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The implants had been grafted to Angron's brain when he had been a slave, centuries before, and though the technology to remove them was available, he never wanted them removed.

 

-False Gods, page 380

 

Someone! Stop him before he ruins another Legion's lore!

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Call me anti-heretical but isn't that the point? Angeron's Legion started using the implants later, it makes some sense that he'd want to keep himself wired up for kill-joys.

No. The point was that any attempts at removing the Nails from Angron would kill him.

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The implants had been grafted to Angron's brain when he had been a slave, centuries before, and though the technology to remove them was available, he never wanted them removed.

 

-False Gods, page 380

 

Someone! Stop him before he ruins another Legion's lore!

Wasn't False Gods the second book? If he didn't manage it then, I doubt he'll manage it now.
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I wouldn't call a fundamental aspect of a character a minor issue. What if we found out that Perturbo had been offered the glory and position that Dorn had first, but turned it down because bitterness for bitter's sake? Or if Lorgar was actually given consent to spread the worship of the Emperor by the Emperor himself and was only rebuked for going slow, and his betrayal was just an excuse to slack off? Neither of those things could be fixed solely because of an ascension. So why would it fix the idea that Angron, the warrior who thinks freedom of any kind is worth any cost, actively chose to keep the chains and remain a slave?
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Angron's face is really "Murder itself".

 

I see the likeness. it's possible.

 

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/eb/eb945f989640b1ab89a57db2e8b4c8d292f506d2bd18c56f9bb41495a9aed23e.jpg

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Guys, think of Betrayer. Its called "retcon".

"ADB fixed it later" is not an excuse. (See also Ward, Matthew; Knights, Grey).

 

And Cormac Airt has summed up my issues with this particular little twist, although I'd like to add that the idea of the implants being easily removed makes the Emperor's decisions about Angron even more baffling.

 

Forcibly abduct him from the only family he's ever known over his objections (by which I mean punching Custodians to death) but honor his wishes to leave the crazy machines in his head?

 

What the heydey ho?

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It is a throwaway line that has since been overruled by novels like Betrayer that actually deal with the subject in a more in depth manner than one sentence.

 

Sorry that it rankled you but it's barely worth a forum topic.

 

I wonder how you will react to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, while we are staying current :P 

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Theres a big list of what the...? Throughout the entire series. Not just graham mcneil, we could just enjoy the stories, and not reread the ones we don't like. It's not just like it's one mans decision either, and while your here blame the editors, because the get to read it first and check for problems. Then blame BL for publishing. Taketh what thine want, leaveth what thine do not.
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I wonder how you will react to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, while we are staying current :P

Anyone who insists that their uniform be tailored so tightly to them that it hampers the efforts of first responders trying to treat a gunshot wound is probably someone the world is better off without.

 

And speaking of out of control vanity, now I am reminded of the hack job this same author did on poor Fulgrim.

 

Index Astartes: Emperor's Children = the tale of the tragic fall of the one Primarch who peacefully united his world with trade, politics, and science, yet was so accomplished in the Great Crusade his Legion alone was allowed to wear the Palatine Aquila.

 

In the hands of McNeill:

Primarch Rennly Baratheon becomes Primarch Ramsey Snow because magic. And not one single thing of value was lost.

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Wait until he finds out that there aren't any other legions besides the Alpha Legion.  There's just the Loyalist side of the Alpha Legion pretending to be the other loyalist legions, and the Traitor Alpha Legion who are pretending to be the traitor legions.

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Pretty sure the line was removed in later printings.

This.  This is the most important thing.  I only have Horus Rising in the trade paperback reprints but I have faith in Laurie Goulding's editing.  And he's been pretty adamant in saying that the trade paperback versions do supersede the mass-market copies.

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Pretty sure the line was removed in later printings.

This. This is the most important thing. I only have Horus Rising in the trade paperback reprints but I have faith in Laurie Goulding's editing. And he's been pretty adamant in saying that the trade paperback versions do supersede the mass-market copies.
Only in the books sold before Angel Exterminatus as the hardbacks and trade paperbacks are reprinted to be in line with the more recent and organized standards of the series.
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In short, it makes absolutely no sense for Angron's implants to be removable and this line has therefore been retconned. I don't really see the issue. Is anyone here still thinking that the Ultramarines are a 2nd Founding Chapter with a Half-Eldar Chief Librarian? No? Let's move on then.

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In short, it makes absolutely no sense for Angron's implants to be removable and this line has therefore been retconned. I don't really see the issue. Is anyone here still thinking that the Ultramarines are a 2nd Founding Chapter with a Half-Eldar Chief Librarian? No? Let's move on then.

 

I'm sure you'll find someone who'd argue the toss with you about it though.

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