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Nicholas wrote:Orks enslaving people

Yes. Orks drink, enslave and fight, in no particular order. Probably because their two dedicated slave castes (grots & snots) are all kinds of useless & lazy - and semi-immune to pain. I guess the most famous example of Orks as slavers, was their enslavement of one of the Armageddon hive cities.

As for Tyranids, unless they got retconned again while I wasn't looking, the Tyranid is quite possibly the smartest thing around. It's just either a complete and utter bastard, or too different to be comprehensible to anyone but itself. Personally I lean towards bastard. Actually, I've always just taken it as implied. The 'nid concept kind of grew out of some RT-era critters who quite explicitly were horrible bastards. But I guess a better argument is practicality: why would the 'nid be such a melee extremist, if it didn't delight in beating sentient critters to death with their own body parts? ... Though I suppose that also applies to how we go about animal products in the real world...

Eh... Remind me never to tell a psychologist which races I play :p

Void__Dragon wrote:

DarknessEternal wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:It could be saying the Hive Fleet Leviathan is the most recent,

It does say it's the most recent. It also says there are no more after it.

"Last" and "latest" are not synonyms like you assume they are.

Hurhur.

http://thesaurus.com/browse/last

Definition: final; newest

Synonyms: aftermost, antipodal, at the end, bitter end, climactic, closing, concluding, conclusive, crowning, curtains, definitive, determinate, determinative, end, ending, endwise, eventual, extreme, far, far-off, farthest, finishing, furthest, hindmost, lag, latest, least, lowest, meanest, most recent, once and for all, outermost, rearmost, remotest, supreme, swan song, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost

Hyuckhyuckhyuckhyuckhyuck.

Ohsnap.

YOU JUST GOT THESAURUS'ed!!!

Simsum wrote:

Nicholas wrote:Orks enslaving people

Yes. Orks drink, enslave and fight, in no particular order. Probably because their two dedicated slave castes (grots & snots) are all kinds of useless & lazy - and semi-immune to pain. I guess the most famous example of Orks as slavers, was their enslavement of one of the Armageddon hive cities.

As for Tyranids, unless they got retconned again while I wasn't looking, the Tyranid is quite possibly the smartest thing around. It's just either a complete and utter bastard, or too different to be comprehensible to anyone but itself. Personally I lean towards bastard. Actually, I've always just taken it as implied. The 'nid concept kind of grew out of some RT-era critters who quite explicitly were horrible bastards. But I guess a better argument is practicality: why would the 'nid be such a melee extremist, if it didn't delight in beating sentient critters to death with their own body parts? ... Though I suppose that also applies to how we go about animal products in the real world...

Eh... Remind me never to tell a psychologist which races I play :p

Never heard of that pretty interesting.