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Imperius !!gsuZiBTIqe0 Mon 02 May 2011 09:47:00 No.14781635 View View Reply Original Report

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A Plague Marine is eaten by tyranids and his infected biomass is assimilated into the hive fleet. The entire hive fleet infected by Nurgle's Rot. There are no more tyranids and now Nurgle has trillions of new Plaguebearers.

Would this work?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 09:50:00 No.14781666 Report

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The hive mind would actively avoid the infected biomass me thinks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 09:50:00 No.14781683 Report

Quoted By: >>14781744 >>14781755

Nope, Tyranids would over come any infection, since evolving to face new threats is kinda their thing. Infected tyranids would either eliminate the infection, or die trying.

Also, I imagine they wouldn't even WANT to eat something as sketchy as a plague marine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 09:51:00 No.14781702 Report

Quoted By: >>14781755

Pretty sure the hivemind would figure out something was up before more than part of the fleet was corrupted. Still a big win for Nurgle, but the Nids wouldn't be hit THAT hard, and they'd know to avoid nomming Nurgle guys for a while.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 09:55:00 No.14781744 Report

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how exactly does nurgle's rot get transmitted from one fleet 50k ly away from the next fleet

answer: it does not

>>14781683

not really, it's more that their thing is "if you win here we'll come back with this other fleet and won't fucktard it up again"

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Imperius !!gsuZiBTIqe0 Mon 02 May 2011 09:56:00 No.14781755 Report

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>>14781683
The Daemon codex mentioned that Nurgle's Rot can't be cured.
>>14781702
Yeah, chances are low that it would ever happen, but this is just assuming that it did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:01:00 No.14781807 Report

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>There are no more tyranids and now Nurgle has trillions of new Plaguebearers.
Plaguebearers, same as other deamons, are made of souls, not bodies. And 'nids don't have individual reflections in Warp, only single huge one for entire Hive Mind.

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Imperius !!gsuZiBTIqe0 Mon 02 May 2011 10:04:00 No.14781863 Report

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>>14781807
Does that mean the Rot would begin to devour the Hive Mind instead, since that's the closest thing to a soul any tyranid has access to? If so what would that result it, do you think?

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:06:00 No.14781888 Report

Quoted By: >>14781964 >>14782195

>>14781863
Sweet merciful heavens.

Probably nothing. The Hive mind smothers the Warp wherever it is, so it doesn't have a Warp-based soul most likely.

If anything, a helluva lot of nids would die.

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Imperius !!gsuZiBTIqe0 Mon 02 May 2011 10:12:00 No.14781964 Report

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>>14781888
And a good time is had by all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:14:00 No.14782001 Report

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>>14781863
Nope, 'nids that got infected would just die. A single planet would be wiped out, that's it. Disease won't spread any further. Infected 'nids won't try to escape it, their sense for self-preservation goes only as fas as it does not endanger brood. So if they know something's wrong with them, they'll just calmly wait till they fall apart.

Hive Mind has kinda simple priorities, but for sure it isn't stupid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:20:00 No.14782078 Report

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>>14781863
Nope. There is no single "Hive Mind", no central controlling sentience. No Alien Queen, no Brain Bug, no Cerebrate. The "Hive Mind" is just a name for the trillions upon trillions of synaptic messages shooting back and forth between individual Tyranids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 10:20:00 No.14782079 Report

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>>14782001
this. hive mind is not retarded.

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Imperius !!gsuZiBTIqe0 Mon 02 May 2011 10:30:00 No.14782195 Report

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>>14781888
Wait, so does that mean the Tyranids could destroy the Eye of Terror just by flying near it?

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