Who Will Rule The Universe?

[shadowdragonswarm]

How much sunlight is there to absorb inbetween galaxies though......?

I'm pretty sure photosynthesis is a lot harder on the outter reaches of a solar system, like if you were on pluto, but inbetween galaxies........?

[TheSwarm]

A fleet could sit close to a sun and obsorb all the energy they needed before they left a newly devoured planet.

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[romorini]

The energy problem doesn't rear its ugly head until well after the Tyranids have wiped out a planet though. As for the photosynthesis, it's the solution that makes the most sense, they could run a long time in suspended animation, and get activated by the solar energy collected on approach to a galaxy. But it's not really supported in the fluff.

This is one of the many problems I have about the Tyranid fluff. I'm pretty into biology, and there's a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense. I don't care how alien tyranids are, things just don't work the way GW thinks.

[n00b1n8R]

GW thinks?

when did that happen

[shadowdragonswarm]

There's a lot of scientific mumbo jumbo that isn't explained by GW.
If they could, I'm sure the government would make them work in other fields with real world applications.

[carnogaunt]

Sorry for late reply...haven't had time to be online much recently.

mumbo12 said:

carnogaunt: How do you know how long it would take to travel any given distance through the Warp? The fluff constantly talks about how the Warp is un-knowable and not bound by any laws of physics.

It also says that it has a time-slowing effect. I think I remember something that said a week traveling in the Warp can be anywhere from a few weeks to a few thousand years in the real universe. So assuming that you could move faster than the speed of light within the Warp (reducing the time to...let's just say 60 million years...I don't think I could calculate the exact time) and then assuming that they caught a high-strength current through the Warp, they could travel from the Andromeda galaxy to the Milky Way in around 30,000 years... Not sure where I got 500-1000 years...

n00b1n8r said:

hmm... why do nids need void shields? as i understand it, it's to protect them from deamons, but how could deamons (in the warp, without physical body's) attack that wich has no souls?

Daemons are only one of the things that Void shields protect against. The Warp is raw, pure energy. Anything that goes in unprotected can be fried by its power.

[n00b1n8R]

but couldn't the nids use that energy to fuel their ships?

[Constantin Valdor]

Umm photosynthesis requires CO2, which there isn't any of in space.

Also i think in the warp Daemons are given form, so they can attack anything that comes into their realm. There just wouldn't be much point, apart from to pervert them to their cause.

Hey Imagine if Nids took over from Marines as the top Chaos dudes, cos sometimes they write about them being twisted by the warp, and Genestealers can operate fine outside the main nid fleet, so could that happen maybe, if the nids got that far?

[romorini]

I could see a hive ship becoming a complete ecosystem, the starlight would fuel photosynthesis on the surface to create sugars, then the sugar would be broken down into CO2 and energy by the inner areas, thus recreating the CO2.

[Constantin Valdor]

Well then why would they need to bother attacking planets?

[n00b1n8R]

to eat.

nids don't really NEED to eat, they just want to (what with it being their sole instinct and all..)
n00b out

[romorini]

I think the reason GW 'forgot' to mention the possibility of Tyranid photosynthesis is because photosynthesis removes the need for tyranids to eat. They would only need to eat to increase the size of their fleets. I guess they wanted a more compelling reason to devour than mere expansion, so they made it a question of survival.

[Constantin Valdor]

n00b1n8r said:

to eat.

nids don't really NEED to eat, they just want to (what with it being their sole instinct and all..)
n00b out

now THATS my kind of explanation ;D

[TheSwarm]

I think their main reason to eat is to evolve.

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[n00b1n8R]

why do they need to evolve unless they intend to attack another planet. and if the only reason they attack that next planet is to evolve, it's kinda pointless..