At 06:48 AM 8/27/97 PDT, you wrote:
>You wrote :
>
>>>Can anyone think of an excuse for the Nids to fight each other?
>
>Well, why not?
>Two years ago, the contact was lost with Xantus, a hive fleet had
>invaded it. The Imperial Guards were destroyed but not without
>fighting until the last man : their resistance was so strong and they
>had inflicted so damage to the Tyranids that their leaders
>(dominatrixes and other big bugs) lost the contact with the Hive
>Mind...
>
>Nowadays...
>A second hive fleet arrived to Xantus Secundus, the Hive Mind
>discovers that the planet has been infested by some uncontroled
>Tyranids, it decides to purge the world.
>On the planet, the uncontroled Dominatrixes (which have decided to
>become Hive Mind in place of THE Hive Mind) prepare their defense
>against the invaders...
>
>OK this is a little unrealistic but not too much... What do you think
>about this?
>
It is said in some Tyranid fluff, that sometimes Tyranids creatures do fight
one another.
Ok, this is from some bits of memories lurking somewhere in me brain. So
don't be harsh :)
In the good olde days, Aaron/Sauron (or some other oldies, help me out with
this) there was a bunch of Tyranid advance force, consisting of Zoats that
managed to break free from the Hive Mind.
Also, some recent fluff mentioned that hormogaunts do breed separately from
other Tyranid creatures. From some other fluff, it was hinted that
Dominatrices are the brood mother of the Tyranids creatures - termagaunts,
lictors and so on. However hormogaunts seem to be able to breed by
themselves (ala Aliens ?). In some cases when a Tyranid force was beaten
off, surviving Hormogaunts are able to breed by themselves, laying eggs (?)
underground, and later emerging. The funny thing is that it has been
documented (in the fluff at least) that these Hormogaunts basically killed
all other life forms on the planet and later turned upon one another. Pretty
much like an Alien spin-off story done by the Dark Horse comics.
Besides those two documented case, it is not quite unforeseenable to see
Genestealers breaking free of Tyranid Hive Mind.
Regards
Oki
>
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Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 14:56:27 UTC