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But really how much nutrience can you get from already broken down food?

Plenty, depending on how well Space Marines are able to process the poisonous stuff like Urea.

Ronin-Sage wrote:

I believe some chapter out there(Ultramarines?) drink fine wine as a tradition, too.

Why am I not surprised?

An FFL chapter?

Space marines are known to frequent chinese buffets. But really I think I have read that they hunt for game somehwere in the lexicanum.

Sisters of Battle

MightyGodzilla wrote:Sisters of Battle

Nah, too tough and stringy

nomotog wrote:Can't they eat everything? One of there "crazy why do they have that powers" is that they can absorb the memory of people they eat, so every now and then they take a bite out of the enemy.

I don't like that part; It's like I eat your finger and suddenly know that you keep pR0n flicks under your bed and that your aunts name is Jane. To me it seems that this part of fluff has started to exist in a childish office fight between two codex autors. "Yor Spees Meweens can survive vacuum, yeah? then my Eldar now have superhuman reflexes, hah!" other guy: "superhuman reflexes? how intresting! Because my Marines can have the memories of the fallen in their heads now if they eat their flesh!" "oh yeah? .....&%!!? "§!%&°!!......

I think you need to eat the brain to get the memories.

Yeah I think so - I did watch a documentary where an Octopus leaned to navigate a maze by eating another of its kind which had completed it…….not sure if it ate the whole thing

Anything they like...

I always imagined a chapter having around 7000 servants that dealt with stuff like Cooking and cleaning and the Marines just ate whatever was placed in front of them when not in battle.

In battle I remember Dead Sky, Black Sun talking about recycled waste.

Space Marines can eat enemies brains and gain recent memories from them.

I 'reckon' that other than recycled poop and baby food/paste, Space Marines would eat whatever was the typical fare for their original culture (ie Ultramarines eat whatever is a staple in Ultramar, Blood Angels eat whatever scraps the Baalites (Baalians, Baalish?) would eat etc etc etc!

coolyo294 wrote:I think you need to eat the brain to get the memories.

Yup, and you mearly get a fuzzy picture of the recent brain activity.

So actually one of the best ways of getting the info is to ask the question you want an answer to. then the creature, even if it doesn't say the information, will certaintly think of the information. then you kill it ad eat its brain and get the information regardless.

They eat a type of paste made out of the waste their armor produces

PrometheusZero wrote:I 'reckon' that other than recycled poop and baby food/paste, Space Marines would eat whatever was the typical fare for their original culture (ie Ultramarines eat whatever is a staple in Ultramar, Blood Angels eat whatever scraps the Baalites (Baalians, Baalish?) would eat etc etc etc!

I wonder what Grey Knights eat, then. (They are based on the moon Titan)

No, seriously, you are probably right. Some chapters even allow alcohol to be consumed, for example Space Wolves. I think that the food of the marines is imported from their homeworld, and if the nourishment of the planet is inexistent/indigestible, then they get it from somewhere else.

Seeing as how GKs spends alot of time away from Titan, they probably eat whatever there is locally(sans anything corrupted)

Grey Templar wrote:Seeing as how GKs spends alot of time away from Titan, they probably eat whatever there is locally(sans anything corrupted)

Nah since they are part of Ordo Malleus, they must eat daemon foetusses(SP?).

Mr Morden wrote:Yeah I think so - I did watch a documentary where an Octopus leaned to navigate a maze by eating another of its kind which had completed it…….not sure if it ate the whole thing

I reamer that study. It turns out that they where following the sent trail of the other octopus. When they removed the sent, they where just as lost as normal.