I like the idea of them being naturally evolved. Like they’re a manifestation of the terrors present in nature without the influence of the warp. Pure biological life in all it’s horrific glory.
Even more fun, biological evolution similar to the carcinisation theory, where on Earth there are multiple different cases of critters turning into crabs. In WH40k version, you have different galaxies having their dominant lifeforms turning into Tyranids. So there are separate fleets from different galaxies, but they all turned into Tyranids Earth source - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
@@toddkes5890 yeah that is also my favourite explanation for the nids. Its also really plausible, i mean its backed up by real human science lol xD. what i also like about it, is that only the milky way is different in that evolution process, since only the milky way has demons and stuff like that.
@@monchyd6519 Or the Milky Way hadn't developed Tyranids yet. I am sure there are demons in other galaxies with non-Tyranid life, their versions of Khorne, etc.
I highly doubt this is true, but I have a delightful little theory that spawns from the old ones clean slate idea. The Tyranids are a race feared by everyone (save for the Orks of course) and that unified fear has led enemies to join together. Necrons and Blood Marines teaming up. Conflicting ork warbands now riding under a single banner. The greatest victories against the Tyranids came from the few instances that factions collectively turned their guns towards a common enemy, and the greatest losses were fought alone. An alternative goal of the old ones could be to force the galaxy to unite even if it means it’s only long enough to kill the devourer. If they fail to unite, the factions die off, the Tyranids will starve, and the old ones will have their clean slate. This time around, they created a doomsday monster with an actual kill switch. It might also explain part of why the Silent King of the Necrons developed such an intense hatred for the Tyranids during his obscure trip to another galaxy. He recognizes that the Great Devourer is a creation of his hated enemy, the old ones, and he’s angry that after all this time, the War in Heaven never ended; it literally evolved into something far more terrifying.
I'm Very new to this fandom but Tyranids and Orks are my favorites so far, and this theory (after rabbit holing their EVERYTHING yesterday) this makes WAY TOO MUCH SENSE THANKS FOR THE NIGHTMARE
I would love for this to be the old ones final ace it's such a good concept it's just like the precursors in halo creating the flood all tho their creation was accidental so their is still a difference in story instead of just like a copy and paste so like I said would be amazing if the old ones did make the tyranids
I go with the ark theory. Since the tyranids can recreate anything theyve nommed they could theoretically return a planet to the state if was before they nommed it. So the old ones created them as a last ditch effort to save worlds and species from the c’tan and store the genetic info of entire planets until the war was won. But they never got the chance
I remember a white dwarf where an eldar predicted that the silent king created/adapted the tyranids and sent them back. then had an o s*** moment after realizing what he created and came back to save his people.
idk, orks and nids fighting are like an infinitive meat grinder xD nids use all the biomass to produce more nids and orks reproduce by fighting, the only question is: who will outlive the other one
In the Battle Fleet Gothic trailer Trazyn refers to the tyranids as servants of an elder being. I guess that would support the intelligent design theory.
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QUESTION: If they are attracted to the astronomicon is it possible that the emperor is calling them to the milky way on purpose? Why do you think he might?
@@Longbow6625i mean, it's basically like using a Freaking Nuke to Kill a Rat...but if You think About it, it's like they Black Plague. If You don't Kill every single rat....The Black Plague gonna be in the World again
I like to imagine that the Tyranids are from some nearby satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. The twist is that all the biomass of that galaxy has been completely devoured. The hive ships have been cruising to the Milky Way for millions of years. However, since all of their home galaxy's biomass is now repurposed the Tyranids have also sent ships to the Andromeda Galaxy and others!
Well the Andromeda Galaxy is the galaxy predicted to collide with the Milky Way in maybe 4.5 Billion Years. And the Milky Way currently has 2 Satellite Galaxies (seen in the Southern Hemisphere) the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). In the scope of Galaxy movement 40 thousand years is nothing, so your theory would have to revolve around those.
Regarding the “fight or flight” theory, I never imagined the possibility of the Tyranid hive fleets invading the Milky Way galaxy to potentially be running from their own kind. I always assumed it would be some even more powerful race of xenos, whether technologically inclined or otherwise. In particular, the idea of another non-technological race that could cause the Tyranids to flee, is quite a terrifying notion.
I think it was the old ones that created them because it was confirmed that they discovered our galaxy thanks to an old one tech and of course the emperor but trans the infinite admits that he thought against the tyrinids before of course it could have been after the war of heaven but how cool would be if the old ones created them
Really like listening to you man, you enroll background knowledge and "facts" which most other 40k channels simply can't. Thanks for all the hard work, keep going, your my favorite 40k channel by now! Greetings from Germany
Doesn't the Great Harvester Theory contradict itself? If the Tyranids developed the shadow in the warp as a defense against the warp, they would have to had contact with its denizens. However, this would have been so long ago that there weren't any denizens in the warp because back then, the warp was still peaceful and calm. Has anyone ever asked the Chaos Gods wether they've seen the Tyranids before?
@@noahchapman272 If you’re a Tzeentch follower you could pray for the knowledge of the Tyranids. If Tz doesn’t know then that’s something he should want to find out.
"Why would someone want to create a dangerously adaptable predator is truly a mystery." Apparently, someone has not watched all the Alien and Predator movies...
The only thing worse than the Tyranids that would even send them running away with just a few encounters would be The Harrowing... from the forgotten apocalypse.
*Plot twist:* The Tyranids are fleeing to the Milky Way galaxy because it's the only sanctum left for them after *The Destroyers* have almost wiped them out in every other galaxy of the Local Group. The Destroyers entered one of the Tyranids' galaxies over 15,000 standard years ago. Back then, they were already a highly advanced adversary that conquered world after world from the swarms. They only grew stronger and more refined over the millennia. But back in early M25, a lesser Tyranid swarm managed to capture one of the Destroyers under great losses. By examining its mind, the Tyranids were able to discover their heinous plan for universal domination. The mightiest of the Destroyers, who was simply called 'Adam' by his followers, left his home galaxy behind once his tremendous psychic powers were able to forsee the rebellion of his species' highly advanced A.I. due to Chaos corruption. But only A.I. could help his kind become truly superior and enlightened beings. So Adam left an almost perfect, immortal clone of himself behind in his home galaxy, instructing him to rebuild what was going to be lost during the dark millennia that lay ahead for the ancient Destroyers if his secret mission of colonizing consecutive galaxies should fail. It didn't fail. Quite the opposite. By the time M40 rolled around, the Destroyers were already victorious in most galaxies of the Tyranids. Almost every planet the Destroyers conquered, they transformed into new forms that closely resembled their home planet in ancient times: large blue oceancs, blue skies, green Forrest and meadow - covered landmasses and atmospheres mostly comprised of nitrogen and oxygen, teeming with millions of once-extinct animal species. Only the Milky Way seemed to be strictly off limits for the Destroyers due to the unique presence of Chaos over there. Said Chaos was able to corrupt the bodies, minds and A.I. of the Destroyers, rendering them helpless in the process. So the Hive minds began to formulate a plan: devour the entire milky way galaxy until they could assimilate the power of Chaos for themselves. Luckily, those Destroyers who had remained in the Milky Way, had somehow regressed in technology to a point where victory seemed more than possible. But time was running out for the Tyranids because the external Destroyers would soon find a way to destroy the presence of the Milky Way Warp in a matter of centuries. Then, they would use their intergalactic webway to travel to the Milky-way, seal all Warp rifts and reunite with the Milky-way Destroyers in order to assure Destroyer supremacy across thd Local Group and beyond. The Tyranids would go extinct.
Thanks for the awesome content! Would it be possible to explore a Tyranid - Tzeentch link? A forever evolving species that assimilates new knowledge from everything it consumes to change once again, and a chaos god of change, mutation, Architect of Fate, they seem kinda related
I believe that the Tyranids is one super organism that evolved the ability to control multiple bodies at the same time to be able to consume more biomass.
I can't remember where I read it (it might've been one of Sherman Bishop's articles) but there was an explanation of why the Tyranids use biotechnology exclusively. According to that theory the Tyranids evolved as an aquatic species and not having an access to smelting metals forced them to use bio-machines for all their needs.
Everywhere has the warp. It’s a reflection of the material universe. The Shadow in the Warp is generated by millions of Tyranids arriving/awakening at once. As the horde is thinned the effect weakens.
And then they eventually ate their creators (who happened to be the same ones who previously uplifted the Protoss who rebelled against them but drove them off instead of killing them.)
I think what stands out about the Tyranids is how drastically different they are from the other races. It’s fun to hypothesize on their origin because they just don’t get the same treatment as the other races. They intentionally leave them mysterious. We only know a handful of solid facts because how do you interrogate a swarming hive? So the other factions have to only observe and guess we’ll trying to defend against a highly organized ever evolving force I think the big thing is the mystery of the hive mind it’s self. What if it is a combination of a race turning itself into this bio weapon to protect itself? Like how the Necrons wanted to win their war so they turned to something they thought was their salvation. Maybe it was. Maybe in fighting against something so powerful they had to loose what they were in order to destroy their enemies. It happened so long ago that nothing remains except the connection known only as the “hive mind” I know that sort of combines a few theories, but I am thinking on how the lore works in this universe. I will always think this lore will stay vague as there is nothing else like the Tyranids
I don't think the shadow in the warp is an adaptation, rather a useful side-effect of having such a massive warp-detached consciousness exert control over billions of organisms. Though you can't 'see' the presence of this mind, it still has to reach out across space to all it's subordinates similar to a massive geomantic web but instead of pylons and a nexus, it has a central fleet and and synaptic creatures. Never seen but always felt, probably harnessing the same energy now that I think about it, probably the warp but instead of chaos, it is pure order. The massive control of the warp likely negated the need for chaos-based adaptations
My headcanon is that there's some surviving old ones who fled to a different galaxy and created the 'nids as a bioweapon to cleanse the Milky Way of life.
Question: Do you think its possible that the Death Guard, or any other Champions of Nurgle, would have an inherent advantage against the tyranids??? Due to their speciality in putrefying biomass??? Or would Tyranids be able to evolve immune systems to combat Nurgles gifts?? I think it would make for a wonderful test of might.
Actually, I made an alternate story also covering the tyranids origin for a warhammer rpg campaign about Genestealer Cults ending in the tyranids ultimate defeat at the end: In this story the Necrons created the Tyranids immitating the old ones. They vanished together until the Hive fleets slowly reentered the Galaxy. At this point they were found by the Emperor, which would then create the Hive Mind, in order to control the Tyranids. Before his murder, he would send kill-switch codes for the hive mind on tiamet to three imperial worlds: Cadia, Tyran and Skylla (A new planet, which was covered by the Warpstorm Charybdis shortly after, so it doesn't appear on newer imperial maps). After the destruction of Cadia and Tyran a Genestealer Cult started preparing Skylla for Invasion. (Won't go into into detail about the planets society here, though it ended up being really cool) Then Nurgle infects a major Hive Fleet named Pandora, Fenris is destroyed and Kryptman leaves exile. Basically, Shit goes down.After the "Silent War", a clash between the remaining Space Wolves, Pandora, Tzeentch and Hive Fleet Kronos barely outside the galaxy, Kryptman finds out about the Emperors plans. The Imperium then starts a massive attack on Tiamet. Kryptman sacrafices himself and destroyes the Hive Mind using the Kill Switch Code transmitted by the group on Skylla. And so the Kryptman Saga comes to an end... Hope you could follow your vids are great, man! :)
A question for OneMindSyndicate. When Roboute Guillman was removed from stasis, did he recognise the psychic hood that Chief Librarian Tigerius wore? If so, did it originally belong to Malcadore? Always wondered if that psychic hood did belong to Malcadore. Thank you for your time.
Maybe the Tyranids are 'carriers' of a dormant consciousness (Shadow of the warp) And this shadow is their 'hive god' or something that seeks the immatrium and that maybe seeing the light from Terra is what the tyranids think will bring their god life again. (I would be surprised if Tyranids ever get a origin unless it's near endgame for the current 40k setting as the mystery of where they came from or how they came about has been a appeal to the Tyranid lore and imagine GW know that)
Has anyone tried Snickers? I feel like you give these guys a Snickers, get the hunger under control, and we could be looking at some friendly interaction. And if it doesn't make them friendly, we get 'em hooked on fast food. Heart disease, obesity, diabetes ... they'd have this problem whipped in no time. [Note: this idea made me think about fast food in the 41st millennium. I have to assume if there was a "McDonalds" corporation on Necromunda, they would have shock troops and murder farms. Imperial Burgers?]
I remember a theory that the tyranids are somehow related to the c'tan the outsider, basically because it's one of the few other canonical examples of anything going to or coming from extragalactic space.
Looking at M41's Nids makes it bonkers to imagine some intelligent designer creating them as weapons. Same with the orks. But we know the orks devolved from something very useful to what they are now. The original design of the Nids might have been something very different as well.
I oppose the statement of "only this galaxy has the warp", in one of the very earliest GW novels, Space Marine by Ian Watson 1993, an Imperial Fists scout force parlayed with a Zoanthrope, the xeno explained that the portion of the immaterium that our galaxy sits on is especially turbulent, and they have arrived to quell that turbulence. This implies the immaterium is everywhere, even in the space between Galaxies. But ours has the Chaos Gods in them. And maybe simply the presence of the chaos Gods was enough to draw in the Tyranids. With the number of galaxies in the universe, it is statistically impossible that ours would be the only one with a warp problem, so the Tyranids would be familiar with such a fie, and created the Shadow to deal with them.
It’s more likely that other galaxies have an imaterium, since the nids can create the shadow of the warp. How is the warp created? My guess is any sentient thoughts and emotions slowly coelesses into the full fledged warp over millions of years, considering the universe is 13.5 billion years old and nearly infinite. This would also explain why in the void between galaxies there is no warp because there is little to no life out there. The gap between galaxies is enormous and the emperor has only been on the golden thrown powering the astronomicon for 10,000 ish years, much too short a time for the nids to reach the milky way from another galaxy, which means they were already headed our way.
@@OneMindSyndicate yeah, or maybe the chaos gods in their galaxies died out after all sentient life was wiped out. Who knows, fun to think about though.
My 2 cents, they are the vanguard of an intergalactic empire that wipes out all local life forms, then just settle as the fleets leave the galaxy for the next and take all the resources.
I think that the old pnes used something like a gene pool to create and modify life and somehow that device became the first norn queen and things spiraled out of control
my theory is that they're one evolutionary end point. the milky way itself could end up with a tyranid species evolving all on it's own given enough time. i also believe the hive fleet is commanded by a king which exists in the center of the swarm which still hasn't even made contact with the galaxy yet, and the tendrils that have been encountered are just that, tendrils of a galactic mass fleet, or maybe 4 galactic masses for all we know. hive fleets combating each other is simply resource re-acquisition in a wave of cannibalistic attacks that stretch back all the way to the king of the hive in the center, and the strongest organism by the time the wave of cannibalistic re-acquisition reaches the king is then fed to the king and the nexus of the super hive grows stronger.
Its a grey area. If two fleets meet they will fight each other. However with hive fleet chronus, who are specialized with dealing with chaos, other fleets will avoid them and even create supply points for chronus to replenish itself since it doesnt get much biomass from just dealing with daemon worlds.
Question: How do the Tyranids travel faster than light? We know humans use the warp, Eldar use the webway etc, but what about the Tyranids if they have no access to the warp? And if they can't travel faster than light it seems to me they would be very slow compared to most other factions in the galaxy and thus easy to defeat.
They have a unique ship that locks onto a planet and effectively alters gravity between it's fleet and the target to pull the fleet in. That's why one sign of an incoming swarm is irregular tectonic and weather anomolies
my personal theory is that a rogue old one created the tyrranids as the ultimate weapon against chaos to wipe the slate clean and deny the chaos gods any followers and souls to starve them and once everything is wiped out by the nids this rogue old one can start over
my theory, is that they evolved like that. the 'synapses' are akin to pheromones in space, but they were created to be like that. created to scour life, because they leave NOTHING behind. they dont leave 'nests/bases', they kill, consume to become better, and move on.
Question: I would love to get into the tabel top, but all the mini's are so expensive and the table top has ALOT of rules to learn. Ive been studying warhammer for nearly a year and I still dont fully get the Table Top rolls. Any tips for learning the table top better or cheaper sources for modles?
@@OneMindSyndicate thanks a million, i would like to start either a death gaurd or a Tyranid army first. I dont know about which is "better" competitively but they are my fav factions so i think i want to start with them
Note the seed theory. Natural selection or clean slate. Why want to consume a galaxy you can’t control? Henceforth the devourer wants the devices like astronomicon. To extend its range and focus.
(Question)OK two part question , number one I was just wondering if there could be planets out there far away that nobody even knows exist still with humans that have technology from before the war with the men of iron ? Second part. could there also be men of iron out there again so far away that nobody knows that they exist, living and surviving ?
The Apex Predator theory seems the most believable to me. I highly doubt the Old Ones created them. If the nids wiped out most life in the galaxy previously maybe the old ones were one of the few survivors and that motivated them to create new species around the galaxy. Perhaps also a motivation for the webway to hide in next time round too.
question: was it the noise marines? how did they infiltrate The Syndicate? you purged that post super quick! which of you two would be most likely to join the Noise Marines?
I have a personal theory that the old ones created a new form of life that was perfectly able to adapt to any situation and overcome any obstacles. With the full intent of retaking the milky way. Then a rogue/mad Catan comes by, filets his old rivals the old ones, and takes command of this infinitely evolving new life as its hive mind!!!!
On the Warp issue, I think that requiring the Tyrranid to originate in our galaxy is a false assumption. To the best of my knowledge, we don't KNOW that the Warp exists only for the Milky Way, just that there's some kind of blockage at the edge that prevents Warp travel. Since the Warp is fundamentally a manifestation of the will and thoughts of living creatures, the vast expanse of empty space between the galaxies would form a still, silent desert of nothingness in the Warp, maybe even closed off by a lack of anything to fill it. Thus the Tyrranid may have developed in another galaxy that had it's own full and active Warp and they evolved to take advantage of that, but their lack of Warp travel seems to indicate that this is very limited and not intentionally designed.
In the codex the silent king met the Tyranids outside the galaxy technically before they came to the milky way. As for your question, Abaddon has been trying to expand the warp for ages, each crusade he struck out at Blackstone pylons on strategic locations so when he finally had enough might to take Cadia it would cascade like it did.
A video on intelligence in 40k, how smart is your average space marine compared to your average educated imperium citizen, then compared to primarchs, the big E and then to various Xenos.
*Plot twist:* The Tyranids are fleeing to the Milky Way galaxy because it's the only sanctum left for them after *The Destroyers* have almost wiped them out in every other galaxy of the Local Group. The Destroyers entered one of the Tyranids' galaxies over 15,000 standard years ago. Back then, they were already a highly advanced adversary that conquered world after world from the swarms. They only grew stronger and more refined over the millennia. But back in early M25, a lesser Tyranid swarm managed to capture one of the Destroyers under great losses. By examining its mind, the Tyranids were able to discover their heinous plan for universal domination. The mightiest of the Destroyers, who was simply called 'Adam' by his followers, left his home galaxy behind once his tremendous psychic powers were able to forsee the rebellion of his species' highly advanced A.I. due to Chaos corruption. But only A.I. could help his kind become truly superior and enlightened beings. So Adam left an almost perfect, immortal clone of himself behind in his home galaxy, instructing him to rebuild what was going to be lost during the dark millennia that lay ahead for the ancient Destroyers if his secret mission of colonizing consecutive galaxies should fail. It didn't fail. Quite the opposite. By the time M40 rolled around, the Destroyers were already victorious in most galaxies of the Tyranids. Almost every planet the Destroyers conquered, they transformed into new forms that closely resembled their home planet in ancient times: large blue oceancs, blue skies, green Forrest and meadow - covered landmasses and atmospheres mostly comprised of nitrogen and oxygen, teeming with millions of once-extinct animal species. Only the Milky Way seemed to be strictly off limits for the Destroyers due to the unique presence of Chaos over there. Said Chaos was able to corrupt the bodies, minds and A.I. of the Destroyers, rendering them helpless in the process. So the Hive minds began to formulate a plan: devour the entire milky way galaxy until they could assimilate the power of Chaos for themselves. Luckily, those Destroyers who had remained in the Milky Way, had somehow regressed in technology to a point where victory seemed more than possible. But time was running out for the Tyranids because the external Destroyers would soon find a way to destroy the presence of the Milky Way Warp in a matter of centuries. Then, they would use their intergalactic webway to travel to the Milky-way, seal all Warp rifts and reunite with the Milky-way Destroyers in order to assure Destroyer supremacy across thd Local Group and beyond. The Tyranids would go extinct.
Sorry for the audio mistake on the last video guys, hope this is better. Thanks for trying to let me know.
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You guys make so many videos. Mistakes happen plus you re-upload the video. So thanks.
Do 40 Facts about Tzeentch ( or Slaanesh ) invasion in real space!!!
Spot on thank you good sir I had a feeling it wouldn't take you long too sort
Thanks. A tyranid with a boombox is no fun.
I like the idea of them being naturally evolved. Like they’re a manifestation of the terrors present in nature without the influence of the warp. Pure biological life in all it’s horrific glory.
Even more fun, biological evolution similar to the carcinisation theory, where on Earth there are multiple different cases of critters turning into crabs. In WH40k version, you have different galaxies having their dominant lifeforms turning into Tyranids. So there are separate fleets from different galaxies, but they all turned into Tyranids
Earth source - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Kinda like an Evil version of Godzilla Terra.
@@toddkes5890 I like this. this is pure cosmic horror
@@toddkes5890 yeah that is also my favourite explanation for the nids. Its also really plausible, i mean its backed up by real human science lol xD. what i also like about it, is that only the milky way is different in that evolution process, since only the milky way has demons and stuff like that.
@@monchyd6519 Or the Milky Way hadn't developed Tyranids yet. I am sure there are demons in other galaxies with non-Tyranid life, their versions of Khorne, etc.
I highly doubt this is true, but I have a delightful little theory that spawns from the old ones clean slate idea. The Tyranids are a race feared by everyone (save for the Orks of course) and that unified fear has led enemies to join together. Necrons and Blood Marines teaming up. Conflicting ork warbands now riding under a single banner. The greatest victories against the Tyranids came from the few instances that factions collectively turned their guns towards a common enemy, and the greatest losses were fought alone. An alternative goal of the old ones could be to force the galaxy to unite even if it means it’s only long enough to kill the devourer. If they fail to unite, the factions die off, the Tyranids will starve, and the old ones will have their clean slate. This time around, they created a doomsday monster with an actual kill switch.
It might also explain part of why the Silent King of the Necrons developed such an intense hatred for the Tyranids during his obscure trip to another galaxy. He recognizes that the Great Devourer is a creation of his hated enemy, the old ones, and he’s angry that after all this time, the War in Heaven never ended; it literally evolved into something far more terrifying.
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I think the Intelligent Design Theory, i.e., the Old Ones creating Tyranids, is the best theory out of all.
I agree here, their military capabilities and adaptativity are too odd to be natural.
I'm Very new to this fandom but Tyranids and Orks are my favorites so far, and this theory (after rabbit holing their EVERYTHING yesterday) this makes WAY TOO MUCH SENSE THANKS FOR THE NIGHTMARE
I would love for this to be the old ones final ace it's such a good concept it's just like the precursors in halo creating the flood all tho their creation was accidental so their is still a difference in story instead of just like a copy and paste so like I said would be amazing if the old ones did make the tyranids
I go with the ark theory.
Since the tyranids can recreate anything theyve nommed they could theoretically return a planet to the state if was before they nommed it. So the old ones created them as a last ditch effort to save worlds and species from the c’tan and store the genetic info of entire planets until the war was won. But they never got the chance
You guys are amazing for putting this back up thank you so much!
No problem!
I remember a white dwarf where an eldar predicted that the silent king created/adapted the tyranids and sent them back. then had an o s*** moment after realizing what he created and came back to save his people.
It would explain why the silent kings first action was to create the pariah nexus instead of fighting the nids
Honestly it makes the most sense that orks were made solely to combat the tyranids and literally never having to worry about losing.
idk, orks and nids fighting are like an infinitive meat grinder xD nids use all the biomass to produce more nids and orks reproduce by fighting, the only question is: who will outlive the other one
@@monchyd6519 orks reproduce via fungal growth
@@redragon1990 yeah but isnt it like that they only grow stronger and bigger if they fight
@@monchyd6519 they grow naturally like any regular organism, however their society views the biggest and meanest as leaders.
In the Battle Fleet Gothic trailer Trazyn refers to the tyranids as servants of an elder being. I guess that would support the intelligent design theory.
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I use el got the same thing lol, I dream about war hammer now
@@danielponcianodiaz176 haha nice to know I'm not on my own
hahaha we are the chaos gods of slumber prepping you for the eternal sleep.
The theory that Malal, when cast from the warp, created a race of daemons in realspace.
QUESTION:
If they are attracted to the astronomicon is it possible that the emperor is calling them to the milky way on purpose? Why do you think he might?
Well, if his goal is the elimination of chaos, they do seem to be the perfect mechanism for that.
@@Longbow6625i mean, it's basically like using a Freaking Nuke to Kill a Rat...but if You think About it, it's like they Black Plague.
If You don't Kill every single rat....The Black Plague gonna be in the World again
I like to imagine that the Tyranids are from some nearby satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. The twist is that all the biomass of that galaxy has been completely devoured. The hive ships have been cruising to the Milky Way for millions of years. However, since all of their home galaxy's biomass is now repurposed the Tyranids have also sent ships to the Andromeda Galaxy and others!
Well the Andromeda Galaxy is the galaxy predicted to collide with the Milky Way in maybe 4.5 Billion Years. And the Milky Way currently has 2 Satellite Galaxies (seen in the Southern Hemisphere) the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).
In the scope of Galaxy movement 40 thousand years is nothing, so your theory would have to revolve around those.
Regarding the “fight or flight” theory, I never imagined the possibility of the Tyranid hive fleets invading the Milky Way galaxy to potentially be running from their own kind. I always assumed it would be some even more powerful race of xenos, whether technologically inclined or otherwise. In particular, the idea of another non-technological race that could cause the Tyranids to flee, is quite a terrifying notion.
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I think it was the old ones that created them because it was confirmed that they discovered our galaxy thanks to an old one tech and of course the emperor but trans the infinite admits that he thought against the tyrinids before of course it could have been after the war of heaven but how cool would be if the old ones created them
Really like listening to you man, you enroll background knowledge and "facts" which most other 40k channels simply can't.
Thanks for all the hard work, keep going, your my favorite 40k channel by now!
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I think there is room for a combination of several theories, and the inclusion of an Old one becoming the first Hive Mind.
the laziest theory, the old ones did it. nah.
Doesn't the Great Harvester Theory contradict itself? If the Tyranids developed the shadow in the warp as a defense against the warp, they would have to had contact with its denizens. However, this would have been so long ago that there weren't any denizens in the warp because back then, the warp was still peaceful and calm.
Has anyone ever asked the Chaos Gods wether they've seen the Tyranids before?
Ah yes a friendly and respectful interview with the chaos gods
Got Slaanesh on speed dial, do you?.
@@noahchapman272 If you’re a Tzeentch follower you could pray for the knowledge of the Tyranids. If Tz doesn’t know then that’s something he should want to find out.
I was under the impression that the chaos gods have always existed, just not in the same intensity that they do now.
New to 40k can’t stop!!
I love the evolution theory
But damn you gotta wonder what hell of a galaxy/planet they evolved from
I’m Commander Shepard, and this harvester theory is my favorite on the Citadel.
"Why would someone want to create a dangerously adaptable predator is truly a mystery."
Apparently, someone has not watched all the Alien and Predator movies...
These are our new green footsoldiers. I call them Kroork. What could go wrong if we unleash them on the galaxy?
I like to imagine Tyranids are the one race that every other race would unite against
The only thing worse than the Tyranids that would even send them running away with just a few encounters would be The Harrowing... from the forgotten apocalypse.
*Plot twist:*
The Tyranids are fleeing to the Milky Way galaxy because it's the only sanctum left for them after *The Destroyers* have almost wiped them out in every other galaxy of the Local Group.
The Destroyers entered one of the Tyranids' galaxies over 15,000 standard years ago. Back then, they were already a highly advanced adversary that conquered world after world from the swarms. They only grew stronger and more refined over the millennia.
But back in early M25, a lesser Tyranid swarm managed to capture one of the Destroyers under great losses. By examining its mind, the Tyranids were able to discover their heinous plan for universal domination.
The mightiest of the Destroyers, who was simply called 'Adam' by his followers, left his home galaxy behind once his tremendous psychic powers were able to forsee the rebellion of his species' highly advanced A.I. due to Chaos corruption. But only A.I. could help his kind become truly superior and enlightened beings.
So Adam left an almost perfect, immortal clone of himself behind in his home galaxy, instructing him to rebuild what was going to be lost during the dark millennia that lay ahead for the ancient Destroyers if his secret mission of colonizing consecutive galaxies should fail.
It didn't fail.
Quite the opposite.
By the time M40 rolled around, the Destroyers were already victorious in most galaxies of the Tyranids.
Almost every planet the Destroyers conquered, they transformed into new forms that closely resembled their home planet in ancient times: large blue oceancs, blue skies, green Forrest and meadow - covered landmasses and atmospheres mostly comprised of nitrogen and oxygen, teeming with millions of once-extinct animal species.
Only the Milky Way seemed to be strictly off limits for the Destroyers due to the unique presence of Chaos over there. Said Chaos was able to corrupt the bodies, minds and A.I. of the Destroyers, rendering them helpless in the process.
So the Hive minds began to formulate a plan: devour the entire milky way galaxy until they could assimilate the power of Chaos for themselves.
Luckily, those Destroyers who had remained in the Milky Way, had somehow regressed in technology to a point where victory seemed more than possible.
But time was running out for the Tyranids because the external Destroyers would soon find a way to destroy the presence of the Milky Way Warp in a matter of centuries.
Then, they would use their intergalactic webway to travel to the Milky-way, seal all Warp rifts and reunite with the Milky-way Destroyers in order to assure Destroyer supremacy across thd Local Group and beyond. The Tyranids would go extinct.
LIFE.
FINDS A WAY...
TO DEVOUR ALLL.
Thanks for the awesome content! Would it be possible to explore a Tyranid - Tzeentch link? A forever evolving species that assimilates new knowledge from everything it consumes to change once again, and a chaos god of change, mutation, Architect of Fate, they seem kinda related
Great job. I can hear gursh this time.
haha yeah sorry about that
I believe that the Tyranids is one super organism that evolved the ability to control multiple bodies at the same time to be able to consume more biomass.
Thats almost exactly what they are. They collectively are the Hive Minds body, each individual is a cell in its body.
So you think it's a hivemind?
Thanks for re-upload without music !!
No problem! It was my fault for not checking
The apex predator theory makes the most sense to me
Tyranids, the greatest threat for the chaos. It is entirely illogical for chaos not helping the imperium to fight Tyranids.
I can't remember where I read it (it might've been one of Sherman Bishop's articles) but there was an explanation of why the Tyranids use biotechnology exclusively. According to that theory the Tyranids evolved as an aquatic species and not having an access to smelting metals forced them to use bio-machines for all their needs.
If they were created, It almost certainly was by a race we haven't even seen or heard of yet. Extragalactic and very powerful
What kind of tyranid is at 7:55 😳
The dummy thick nid
Love this video, Tyranids are my favourite ❤
Everywhere has the warp. It’s a reflection of the material universe.
The Shadow in the Warp is generated by millions of Tyranids arriving/awakening at once. As the horde is thinned the effect weakens.
In Starcraft the Zerg are modified insects that some demigods modified to be more dangerous.
And then they eventually ate their creators (who happened to be the same ones who previously uplifted the Protoss who rebelled against them but drove them off instead of killing them.)
@@jeffumbach well said
I think what stands out about the Tyranids is how drastically different they are from the other races. It’s fun to hypothesize on their origin because they just don’t get the same treatment as the other races. They intentionally leave them mysterious. We only know a handful of solid facts because how do you interrogate a swarming hive? So the other factions have to only observe and guess we’ll trying to defend against a highly organized ever evolving force
I think the big thing is the mystery of the hive mind it’s self. What if it is a combination of a race turning itself into this bio weapon to protect itself? Like how the Necrons wanted to win their war so they turned to something they thought was their salvation. Maybe it was. Maybe in fighting against something so powerful they had to loose what they were in order to destroy their enemies. It happened so long ago that nothing remains except the connection known only as the “hive mind”
I know that sort of combines a few theories, but I am thinking on how the lore works in this universe. I will always think this lore will stay vague as there is nothing else like the Tyranids
Love you guys
I don't think the shadow in the warp is an adaptation, rather a useful side-effect of having such a massive warp-detached consciousness exert control over billions of organisms. Though you can't 'see' the presence of this mind, it still has to reach out across space to all it's subordinates similar to a massive geomantic web but instead of pylons and a nexus, it has a central fleet and and synaptic creatures. Never seen but always felt, probably harnessing the same energy now that I think about it, probably the warp but instead of chaos, it is pure order.
The massive control of the warp likely negated the need for chaos-based adaptations
My headcanon is that there's some surviving old ones who fled to a different galaxy and created the 'nids as a bioweapon to cleanse the Milky Way of life.
Question: Do you think its possible that the Death Guard, or any other Champions of Nurgle, would have an inherent advantage against the tyranids??? Due to their speciality in putrefying biomass??? Or would Tyranids be able to evolve immune systems to combat Nurgles gifts??
I think it would make for a wonderful test of might.
Given they made a splinter fleet that exclusively targets chaos I think they would evolve against nurgle
Actually, I made an alternate story also covering the tyranids origin for a warhammer rpg campaign about Genestealer Cults ending in the tyranids ultimate defeat at the end:
In this story the Necrons created the Tyranids immitating the old ones. They vanished together until the Hive fleets slowly reentered the Galaxy. At this point they were found by the Emperor, which would then create the Hive Mind, in order to control the Tyranids. Before his murder, he would send kill-switch codes for the hive mind on tiamet to three imperial worlds: Cadia, Tyran and Skylla (A new planet, which was covered by the Warpstorm Charybdis shortly after, so it doesn't appear on newer imperial maps). After the destruction of Cadia and Tyran a Genestealer Cult started preparing Skylla for Invasion. (Won't go into into detail about the planets society here, though it ended up being really cool) Then Nurgle infects a major Hive Fleet named Pandora, Fenris is destroyed and Kryptman leaves exile. Basically, Shit goes down.After the "Silent War", a clash between the remaining Space Wolves, Pandora, Tzeentch and Hive Fleet Kronos barely outside the galaxy, Kryptman finds out about the Emperors plans. The Imperium then starts a massive attack on Tiamet. Kryptman sacrafices himself and destroyes the Hive Mind using the Kill Switch Code transmitted by the group on Skylla. And so the Kryptman Saga comes to an end...
Hope you could follow your vids are great, man! :)
Man I remember that video from 4 years ago. How the time has flown.
Up to 07:52: Man they're scary
After 07:52: Let them come
Right, what kind of picture is that
I wish I could afford Warhammer 40k minis, the tyranids would be cool to paint. Same with the astartes
Everybody asks: What are Tyranids? No one ever asks: How are Tyranids?
maybe they just need hugs!
A question for OneMindSyndicate. When Roboute Guillman was removed from stasis, did he recognise the psychic hood that Chief Librarian Tigerius wore? If so, did it originally belong to Malcadore? Always wondered if that psychic hood did belong to Malcadore. Thank you for your time.
I once read a fanfiction story that one lost space marine primarch created the Tyranids during its travels in the warp.
"Damn nature you scary"
Maybe the Tyranids are 'carriers' of a dormant consciousness (Shadow of the warp) And this shadow is their 'hive god' or something that seeks the immatrium and that maybe seeing the light from Terra is what the tyranids think will bring their god life again.
(I would be surprised if Tyranids ever get a origin unless it's near endgame for the current 40k setting as the mystery of where they came from or how they came about has been a appeal to the Tyranid lore and imagine GW know that)
The Hive Mind is their god, and its awake.
Thank you Gersh!!! take my like you deserve it. Good chit.
Appreciated!
Has anyone tried Snickers? I feel like you give these guys a Snickers, get the hunger under control, and we could be looking at some friendly interaction.
And if it doesn't make them friendly, we get 'em hooked on fast food. Heart disease, obesity, diabetes ... they'd have this problem whipped in no time.
[Note: this idea made me think about fast food in the 41st millennium. I have to assume if there was a "McDonalds" corporation on Necromunda, they would have shock troops and murder farms. Imperial Burgers?]
Yeah I'd like to order a McTerra with extra pickles and a side of fries. Could I also get some Vulkan hot sauce with that? Thanks.
I remember a theory that the tyranids are somehow related to the c'tan the outsider, basically because it's one of the few other canonical examples of anything going to or coming from extragalactic space.
Gershwan, could you please do some lore on the Gellerpox infected & do you know if they're still available to buy..?
Looking at M41's Nids makes it bonkers to imagine some intelligent designer creating them as weapons. Same with the orks. But we know the orks devolved from something very useful to what they are now. The original design of the Nids might have been something very different as well.
Sweet video, just here for the nid content!
I've said this in a different comment section. I believe that the Tyranids are a Jurassic park situation on a galactic scale that went out of control
I oppose the statement of "only this galaxy has the warp", in one of the very earliest GW novels, Space Marine by Ian Watson 1993, an Imperial Fists scout force parlayed with a Zoanthrope, the xeno explained that the portion of the immaterium that our galaxy sits on is especially turbulent, and they have arrived to quell that turbulence. This implies the immaterium is everywhere, even in the space between Galaxies. But ours has the Chaos Gods in them. And maybe simply the presence of the chaos Gods was enough to draw in the Tyranids. With the number of galaxies in the universe, it is statistically impossible that ours would be the only one with a warp problem, so the Tyranids would be familiar with such a fie, and created the Shadow to deal with them.
Space marine is one of the few books to be explicitly thrown out of canonicity by GW. But yes the warp is everywhere
It’s more likely that other galaxies have an imaterium, since the nids can create the shadow of the warp.
How is the warp created? My guess is any sentient thoughts and emotions slowly coelesses into the full fledged warp over millions of years, considering the universe is 13.5 billion years old and nearly infinite.
This would also explain why in the void between galaxies there is no warp because there is little to no life out there.
The gap between galaxies is enormous and the emperor has only been on the golden thrown powering the astronomicon for 10,000 ish years, much too short a time for the nids to reach the milky way from another galaxy, which means they were already headed our way.
Maybe does that mean the Tyranids defeated the chaos gods of their warp galaxy
@@OneMindSyndicate yeah, or maybe the chaos gods in their galaxies died out after all sentient life was wiped out. Who knows, fun to think about though.
man I love your vids! :D
Glad you like them!
Tyranids lore is always the best!
racist!
@@TheGhjgjgjgjgjg Bro you ok?
@@Zuriki_xeno loving filth! The Emperor wants your life!
My 2 cents, they are the vanguard of an intergalactic empire that wipes out all local life forms, then just settle as the fleets leave the galaxy for the next and take all the resources.
I think that the old pnes used something like a gene pool to create and modify life and somehow that device became the first norn queen and things spiraled out of control
So, theory 1 is just the plot to the Mass Effect games with the Reapers.
What if they are simply a form of von Neumann swarms that has some eldritch programming? The replicate using available resources.
my theory is that they're one evolutionary end point. the milky way itself could end up with a tyranid species evolving all on it's own given enough time.
i also believe the hive fleet is commanded by a king which exists in the center of the swarm which still hasn't even made contact with the galaxy yet, and the tendrils that have been encountered are just that, tendrils of a galactic mass fleet, or maybe 4 galactic masses for all we know.
hive fleets combating each other is simply resource re-acquisition in a wave of cannibalistic attacks that stretch back all the way to the king of the hive in the center, and the strongest organism by the time the wave of cannibalistic re-acquisition reaches the king is then fed to the king and the nexus of the super hive grows stronger.
I thought tyrannic hive fleets were connected to each other?
Its a grey area. If two fleets meet they will fight each other. However with hive fleet chronus, who are specialized with dealing with chaos, other fleets will avoid them and even create supply points for chronus to replenish itself since it doesnt get much biomass from just dealing with daemon worlds.
They are like inquisitors, technically they are on the same side but most of the time they want to kill each other
A cannibal hive fleet does make sense
I'd like to hear more about the Katan(Catan?), and also the Necron before they became machines
Question: How do the Tyranids travel faster than light? We know humans use the warp, Eldar use the webway etc, but what about the Tyranids if they have no access to the warp? And if they can't travel faster than light it seems to me they would be very slow compared to most other factions in the galaxy and thus easy to defeat.
If I’m not mistaken their ships achieve FTL by actually pulling through space with their tendrils
They have a unique ship that locks onto a planet and effectively alters gravity between it's fleet and the target to pull the fleet in.
That's why one sign of an incoming swarm is irregular tectonic and weather anomolies
my personal theory is that a rogue old one created the tyrranids as the ultimate weapon against chaos to wipe the slate clean and deny the chaos gods any followers and souls to starve them and once everything is wiped out by the nids this rogue old one can start over
40 facts on the theories..... I love it
my theory, is that they evolved like that. the 'synapses' are akin to pheromones in space, but they were created to be like that. created to scour life, because they leave NOTHING behind. they dont leave 'nests/bases', they kill, consume to become better, and move on.
Intelligent design, AKA the White walker theory.
Genestealers “arrived” 35k while the hive fleets have only been around 200 years
Ancient terran Loch Ness monster is...a tyranid now?
Question: I would love to get into the tabel top, but all the mini's are so expensive and the table top has ALOT of rules to learn. Ive been studying warhammer for nearly a year and I still dont fully get the Table Top rolls. Any tips for learning the table top better or cheaper sources for modles?
Miniwargaming and tabletop tactics are the best RUclips source for tabletop videos.
@@OneMindSyndicate thanks a million, i would like to start either a death gaurd or a Tyranid army first. I dont know about which is "better" competitively but they are my fav factions so i think i want to start with them
@@thechameleos6334 if you invest in a 3d printer the costs go waaaay down.
bugzapper theory is my favorite
Note the seed theory. Natural selection or clean slate. Why want to consume a galaxy you can’t control? Henceforth the devourer wants the devices like astronomicon. To extend its range and focus.
Harvester theory seems good
(Question)OK two part question , number one I was just wondering if there could be planets out there far away that nobody even knows exist still with humans that have technology from before the war with the men of iron ? Second part. could there also be men of iron out there again so far away that nobody knows that they exist, living and surviving ?
7:54 this makes me want to commit Heresy 🗿
The Apex Predator theory seems the most believable to me. I highly doubt the Old Ones created them. If the nids wiped out most life in the galaxy previously maybe the old ones were one of the few survivors and that motivated them to create new species around the galaxy. Perhaps also a motivation for the webway to hide in next time round too.
Thanks for the improvement
No problem
question: was it the noise marines? how did they infiltrate The Syndicate? you purged that post super quick! which of you two would be most likely to join the Noise Marines?
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A superior Hive Fleet: shows thicc tyranid waifu
Ah, those space bugs.
Cant get enough of them
He has been converted to Tyranids!
If only they didn't suck on the Table Top
@@OneMindSyndicate truly😂
Just asking is there such things as aquatic tyranids
I have a personal theory that the old ones created a new form of life that was perfectly able to adapt to any situation and overcome any obstacles. With the full intent of retaking the milky way. Then a rogue/mad Catan comes by, filets his old rivals the old ones, and takes command of this infinitely evolving new life as its hive mind!!!!
The more I watch Warhammer videos the more I realize how much Warframe is inspired by it
On the Warp issue, I think that requiring the Tyrranid to originate in our galaxy is a false assumption. To the best of my knowledge, we don't KNOW that the Warp exists only for the Milky Way, just that there's some kind of blockage at the edge that prevents Warp travel. Since the Warp is fundamentally a manifestation of the will and thoughts of living creatures, the vast expanse of empty space between the galaxies would form a still, silent desert of nothingness in the Warp, maybe even closed off by a lack of anything to fill it.
Thus the Tyrranid may have developed in another galaxy that had it's own full and active Warp and they evolved to take advantage of that, but their lack of Warp travel seems to indicate that this is very limited and not intentionally designed.
Since Dante, have the tyranid recognized IoM as a threat instead of prey?
Question if the tyranids are what brought back the silent king why diddn't chaos bringing more worlds into the warp through more warp out brakes ?
In the codex the silent king met the Tyranids outside the galaxy technically before they came to the milky way.
As for your question, Abaddon has been trying to expand the warp for ages, each crusade he struck out at Blackstone pylons on strategic locations so when he finally had enough might to take Cadia it would cascade like it did.
A video on intelligence in 40k, how smart is your average space marine compared to your average educated imperium citizen, then compared to primarchs, the big E and then to various Xenos.
The loch ness monster was a tyranid?
Yes could have been
*Plot twist:*
The Tyranids are fleeing to the Milky Way galaxy because it's the only sanctum left for them after *The Destroyers* have almost wiped them out in every other galaxy of the Local Group.
The Destroyers entered one of the Tyranids' galaxies over 15,000 standard years ago. Back then, they were already a highly advanced adversary that conquered world after world from the swarms. They only grew stronger and more refined over the millennia.
But back in early M25, a lesser Tyranid swarm managed to capture one of the Destroyers under great losses. By examining its mind, the Tyranids were able to discover their heinous plan for universal domination.
The mightiest of the Destroyers, who was simply called 'Adam' by his followers, left his home galaxy behind once his tremendous psychic powers were able to forsee the rebellion of his species' highly advanced A.I. due to Chaos corruption. But only A.I. could help his kind become truly superior and enlightened beings.
So Adam left an almost perfect, immortal clone of himself behind in his home galaxy, instructing him to rebuild what was going to be lost during the dark millennia that lay ahead for the ancient Destroyers if his secret mission of colonizing consecutive galaxies should fail.
It didn't fail.
Quite the opposite.
By the time M40 rolled around, the Destroyers were already victorious in most galaxies of the Tyranids.
Almost every planet the Destroyers conquered, they transformed into new forms that closely resembled their home planet in ancient times: large blue oceancs, blue skies, green Forrest and meadow - covered landmasses and atmospheres mostly comprised of nitrogen and oxygen, teeming with millions of once-extinct animal species.
Only the Milky Way seemed to be strictly off limits for the Destroyers due to the unique presence of Chaos over there. Said Chaos was able to corrupt the bodies, minds and A.I. of the Destroyers, rendering them helpless in the process.
So the Hive minds began to formulate a plan: devour the entire milky way galaxy until they could assimilate the power of Chaos for themselves.
Luckily, those Destroyers who had remained in the Milky Way, had somehow regressed in technology to a point where victory seemed more than possible.
But time was running out for the Tyranids because the external Destroyers would soon find a way to destroy the presence of the Milky Way Warp in a matter of centuries.
Then, they would use their intergalactic webway to travel to the Milky-way, seal all Warp rifts and reunite with the Milky-way Destroyers in order to assure Destroyer supremacy across thd Local Group and beyond. The Tyranids would go extinct.
Has any chaos god ever materialised outside the warp?