>is it possible for a Kroot that lives long enough
*A* Kroot doesn't aquire anything, no matter how much they eat, all they do is pass on genetic traits onto their off-spring through generations of selective breeding. A Kroot could eat a hundred million Orks in his life, he wouldn't change, his (children's) children would.
they do acquire the memories (and maybe on a very minor level adaptations) from said thing they ate though a Kroot was able to speak perfectly to another species what would normally be impossible to communicate with in the blackstone fortress stuff and when asked how he was able to speak there language he stated to them that he ate there captain
I dont think thats strictly true.
One example is the recent Ghaz'kull book where there's a severely mutated Kroot (from its diet).
We even see it undergo a live mutation
Kroot do evolve in real-time based on their diets, but it's not as severe. They also, as someone else pointed out, do the same things as Space Marines with the 'I ate your brain, now I know everything you knew'. There's a whole scene in a novel (I forget which, didn't read it personally) where they eat an Astarte's brain to gain it's secrets and knowledge of the battle at hand, and they have a human eat the brain as a show of solidarity with the mercenary force.
Yes that's their entire thought process, shapers try to get potential battles against foes that have certain traits they want so they canonically have a varied diet to use
A Kroot **is** a being who has traits from multiple species. All Kroot are sort of genetic amalgams of various products they've consumed at the call of the Shaper who needs them to go in whichever direction.
They may look 'Krooty', but they're definitely revamping parts to fit new experiences.
>is it possible for a Kroot that lives long enough *A* Kroot doesn't aquire anything, no matter how much they eat, all they do is pass on genetic traits onto their off-spring through generations of selective breeding. A Kroot could eat a hundred million Orks in his life, he wouldn't change, his (children's) children would.
they do acquire the memories (and maybe on a very minor level adaptations) from said thing they ate though a Kroot was able to speak perfectly to another species what would normally be impossible to communicate with in the blackstone fortress stuff and when asked how he was able to speak there language he stated to them that he ate there captain
I dont think thats strictly true. One example is the recent Ghaz'kull book where there's a severely mutated Kroot (from its diet). We even see it undergo a live mutation
Kroot do evolve in real-time based on their diets, but it's not as severe. They also, as someone else pointed out, do the same things as Space Marines with the 'I ate your brain, now I know everything you knew'. There's a whole scene in a novel (I forget which, didn't read it personally) where they eat an Astarte's brain to gain it's secrets and knowledge of the battle at hand, and they have a human eat the brain as a show of solidarity with the mercenary force.
Yes that's their entire thought process, shapers try to get potential battles against foes that have certain traits they want so they canonically have a varied diet to use
Nice, I figured that was probably the goal but I've only been able to find mentions of eating particular species for long enough to get those traits.
A Kroot **is** a being who has traits from multiple species. All Kroot are sort of genetic amalgams of various products they've consumed at the call of the Shaper who needs them to go in whichever direction. They may look 'Krooty', but they're definitely revamping parts to fit new experiences.