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Author: Chabal2

May 29th 2015 at 3:46:32 AM

^^^ Mutations are definitely considered bad in-universe, since they're associated with the Dark Gods who hand them out to favored followers. Similarly, psykers can have their heads explode into daemonic portals if they don't receive years of training and indoctrination (and even then it still happens) due to their connection with the Warp (the psychic dimension where daemons live).

Genestealers add their own genetic material to hosts, with each generation showing progressively more Tyranid traits like claws, exoskeletons, or extending mandibles (though they somehow manage to hide them from sight until the final generation of purestrain genestealers). The hosts are indistiguinshable in society unless discovered.

The Red Scorpions refuse to work alongside any soldiers whose genetics are in question. Ogryns (nine-foot-tall HeavyWorlders with the intelligence of children) are a subrace of humanity and considered impure by the Red Scorpions (but not the Imperium in general). Imagine if an American special forces unit made up of Texans refused to work alongside non-Americans for ideological reasons, then imagine if it refused to work alongside any non-Texan soldiers for the same ideological reasons.