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Is a Tyranid actually a distinct lifeform?

Or is an entire Hive Fleet one lifeform with many 'cells'?

Or are all Tyranids one creature?

 Grey Templar wrote:
As I proved, that is completely false.

A planet with the same surface area as earth with a pop density equal to New York City would have almost 5.5 trillion people. New York may be crowded, but its still plenty of space for air scrubbers and food recyclers. Even more space if food is brought in from another planet.

Comparatively, 500 billion people would have plenty of room.

In fact, 500 billion people on an earth sized planet would have 10,979 square feet per person. That is plenty of space.

Fun semi related fact: You could squeeze the entirety of modern earth's population into texas and still have a comfortable amount of living space for each of them.

To say nothing of how the Imperium uses multilayered hive cities that dwarf mountains which greatly increases the amount of surface available by adding a third dimension.


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 Daba wrote:
Is a Tyranid actually a distinct lifeform?

Or is an entire Hive Fleet one lifeform with many 'cells'?

Or are all Tyranids one creature?

Every Tyranid is a limb of the hive mind.

In the 40K setting you could definately have a 500 billion pop. planet. It would just be a horrible, horrible palce to live....which it is.

And, you could even squeeze those people into tighter spaces to allow for the rest of the planets surface to be freed up for other things. Like growing crops, mining, or any other number of worthwhile uses of space.

500 billion gives over 10,000 square feet of space. Way more than would be necessary. Way more than people living in NYC currently have which in turn has far more than other cities, like Tokyo or New Delhi.

And that's only with our modern buildings. With structures like 40k has, surface area of a planet could easily double or even triple as far as people living there are concerned.

The Space Wolf novels give some insight to life in lower Terra. He meets this bum living in a closet and assumes he's a squatter. He's a like hell no man I have a job with the Adminstratum and I pay rent. It wasn't even that cheap either.