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 Stux wrote:

Karol wrote:
But don't tyranids come from a different galaxy, why would someone engineer them in to anti chaos weapons, if tyranids already ate everything back home to, so to say?

Because maybe Chaos is a universe wide problem? There's nothing to suggest the Immaterium is unique to our galaxy, and it might be the case that any Chaos left would be able to grow and threaten other galaxies.

Nothing guaranteed there's actually a lot to suggest it isn't universe wide, I don't have the link on hand but someone made a compilation of sources once that showed it. I'd recommend researching further yourself if it interests you.

 SHUPPET wrote:

 Stux wrote:

Karol wrote:
But don't tyranids come from a different galaxy, why would someone engineer them in to anti chaos weapons, if tyranids already ate everything back home to, so to say?

Because maybe Chaos is a universe wide problem? There's nothing to suggest the Immaterium is unique to our galaxy, and it might be the case that any Chaos left would be able to grow and threaten other galaxies.

Nothing guaranteed there's actually a lot to suggest it isn't universe wide, I don't have the link on hand but someone made a compilation of sources once that showed it. I'd recommend researching further yourself if it interests you.

That does sound interesting, if you find that link let me know!

So, FWIW, I always took the presence of Genestealer Cults on Necromunda to be an implication that they exist, to some degree, on basically every Imperial world.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
So, FWIW, I always took the presence of Genestealer Cults on Necromunda to be an implication that they exist, to some degree, on basically every Imperial world.

Hmm, I don't think that can be true, because I think there are many worlds where they would already have supplanted the Imperium entirely if GSC ever got there, because many worlds in the IoM are too weak to resist such a thing, and too isolated for anyone to notice/care for ages.

Also, many worlds are not very well connected to the wider Imperium, so would be difficult for genestealers to reach.

Necromunda has a specific backstory for how the 'stealers got there, and it is also a very well connected world at the centre of many trade networks. It is not too surprising that it has been infiltrated.

Plus, I think we can say there are probably very few non-Imperial cults in the Formosa sector- Coteaz has that place locked down tight

 Stux wrote:

 SHUPPET wrote:

 Stux wrote:

Karol wrote:
But don't tyranids come from a different galaxy, why would someone engineer them in to anti chaos weapons, if tyranids already ate everything back home to, so to say?

Because maybe Chaos is a universe wide problem? There's nothing to suggest the Immaterium is unique to our galaxy, and it might be the case that any Chaos left would be able to grow and threaten other galaxies.

Nothing guaranteed there's actually a lot to suggest it isn't universe wide, I don't have the link on hand but someone made a compilation of sources once that showed it. I'd recommend researching further yourself if it interests you.

That does sound interesting, if you find that link let me know!

one point that I can remember is the fact that the entire universe is massive. Think about how easily Slaanesh was created (relatively), and how easily the Tau created thei mini god recently. If the warp was a universe wide thing, there would be Chaos god's the power of Slaanesh being created every instant.

But there was even better reasoning and sources in the link I saw, I can't find it for the life of me tho

In the recent Tyranid v Blood Angels book there is a quote stating that Chaos is something the Tyranids did not encounter before the milky way.


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Karol wrote:
But don't tyranids come from a different galaxy, why would someone engineer them in to anti chaos weapons, if tyranids already ate everything back home to, so to say?


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 Kroem wrote:
It depends, who says joining the Hive Mind isn't the ultimate way to become immortal? A way to escape the maddening isolation of seperate bodies and consciousness to join together into the great community that is the Hive Mind?

We know that souls definitively exist in the 40k universe, so maybe the souls of the cultists do add to the Hive Mind instead of going into the Warp to be torn asunder by dæmons...

But there is no joing in case of tyranids. You get digested, broken down to most basic compotents. The only thing that does seem to have limited free will are norn queens, and only if their ship doesn't get eaten by a bigger hive fleet. Or do "clones" of succesful bio organisms like the swarmy or old one eye have rudimentary memory of their other incarantions?

Old One Eye/Red Terror are organisms that were encountered just once. However they both have '...but hive fleets have been seen deploying similar variations later' tacked on for fluff flexibility.

Hive Tyrants and the Swarmlord are different, it is explained that it is the same individual with all the intelligence, skill, and memory intact, simply spawned at another time with another body.