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Originally Posted by Gryeyes  Ya the mechanica was already established when the emperor went to mars and had to like "convert" them to imperial belief. They supposedly had a weird religion worshiping their machine god or whatever the fuck. And the wanting to depower the warp by destroying belief in it is most certainly what the emperor is trying to do. But to keep the primarchs 100% unaware of what it is so they basically have no defense for it is just retardation. As is the lore rape of no psykers what so ever allowed in the legions. Only sorcery was banned being a psyker was allowed there were librarians in the legions. I think they banned psykers in these books because the plot just doesnt work with psykers around.
They just really twisted the lore to make their version of the corruption of the legions work.
1.Make everyone 100% ignorant of the warp so they are totally unaware of the corruption it represents.
2.Remove all psykers because there is no fucking way librarians would be unaware of the corruption and warp. |
From WD 267
'The Tension had reached a palpable knife edge of violence when a contigent of Space Marine librarians approached the dias. The Emperor aknowledged them with a nod and all fell silent...a young Epistolary stepped forward to deliver their words...A Psyker, he proposed, like an athlete was a gifted individual who's native talent must be carefully nurtured. Psykers were not evil in themelves. Sorcery was a knowledge that had to be sought, even bargained for, and neither man nor paragon could be certain they had the best of such bargains. The other librarians united around him, and proposed that the education of human psykers to best serve mankind be made an Imperial priority. The conduct of sorcery would be outlawed forever more as an unforgivable heresy against mankind.'
The council of Nikea only banned sorcery, which the thousand sons were practicing. The librarian core was disbanded because Magnus was the one training the majority of the librarians. The psykers were not executed, they simply returned to being line soldiers/officers. Most of the legions involved in the series so far were notoriously intolerant or indifferent about psykers anyway. With the exception of the thousand sons, the legions never had many psykers in the first place, and some legions were notoriously intolerant of them.
It also seems likely to me that it's entirely possible that psychically active marines would be relatively ignorant of the warp, the warp storms of the age of strife had had been rampaging for thousands of years, and perhaps the ruinous powers were laying low until they found the agent through which they could again bring destruction to the physical world. Also consider how easily the possession of Jubal in Horus Rising is covered up, and before the triumph at Ullanor there were not even any remembrancers with the fleets.
Many times it was shown that the Emperor was not omniscient, with him completely missing the ball with Lorgar and then Magnus. I have no trouble believing that he mistakenly thought that ignorance was the best defence against Chaos, relying on the warlike nature of the Astartes to keep themselves blissfully ignorant.
Hell, the idea that it was Guilliman who reinstated the Librarius gives reason to why Vulkan and Dorn would have opposed the Codex Astartes at all. At that point noone can contest Guilliman's primacy, but Dorn was notoriously opposed to psykers and that would explain why he initially refused to break down his legion. Although if his battle in the Iron Cage with Perturabo is still canon, it may have simply been his perceived need to regain his legion's honor and had nothing to do with the return of the Librarius. Vulkan however, was the master of a legion massacred at Istvaan. I can think of no reason why he would oppose the Codex unless it contained something he specifically took issue with.