Captured Tyranid?

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**Henners91**

Baconfat wrote:Do any of you 40K masters know of fluff where Imperial forces have captured Tyranids and performed experiments?

I've been debating making combat servitors out of Tyranid models. A little surgery to remove any psychic link and self thinking ability and some painful implants and TAA DAAAA!!! Really ugly servitor! Sure this would take lots of experimenting and be cost many human lives to capture said Tyranids, but so what, they'll make more. Tyranid capturing would make fun 40K or kill team scenarios anyway. Inquisitors capture demons, why not bugs?

Either way, if I can find any bug models that aren't painted, I'm making up a few.

- Baconfat

P.S. What happens to Kroot that eat Tyranid brains?

In one of the Ultramarines books they capture a Lictor in order to experiment on its genes to make a virus.

**Melissia**

Jimsolo wrote:Melissia, check out 'Cain's Last Stand.' Sandy Mitchell (who is apparently an ass in real life) handles the Adeptas Sororitas with a degree of balance. While in his books they do have their fanatical-to-the-point-of-blindness members (as do the IG, and the Marines, etc) they also have competent, dedicated and wise individuals. Its good stuff.

I already have. Cain's Last Stand is a goo dread, but unfluffy.

**thegrav**

Xyptc wrote:
thegrav wrote:The biggest concern would be that it is "heresy"

There are plenty of other traps and tricks built into Tyranids as well as them simply trying to slice you up though, like a body full of hostile Phage Cells that try and digest whatever they touch...

Honestly, outside of a few specific examples it's probably not worth the hassle.

Yes, but you over look to important driving factors.

A) it would look really really cool.

B) "FOR SCIENCE!"

**karimabuseer**

thegrav wrote:Any follower of your false emperor is stupid, Sisters or not.

Damned straight. Just checking back through the Ultrasmurfs series, and Uriel captures a lictor. Cool much?

**Munch Munch!**

Kanluwen wrote:It's the "trinity" of Bolter, Flamethrower, and Meltagun.

Not the quadrinity of Chainsword, Bolter, Flamer, and Meltagun.

I thought it was the trinity of The Bolter, Chainsword, and the Holy Flamer.
OT: Screw the fluff. There's around a million worlds in the Imperium and every Inquisitor will do one heretic thing in his/her life. So this "heresy" has probably already done.

**Cambak**

Baconfat wrote:
P.S. What happens to Kroot that eat Tyranid brains?

I've actually talked to my dad about that point. From our understanding it's that the Kroot had been allowed to consume any Tyranids they managed to kill, they would take on the synapse of the Tyranid in question, thus the Hive Mind would be able to take control of them.

**thegrav**

Cambak wrote:
Baconfat wrote:
P.S. What happens to Kroot that eat Tyranid brains?

I've actually talked to my dad about that point. From our understanding it's that the Kroot had been allowed to consume any Tyranids they managed to kill, they would take on the synapse of the Tyranid in question, thus the Hive Mind would be able to take control of them.

DING... Army Idea! Totally Ninjaing this for future Kroot/nid ness.

**lowmanjason**

I recall reading something a while back about some Necron Lord keeping tyranids in some sort of xenos zoo and considiered himself some sort of zoo keeper. "Big Mitch" was his name I think. Or maybe he was just some poacher. I dont know.

**Kroothawk**

thegrav wrote:
Cambak wrote:
Baconfat wrote:
P.S. What happens to Kroot that eat Tyranid brains?

I've actually talked to my dad about that point. From our understanding it's that the Kroot had been allowed to consume any Tyranids they managed to kill, they would take on the synapse of the Tyranid in question, thus the Hive Mind would be able to take control of them.

DING... Army Idea! Totally Ninjaing this for future Kroot/nid ness.

Be aware that this background idea is totally unfluffy, as Tyranid flesh is taboo for Kroot and any Shaper would prevent that (read "For the EMperor" or "Index Xenos: Kroot" for details). Totally unpredictable what would happen if two gene stealing mechanisms (Kroot, Tyranid) would fight each other.

**Cadet_Commissar_Ludd**

The Tau do it... *shakes head* foolish space commies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOSsm7DTjMw&feature=related
very good animation as well.

**Kroothawk**

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd wrote:The Tau do it... *shakes head* foolish space commies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOSsm7DTjMw&feature=related
very good animation as well.

Well, its fan fiction, not GW.

**Cambak**

Kroothawk wrote:
thegrav wrote:
Cambak wrote:
Baconfat wrote:
P.S. What happens to Kroot that eat Tyranid brains?

I've actually talked to my dad about that point. From our understanding it's that the Kroot had been allowed to consume any Tyranids they managed to kill, they would take on the synapse of the Tyranid in question, thus the Hive Mind would be able to take control of them.

DING... Army Idea! Totally Ninjaing this for future Kroot/nid ness.

Be aware that this background idea is totally unfluffy, as Tyranid flesh is taboo for Kroot and any Shaper would prevent that (read "For the EMperor" or "Index Xenos: Kroot" for details). Totally unpredictable what would happen if two gene stealing mechanisms (Kroot, Tyranid) would fight each other.

Yes, and we took that into account, if you had noticed that I said "From our understanding it's that if the Kroot had been allowed to consume any Tyranids they managed to kill, they would take on the synapse of the Tyranid in question, thus the Hive Mind would be able to take control of them."

I just forgot the if, thus giving an entire different meaning.

Also, thegrav, go ahead, I don't mind.

**Ruckdog**

Gearhead wrote:A while back, someone posted pics of a Looted Lictor, ridden by a grot with a riding crop and a control box plugged into its head. The best part was the googly mind-controlled eyes he sculpted on it: CLASSIC!

Please post your pics soon, thegrav!

Ah, I found the thread you were talking about:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/261615.page

That is pretty funny!

**Grey Templar**

love the googly eyes

**physcosamatic**

In the old white dwarf with Citizens beware tyranid campaign with some gw cannon story's there's pictures of a gaunt and some limbs on a dissection table with all medical things stuck in it