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After looking at the dark angels codex and noticing alot of robed figures, a thought popped into my head. Who cleans the robes?

Is it some random captured tau citizen that is taught to say "thank you, come again" while manning a dry cleaning booth, or are the cloths all sent off to the nearest hive world and sent back before the chapter runs out of clean undies (we hope)? or some other means?

So I pose this question to you all, who gets stuck with laundry duty for a marine chapter?

Chapter Serfs, generally viewed to be a pretty great job in the imperium if your chapter isn't flesh tears or some equivalent group of mental marines

For Dark Angels all laundry services are done by the Washers in the Dark.

Dark Angels never wash their robes. They wear the same robe for hundreds of year without ever taking it off. That is why they are called the Dark Angels.

nareik wrote:
For Dark Angels all laundry services are done by the Washers in the Dark.

It pains me that I can only exalt this once.

I assume it's Chapter Serfs as has been mentioned or the Scouts do it as part of their apprenticeship.

The Imperial Guard doesn't have a laundry service, mainly as the average useful lifespan for a Guardsman is less than that of his underwear.

Soldiers are expected to maintain their own equipment anyway, that's been the case with militaries for a few thousand years so far, I don't expect it is any different 38,000 years in the future.

 Psienesis wrote:
Soldiers are expected to maintain their own equipment anyway, that's been the case with militaries for a few thousand years so far, I don't expect it is any different 38,000 years in the future.

Nah, Space Marines are more like Knights - they get waited on hand and foot by their serfs (or squires).

Hierophant wrote:
The Imperial Guard doesn't have a laundry service, mainly as the average useful lifespan for a Guardsman is less than that of his underwear.

You know the Imperium recycles all their equipment. All of it.

A guardsmen is less valuable than his underwear.

Hierophant wrote:
The Imperial Guard doesn't have a laundry service, mainly as the average useful lifespan for a Guardsman is less than that of his underwear.

You jest, but judging from this Forgeworld piece, I'd say it's probably true:



Yes, the Death Korps quartermaster is collecting dead mens clothes. Wonder how many times those have been worn before the bullet hole patches outnumber the original material...

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Soldiers are expected to maintain their own equipment anyway, that's been the case with militaries for a few thousand years so far, I don't expect it is any different 38,000 years in the future.

Nah, Space Marines are more like Knights - they get waited on hand and foot by their serfs (or squires).

They're like knights in the traditional, theoretical sense: their time is better spent training for war than doing menial tasks.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Soldiers are expected to maintain their own equipment anyway, that's been the case with militaries for a few thousand years so far, I don't expect it is any different 38,000 years in the future.

Nah, Space Marines are more like Knights - they get waited on hand and foot by their serfs (or squires).

Meant more IRT the Imperial Guard. Soldiers wash their own uniforms, maintain their own weapons, and perform maintenance operations on their vehicles and the like.

And the knights of the feudal age would probably demand that a page wash his tabard, but would leave sharpening his sword or maintaining the armor to himself.

Space Marines maintain their own equipment, but anything you can do to give them more time for actual Astartes work is a good thing.

 foostick wrote:

nareik wrote:
For Dark Angels all laundry services are done by the Washers in the Dark.

It pains me that I can only exalt this once.

I'll drink to that.