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Since the Vespid are obviously insectoid, any ideas on what they think of the Tyranid on a personal note?

Dunno, I'm not a Tau and don't have one of those translating/mind-control helmets on.

Psienesis wrote:Dunno, I'm not a Tau and don't have one of those translating/mind-control helmets on.

Thank you for the insight. =P

The Vespid don't have opinions, because they're incapable of communicating with any non-Vespid, outside of their leader units who are equipped with those helmet things that are either mind-control devices, or translators that allow them to speak to Tau Cadre officers (depending on your viewpoint of the Tau). They're alien bugs who have a significant role in the Tau Empire, that's pretty much the extent of Imperial knowledge about them.

They'd have no greater affinity for them than any other race I'd imagine - Ok, they both look like bugs, but then humans and eldar are both pink and "humanoid", doesn't mean they like eachother

"Oh God, it's trying to eat me"?

ARGH! Swarms of cockroach raptor things! Run!

Buzz buzz buzz buzz ...

We know the Kroot have an instinctive loathing of the Nids, the shaper that see's them and decides he must stop his carnivores from absorbing Tyranid biomass (HA! talk about turn about play) at all costs.

imagine what would happen to Kroot if they did indeed absorb the nids ability to super evolve... dude the entire galaxy would be boned sooo fast

IIRC, the Kroot that did eat nids ended up sick and deformed and unable to control their evolutionary adaptation and became disfugered mutants, etc. and were slaughtered by their own kind in response.

As for vespids... Tyranids aren't insects, so in regards to Tyranids, they probably think "Geez, we really wish people would stop comparing us to them..."

Tyranids will consume everything they come across, doesn't matter if they're "insectoid", the Vespid probably realize this and just view them as everyone else does.

BlaxicanX wrote:"Oh God, it's trying to eat me"?

This!

Psienesis wrote:The Vespid don't have opinions, because they're incapable of communicating with any non-Vespid

You obviously have no opinion, because you can't communicate with cockroaches and earth worms, right?

chaos0xomega wrote:IIRC, the Kroot that did eat nids ended up sick and deformed and unable to control their evolutionary adaptation and became disfugered mutants, etc. and were slaughtered by their own kind in response.

This story was actually about when the Kroot faced Chaos.

To my knowledge the Kroot have no problem munching on the 'Nids.

chaos0xomega wrote:As for vespids... Tyranids aren't insects, so in regards to Tyranids, they probably think "Geez, we really wish people would stop comparing us to them..."

This^ x100.

Also, they probably really hate how GW failed to capture what the stats and abilities of Giant flying wasps that live and work in extreme pressures that no crisis suit could handle.

BTW, (Vespid=vespidea=latin for wasp) Maybe they should have a poison sting attack and poison based guns(Neutron=radiation poisoning)

Magtherion_Soulsaver wrote:Since the Vespid are obviously insectoid, any ideas on what they think of the Tyranid on a personal note?

The Tyranid are not insects, they just have 6 legs as standard, the massive amout of DNA they have used would make it hard to classify them. Vespids would have exactly the same opinion as any race attacked by the Tyranid, that of 'oh no'.

Would the IoMs opinion be any different about orks if the had an extra pair of arms, no they are still a plague, the vespids aren't going to be like 'some of those guys can fly, lets try and be their friends'.

If I recall my Tyranid biology correctly, they have both endo- and exo- skeletons. Other than (largely) sharing a six-limbed morphology with Vespids (who have arms, legs, and wings), I don't see much similarity between them. I'm not sure why the Vespids would be any more likely to have a particular opinion of them than any other race.

I mean, tau and humans both have endo-skeletons and the same number of limbs, and nobody expects Tau to get along with humans better than Vespids because of that. Do Vespids go up to Kroot when fighting Orks and say (buzz, whatever): "Hey, you have the same number of limbs as that guy? How do YOU feel about him?"

I think the misleading part of this thought process is that, on earth, the 'plus four' limb club is largely the arthropods (I know there are a ton of exceptions) and the exoskeleton group is ALSO the arthropods. Plus, by the numbers, the arthropods are really represented by the insects (God has a fondness for beetles, and all that). Thus, we tend to think of any six limbed exoskeletal being as a bug, despite there being no necessary reason for either characteristic to be limited to insects.

I know that Jes Godwin has been frustrated in the past by the Tyranid=bug thing, because he designed them largely as "Space Dinosaurs" who just happen to have more than 4 limbs.