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Found this bit off info on the NASA jpl website and I know tyranid are from a different galaxy and most things say that the astrinomicon is supposed to ne luring them in but surely this didn't help ! Lol

Voyager

2 is also escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.1

AU per year, 48 degrees out of the ecliptic plane to the south

toward the constellations of Sagitarrius and Pavo. In about

40,000 years, Voyager 2 will come within about 1.7 light years

of a star called Ross 248, a small star in the constellation

of Andromeda.

For those that don't know andromeda is our closest neighbouring galaxy !

Andromeda is the closest Spiral Galaxy, not the closest actual.


besides, the Tyranids would already have to be on there way by now to get here in by M40 with their method of FTL travel.

The Narvhal is used once they reach the galaxy and they can focus on individual planets. They still travel at sub-light speed when crossing the void. So they'd need to be on the move billions of years before the probe got anywhere near andromeda.

Didn't Star Trek do this one?

the Narvhal can probably use the Galaxy's gravitational pull to pull the fleet, but it would still take a long time to get there.

Narvhals arent only used to get to clusters of planets, the narvhal senses planetas nearby and slows down the fleet. But I still believe they use this travel through the void.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Didn't Star Trek do this one?

Yeah, that was Star Trek: The motion picture...the one with the three hour scene of the new ship...wow, that was truly painful...

I recall some fluff that it was the flashy party bang that heralded Slaanesh's stage entrance in M30 that brought the 'Nids attentions to the Milky Way, took'em about 10M to float on over. The Astro-ohm-nom-nom-icon attracts most of the 'Nids to the IoM like moths to a porch light.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Didn't Star Trek do this one?

Multiple times. "Doomsday Marchine" "A Rose By Any Other Name" and, most closely, "Star Trek The Motion Picture"

Howard A Treesong wrote:Didn't Star Trek do this one?

Yeah, and it was with the Borg.

But NASA scientist put on voyager Earth's location in galaxy, our looks ( anatomy to ), blood samples, greetings on every world language and record that play's "Ode to Joy".
So if any alien finds this, and it's hostile - we are doomed.
But for now we are safe, Voyager has just exit our solar system and it will take him x years to reach nearby stars.

UselessSage wrote:I recall some fluff that it was the flashy party bang that heralded Slaanesh's stage entrance in M30 that brought the 'Nids attentions to the Milky Way, took'em about 10M to float on over. The Astro-ohm-nom-nom-icon attracts most of the 'Nids to the IoM like moths to a porch light.

The Eye of Terror opening would have been like a lighthouse suddenly switching on on a moonless night. All of a sudden, LAND HO! Then the Astronimican lighting up just as they're getting near the galaxy would have been like someone putting a fire on said beach to attract anyone sailing past.

However, if they only found the Milky Way due to Slaanesh's psychic scream and the Emperors golden toilet, makes you think how they found, according to the BRB, the other dozen galaxies they devoured before the Milky Way. Just stumbling on them as they drift in space? Or are psychic beings of that might common around the universe?

-Loki- wrote:

UselessSage wrote:I recall some fluff that it was the flashy party bang that heralded Slaanesh's stage entrance in M30 that brought the 'Nids attentions to the Milky Way, took'em about 10M to float on over. The Astro-ohm-nom-nom-icon attracts most of the 'Nids to the IoM like moths to a porch light.

The Eye of Terror opening would have been like a lighthouse suddenly switching on on a moonless night. All of a sudden, LAND HO! Then the Astronimican lighting up just as they're getting near the galaxy would have been like someone putting a fire on said beach to attract anyone sailing past.

However, if they only found the Milky Way due to Slaanesh's psychic scream and the Emperors golden toilet, makes you think how they found, according to the BRB, the other dozen galaxies they devoured before the Milky Way. Just stumbling on them as they drift in space? Or are psychic beings of that might common around the universe?

Well galaxies are REALLY REALLY big, though in the void they would look like stars but im sure the Narvhals guide towards them from sight or other senses.

Sol and 20 closest star - Segmentum Solar

If they are like real bugs, entire galaxies could be infested with them, and when any individual colony is out of resources it just starts blopping around trying to resettle somewhere else. For all the hive fleet that actually came across the milky way galaxy, there could be millions more floating out into the distant reaches of other pinpoints of light, or dying out in the middle of nothingness like an insect colony relocated to a dry barren empty area would.

I do like the porchlight idea though. It's at least something to set out towards, but how far does the porchlight really shine compared to the vastness of the night of the universe? I think its cool and creepy to think of the nids seen in this galaxy to only be a couple of hives, and for each of them, mega-millions more are out floating wherever in the vastness, infesting whatever they come across, if they come across anything, and just expanding like bugs - big bugs.

CURNOW wrote:
Found this bit off info on the NASA jpl website and I know tyranid are from a different galaxy and most things say that the astrinomicon is supposed to ne luring them in but surely this didn't help ! Lol

Voyager

2 is also escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.1

AU per year, 48 degrees out of the ecliptic plane to the south

toward the constellations of Sagitarrius and Pavo. In about

40,000 years, Voyager 2 will come within about 1.7 light years

of a star called Ross 248, a small star in the constellation

of Andromeda.

For those that don't know andromeda is our closest neighbouring galaxy !

Don't mistake the constellation Andromeda with the galaxy Andromeda. The galaxy is within the constellation, but about 2,500,000 ly away. Ross 248 with being 10.3 ly away is one of the closest stars to our solar system.

There's no way Voyager gets to the Andromeda galaxy within 40,000 years. It's 2.5 MILLION light years away. Generously assuming that Voyager somehow managed to achieve .99 the speed of light (.99c), it would still take more than 2,475,000 years for Voyager to reach the Andromeda galaxy. Of course, in a world of psychic powers, warp rifts, trans-dimensional webways, and other weird stuff who knows what could happen.

chyron wrote:Sol and 20 closest star - Segmentum Solar

Hey Proxima Centauri isn't too far away. Isn't that where Hell is?

Actually, you have it backwards. The Tyranids were suipposed to be a biological system kinds like the Mars rovers. They wanted something to bring back samples of other life, and it was easier to make a self sustaining life form than machine. The problem was the DNA coding was outsourced, and a tiny little mistake was made and DEVOUR, rather than collect and examine was turned on.