sometimes lend them to inquisition as a bribe and of course huge armed formations of Frateris Militia where the excuse is that those are barely controlled lynch mobs whipped into murderous frenzy by preachers so they don’t count as “men at arms” which is by the way perfect 40k excuse because lynching half of planetary population is preferrable to not lynching half of planetary population just because grimdark.
This looks like AI art lol
Missed opportunity to make the verses into gatcha style titty drapes.
Cmon gw!
Would wearing Sororitas armor feminize you?
The armor includes self-healing and bioregulation systems, right? So obviously if an amab were to wear it it would identify their hormone balance as an anomaly, and auto-administer estrogen and T blockers. The more you wore the armor, the more of these auto-injections you would receive.
Also, hypnotic indoctrination is standard practice among certain elite imperial units. I’m just saying that the Ecclesiarchy has the capability to turn any sufficiently pious recruit into to a “Battle Sister”, that’s all.
