What even IS a Space Marine? 

You've only been doing this for a year? Man, your style has always seemed so developed, right from the start.

space marine is when my dad drinks and chases me around the house calling me an ork.

The reason why the Larraman's Organ produces specialized cells instead of just have more or better platelets, is because just increasing platelet performance would result in more internal blood clots and thus strokes and heart attacks. The Larraman’s cells allow for rapid wound sealing without causing such problems. They also result in faster healing and less scaring because the wound is sealed by living tissue instead of a dead blood clot.

Re: the Omophagea: I have a theory that this is what contributed to driving Curze insane; It goes to reason that Primarchs would have this organ too, and it probably works better than a baseline marine's equivalent. It's been implied that during his formative years, Curze lived primarily on the occasional stray dog, and AS MANY PEOPLE AS HE COULD EAT. These were not regular people, either. They were violent criminals. How many memories of violent crime did that guy have floating around in his brain by the time he was found??

".75 caliber shots" PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE PROPER SIZE OF ASTARTES BOLTER ROUNDS

I have heard plenty of stories of some space marines using their acid spit. Most of the time it is after they are imprisoned and getting interrogated (A lot of people do not know that space marines can spit acid) or by a world eater using it in a melee fight.

"You eat a person's brain? You can probably find their house now!" 😂😂😂😂😂

The Omophagea is not complete nonsense. It just relies on the concept of genetic memory and the older scientific belief that memory was primarily stored chemically in the brain. Though it is often referenced with the idea that a marine gains someone’s memories by eating their brain, it’s more important usage is to gain an organisms instincts by eating any part of their flesh. This allows an Astartes dropped into a novel environment to quickly adapt to their surroundings. Yes, the underlying scientific theories behind this mechanism are no longer popular, it made some sense for a sci-fi franchise in the 1980s. Especially, one heavily influenced by the Dune novels which feature genetic memory prominently.

"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!" Upgrade the marine and give him a bigger gun

Yes, Space Marines are designed to be highly effective and terrifying shock troops, but there’s a bit more going on in their design than just that. First thing to consider is that the primary source of military casualties prior to the late modern era was disease, so the Astartes robust physiology is a hard counter to that very real concern. The second thing to consider is logistics. An army marches on its stomach and the ability to eat anything combined with their extreme metabolic efficiency means that a chapter of space marines is far cheaper to operate than a regiment of guard despite requiring a higher initial investment. This means they can operate in the field for far longer periods and with greater independence than a mortal force. Finally consider the Black Carapace a.k.a. The Interface. It not only helps connect the space marine to his armor for mobility, it also integrates the armors sensor systems directly into the space marine’s awareness. Inputs a bioengineered man-machine interface organ, and likely allows for greater connectivity and control to ALL the technology an Astartes uses. Taken together I think the space marines are designed to be more than shock troops. They are designed to be a replacement for the Men of Iron. Humanity built its power base during the dark age of technology using armies of sentient robots. The Emperor knew he needed an equivalent if he was going to return humanity to galactic dominance. The Space Marines are a biological answer to that technological gap.

One of my favorite lore that involves the Space Marine's taste and being able to detect toxins, was in the book Storm Of Iron, where the Imperial Officer explains to the Imperial Fist Captain that the oxygen on this planet was toxic with radiation and every human should take these 💊 to retain a good health. The Captain looked confused, took a good wiff and said that the oxygen is totally fine. As the Captain put a 💊 in his mouth, he spat it out quickly and told the Officer the pills is what's poisoning them.

My favorite Warhammer RU-vidr, you're doing great. 👍

Even on a video where I feel like I should know everything, you always sprinkle little breadcrumbs for me to learn about like the Black Dragons who I can now on my own go learn about. Feels like every video of yours I watch I pin a wiki tab or two to check the refs on later.

"Engineered non-cyborg super soldiers" *The Iron Tenth would like to know your location, fleshling*

"Space marines are intended to be shock troops" I would like to add to that: FOR FIGHTING OTHER HUMANS. Space marines fight xenos NOW cause they are really the biggest threats out there any more in human space, but during the great crusade, the emperor knew that they would really just be needing to fight the human colonies that had either gone astray or wouldn't want to join the empire willingly. Space marines are a bit like Spartans from Halo in that way- yeah, they fight aliens, but that's just cause aliens happened to show up. They were not, however, made for that original purpose, or else they would probably be a lot different than they are now.

I'm starting to think GW has a fetish for siege warfare..I mean there's like 3/4 legions that basically do it.

"Drop 100 soldiers from today vs 1 space marine and it would probably be equal" depends a LOT on the soldiers. Not in a "Delta force would totally shmokes that guy!" Way. More like you would need a 100 man unit with their standard attached heavy weapons like machine guns and mortars and rocket launchers to have a chance. Were talking about charitably, two eye slits that a modern rifle would have a chance of penetration on with enough sustained fire. All the while, return fire is literally exploding dudes. While theoretically possible a hundred rifleman could win, itd be a one in a thousand or more scenario. WITH that heavy fire support, I'd still probably put it 50/50

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Fun fact: The reason Imperial Fists don't have a functioning Betcher's gland is that Dorn spit in Khorne's face so hard that the Fist's Geneseed itself knows there's no point competing.

Don't forget that first trial to improve Space Marines was in the middle of Horus Heresy, at Deliverance, within Raven Guard. Corvus basically discover some forgotten work of tech-priest genemage and implement it in new batch of Space Marines. Apparently, it was so good that Alpha Legion was deployed to fucked it up. Traitors were scared as fuck.

FYI if your ribs were fused together into solid bone the reduction in mobility would be seriously substantial. Like your scalenes in your attach to the ribs, movement would also be seriously hampered with the shoulder girdle as many of the chest muscles attach, you guessed it, into the ribs.

Always thought the Omophagea helped your brain fire the same reactions the brain you ate had to mimic that memory. I mean, that's what a memory is. A certain way your brain fired awhile ago, that's why memories become hazy and other details can be added in

16:43 this is a really good explanation for why space marines use bolters and not something more practical for dispatching infantry (like a normally vehicle mounted heavy machinegun) using a full auto rocket launcher is that much more memorable, and when you only have 1000 marines per chapter and have to support the whole galaxy, making an impression may actually be more important than the damage they deal

In regards to the tallest space marines, what about the sons of Anteaus or the Storm giants? Are they just as tall as the dragons?

Hypothesis: The Belisarian Furnace is why Redemptor Dreadnought "pilots" burn out. Their bodies are so ravaged that the Furnace keeps firing and eventually kills them.

Interesting fact, Leeches can do what the omophaegia is meant to be able to do, so Im like eh, sorta fine with me

Thank you Arthur (if that is your real name). It’s great so see you come so far, well done brother.

7:35 tell me why….I swear to god that’s Al Pacino doing the Scarface shootout pose

I like space marines tho I feel like they are REALLY impractical at least some chapters They are supposed to be these monsters but with the power scaling of 40k, with armies of orcs that REALLY want to fighta space marine, tyranids that swarm and consume worlds and votann weapon mastery etc.... Space marines kinda feel just above the average. Which is a weird perspective bcs they are powerful

A basic topic that lots of people really need to read up on more. So many people ask "would a Company of Space Marines beat modern day Earth" and SEVERELY underestimate the Space Marines. No, you cannot use .50 cal anti-material rifles, Javelins, Jets and Abrams against them, because they aren't going to fight you on even footing. Their Strike Cruiser will obliterate any military facility it sees from orbit. Your leaders will be brutally murdered by teleporting Terminator squads. Your soldiers, used to fighting exclusively other unaugmented humans, will be WOEFULLY outmatched and many of their tactics will be irrelevant as squads of Space Marines literally drop from the fucking sky in the middle of their positions and cleave them apart with chainsaw swords or, failing that, their bare fucking hands. If you're lucky, they will give you the chance to concede and join the Imperium.

A year already ? Happy to see it man love the content 😊

Haha im Scottish too but i love pale skin especially on Red Heads of the female persuasion. 😂 im in Canada though i need the cold.

Wait... You've only done this for a year? Props to your quality dude. Not everyone can do the editing, music and orate well.

Bro fuck the space marines The imperium just needs to build a better tank. It’s larger, has better guns, and in some cases can be faster

ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS

Im just going to address the elephant in the warp. Can a space marine beat-up a chimpanzee?

So many augmentations yet their warrior culture while badass definitely slows them down or becomes a detriment. No matter how smart you are if you don’t commit to tactics and strategies than you’re not in full efficiency but let’s be serious we all love this. Than again the guardsmen cover that though if they were well equipped when dealing with astartes and other monsters such giving them bolters,plasmas,hotshots las,hellgun and anything armour piercing. Majority of those guardsmen are conscripted not even highly trained nor motivated yet they still hold themselves well. Very few are highly trained as the Cadians or skilled as the Catachans. As the saying goes without the space marines a year without the mechanicus a month without the guard a day the Imperium could survive.

100 normal humans vs a space marine would not be a fair fight on any level. A space marine weighs between 500-1000kg and can run at a speed of 50-70km in bursts, combine that with superhuman reflexes it would absolutely run around in circles of a company of modern soldiers. It would essentially just run at humans and break their bones and kill them, really annoys me that the lore rarely brings this up. Now, but regular humans in a fortified position with heavy weapons and then they might actually get lucky and kill one

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And what an occasion! Artwyr, the gift that keeps on giving. _So_ good shit!

The more common use of the betchers gland is to aid in digesting materials that would normally be impossible to digest. Apparently its useful for cellulose from plants, which normally passes through the digestive system intact. I dont really know what benefit there is to consuming cellulose, but it seems the space marines get a lot of them i guess..

i think you meant literally.any.other.legion 18:12

I think the omatophagea is somehow psychic.

I believe that the Sons of Antaeus are the tallest space marines (also a cursed founding chapter like the black dragons).

Can I get Lyman's Ears irl? Sensory overstimulation from noise is a bitch in a world where hordes of cars rule

I would probably argue that the thing that lets a Space Marine process memories and knowledge from eating something/someone's brain is more of a "fantasy bullshit" thing than a "science fiction bullshit" thing, which is fitting to what is more of a "Science Fantasy" setting

As a doctor ask of these organs are absolute nonsense but this was very fun to listen to and it makes me want to write physiologically “plausible” lore behind warhammer 40k / DND

Everyone in here asking what is a space marine but nobody ever stops to ask how are the space marines 😞

I might be a touch late, but isn't the longest a Marine was under Sus-an 10,000 years? Source Eye of Terror by Barrington J Bayley, the B plot follows a Heresy Era Dark Angel Sargent that after getting spaced just drifts in Sus-an until landing in the Rose Cluster and gets introduced to M40 by one of The Fallen. Granted, that's Chaos and I'm not sure that still counts in lore?

A fan is not a nerd. When asked if they like baseball: Fan: Yeah, I like baseball. My favorite team? Uhhh, the Mets, I guess. I haven't been to a game in a while, my father took me to a few, maybe I'll take my kid, when the weather's better... Nerd: FUCK YEAH, I'M ON THREE FANTASY LEAGUES, THE YANKEES ARE MY BOYS, FUCK THE RED SOX, THAT CITY SUCKS, I HAVE A SIGNED FOUL BALL THAT I HAD TO WRESTLE FROM THIS KID IN A WHEELCHAIR LIKE HE EVER PLAYED AND THEN I WAITED FOR TWO HOURS FOR RODRIGUEZ TO SIGN IT GREATEST GODDAMN DAY OF MY LIFE SO FAR You nerd (not an insult).

Only man that might make me care about the eldar lore some day

Your understanding of space marine combat is lacking: They are orbital drop shock troops wearing armor that was developed from the dark age suits used to do work inside starship plasma reactorss- these are environmentally sealed, they have jet jump packs, mag boots, built in combat radar, sensors, coms links and they have water & nutrient supplies, meds, &, combat drugs that can be delivered straight into the blood stream, the armor could survive modern H.E. or penetrator tank like it didn't happen and the suit augments the marines strength with no loss of speed (terminator armor does decrease speed but supply even more strength & durability and can use teleport beacons). Space Marines are so fast it causes a psychological stun to normal people watching them move at full speed (transhuman dread), They are all phenomenal marksman (the primary space marines weapon is the bolder, followed by the chainswotd) but the have far better vision and helmets with a combat radar & sensor package, And space marines when not in war train for like 20 hours a day every day, they are effectively immortal and space marine training/psychological conditioning has been developed for 10,000 years! The classic space marines engagement has the marines land in the capitol city in or around the enemy h.q., they storm out the drop pods and in minutes kill every ranking member of the command structure. If the top brass is in a bunker the regular marines find it and deploy teleport beacons and the 1st company appears inside the bunker all in tactical dreadnought armor (terminator plate)- "I have seen worlds burn and crushed nations underfoot, torn down the idols of false gods and slaughtered kings like cattle. Presume not to order me, tiny man, for I am war, and you are no more than chaff before the scythe..." VENERABLE TARGAS OF THE EXECUTIONERS TO GENERAL VON LITZNER OF THE JANTINE CATAPHRACTS

17:22 possibly hot take; but that's also great example of why moral feels kinda dumb in *MOST* armies - space/chaos marines literally genetically engineered to feel no fear - Tyranids and, 'Crons basically don't have emotions fullstop - while their warboss is alive orks are having the time of their life, what are they afraid of? That said Idk......I geuss it'd be kinda bullshit if only Tau, Votaan, Elves and, Guard suffered from moral???? So I don’t really have a solution

Based. They're just based

The Neuroglottis is incredibly useful for scout marines, as it grants them the same sensitivity to odors as a blood hound.

Most space marine organs are just for better survivability. Most of heavy lifting is done by space marine power armor. By the way real doctor discuss space marine organs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7OXjNpNpWXw.htmlsi=D1wqYeER8FvF3KS3 P.S: more platelets in blood would close wounds faster but it would make bigger scar.

Sorry, not interested in the topic, just wanted to say "Hell yeah" at both my favourite chapters (i think) being in the thumbnail. Hell yeah.

Akshually moment here to be a kill joy on everyone's day. Pacemakers don't give your heart a "boost". Their function is to keep a steady heart beat. With guns, it is better for ammo to expand or "explode" inside a body than just go through it. Internal expansion will do more damage and kill faster. Plenty of accounts with US soldiers on how their rounds went through enemy combatants and failed to immediately put them down. They were still gonna die but they were still alive long enough to be dangerous.

TBF to the Omophagia, this is a universe where Wizards and Magic are a thing and Marines are partially Psychic themselves, so likely the Omophagia really is Magic, the Blood Angels has a mutated one that causes them to be literal Vampires and are also so Psychic the Death Scream of their Primarch cursed them forever so it kinda supports it being magic.

Space Marines were made for the great crusade and they were spared the fate of the Thunder Warriors due to the culture built around them and the fact that the Emperor ceased his direct involvement in governing the imperium. If he hadn't been smacked into his chair they would have probably been phased out or reorganized into something more equipped to deal with foes like Chaos Marines, Orks and Tyranids and everything else their original design was ineffective against.

Did you saw fanmade Grand Admiral Thrawn analisys of the Imperium? What do you think about it?

Be careful, Majorkill will get angry for "copying" his videos.

The analyzing the poison organ may have been intended to be used to assist mortal allies that were at risk nearby. Basically just an atmosphere/water detector to tell the Guardsmen get the hell back.

The omophagia absolutely is nonsense without it somehow being a warp related power. I feel like that's the only way you could justify it.

I am the Space Marine

The omniphage breaks down and reads RNA memory!!!$$$+++

Mr Bones, 6 mins in you say its non sense to eat something and know about it except this is a real thing. If I eat meat I can tell what the animal saw and how it felt before it died; which is absolutely horrible.

A single sqaud of Astartes is worth the entire Halo Orion (Spartan) II project.

So you're able to do this as a job now. So is your money from ads, or do you make it another way?

I'm not a Halo fan, but I've seen shorts comparing Master Chief to named Asrartes.

Oh emperor on the throne imagine the disaster, when the tyranids get their claws on that DNA, a primarch gland, even if incomplete, what can they do with that?

I love your ADHD style way of talking about this shit, dude.

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one funny thing about the memory eating thing is that they are not the only one who can do it. ive heard of some tyranid forms having this ability. no idea what the implications of that are.

There is also supposed to be some sort of logistical benefit as an Astarties doesn't need to sleep nor need separate rations.

'Nids seem like the ultimate checkmate to SM, buuuut the lore does the big bad bugs dirty.

Not necessarily the most powerful or efficient super soldiers in fiction but definitely one of the scariest!

Great video man, Keep it up! Space marines are pretty cool. They fit that niche of "super soldiers" that most settings need. But with 40k the levels get more and more insane over time

Wowow now. Don't besmirch that tig bitty tau propaganda.

a year later and you have made 0 progress. still making the same trash....thank u😂

The Omophagea might not make any sense, but it's cool and that's what matters.

Well done. Never realized I’d subscribed to a “new” RU-vidr last year. Well done indeed.

Holy shit bro, you started this channel on the same day as my 35th birthday. Funny

Some day Arthur will do the different Necron dynasties

God I love this channel, get back on adeptus anonymous

Ayo wtf, you uploaded this on my birthday, (the 5th) what a treat

I find marines generic as they're supposed to be, but if any other faction got 1/10th the lore they do, they'd all be much cooler

they can be non-cyborg... but not all are for sure. case in point 6:13

Is that the Caretaker I hear playing in the background ?

16:22 When did this go from space marines to the united states military

I love that their fake organs have eponymous names

The omaphageia or whatever it’s called,in my head it’s actually warp shenanigans with the surgeries just acting as a catalyst and type of imperial propaganda to dispute the warp origins of the ability.

In the original Space Marine novel from waaaay back, when the scouts were training their Preomnor, it came across that they can detect and analyse things like hormones and various combinations of chemicals from which they figure out history more than memories per se. Which makes a bit more sense.

You only started last year? Wow.

7:52 Alstartis Spacino vel Spacemarino

Man it's already been a year?

Depending on the reference, the ear implant is a huge protruding block or, "Just an ear."

Holy shit, only a year? And it's been a year already? 1: HUGE congratulations on reaching almost 50k, sounds weird but that's genuinely great growth. 2nd: Forgot you've only been around a year, feels like I've been watching you longer. 3rd: At the same time, feels like I found your Lil channel just yesterday and already it's a year later. Man time flies.

WHEN RED CORSAIRS?!

Yo new Arthur video!