Editing Ultramarines Honour Company (section)

==Implications==
While nothing about this company actually breaches the [[Codex Astartes]], there are a couple of worrying implications surrounding the fact that it exists.

*Despite being made up of elements drawn from several different chapters, in every depiction so far ''(which is not many)'' the uniform is almost identical to that of the [[Ultramarines]] second company, they bear the Ultramarines chapter iconography and most obviously have even taken the "Ultramarine" name. All of which means that the company officially '''represents''' the Ultramarines chapter and whether or not they are actually commanded by the [[Marneus Calgar|Chapter Master]], the Honour Company has unofficially has given them an eleventh company.
*Unlike other small or niche formations such as the [[Deathwatch]] ''(in general)'' or the [[Space Wolves|Wolfblades]], since the [[Second Founding]] and the institution of the [[Astartes Praeses]] there is no actual requirement for the Honour Company to even exist, as the descendants of Guilliman do indeed have very large presence guarding the [[Eye of Terror]], making a single company a bit redundant and perhaps a show of vanity. If the only purpose is then to ensure that the "Ultramarines" have a presence at the Eye of Terror, then the same problem exists as before about granting them an unofficial eleventh company.....That's not very codex.
*Although they are made up of a rotation of squads from the primogenitors, a legitimate question exists about what happens to the void filled by those squads absences in their parent chapter? Every depiction of the Ultramarines organisation shows them at full strength and never accounts for detached marines in the Honour Company or even the [[Deathwatch]], so this could be implied that once a squad / officer departs to the Eye of Terror, they will just refill the company by training up an extra squad OR by importing a squad / officer from the [[Genesis Chapter]] ''(which is what that chapter's main purpose seems to be)''

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