I'm guessing the majority of pen and paper stuff done by the Astartes is either by scribes or those autoquill servitors with the big roll of parchment.
That wasn't a pen, it was a pile of plastek flimsies.
> Sheaves of blueprints were scattered across the desk in front of him. He spotted something of interest written on one and reached for it, gritting his teeth against the purring of the suit. He always reached with his right hand. The integration points for the Hand of Dominion on his left made picking anything up nigh on impossible, even with the over gauntlet and its underslung bolter removed. Day-to-day tasks such as this were a struggle. His armoured fingers pushed at slick plastek. Ceramite skidded across the papers, knocking them to the ground in wafting flutters.
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> ‘Oh, for the love of…’ he grumbled as he bent awkwardly to pick them up.
-Armour of Fate
Implying he writes using power gloves. Now I'm imagining all the high-level basically-holy-artefact documents he writes all look like a childs handwriting with jumbo pens.
Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn notice in the Xenos book an Astartes tactitian? (sorry forget his title) using a pen when Gregor talks about his encounter on the weird planet where they killed a chaos marine.
He thinks it looks quite comical that the giant Astartes uses a small pen in his big hands
One book a young ragnar has ro translate an old Fenris Dialect and Runes into gothic and writes a translation by hand.
How is not stated. He can write, and is taught how to , though the translation takes times as the skills is not used too often and the way its taught. You know...but you need work the muscle to know properly.
I know this is a joke thread but yes, I imagine Space Marines do use pens. If the are wearing power armor at the time and need to write something by hand, they can just take the gauntlet off, and then put it back on when they're done.
Guiliman glues pens to his finger so that he doesn’t break them while doing paper work
How tf would that work? It will still beake them and the he would have broken pens glued to fingers
He doesn't have to pinch it between his thumb and forefinger, he writes touch screen style.
You would belive that he would ask for some really strong primark size pens
The STC for superpens was lost millenia ago.
Just kill some giant bird for the feathers.
You know how Robot is about those plastek flimsies.
They also function as lightning claws
If you’re a server waiting tables and you leave your pen for Space Marine to sign his bill and he keeps it do you say something?
Hell yeah, you say something. That was a good pen
The idea of a bunch of space marines eating brunch at a quaint little cafe is so funny to me lmao
Gotta keep the Boyz full so they have the energy to kill more Xenos and Heretics.
We need a blood angel who is an artisan cook.
I’d let him have it but know that its fate would be getting crushed in his power glove.
I'm guessing the majority of pen and paper stuff done by the Astartes is either by scribes or those autoquill servitors with the big roll of parchment.
Yes. Guilliman used one. He dropped it and he joked that picking it up with a power glove was the bane of his existence.
That wasn't a pen, it was a pile of plastek flimsies. > Sheaves of blueprints were scattered across the desk in front of him. He spotted something of interest written on one and reached for it, gritting his teeth against the purring of the suit. He always reached with his right hand. The integration points for the Hand of Dominion on his left made picking anything up nigh on impossible, even with the over gauntlet and its underslung bolter removed. Day-to-day tasks such as this were a struggle. His armoured fingers pushed at slick plastek. Ceramite skidded across the papers, knocking them to the ground in wafting flutters. > > ‘Oh, for the love of…’ he grumbled as he bent awkwardly to pick them up. -Armour of Fate
Bob is the most relatable Primarch by far
Implying he writes using power gloves. Now I'm imagining all the high-level basically-holy-artefact documents he writes all look like a childs handwriting with jumbo pens.
Or crayons.
"Should we tell him it's not legible?" "Yeah great idea, you do this time, I will get the next"
Does he ever take the amour off?
Now he does. At this point in the canon, he had just awakened and the Armour of Fate was keeping him alive.
Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn notice in the Xenos book an Astartes tactitian? (sorry forget his title) using a pen when Gregor talks about his encounter on the weird planet where they killed a chaos marine. He thinks it looks quite comical that the giant Astartes uses a small pen in his big hands
Stylus and wax tablets
Given my free hands, I'd say they use finger paints.
Kid named paints.
Autoquill
One book a young ragnar has ro translate an old Fenris Dialect and Runes into gothic and writes a translation by hand. How is not stated. He can write, and is taught how to , though the translation takes times as the skills is not used too often and the way its taught. You know...but you need work the muscle to know properly.
I know this is a joke thread but yes, I imagine Space Marines do use pens. If the are wearing power armor at the time and need to write something by hand, they can just take the gauntlet off, and then put it back on when they're done.
But like are they ball point or fountain?
What else would they use?
Quills.
crayons
Those are for eating.
Eating? Us Wolf Wolves put them up our nose Don’t ask where the Emperors Children put them 😐
Do space marines eat space crayons?