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grav, I see where you are going on the 'Earth rainforests and deserts are death worlds' line of thought. However, I kind of always thought a death world was a bit more extreme that that. Like, giant-monsters-that-defy-explanation extreme, or rains-of-flaming-lizards extreme.

Jimsolo wrote:grav, I see where you are going on the 'Earth rainforests and deserts are death worlds' line of thought. However, I kind of always thought a death world was a bit more extreme that that. Like, giant-monsters-that-defy-explanation extreme, or rains-of-flaming-lizards extreme.

Also constant earthquakes, trees that shoot lightning, explosive snow, and boiling oceans. I wouldn't be surprised if the few things that are actually reasonable to hunt, because they can't hurl 18" long quills at you from 200 meters away are actually poisonous.

There are only two things that are actually safe to eat. One of these things is a species Turkey that always has dry meat. The second is a variety of cranberry that has to be cooked until it's a jiggly, bland-tasting cylindrical mass. It'd be like the a bad thanksgiving, all day every, day for your whole miserable life.

So basically this world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)

IIRC, it said in one of the Imperial Armoury books that when in combat situations, the Power Armour provides the nutrients they need.

When not in combat I would imagine they eat the cuisine of their native worlds.

pdawg517 wrote:IIRC, it said in one of the Imperial Armoury books that when in combat situations, the Power Armour provides the nutrients they need.

When not in combat I would imagine they eat the cuisine of their native worlds.

Correct.
IIRC in Bloodquest,Blood Angles ate Fire Scorpions and other things from their homeworld.

ZoomDakkaDakka wrote:Black Templars are on crusade so often that they probably have to eat on the go, and rarely have the luxury of sitting around at tables.

So you're saying they subsist on drive-thru fast food?

I read it somewhere in the Lexicanum that their power armour can convert their bodily waste into a nutrient paste they can eat in the field if out of rations.

Yes, that is what happens if they run out of Nutrient packs.

this is a practical application of Nanotechnology. there are actual plans to make Diving suits for exploring the Ocean floor that will be able to refine bodly waste at the microscopic level as well as allow for the wearer to breath the ocean water(basically an artificial Gill mechanism)

this would allow for the wearer to remain underwater indefinitly(weather he would want to is another matter)



Marines, while perfectly capable of subsisting on practically anything, will still prefer real food. Wolves in particular hate the nutrient packs and much prefer a haunch of meat and a barrel of beer.

Ultramarines are known for their love of Wine.

Grey Templar wrote:
Ultramarines are known for their love of Wine.

Further proof they are a bunch of mincers.

Wyvern wrote:I read it somewhere in the Lexicanum that their power armour can convert their bodily waste into a nutrient paste they can eat in the field if out of rations.

WTF! AW MAN THAT IS NASTY!

I am sure it doesn't taste bad.


Also, check the dates of Threads you post in. this one was 4 months shy of a year.

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