Luger, Crash and Stuart vs Ultramarines thread Discussion

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Edit: I realize that Palpatine cannot summon space marines, so his strength is no longer in the equation, but the person from the warhammer 40k verse that summoned them. They serve as Palpatine's guard, but that is as far as Palpatine's Omni-influence goes. (too many unknowns)

Oh yeah, oops, I forgot about that.

Why couldn't Palpatine summon space marines?

The rules say that you can't summon Secondaries from unrelated places other than your world:

In regards to pulling NPCs from unrelated media - for example, I'm Samus but I want to use a Dragon Ball Z's Vegeta in my roleplays - this is generally a no.

Although, upon closer inspection and given the way it's worded, that might be more of an OOC rule rather than an IC one, right?

That said, Palpatine would still never have seen a Spehss Mehreen before, so if he had no idea what they looked like, would he even have been able to summon them? Although I guess if he met one of them, who was either a Prime or someone else's Secondary, he would have known from then on.

On a semi-related note: does that mean that it's okay for us to summon Secondaries from unrelated media, provided they're just nameless minions?
For example, if my character saw a stormtrooper wandering around and was all like "Oooo, I want one!", would he be allowed to summon his own?