40K Lore - Why Female Custodes CAN'T Exist.

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ANYTHING MENTIONING CUSTODIANS BEFORE THE 10TH EDITION CODEX RETCONS IT.

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[kairossorkian]

Also. If I remember correctly, the Emperor didn't make female space marines alongside males because he did not wish to make a superior version of humanity that could replace the original.

[DanielNagy-df]

There have always been orc custodians. Lore doesn't say there weren't.

[cimmerian_savage]

Literally the sisters of battle and sisters of silence are exclusively female, why do we need to retcon.

[Prich]

Lore matters.

Female Spartans work in Halo because the earliest lore established that the augmentations to create Spartans work on both men and women, with similar failure rates. We know because of established lore that some Spartan IIs whose augments initially failed were later rehabilitated and achieved Spartan status. Halsey's research was canonically recorded by ONI, and therefore could be further studied and improved upon, with the Spartan III program reducing the failure rate at the expense of the strength of the augmentations, and the Spartan IV program improving MJOLNIR armor to compensate.

Female Custodes do not work in Warhammer because the lore established that the Custodes were selected from the *sons* of noble families. Only the Emperor fully understood the process of creating a Custode in the first place, and he never really taught anyone the full process, or wrote it down, presumably to keep the process from being misused. Even if the Imperium decided to open the recruitment pool to women, they might not be able to create a viable femstode because they do not understand the process and thus cannot improve upon it.

In Halo, the knowledge to create a Spartan was retained and thus could be improved upon over time, even then it took four generations of Spartans to realize what the UNSC was trying to create with the original Orion project. In Warhammer, the knowledge was lost, and the only person who fully understood how to create a Custode is in no position to teach anyone. To improve the process to work on women, you would either have to redevelop the procedure from scratch, or reverse engineer the process from a living custode, neither of which is happening in a society where the idea of improving upon the design of your immortal God Emperor is seen as heresy and blasphemy. That little bit of lore alone ensures that the genesmiths never improve upon the limited knowledge they do have, even after 10, 000 years. The loss of knowledge even made creating new Custodes a slow and dangerous process.

Games Workshop tried to lie that femstodes were a thing since the beginning, but the oldest 40k lore does not support this statement. This was a deliberate retcon to cater to a "modern audience" that has been repeatedly proven to not exist.

[faisalhussein]

Horus: "If I can't save it from your failure, Father, then let the galaxy burn."

[RealYARP]

“They’d be hot” said some guy with his hands down his pants

[morden]

"Are you sure this will help us improve the lore?"
"Lore?"

[PooberryPancake]

So they can retcon whatever they want but they can’t give us a good codex

[RomanHistoryFanAD]

Making female Space Marines or Custodes don't work lore wise because the Emperor made it so only Males are those two for a good reason: If Space Marines and Custodes where both sexes then they could maybe find a way to reproduce possibly if the sterilisation is reversed or if they have partners capable. And the problem with is that the Emperor thought about the long term issue. In time the Space Marines and Custodes would begin to no longer see Humanity as worth defending due to being 'lesser' than them superhumans. They might even try to rule mankind or worse, so the Emperor made sure this could never happen by only having Male Marines and Custodes, making it so the Chapters are reliant on Humanity for new replacements and not to even have thoughts like this.

[TheKenthor]

As an American, this is what I think a disgruntled Italian should sound like.
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[GamerGateVeteran]

This is not cannon, its fanfic nonsense with a GW logo. Plain and simple.

[doodlesquatch]

"Now that women can be Custodes I will start playing Warhammer 40k." -Said nobody ever.

[Farseer]

GW doing full on Palpatine moment with "Female Custodians somehow exist"

[sirneko]

Remember, if we let DEI poison 40k, it will become star war acolyte

[paytonkraft]

You know, back when I was first getting into 40k, I distinctly remember reading somewhere, or maybe I heard it, regardless, I was given the impression that the creation of space marines is something women don't possess the biological fortitude to survive the augmentation process. That's just for space marines. The custodians would've been something else entirely.

[Chodderston]

Thing is for me it's not the female custodians being part of the setting that makes this bad. It's that it's an obvious marker for how shit things will be further down the line because this wasn't made with the idea of improving the lore but made with the idea of furthering a political cause.

Edit: For those of your arguing you do realize there's a much better way of adding Female Custodes? Literally just label the Sisters of Silence as Custodes and give them new units. it's so obviously not made for the sake of lore. It's made for the sake of modern-era politics.

[noneofyourbusiness]

Another issue with this is that the Emperor doesn't want the Custodes or Space Marines to reproduce and potentially outcompete the rest of mankind. Sure he could theoretically make them all infertile but there's still _potential_ for something to slip through the cracks. So why take the risk at all?

He would only make male transhuman super soldiers to eliminate even the most remote possibility of there being even a chance at reproduction. Thus there would never be a female space marine or Custodes _ever._ The closest you'll get is the Sisters of Silence and Sisters of Battle.

[warchiefvenomn]

A reminder that Vanguard group and Blackrock are shareholders for GW.

[ardeeseus]

Doing the Bud Lite move, let us make GW feel how Bud Lite felt. Let their Galaxy BURRRNN!

[carloseliaspinedaleon]

So 40K is turning into Star Wars, time to get a 3d Printer.