Sarpedon

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@BCTheEntity I don't know what I'm saying, I say things and let others figure it out.

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@BCTheEntity Marines ranking up happens by seniority, as I understand it. You get put in a squad, and then when your Sergeant gets killed his 2IC takes over and the person who is the second-most-senior becomes his 2IC, so it's not necessarily a matter of having no room for advancement, it just happens slower than in an organization where the turnover is higher. As for librarians, there are multiple levels for them to aspire to, they start out as little more than magical book-keepers, and then get put in charge of progressively more important books as they grow in power and experience. I assume chaplains and techmarines also have their own chains of command they can ascend, you just don't hear about it because it doesn't involve murderfucking aliens or heretics with big fuck-off gunswords.

And Medeis totally could have been Chief Librarian, even if Steve joined up first. Things normally go by seniority, I assume, but the thing about the chain of command, is that those higher up can dictate downward, so if the Chapter Master says "Fuck you steve, you numpty motherfucker, you're not in charge of the library no more" obviously someone has to be. Just because something usually happens, doesn't mean it always happens, that's something I've very recently been coming to terms with.

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@BCTheEntity Medeis was selected by the raven guard specifically as a recruit for the warp skulls, so he's probably the most junior of their veterans. Psychic strength alone is why he's the chief librarian, and not steve.

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@BCTheEntity keep in mind, the Warp Skulls are a relatively young chapter, and even their parent chapter aren't going to sacrifice their best senior marines to supervise the new guys. Yes the leadership of the chapter is relatively experienced, but they aren't quite the ancient, grizzled veterans you seem to be thinking of. "Tone it down" is kept vague to allow you creative freedom for this sort of thing, but the general idea is that yes, your character is powerful, because they've been picked to help lead a whole fucktonne of spess mahreens, but they haven't been around for fuck-off centuries like some chapters have, so being some kind of super-space marine doesn't quite make sense.

Also, on the note of feats. Feats are pretty well exactly why you get promoted, especially in the military. Someone runs up on a machine gun nest and rofl-stomps it while missing an arm and a leg to medevac their buddies? They get a medal, and some officer who's retarded(and they're all retarded, except the ones that used to be NCOs and even some of them get retarded if they drink the koolaid) goes "promote that man, it's good for pr" and now you've got an operator running the show until his take-no-shit-and-give-no-fucks attitude and tendency to send everyone home at noon gets him busted back down. You totally get promoted for being a badass, it just doesn't always stick because badassery doesn't always equate to good leadership, like you said. I don't remember where I was going with that, though...

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@agentmanatee IIRC it took a section-plus of chaos cultists to beat a badly-wounded-and-dying space marine tied up so he could vaguely aim his guns at them.

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Oh, well that makes me feel fuzzy inside. I just have to change his accent in my head.

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@Roosan Why, the correct one of course. There's a distinctive "F" sound in that word.

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@agentmanatee Obviously not...

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@Roosan I'm talking about the British vs American pronounciation.