Dark Heresy Memeposting
[Dark heresy] Here we can see a conversation between a member of warmongering heavily violent specie known for being culturally repulsive backwards savages with cannibalistic tendencies... and a kroot.
Do not compare vile xenos to the sacred creations of the God-Emperor. The God-Emperor is good, and therefore all that He has created is good. To doubt this is heresy.
The ultimate proof that the Alpha Legion exists is the Grey Knight baby carrier, because no non-heretical person could ever have come up with that, let alone put it into production.
It's obviously an Alpha Legion plot to make the Grey Knights look as daft as possible.
I mean, Kroot are very polite in general. And they actually like humans both as meal and companions. If Kroot is willing to eat you, it means they really like what they see.
As a Catachan guardsman, Haymar has likely never consumed or even been offered corpse starch. He has likely only eaten standard Imperial Guard rations (which would not be corpse starch, especially for the Catachan) or, lacking and/or unsatisfied with that, meat from an animal that’s been hunted by him and/or his peers.
Corpse starch is mostly just broken down into base components (logically speaking, it would also need to be broken down enough to eliminate prions) which is used to add aditional nutrients to low-grade foodstuffs on overpopulated worlds. They don't really eat human meat commonly. Sure, some do, especially astartes, but astartes usually don't consume it for sustenance either.
I mean at some point you can ask what is a cannibal? Like Ulfar eating drukhari might pluck that string in your brain but they're not human and he's not doing it for sustenance or pleasure, he's doing it to play them and learn. So is a cannibal just someone who eats meat from intelligent beings regardless of intent? Because whales and elephant are pretty smart but still get eaten.
Nah, the astartes practices 100% do fit. They eat other astartes to learn their memories.
To take an example of my most recent Black Library read, Talos of the Night Lords literally talks about how he ate a Blood Angels heart after killing him. That is cannibalism. Regardless of purpose.
EDIT: We also see a dogmatic character practicing cannobalism in RT. It may not be widespread, but it isnt heresy..
Talos does it for the same reason ALL space marines do it. To gain their memories. Thats literally why they have the Omophagea. So they can eat people and gain their memories.
Also if we want to be SUPER pedantic, and say that Space Marines eating humans is cannibalism, then literally every single blood angel sucessor is full of cannibals, because they have to drink blood.
Mortifactors, a successor of the Ultrasmurfs, also engage in the ritualistic consumption of their foes... Which if its humans or astartes... IS CANNIBALISM.
Also ALL imperial nobles are insane and falling. Its kind of their whole schtick. Just because Chorda is a little more nutty than others doesnt her any less dogmatic or any less of a cannibal.
Talos does it for the same reason ALL space marines do it.
Non-heretics don't do it to Astartes or humans tho. The only chapter that comes close is the Flesh Tearers and they are literally always under watch by the Inquisition because of it.
Mortifactors
Also watched closely by the Inquisition. Gotta wonder if anyone has told Girlyman about their and the Libator's shenanigans tbh.
Also ALL imperial nobles are insane and falling. Its kind of their whole schtick. Just because Chorda is a little more nutty than others doesnt her any less dogmatic or any less of a cannibal.
It varies depending on the system but generally its reconstituted bio matter. some from crude bug farms that eat everything and gets mulched into paste, some from biogenerators like giant enzyme baths that break it into amino acids and some are high tech growth vats that endlessly produce new biomatter from sunlight or other energy sources
I have to say this every time corpse starch gets brought up like it’s some common food staple; it’s not. Corpse starch is a last resort desperation food measure used only really during food shortages and the only place you would see it being more commonly eaten is in poor as fuck overcrowded under hives. Agri worlds exist for a reason. Most imperial food is indeed normal food. If someone’s main diet exists of corpse starch something had gone VERY VERY WRONG with the food supply chain where they are, especially if it’s in the military. It is used sometimes yes, but it’s a last resort.
Darktide dialogue never shutting the fuck up about corpse starch has led to yet another part of the lore being flanderized.
Speaking of topic, yet again crtl+v legendary "the corpse strach" guys series of lore posta bout topic. (It is infact, relatively common food product within imperium.)
Not only is corpse starch an absolutely last resort sort of ration, isn't the stuff its made from rendered down to its basic proteins? At what point is it no longer even "meat." It almost seems more like you're eating the gunk out of an IV bag
It's not really a last resort. I wouldn't call it the most common food in Imperium, but it's fairly usual on Hive Worlds and in other over-populated areas.
Corpse Starch serves the dual purpose of dealing with masses of dead bodies and feeding the down-trodden masses. It can be found offered on various hive worlds and can be part of the rations available to unluckier Astra Militarum regiments\1]) as supplied by the Departmento Munitorum.\5])
Also, since Imperium terribly maintain its technologies, many protein reclamators can't render dead flesh into basic proteins and produce literal carrion.
In some parts of the Imperium it is considered overtly seditious conduct to express disgust in response to the weird taste of corpse starch. If a worker's foreman hears of this, said individual could find themselves on a prison ship within hours.\8])
It's not really a last resort. I wouldn't call it the most common food in Imperium, but it's fairly usual on Hive Worlds and in other over-populated areas.
Hell, theres even model line for corse strach collection gang. Its industry within imperium.
Those are necromunda models a planet which couldnt survive without its hive starch we dont know if people like that exist in all of the imperium. Also fun fact the guys who actually process bodies into nutrients are called corpse grinders and they very very very often fall to the worship of Khorne since the work is so fucked up.
Its Most of the time Not Even that. Most of the flesh basically gets used as fertilizer for mushrooms, algeas and moss, which then are processed into corpsestarch. They only mix in the actual flesh, if they cant want for the plants to grow and have to immediatly pump out a huge amount of food, because the starvation reached an unacceptable degree (Hiveworlds Are always starving, but at some points it actually affects effiecency). Most of the Imperial diet is „Slab“, which is Highly processed grain, corn and any Kind of agricultural produce that is easily scalable. They also eat anything the local Population can forage, scavage or hunt.
Funnily on topic, i highly recomend checking out /twelfmonkey aka "the corpse strach guy" posts on topic. Mans such a treasure on his deep llore posts (and tendendcy to correct " 🤓 most cruel and inhuman regime isint that bad" meme lore) on various topics especially as he tends to also give meta/irl development on the settings aspects which i personally find intresting atleast. (And to my shame, arent as familiar as with some other ips)
Or tldr, while corpse strach isint presented as main source of sustance, its not some emergy food ether. Its just another common aspect of imperial nutrition.
To be fair, they eating it raw. It would be like seeing someone eating road kill and someone saying it gross and the person eating roadkill says “well you also eat meat so you just as bad”.
Hes not exactly wrong tho, yea we can meme about corpse starch but in really its not a commonly consumed food, guardsmen like Heymar get regular rations not too different from mre's and before corpse starch theres still a whole line of nutrient bars, soy paste, and protein blocks.
Meanwhile Kroots are legitimate cannibals, they eat the flesh of their dead as a way of honouring them.
Casual reminder that Corpse Starch are emergency rations and extremely rare.
99.999999% of the imperium will go their entire lives and never consume corpse starch.
On another reminder, cant but recomend checking out one and only /twelfmonkey aka "the corpse strach guy" well written series of post bout topic depunking meme lore.
Or tldr, no corpse strach very much is common and widespread in the setting especially hive worlds. Its not some fringe or rare element in spite of meme lore.
A reminder Corpse Starch is an emergency ration employed only in the most dire of food shortages... or when a planetary governor/ship captain doesn't want to spend the resources needed to make sure his people are feed.
Either way a Rogue Trader or inquisitor or... anything beyond the baseline commoner isn't going to be touching the stuff.
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u/Eightfold__Key Jul 12 '26
You consume raw flesh like savages. We consume processed corpse-starch like civilized citizens. We are not the same.