Editing The Justiciars (section)

==Gene-seed==

To the dismay of Terran and Selenar genetors, the Thirteenth Legion's gene-seed always harboured a tendency towards mutation.  Even after stabilisation with Uriel Salazar's genetic material, the bodies of initiates would sometimes become wildly misshapen during the implantation process.  As the cause of mutation was not readily understood, the genetors simply culled the mutants and hoped for the best.

After the fall of the Legion, the Justiciars came to see mutation as part of Tzeentch's great plans for their brotherhood.  Even marines who fully degenerate into Chaos Spawn are calmly referred to by their old names, although the Thirteenth are not quite so foolish as to look to an officer-turned-Spawn for orders and generally restrain such "blessed" individuals for use against their enemies.  According to the investigations of Inquisitor Camarus El'Ranar, such respect for degenerated Marines is no eccentricity.  The Thirteenth stave off the complete corruption of their ranks by channelling the corrosive power of the Lord of Change into a chosen few.

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