What is the endgoal of the Nids anyways>Eat EVERYTHINGAfter that? When does it end?
>>94740632They don't plan that far ahead. Same way you don't plan past your own death. And you missed the general with this pointless minor spam question.
>>94740632They begin to starve, then ramp up on cannibalism even more than they already do, then die out as an aggressive species that searches out and consumes all its food sources is doomed to.
Eating for each individual nids isnt really their endgoal. Most of them probably don't even have funcional digestive systems, so they aren't really hungry. The "eating" happens via rippers who transport biomass to an assimilator of some sort (usually a metamorphed sporocyst) that actuall converts the material into new tyranids. Each individual tyranid is just a pawn controlled by a hyperintelligent alien mind whose goals are completely unknown. All that we know is that each individual hive fleet wants to expand it's stock of biomass (which is just a series of rare elements that they scavenge) as much as possible. And hive fleets do fight each other, but only sometimes, so presumably there is some degree of coordination and social structure between norn queens. >>94741724Tyranid "cannibalism" isn't really cannibalism in the traditional sense. It happens when a hive fleet deems it necessary to cull it's numbers and reduce specimen into core elements for transportation or when recycling fallen tyranids in combat. They would never grow uncontrolled and collapse into eating eachother.
>>94740632They move on to the next galaxy, obviously.
>existential philosophy for hungry hungry aliens
The 'nids are a biological weapon created by the old ones, the hive mind is actually the surviving old ones who fled the galaxy (the slanni aliens are devolved old ones) who merged their consciousness and biomass into one weapon as a final fuck you to the Necrons who pushed them out of the galaxy, the Eldar who replaced them and the Orks who got out of control. Nids vs. Crons is the final destination.yes this is stolen from the Precursors and Flood from Halo
>>94740632When the hivemind sees the Pharos go off it's described as sleeping, with eyes looking for a sign of the next meal
They could be a hyper-evolved species from another galaxy which consumes biomass to support and grow the hive mind which is their species’ ascended form.Also, going by lore there’s no way galaxy can stop them unless GW retcons their strength hard. The only chance is if the Necrons can fuck them up like how the Stargate TV show dealt with super-strong threats by having them fight and cancel each other out. Like the Necrons hits them with tesseract tomb or something goofy and the Hive Mind decides they’re a threat which can’t avoided.
>>94740632Considering they're coming from outside the galaxy, they'll probably just move on to the next one. Their end goal is getting more food, that's it.
>>94741949That’s the tyranid dilemma. They are just too strong so GW has to just keep them at bay with small probing attacks in order to not completely destroy the setting.Like, the Necrons have tech like the bullshit orrery that can just delete any star in the galaxy which means certain doom to any civilization but that would barely slow down the tyranids. Release a nasty bio-weapon on them and they just “evolve” (tyranids don’t actually evolve individually, it’s intelligent design) to have it not affect them. They have tiny supply lines that are incredibly hard to disrupt, Unless they go the brute force route with weapons that outright disintegrate entire hive fleets (which is possible, necrons are also broken and fit in this dilemma), they would have a hard time dealing with nids.
>>9474194999% of Necron tomb worlds aren't awake yet. It's flat out stated that Necrons vastly outnumber humans
ITT blind men continue to misidentify pachyderms.
>>94741839Yep. Tyranids eat and gather biomass for reproduction, not for survival. Survival would be as simple as creating a bunch of plant-tyranids and parking themselves next to a star.Tyranids could have stayed in their previous galaxy and farmed suns until the heat death of the universe if the only goal was to not starve. Their goal is to expand. There is no step 2. Just like how Orks don't have a step 2 beyond fighting.
>>94740632Devouring entire universe will take so much time it's really pointless for Hive Mind to even ponder this question.
>>94740632they move on to the next galaxy to find more things to eat
>>94740632Go back to hibernation deep in space until they detect more biomass to consume
>>94740773>Same way you don't plan past your own deathFound the zoomer.
>>94740632>After that?Find something else to eat.>When does it end?You think the Tyranids think that far ahead. Their thought process ultimately boils down to:>detect food>go to food>eat food>detect more food>go there>eat food>detect more food>go there>eat food>repeatThat the Hive Mind even considered eating the Blood Angels before continuing towards the Astronomican to eat that is its biggest departure in the century or more since it arrived.
>>94742407Nonsense.Orks1: Foight da gitz2:Loot da gitz3: Find new gitz
>>94740773Because no one in the history of humanity has ever bought a grave plot or life insurance or made a will.Fuckin lmao is the intellectual prowess of 40k players?
>>94740632It ends when they have eaten everything and start consuming themselves until nothing is left and the Old Ones can come out of hiding and start a new project
>>94740773> And you missed the generalSay hi to the discord for me
>>94740632(Headcanon) Nids are the endpoint of naturally evolving life that doesn't develop culture or goals or society and still persists in its primal state. They are simply acting.>>94742407I agree, but also I think devouring all other life is part of the optimal survival strategy. It prevents chaos from consuming the universe, or another species from evolving into the Tyranid state.
>>94743784My headcanon is that Tyranids are the Old Ones' "failsafe" to wipe the board clean and bring the immaterium back to a stable condition so they can start a new project.
>>94743784>>94743893>(Headcanon) Nids are the endpoint of naturally evolving life that doesn't develop culture or goals or society and still persists in its primal state. They are simply acting.>My headcanon is that Tyranids are the Old Ones' "failsafe" to wipe the board clean and bring the immaterium back to a stable condition so they can start a new project.I got a different headcanon here.If you look at it, Tyranids don't seem like they are some sort of naturally evolved species. No species in the Milky Way galaxy, even with the most advanced biotech, has stuff Tyranids have.For me Tyranids are not natural evolution. They were created. By whom? Dunno.Betting that the Nids were created by some ancient alien civilization in a extremely distant galaxy as bio-weapons with powerful adaptive self-evolutionary capabilities...only to evolve to the point that they broke from their masters' control and plainly ate their home galaxy.And when the space bugs of death finished eating it, they migrated beyond it to look for more galaxies to consume and assimilate the genetics of said galaxies in order to find biological perfection.All the previous galaxies were small fries until they appeared in the Milky Way galaxy where the Nids encountered actual opposition from everyone.
>>94740632Eat everything means getting bigger. Getting bigger means getting stronger.The purpose of most species. When they reach a certain size it will start to eat its own. Or seperate into several hive beings. We already see this with the different. Than it will be Hive Fleet versus Hive Fleet.
>>94740632Presumably they'll do whatever the fuck they were doing before they locked onto the milky way
>>94740773>muh general dumb fag
>>94740632Consider that with the complete genetic absorption of every sentient being and the memory of their psychic impression left upon it's sensitive galaxy spanning mind the hive mind can, once it is done absorbing everyone else, simply recreate everyone ever and play with it's dollies for all eternity.
>>94740632Ironically tyranids are everything except evolution.
>>94751033Shut the fuck up AM
>>94740632take the universes most painful shit.
>>94740773FPB>you don't plan past your own deathGet a load of this guy who assumes OP hasn't been saved (and is probably correct).>t. currently watching my army of slaves assemble my pyramid rn
>>94740632I love those little bugs like you won't believe.
