Re: [Epic] Orks with LandRaiders

From: Tyler Provick <bprovick_at_...>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:36:29 -0400

At 07:04 PM 8/26/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Sauron1 writes; Since the writers at Star Trek just split the omnibrained
>Borg into two camps. I cannot see why the Nids could not have two warring
>hive minds or at least Battle fleets under different dominatrixs, hive
>tyrants or whatever. Some of them may be tired of moving on or a recently
>absorbed race may be not quite absorbed as it appears and influences the
>local mind. The Orks seemed to have escaped the Nids. The Squids they use
>for everything chemical were originally Orks re-engineered by the nids long
>ago, probably in a distant galaxy. The Orks attacked nid hive ships and
>found the half assimilated sqids, and recognized them as Orky and took them
>back to their home worlds. The original history has the Orks believing the
>came to our Galaxy long ago to escape a dark horror. It could have been the
>nids, and the could have followed them here. The Orks have an
>uncontrollable hatred for the nids. Both the nids and the Orks are
>genetically engineered races. May the Orks were the first uncontrollable
>try at genetically engineered warriors. Do you remember those SCI-If
>robotics killing machines that destroyed there masters and continued to war
>on all life? Maybe the Nids are a genetic version. sauron1
>
After a bunch of nids attack a planet, and assimilate it, they in turn are
assimilated by the hive mind so as to reap the benefits of the genetic material.

Do you know what would make a cool campaign. Every win gives 'nids a new
available troop type, as they assimilate and create new species

Tyler
Received on Wed Aug 27 1997 - 14:36:29 UTC