It’s even true on a visual level with Space Marines vs. Chaos Space Marines. There are chapters that wear spiky armor covered in skulls, eat the flesh of their enemies and allies alike, drink blood, assassinate Imperial Governors, and kidnap Imperial citizens for their breeding farms.
They are all Loyalists. The actual Heretic warbands are even worse.
Marines Malevolent are like the unofficial line of how evil a loyalist chapter is allowed to be. They regularly shoot through hostages and leave civilians to die horrible fates even when saving them would be no problem whatsoever.
Even when a Black Templar bitches about having to save civilians, it's specifically because he's upset that Space Marines are putting their lives on the line for civilians that are of no value.
Somehow, Chaos Marines are still far worse. At least the World Eaters will just kill you. The rest will find creative ways to turn you into a living ornament, or make you wish that was the worst thing that happened to you.
Hell, what nurgle does even to the space marines is straight up body horror. Episode 10 of Hammer and Bolter shows some of the horrific transformations that they go through, absolutely gruesome
NGL Alpha Legion really isn't that evil when compared to some specific loyalist chapters. Which should really tell you something, that basically the KGB gone rogue isn't that evil when compated to say the Death Spectres or Carcarodons. Like red tithes are some fucked shit.
Very true. Or the governer who tried to be a political reformist was assassinated and replaced with a Chaos cultist before you even got to the planet. (Yes, that happened)
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u/dammitus 8h ago
It’s even true on a visual level with Space Marines vs. Chaos Space Marines. There are chapters that wear spiky armor covered in skulls, eat the flesh of their enemies and allies alike, drink blood, assassinate Imperial Governors, and kidnap Imperial citizens for their breeding farms.
They are all Loyalists. The actual Heretic warbands are even worse.