For example: Lets just say, for the purposes of this thread, a world controlled by a Gene cult. Multiple big B Billions of infected. They reach the end of their cycle with the nid tendrils coming down and in an instant after that moment the entire genestealer population is teleported through the warp, into a clean slate of a universe that has no sapient life but their own. No hivefleet will ever arrive.What then? Do they seed the stars as a race of bumpy psychic forehead aliens? What would they be like? Would they ever develop past losing their shit if suddenly a hive signal appeared? Would they mutate out being genies? Would/could they grow so big as a hive mind that they’d impose *their* wills over a hive fleet if they make contact.If they ‘would’ wither away as a species without hosts i’m permitting a special death to say that new baseline infectible human bodies are to be regularly seeded into the world by some indifferent function of the universe like lightning striking mud or humans falling from the sky. All that matters is that it is at a rate fast enough to sustain the genies and that this phenomenon spreads along with the genies if/when they expand across the universe.
Slowly become a new Hive Fleet.
>>92604624Doubt that. Metamorphs won't turn masgically into spawning pools. They go feral probably.
Happened with Ymgarl, no Hive Fleet was made and the genetics degraded rather considerably. A species capable of producing Biophagus would probably fix whatever went wrong there, but as the nearest case in the Metamorphs is explicitly reliant on some manner of information transfer as an existing Hive Fleet approaches it's unlikely to re-develop without fully re-evolving from scratch.
>>92604533One interesting thing to consider is that, according to one of the Great Devourer novels, genestealer purestrains actually DO have individual personalities and emotional capacities... it's just that when the Hive Mind comes in range, it can "switch off" those mental traits, and whilst genestealers can attempt to resist subsumption into the Hive Mind, it will inevitably happen.So, theoretically, genestealers cut off from the Hive Mind could become a fully functional race in their own right...
>>92606570>genestealers cut off from the Hive Mind could become a fully functional race in their own right...Considering there's somehow almost always a hive fleet in range, this will only happen if they fuck off from the Milky Way
