Fluffy question

[glowbug]

So I had a thought, how would a lictor and a genestealer cult/patriarch react to one another. Im sure both could be on a planet at the same time. Would the lictor be linked to the broodmind?

[infornography]

Apr 26, 2022 16:09:31 GMT glowbug said:

So I had a thought, how would a lictor and a genestealer cult/patriarch react to one another. Im sure both could be on a planet at the same time. Would the lictor be linked to the broodmind?

The way I understand it, the broodmind is like a much more limited hivemind. It only works with Genestealer variants and is completely overpowered by a nearby hivemind.

A lictor would likely ignore the patriarch entirely until the hive was ready to consume the cult. The Patriarch likely would already been subjugated by the hivemind in orbit.

Now if the Lictor was isolated on a planet with no hive fleet presence it still wouldn't be controlled by the broodmind but it might coordinate with the cult to some degree in an alliance of convenience sort of situation. I guess it all depends on what a Lictor would do if it found itself without direction. I suspect that it would instinctually perform in what it might assume the best interests of the hive would be, but it might just revert to subsistence living and wait for a hive fleet to provide it better direction.

[lordsia]

Being a vanguard organism which works primarily through pheromones, I think the Lictor would just do its thing and leave trails and create opportunities for the Cult, which they might subconsciously pick up (in the case of pheromones guiding them past security or leading them to supply drops) or chalk up to 'divine intervention' or 'fate' (in the case of the Lictor destabilizing the local authorities with carefully targeted murder campaigns).