'Nids Origin Theory

[Inquisitor Soren]

Ok guys here is a poll that has been eating me for a while now, so I wanna here what you guys think?

Who made the nids? Who is the hivemind? What is their ultimate purpose?

[Andrew283]

Even a lunatic would look stupid if he created the nids. Deffo natural

[Drew da Destroya]

I like the idea of a crazed Old One, personally.

Or the totally off-the-wall possibility that the Hive Mind is being controlled by the Star Child, in order to eventually destroy the Star Child's body, allowing the Emperor to become a fully-powered Warp Entity capable of destroying the Chaos Gods.

[Dark_Templar]

I like the idea of a crazed Old One, personally.

Or the totally off-the-wall possibility that the Hive Mind is being controlled by the Star Child, in order to eventually destroy the Star Child's body, allowing the Emperor to become a fully-powered Warp Entity capable of destroying the Chaos Gods.

But if everybody dies in the process, nobody will be left to care if there are Chaos Gods around or not...

[krispy]

hey what about this: what if the emperor made them (as insurance) as he was meant to die and is instead kept on his crystal throne, maybe he had the forethought to make the nids with their mission being to make sure he was dead? haha that would be kinda neat - the nids storyline could continue that they reach earth and cause the death of the emperor and then their forces fall back an they become slightly more like the eldar, roving round the galaxy but still a major force.

hah! that was my creative thinking for today done!

/k

[Grumpy Ripper]

I like the idea of a crazed Old One, personally.

Or the totally off-the-wall possibility that the Hive Mind is being controlled by the Star Child, in order to eventually destroy the Star Child's body, allowing the Emperor to become a fully-powered Warp Entity capable of destroying the Chaos Gods.

ive made that post a number of times in diffrent threads yey iam not the only crazy one

[Prometheus]

As a dedicated Tyranid player all the info I have gathered indicated that the Tyranids evolved in another galaxy and have sweeped through that galaxy and many others kinda like intersteller roaches. The seem to be a force of the universe, cleaning up the riff-raff and stopping other powerful creatures from growing to strong. They are a filter of sorts, the lower end of the genepool they kill eat and absorb the strong genes they proegate by getting ride of the weaker genes allowing the stronger ones to become more dominmate. It is as if they are the fungus in the forest. Without it nothing would decompose and nothing would get nutriates to grow again.

Now as it pretains to thier "leader"/director... evidence is sketchy but tends to lean toward the Hivemind being (in decending order of likely-hood)
1) The fourth C'Tan: The Outsider
2) A pool of thier combined thoughts (kinda like how ork psychic grow stronger when more orks are around)
3) A yet unseen HUGE Tyranid organism
4) Phil Kelly himself
5) The Emperor

[Emperorsmercy]

Now as it pretains to thier "leader"/director... evidence is sketchy but tends to lean toward the Hivemind being (in decending order of likely-hood)
1) The fourth C'Tan: The Outsider
2) A pool of thier combined thoughts (kinda like how ork psychic grow stronger when more orks are around)
3) A yet unseen HUGE Tyranid organism
4) Phil Kelly himself
5) The Emperor

My vote goes to Phil Kelly

[TSINI]

lol, i for one am not really a fan of the whole gods and shizz, i mean, chaos gods i can bear, but all the c'tan and stuff, how old is a god, and how are some older than others...

Nids are like a swarm of Omnivorous locusts, they eat everything in their way. its like human kind now - but much much much much much faster. their ultimate goal, survival (albeit a very shortsighted goal - theres no planning for the future with these guys), which in turn means eat everything else.

the hive mind, is as it says, a hive mind, when a wasp stings, the others get riled up ad go stingy mental (its through pheromones etc). so maybe the sheer mass of nids working together, communicating through the warp and with vocal shrieks, makes them a communial hive mind. although you have to remember that its not just the little guys, the big ships themselves, cumulate a massive hivemind when theyre moving through space. and at the end of the day, its the big ships who get to eat all the sludge after the little ones finish their invasion, just think of them as the teeth, chewing up the food for the big ships, so reallyits the big ships who are the tyranids.

[Inquisitor Soren]

I personally find it hard to simply believe they are from another galaxy and where not artificially created by someone. They were extremely poorly 'equipped' when they first arrived in the galaxy from what I heard/read, so that makes it sound like they haven't conquered a massive number of galaxies, maybe one in my opinion.

The Emperor? Really guys? Why, it just doesn't make sense, if he wanted to kill himself I'm sure he could find an easier way...he is the freaking Emperor after all.

The Outsider? I don't see the support for this one anywhere, ok so they avoided his Dyson Sphere by thousands of Light Years, that seems more to me like a psychic null zone to me. What other proof is there? He is insane? Umm, ok so are the other C'tan if you look at it from a human perspective. Plus the Warp is anthem to the the C'tan I don't see how it could use it, or even where it would get the resources for it.

A pool of their combined thoughts: As for the hiveminds identity, I'd have to probably agree with this one it makes a lot of sense, to me at least.

Phil Kelly himself: ...lol?

HUGE Tyranid: This would be kinda strange but I suppose it possible that the hivemind could be a starcraft/starship-troopers like brain-bug thing.

The biggest glaring question if they did evolve naturally is, 'What forced them to have to do so to survive?'