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My wife and I where talking and a question came up, what do space marines eat? I came up with the idea of something along the lines of what the have in the matrix, that amorpheous goo that looks like rotten milk mixed with flour, it has all the nutrition the human body needs etc... My wife had the idea that they were nutrient bars like in firefly, the kind where a single bite would feed you for an entire day.

Of course the giant feasts are not impossible and unheard of, but what would their daily fare be, and would it be situational, also chapters may take this in different ways as well, such as the space wolves versus the grey nights, or imperial fists.

What do you fluff nuts think?

I read somewhere many years ago that Marines could eat just about anything and get the nutrition out of it. They said rocks would even do in a pinch.

I would guess they are eating some kind of goo also unless it was a special event

I belive it's most often some sort of nutrient rich "goop"....like in RoboCop...

Though SW are supposed to have Great "Feasting/Drinking Halls"..(cause they're Vikings in Space)...so I assume they eat and drink the same way " Normal" folks would...only to a much greater extent.

for sum reason the saying vikings in space made me think up a song using the same words going along the lines of the Men in Tights song from Mel Brooks Robin Hood

In first heretic, they eat a portein paste, the same as the acolytes and the servitors.

FITZZ wrote: I belive it's most often some sort of nutrient rich "goop"....like in RoboCop...

Though SW are supposed to have Great "Feasting/Drinking Halls"..(cause they're Vikings in Space)...so I assume they eat and drink the same way " Normal" folks would...only to a much greater extent.

They eat giant chunks of uncooked meat and drink aviation fuel

Space Marines have a wide varity of diet and it is different with every chapter.


a particularly rigid chapter like the Imperial Fists might just eat some flavorless paste.

Chapters like the Ultramarines would eat a sparten meal. Bread, some local meats, vegetables, and local wine. nothing too fancy.

Chapters like the space wolves would gorge themselves on fine meats and alcohol.


in addition, all marines eat a specilized vitamen supplement that contains are varity of minerals that make up the ceramic-like formulation of their bones.


when in a combat zone, marines eat these specilized nutriant bars that are high in energy. their PA is also able to do a limited recycling of their bodily wastes into a quite flavorless, thank the emperor, paste for emergency rations.

Soul Drinkers subsist entirely on the brains of their foes. Sure, why not?

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Daily_rituals_of_a_Space_Marine

I guess this could help, though it is pretty vague.
I suppose codex chapters eat whatever the codex tells them to and non-codex chapters carry out blood rituals and well, cannibalize.

Grey Templar wrote:when in a combat zone, marines eat these specilized nutriant bars that are high in energy. their PA is also able to do a limited recycling of their bodily wastes into a quite flavorless, thank the emperor, paste for emergency rations.

WTH

It probably be safe to say they eat like normal humans, but in combat its the paste/bar for the meal.

FITZZ wrote: I belive it's most often some sort of nutrient rich "goop"....like in RoboCop...

Though SW are supposed to have Great "Feasting/Drinking Halls"..(cause they're Vikings in Space)...so I assume they eat and drink the same way " Normal" folks would...only to a much greater extent.

That was the first thing that came to my mind.

"Taste like baby-food!"


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xlightscreen wrote:It probably be safe to say they eat like normal humans, but in combat its the paste/bar for the meal.

True, but their required daily calorie intake has to be at least twice the normal human's. Especially since they have secondary organs to maintain.

Hmm, this should be an interesting exercise:
http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/caloriesneed.htm according to this site a Space Marine's daily recommended calorie intake would be around 8000, which is nearly 3 times as much as a normal man's. I based that off of an 8 foot tall Space Marine weighing 500lbs. I put age 20, because although they live for a long time they are built to have a physique of man in the prime of his youth.

Rex-Nine wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:when in a combat zone, marines eat these specilized nutriant bars that are high in energy. their PA is also able to do a limited recycling of their bodily wastes into a quite flavorless, thank the emperor, paste for emergency rations.

WTH

yup.

and in a few years, thanks to nanotechnology, we can build this very thing.


that BMI thing is pretty cool, but it's probably underestimating the calorie requirement because it just goes up to more then an hour a day.

a marine is exercising for at least 12 hours every day(or in a combat zone)




a better equivilant would probably be to look at what Michal Phelps was eating during his olympic training(wasn't it like 20k calories a day?)

not so much "nutrient-rich" more "goop". They eat Burger Emperor every day of the week. Taste is for the Emperor.

Detonator wrote:not so much "nutrient-rich" more "goop". They eat Burger Emperor every day of the week. Taste is for the Emperor.

but thats ok, because marines are able to digest things humans would find inedible

In one of the SW books they eat ration cubes when in the field.

My blood angels eat heretics

space wolves eat anything that's on the menu

other space marine chapters eat nutrient paste

THE ENEMY'S EXISTENCE!

Isn't there something weird were SMs don't need to eat period? and also I think they mention in Brothers of the Snake too that they technically need to eat.

They do need to eat. They don't need to eat anything remotely like what a human needs to eat.

They can subsist on dirt for months on end. No hyperbole, just dirt.

They sure did, what do you think a planet is made from?

Virus bombing only cooks off organic compounds. The ash left from that, and any existing dirt/rocks would suffice them.

The planet was virus bombed and then torched. There is literally nothing left. Ash is just carbon. I find it hard to believe a Space Marine can be sustained on just pure carbon.

What does a 7 foot tall genetically-engineered super-soldier eat?

tavoittamaton wrote:What does a 7 foot tall genetically-engineered super-soldier eat?

Spoiler:

Whatever he wants.

QFT

Newborns.

The goop will definitely taste like chicken.
Everything tastes like chicken when people get asked on the telly

expect that even newborns taste like chicken
Blimey, would hate to watch that vox pop.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:The planet was virus bombed and then torched. There is literally nothing left. Ash is just carbon. I find it hard to believe a Space Marine can be sustained on just pure carbon.

They don't care if you find it hard to believe, because they canonically can for several months.

Also, there wasn't "nothing" left. The exterminatus' efficiency is clearly propaganda, as those books point out the thousands of survivors.

DarknessEternal wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:The planet was virus bombed and then torched. There is literally nothing left. Ash is just carbon. I find it hard to believe a Space Marine can be sustained on just pure carbon.

They don't care if you find it hard to believe, because they canonically can for several months.

Also, there wasn't "nothing" left. The exterminatus' efficiency is clearly propaganda, as those books point out the thousands of survivors.

No it's not. Please provide the page number were i says "and then Loken ate a burnt rock."