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Right, I've been trying to find an answer, but I have been unable to see it anywhere. What exactly do Chaos Space Marines eat? Normal marines eat (apparently they eat a tonne of food each day, because every meal is a feast to them.) But what do their spike covered brethren consume? The reason I'm asking is because many marines are fused into their own armour and occasionally have horns going out of their heads, so I'd assumed they can't take their helmets off to eat. But are they like Chaos Warriors from WHFB who have no need to eat, sleep or drink?

Depends on the individual Traitor Marine. There are entire worlds in the Eye that are given over to the production of food, just like there are in the Imperium. This food can be eaten by any CSM that isn't fused to his armor. Those who are? They might feed through an external tube, or by direct nutrient injection through the med-dispensers in their armor, or they might not need to eat at all.

Rubric Marines simply do not eat. They have no need for it.

I hadn't given this very much thought, now that you mention it. It's kind of like novels and movies where noone ever needs to go to the toilet.

I guess some of their raiding of Imperial worlds could be to source food. As Psienesis said, some warbands would also have the traitor equivalent of agri-worlds.

I agree that some wouldn't have to eat at all. A Plague Marine probably isn't too fussed about eating, especially if his stomach is already half rotted away. However, Slaaneshis would probably be more concerned with eating, given that it might give them some sensation before they move onto warp-dust permanently.

But I guess if they had to eat and were fused into their armour, they'd have to eat through a tube. Beyond destroying difficult-to-obtain armour, that's their only option.

 Zed wrote:
I hadn't given this very much thought, now that you mention it. It's kind of like novels and movies where noone ever needs to go to the toilet.

I guess some of their raiding of Imperial worlds could be to source food. As Psienesis said, some warbands would also have the traitor equivalent of agri-worlds.

I agree that some wouldn't have to eat at all. A Plague Marine probably isn't too fussed about eating, especially if his stomach is already half rotted away. However, Slaaneshis would probably be more concerned with eating, given that it might give them some sensation before they move onto warp-dust permanently.

But I guess if they had to eat and were fused into their armour, they'd have to eat through a tube. Beyond destroying difficult-to-obtain armour, that's their only option.

Naa they just sustain off cocaine..

As a secondary question i wonder what Chaos marines off times are like.

I suppose a Chaos Marine in his off time will do whatever he wants. Chaos Golf or Chaos Surfboarding. The whole point of being a CSM is that you are free to do whatever you want (within reason).

welshhoppo wrote:
What exactly do Chaos Space Marines eat?

SOB of course.

Chaos Marines eat Soylent Green.

Khorne Flakes, duh.

Babies.

Human babies are the norm, but Tau babies are a delicacy (because they grow so fast).

Pancakes with nutmeg....

Slaanesh dedicated marines take a daily suppository of all the nutrients their god deems they need

Is this like, "where does a 900 pound gorilla sit?" - "anywhere it wants."

...

What does a Chaos Space Marine eat? Anything he wants.

Like many aspects of Chaos Space Marines, this is one of those things that wasn't very well thought out. I've never seen it explicitly answered in the fluff. (Except for when they're eating a part of someone to show how awesomely evil they are.)

Like many aspects of Chaos Space Marines, it only works if you don't look too closely at it.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Like many aspects of Chaos Space Marines, this is one of those things that wasn't very well thought out. I've never seen it explicitly answered in the fluff. (Except for when they're eating a part of someone to show how awesomely evil they are.)

Like many aspects of Chaos Space Marines, it only works if you don't look too closely at it.

I always figured they actually did eat human, eldar, or tau babies. Babies that they had raised to love them for several months before devouring them suddenly like fat bastard.

Fat Bastard is a Nurgle worshipper.

 SickSix wrote:
Babies.

Human babies are the norm, but Tau babies are a delicacy (because they grow so fast).

This is just self-made answer without background support: I like to imagine the EoT as a nightmare-like flowing place-time. And it only works if you look at it. It has no inner substance, no self-entity. As Chaos Gods do, it doesn't work/matter if no one is looking. Like here:
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Just_Don't_Look

So, it has no real inner-coherence. It's like in a dream, where things flow in a surrealistic way. In the EoT, a Traitor only experiences the relevant parts of his story. Eating, going to the toilet, etc. are not relevant, so he doesn't really do it. Fighting, suffering, desiring, experiencing or despairing, hating and so on are relevant, so his full existence consists of doing this things. Hence, Eternal War, funnily flowing time, etc.

In a way, Chaos Space Marines are just and only an Imperial nightmare. But, as said, this is only my grognard point of view. It's not how things have evolved in the last twenty years of background completition, where many holes have been filled with plausible theories: where do new Traitor recruits come from? Where do they get their wargear and supply?, etc.

We drink the tears of loyalists.

And the butt-hurting from Heldrakes gives us really enough substance to keep going.

I imagine some kind of nutrient paste, with Heldrake cheese for afters.

*Caresses self* "Mmn. Your tears of butt rage are so sweet."

*Melts Sternguard with Baleflamer*

I guess spending such long times in the warp does a lot of things to a marine.. Since time is meaningless in the warp, does your body still age and function? Do you still digest inside the warp? Considering the high amounts of warp energy, would you even need glucose from food?

DEMON BACON.

that is all.

Regular space marines eat next to nothing.

 Engine of War wrote:
DEMON BACON.

that is all.

A demon bacon sandwich on Khorne bread.

 SickSix wrote:
Human babies are the norm, but Tau babies are a delicacy (because they grow so fast).

I would think that Eldar ones are best due to low birth rate + powerful soul for Slaanesh.

I'll go with Doug Benson's answer for how Bane eats: smoothies

I like to think they eat bunnys.

Obviously they don't eat at all..

They are fueled by the epinephrin of life!

The Big E and Inquisition has tricked their entire population of the imperium into thinking that they need to eat when in reality all they need is a wee dash of CRASSUS ARMORED ASSAULT TRANSPORT injected into their body.

Freman Bloodglaive wrote:
Fat Bastard is a Nurgle worshipper.

I got a laugh out of this lol