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AgeOfEgos wrote:I'd like to humbly point out that after months of referring to the Emperor as the Big E.....the terminology is spreading. That's step one of my plan, step two involves raising an army.

Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!

AgeOfEgos wrote:
I'd like to humbly point out that after months of referring to the Emperor as the Big E.....the terminology is spreading. That's step one of my plan, step two involves raising an army

If you pay me in 40K merch I'll join

Orks don't have leaders, Tau are lead by ethereals, and the Hive Mind, being collective, wouldn't be fit into a single organism because that defeats the purpose. Out of what's left, the Emperor is clearly the most powerful. He trumps even the Chaos Gods because his supernatural might is a force to be reckoned with, as well. Let's not forget that Eisenhorn was able to directly call His wrath down upon the Lith. In addition to this, he can directly exert an influence upon the material world. The Chaos Gods will weaken if Mankind ever experiences another enlightenment.

God-Emperor most definitely, one person being able to stabilize warp travel for all humans to use??? No question.

Thought about the hive mind but its not realy a single thing......

xXSir MontyXx wrote:Thought about the hive mind but its not realy a single thing......

Well it is, actually. It's just linked to all the synapse creatures, which in turn connects the smaller Tyranids. So it's kinda like Brain Control or something..

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

xXSir MontyXx wrote:Thought about the hive mind but its not realy a single thing......

Well it is, actually. It's just linked to all the synapse creatures, which in turn connects the smaller Tyranids. So it's kinda like Brain Control or something..

And there's little evidence to suggest it actually has any powers beyond a supreme intelligence and exerting control orchestrating the Tyranid Race. Though it's highly likely.


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Though the term 'leader' may be stretching it a bit. The Hive Mind doesn't lead the Tyranid Race per se, it is the Tryanid Race. I think...maybe?

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

xXSir MontyXx wrote:Thought about the hive mind but its not realy a single thing......

Well it is, actually. It's just linked to all the synapse creatures, which in turn connects the smaller Tyranids. So it's kinda like Brain Control or something..

And there's little evidence to suggest it actually has any powers beyond a supreme intelligence and exerting control orchestrating the Tyranid Race. Though it's highly likely.


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Though the term 'leader' may be stretching it a bit. The Hive Mind doesn't lead the Tyranid Race per se, it is the Tryanid Race. I think...maybe?

Well, actually it's the Hive Ship at the centre of a fleet (ie, in charge of/top of the food chain, so to speak). In effect, it would seem that each fleet has it's own "Hive Mind". Plus, each fleet has its own sort of genetic memories, because if one Hive Fleet mutates/evolves to the climate of one planet, another Hive Fleet wouldn't know about those changes or that planet, unless I'm mistaken.

But, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Hive Mind IS the Tyranid race, as if abandoned, the little bugs (hell, even some of the bigger ones) go feral.

Now that I think about it, perhaps there is just some vast psyker out there, who is actually managing to control them. Although, The Shadow in the Warp would seem to disprove this theory.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

xXSir MontyXx wrote:Thought about the hive mind but its not realy a single thing......

Well it is, actually. It's just linked to all the synapse creatures, which in turn connects the smaller Tyranids. So it's kinda like Brain Control or something..

And there's little evidence to suggest it actually has any powers beyond a supreme intelligence and exerting control orchestrating the Tyranid Race. Though it's highly likely.


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Though the term 'leader' may be stretching it a bit. The Hive Mind doesn't lead the Tyranid Race per se, it is the Tryanid Race. I think...maybe?

Well, actually it's the Hive Ship at the centre of a fleet (ie, in charge of/top of the food chain, so to speak). In effect, it would seem that each fleet has it's own "Hive Mind". Plus, each fleet has its own sort of genetic memories, because if one Hive Fleet mutates/evolves to the climate of one planet, another Hive Fleet wouldn't know about those changes or that planet, unless I'm mistaken.

But, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Hive Mind IS the Tyranid race, as if abandoned, the little bugs (hell, even some of the bigger ones) go feral.

Now that I think about it, perhaps there is just some vast psyker out there, who is actually managing to control them. Although, The Shadow in the Warp would seem to disprove this theory.

Well that wouldent explain the Swarmlord, he can appear in any Hive Fleet if needed and jsut gains more memories and experiences.

The question about the Tyranid Hive Mind is it the combined minds of the tyranids, or is it an entity its self that has control over the tyranids?

The tyranids are not from the milky way, so they are at least in another galaxy (unless they were chased away/ took all resourses) if not several.

Owain im not trying to be rude but the orks do have Gazghkull Thraka and most tribes are lead by Mech boys or at least Lexicanum tells us it is.


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Tells us they are*

Owain wrote:Orks don't have leaders.

well, in a typical waagh, the totem pole goes as follows:

warlord
big meks
warbosses
nobs/painboyz/wierdboys
meks
boyz
grots
snotlings

Yes, but "The Ork Race" doesn't count as a leader. If the poll mentioned an actual Ork individual like Gazghkull then that would be acceptable.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Yes, but "The Ork Race" doesn't count as a leader. If the poll mentioned an actual Ork individual like Gazghkull then that would be acceptable.

even ghazghkull can't stand up to gods like the c'tan, chaos, the emperor (demi-god, but still).
they should have gork and mork.

the orks obviously... the emperor of man may fight with gods and demons, but the orks can literally call a war into being with the power of thought. Chances are they could destroy the chaos gods with sheer force of will if the greateer majority of weirdboys channeled a couple billion ork's waagh energy... considering the current (vague) power levels of the ork's psyche, that would probabably be enough juice to vaporize the emperor. 'umies aint real boyz, dey cower 'hind dere boss and whimper. dere boss is weak, like de umies is weak. us boyz is gons ta kill de all.

The Orkz.

baconlord44 wrote:the orks obviously... the emperor of man may fight with gods and demons, but the orks can literally call a war into being with the power of thought. Chances are they could destroy the chaos gods with sheer force of will if the greateer majority of weirdboys channeled a couple billion ork's waagh energy... considering the current (vague) power levels of the ork's psyche, that would probabably be enough juice to vaporize the emperor. 'umies aint real boyz, dey cower 'hind dere boss and whimper. dere boss is weak, like de umies is weak. us boyz is gons ta kill de all.

I doubt that. If there were enough orks all focused enough for the weid boyz to channel the power into attacking something they would probably blow up the planet they were on or simply blow up through the psychic overload.

Gibbsey wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

xXSir MontyXx wrote:Thought about the hive mind but its not realy a single thing......

Well it is, actually. It's just linked to all the synapse creatures, which in turn connects the smaller Tyranids. So it's kinda like Brain Control or something..

And there's little evidence to suggest it actually has any powers beyond a supreme intelligence and exerting control orchestrating the Tyranid Race. Though it's highly likely.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Though the term 'leader' may be stretching it a bit. The Hive Mind doesn't lead the Tyranid Race per se, it is the Tryanid Race. I think...maybe?

Well, actually it's the Hive Ship at the centre of a fleet (ie, in charge of/top of the food chain, so to speak). In effect, it would seem that each fleet has it's own "Hive Mind". Plus, each fleet has its own sort of genetic memories, because if one Hive Fleet mutates/evolves to the climate of one planet, another Hive Fleet wouldn't know about those changes or that planet, unless I'm mistaken.

But, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Hive Mind IS the Tyranid race, as if abandoned, the little bugs (hell, even some of the bigger ones) go feral.

Now that I think about it, perhaps there is just some vast psyker out there, who is actually managing to control them. Although, The Shadow in the Warp would seem to disprove this theory.

Well that wouldent explain the Swarmlord, he can appear in any Hive Fleet if needed and jsut gains more memories and experiences.

The question about the Tyranid Hive Mind is it the combined minds of the tyranids, or is it an entity its self that has control over the tyranids?

The tyranids are not from the milky way, so they are at least in another galaxy (unless they were chased away/ took all resourses) if not several.

There is no hive mind in the Tyranid hive fleets, the Hive Tyrant leads them in a way, having the most connesction to the hive mind and all, but no there is not one in every fleet.