The Imbrius Theorem

Imbrius Theorem was the posited solution put forth by Terran gene-wrights during the waning years of the Terran Unification Wars era of the late 90th Millennium to solve the diminishing stability of the Imperial Marines' Inheritance-Helix stores that became rampant through over-use.
The creation of new Inheritance-Helix supplies was strained due to the heavy losses the Imperial Marine Legions of this era took in rapidly expanding the Imperium of Man.
This theorem demonstrated that a sample of a Luminarch's genetic code could be used to stabilize and rapidly expand the supply of that Luminarch's existing Angelus Inheritance-Helix stocks with what was hoped to be "minimal deviation" and mutation from the baseline genetic code.
== History ==
As the Great Crusade continued the expansion of the newborn Imperium Dominus across the galaxy in the late 90th Millennium, the re-discovery of the Luminarchs and their newly adopted homeworlds helped to stem an impending crisis that was not widely known of at the time outside of the exalted ranks of the Imperium's ruling War Council.
Namely, this was the diminishing stability of the Angelus' Inheritance-Helix itself through over-use and the increasing need of the Imperium for ever greater numbers of Imperial Marines in the field.
This was a matter that was only exacerbated as the expeditionary fleets of the Great Crusade pushed ever wider afield into the galaxy. Imperial forces could no longer be concentrated as easily as before, and attrition was taking its toll as the years of near-constant battle became solar decades.
Slowing the pace of the Great Crusade's progress was simply not an option for the God Emperor of Man, and so the simple truth was that more Imperial Marines were needed and they needed to be created faster than had been done using the Inheritance-Helix cultivation and Angelus organ implantation methods of the past.
A secret conclave of gene-wrights under the Emperor's direct supervision posited the solution that became known as the Imbrius Theorem, which demonstrated that a sample of a Luminarch's genetic code could be used to stabilize and expand the Angelus Inheritance-Helix stocks with what was hoped to be "minimal deviation" as to better fill the ranks of these Million-man Legions of the Era Angelus.
Alongside this accelerated gene-culturing technique, other previously unavailable genetic engineering technologies were put into effect, reducing the processing time required to create a battle-worthy Angelus Imperial Marine to a single Terran year to only a few months in some cases.
Such accelerated Inheritance-Helix cultivation techniques, along with absent, inadequate or over-forceful psycho-indoctrination techniques, were later found to have produced unseen fundamental flaws in the Angelus subjected to them.
Category:Luminarch
Category:Imperial Legions