Space marines the emperors wrath given a body and covered in armor. Standing at 2.1 meters and weighing 500-1,000kg in their armor.
These transhuman warriors stand in opposition to Xeno and chaos beings alike. But like anything the emperor created it could not stand the test of time and corruption. The horus heresy had changed many legions or now chapter after the codex.
Brothers that once thought betrayal was impossible now looked at each other with suspicion. Few still fought for humanity and the rest only in the name of the emperor and humanity was only second to them.
Few in number yet they fought all over the galaxy. Becoming one was a pride of many and a dream probably never to be achieved for most.
Odin showed the trio the items which awed the guardsmen. To them, such things were hope manifested as even a single deathstrike missile was worth more than a hundred thousand men the true apathy of the imperium.
But sadly they did not have anything to get these hopes and rather than fight they just wanted to go home. The space marine looked at the weapons and grabbed the silver ball he looked it all around and was confused by its workings.