ITT: Name a bigger intergalactic threat than the Tyranids Protip:

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.....Zerg

Your mom.

>>726356641
Whatever the Tyranids are fleeing from.

The flood

>>726356881
I, whoa...

spaceballs.

pan-galactic gargle-blasters.

>>726356830
>Diet Tyranids

lolok

those weird ass aliens in Star trek voyager

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>>726356641
Central banks. :(

>Yuuzhan Vong

>>726357309
Species 8472?

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>>726356641

Space niggers

Humans

>>726356641

humans

Replicators from Stargate

>>726356641
Necromorphs from Dead Space (the monolyth)
Also yeah the zerg, if Kerrigan is willing.

Giygas.

>>726356641
THE TAU
FILTHY LITTLE SEDUCTIVE BLUE BASTARDS
LURING MEN IN WITH THEIR FACE VAGINAS

>>726357521
Macgyver dealt with them just fine.
They aren't a threat.

>>726356641
In 40k they're the only intergalactic threat. Every other faction hostile to the Imperium is within the galaxy except technically the Outsider

>>726357536
I dont know about that one, In all the dead space games one guy was able to kill thousands of necromorphs and a few markers, all of this with weapons improvised out of tools

>>726357553
Underrated

>>726357536
>Kerrigan
I think she would be able to route them for awhile, but she can't be everywhere at once. (pre-legacy of the void)
Eventually they'd overwhelm her, if we're talking full-on invasion.

>>726356641
That big evil transformer that goes from universe to universe destroying them

Feminists

Muslims.
Or Muslim tyranids

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God Emperor Trump

>>726358001
Why would Unicron give a fuck about a fleet based species?
Eat eats planets, just like them. Only faster.

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this villain.

>>726356641

>Any Von Neumann probe that went rogue
>Daleks
>Photino Birds

>>726358139
The thread isn't about who would win directly it's who is a bigger threat

>>726358259
Cultural Marxism, then

>>726357815
she literally controls all zerg everywhere after heart of the swarm

>>726356641
Anti spirals.

>>726358342
I don't remember that part. That would certainly make it much more even.

Literally nothing outside the 40k universe can stand up to tyranids

>>726358117
but he's not a threat

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The flood, probably.

I'm talking OG halo flood not anything 343 put their grubs on.

They were so effective they starved themselves often.

>>726358342
Zerg are shittier, toned down tyranids

Zerg, Protoss, even hybrids would be barely blimp on the radar for the Human Empire, lower then Tau. They would just get "kill on sight" designation and noone would bother dealing with them, like the Hrud

>>726358528
He will be to everyone else.

>>726358505
>Whooverse
>Stargate verse
>Xelee sequence verse
>and any Von Neumann type AI from thousands of sci fi stories

>>726358528
he is ... If you are a filthy, disgusting xeno or a heretic

>>726356641
Dont know what they are so im gonna go with The Reapers from Mass Effect.

>>726358707
Cept def not the shit tier whoverse, idk rest

>>726358707
>>726358505

also
>The Culture verse
>anime shit
>shit from Comix

>>726358870
>Cept def not the shit tier whoverse, idk rest
Both Daleks and Time Lords are multiverse/timeline level threat

>>726358707
Id like to see anything fro doctor who stand up to weapons from 40k or any other sci-fi universe
From what Ive see with that show no one actually tries to fight the daleks or the robot dudes, everybody just runs the fuck away

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Khorne? Who?

>>726356641
'intergalactic' is the key word here. Zerg and several others mentioned don't count

>>726359147
Defeated by stairs

>>726359055
Lol right, what a pathetic excuse for a franchise

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>>726356641
Niggers.

>>726356641
Communism

>>726359055
well both Daleks and Time lords were goind to erase all matter in the multiverse or erase the concept of time, only to be stopped by Doctor

cthulhu or any one of the outer gods

>>726359209
they can levitate since like 90s, how old are you?

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Surprised no has mentioned this but...

Mantrid Drones, they already caused a singularity in one universe and collapsed it entirely just by populating one area.

>>726359320
where dey from?

>>726359320
Well, I don't see the Lexx anywhere.

>Azathoth

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My money is on the flood/primordials.

>>726359241
but see, they arent so great a threat if they can be stopped by some britbong with a fancy space dildo, are they?

>>726358535
This

Only way to defeat them was to commit mass jihad

>>726359290
Aughts. Christopher Eccleson Who

Still hilarious that this supposedly dire intergalactic threat had to be retconned in order to beat stairs.

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Borg
Reapers
Klendathu "Bugs"
The Body Snatchers

Shall I continue?

>>726359428
Lexx. Second season mainly.

>>726359533
>britbong with a fancy space dildo, are they?
plot armor, the strongest force in the universe.
I remember someone on some forum proposing that doctor has superpower that makes everyone around him super retarded.

>>726356830
>tyranid ripoffs

>>726358505
Flood
>a single flood spore can destroy a species
>flood regularly destroyed entire fleets of ships and took them over
>Tyranid ships are made of biomass

Black holes
/thread

>>726359616
well it was only retconned when they got budget for wires.

Who is basically tv stupidity with garage level special effects, or thats at least how it started

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>>726358505
*cough*

>>726359430
>>726359637
I passed this by on my free video website... I watched a good portion of this show when I was younger.
Is there any reason why I should rewatch it? Would that be a good idea? Or simply a waste of time?

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>>726356641
Most dangerous race known

>>726359664
What if his superpower is probability manipulation?

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Yuuzon Vong
coming to a star near you

>>726359679
according to tyranid crunch they would assimilate flood into themselves so you get immovable object unstopable force kind of scenario, better not dewll into it

>>726356881
came to post this

>>726358505
Culture would probably give zero shits. What passes for an ambassadorial ship for the Culture gets giddy at the prospect of shredding Rogue Von Neumann's - which is basically what Tyranids are - Biological Vons.

>>726359847
well not really, he is sometimes lucky, but usually it was his enemy doing something amazing stupid, or something he just expected and prepared for.

Kinda like super batman but without the tights.

>>726359221

Scurry.

>>726359803
getting gang-raped by the blueman group?

>>726356881
>>726357203
>>726359931

And if tyranids are not fleeing, but just ate all biological matter and resources behind them and look for more food?

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>Galactus

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>>726359828
>this is what humans actually believe

>>726356641
Necrons

>>726356641
large rocks

more Tyranids

>>726359817
Hard to say, it is.... Canadian.

>>726359803
/thread

>>726360212
Really? Well, I'm Canadian... So I don't think that'll be a problem.

After all, I enjoyed Farscape... and that was. *shudders* Australian.

>>726357178
The Flood would get fucked by the Tyranids

>>726359828
Hey isn't dangerous with that microdick

Ive got a bunch of tyranids painted up sitting in my home office. P fun.

>>726360191
>>726360170
Now the kids want to debate too

>>726360170
>>726360191
what part of INTERGALACTIC do you not understand?

>>726359803
/Freeeeeeeeeed

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>>726360281
Do you have big bones?

>>726360442
well the Zen chan is multiversal deity, thing is there is shitton beings like that in weebshit and comix

Pretty sure if the Orks all fought together they'd beat any and all opponents

Bydo Empire. Consume everything organic and non-organic, and consume thought. More destructive than the Tyranids

rtype.wikia.com /wiki/Bydo_Empire

>>726360496
Technically, yes. I do have a fairly large and solid frame.

>>726359636
>Klendathu bugs genetics would fuel the beast
>Borgs can't affect bioshit see Star Trek Voyager
>Reapers couldn't contain 8 gorillian swarming tyranids
>Body snatcher genetics would just buff genestealers

Saiyans

>>726356830
Not intergalactic and literally a ripoff

>>726360532
>by some miracle all orks are united by a single warboss
>they all gather and take on any opponent
>one ork trips another by accident on their way to battle
>that ork forms his own klan on the spot and infighting begins
>all hell breaks loose

>>726359828
how embarrassing for that gentleman

>>726356881
Hunger?

>>726356641
The thing from The Thing

>>726360761
Lol ur stupid

>>726359889
If a flood infection form made contact with a Tyranid what would happen?

Since the flood initially take control of the host's nervous system and make changes in the body to suit their needs, do you think that if the Tyranids were to attack a flood controlled planet they would win and actually be able to erect the spires necessary for biomass assimilation?

The flood can do it on the fly. Each infection form can assimilate an organism directly. Flood spores that contact organisms can also infect only much slower.

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well?

>>726357380
lol I was waiting for this
>>726358535
343 HASN'T touched the flood yet at all, have they?

>>726357536
>shadow in the warp

>>726360412
Would anyone like to see them? I'm not the greatest mini painter, but they look pretty good. Also have space marines, chaos marines, and chaos demons.

Superman having switched sides.

>>726360990
Ye

>>726359879
You know I was gonna post this, but if Boba Fett could handle them, Im sure whatever alien OP is scared of can too

>>726361075
K gimme just a minute

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>>726360887
Well?

>>726360778
agreed, but a really fun hell, with black jack, and hookers!

>>726360843
Th entire thing about Tyranid's is that they make rapid evolutions depending on what they face. If they start fighting things that are too armoured to hurt? They evolve armour piercing weaponry. Flood could start taking over some hosts but soon as that started happening the hivemind would start breeding new forms that are impervious or much more effective at destroying them.

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>>726360419
>argues about childish things
>gets upset when other childish things are suggested.

>>726360843
well tyrands kinda brake rules of thermodynamics because they can create/brake into biomatter without loss of energy, at least according to crunch.

And they grow resistant to both viral and nano weapons engineered to directly counter them.

Also individual tyranid is quite weak, even a hive tyrant is not a problem. They gain intelligence and strength by being a part of the swarm via tyranid-pseudo-telepathy. So even if flood would take over billion of tyranids, they would control billion weak organisms, and it takes just one to gain some sort of resistance or immunity and then entire hive has it.

It's more like every Hive Fleet is a singular organism not a race of indyviduals.

>>726359679
>implying the species that evolves monthly would just let spores keep attacking them
Flood haven't changed in thousands of years and were defeated by a ragtag alliance formed last second

>>726361352
not monthly, all the time, every singular unit is a test lab, and everything can be instantly applied to a hive

>>726359817
I'm a fan of it, so I definitely think it's worth watching. It one you'll either love or hate though.

Another one I'd highly recommend is Red Dwarf. More so really. In some respects they're similar (ship full of rejects and their adventures through space), but imo it's actually a straight up comedy, and probably a lot easier to get into. You can start anywhere and probably get the gist of what's going on.

Lexx is more dark comedy, and you probably need to watch it from the beginning in order to really understand what's going on. Each season was quite different than the others too. If you watch season 2 and then skip to the middle of season 3 it won't make any sense, and just seem weird. If you start with season 4 without watching season 2 and 3 it also probably won't make any sense.

the Anti-Spirals

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>>726356641
The Imperium of Man.

>>726361537
>intergalactic

>>726361459
As I originally stated, I watched Lexx growing up. I enjoyed it! I think... it was weird, is all I really recall.

That and I didn't like the guy in the red jumpsuit....

>>726361537
The Imperium literally can't leave the galaxy.
The God Emperor's machine bullshit won't let them.

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Pic 1 of 2. Just some of by bigger tyranids

>>726361629
their means of transportation will not let them.
They use warp for ftl, and warp only exists in their galaxy, so they have no way to travel at ftl beyond the galaxy

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>>726356641

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>>726361669
2 of 2.

>>726361669
>>726361767

actually pretty nice, can of compressed air would help them, or are they supposed to look dusty af?

>>726361669
A little too thick on the red but I like the bone colors

>>726361818
Lol no, they're not supposed to be dusty. They just haven't been moved in a long time.

Not to mention, the Tyranid's in the 40K universe right now which are basically unstoppable as it is are only the very first of the fleet which is still travelling through the void. Basically these are the scouting parties.

>>726361247
You're never impervious to the flood. The flood do the same thing.

Their forms change rapidly. Even if you evolve, if you are made of biomass the flood can kill you. The only way you would be able to resist the spores is if you had a completely enclosed suit, like a space suit, and that's only spores.

Pure form flood projectiles can penetrate Mjolnir Mk.6 power armor and much more, even going so far as to deplete energy shields. The infection form has a sharp spike that can penetrate incredibly thick armor and they infect hosts in mere seconds.

Keep in mind i'm not talking about shit-tier feral post-ring flood i'm talking about pure form pre-ring flood master race.

The only thing that can stop the flood is entirely mechanical units. Period. The flood isn't a Virus or a contagion, it's a parasite that forces itself into a host.

Also remember that once a host is infected, the flood completely takes over, but doesn't destroy it's body. It becomes a combat form, keeping whatever traits it had while also gaining enhanced strength, speed, and durability.

>>726361872
Thanks man. It's fun. My goal was just to get a decent looking fieldable army going without spending a week painting each figure lol

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>>726361767
nice

>>726361767
Is that drool or tau blood? :)

>>726362231
Lol thanks bro

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>>726356641
Bitch ass bugs? Please. The Reapers.

>>726362295
Well, it's tau blood now! Hadn't thought of that before lol

>>726362163
The flood aren't intergalactic (making this whole argument mute), they can't travel through space, they go dormant when sapient species aren't present, they actually don't evolve in the manner you're saying or nearly as quick, and psychic tyranids would buttblast them left and right

>>726362459
>high charity taken over and piloted across the galaxy to earth.

Yeah. They arent intergalactic at all.

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>>726356641
They're such a threat I literally had to confirm that I wasn't a robot just to post this on the internet.

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>>726356641
>"Diabolic Laugh"

>>726362550
You obviously don't know what intergalactic means

>>726362626
It means between galaxies. I gather if there are more galaxies in halos universe they could manage.

>>726362459
They can take over ships easily. They've done it before.
>they actually don't evolve in the manner you're saying or nearly as quick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScIY2JfQz9I

>>726362550
....ok? what's your point

>>726362163
I honestly don't know much about the Halo universe but I think it's safe to say the 40K universe has much, much more devastating weaponry and armour. Not sure how this Mjolnir armour compares to a normal space marine suit. Fact is though, Tyranid's can literally tear tanks in two, 40K tanks we're talking here and can evolve to withstand a beating from them too.

If a full enclosure suit is all it takes to resist spores (Which Tyranid's use anyway to start invasions, etc) then that's child's play for Tyranids. They can already survive open space.

Also infecting an individual is pretty useless against Tyranids since they're a hivemind.

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>>726362553
also, dont the insects avoid necron worlds?

>>726362726
See>>726362712

>>726362712
So you're just making up shit because your argument is invalid

>>726362796
>>726362721
>>726362712
Hey retards, they're not intergalactic. Their crunch even says so
>y-yeah but ships a-and other galaxies
That's not a rebuttal

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>>726362805

>>726362721
Oh wow they can take over other aliens' ships that also can't travel to other galaxies? Such an intergalactic threat

>>726363017
Fair point anon

>>726362173
Varnishing, the only true ally to the Tyranid.

>>726362759
>Not sure how this Mjolnir armour compares to a normal space marine suit.
Its like a tier 3 versus a tier 17. That's not counting marines' longevity or years of deployment experience, much less their pskers or superior bio-engineering

>>726356641
Jews

>>726356641

Eldrazi

>>726363272
and SM can equip an Iron Halo

>>726362759
Yeah there's no doubt in my mind that in a straight up fight a Tyranid soldier would easily wreck a flood pure form, but the ground soldiers aren't what you have to worry about really.

It's the rate of infection. If a spore touches something that is organic, it infects it. Everything about the Tyranids is bio-mechanical. If a Tyranid fleet ever came into contact with a flood controlled world the rate of infection by the flood would be too much for them to handle.
What you have to understand though is that it's not about breathing the spores, it's about them coming into contact with your body. A full enclosed suit meaning you body is completely protected from contact.

You can't win an engagement with the flood using anything organic.

>>726363056
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here anon. They take control of ships and fly them around. They can even use them to open worm holes and use them to travel, as seen in halo 3

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>>726356641
borg were pretty cool

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>>726356641

Eldrazi

>>726363548
Easily defeated by a retired Canadian.
Not a threat.

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>>726360310
FACK YOU

Flood would absolutly fuck nids.

I'm of a mind with those saying Daleks and Flood.

Those, I believe, are a much bigger threat.

>>726363623
>>726363312

Seriously though, Eldrazi

These fuckers can just mind control shit and turn your powers into their powers

>>726361324
but if the flood takes a hive tyrant could that hive tyrant no take any bugs with in range with him as he is there hub?

>>726360212
>>726360281

And German. It was a co-production.

Australia gave us Mad Max, so I can't diss them too much. The Road Warrior is one of the first movies I remember watching when I was really young, and it's always been one of my favorites.

Also, this came from some Australian showhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-V3NYckOI

Maybe it's just because I grew up listening to death metal and Cannibal Corpse, but I think it's gold. I also like it for more than the humor of it, and actually think it's good. Reminds me of Richard Cheese.

>>726363491
and you do not understand that individual tyranids are nothing more like cells in your body.

Entire fleet is a single being with a single counciousness.

They did in past throw trillions and trillions just to scout enemy defences, everything is just a state of biomass for the tyranid. It's no matter if its in liquid form, or as some critter running on some planet shreding a tank.
And they can reclaim biomass with 100% efficiency. So they do not care, because after the war is done, all their dead will be reclaimed and everything else is a net gain.

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It turns out it's man...

>>726362777
That's the theory. The Necrons assault a planet and kill every single organism down to it's atomic level, there's no bio mass for the Tyranids to terraform or recycle back into their efforts against the Necrons. Lose lose.

>>726363871
absolutely not

They work like antennas, they only amplify their signal and make it stronger, not one single tyranid can make decisions beyond survive

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The thing definitely

you autistic autists none of these exist
real threat is gamma diarrhea from a black hole it actually might get rid of life from whole nearby galaxy

>>726364193
your sexlife doesn't exist

>>726357278
>pan-galactic gargle-blasters

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast from Traal is also a pretty dangerous

>>726359803
>thinking this discount psyker/librarian can do shit against a massive intergalactic fleet that is winning the galactic war just with it's few scouting parties.

y'all do remember that we're still waiting for the ACTUAL tyranid fleet to show up and fuck shit up right?

>>726356641
The Necrons. Chaos. Bored Eldar with access to arcane superweapons. The Emperor.

>>726364591
Hard burn.

>>726360843
It wouldn't matter if they took over individual tyranid organisms since tyranids are controlled psychically by the Hive mind

>>726364610
>doctor manhattan
>a discount psyker

I like 40k, and even I know you're full of shit. I doubt even an alpha psyker could handle the naked blue dude.

the Warp is a bigger threat.

>>726361575
>>726361459
only 1st episode of lexx was great and oryginal. water and fire, maaaaybeee okaaayyy, kindaaaa... but I really enjoy rewatching the pilot, pilot was great. :)

>>726359265
tzeench would end cthulhu with the snap of his fingers

>>726364864
I always assumed chaos gods and idea of chaos influence was based on eldrich beings and horrors actually

>>726364610
Doctor Manhattan should be excluded from conversations like this because Moore wrote him specifically to be unbeatable in the book. Even if they completely vaporized every atom of him he'd just be back in like ten minutes and turn them all into puddles with a thought.

>>726365126
ah, so he's basically a chaos god. slaanesh would like a word with him

>>726364864
Tzeentch can't do shit. His ass is stuck in the warp by the efforts of a corpse.

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>>726356641

>>726363936
The flood do the same thing, except when they kill something they don't have to wait for a spire to be erected in order to absorb the biomass back, they just compile it and make it into more soldiers.

They don't just make ground troops either. Graveminds, tendrils, mounted defenses, etc. They turn entire planets into giant flood factories just like how the Tyranids absorb biomass into their ships, but before they can do that they have to actually take the planet first, and winning the war against the flood would be impossible for the Tyranids.

Space Marines would fare much better however, since they use actual mechanical units, whereas the Tyranids simply evolve better defenses or heavier hitting weapons.

The more you send to the flood, the stronger they are. The flood don't ever lose soldiers. The only way to defeat a flood army is to completely wipe out it's presence or else it will just regather and recycle biomass from fallen troops in an endless cycle of death-rebirth.

The Tyranids would lose for once simple reason: their tactics. If you throw away trillions and trillions of soldiers just to scout the enemy, guess what? The flood army has now ground by trillions and trillions of fallen soldiers. They take on of your ships? You better hope you can immediately follow up and completely destroy it without letting another ship fall, or you're completely fucked, because if they are allowed to travel through space they will grow exponentially.

You don't defeat the flood in a war.

>>726364757
The flood physically take over the bodies of their hosts, and they also act on a hivemind I.E the gravemind.

>>726365267
the difference is chaos gods are confined to warp, they can only interfere in material realm via followers.

Manhattan is of material realm

>>726364692
>the necrons being awoken with a fleet per millennia
>eldar and their internal strife
>the imperium with it's necrotic dogmas
only the chaos is a plausible threat to the tyranids, and that is assuming they can corrupt enough hive fleets to start launching a counter offensive when the main fleet shows up

but that would be pretty dank tho, chaos tyranids

>>726360778
They are pretty unified, and it's stable alliance during a Waaagh! Then there's their technology. If enough of them believe something will work, it will. They can create weapons more than capable of handling Tyranids, albeit they're probably not smart enough to actually think about it deeply enough. They don't realize what a threat the Tyranids are because in general the very concepts of danger and survival are completely incomprehensible to them.

Also, even with a planet stripped entirely as tyranids do, Orcs could still potentially survive it. They are seemingly able to thrive anywhere, no matter how dangerous, or barren it is. In this sense they are kind of on equal grounds with the Tyranids. By this I mean they are an entire ecosystem moreso than a mere species. Once their spores take root somewhere they can thrive and quite likely never be completely eradicated from it.

>>726356641
Name something...
Laughs off all responses
10/10

The entities from worm

>>726365666
/thread

>>726365329
do you panic, when one of the trillion cells in your body gets mutated? no, the body itself culls it out and evolves to prevent that mutation. this is the same with the tyranid. infecting its ground troops is nothing more than giving the tyranids a vaccine to your weaponry. you lose by default just by attacking the tyranid

>>726365666
Satanic trips confirm

Entropy

>>726365508
>debates your responses to the ground
>LOLOLOL UR JUST MAD BRO XDXDXDXD

>>726365913
the tyranid do not follow the laws of thermodynamics, what with the 100% reclamation and transformation of biomass. so no.

NEXT

>>726364701
Just like the herps you got from ur mom

>>726365765
The flood isn't a disease, it's a parasite. you don't become immune to it, because it physically spreads throughout your entire body in literal seconds and assumes complete control over you.

True that you can cut it out, but it still retains control and begins using your own weapons against you with even more ferocity and almost none of the weaknesses of normal biological life, since the flood don't even need a functional live body to infect and control.

the little blue tau and their diplomacy should do the trick!

>>726366025
Can they survive the inevitable collapse of the universe brought on by entropy?

muslim tyranids

>>726366064
He was using an analogy dipshit.

Um the reapers duhhh

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the langoliers

>>726357408
Not original anon but yeah. I'd argue the Borghese spooked me more though.

>>726362550
That would make them interstellar, not intergalactic.

>>726357625
Tau aren't nearly as scary as the necrons.

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>>726360818
how this not receives more replays? Hunger apparently is the bigger intergalactic threat

>>726366154
there are actually some fan speculations that Tyranids were created by the old ones to fight the entropy, with their physics breaking and all.

Kind on "make all life eternal by gathering it all into one big bloob of flesh"

>>726366311
They can open wormholes and use them to instantly warp anywhere. They only need coordinates to travel to and they are there.
>>726366196
then it was a bad analogy

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>>726356641
this fag

>>726366469
Get out. We're trying to have a serious discussion about video game fights between hiveminds using cool space ship guns and spooky assimilation

get the fuck out nigger

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Possibly a bigger threat than the reapers.

>>726366064
the main component that allows any disease and parasite to thrive is the lack of response from the host's body. now I'm telling you that once one cell gets infected, the entire host responds to it by creating immunities. why do you think thatwe don't get infected by certain diseases that other animals carry? it's cause our bodies have evolved to fight back against it

>>726366154

>>726366388
I'd argue that the universe collapsing into a singularity would kill all life, regardless of what form the life took.

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>>726366558
genders? Aren't those symbols blocks from MTG?

>>726366154
>>726366614
well, once they run out of biomass, they tend to just stay dormant until something pops up in their radar, so I guess they'd just be eternally dormant until some foolish interdimensional race decides to open a portal into the universe

>>726365671
Maybe? Too much about them is unknown.

>>726366626
that would be the big crunch, not the dissipation of the universe through entropy

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Azazoth can end reality if he wakes up.

>>726366721
>>726366781
I guess my point is, can they survive without a universe to live in?

>>726366626
>I'd argue that the universe collapsing into a singularity would kill all life

that's the opposite of etropy anon, etropy means everything in te universe slows down, cloos down until there is no energy left and free atoms so far away from eachother they can no longer affect eachother in any way

>>726356641
cosmic heat death...

>>726366873
technically, it would just be a universe without any matter in it, cept for the tyranids, so I'd still assume they would just stay dormant until someone decides to open a portal in the multiverse

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In theory if a false vacuum decay can be achieved then it can destroy the universe and change the laws of physics within.

>>726366614
Again, the flood isn't a disease, it's a parasite. It uses physical means to take control of a host's body.

Your body doesn't develop immunity to a parasite, like tape worm, heart worm, mango worm, etc. The flood infection directly attacks the nervous system. That's how they operate. The only way to prevent it is to scramble the nervous system so they the flood can't take control, which also leaves the body unable to act unless their is some form of non-organic nervous system.

>>726362553
Such an underrated post!

>>726367008
Would the physics in this void be hostile? I know the tyranids break the physics of our universe, but could they survive an entirely different set of laws?

>>726367008
>>726366971
>>726366873
>>726366781
>>726366721
I'd just like to add that thermodynamics is just the current most acceptable model used to explain the interaction of matter in the universe, and it's only uncontested because we've yet to find any disputable behaviour. I'm guessing that in 38 thousand years, we'd have learned something different what with the Warp being a thing and an existence like the Tyranid being possible

>>726360419
You know many DBZ Super fans are returning DBZ fans, right?

>>726367287
But the tyranids were written with this understanding of the universe in mind.

>>726361669
>>726361767
Neato

>>726356641
Niggers

>>726367286
well, for the multiverse to attempt an expedition into our universe, I'd assume that the laws of physics would be quite similar, and anything different would follow the same dogma;

The Tyranid will adapt
The Tyranid will evolve
The Tyranid will consume

>>726367257
why are we immune to the cordyceps parasite that ants are vulnerable to then?

>>726367382
I miss old fashioned Dragon Ball with dinosaurs, dragons, and animal people. I swear the world got blown up and was remade by the dragon balls with them omitted.

>>726367437
How fast can they adapt?

>>726367437
Are we really immune to the parasite, or is the parasite just not interested in us?

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/thread

>>726366768
Assuming they're similar to the ones featured in the story

>>726367575
Constantly. Literally every new individual if need be.

>>726367575
pretty much instantaneously, since the expedition troops would be eviscerated in the new multiverse laws of physics and the hivemind would then create adapted troops for the second expedition

>>726367595
don't start this philosophical shit with me. go breathe in some cordycep spores, and then see if you become a zombie akin to those in the last of us.

>>726367719
What are the limits to their adaptation? Can a threat be adapted to if it isn't understood? Are adaptations flawless, or is there a possibility for error?

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The Eldest, aka Tzimisce. It's a lot like the Tyranids actually, except it's essentially become a god, and it's powers and survivability reflect that. The Tyranids would devour and absorb it's body, and then over time it soul would consume them, and fleshcraft them into a new form for itself. It likely wouldn't even be noticible that it was happening until the distinctly new Tzimisce was all that remained. It may or may not have been diablorized in the past too, but it wouldn't be the first antediluvian to survive diablerie.

Also, Caine. He's essentially more powerful than God, because God 'cursed' him to be what he is. Anything that even attempts to harm him, will be harmed sevenfold in return instead. The rules for fighting Cain in VtM are simple: you lose.

>>726367813
Unless the hivemind inhabits a different universe, it would be affected by the change in the laws of physics as well.

>>726367892
of course there is a possibility of error, but with an innumerable amount of troops at their disposal, error is dismissable. error is insignificant. the adaptations would, I'd assume, follow darwin's theory of survival of the fittest, so eventually, SOMETHING will work

>>726367892
There is basically no limit. They consume their enemy and copy traits/develope traits that combat their enemies abilities. They understand it completely because they're literally breaking down the genetic code. Pretty sure there are some errors but if so they're just reassimilated and fixed.

>>726367437
Because that family of parasites isn't genetically adapted to infect humans in the same way that Cordyceps Unilateralis doesn't infect butterflies, only ants. but that's not how the flood parasite operates.

It forces its way into a host, any host, of any species.

>>726368094
My question about understanding was more in reference to technology.

>>726360109

This is the correct answer

>>726368015
the hivemind would stay in the current universe, and either devour the expedition the multiverse would send towards the Tyranid infested universe, therefore breaking down their genetic adaptations, or send troops until they evolve sufficiently enough to break through the barrier

>>726368094
im clearly not at the level of understanding that the regular posters of this thread are at but are these tyranids not just a ridiculously overpowered concept from a writing standpoint?

>>726358429
Just who the hell do you think we are????

>>726356641
Reapers

>>726368107
Hosts and species that aren't and can't be adapted against them. Tyranid's will adapt after the very first infection.

>>726368170
The Hivemind is extremely intelligent. It's one giant consciousness that has eons of experience from who knows how many other galaxies.

>>726368213
Well that's the point of them. They are designed to be the end game of the 40K universe. Or at least one of them.

>>726368213
they are, they're literally the ultimate evolving lifeform

>>726368213
Yeah they're basically the flood if the flood but more science fiction

>>726368107
the tyranids would eventually evolve into a species genetically incompatible with the flood and therefore would discourage it's infection then.

>>726356641

Feels. Dem feels can't destroy any thing.

>>726360310
The flood take the knowledge of their victims as well as their biomass, tyrashits more like it kek

i always thought the necrons were really cool before they ruined the lore. they made a way cooler big bad than the tyranids because they just fucking stand back up (which is sooo cool in dawn of war and in the tabletop.).
also, they're fucking metal skeletons with glowing green gauss flayers. they look so spooky!

>>726368199
What if there is no barrier? What if there is no expedition? Trapped in the void left by a dead universe, subject to laws of physics radically different to the ones they're immune to, can the tyranids survive?

>>726368482
the tyranids learn the entire biological makeup of any species they consume.

>>726368319
No they won't. They objectively cannot adapt to a giant spike being shoved into their bodies and tendrils attacking their nervous system.

Even the spores rapidly mutate tendrils to attack the immune system.

The only way you become immune to the flood is to be not made of organic material. Period.

Flood spores infect whatever they touch in seconds, infection forms attack and infect, and can infect corpses.

>>726356641
>>726356641
Thygor ,Lord of Garthon, Slayer of Narthok, and Ruler of the Hargothions. Would kill your puny ant nigger race.

>>726368523
in the wise words of Dr. Ian Malcolm

'Life finds a way'

who's to say the Tyranids aren't the ones opening the portal to another universe?

>>726368456
They would have to evolve into a species without a nervous system, because that is how the flood infect and mutate.

Even if you don't have a nervous system, they'll just gather up your corpse for calcium and turn it into a pure form flood.

>>726365016
I think that they were. It seems like the original creators have even said that aspects of the game were influenced by Lovecraft.

>>726361352
No they were eradicated from the firing of a halo ring on the arc. What was left of them starved out. No matter who or what you are, as long as you're made of biomass, the flood will consume you and use your body to continue spreading.

>>726368556
The flood absorb the individual memories of any individual they consume.

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>>726366533

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>>726356641
This bad boy alone is enough to destroy your universe

"In 2009, a team of astronomers using the Swift Spacecraft used the luminosity output of S5 0014+81 to measure the mass of the central black hole. To their surprise, they found out that the central black hole of S5 0014+81 is actually 10,000 times more massive than the black hole at the center of our galaxy, or equivalent to 40 billion solar masses. This makes it one of the most massive black holes ever discovered, more than six times the value of the black hole of Messier 87, which was thought to be the largest black hole for almost 60 years, and was coined to be an "ultramassive" black hole. The Schwarzschild radius of this black hole is 118.35 billion kilometers. So, this black hole has an external horizon showing a diameter of 236.7 billion kilometers."

>>726368775
and how will the memories of some random fucknut nobody be more advantageous than knowing what they're made up of, how they work, and how to replicate every cell of their being?

>>726368673
Can they survive long enough to do that? Remember, unless they do, all tyranids, not just the foot soldiers, are subject to the changed physics.

>>726368456
The flood would evolve as well, taking all knowledge of the previous victims into account. A single spore could brain jack a tyrant lmao

>>726368857
who is to say that the hivemind isn't already looking into it?

>>726368591
Fuck me, come up with a new argument.

"No, they can't because they infect everything!"

Yes, and so do Tyranids. They release spores that infect and mutate entire planets. The only difference is Tyranids rapidly adapt to whatever is killing them and stop it from doing so including biological warfare.

>>726368886
and that >previous victim would be already obsolete in the Tyranid's genetic makeup. NEXT

>>726368843
Because you can learn things like battle tactics, names, passwords, how to fly and operate ships, how to decode information, coordinates of planets, ship design, weapon design, squad tactics, future operation plans, etc.

So basically, anything that person knew. And it's all compiled into one being: The Gravemind.

Man this debate is gonna end up the same as the Borg vs Reaper debate the /b had like 2 years ago.

>>726368991
and whilst you're busy learning how the enemy species' stuff works, the Tyranids are busy wiping their existence from the universe and adapting to their weaponry and warfare, making them obsolete against the now invincible genetic makeup of the Tyranids

>>726368958
Which would instantly evolve to rape the next one... u dumb?

>>726369022
not even a debate, the reapers aren't shit if they can't stop a ragtag group of autistic individuals with access to pea shooters

>>726368943
Fuck me, come up with a new argument
"No, the tyranids would just evolve to stop them!"

Why don't they just evolve an immunity to bullets and failure then, hmm?

Simple fact is that the flood CAN infect everything as long as it has a nervous system or a brain, so until they evolve to do without those I guess they won't be developing an immunity to the flood.

>>726368772
>No matter who or what you are, as long as you're made of biomass, the tyranid will consume you and use your body to continue spreading.

Like I said at the begining. Immovable object vs unstoppable force scenario. Lots of shitposting, no conclusion

>>726369252
This. I think after the first conflict both would ignore the other. Both are intelligent to know that it will get them nowhere

>>726368886
>taking all knowledge of the previous victims into account. A single spore could brain jack a tyrant lmao

a single tyranid has no knowledge, even a tyrant if abandoned by the hive would be basically an animal. Eat, shit, survive.

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Did we all forget about the Flemoids?

>>726369239
>infection is stronger than evolving

Read what you're saying.

>>726368818
Space is scarry as fuck

>>726369239
This. So many things in 40k seem like 12 year olds sat around a table and thought of every out for their universe. It's like superman with no real weakness.

This fucking thread lol
>THE FLOOD INFECT EVERYTHING
>Well then the Tyranid would just evolve in a way immune to the infection
>NO YOU DON'T GET IT, THEY INFECT EVERYTHING

>>726368904
I guess there's a chance of them surviving if
a) they are able to correctly predict the new laws of physics
b) they are able to create technology that can function in those new laws, but can be created before the new laws take effect
c) there is another universe to travel to.


Or they could leave before the universe ends

On the other hand, if they have to run away, I think it's safe to say the entropic decay is a bigger threat.

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This fucking cuntwaffle of a shitstick.

>>726369462
>implying not every fictional universe is just shitposters sat around a table autistically screeching at each other until something gets written down

>>726369340
Biomass has information.

>>726369375
>flood infect Tyranids
>Tyranids evolve to become stronger
>flood infect now evolved and stronger Tyranids gaining a stronger soldier in the process
The flood only become stronger if the species they are infecting becomes stronger.

>>726369183
That's exactly my point lol

>>726369345
Oh fuck

>>726369568
top fucking kek
>THE TYRANIDS CAN EVOLVE TO BEAT ANYTHING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>THE FLOOD CAN EVOLVE TO INFECT ANYTHING REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>726369462
Marines? No! SPACE MARINES! One heart? No! 5 HEARTS!

>>726369345
That's the thread.

>>726369574
information =/= knowledge

>>726369499
well I'd assume a good example of that would be once the tyranids gain access to the warp

now we just need the fluff to catch up

Bees

>>726369897
BEES?

>>726369734
pretty much

>>726366154
the universe is currently expanding and that expansion is even accelerating. its unlikely the universe will collapse in on itself. instead stars will start to drift further and further apart until none can be seen from the other at the same time many will burn out and the vast distances will slow down the formation of new stars significantly.

>>726369911
BEEEES!!!

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>>726370151