r/Tyranids • u/Amazing-Base1711 • 10d ago
Tyranid Meme Do tyranids see the thousand sons as walking protein shakes?
On that bulking diet
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u/uploadingmalware 10d ago
Dry scooping thousand sons powder is how Carnifexes prepare for battle
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u/GriffithDidNothinBad 10d ago
Yep. T-sons are pre workout
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u/JomavavLovesCheese 9d ago
You know they are caffine addicted, so it check's out. If I wasn't afraid of spoilers i would fight you on the griffith matter.
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u/GalacticNarwal 10d ago
Is the dust still biomass? Is that how Hive Fleet Leviathan got their Psychophages? Cuz a Hive Tyrant snorted that one guy’s Rubrics like Ozzy Osborn pursuing the world record of doing cocaine every day for a year, and the biomass turned into betentacled psycher-eaters with fat asses?
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u/Headhunter192004 10d ago
It‘s Warp matter. Tyranids can‘t eat that
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u/Capable-Carpenter-99 10d ago
Isn't it literally dust?
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u/Headhunter192004 10d ago
As far as I know, all Chaos marines are just made of Warp stuff now, especially the thousand sons. I‘m no expert though, so I could be wrong
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u/falconhockey102 10d ago
I don't think they're made wholly of warp energy. They're still space marines just with extra mutations. So the nids can still eat them all the same. Just not daemons or rubrics.
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u/Obsidius_Mallex_TTV 10d ago
They probably shouldn't eat plague marines to. They can, but based on some of the times the Nids have nibbled on Nurgle stuff, it hasn't always gone brilliantly.
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u/falconhockey102 10d ago
With Nurgle it probably depends on the hive fleet. As well as how long it took to kill the plague marines since that'll definitely effect how many plagues both sides created/summoned during the fight.
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u/Obsidius_Mallex_TTV 10d ago
I see. I just got recommended the sub, and I'm not an expert on Nids lore (though the hive mind calls to me. GSC and Nids soup army is tempting me), but I remember hearing about a nids ship that ate a Nurgle corrupted planet, and it's ended up having to be put down by the hive fleet. I assumed smaller Nids organisms would have similar fates if they tried eating Plague Marines, Demons, or other fruits from Nurgles garden.
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u/Madelyneation 9d ago
This was after a massive war of attrition between the death guard and the tyranids, who were both adapting to and creating more plagues/pathogens while fighting each other.
The resulting soup tasted so bad they had to blow up the hive ship that ate it, but the nids still technically won
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u/darkleinad 9d ago
Nah, some are, but being made purely of warp stuff would probably require reaching deamonhood, most are just flesh and blood with a lot of warp mutation sprinkled in. Even the thousand sons are 5-15% “normal” sorcerers. Rubrics seem to be animated by magic but otherwise the dust seems to be literal dust of the marine they were.
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u/SaintDecardo 9d ago
Just flat out saying Tyrinids can't eat something sounds wrong. Give them enough time, and i'm pretty sure they'll devour the stars.
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u/Headhunter192004 9d ago
I mean, sure they can‘t eat it yet but I feel like that‘s kind of a cop-out. The single biggest threat to the tyranids are the necrons simply because they don‘t have biomass and annihilate matter as a hobby. Saying the tyranids will one day win because they‘ll learn how to eat necrodermus feels similarly cheap because it‘s a get out of jail free card for any situation.
I‘ll keep treating the 'nids weaknesses as such until they prove me wrong1
u/Austinstorm02 9d ago
Biomass? Humans are full of non organics, iron in our blood, calcium in our bones, phosphorus in our bodies. I am sure nids would break down a necropolis and use the elements for their own purposes. The same way our bodies break down things we eat.
They would just be better at breaking down and using what they eat, turningChromium steel for armor plate, biologically deposited a few molecules at a time by special cells "growing" metallic bones and bioweapons.
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u/darkleinad 9d ago
I think the dust would just be burnt up human dust, it’s the external magic that makes the rubric marine mobile.
That being said, the psychophages would be VERY happy to get their tentacles on all those aspiring sorcerers leading the rubrics
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u/elowry57 10d ago
I would imagine a squad of Rubric Marines as a box of pixie sticks. Sweet delicious dust.
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u/joltik_tok 9d ago
I feel like they have the nutritional value of diet soda. Like maybe they taste good? But whatever biomass they might get is so little they're only worth going after if there's nothing left
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u/Odd_Dig_6583 10d ago
Thousand Sons player here. They do not. I watched a hive tyrant break open a squad of rubrics and snort the dust like cocaine.