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Space Marines eat people's brains to learn their memories.

How does it mix with Kroot ability? For example, if a SM ate a kroot, would he know how to use Tau tech? Ork warp tech?

That could be an alternative to the emperor: give kroot burgers to SM

yes, a space marine that ate a Kroot/T'au/whatever's brain would, temporarly, be able to use the Tech that that creature was familiar with.


Marines don't like doing this because it makes them feel all icky and nasty with all those Xeno memories running around inside. after they do this they usually undergo some sort of cleansing process to remove the memories. they also fade with time, but marines don't like doing that.

Mikalichou wrote:How does it mix with Kroot ability? For example, if a SM ate a kroot, would he know how to use Tau tech? Ork warp tech?

That could be an alternative to the emperor: give kroot burgers to SM

He would know the bits of Tau tech known by the individual Kroot whose brain he ate. Presumably, how to load a pulse shell into a Kroot rifle.

Ok, that gives interesting development opportunities, like a Chapter eating Xenos, to fight them better, but also understand them better. Who knows, maybe eating other people's brains make you like them

(Too much roleplay GMing, can't help but search how the plot could evolve not a good thing with 40K's stasis)

The biological idea behind this is that memories are stored in proteins in the brain. GW makes Space Marines eat these proteins and retransforming them into memories. This is a different mechanism than Kroot and Genestealers use who eat Genes and somehow manage to selectively build these genes into their own genome (Kroot using the advice of their shapers and a second brain around their stomach). As some Ork tech knowledge is encrypted into genes (like their warp drive tech), Kroot were able to copy Ork Tech after eating a Big Mac ... erm ... Big Mec

Mikalichou wrote:

Within the space of a few thousand years, Pech's prime continent was home to five Kroot hives, and factory farming and mining were commonplace.

~"Within the same amount of time than between the end of Roman Empire, and the creation of the United States, the Kroot managed to build five big cities." I love GW's messed perception of time In 40k, it takes around several millenia to build cities, several centuries to build machines, and you probably spend 20 years of your life each time you go to the bathroom.

As for the original subject (what do each Tau related thread end up like this?), what about if Space Marines eat Kroot? And do the CSM still have this eat-to-learn function? Do they use it?

Didn't they go from "hunter-gatherers" to "space-faring hiveworld"? The Tau likewise went from nomadic hunter-gatherers to an advanced empire controlling dozens or hundreds of systems, in about a third of the time it took humans to go from "able to grow simple crops" to "can fly". That all seems like pretty fast advancement to me. (Unfortunately for them, we had a fifty thousand year head start, and control millions of systems, many of which have worlds with populations in the tens of trillions.)

purplefood wrote:

Gridge wrote:There is also the Soul Drinkers to consider. After all their chapter is based around using this ability.

I'm almost certain it isn't.

I think Gridge meant the Flesh Tearers. I also distinctly remember one "-drinkers" SM chapter doing the same. Dont remember exactly which one, and really not interested in looking it up atm.

On a tangent, what would happen of the Kroot ate Nids?

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Gridge wrote:There is also the Soul Drinkers to consider. After all their chapter is based around using this ability.

I'm almost certain it isn't.

I think Gridge meant the Flesh Tearers. I also distinctly remember one "-drinkers" SM chapter doing the same. Dont remember exactly which one, and really not interested in looking it up atm.

On a tangent, what would happen of the Kroot ate Nids?

Flesh Tearers and Blood Drinkes areinfamous for their less than kosher rituals... they don't really hide it very well...

purplefood wrote:

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Gridge wrote:There is also the Soul Drinkers to consider. After all their chapter is based around using this ability.

I'm almost certain it isn't.

I think Gridge meant the Flesh Tearers. I also distinctly remember one "-drinkers" SM chapter doing the same. Dont remember exactly which one, and really not interested in looking it up atm.

On a tangent, what would happen of the Kroot ate Nids?

Flesh Tearers and Blood Drinkes areinfamous for their less than kosher rituals... they don't really hide it very well...

lol less than Kosher.

this has gone from secrets of the kroot to how their body works to brain eating space marines!

we should probably get back on topic.