Author: drakensis
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Roboute Guilleman had heard occasional rumours that the World Eaters and their brother chapters were rather dismissive of his Codex Astartes. He simply didn't place any weight in those rumours.
Oh, he was certain Angron was putting his own interpretation upon the work but that was understood and quite expected. Not being an imbecile, Roboute had been careful to leave plenty of cracks in the edifice for individualism to thrive. He was fairly sure that more than three-quarters of the Legions were operating within the expected parameters, if not precisely those he had written of.
He had two reasons for believing that the sons of Angron were faithful, if not enthusiastic adherents to proper doctrine.
Firstly, Angron had apparently committed the entire work to memory within a week of being sent an early draft and had maintained a steady correspondence about it, including many suggestions for 'improvements', two of which Roboute had considered worthy of including in the second edition.
Secondly, Chapters derived from the World Eaters would not infrequently request shipments of several thousand copies of the latest edition to ensure they had an ample stock for study and to provide to Imperial Guard and Planetary Defense Force officers near their areas of responsibility. As a gesture of solidarity between the Astartes, Roboute had ordered these be provided at the expense of the Ultramarines chapter.
He would have been genuinely horrified to discover that occasions when these deliveries were delayed were the only occasions that the World Eaters had to provision themselves with conventional toilet paper.
The VIII Legion probably spent more time handling the Codex Astartes than any other Legion. Reading it, not so much.
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