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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 04:02:21
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Hellacious Havoc
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Maybe a giant brain glowing with psychic power...
Or maybe a massive cthulu style squid face monster?
What do you guys think?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 04:22:12
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The point of a hive mind is that it doesn't have a brain/central system.
A hive mind is like an internet, and each of the Synapse creatures are like a server.
So you tell me - what does the Internet look like?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 04:22:23
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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I never got the impression that the Hive Mind had a physical form, but rather is just a collection of all the psychic energies of every Tyranid life form.
I like the "internet" analogy
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 04:22:34
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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A single, frail humanoid entity that coruscates with terrible Warp-borne power. In battle, it is a terrible sight to behold- to the point of killing any and all Psykers who are on the field, their bodies spasming before violently exploding into clouds of gore. Thus, it needs no biomorphs- but relies instead on the sheer of weight psychic force present in the Synapse shared by the Tyranids.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 04:55:40
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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Its not a physical object. Its the collective consciousness of all synapse creatures.
The internet analogy is very apt.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 05:25:02
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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!!Goffik Rocker!!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 05:34:14
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Commander of the Mysterious 2nd Legion
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I always figured something like that?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 07:51:19
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Hallowed Canoness
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lol.
Norn Queens are the biggest, most powerful hive nodes, I believe. They're the organisms directly responsible for designing new biomorphs and organism forms. If there were to be a physical representation of the Hive Mind, I imagine they would be it.
A Norn Queen apparently looks a lot like a Hive Tyrant with a longer brain casing and manipulator claws instead of weapon claws, but I have no idea where Warhammer Wikia sourced that image from, as it's not referenced. According to Lexicanum, it has a mouth on top. Of course, really, we all know they look like this
When the Norn Queen takes to the battlefield for whatever impenetrable reason, it does so encapsulated within a Dominatrix Bio-Titan.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 10:12:51
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Been Around the Block
Aachen, Germany
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Gravewalker wrote:Maybe a giant brain glowing with psychic power...
Or maybe a massive cthulu style squid face monster?
No matter what shape or form GW would give the Hive Mind, it'd be a massive mistake, and might even ruin the Tyranids. Contrast and compare: the Borg Queen.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 10:20:10
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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!!Goffik Rocker!!
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Makes me think tyrands evolved from the internet.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 11:25:42
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Steadfast Ultramarine Sergeant
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I've always seen the Hive Mind as an extra-galactic Warp 'God', like a Chaos god of another galaxy, born from the intense hunger of the Tyranid race, reaching a level of sentience our gods can't, and fully taking direct control of the creatures that spawned it. The Hive Mind looks like every single Tyranid organism.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 11:33:49
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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!!Goffik Rocker!!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 13:05:41
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Pyro Pilot of a Triach Stalker
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
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Unit1126PLL wrote:The point of a hive mind is that it doesn't have a brain/central system.
A hive mind is like an internet, and each of the Synapse creatures are like a server.
So you tell me - what does the Internet look like?
A series of tubes...duhhhh
Hive Mind is plumbing confirmed
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 14:38:59
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Everyone knows this is the internet
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/80853755780611504/
But yes, I dont think the hive mind has a physical form, but I do hope that eventually forgeworld will come out with like the high supreme commander thing that is in charge of multiple hive fleets (maybe most of them even, like the Silent King)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/26 15:30:11
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Frothing Warhound of Chaos
The dangerous swamps of South Louisiana
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The Hive Mind is the gestalt collective consciousness of the entire Tyranid race, a psychic embodiment of the Tyranid instincts and racial imperatives to devour and destroy.
Which has been taken from the Wh40k Lexicanum. Had to be that guy
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/28 15:37:22
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan
Mexico
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As many have said, like the Internet.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/28 16:28:15
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Unhealthy Competition With Other Legions
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Preferably something like this.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/28 17:38:41
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Lesser Daemon of Chaos
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A hive mind is like an internet, and each of the Synapse creatures are like a server.
something has to decide orders though so the servers relay certain messages to achieve a common goal...
because if the hive mind was like the internet... it would end in chaos and nothing would get done xD
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/28 18:02:19
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Glorious Lord of Chaos
The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer
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It looks like a MindSlayer™, a big brain with legs and arms. It's supreme leader of the Tyranid species, which manifests every now and then to duel Marneus Calgar. In the End Times™ Calgar will finally kill it and thus disband the Tyranid species.
It has the psychic power Mindslay™, wields a pair of deadly Mindtalons™ and has the Mindlust™ special rule.
It's also overcosted.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/28 18:06:39
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Hallowed Canoness
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Keep wrote:A hive mind is like an internet, and each of the Synapse creatures are like a server.
something has to decide orders though so the servers relay certain messages to achieve a common goal...
because if the hive mind was like the internet... it would end in chaos and nothing would get done xD
Think less 4chan and more Geth.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/28 20:53:06
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Resolute Ultramarine Honor Guard
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It should be noted, that like the Internet, the Hivemind can be disrupted and effectively disabled in small local areas (say a few systems). When this happens, every Tyranid basically reverts to dumb predator mode and kills other Nids. So logically there are creatures within the Tyranid order that run entire fleets and are effectively "the Hive Mind"'s guiding force. IIRC, these creatures live in massive bio ships and are themselves massive creatures.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/28 21:16:37
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Hallowed Canoness
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Yes, those would be the Norn Queens.
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"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/30 02:07:43
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Hive Mind is a gestalt consciousness. It has no form nor true independent sentience. It's the combined psychic might of the Tyranid life with the low cunning of a predator. There's no physical form, the Hive Mind is just the result of every Tyranid's psychic potential combined together.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/30 02:19:13
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Tunneling Trygon
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Harriticus wrote:Hive Mind is a gestalt consciousness. It has no form nor true independent sentience. It's the combined psychic might of the Tyranid life with the low cunning of a predator. There's no physical form, the Hive Mind is just the result of every Tyranid's psychic potential combined together.
THIS. the closest you're going to get to a physical manifestation of the hive mind is a Norn Queen.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/30 02:23:11
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Roarin' Runtherd
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I see no reason to believe the hive mind is any individual "thing", but I used to think of it as existing in a hive ship like organism, consisting of several majors organs connected across the vessel
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/30 04:35:21
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan
Mexico
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Well it is an individual "thing" which is the whole Tyranid race. The comparison with the internet works, but you know what also is a web made of many nodes in constant communication? your brain.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/30 15:48:41
Subject: Re:What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Human Auxiliary to the Empire
Mandalor
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The hive mind could be a living planet, like Zonama Sekot ( http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zonama_Sekot) but bent on galactic / universal, feeding. I suspect that this would be the Tyranid home world.
If the hive mind is the internet, could there have been a 'Skynet' type takeover that caused the tyranids to become this insatiable hunger? (I just watched terminator) I suspect that there might be have been peaceful Tyranids somewhere in the past, they cant be pure predators from the start, they would have died off long before leaving their home world.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/30 16:50:03
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan
Mexico
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Why not?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/30 17:59:45
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/03/31 09:06:32
Subject: What do you imagine the Tyranid Hive Mind to look like?
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Hallowed Canoness
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"Does it hurt, not being able to hear other people's thoughts?" "I didn't used to think so." -- Martian boy/Benjamin
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"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad. |
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