This is not true. Dante is not the oldest. Not even close. He is the oldest Blood Angel only. The oldest "known" space marine not counting timey wimey warp fuckery is "Leetu" or as some call him "LE2". He is not the first Space Marine though he is one of the first prototypes.. He survives into 40k. Hes only the only known being to have stood in the presence of all 4 gods of Chaos and neither fallen nor died. We dont know what hes doing now but if i had to guess hes hunting Erebus with a hankering to do some decapitating. Either that or he be chilling in the forgetting city with the King in Yellow planning to storm out of that pocket dimension with an army of NULL blanks to cut the throat of Chaos and unleash the Star Child. There is still the possibility for earlier prototypes to exist of course... And i suppose technically you could argue the thunder Warriors are space marines minus the space... But thus far Leetu is the oldest "Known" space marine. ps; There have long been rumors of surviving Thunder Warriors who would be even older than Leetu. Not canon, and you would have to wonder how they could have survived as they were not like space marines and they basically genetically fell apart in their later life... But perhaps they could have met up with the likes of Fabius Bile or Vasillio fo and found a cure.
This is not true.
Dante is not the oldest. Not even close.
He is the oldest Blood Angel only.
The oldest "known" space marine not counting timey wimey warp fuckery is "Leetu" or as some call him "LE2".
He is not the first Space Marine though he is one of the first prototypes..
He survives into 40k. Hes only the only known being to have stood in the presence of all 4 gods of Chaos and neither fallen nor died. We dont know what hes doing now but if i had to guess hes hunting Erebus with a hankering to do some decapitating. Either that or he be chilling in the forgetting city with the King in Yellow planning to storm out of that pocket dimension with an army of NULL blanks to cut the throat of Chaos and unleash the Star Child.
There is still the possibility for earlier prototypes to exist of course... And i suppose technically you could argue the thunder Warriors are space marines minus the space...
But thus far Leetu is the oldest "Known" space marine.
ps; There have long been rumors of surviving Thunder Warriors who would be even older than Leetu. Not canon, and you would have to wonder how they could have survived as they were not like space marines and they basically genetically fell apart in their later life... But perhaps they could have met up with the likes of Fabius Bile or Vasillio fo and found a cure.
This requires me to research more on this “Leetu”, thank you for this comment ❤️
To be fair, Leetu is kinda in a league of his own
You could also say dreadnoughts too tbf but Leetu sounds incredibly interesting and I hadn’t heard of him before