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Always kinda wondered cause every living thing has to excrete waste somehow. Not trying to offend anyone just thought in a hypothetical situation if our minis were real or if you were the one in the power armor and had to take an immediate number 2 what would they/you do? Maybe they have a flap like on the old style pajamas. If that is the case then how would they then wipe? Power armor doesnt seem to allow you to reach your butt. Maybe they have budays in their toilet. That is for the dakkaites to comment on.

They probably have waste reclamation systems not unlike the stillsuits in DUNE (which handled both liquids AND solids. Liquids were filtered and the water reclaimed and stored for rehydration. Solids also had water reclaimed and the dehydrated leftovers stored for dumping later. )

All of this is IIRC, it's been a while since I read the book, but I seem to recall the cutaway in the RT book might have mentioned something like it).

Honestly, I've never thought about this. I imagine my minis fighting, not taking dumps. However, now that you've put the question out there, I'd have to agree with chromedog. I'm sure power armor has some sort of system to store waste. If not, I guess everybody's favorite space marines wear diapers.

I imagine my enemies taking dumps while they fight be, cuz they're scared. So I think it is important that they keep their dumps in their armour so my delicate Eldar feet don't step in them.

Thats exactly what i was thinking if something scared the crap out of them what would happen with the waste. A system inside the suit does make sense. So what about plague marines would they have something since their suits are all rusted?

Plague marine power armor is made out of poop, so they just make themselves stronger when they have a BM. It's why they have FNP, they crap in an attempt to repair themselves.

Thats hilarious they are the mean green poop marines.

just imagining a squad of termies behind cover, armoured buttflaps open, just remember to turn powerfist off before wiping!!!

I'm in the midst of converting some plastic Nobz into Meganobz. They will now be issued butt-wipe runtz. Thanks for the heads-up.

Marines recycle their own waste within their own bodies. Pretty sure I read that somewhere.

Glad I could contribute to this mature, intelligent thread.

Brother SRM wrote:Marines recycle their own waste within their own bodies. Pretty sure I read that somewhere.

Glad I could contribute to this mature, intelligent thread.

I don't think you were smart enough to understand the intricate philosophical musings that we've been pondering in this thread thus far.

Would the Shpess puppies have to bing along poopa scoopa's??

Whats even worst is that Marines are all sacred about their dead but when people die they usually crap themselves. Then they have to remove the gene-seed, YUCK!!!!!!!

Space marines aint fearless but they dont get scared easily and it would have to be very scary to make them poop.
Do the salamanders have flaming poop?

How do Orks poop?

Marines don't POOP! They are like modern women. No farting or pooping required!

Lord-Loss wrote:
How do Orks poop?

They secrete all waste products through their pores.

snotlings are their poop after itstarts to grow as stated in their codex in WFB

as for their power armor i would say,they would have to find a safe spot power down...watch this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A

and go back to war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brother SRM wrote:Marines recycle their own waste within their own bodies. Pretty sure I read that somewhere.

Glad I could contribute to this mature, intelligent thread.

I don't want to get into that whole reality thing when I'm talking 40Hams, but I'm about to.

Even for a Space Marine I'd imagine that cycling waste through the body system isn't healthy. It kills normal people fast, like super fast. You can't dissolve all material from eating into nothing by magic in the body. It's going to back up and it's going to cause a series of serious problems.

If I had to make a guess I'd think that Space Marines are actually given colostomies and some form of permanent catheterization along with their black carapace. So instead of ever actually needing to poop they just press a button somewhere and the excrement comes out of the suit from some port.

i have to amet how do orks poop they can't just stand up or anything in a war

This thread is bad, and you should all feel bad about it.

Awww cmon cheese you cant say you didnt giggle just a little bit reading this.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....HA

Hulksmash wrote:Marines don't POOP! They are like modern women. No farting or pooping required!

Somebody needs to tell my wife that.