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Given that they don' have a soul, and are immune to/suppress psychic powers, what would happen? Would they be invincible, or would they be torn up just like everyone else?

It's how the Tau travel FTL. They get pushed out at extreme velocity.

Their physical body would likely be killed by the tumult around them, and lack of oxygen. Then they're just another chunk of real matter in the nightmare of the warp.

They'd be immune to any daemonic energy, but the warp isn't just that. If you were immune to solar radiation it wouldn't stop you from dying to the intense heat of the sun or its crushing gravity.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Their physical body would likely be killed by the tumult around them, and lack of oxygen. Then they're just another chunk of real matter in the nightmare of the warp.

They'd be immune to any daemonic energy, but the warp isn't just that. If you were immune to solar radiation it wouldn't stop you from dying to the intense heat of the sun or its crushing gravity.

Heat = Radiation.

Now gravity yes.

The warp would collapse

 Great White wrote:
The warp would collapse

I have this theory that the Shadow in the Warp from a large enough Hive Fleet entering the Eye of Terror could bring down the Chaos gods themselves.

The Shadow of the Warp isn't a nullifying thing which is bad for the Warp, it's extreme communication in the Warp which people outside the Warp get insane by because their minds can't take this kind of psychic activity.
That the Shadow in the Warp should somehow be bad for the Warp is either a story made up by people which haven't read about it or it's made up by Tyranid fans which need to talk Tyranids > Chaos. I'm on the other side of course but I'm still right about the Shadow, just read about it.

They'd probably just nullify the effects of the warp in a small radius around them. I mean a blank in the normal world nullifies psychic energy in their vicinity, not in the entire galaxy. So no reason why the warp would collapse!

 EmpNortonII wrote:
I have this theory that the Shadow in the Warp from a large enough Hive Fleet entering the Eye of Terror could bring down the Chaos gods themselves.

The warp is a whole other dimension. Extremely unlikely the Tyranids would have the biomass to even marginally disrupt it once they were inside. We don't even know how big the warp is. It could be as large as the galaxy or even the universe. Maybe the Chaos Gods only control a tiny portion of it.

 EngulfedObject wrote:
They'd probably just nullify the effects of the warp in a small radius around them. I mean a blank in the normal world nullifies psychic energy in their vicinity, not in the entire galaxy. So no reason why the warp would collapse!

 EmpNortonII wrote:
I have this theory that the Shadow in the Warp from a large enough Hive Fleet entering the Eye of Terror could bring down the Chaos gods themselves.

The warp is a whole other dimension. Extremely unlikely the Tyranids would have the biomass to even marginally disrupt it once they were inside. We don't even know how big the warp is. It could be as large as the galaxy or even the universe. Maybe the Chaos Gods only control a tiny portion of it.

That's actually my theory regarding the Old Ones - they left this galaxy and went to a neighboring one because the Warp in the Milky Way was polluted. Then, they encountered the Tyranids, and were devoured and then BOOM! Shadow in the Warp.

 EngulfedObject wrote:
They'd probably just nullify the effects of the warp in a small radius around them. I mean a blank in the normal world nullifies psychic energy in their vicinity, not in the entire galaxy. So no reason why the warp would collapse!

 EmpNortonII wrote:
I have this theory that the Shadow in the Warp from a large enough Hive Fleet entering the Eye of Terror could bring down the Chaos gods themselves.

The warp is a whole other dimension. Extremely unlikely the Tyranids would have the biomass to even marginally disrupt it once they were inside. We don't even know how big the warp is. It could be as large as the galaxy or even the universe. Maybe the Chaos Gods only control a tiny portion of it.

The Warp is an infinitely large universe of pure liquid id connected to other realities as well. If they wanted a Chaos God could likely wipe them out with infinitely respawning, limitless Daemons, or the Hive Fleet becomes another peculiar permanent resident.


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 EmpNortonII wrote:

 Great White wrote:
The warp would collapse

I have this theory that the Shadow in the Warp from a large enough Hive Fleet entering the Eye of Terror could bring down the Chaos gods themselves.

No, you have a Hypothesis as you lack the evidence to actually support your claim.

I really wish people would actually remember the definition and proper usage of the word "theory".

Im pretty sure nothing would happen considering they move cluxuses through warp travel anyway. as well as sisters of silence IIRC.

Can Tyranids be mind controlled or possessed by daemons?

 Filch wrote:
Can Tyranids be mind controlled or possessed by daemons?

Possibly by a VERY Strong psyker. i know some one had at least taped into the hive mind so i dont see why it couldn't.

 Desubot wrote:

 Filch wrote:
Can Tyranids be mind controlled or possessed by daemons?

Possibly by a VERY Strong psyker. i know some one had at least taped into the hive mind so i dont see why it couldn't.

was it ever confirmed the hive mind was tapped into? I know it's been suggested tigerus MAY HAVE but all the sources I've seen have been very vague onto if he actually did

Tigerius has, on several occasions, tapped into the Hive Mind and been able to predict the path of some Hive Fleets. But the effort was extraordinary and almost killed him IIRC.

You could almost certainly mind control some minor creatures if they were separated from the Hive Mind, but they'd likely revert to the Hive Mind if they came back into contact.

Well, having just read through the new Dark Eldar codex, I found a bit about Vect stole a bunch of nulls from a inquisitorial stronghold on the dark side of the moon of Dakka, to hang around the Khaine's Gate (was that even a thing? Somehow I don't recall a Khaine's Gate before this) to ward off the things on the other side (daemons).

So it's called Stealing the Void, 978999.M41, the Nulls are explicitly said to be "anathema to the Daemons of Chaos". But in just the next event 995999.M41 The Great Eye Opens, "Meanwhile, in a chamber filled with swirling madness, hairline cracks spread across Khaine's Gate, and the caged Nulls begin to scream..." (Codex: Dark Eldar. 7th Edition. digital). Btw, Khaine's Gate is the border between webway space and the warp, "Beyond Khaine's Gate lies the madness of the warp, ..." So I'd say even blanks can be at least overwhelmed by too much pure warp stuff.

As with Psykers, Untouchables have varying power-levels. Some Blanks are more-blank than others, and those that are not "delta-grade" or better (at least, and to use a psyker term), are probably not "blank enough" to fully keep daemons at bay.

 Psienesis wrote:
As with Psykers, Untouchables have varying power-levels. Some Blanks are more-blank than others, and those that are not "delta-grade" or better (at least, and to use a psyker term), are probably not "blank enough" to fully keep daemons at bay.

Well, there is no way of knowing that; blanks/pariahs/untouchables/nulls are specifically said to those possessing no presence in the warp. If there were a grade for blanks, it would indicate that there is a measurement of how much less warp presence a person with no warp presence can have, and the answer is none.

Regardless, if there is a grade for Blanks, then this piece of fluff would go on to indicate that Blanks as a whole, are not entirely immune to warp energy.

Not necessarily. Think of untouchables as being negative psykers. They don't have no warp presence, its more like they have a negative warp presence. Instead of being invisible when a soul would normally be a shining light, they are a yawning abyss that swallows up any warp energy in the area.

The Culexus is a power enough anti-psyker that they can project negative psychic energy.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Not necessarily. Think of untouchables as being negative psykers. They don't have no warp presence, its more like they have a negative warp presence. Instead of being invisible when a soul would normally be a shining light, they are a yawning abyss that swallows up any warp energy in the area.

The Culexus is a power enough anti-psyker that they can project negative psychic energy.

The Culexus Assassin slays his foe by using a deadly psychic blast directed through an ancient device known as an Animus Speculum. It is not fully known how this device functions, but it is speculated that the warp energy separated from its targets by the null aura of the Culexus is held in this device and then unleashed. Indeed, the weapon becomes more and more potent in the vicinity of psykers. The device fires bolts of negative psychic energy and drains the power of nearby psykers to bolster its power.
-- From Lexicanum, Culexux Temple, "Equipment"

From Lexicanum, the "negative psychic power" isn't projected from the Culexus assassin, but rather a device that uses the Pariah as a tool for psychic energy collection and convert them into something else.

As for energy, yes there can be "negative energy", regardless if the writers really know what it (either the concept or the term) means, if the settings so demand; on the other hand, presence is a separate concept, you either have no presence, or have one, be it "positive" or "negative".

Dan Abnett has probably written more about Blanks and Untouchables than any other writer in the Black Library. From him, we know that Blanks exist in various grades of ability and, further, there's ways to mask a Blank's presence from those they would otherwise affect.