CCRB RECORD No. 0051
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3
The player is a warrior-monk of a militant order serving a church built on the Catholic model.
Space Marine 2 approaches the same setting from the military-monastic side rather than the clerical one. The Adeptus Astartes are organised as fighting monasteries: chapters with chaplains, oaths sworn over relics, battle-prayers and rites of arming. The player is a Space Marine of the Ultramarines, and the authority he serves is a theocracy — the Imperium of Man, whose Imperial Creed worships the God-Emperor through an Ecclesiarchy transposed from the Catholic Church, with cardinals, a supreme pontiff, saints and relics. Unlike Darktide, the player is not a member of the priesthood, and the religious material is carried in ritual and vocabulary rather than in a class mechanic.