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 MarsNZ wrote:

BomBomHotdog wrote:


They don't have souls for Chaos to corrupt

If you think Chaos needs souls to do any corruption you probably haven't been paying much attention to the fluff.

What i think the meaning behind that comment was that individual tyranids lack sentience and sapience outside the hivemind, with a few notable exceptions Therefore Nids are not able to be corrupted in the sense of turned to the side of chaos. They can be corrupted in the sense of harmed, fouled, or damaged.

 dusara217 wrote:

 GKTiberius wrote:

 MarsNZ wrote:

BomBomHotdog wrote:


They don't have souls for Chaos to corrupt

If you think Chaos needs souls to do any corruption you probably haven't been paying much attention to the fluff.

What i think the meaning behind that comment was that individual tyranids lack sentience and sapience outside the hivemind, with a few notable exceptions Therefore Nids are not able to be corrupted in the sense of turned to the side of chaos. They can be corrupted in the sense of harmed, fouled, or damaged.

Except that Chaos could corrupt the flesh of the Tyranids, 'Nids carry said corruption back to the Hive Fleet, corruption spreads, and BOOM Chaos gains control of the Hive Fleet (I doubt this could really happen, but that would be friggin awesome).

I doubt that, That would mean that the corruption of a few drones would be able to cut an entire hive fleet off from the hive mind and basically use a greater daemon as a surrogate for the hive mind's control. As we are discussing a fictional universe subject to the whims of writers, I'm not saying its not possible, but i am saying its unlikely, and would be a departure from established fluff. More than likely, the fleet would recognize the taint and destroy the infected creature.

 dusara217 wrote:

 GKTiberius wrote:

 dusara217 wrote:

 GKTiberius wrote:

 MarsNZ wrote:

BomBomHotdog wrote:


They don't have souls for Chaos to corrupt

If you think Chaos needs souls to do any corruption you probably haven't been paying much attention to the fluff.

What i think the meaning behind that comment was that individual tyranids lack sentience and sapience outside the hivemind, with a few notable exceptions Therefore Nids are not able to be corrupted in the sense of turned to the side of chaos. They can be corrupted in the sense of harmed, fouled, or damaged.

Except that Chaos could corrupt the flesh of the Tyranids, 'Nids carry said corruption back to the Hive Fleet, corruption spreads, and BOOM Chaos gains control of the Hive Fleet (I doubt this could really happen, but that would be friggin awesome).

I doubt that, That would mean that the corruption of a few drones would be able to cut an entire hive fleet off from the hive mind and basically use a greater daemon as a surrogate for the hive mind's control. As we are discussing a fictional universe subject to the whims of writers, I'm not saying its not possible, but i am saying its unlikely, and would be a departure from established fluff. More than likely, the fleet would recognize the taint and destroy the infected creature.


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Did you read the whole post? Because I said there, right at the end, that this has like a 99.99% of not happening.

I did, but I felt that you didn't understand my original point, Physical corruption is possible, but unless it was a hive tyrant or synapse creature, mental or spiritual corruption of a single or even a group of nids would be largely irrelevant to the swarm, hive fleet, or Hivemind. Because what you are talking about is Physical corruption. also IIRC Terrestrial Nids are rendered down into biomass and dont return to the fleet, so physically corrupting nids on a planet, even on a large scale would do little to affect the hive fleet.