What could the tyranids be running from?

>>49829868
Starvation, the hive must feed and tyranids don't really do rewilding schemes.

>>49829868
There's literally nothing suggesting that they're running from anything; there's plenty to suggest they're running to something.

Matt Ward.

>>49829868
More tyranids.

>>49829868
A bigger hive

>>49829868
Another pantheon of Warp gods from their native galaxy

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>>49829868
this

>>49829868
ur mom lol

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Nothing. They're actually just practicing for the upcoming inter-galactic running and contest: "The Gourmet Race". It's actually a very popular sport in other galaxies. Right now the top seeds for the competition are these two, so the Nids have quite a bit of work cut out for them.

>>49829868
the Cruddace

>>49829868

Sly Marbo

>>49829868

WH 41K

>>49830245
It's why he wasn't in the new codex. He's too busy chasing 'Nids to be hanging out with your custom regiment.

>>49829868
SUPER Tyranids

Squats

Gork & Mork

>>49829868
Theodore Roosevelt in power armor

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>>49830426
Um...Yeah...that'll do it.

>>49830245
>>49830291

>(Muffled AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH in the distance)

>>49829868
>>49829879
First answer gets the win. Prove they're not migratory, following a billion-year route around various galaxies.

>>49829868
>>MY DICK

>>49829868
A retarded meme.

>>49830529
pretty sure that's the wrong Roosevelt

>>49829868
Their mother-in-law.

>>49829868
Themselves

>>49829868
Responsibility.

>>49829868

ME

>>49829868

existential dread

>>49829868
Games Workshop.

>>49829868
The advancing plot

>>49829868
I'd be running from those floating testicles

>>49831159
Yep. Realized that after posting it. Fuck up on my part.

Chaos Tyranids

>>49829868
In laws. The hive queen's mom is annoying but afraid of long-distance flights.

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>>49829868

The Hiigarans.

>>49829868
Tyranids 2 : The Sequel

A civil war that devistated their home galaxy.
The empire is being racist by not allowing them asylum.

>>49829868

Doomguy

>>49829868

The Daleks

>>49830023
nuh uh they're allies

>>49829868
an infinite amount of Gork n Mork

>>49829868
a chaos god of glutony

>>49834350
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

>>49834364
The Great Maw?

Nids confirmed space Ogres

>>49830291

GW better give him a statline for the model they're selling again.

>>49834253
Doomguy is in the Warp killing Daemons, Anon

>>49831197
Deep, brah.

>>49834504
The nids know they're next. They just want to get something done before they're ripped and torn.

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>>49829868

>>49829868
Super powerful crystal/energy beings who are not edible and are armed to bear with every kind of scifi cheese wmd cannon imaginable

Tyranids worst nightmare

>>49829868
Sigmar

>>49838037
>scifi cheese wmd cannon

I know what you meant, but this immediately made me think that these superbeings had invented a cheese-like substance so repugnant that even tyranids could not bring themselves to eat it. Instead they are forced to flee their home galaxy in terror from a stench and texture so awful that no amount of evolution or biological warfare could overcome.

>>49837704
>Doomguy is real hungry after a bout of ripping and tearing
>Ripped and tore some animal looking things
>Try one
>It's tasty
>Now wants to eat more
Oh sweet irony.

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>>49838037
Oh shit.

>>49829868
The ogre kingdoms escaped WHFB.

>>49829868
The Space Chinese

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>>49829868
my theory was that C'Tan the Outsider, since it's said it flung itself the furthest out in the void away from sentient beings

>>49829868
Orks.

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A big guy

>>49830529
>wrong Roosevelt

So triggered

>>49838208
Why not anon?

>>49838458
So skaven in space?

The C'tan from the next galaxy over

Space Slavs

>>49829868
Lack of biomass since they already consumed it all.

This is literally it.

>>49829868
It was a throwaway line in a list of suggestions that is almost immediately shown to be nonsense when they describe how the fleet is encircling the galaxy and attacking from multiple avenues

>>49838492
No, all ctan were shareded. A ctan shard struggled to penetrate a biotitans outer shell in one of the books. The nids have avoided the dyson sphere containing (we assume) the outsider because why waste millions of nids trying to eat one thing that's gonna be one hell of a pain.

>>49840509
>encircling the galaxy and attacking from multiple avenues

Ever herded a pack of sheep into their enclosure? It's basically the same thing. Fleeing sheep would seem to encircling their enclosures as they are driven inside.

Anyways we were already told what the Tyranids want in 2nd ED story. The Tyranids mission is to unite the universe under a single powerful mind so that they would be safe from Chaos.

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>>49829868
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

>>49840524
>“I am Zoat,” the centaur said. “Please cease your confused intrusion into this home. You should honour the Masters from beyond the Deep. They shall find a suitable use for you as part of the multi-body that supports the Great Mind—the Mind that shall spread through all the universe.”
>Its voice was lulling, hypnotic—so they listened.
>“Your… engenderings… will partake in a Great Work,” it announced. “The Masters tell us that the Great Mind senses that there are… savage entities… within the warp which this galaxy floats upon, as glittering scum on a black lake—”
>“Tzeentch…” muttered Biff.
>Yeri darted a look of utter warning at his brother. With power-glove, Yeri mimicked the scribing of anathema upon bones… “Chaos…” Biff made a hex sign.
>Yeri looked on the point of leaping to muzzle Biff, lest Lex’s bones be put in peril.

>“Yes, Chaos,” sang the centaur. “Thanks be to the Great Mind that Guides, the Masters are immune to corruption!”
>“Your galaxy is crumbling under this corruption,” it hissed. “Our ships shall take your flesh, extract your genes, and forge instruments that will wash your worlds clean of…” It stared at Biff, eyes glittering, “…of the taint of Tzeentch. And… of other taints,” it added. “Do you fear the torments of this Tzeentch?”

>“And… of the other kindred torments of Chaos?” it asked. “Under the wise guidance of your new tyranid lords all flesh shall finally be remoulded into pure tools, serving the tyranid Overmind, which shall expel and quench all this tarnish utterly. You can never achieve that. For the traits of Chaotic tarnish are written within you. We can unwrite what was written. We shall delve for your daemons and expunge them! This is our message to you: withdraw, relinquish, yield, and serve. Your stars shall be saved by the Masters!”

Related text from the story.

>>49840558
More text for the text god.

>The Tyranids were what ants and termites would be if they could evolve further and become intelligent. What made such intelligence incomprehensible was that the Tyranids had never evolved emotions. They were aware that such concepts such as sympathy and honour existed in the species they harvested, but they viewed them only in the abstract and dismissed them as evolutionary mistakes. Gene coding for emotion was never made use of by the Hive Fleets.

>Yes, the Tyranids were intelligent, but intelligence was not a quality particularly valued by the Hive Mind. A Tyranid creature could reason, but it never did so out of self-interest. Intelligence, like everything else, served only Tyranid hive instincts - or rather, it served the single great Tyranid instinct, the one overwhelming, compulsive urge.

>SURVIVE! AND SURVIVE FOREVER!

-Hive Fleet Horror

So the Tyranids objective is to survive forever, and perhaps overcome the horrors of the Warp?

>>49840524
This has been retconned so hard, current codex has nids only encountering daemons in our galaxy and not having an understanding of them at first

They were originally looking for new DNA to keep themselves from stagnating, they had existed as long as the universe itself. However nowdays they are alien bugs that are eating galaxies with little spoken about their background

>>49830529

That's his cousin, actually.

>>49840523
Another C'tan shard destroyed a dozen worlds on it's own.

Power levels vary.

>>49840638
>This has been retconned so hard, current codex has nids only encountering daemons in our galaxy and not having an understanding of them at first

False, the recent codex doesn't say this. If you referring to Shadowbrink, then know it happened in 999 41K.

Previous to that year, the Tyranids fought numerous battles against the daemons legions since they invaded the galaxy hundreds of years ago. Such encounters had daemon armies spawning within hive ships and tearing them apart.

So what we take from this is that the Hivemind has grown senile and can no longer retain memories reliably. This is now canon.

>>49840568
>perhaps overcome the horrors of the Warp?
Well if you're going to survive forever, you might as well try and destroy one of the biggest threats to your survival.

>>49840523
>A ctan shard struggled to penetrate a biotitans outer shell in one of the books.

What? Getting sick of Tyranidfags being lying gits. The Shard effortlessly smacked the biotitan around before punching its fist inside the biotitan and exploding.

Then it proceeded to fly around grabbing Tyranid feeding towers and ripping them apart and then went on to kill thousands of Tyranids before jumping into space to another planet to repeat the process on another planet.

Then it went to a space platform and ignited in flames eradicating all Tyranids organisms on moon sized platform. Then it powered the platform to shoot a Death Star like Lazor that caused tremendous damage to the Hive Fleet tendril.

>>49840712
exploding it*

I personally prefer the idea that they are returning to the milkyway after long hibernation rather than travelling between galaxies. If only because the distance between galaxies is so immense. Just treating the galaxy like a big old farm for new genetics that evolve between the millions of years.

>>49840794
That would be rubbing it too close to the Necron shtick.

>>49829868
Nothing.

The Horus Heresy series revealed why the Tyranids came to the galaxy in the novel pharos. Some Space Marines accidentally activated a tachyon beacon that alerted the Nids in a far-off galaxy.

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>>49840712
>Those Blood Angels closest to the digestion lake thought Dante must have ordered an orbital strike when they saw the fire descending from the sky. As it neared, though, it was not a missile they beheld, but the shape of a flame-wreathed god. Nyadra’zatha, the Burning One, fell from the sky like a meteor. When the C’tan Shard struck the ruins it sent a plume of molten rock hundreds of yards into the air, and a wave of fire rolled out through the ruins incinerating everything in its path. Hundreds of weapon-beasts were blasted into ashen shadows in that single instant.

>The bio-titan turned its beady eyes upon the newcomer and launched a withering salvo of bio-shells. The C’tan barely seemed to react as the ordnance burst and burned upon its coruscating halo of fire. Dante ordered his men to hold their positions as the two nightmare creatures fought. The commander had limited faith in his Necron allies, but had none in the creation of flame that he now beheld.

>Flesh and fire rampaged across the ruins, the staggering strength of the bio-titan pitted against the reality-bending will of the C’tan. Even as the two giants fought to the death, the battle continued to rage around them. Dante’s Blood Angels – now in control of the Fabricators’ Gate and the bridge to the cogitator spires – held their ground against waves of weapon-beasts and bio-ordnance. On the far side of the lake, the Necrons were equally pressed, and Anrakyr stood atop a pile of dismembered alien corpses, his crackling warscythe gripped in two skeletal fists.

>Then, with a final mournful hiss the Hierophant pitched forward into the rubble. As it tried to rise, the C’tan thrust a burning hand into its cracked and dripping carapace. Steam began to pour from the creature’s wounds as the star god cooked it from within – then it exploded in a shower of smoking ichor.

>>49840856
>In moments the battle had turned back in the allies’ favour. With the bio-titan down, the Blood Angels surged forward into the Tyranids’ inner defences, while the Necrons turned their firepower on the surviving weapon-beasts. The C’tan Shard, meanwhile, ascended into the nest of capillary towers on a pillar of fire, tearing into them with burning fists.

Posted the actual fight for FYI.

>>49834126
Kek

>>49840523
they may have been sharded, but then theres the void dragon which if it was sharded could still just be a giant shardof it, so who's to say the outsider isn't also just a giant shard being a crazy powerful demigod scaring the crap out the hive-mind from far off?

>>49834504
No Anon, Doomguy is the Daemons

>>49829868
Promethium

>>49829868
The fluff retcons and nerfing in the next Nid codex. Turns out Orks reproduce by spores as they're just another Nid bioconstruct.

>>49829868
Their big dick daddy

>>49838584
>>49830529
I already said I fucked up
>>49832448

>>49838037
The Yu'Vath constructs?

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>>49829868
Humans.
From the future.

>>49843408
Or if you work at 343 industries, humans from the past more advanced than humans from the future.

>>49840678
The story literally says tyranids have never encountered daemons and don't know how to react, recoiling from the sudden daemon incursion with confusion

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>>49829868

SJW's

SJW's

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>>49829868
You know it to be true

Also to the Reapers from Mass Effect.

>>49840856
Dude, that's metal as fuck

child support

>>49829868
One of the missing primarchs emps sent after them

Malal

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>>49829868
>What could the tyranids be running from?
X-Ist intergalactic pest control.

>>49840536
Theyre just maggots running from Popos pecking order!

>>49846584
Remember, the C'tan are leftovers from the age of "only possible in the backstory."

They're back from when shit was REALLY fucked, in a Gurren Lagann kind of way.

>>49830172
>gourmet race
is that a YLYL thread or am I on /ck/?
Otherwise, loved it.

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>>49829868

>>49829868
Disney.

>>49829935
underrated post

>>49829868
A stronger, more evolved hive fleet, which is running from an even more evolved hive fleet, which just so happens to be fleeing from a more advanced hive fleet, etc. etc.

>>49844407
Which means that the Tyranid Hivemind has memory issues and cannot retain information because the same hive fleet fought 4 encounters with daemon armies the same years before Shadowbrink.

>>49830547
>Sticking an "H" onto the end of the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
>Implying Marbo ever stops yelling.
Bruh you need help.

>>49850168
Patrician tastes, anon.

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>>49829868
What are these tyranids running from?

They're not!

They're running TO the World's Most Toughest Competition in Town!

>>49840536
My fucking sides!

>>49850000
Nice quads

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>>49829868
From gayness, source being OP

>>49854216
I'd love to look at the faces of factory workers when someone tells them a dick joke.

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>>49853768
That made me laugh a lot. Thanks anon.

>>49829868
Anti-Spirals.

>>49853651
Maybe it's a bit pickle even for the hive mind to reley all the information to every part of the hive which is claimed to have devoured several galaxies. That's a lot of bugs.

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Themselves

>>49855310
Whats the art from?

>>49855410
Paul Bonner's rejected pile of stuff; just got posted on his facebook page.

>>49855418
>>49855310

They look like tyranids weird bdsm torture porn cousins

>>49829868
Chuck Norris.

>>49850168
fuckin nice

>>49834126
Underrated

>>49829935
Top kek there mate

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>>49829868
Something related to whatever the fuck this was.

>>49856875
This was nothing. This is just a plothook in a shitty FFG RPG. The GM can literally decide for it to be anything from Tyranids to space ponies and it will be perfectly fine.

The text is written in vague way and there is zero proof that it happened. I have no idea why retards wank it so much.

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>>49855310
>that pic

>>49845930
>Reapers from Mass Effect
>Tyranids
>Running from
????

Transhuman beings to whom they're little but minor nuisances

40k already borrows a lot from Dune so you may as well take the twist from the last book

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>>49858995
thanks for spoiling it for me you fucking cunt

>>49859013
oops

>>49859013
It's been around for years already, faggot.

>>49829868
Your mom

>>49829868
>What could the tyranids be running from?
They aren't.

>>49859751
When Yriel wounded the Hivemind, it was said that it raged at him for being the first being in a long time that actually managed to harm it directly.

This implies that the Hivemind was attacked directly before. That it was wounded before. This implies that Tyranids met beings with psycic powers capable of injuring the Hivemind. These beings might be things that the Nids are fleeing from.

>>49840568
>>49840558
Man early nids actually had character, a pity that got nixed with time, maybe zoats will come back the same way stealer cults did

>>49850168
I bet these fuckers made the nids

>>49857651
People seem to forget that Reapers are tough in their setting but small potatoes against most other settings

>>49860213
He harmed the hive mind, yes. But there's nothing that the tyranids themselves, their hivemind permitted, is afraid of.

Shit, the hivemind itself is already known as the shadow in the warp and is making the chaos gods shit their panties.

>>49850168
Ffffffffuck qu

>>49860420
>Shit, the hivemind itself is already known as the shadow in the warp and is making the chaos gods shit their panties.

Actually, in the same novel, Slaanesh slapped aside the Hivemind and descended on the planet to consume Eldar souls.

The Chaos Gods fear nothing from the Tyranids. Heck, the Shadow in the Warp doesn't scare even daemons.

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The Culture

>>49855425
They ate too many Dark Eldar and Slaaneshi cultists.

>>49860548
I cannot find that book anywhere amongst all published wh40k works. If it was Matt Ward or C.S. Goto writing, there's a good chance it's also no longer canonical.

Anyone have the genestealer brood infection cycle image from the new Cult dex?

I really need it and forgot to save it.

>>49860667
It's Valedor by Guy Haley.

>>49860976
Ah, yes. I remember that one.

Guy Haley is a good author, and does a great job of making the tyranids seem like more of a threat than just about any portrayal of chaos.

Not gonna lie. Chaos is a massive threat. But with all the hamfisted 'Saturday morning cartoon villainry' they do, it's hard to not think that the tyranids would just beefcake them in an instant.

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>>49829868

>>49860640
I would have loved to see the Culture warships take on a completely violent and un-reasonable race from 40k, imagine just one GCU against a hive fleet, free to use all of its weaponry, just epic

That being said, the Minds are supposed to use some sort of 4D technology to operate at full capacity, and in the grim darkness of the far future, this fourth dimension could be the Warp, in this case the ship would be forced to use only a fraction of its power or get instant-corrupted, creating the most badass chaos warship in the galaxy, probably Tzeetch-oriented

>>49858995
That doesn't sound like the last dune book?
I'm pretty sure the last dune book ever written ever was chapterhouse:dune, where the honoured matres and the bene gesserit join forces.

>>49830529
>>>49830426
Hey Dumbass thats not Teddy thats Franklin D Roosevelt

>>49829868
Warhammer 40k: End Times

>>49862624
Daniel and Marty, anon. Duncan hypothetizes early on that the Honored Matres are fleeing from something, not trying to expand. Then he starts getting visions of a random elderly couple, who if I recall correctly later casually tell him to stop watching them while he's seeing them with his prescience. They're implied to be Face Dancers who grew sentient. The whole last chapter is from their point of view
>Who were those people he saw? Strong enough to drive out Honored Matres. He knew it for a Projection datum

>>49865746
Here, I found the scene

>He awoke and sat upright. Specifications for new devices! There it was in delicate detail, a way to miniaturize Holzmann generators. Two centimeters, no more. And much cheaper! How was that smuggled into my mind? He slipped out of bed, not awakening Murbella, and groped his way to a robe.

>He heard her snuffle as he let himself out into the workroom. Seating himself at his console, he copied the design from his mind and studied it. Perfect! Englobement for sure. He transmitted to Archives with a flag for Odrade and Bellonda.

>With a sigh, he sat back and examined his design once more. It vanished in a return to his dream scroll. Am I still dreaming? No! He could feel the chair, touch the console, hear the field buzzing. Dreams do that.

>The scroll produced cutting and stabbing weapons, including some designed to introduce poisons or bacteria into enemy flesh.

>Projectiles.

>He wondered how to stop the scroll and study details.

>"It's all in your head!"

>Humans and other animals bred for attack scrolled past his eyes, hiding the console and its projection. Futars? How did Futars get in there? What do I know about Futars?

>Disruptors replaced the animals. Weapons to cloud mental activity or interfere with life itself. Disruptors? I've never heard that name before.

>Disruptors were succeeded by null-G "seekers" designed to hunt specific targets. Those I know.

>Explosives next, including ones to spread poisons and bacteriologicals.

>Deceptives, to project false targets. Teg had used those.

>Abruptly, the shimmering net from his vision replaced scrolling weapons and he saw the elderly couple in their garden. They glared at him. The man's voice became audible. "Stop spying on us!"

>Idaho gripped the arms of his chair and jerked himself forward but the vision disappeared before he could study details.

>Spying?

They aren't running from anything they were created by Old Ones who fled from the Galaxy

>>49866792
[Citation needed]

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>>49829964
>Implying the Great Devourer isn't the winner of the great game in its own pantheon of Warp Gods from their native galaxy, in which the emotions reflected were more primal because the warp-sensitive life-forms they reflected were less sapient: the God of Hunger won, ate its galaxy, and is now eating others.

>>49866792
Nonsense, old fluff (although likely irrelevant now) says they are almost as old as the universe and have spent their time travelling and devouring

>>49838037
Good idea, anon. 40k doesn't have any Crystal Spires and Togas-style aliens.

They'd probably be accused of ripping off the Protoss at this point, though.

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>>49829868
Sly Marbo

>>49829868
Bigger Tyranids.