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If its the Nids, we're F'd and presumed et.

SJ

 Bobthehero wrote:
This trooper does not understand the question

Nicely played.

I would be most terrified of Earths own Poloticians ganging together and going into orbit...

Nevermind the potential alien invasion. Our own Poloticians would terrify the cosmos with their logic, greed and lies. =/

Heck, I think Tyranids would die from starvation if a gang of Earthen Poloticians invaded a hive.... No way they could even stomach their existence.

I'm afraid of the humans. An Imperial army in orbit would suck the loudest. After you get conquered (and the assumed rape fest) you get taxed to death. At least with the xeno death would be swift.

Hard to say. For me, it's a toss-up between Daemons and Dark Eldar. Both are pretty terriffying, and could potnetially inflict a lot of long-lasting torture, Daemons with their mind-fethery and soul-corrupting, and Dark Eldar with their, well, torture. Both are pretty horrifying. I guess I'll say Dark Eldar, since one of their main goals is to capture slaves to torture. Daemons, at least, are somewhat more likely to just kill a person.

'Also, Nids really aren't so bad. All they'll do is kill you. Those other bastards, meanwhile, will utterly rend your psyche and then kill you.

Tyranids. Anything else, I MIGHT live, even if they win.

The Imperium.

It would be rather frustrating to have to fight against the very thing you seek to protect. Scary, because no matter how well you would do in the fight, you would eventually end up helping Chaos and xeno scum by killing Imperials. Not to mention the amount of killing needed to be done.

Of course all this was just philosophical pondering because petty human feelings don't strain me or my brothers anymore... .

I'd agree with Tyranids. Not because your fate would be less pleasant than say being tortured by Dark Eldar or something. It's that you are prey, and nothing more. No chance at communication, even if in futile defiance. Even demons might understand you and your fears. With Tyranids you are simply food to be processed, nothing more. You are eliminated without malice or care, just assuredly eliminated.

Thinking what dark elder would do sends a shiver down my spine.

Chaos, Daemons and Dark Eldar. The rest will just destroy the planet.

My vote goes to the Tyranids. If they show up you're a dead man walking. There's no surviving it's just a matter of time and being eaten alive by a galaxy spanning entity with limitless experience, intelligence and bodies to throw at you all evolved into creatures designed to be apex predators with 1 single purpose is just hope crushing. The knowledge that even if you kill millions on your own won't even make them notice you or flinch or slow their progress. Plus the best fate you can hope for with them is to be torn apart by talons and teeth. Alternatives include having your internals liquified by poisons, having worms crawl into your brain, being dissolved by acid, being eaten alive, or any number of terrifying and horrific fates just cause they pointed a weapon at you. That doesn't even include the fear that the genestealers and lictors would sow prior to them showing up. Then there's the fact that no matter how hard you fight you'll still be digested and go to help the force you fought so hard to get rid of... You just can't win

Think about your testicles and all the things you don't want to happen to them.

Yeah it's the Dark Eldar.

 Rautakanki wrote:
Think about your testicles and all the things you don't want to happen to them.

Yeah it's Slaanesh.

FTFY.

Dark Eldar, pray they don't take you alive.

Daemons, they are your nightmares incarnate.

Tyranids. Everyone else will die easily enough to an appropriate amount of ordinance and thus saving a good chunk of the populace. Especially Dark Eldar. Not Tyranids, no. Even if the Imperium gains the upper hand most citizens will probably be converted to nids already. Even if you lived you will have to have endured the horrors of lictors and ripper swarms. And your planet will be a near dead world by then.

Dark Eldar and Daemons. Tyranids aren't bad at all. They kill you extremely quickly- Xenomorph style with a quick slash and bam you're dead. If you're taken captive by Dark Eldar or Daemons decide to pay unwanted attention to you miserable little soul (or both)? You're in a world of hurt and best served by shooting your family with a lasgun and then promptly killing yourself. Even if there's a chance you may survive undetected- do you really want to take the chance that they might notice you and thus you spend a hundred years or more either dying and being revived time and time again by the DE as they use you as a sextoy for their hedonistic rituals and mutilate you or daemons keep your soul intact so you can feel yourself being rend to pieces- possibly even assembled multiple times just for them to extract joy from flaying your soul?

Yeah, lasgun to the face.

DE for me.

To quote Firefly

'they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we are very very lucky they'll do it in that order...'

That's the DE on a busy day.

If they have time to take their leisure it'd be much, MUCH worse.

Daemons of Slaanesh a close second. The other Gods aren't so big on drawing things out (barring a bad case of Nurgle's Rot)

 Wyzilla wrote:
Dark Eldar and Daemons. Tyranids aren't bad at all. They kill you extremely quickly- Xenomorph style with a quick slash and bam you're dead. If you're taken captive by Dark Eldar or Daemons decide to pay unwanted attention to you miserable little soul (or both)? You're in a world of hurt and best served by shooting your family with a lasgun and then promptly killing yourself. Even if there's a chance you may survive undetected- do you really want to take the chance that they might notice you and thus you spend a hundred years or more either dying and being revived time and time again by the DE as they use you as a sextoy for their hedonistic rituals and mutilate you or daemons keep your soul intact so you can feel yourself being rend to pieces- possibly even assembled multiple times just for them to extract joy from flaying your soul?

Yeah, lasgun to the face.

+1

And bonus points for highlighting the Grimdark.

I voted Tyranids for the shear fact that "a few ships" is just the tip of the iceberg, however having read the posts I'm leaning towards Dark Eldar as death is one thing, eternity in the arenas of Commorragh is another

I'm human, they can't keep me alive for a hundred years... can they?

Brutal Viking wrote:
I'm human, they can't keep me alive for a hundred years... can they?

Oh they probably could


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Either that or they fit a thousand years of pain into the lifespan you do have...

That would suck but I still say nids :p

I am going to go with the Sisters of Battle.

Nobody likes Space Mormons showing up at 8:00AM on a Saturday.....with GUNS!!!!

"Do you have a moment to talk about the Emperor?"

*Points boltguns*

I really don't know why people keep voting Tyranids when they just kill you. You're screwed no matter who shows up. Daemons especially. Unless the Legion of the Damned shows up, yeah, that planet's lost. While you're being skinned, raped, skinned, raped, partially eaten, raped again, skinned, tortured endlessly, and finally die from your body completely breaking down unless a DE decides to rez you for more rape and torture.

To make it simple.

What sustains Dark Eldar?

(Insert answer here)

You are that sustenance.

How long do Dark Eldar Live?

(insert answer here)

Does anyone every get rescued from commorah?

(insert amswer here)



Overall you can guarantee that as long as you are useful you will be kept alive for use. And since i doubt they will change their life style you will be kept forever. If you are lucky they might loose your remains so you can stay dead.

In short you become a farm forever, and the harvest is not a pretty one.

Dark Eldar, definitely.

Daemons? At least with Daemons there's a chance of dissolving into the warp and reforming as a daemon yourself. If the Dark Eldar get you, it's just pain until the pain starts. Your best hope is to be taken by a Wych cult for the arenas.

Also, to the one who compared Sisters to Mormons... don't be silly. Mormons can be tricked with words, Sisters will shoot you before letting you talk. :p (probably nicer than putting up with the ex-mormon who now fanatically follows your personal belief system though).

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Daemons. They're insanity made flesh. The reason Dark Eldar are scary is because they'll feed you to Daemons.

This guy gets it. But has it backwards. When talking about dark eldar and daemons while both end up damning your soul and that is what makes them scary. Not all daemons are really that scary. For example if you are killed by a daemonette you probably willingly walked into her arms after seeing the hottest woman you have ever seen call you over. Your actual death is relatively quick. If you are really lucky, and turn traitor, you might even live and could even be rewarded with godhood. And a planet in the warp to call your own.

With the dark eldar you can't hide. You can't barter, they think of you and everything you are/own as pathetic. Nothing more than food that needs spicing up. So they are going to torture you for years before giving you over to those same daemons.

So to summarize. With dark eldar you get years of torture and then the daemons. So it is better to just start with the daemons first.

Nurgle zombie plague would be pretty awful, but at least you could conceivably escape or elude them maybe. Nids, man with the whole cut of the astronomicon thing, i dont think youd have a hope

I voted Tyranids, but on consideration I'm changing my vote to Dark Eldar or Demons

Why do so many people go straight to tyranids when they vote?

They're not that bad...