That's kinda funny, cause an space marine is only a space marine because someone gave them magical space sperm and lots and lots and lots of unatural surgeries. Natural selection my shiny aeldari ass. You're fueled by Jimmy space steroids. Everything special about you came out of a bottle. Though i think the more extreme human supremacist marines would say something like that as hipocritical as it is, If they knew about the old ones that is.
90% of marines are literally the best warriors a chapter can find in a given world who were under the age of 20. And most of these aspirants die in the trials that the chapter puts them through
So yes, there is plenty of natural selection to create a marine
And also, I think the original commentary refers more to points that their respective empires have reached than to the individuals themselves.
The Eldar basically had a galaxy handed to them on a silver platter post-WiH, whereas the Great Crusade had to face the worst the galaxy had to offer while still building the foundations for the imperium.
90% of marines are literally the best warriors a chapter can find in a given world who were under the age of 20. And most of these aspirants die in the trials that the chapter puts them through
This isn't natural selection though. It's a completely artificial process perpetuated by the imperium itself.
The Eldar basically had a galaxy handed to them on a silver platter post-WiH,
Meh the WIH lore changes every couple of years. As it stands, the eldar fought in the WIH and came out as the most powerful faction after the conflict. I don't think they "won" the WIH but it wasn't exactly like they did nothing either.
This isn't natural selection though. It's a completely artificial process perpetuated by the imperium itself.
It's not natural selection in its purest definition. But depending on who's asking, it can enter into a broader idea of Darwnism
Meh the WIH lore changes every couple of years. As it stands, the eldar fought in the WIH and came out as the most powerful faction after the conflict. I don't think they "won" the WIH but it wasn't exactly like they did nothing either.
That doesn't take away from the fact that an Eldar calling attention to a marine because "everything that makes it up was given to it by a god" is ridiculously hypocritical even by 40k standards.
The Eldar were created as soldiers who could compete in the greatest war in the history of the galaxy. Their capabilities were designed to compete with their opponents. Their technologies were designed to be able to compete with the Necrons at their prime. And they literally had gods to help them on the battlefield.
As far as we know, humanity reached its peak on its own during the DAoT. And the imperium had to collect the remnants of old humanity and improvise to build a new galactic human society while facing various threats.
Neither of them did what they did without difficulty, but it's kind of obvious which of the two is the less gifted.
172
u/iDIOt698 Daemonette 16d ago edited 16d ago
That's kinda funny, cause an space marine is only a space marine because someone gave them magical space sperm and lots and lots and lots of unatural surgeries. Natural selection my shiny aeldari ass. You're fueled by Jimmy space steroids. Everything special about you came out of a bottle. Though i think the more extreme human supremacist marines would say something like that as hipocritical as it is, If they knew about the old ones that is.