RE: [Epic] Tyranids vs Tyranids

From: Chris White <chris_at_...>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:25:53 -0700

At 03:54 PM 8/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Actually I was speaking more of the hive mind itself being corrupted.
>>There is a consiousness there, allright a collective one nonetheless. I
>>know you cannot corrupt the bugs themselves. Using your example its more
>>of turning the queen ant to chaos and then the queen directs the peons to
>>act out in ways that would appease the chaos gods, khorne for example
>>doesnt care whos blood he gets or who spilt it, okay he really likes it
>>when you go traitor to some one but thats a different story.
>
>-----> This might be an interesting idea...in the Dark Ages of Rogue
>Trader, almost
>any creature could be possessed and they gave stats etc for doing it.
>Now the nids
>weren't around in their present form then, but what if...The Hive mind
>should be a big
>conciousness, but I imagine the big Chaos powers could still overcome
>it. Imagine
>"Hive Fleet Slaanesh". Remember the Stealer cults could be corrupted...
>>
>>Well as soon as she
>>injests this alien biochemistry she's pretty well screwed, as in dead
>>finite gone. past the point of no return. So all we have to do is create
>>some alien life (with different biochemistry) shove it into a ship the
>>mother injests it and shes done for no more tyranids
>>
>------> I'm thinkin' that if the 'nids have evolved to survive off of
>stripping all
>life from a planet and have these rapid mutational & evolutionary
>abilities,
>that a little matter of alien biochemistry is no big deal as either
>a) they don't recognize it as "organic material"
>(Question - do they eat robots?)

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>or
>b) they store undigestible but obviously organic material in a "side
>pouch"
>until they can analyze it and evolve a way to use it.
>
>Chris Miller
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Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 22:25:53 UTC