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 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:

 Skinflint Games wrote:

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:
Another thing to consider - the 'Nids were drawn to our galaxy by the Astronomicon.

If the Emperor dies (or is reborn), the 'Nids may go hunt another galaxy if there is no more beacon - I almost bet that's how they'll explain them not devouring the galaxy at the end of this mess.

Technically, they were drawn by the Pharos exploding. The fact that they kept coming for 10000 years after that suggests that they're here until either they or the galaxy is wiped out.

The Pharos exploding? Not heard that story, anyone got a link?

It's one of the HH novels, it's pretty good if only for all the insight we get into Curze's head.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Pharos_(Novel)

The actual passage regarding the Tyranids:

Spoiler:

“Far beyond the fringes of the galaxy there was naught but endless black.
Past the last few stray stars plying their lonely track through the cold night, past the dead worlds and the fragments of galactic collisions billions of years gone, past the probes sent out by extinct races recorded in no history… past all that and beyond, there was a night sea studded with the diamond islands of distant, lonely galaxies.
Though incomprehensibly vast, this sea was not empty. Great behemoths of the deep lurked there. Into the eternal blackness, a flash of quantum energy shone out at many times the speed of light; a brief flare, milliseconds in duration, projecting from an unremarkable spiral of stars.
It was not missed.
In the darkness, something of limitless hunger stirred in a slumber that had lasted for aeons. A million frozen and unblinking eyes saw the flash, tripping cascades of stimuli. Their purpose served, the eyes died.
The entity processed the message the eyes provided without ever truly awakening. Automatically, instinctively, its gargantuan, dreaming mind analysed the signal, comparing it against all parameters for the one thing it sought.
Prey.
Slowly, glacially, the great devourer shifted its course.”

Thanks man, that's a good little paragraph! Appreciate the effort, it's nice to see the Tyranids had a reason to show up.

In that story about Nids vs Chaos the nids had no interest in warp entities as they are not made of any actual biomass. At first the hive mind ignored chaos. Then when it realized it was corrupting it's food source it went all out destroying it to the point that it ringed the entire equator in biovores, exocrines, and every other heavy artillery beast it could muster and slowly advanced on the point of origin of the demons bombarding them constantly until it nullified and wiped them out. Named greater deamons of all of the big 4 were there and they all got their asses handed to them in an embarrassing way.

Minor deamons and lesser deamons either winked out of real space or had trouble staying manifested because of the shadow in the warp. This wasn't a whole hive fleet. This was a small splinter that stopped off at a single world. It wasn't even part of leviathan which is by far the largest fleet to date and the one nobody has been able to stop even partially, all they could do was exterminatus a whole swath of systems to try and divert it into the orks.



See how big the area leviathan covers is compared to the eye of terror?

You might notice the hive fleets have arrived at the galaxy from different angles with leviathan popping up from below the galactic disk. If the fluff is moving forward maybe a new hive fleet will arrive either from the other side of the eye or between the eye and Terra.

The Nids are certainly one of if not the worst enemies chaos can face. Incorruptible, nonsustaining for them, and their mere existence more or less acts as the Cadian Spires because of the shadow.

I would love to see the nids show up and save the day only to become the worse threat.

 DarkBlack wrote:
I recall some fluff (from somewhere) about daemons fighting nids and both sides losing interest (I think the daemons disappear); nids because daemons have no biomass and daemons because nids don't have proper souls or blood.

The "Fall of Shadowbrink" story in the Tyranid codex describes how a Tyranid invasion helped cause a warp breach, after which the hive fleet tendril and daemonic host that poured forth duked it out. At first the Tyranids ignored the daemons for the reason you mentioned. But then the daemons attacked them because that's what what daemons do.

What happened is that the Tyranids defended themselves, and then slowly wore down and starved out the daemons since they possess no emotions. There's a great description in the book of how the head Bloodthirster was still wrestling with three Trygons as it got sucked back into the warp.