How did the Galaxy React to the Arrival of the Tyranids? | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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My favorite reaction to the Nids definitely comes from the Orks. There is a Waaagh composed of mostly Snakebites that fought and beat some Tyranids. They enjoyed the fight so much that they captured some of them at the end and put them on their ships. Now every world they come across they drop the Tyranids off at one of the Planets poles and they land on the opposite end. Orks and Tyranids annihilate the planets defenders and then meet in the middle to have another good scrap. Then they rinse and repeat at the next world. Its pure insanity.

Nids: (Have shotguns that shoot brain eating maggots) Nurgle: 'Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!'

Slaanesh must be depressed by all these tentacles going to waste.

The Man-Emperor of Mankind suggests that the Imperium should have huge cans of bugspray to drive out the Tyranids from the Milky Way galaxy.

I love what the arrival of the Tyrannids means for the Necrons. On one hand, the metal men are a massive threat to the galaxy in and of themselves. On the other hand, they possibly represent one of the galaxy's best hopes for defeating the Tyrannids. And defeating Chaos, for that matter, because of their pillar things that suppress the warp.

In stellaris terms, it seems like the necrons are a recently awakened fallen empire and the tyranids are an end game crisis

Tyranids are so badass. One of the coolest alien races in fiction imo

The Dark Eldar may be safe from the Tyranids, but lately they had the brilliant idea of grafting genestealer limbs into their bodies cause they find them fashionable, I guess. Unsurprisingly those Dark Eldar have started to alter into genestealers themselves, so let's see how that pans out for Commorragh.

Inquisitor Kryptman had once pitted the Orks and the Tyranids against each other, triggering the Octarian War as an effort to have both xeno races kill each other off.

Everyone alse: Panic Orks: Happy Waaagh noises Necrons: Stop stealing my food you damn ants!

Immagine all races and faction's united against an apocalyptic tyranid fleet, that would be incredibly difficult to write but if done well unforgettable

I don’t know why but I now imagine the tau, and the farsight enclave, setting up specific tyranid hunting fleets. Entirely designed to go out into the galaxy, fuck up the Nids wherever they can, then leave to fight more nids. I think it would be interesting and potentially lead to an evolution of the Tau as a faction and a race, possibly even introducing a new “multi-class” caste that’s sole purpose is to fight in these nid hunting fleets.

Honestly not surprised with these results very interesting what the Dark Eldar hvae gotten up to with the nids though

Survey: “If you could be any character from a Sci Fi universe what would you be?” *me an Astartes fan*: “That depends do I have to live in that universe?” “Yes” “….a Jedi in the Old Republic”

"when the Imperium and the Tau teamed up the Tyranids got smashed" Oh imagine getting bombarded by Imperial artillery then the Tau hit you with long range weaponry and then the Titans came with Tau battlesuits and mechs supporting them

The lovable Orks probably cheered for days, and no doubt forgot that the Tyranids the next day, but then cheered again to stump them.

Hope to see the necrons fight the nids. They can't really consume the Necrons and thier guns are perfect for frying those bugs. Hope the Silent King reveals his plan.

Remember when the orks travel through the warp without shields and get invaded by demons they call them the entertainment.

I feel like the Farsight Enclaves virus should be treated like a way bigger plot point for the galaxy than it currently is. Like imagine Kryptman getting his hands on that and unleashing it in the Octarius sector or on the world of Ziaphoria?

Missed an opportunity to see what guilliman's reaction was to them like how he reacts after Devastation of Baal, being from another era entirely and he can reflect on the kind of monstrosities the Imperium has been dealing with prior to his arrival (as well as codex astartes inflexibility and all that crap)

One of the funniest things I’ve experienced in 40k was reading the devastation of Baal and the scene where a daemon of Khorne is falling through the atmosphere and sees the hive ships and thinks to itself “those are really big skulls. I want them”.

Imperial Guard: 'Well, we can tick "evil space bugs" off our list of what to crap our pants to.'

Of course the Ork's love the Tyranids,they're like a match made in heaven!

I’m terrified by the realization that if the tyranids win and leave the galaxy then it will be left as an open expanse for the dark elder and the remaining necrons

Some dogs will eat as long as they see food, only stopping when they literally cannot eat any more. “Fawk off you dumb dog” seems rather fitting to describe the Milky Way’s resident’s attitudes towards the Tyranids.

I'd imagine with some variation of......."OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!"

I hear the Dark eldar want to find a way to torture the freaking hive mind

I remember in Epic the Nids had a rule that was called something along the lines of "theres something wrong with Jones" where units too close to Nids had to do saving rolls every turn in case they caught Nid Ripper Parasites, but the Orcs had a counter Rule called "Orcs not named Jones" lol

I absolutely love your nid and tau videos you should make more of them

There’s something wholesome about orks cheering on the arrival of the great devourer

11:54 they took the emperors idea of big spray

Orks love anything that can fight so there's no surprise in that tbh.

I find the idea of korne just yoinking random ass tyanids from differnt parts of the galaxy so that the orc he has in an arena has a good time funny

In Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 there was a badass moment when Tyranids were assaulting Nurgle's demonic world. And it was not only a war between ground forces, but also war between Nurgle's many plagues and tyranids' adaptive immunity. And tyranids won.

Glory to the imperium

I really wish the Silent King was Space Settra rather than Space Nagash.

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I'd find the Tyranids invading Commoragh would be karmic justice of a delicious sort.

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I think that if the tyranids are running away from something else, it'd be the dumbest fucking thing GW could do with them. It is peak super saiyan (1, 2, 3, 4, God, Blue, ultra instinct) moment in 40k

If only Imperium, Edlars, Tau, and some factions of Necron & Orks join force together as a close allies, the universe would be a better place.

Oh, so THAT’S what’s outside the galaxy.

The GREAT devourer!? So I’ll get my ass properly ate?- the one sister who fell

Tyranids will always be my favorite swarm faction it's just animalistic consumption on a galactic scale and you know what I'm fine with that simple mindset. Because of that mindset they devote everything like accelerated evolution to just eat things lol I find it funny but also scary.

3:01 Imagine what would be the True Name of the Tyranids.

I feel like a cool way to gather intel on the nids from the perspective of the dark eldar would be to somehow graft a subject to a tyranid body then release it to the hive fleets again, and use some kind of psychic connection to monitor its thoughts

KILL ME OR RELEASE ME PARASITE!- Tau warrior fighting Tyrannid

Even though at some level, the Tyranids, as a mass, are "smart", tactical, and capable, possessing powerful minds, and fearsome psychic powers, it's probably foe the best that, at a battlefield combat level, all they usually want is to fight, consume, and add to their resources. If this weren't the case; if they spent more effort taking prisoners, scanning their minds with psyker-bugs, they could learn about more things it's probably good they don't know of, and strike in ways beyond kill and consume. I always wished they'd have some hybrid champion; some Kerrigan-esque avatar who still thinks, and acts with human motivation, but modified by the bugs, and giving them access to the mental side of their food. Still, even most of the largest, most advanced strains are little more than "circumvent problems and kill better, to eat this foe", and I can kind of appreciate that. When Oldcrons got the shaft, and were rewritten as Tomb Kings in SPACE, I was more annoyed than pleased; sometimes I like a 'simple' faction, who isn't about politics and negotiations. The Nids aren't dumb, but what they want is simple, and they don't really need to play games with others to get it. They also tick the box for me that they aren't JUST a threat to the Imperium; they are dangerous to every faction, and Fall of Shadowbrink was one of my favorite reads in a codex ever.

I always like hearing MajorKill talk about the 5th and most powerful Chaos God, 'Tiznitch".

I like the idea that the main way to take out the trynanids is using multiple factions tactics/weaponry, meaning to take them out the galaxy will have to actually work together for once

I have a feeling that the tyranids are essentially just meant to upgrade the orks, via being a constantly evolving and ever stronger enemy that will just be a constant challenge that they have to meet, as orks kinda just adapt to their environment, rather than being a specific strength level

Now how did the galaxy react to the Horus Heresy? Or the Awakening of the Necrons? Or even the appering of the Tau

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how are the Tyranids the worst thing that happened in the galaxy when the war in heaven litterely exists

Well, the shadow in the warp plays also against the terronids. When a astrapath feels void in warp,you can be shure that there are terronids, so send armada to the border of the shadow...

I love the idea of the nid pods dropping on an ork planet and all the orks just cheering and the hive mind is just like "what the fuck"

The only way to survive the nids is to abandon your flesh for the glory of the omnissiah

I think saying that the shadow in the warp is an ability tyranids have is like saying that weight is an ability humans have, it is more of a consequence of existence than an ability.

Thank you. This is exactly what I was searching for. I needed to know the Eldar reaction to Tyranids and what pompous name the Eldar use for the Tyranids. Now I know it's The Great Devourer.

Had this beautiful vision of an orc planet as the skies darken and become crimson colored and little black dots strew all across it start falling down towards the surface, and a collective, seemingly endless, “WAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!” echoes across the atmosphere as a welcome gift from the anticipating hordes! Such tearfilled inspiration...

Nids also have no soul to eat either, so that's another L for Chaos. However, Daemons don't have any biomass so the Nids gotta depend on chaos followers for biomass when fighting chaos. I can only really see Khorne really being stoked about all the extra blood/skulls to claim, Nids are also disease resistant to Nurgle plagues so even Nurgle struggles with them to an extent.

im very confused by what you said how chaos is affected by the shadow in the warp, in the book devastation of baal Ka'bandha a Bloodthirster of Khorn opens a warp storm above baal during a hive fleet invasion and the opposite of what you said happens the Nids were cut off for a small amount of time from the hive mind essentially stunning the greater Hive mind and it seemed warp energy affected the Nids alot more than Chaos was affected by the shadow in the warp

Guilimans reaction towards the tyranids would be interesting

One question though. Isn't the fact that the Tyranids are kinda useless against the necrons a point against the theory that nids are a bioweapon of the old ones to whipe clean the Mikey way? Like wouldn't the old ones make them especially effective against their old foe?

Imagine the hive mind fighting wars against the silent king and winning, finally being like “phew, that guy was tough, but he’s gone now” then coming into the Milky Way and being like “fuck, this guy again?”

Hmm... I would like to see how would they adapt to legions of Tzeentch.

these results are awesome especially the way they react to each other love the Warhammer 40k mod ultimate apocalypse they allow you to have a lot of titans and relics units

There are Tyranids in the Webway because a Dark Elder Reaver tried to capture Ciaphas Cain to make him her personal torture doll on a planet that was being attacked by a relatively small Tyranid swarm, long story short the swarm ended up going through an active Webway Portal.

I still think that GW has painted themselves into a corner with the tyrannid and the only way out is a ton of plot armor.

2:40 Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?!

6:06 Swarmlord: *Laughs while nom-nom-ing the Overfiend's brain*

Dark Eldar broading a Tyranid hive ship = Reverse Among Us

What if tyrannids are actually just the old ones in a more feral state? What if the old ones were wiped out to the point where they lost all their high-level sentient beings and the only things that were left were these low level like unsentient hive mind creatures that slowly but surely as they consume things grew and grew and grew and eventually they will become intelligent enough and powerful enough that they become the old ones again. That's my theory

There’s a moon infested by tyranids that are already in Commaragh as well as genestealer kabal of dark eldar

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What a fantastic opportunity for void-bourne humans, all those norn queens to colonise for the emperor.

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I just love the idea that the nids are just a bunch of fat kids raiding a golden corral

Tyranids more like crippling debt for a large army wait a second here

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Lmao they should make like a Marvel What If scenario where everybody teams up to fight the bugs. Like they send Yarrick to invite Ghazghkull to the bug hunt, and Ghazghkull just lights up at the thought of fighting WITH Yarrick. A more realistic alternative would have the Nids interrupting another war for Armageddon, so Bale Eye and Ghaz get really mad and team up

I like how the Orks' reaction to any faction is "Great! Someone new to fight!"

Outstanding work bro! Thank you.

HA HA HA. Now I will awlays think of the C'Tan as necron pokemon. Thank you for this had a right good laugh at that.

just wanted to say thank you MK for making a video about my question. I love the Tyranids and I find them absolutely terrifying. Their weapons, appearance and tactics on the gameboard has always intrigued me, but I wondered what the other factions thought of the nids. Thank you for the vid and hope to see more Tyranid content. FUN FACTS BOUT THE NIDS: Each Hive fleet entered the Milky Way Galaxy from a different sector of dark space. Which in realization, everything outside the MW Galaxy, could be nothing but Tyranids. Genestealers who offer themselves to the biovats are sacrificed to get more biomass. Before they hit the bio acid, their mental link to the hive mind is removed and they are given full mental awareness of what they done, what they become and that last few seconds of clarity is snuffed out as they hit the acid and die.

I'm honestly surprised that someone hasn't come up with the idea of shipping a hive fleet straight to Commoragh. I'm also surprised that the Tau hate the Nids, since the Nids represent the ultimate end goal of "the greater good"

There is something i have been thinking about. I dont think the warp corresponds 1:1 with realspace in pretty much any way. The lore seems to present it as a given that, should sentient life in the milky way end, chaos would burn out. But why? Are there no sentient beings in other galaxies the chaos gods could feed on? I dont think distance should matter, should it? Did the Tyranids scour EVRYWHERE else?

'Sir, is this gonna be a stand-up fight or another bug hunt?' Nearest Commissar: _unholsters bolter_

New Tyranid video? Hell yeah!

The whole Octarius War was the effect of Kryptman's Gambit. C'mon, give the old man his due credit :)

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every time you make a video I can't stop thinking about the game Stellaris, I know that theme music quite well.

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Tau be acting like Starship Troopers! XD

Good video my man

Everyone but the orkz are pretty mad about it.

Question; could Humanity during the Dark Age of Technology have curb stomped the Tyranids if they had somehow turned up earlier?

The Galaxies Reaction to Tyranids Showing up Humanity: Oh No Eldar: Oh No Tau: Oh No Orks: OH HELL YES!!!!

So what I took from this is space bugs are super effective against demons... Huh neat