Why do Space Marines bother interrogating people when they could

>>48934064
Authors forget that they can.

>>48934205
No, it's because it's a stupid bit of lore based on faulty science, that ultimately doesn't make any sense.

They don't forget, they just choose not to draw attention to it, because even 40k authors have to admit that it's retarded.

>>48934064

Because such abilities are propaganda and don't actually exist.

>>48934064
>Why do Space Marines bother interrogating people when they could just eat their brains, /tg/?
Eating brains only gives recent, surface level memories, and they fade away fairly quickly.
And killing the people you are interrogating isn't always the goal. Hell, SMs usually DON'T interrogate people, they leave that to other agencies. Only DA make it a point, and they do not do it to learn information.
>Such as tracking targets by taste.
Or they could leave their helmets on and use their improved senses of sight, hearing, along with the built in auspex of their helmet, to do the exact same thing just as well.
tl;dr You aren't as smart as you think, and you don't know 40k as well as you think to make quips about it.

>>48934064
As has been noted, >>48934248
It doesn't give incredibly detailed information.

Second Concern: Eating the flesh of someone corrupted by Chaos - like say, a Fallen - tends to have very very bad results. Just ask the Kroot.

>>48934248
Actually some novels suggest that SM senses are so good that helmets get in the way of their sight and hearing, and this is why most SGT models are helmetless, to improve their situational awareness. Tac Marines wear helmets for the benefit of auspex and targetting systems.

>>48934064
>Why do Space Marines bother interrogating people

They don't usually.
Dark Angels do it to the Fallen, and only to make them repent, eating them would not do that.

>>48934223
>No, it's because it's a stupid bit of lore based on faulty science, that ultimately doesn't make any sense.
>They don't forget, they just choose not to draw attention to it, because even 40k authors have to admit that it's retarded.

But they intentionally use bad science. Like how Thunderhawks use phlogiston.

>>48934274
The Kroot even ate Necrons. What won't they try & consume?

This is 40k, where knowledge can be very corruptive and dangerous.
I'd say it's much safer to question someone than to potentially suffer some kind of memetic possession or insanity or something.

>>48934248
If eating brains is near-useless, and tracking targets by taste is redundant, why the fuck do they even have those abilities?

Oh yeah, because they're massive Mary Sues who need to have as much "cool" shit as possible, otherwise manchildren on the internet will think they're weak and stupid.

>>48936649
Daily reminder that Astartes genuinely have acid spit that has trouble eating through thick metal in short bursts.

>>48934248
>Or they could leave their helmets on and use their improved senses of sight, hearing, along with the built in auspex of their helmet, to do the exact same thing just as well.

At least in the case of the Space Wolves, wearing helmets actually dull their senses.

>>48936649
>If eating brains is near-useless

It's not, a Marine ate a Tau pilot and learned to fly his pilot his ship.

>and tracking targets by taste is redundant, why the fuck do they even have those abilities?

In case they are outside their usual support network.

>>48936649
>why the fuck do they even have those abilities?
same reason we have real soldiers lug a ton of shit around with them

in case something goes wrong

>>48936585
True. Imagine eating a heretic's brain, and learning sorcerous powers and spells gifted from Tzeentch. You can't just forget that information, and it would kill any faith you have in the Emperor.

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>>48934064
Because the job of Interrogator Chaplains isn't to interrogate purely for information dumbass, it's to make them repent. Fallen are only killed if they try to run and the Legion is forced to shoot them, or after they have repented and they are given the Emperor's Mercy. The greatest accomplishment for any Interrogator Chaplain is making a Fallen repent his sins and beg for forgiveness, thereby saving his soul from Chaos.

>>48934223
It's like knocking back a tin of alphabet soup and reciting a poem it spells out.

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>>48934235
Here's your (you)

>>48934274
It does give detailed enough information for a space marine to learn how to fly an alien fighter-craft/skimmer and whatever language it uses.

>>48936649
The same reason why space marines can spit acid that melts steel beams. Not all of those abilities are meant to be used on the battlefield, but for rare situations they may find themselves in. Such as being captured by the enemy or needing to find out information from something the Librarian can't mindfuck/you don't have a Librarian to midnfuck the prisoner.

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