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well, I heard that if a kroot eats a slaanesh CSM it becomes slaanesh, and if something eats a 'nid then it becomes a 'nid. So what happens when a 'nid eats a slaanesh?

and unending transformation in wich the nid becomes unfathomably pwerful

The same thing that happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object.

I.e. we find out that the Tyranids can't eat anything, and Slaanesh gets a new "pet"...

Like I saw a thread "what would happen if two power fists punched each other?"
the verdict was it'd be like chuck norris punching himself in the face- an unstoppable force hitting an immovable object.

itd just consume the biomass of the body of w.e it eats, a demon or chaos worshiper regardless of there power would still not be strong enough to corrupt THE HIVE MIND, the tyranids have no independent thought so its not like one tyranid becomes a Slaanesh follower, and its not like Slaanesh is going to personally rend warpspace to attempt to corrupt the hivemind wherever / whatever it may be. Normal psykers are driven insane by the mere shadow of a hive ship, and only Tigirius head ultramarines librarian has actually been able to gain any real insight into there movements. Even the Ultramarines codex case study on Tigirius states that it would take a psyker of comparable strength to the emperor to communicate with the hive mind, so I imagine youd need someone of similar ability to corrupt it to the whims of chaos.

Hm.... Always thought when you ate a 'Nid, you wouldn't transform... Just, like.... Die.

Neither. The Tyranids cannot absorb the Daemons as they aren't made up of organic material, they are made of energy.

At most the Tyranids could consume someone corrupted by the chaos gods, and at most that would just be them absorbing sub-par genetic material. It would likely be rejected as it would not really benefit the Tyranids at all, or be used to fuel the ships.

and only Tigirius head ultramarines librarian has actually been able to gain any real insight into there movements.

Eldrad could do it, probably down to the second, the weather and how many white cars were there, but he's sleeping... yeah sleeping...

Eldrad should be able to do it, seeing as he's the best psyker and whatnot, but because tiggy is an ultrasmurf and a space marine, for want of a better phrase, "He can to it too with ...." because there has to be a SM that can do stuff no-one else can.

Except he saved Cadia, stopping the 13th Black Crusade and pretty much died.

Knowing Eldrad he's probably not dead at all. He kind of makes Creed look like an idiot at times.

If Tyranids ate flesh corrupted by Slaanesh, any warp taint would be suppressed by the hive mind. If it was a lone Tyranid, then it would become corrupted.

This thread makes no sense at all

neither does quite a lot of things in the 40k universe

In a related question, what happens if the nids eat Lucious the Eternal? His rule says anyone who kills him and takes even a moment of pleasure will be slowly possessed until they become Lucious. So.. either it don't happen and Lucious is dead, or he's reincarnated through some random bug in a hive fleet and then promptly eaten again over and over in a vicious circle? Yeah, that couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Well, you just found a way to kill lucius "The eternal"- make him fight necrons or 'nids. They take no pleasure in it.

Slaanesh would probaly just restruct Lucius. I can see Daemons possesing Feral Tyranids and those who have lost there link to the Hive Mind or just using them like puppets.

What about the swarmlord vs lucius? would lucius "respawn" again?

Do Deamons even have "real" boimass for the Nid to even eat, or are they just warp energy giving a "physical" form.

Noir wrote:Do Deamons even have "real" boimass for the Nid to even eat, or are they just warp energy giving a "physical" form.

just energy, they fade away

Lucius vs swarmlord im guessing that lucius would die and then come back through the swarmlordas the swarmlord is a little bit independent of the hive mind or is maybe an incarnation of the hive mind but anyway i think even a nid would be happy to kill lucius but then in the next edition he would need a few nid like mutations.

I reckon 'lord will kill lucius, lucuis respawns, but the hive mind (which the swarmlord is said to have a huge connection to) would crush his mind, so then it'd be lucius working for the hive mind, with maybe a few extra limbs. When "Swarmlucius" dies, lucius will respawn as normal and the swarmlord will respawn as normal. And they live happily ever after...

So he'd be like Nemesis?



As sort of super nid/marine guy controlled by the Hivemind.

By my reckoning, yes. Until he gets killed again.

If rippers/hormies ate slaneeshi daemons/possessed then started building up to synapse level (as seen in the ciaphuis cain novels) its conceivable that you could end up wiith a corrupted splinter "fleet". might be fun to model as well (lots of models with lash whips lol)

Didnt kroot eat 'nids?

Yeah, and they got turned into 'nids.

I think if Tyranids absorbed tainted Marines,it would just be like a normal marine.

Since biomass is broken down into primordial soup,I think any warp power would have ebbed away.

As for Lucius V Stormlord.
If Lucius died,he would just be reborn in the Lords physical body,its mind would just go into a new body like always.

I think that they'd stay 'nids, as tyranids don't feel any pleasure, have a *wink-wink* urge, or the other various slaaneshi desires.

This thread is very silly.

Darth Bob wrote:This thread is very silly.

So's your avatar.

shrike wrote:Yeah, and they got turned into 'nids.

Uhhh... no. I want a source of this, to my knowledge eating nids doesn't turn you into one. Eating the flesh of chaos possessed/mutated beings is one thing, but Tyranids? In any case, Kroot turning into nids doesn't prove anything except that kroot turn into nids. Kroot modify their DNA by eating the flesh of their enemy. If they turned into nids its because the nid DNA overpowered their own in the shaping process. This need not be the case w/ humans etc. as (to my knowledge) humans do not modify their DNA by eating the flesh of their enemy. Anyway, this is an unlikely scenario, as Kroot DON'T eat tyranids. The two or three instances of Kroot eating tyranids all end the same way: the Kroot spit the nid out, declare it tainted, and go on their way.