Thank you for your participation! Tragically, you seem to have skipped over every point I made in favor of talking about space marines. It happens! For starters, I know all this about warhammer 40k. I am aware of the space marines chapter makeup, and quite frankly its useless horseshit compared to Destiny’s guardians. I will explain!
In Destiny, the Guardian’s most effective and deadly formation is a team of six. That’s right, six! These six reality-defying people go into a given space fortress, kill thousands of ground troops, and kill their god.
That’s right! Unless the Ultramarines can deploy a literal god onto the battlefield (No, a dweeb with his dad’s sword doesn’t count!) They’re boned!
Now logistically speaking, Destiny does have a good stand-in for space marines for us to determine a general conflict between the forces of the Imperium, and the protagonists of this story. That stand-in would be the Cabal! The best official quote to describe them is "I think you could follow a trail of shattered worlds all the way to their home."
The Cabal are a race of 3-meter tall militant soldiers, indoctrinated from birth to follow their commanders orders and fight to the death. They have six words for “advance” and no word for “retreat!” Guardians wipe the floor with them.
Guardians kick their ass so much the Cabal have been desperate to either create anti-guardian weapons, or steal their reality-breaking powers for themselves. All of these plans have failed, and the Cabal’s God-Emperor, Calus, basically chose to side with the Guardians rather than help invade the solar system and finish off humanity with his world-eating spaceship.
Librarians are also old news! One of the three Guardian types is a Warlock. I’ll let you guess what that does! Just kidding. They float around, throw magic science at bad guys, and play with handheld black holes. Y’know, things that are very much balanced. Librarians aren’t special.
The last safe city would be gone, duh. That’s like a given, but I also wasn’t even remotely talking about it. As a mobile, tangible threat as their own, Guardians have managed to cut down thousands of Cabal, Hive, and whatever else is in their way without the help of the source of their power, the Traveler! When the Cabal put it in a stupid cage, Guardians notoriously said “fuck you!” and shot the Cabal so much that everything turned out okay, which brings me back to my first (and only!) point-
Guardians make their own fate! As has been alluded to by my own original post and everyone else commenting, the actual, tangible reason that Warhammer 40k loses isn’t because of firepower, tactical prowess, or even a lack of either- it’s because Guardians, by existing, fuck with the tangible reality around them to defend the Traveler and the Light, which are both weird and not entirely tangible concepts? The point is less that Space Marines could fight (in that case, space marines would actually lose because being a giant, deadly human doesn't mean much to a much faster, deadlier human) it’s more that, thematically, Warhammer 40k’s message of “we are all lambs to the slaughter” contradicts with Destiny’s objectively better theme of “fuck that.”
TDLR; In 40k, some people regard the Chaos Gods (the apex of power in 40k) as the “player character” in terms of gameplay, as you the player command your troops from an overhead view, for enjoyment! You do a war for fun, so yeah, you’re probably playing as a chaos god! In Destiny every player character has that sheer murderpower. In destiny though, they use that power to kill things like the Chaos Gods, all the time! There’s also millions of them.
Additionally, despite some of Destiny’s goofs and mistakes along the way, it has much more consistent writing than some of 40k’s “sometimes space marines are awesome and do backflips in terminator armor” and “sometimes space marines are canon fodder actually.”
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