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Old 12-29-2014, 08:37 AM   #488
jason taylor
 
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Default Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

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Originally Posted by Hans Rancke-Madsen View Post
But what I was questioning was whether an Imperial marine in full battle armor carrying a lethal weapon would be as quintessential and iconic an image to all the people of the Third Imperium as a Knight in Shining Armor.

To some? Possibly. To most? That I doubt.


Hans
The main picture I had of knights when I was young was Ivanhoe, and Otto of the Silver Hand. Most of the knights in those were thugs. And that was Romantic literature.
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