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But you, me, and all of us know that it happens, A LOT. I mean, it's bound to happen so often that is good they leave it aside, otherwise it would be an deeply disturbing erotic series instead of being sci-fi & fanstasy.

The only mention of "rape" I can recall is what those disorder vacuum seamen did to some woman in order to them to give birth to more disorder vacuum seaman, and I think it wasn't even rape perse, but they basically became mutated living wombs or something, I don't know how they got pregnant and do not want to find out either.

Oh the thing Honsou did with the Daemonculaba, that was technically much worse than rape.

1. If you're talking about the Dais, those are generic slaves. Not even sure they're human.
2. 40k may be grimdark, but GW also keeps it pretty clean. I would see zero mention of rape anywhere in it and pretty much feel uncomfortable just by You saying it.

They are human, just not specific to any faction since they're for fantasy and 40k. Same hairstyle as Sisters though, I think GW just wasn't good at feminine hair at the time, they're a really old sculpt.

And yeah, they do try to keep sex in general out of the setting. Even in Fantasy, which is often darker than 40k they only implied it in the Chaos Warriors and Beastmen books, while all the others just avoid it entirely.

Every human miniature range they do is sadly lacking in women. I'd like to see some female cultist minis running around, but all 40k really has for human women is sisters of battle and one or two inquisitors.

Similar story with Fantasy Empire, Bretonnia and Chaos. Despite having units that are basically rabble gathered from the masses no one seems to use women as anything other spellcasters.



Plenty of women in the Elf/Eldar ranges though. Might be because they're newer than most of the Guard range.

The creation of the Space Marines and their Primarchs was as much magic as it was science, the Emperor is implied to have stolen power from the Chaos Gods to create the Primarchs, and a little of the magic present in their nature was passed to the marines, with even more being added by the chaos gods attempts to take vengeance on the Emperor for the theft.

In theory geneseed could work on women if it's not based on affecting the sex chromosomes in any way, but since geneseed acceptance is highly dependent on hormone levels, anatomy, diet and a whole bunch of other stuff the rejection rate in female subjects would probably be too high to be worth bothering with considering how few males actually survive implantation with geneseed. Add in the spiritual connection to the Primarchs/Emperor involved in geneseed (Night Lords and Blood Angels being prime examples) and it's possible that only men can become space marines due to something about the way souls work in 40k.

Of course it really just doesn't work in women because the guys who made it up were just writing according to a bunch of narrative tropes and knew bugger all about science, with ad-hoc justifications being slapped on as the fluff got more fleshed out over the years.

As for sticking it in xenos/ imitating it... BWAHAHAHAHAHA! 

Even the Dark Eldar Haemonculi don't actually know (or care) anything much about geneseed and other marine organs other than as a delicacy to eat or a mild scientific curiosity. They already have science/magic that surpasses the techniques used to make geneseed by far, they just limit it with their concepts of elegance and art. They can literally turn flesh and bone into an inert clay like substance and sculpt it  into different shapes and tissue types according to their whims as long as they have time and the necessary equipment.


The Tau could in theory make some roided up Tau supersoldiers, but genetics isn't their strong point. The Earth Caste serve as their scientists and they specialise in architecture and engineering, with which they bypass the need for supersoldiers. Who needs Tau supersoldiers when a battlesuit does most of the same things and is more mass produceable after all.

Corbyn is an odd case in that he has the support of a huge number of Labour members and their non-member supporters, but almost none among the Labour MPs and the previous Shadow Cabinet or the pro-Labour media. His victory in the party election was very much a blow to the established Labour leadership and their ideology, and also a blow to the right wing parties of Britain in general since it opens up the possibility of a very different political landscape they would have to campaign in.

For about 20-25 years now all the major parties have had the same fundamental ideology and little variation in their policies. A Socialist being elected to lead the opposition party is quite a turn of events and is drawing as much attention as the SNP rise did, though with just as much if not more mudslinging being done by the news companies and political figures that benefited from the status quo that is at risk.

Corbyn is counter to the agendas of most of the British media, a lot of the Labour party's (former) leadership, the incumbent government and the various groups that have benefited from the current state of affairs, most of which are corporations that were able to negotiate special arrangements with the major parties in the past, so they're all kicking up a stink to try and influence public opinion.


Of course now that he's in charge of Labour and the right wing elements of the party have no way to legitimately oust him I expect they'll gradually drift from public sight or fall in behind him, though I wouldn't count on much sincerity from them in their support, and as that happens we'll settle into the normal Labour vs Cons petty bickering with each being backed by the partisan newspapers, rather than some of the pro-Labour papers trying to sabotage Corbyn.

Integration is a strange thing.

Most of the non-native descended people I've met here in Scotland seem to identify as Scottish, unless they descend from elsewhere in Britain.

A more modern one might be F.E.A.R. 2.

I found this far funnier than I should have. 

Oh cool, I thought you guys missed out on MF/FF's.

We lose all the non-transport tanks instead, no predators, vindicators.

Also lost a few infantry units like havocs and chosen.

Also no Warpsmiths or Dark Apostles.