40k Kaldor Draigo Founding

well a founding generally involves more than one individual as far as i know, unless they changed the fluff while i wasn't looking .

Presumably because he is lost in the warp

mary sue's.

>>50569679
>Why hasn't Kaldor Draigo's genetic material been used?

Because Kaldor Draigo's non-Grey Knight genetic material is just some faggot human.

>>50571367
>Because Kaldor Draigo's non-Grey Knight genetic material is just some faggot human.

Well some faggot human of prodigious psychic strength and purity of soul.

>>50571939
without any geneseed

see it's the geneseed that you need for the founding

so it would just be another Exorcists-like Chapter

>>50569679
>Why hasn't Kaldor Draigo's genetic material been used?

like specifically his assuming genetic drift has given him exceptionally good geneseed and this is different somehow to the pattern laid out by the Chapter's founding geneseed...

because he has two progenoid glands

each of those would need to be implanted into a test subject to replicate them; that takes five years

you then have another five years to grow four (two from each test subject), then after fifteen years you've grown fourteen (your first two, second four and third eight), and so on

but you're doing this in mind-blanked clone bodies for purity, so that you can reduce the incidence of failure to near zero with constant monitoring, so after fifteen years what you don't have is fourteen space marines, but eight opportunities to create new progenoid glands

8 gets you 16

16 gets you 32

32 gets you 64

64 gets you 128

128 gets you 256

256 gets you 512

512 gets you 1024, or roughly a Chapter's worth of progenoids to implant, with spares to put on file for type and in case of a disaster

but that's taken you 50 years because you started with one pair of progenoids and had no failures; a failure earlier on would push you back decades (whereas if your only failure is in year 40, you're still on track to create a Chapter's worth more or less on schedule)

so to answer your question: because it would take a long time, because by the time you know any given space marine is good enough to want to do that with they're probably dead, and because it's unnecessarily complicated and not without risk, ie, you could have a lot of early failures and take centuries to get anywhere (placing it beyond the lifespan of most humans, even augmented ones, but not the immortal Emperor who started it off originally), you could magnify a previously unknown flaw drastically etc

>>50574006

eh in the scheme of things 50 years isn't really that long, especially considering the lifespans of people in the imperium.

>>50574466
on one side, it's 50 years if anything goes right, which probably wouldn't even with servitors.
Plus you have to test from time to time if the geneseed can even work to make at least one space marine, before you crank up the number of geneseed to 1000

on the other side, there is never only one dude at the beginning of a chapter, more like a few selected vets, and adding to that the primogenitor chapter will probably supply some geneseeds and infrastructure to help create the new chapter, as it is a great honor and a great ad for your chapter, especially if your descendant chapter is succesful

it depends