The Tyranid Codex Fluff, aka The "Oh Yeah??" Codex

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**Klawz**

It makes you wonder whether Nids ARE from another galaxy. I mean, all the fluff portrays it that way, but what if they're from...the center of the Galaxy!

**Corvus**

I think the Tyranids are in some way related to the C'tan. Remember, those guys are strong contenders with Eldrad and Tzeentch for #1 user of "JUST AS PLANNED"

**Grotzooka**

Corvus wrote:I think the Tyranids are in some way related to the C'tan. Remember, those guys are strong contenders with Eldrad and Tzeentch for #1 user of "JUST AS PLANNED"

It could be, I just hope it isn't.
If the 'nids are a pet C'tan project, then that means that almost every ill in the galaxy can be traced back to the Old Ones or the C'tan. I'd rather have more diversity.

**Emperors Faithful**

I'm pretty sure that both the Old Ones and the C'tan were restricted to the 40k galaxy.

**Noobtodagame**

It makes sense that they would be. I mean C'tan were brought over from the stars from the necrontyr tech. I doubt many other races could do that, even in other galaxies. Old ones though. . . meh takes away some of the "drama" of 40K if this is just one off 1,000,000,000 galaxies seeded by the old ones.

**ChaosxVoid**

good thing they cant get into the warp they'd get warp raped haha to many things in there that could eat a fex or dare i say even a phant O: the warp and chaos would put an end to that fleet, AND wtf is up with the iron warriors getting wasted, they had more than enough firepower to take them out but no

**Emperors Faithful**

When you think about it, there is NOTHING on the ground that could reasonably take on a whole hive fleet without any orbiting support of thier own.

**ChaosxVoid**

Emperors Faithful wrote:When you think about it, there is NOTHING on the ground that could reasonably take on a whole hive fleet without any orbiting support of thier own.

things in the warp fly im sure

lol

**Emperors Faithful**

But this IW fortress was't actually located in the warp.

**ChaosxVoid**

exactly they were out of the warp, but still they are the iron warriors jeez -.- they shouldnt have gotten nid banged, i read the new codex and the way it sounds nids took them down quite fast

**Emperors Faithful**

I thought it was in a white dwarf article...

**ChaosxVoid**

no its in the book as well, unless maybe my mind is playing tricks on me, anyway wherever i read it the IW got nid banged

**Emperors Faithful**

Apparently, everybody will get nid-banged sooner or later.

**Kilkrazy**

Whoops, I appear to be in the wrong thread.

**EagleArk**

i have just read this entire thread and from nids being the best it has moved so offtopic i feel like im in a science lession

Anyway i belive that the nids are mutants of some developed race made into nids by the Deciver.

**Ratius**

Some postulated the 4th C'tan, the trickster I believe he is called. He was the Ctan that got Ctan to start eating each other. The Nids could be his pet project.

Ugh an aweful hypothesis imo, why not just make the Ctan the driving force behind everything then

I always liked the idea the Nids were extra galactic in their origin, gave them a certain unknown quality and the potential for extra fluff/models in the future.

**RxGhost**

I came in here to see a picture of a red carnifex bursting through a wall with a pitcher of kool-aid.

Instead I got NOTHING.

Thanks Dakka, thanks for framing my dreams for murder and sending them off to prison to be gang-raped in the laundry room for 2 cigarettes.

**Corvus**

RxGhost wrote:I came in here to see a picture of a red carnifex bursting through a wall with a pitcher of kool-aid.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DAKKA, SOMEBODY MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!

**Emperors Faithful**

Corvus wrote:
RxGhost wrote:I came in here to see a picture of a red carnifex bursting through a wall with a pitcher of kool-aid.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DAKKA, SOMEBODY MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!

I second the motion.

**Snikkyd**

Emperors Faithful wrote:
Corvus wrote:
RxGhost wrote:I came in here to see a picture of a red carnifex bursting through a wall with a pitcher of kool-aid.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DAKKA, SOMEBODY MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!

I second the motion.

That would be epic!

**ChaosxVoid**

Snikkyd wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:
Corvus wrote:
RxGhost wrote:I came in here to see a picture of a red carnifex bursting through a wall with a pitcher of kool-aid.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DAKKA, SOMEBODY MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!

I second the motion.

That would be epic!

Was thinking of doing it when i read your post, but im not skilled enough someone needs to make this happen!!

**Morgrim**

Emperors Faithful wrote:But this IW fortress was't actually located in the warp.

I'm now wondering what would happen if the nids were in full scale ground invasion of a planet then trapped in a warp storm/drawn into the warp. Well, other than the hive mind doing whatever its equivalent is of scratching its head and trying to figure out what just happened and where did all its creatures go.

Shadows in the Warp is described as blasting psykers with an unbearable wall of static that drives them mad, not actually severing the warp from real space, so it shouldn't impact on warp storms themselves. Not sure how it would affect daemonic instability though.

**Emperors Faithful**

I believe that a warp storm, should it occur around a planet, would be enough to either destroy the orbiting hive fleet or cut off the tyranid ground forces on the ground, forcing them to adopt a more bestial nature.

**wizard12**

Opps, havn't read all the pages yet.

**ChaosxVoid**

If there was a warp storm that took over a planet nids were invading and cut off the ties to the hive fleet, would the nids on that planet succumb to demonic possession?

**dossome**

They aren't entwined with the warp. unless a deamon directly attemps to control them (and it would have trouble with the Synapse creatures) they would default to instinctive behaviour. Even so, the Zoanthropes with their amazing psychic abilities, would be able to protect lots of Nids.

**ChaosxVoid**

Well couldn't something take over or just kill the zoan? cause if it was taken over then that demon would rule those little nids right?

**Luke_Prowler**

Actually, Tyranids can be mutated by warp energy, so daemonic possession is not impossible.

**Solly**

As the younger generation nid players would say.....
nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom

If it turns out the nids are a some kind of extension of the Necros then i'm quiting GW40K forever!
Then I'm gonna buy a boat and sail that boat untill I come to a country that doesn't know about 40k....

**dossome**

ChaosxVoid wrote:Well couldn't something take over or just kill the zoan? cause if it was taken over then that demon would rule those little nids right?

But as the codex so clearly states, there are so few things in any exsitance that can mentally overpower a Zoan, those include: the hive mind (obviously) and maybe the chaos gods, but they would still have trouble as the Zoans aren't tied to the warp, they get their abilities genetically and from the Hivemind.

Now, if we hear about the Tau being controlled by the warp, then I would consider all Nids susceptible. That would be proof that the Hive mind doesn't need to have a direct connection to the individual.