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If space marines can serve the dark chaos gods and get twisted and mutated could they serve the tyranid hive mid and get bio weapons? I think they could but what about everyone else?
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How could they? The Hive-Mind does not spread into other sentient beings. It just controls the Tyranids. If your Marines were killed and reclamation-pooled into Nids, then they could theoretically be formed into Tyranid Warriors. Other than that, no.
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If an Astartes got exposed to the Hive Mind's will his brain would turn into a pile of goo. Nobody but Tyranids can endure the Hive Minds psychic will.
That being said I'm not opposed to human-mimicking or controlling Tyranids for the purpose of intelligence gathering, infiltration, sabotage, etc.. Similar to 1982's The Thing or those bugs from Starship Troopers that wrap around your spinal cord.
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Harriticus wrote:If an Astartes got exposed to the Hive Mind's will his brain would turn into a pile of goo. Nobody but Tyranids can endure the Hive Minds psychic will.
Harriticus wrote:If an Astartes got exposed to the Hive Mind's will his brain would turn into a pile of goo. Nobody but Tyranids can endure the Hive Minds psychic will.
Tigurius.
Well he's an Ultramarine, Matt Ward has told us they're far superior to any other Astartes indeed.
Harriticus wrote:If an Astartes got exposed to the Hive Mind's will his brain would turn into a pile of goo. Nobody but Tyranids can endure the Hive Minds psychic will.
Tigurius.
He's no ordinary marine, and didn't think it was a great experience.
Coolyo294 wrote:This is a bad idea and you should feel bad about it.
The hivemind has enough minions and would build his own designs if it needs different ones.
The species collected and analyzed were not copied, but the interesting parts added to the tyranid genepool.
There is no offer of service except contributing YOUR biomass that the hivemind may accept.
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No, while I believe they could be infected by Genestealers I highly doubt Marines serving the Hive Mind and using bio-weapons, serving Chaos is a completely different thing all together.
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Harriticus wrote:If an Astartes got exposed to the Hive Mind's will his brain would turn into a pile of goo. Nobody but Tyranids can endure the Hive Minds psychic will.
That being said I'm not opposed to human-mimicking or controlling Tyranids for the purpose of intelligence gathering, infiltration, sabotage, etc.. Similar to 1982's The Thing or those bugs from Starship Troopers that wrap around your spinal cord.
Ya you would want to do it with some kind of mind control bug. Maybe something like a gene stealer gene seed combo. Like if the nids made there own gene seed. Though if all you want is to see a SM firing bio weapons, there might be a easier way to do something like that.
The hive guard were meant to be the ones based off astartes adjusted DNA. RT era nids used mind control to enslave other races, more so you could use the limited tyranid models from back then. Retconned and gone sorry dude the idea wont fly.
Vermillion wrote:The hive guard were meant to be the ones based off astartes adjusted DNA. RT era nids used mind control to enslave other races, more so you could use the limited tyranid models from back then. Retconned and gone sorry dude the idea wont fly.
I believe you mean Tyrant guard, I do remember reading that the DNA used to make them was in fact that of Space Marines.
The biggest indicator someone is a loser is them complaining about 3d printers or piracy.
Tyranids don't need them anyway. They have Warriors/Guard.
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The closest thing that could happen to this case would probably be if the Astartes were genestealer hybrids, though they still have no connection to the Hive Mind and he wouldn't accept gene seed when it is implanted to become an Astartes... The librarians would probably detect it as well.
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Battle Brother Ambrosius wrote:How could they? The Hive-Mind does not spread into other sentient beings. It just controls the Tyranids. If your Marines were killed and reclamation-pooled into Nids, then they could theoretically be formed into Tyranid Warriors. Other than that, no.
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Deathly Angel wrote:No need to be so hard on the OP....
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blood reaper wrote: A waste of 20 seconds of my life, now I'm I'm going to have to eat a banana to get it back.
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That said. The possibility of a Nid mind control bug seems rather simple from a biological standpoint considering the Nids figured out space travel without so much as the tin cans everybody else uses.
Nids evolve some little things that scramble in your ears and eat your brain. Boom. There you go.
Granted I dunno if there is any fluff to back this up, but its a big galaxy, make up what you like: do not limit yourself to what the internet deems acceptable.
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