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The same sort of virus as in zombie films if you get bitten you become one...

Ok but still how can a virus turn a human into a zombie?

'Cause Chaos? You don't need to be a pysker to be mutated or turn others into zombies.

Or were you seriously asking what legitimate ways a virus can turn a person into a flesh eating husk with no personality or morals ignoring most injuries save decapitation/brain injury?

*edited for spelling

 Tomten wrote:
Ok but still how can a virus turn a human into a zombie?

A Zombie Virus.

 Tomten wrote:
Ok but still how can a virus turn a human into a zombie?

Theoretically speaking A Virus could have a cytopathogenic effect on certain host cells and kill them off. leaving other functioning cells that keep working.

The virus could attack the brain cells that contain the cognitive thinking function of the brain killing them off. we would be left with basic instinct, Hunger, which naturally we would lurch towards the closest and most abundant food source, Humans.

While not physically dead, our thought process would be non-existent and thus we would be partially brain dead, and classified as a Zombie, as our basic instincts would take over.

Hooray!

i thought that zombies were dead humans?

Infected/dead humans who cares

Considering Big E is holding off four gods (more if you count the c'tan and avatar) I'd say he's the strongest psyker at the moment. All though I might be crediting him with the work of the entire Imperium.

Ravenor ftw!

Aetaos'rau'keres, the Slayer of Souls is probably amongst the most powerful psykers in the 40k universe, although as a daemon he is a creature of the warp and not truly a psyker.

I don't think so he's really powerful but not Magnus or emperor level...

Living Psyker?

Well...from an Imperium perspective, the Emperor for being able to hold off all 4 Chaos gods (to a reasonable extent)

If you count the Chaos Gods themselves, Tzeentch is up there (assuming it is a psyker. I never read anything saying it isn't so im assuming it is one)...

EDIT: Decided to make Tzeentch gender neutral even though I think the Chaos Gods are all guys (except Slaneesh, I have read it's a girl somewhere)

Really I read slannesh was male but could assume a female form. I'm guessing khorne and nurgle are also male but I would describe tzeetch is an "it"

Slaanesh is whatever it damn pleases...

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Slaanesh is whatever it damn pleases...

Actually, whatever the viewer pleases. Slaanesh is god of pleasure and as such whatever looks upon it sees what they envision as the perfect person.

At least I read that somewhere.

 Deadshot wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Slaanesh is whatever it damn pleases...

Actually, whatever the viewer pleases. Slaanesh is god of pleasure and as such whatever looks upon it sees what they envision as the perfect person.

At least I read that somewhere.

Yeah I think that's basically it but slaanesh defiantly isnt the strongest psyker...

God no. I would have to say the Emperor. For the reason he obliterated Horus entirely, in the Warp. No other being has been able to destroy a Warp Essence. And it didn't even kill him, it was the physical damage Horus did that put him on the throne.

Well we will see when the Magnus rules are eventually released!

 Deadshot wrote:
God no. I would have to say the Emperor. For the reason he obliterated Horus entirely, in the Warp. No other being has been able to destroy a Warp Essence. And it didn't even kill him, it was the physical damage Horus did that put him on the throne.

Eisenhorn has done that, lol.

Never to a being as monstrously powerful as Horus doped on Chaos, sure, but he has done it.

The Holocaust psychic power is also capable of it.

 DeathReaper wrote:
All untrue, the Strongest Psyker is Mephiston. He has a Str of 6, any other Psykers have a Str of 6?

Any Wraithseer would, by your logic, be the strongest psyker at STR 10.

warpspider89 wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
All untrue, the Strongest Psyker is Mephiston. He has a Str of 6, any other Psykers have a Str of 6?

Any Wraithseer would, by your logic, be the strongest psyker at STR 10.

How would Furioso Librarian dreads factor in?

 Nerobellum wrote:

warpspider89 wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
All untrue, the Strongest Psyker is Mephiston. He has a Str of 6, any other Psykers have a Str of 6?

Any Wraithseer would, by your logic, be the strongest psyker at STR 10.

How would Furioso Librarian dreads factor in?

They're only S6 base.

I can't believe that no one has mentioned yet how hard it would be to choose an overall strongest psyker. In 40k, there are different disciplines, each having better psykers.
For example, Mephiston may be a death machine, but when it comes to Divination, Tigurius beats pretty much everyone bar Eldrad without even trying. Telepathy, again something Tigurius would beat everyone at (assuming he DID crack the Hive Mind). But if we look to, say, Biomancy, then we're in the realm of someone else.
Look at the Thousand Sons, different cults had their own specialities and were adept at what they did, but some were pretty naff at everything else.

Tigurius and Mephistopelis couldn't hold a candle to Magnus or Arhiman in any discipline...
I could use Njal the stormcaller (who ripped a bloodthirster with a p-blast ) in the same manner you used T and M - but Magnus and Ahriman are on the another level...

FormlessDragon wrote:

 TheCaptain wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

otherwise it'd cover the entire galaxy (which isn't infinite, btw).

What.

Galaxies live inside the universe.
Galaxy = finite
Universe = infinite

Nerobellum wrote:
... all make most current psykers look like the garbage pail kids.

rofllmao
I haven't thought about garbage pail kids in years. That one made me giggle.

The universe doesnt actually go on for ever. The proof is in the fact that it had a beginning. Since it has a beginning it may eternally approach infinity, but since it has a measurable edge (granted its reeeeeally huge) it is not truly an infinity

wopes wrong forum

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
I can't believe that no one has mentioned yet how hard it would be to choose an overall strongest psyker. In 40k, there are different disciplines, each having better psykers.
For example, Mephiston may be a death machine, but when it comes to Divination, Tigurius beats pretty much everyone bar Eldrad without even trying. Telepathy, again something Tigurius would beat everyone at (assuming he DID crack the Hive Mind). But if we look to, say, Biomancy, then we're in the realm of someone else.
Look at the Thousand Sons, different cults had their own specialities and were adept at what they did, but some were pretty naff at everything else.

I guess it is a good thing that Magnus is explicitly a high level master and better at every discipline than any of his sons.

I would agree with that, I have heard people claiming Ahriman is on a par with Magnus. For those people just read battle of the fang... Just read it.

I seem to recall DoM destroying an entire eldar craftworld.
By devouring their souls.
All by himself.
Just for the hell of it.
On a Tuesday.