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Do you get Space Marines without power armour? Or are they born grown with it... Do plague marines get to keep their armour? or do they start to ooze out of it after a while? And has anyone ever tried to salvage the armour from an obliterator?

Well Space Marines aren't grown with Power Armor. Actually at some point in your life if you are (un-)lucky a Space Marine Chapter decides that you are to be chosen as an Aspirant. How you are chosen is completely different from Chapter to Chapter. Space Wolves recruit their Aspirants from their homeworld. Basically they choose the most able ones and then put them through further training again completely different in each chapter. If they have proven worthy they get promoted to scouts. If not they are either dead or become servitors(human cyborgs with no free will) or servants. Those Scouts get an complete Space Marine training and after some time the complete gene manipulation of an Space Marine(Organs and Stuff)

Actually all Chaos Space Marines keep their original armour, as the secret of manufacturing is long lost and new armors can't be made out of thin air. In the eternity thy stay in the Warp most of the Chaos Space Marines and all Plague Marines more or less grow together with their armor making it basically impossible to take off the armor without inflicting pain and doing damage to the body. The Obliterators however are a special case they were infected by a special disease( i think its also called the Obliterator virus) which turns the infected into a living weapon and let him grow the weapons(Obliterator Virus)

So you cant just salvage pieces from dead Obliterators, except you want to get quite messy....


EDIT:
@ Lordinquisitor
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Terra

you are right that billions of people live on Terra but they are only workers of the Administratum at most. Terra itself has NO imperial regiments to speak of. As you can see every planet in the imperial space must pay tribute and are therefore put into different classes to fit their possibilities (much like the tax system in many modern countries: the richer the more you pay...). These tributes include paying of money, people, food and so on. Basically every Planet has to pay wit a certain amount of people who are put into the Imperial Guard. Planets however designated Aptus non(like Terra) don't pay any tribute and must not provide regiments for the Imperial Guard. It is however possible that Dragnar may have originally hailed from Terra, being the second or thrid son of a minor clerk he wouldn't have inherited the position of his father and been sent from Terra either to the next Schola Progenium or to the next habitable planet(and may have been recruited to that local regiment...)

Osric starts to look at his former hands and grimaced.
Seriously guys, couldn't the Great Grandfather gave me some more practical appendages? How am i supposed to grab something with those? And if im allowed to ask questions: first where am i? And secondly who are you?

determine who that guy is that speaks to me and follow him to where ever he might lead me...

ah sorry then i must apologize i thought because of our looks and our speciality, i thought that we would belong to the Norse Mythology Valkyries...well then...

Sorry warrior but the time is short! If you stay too long you will be turned into a ghost and must wander these dimensions for eternity. And Secondly, do you see those dog like creatures over there? They are allies of the things you fought here. If they catch you they willturn your life and your soul into an eternnity of pain...!

i like the "suspend her in mid air and try to talk some sense into her" thing. Explain her what happened and why we are still or again alive and while shes gaining consioucsness ask Uriel what Alice exactly is or should be...

Try to find out where i am...

well ic actually halfway expected something like this...

My i add that it is completely impossible for anybody to be born on terra? Terra is actually completely covered by the imperial palace and the Adeptus Ministorum. There is no civilian city on the whole planet!

Name:  Osric Rott
Gender: Male?

Faction: Former Quartermaster of 5th Death Korps of Krieg Siege Batallion now Nurgle Cultist

Starting skills: fixing people(nurgle style),melter weaponry, giving the Emperor's Benediction(Now Nurgles Benediction?), bajonet use 

Starting equipment: inferno pistol (an old family legacy), IX-pattern helmet, Quartermaster uniform and armor

Backstory: Osric came from an lowly noble family which inherited a long military tradition. Like his father and his grandfather he got the position as a quartermaster. After 20 years of faithful Service however, Osric was left behind in a hastened retreat from a chaos overrun world. Confronted with the choice of deaht or serving nurgle, Osric accepted the latter grudingly...