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I for one could not possibly care less, as long as my point gets across in the way in which i intend then simple grammar errors are a very minor concern.

Im pretty sure they dont eat but the mechaical machine that they are rigged up to suplies them with neutrients and stuff they need to live

naughty dreads drink carnations Ensure has a unique blend of prebiotics and antioxidants designed to help support digestive tract health so our entombed marine hero can start his campaign on that right side coprophagous....and Dreadnoughts have living marines inside just think of it as a codex Astarte's approved ICU wheel chair tank...and i think Gideon ravenor's support chair is just a floating dreadnought model......


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so read ravenor's books to find out he lives...he gets nutrients from tubes that go into his stomach

When I read this topic title, I immedaitely had images reminiscent of Robocop in my head.

Probably the best place to leave them too...

Clearly dread...whatever you wanna call em... eat bad grammar...this sentence is probably highly nutritional to them...

Archroy wrote:When I read this topic title, I immedaitely had images reminiscent of Robocop in my head.

Probably the best place to leave them too...

Thats always what I would have figured too, a basic nutrient paste- or perhaps they get fed intravenously. From what I remember, a human brain requires a minimum of about 500 calories daily to maintain function. I would imagine that an enhanced brain like an astartes would require more, plus there is a certain level of vitamins required to maintain optimum performance.

Only in England would nought be a mathematical term, but then only in England is it even used as a word so I'll take your say-so on the matter. For what it's worth my spell-checker only recognizes naught, not nought. :-)

And on topic, a feeding tube and servitors with a juicer!

The nutrition they need probably is probably done through an IV of some sorts. Given being an immobile vegetable with a working brain in a giant fighting life support machine probably lowers the amount of nutrition needed.

Think robocop. same idea.

Baby food!

The never ending agony of their unfortunate victims.

Or peanuts, like elephants at the zoo.

I think that this has been covered before a couple of times, the body is probably being given nutrients through the amniotic bath the marine sits in. And plus it's a flippin space marine. They don't really need much to survive right?

I'm not sure where exactly this is from, but I think in the novel Night Haunter, there is a scene where the dreadnought describes how he feels inside the sarcophagus. Where at some points he can feel his crippled body twitching in the fluid, and "breathing" in the nutrient rich waters. I think of it like how in starwars, they float in bacta tanks when injured.

The dreadnought body itself I believe uses it's own fuel, most likely prometheum, I find it difficult to believe that the energy used to run the dreadnought part would also be able to supply the body in the sarcophagus.

Applesauce. Duh.

So how does the drednought go about taking a big hairy microsoft?

Nah, Dreads run Linux.