The TYRANIDS Hive Mind and the Consciousness of The Great Devourer - Warhammer 40,000 Lore Overview 

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You know what I liked the most about this video and in many ways made it unique? It was the noble lady's excerpt. 40k glosses over the simple man / woman on the street and how these titanic events affect them so profoundly. Their fears, their lives before and after, their passions, and their sufferings. Well done!

More like this! Necrons were the first warhammer race I really delved into the lore of and I'd love to see an all encompassing video on them come out of this channel.

Not that I'm super read up or savvy in current sci-fi but the tyranids seem like some of the most fresh and terrifying ideas in modern storytelling. John Carpenter's the Thing except there's endless armies of them and they're all on steroids. They're also just really, really cool by design.

If it wasn't for plot armor, Tyranids would've conquered the entire galaxy by now. The writers really didn't hold back lol

This creatures are sooo horrifying that makes demonic manifestation seem like nothing. While battling Tyrranids ''Ooo look a demon,how cute''

I wish actual story events supported how big of a threat the Tyranids are supposed to be. Every story I have read that involves an invasion of a world with any importance, they are about to overwhelm the defenders, then the ultramarines show up and somehow push them back, which leaves them in a strange place in the story. We're told that they are a dire threat in almost every passage of lore they get ,but they've barely managed to do anything besides scar a few named worlds and destroy an indeterminate number of planets with little to no significance.

I really want to see how Titus is going to flex on them just as he did with the Orks and Chaos.

You guys are the best at warhammer lore. ( Old world e 40k). Keep the good job

It will all come down to whether Nurgle's fiat ability to infect anything will overcome the Tyranids' fiat ability to adapt to anything, and that issue is moot if the Imperium, the Aeldari, or the Tau can replicate the Cadian pylons; anything that can drive back the Warp can block psychic communication of any kind.

These videos are amazing it’s so immersive and well done this channel doesn’t miss

I think tyranids are a biological weapon meant to reset the galaxy and thus calm the warp, created by surviving Old Ones who fled outside the galaxy.

Magnificent job!! Thank you for making this.

Guy Haaleys "Devistation of Baal" Has the best writing on the Hive mind in the setting to date IMO An Ancient Super Intelligence. With Eons to perfect it's warcraft. Responding to and adapting with the battlefield in real time. When he talked about looking into the eye of the beast?! Seeing the ancient knowledge. Something totally foreign to the experience of the creature before him. Horrifying!! That was the first time I started to actually understand the levity of the situation. How absolutely hopeless your world becomes when a hivemind cast its shadow on you.

Thank you alot for another Video of my Favorite Warhammer 40k species. As someone who knows only very littel about 40k I'm very very thankfull for your always awesome work!

You guys have been some of my favorite RU-vidrs since I watched your grimgore ironhide video back in summer 2020. I would love a necron video and we need skrub to voice it of course!!!!

Absolutely stellar voice acting, very well done by everybody

There is no understanding the xenos. Only the importance of cleansing the alien filth from the stars.

Dope sick narration

Use fire and lots of it!

It's stupid shit like Tigerius not getting his mind burnt out that irks me in lore. The Hive Mind is a Psyker beyond compare, the weight of the Hive Mind's attention should crush any human psyker that isn't the Big E

Excellent.

I am thinking they were created by the Old ones who Escaped the galaxy OR IT is the Old ones combined mind.. I wonder if the hive fleets converged on the great rift, if it would close it

I love the Warhammer community so much!

Great video.

Would love to see more 40k stuff from you

Here you go hive mind have a snickers, your not you when your hungry.

this channel is tough 🔥

Think about angering something so much they send a googol of creatures to you like the blood angels did.

We might have an advantage , using our latent psychic ability we could in theory link and sync with the universes and see glimpse of information that could help us.

I've been playing mechanicus, don't know if it's still on sale Pretty nice turn based strategy game Gotta wait until space marine 2 to kill Tyranids

Fantastic voice acting!

The single flaw in Tyranids logic is the need of consuming up to the point of leaving a rocky desert behind them everywhere they pass instead of just… producing. With such genetic abilities to create a multitude of living forms to fit their needs, they could easily create basically all types of sub species producing each and every resources they want to feed on, dedicating planets and entire regions to produce there instead of throwing millions of these living forms in the meat grinder. It would cost them much less overall, since countless biomass and minerals and such are wasted (burned, corrupted, etc…) in the worlds they attack before they actually can start harvesting the place. Strictly speaking that would be way more efficient. And maybe just allocate a very small portion of their resources to attack where rare elements are located, there, it would be sensed to attack and consume. Since we can imagine there are some elementary stuffs it couldn’t produce by any means… but for the rest, « collecting biomass » and such, it would be a lot more viable & lucrative to produce it instead of « looting » it. Ofc, that would make them much less dangerous, I guess that’s a necessary « plot flaw » in a sense lol.

Like #907 and Subbed...Great narration

This tyranids will leave nothing behinds 💀🤪

Considering that the swarm is coming from another universe , on the bright side every unit killed is an addition of matter into our universe. Somehow this could come useful if this matter could be recycled into something else. Could also serve in theory , of food for biological ship design.

Here’s an interesting concept: What if the tyrranids reason for showing up in this galaxy is because they are not the apex lifeform in theirs and another race rules the top of the foodchain hence the need for them to go elsewhere and feed? And what if their own galaxy the nids are simply considered as prey or pests by these superior race? And what if this superior race suddenly shows up in this galaxy to help eradicate the tyrranid infestation?

The only good bugs a dead bug I'm doing my part!

How strong is the Hive Mind compared to the Chaos Gods?

Narration: Skrubasaurus Instant watch

The Great Devourer is too strong. Eats everything, even the Chaos Gods

Imagine being on the fringe of the galaxy, total peace, unknowing of the world outside your skies, then these thrice damned things start being vomited onto your world. Fuck.

Kinda curious what the Old Ones would think of all this?

Makes me wonder, with no one being able to contact the hive mind, could the emperor, or magnus when he was human, I'd love if even demon magnus had some contact with the nids and he gets in

Every time I hear Tie Ra Nid instead of Tyranid my head hurts.

VICTORY!

You'd think the chaos gods would do more against them since they are messing with the warp. With no followers they have no power

So I guess the answer come from the Hive mind itself , but how could a link be in theory made between universes and energy transfered accross this link ?

Hive mind is the right kind, baby!

Can u a new video about the chaos dwarfs

TYRANIDS!!!

Honestly... i would hope that its a single being, because if its a collective hivemind theres literally no way we're gonna beat them... ive got a lot of faith in the greater good, but i dont think theres any chance of beating a species that gets smarter and stronger as it gets more numerous, combining all that grey matter into one being. We arent gonna outthink that, and wed have to annihilate every member of the species to defeat the hive-being otherwise itd just come back.

What's the song at 00:18:49?

Great story telling. Of course a Ultramarine has plot armor.

Book of choyer, in light of the recent age of sigmar realms of ruin game i would love to see a faction focus video on the kruelboyz and their ways of kunnin' brutality! If you at least consider i would be content. Loved the tyranid video. I collect them aside from orks obviously. ❤

they live in another patch of infinitam terram dome worlds

Imagine them going on the rift

where could the hive mind reside? does IT have a form or is it formless? and what where the first tyranids like? i wonder if the creators of WH 40K do have some inkling about that? and are the tyranids not to overpowered?

Since when in W40k Librarius became legal again after W30k Council of Nikea?

I would guess thay nurgle is a hard counter to nyds?

Emperor save us…

Without shadow in the warp, Maybe Grand Father Nurgle could find to corrupt all Tyranid synapse. However, it seems only Necrontyr have found a real solution to prevent both chaos and Tyranid spread around galaxy: Zone of silence aka Pariah Nexus.

Necrons vs Tyranids all in civ on civ for the win

"Untold billions" of tyranids doesn't sound like a big enough number, lol.

The problem with 40k lore is there will never be a conclusion I guess that’s what makes it fun.

i am not familiar with warhammer 40k at all, but i am a believer of the most simpler and boring answer is usually the truth so if i am to guess: the great devourer is simply the consiousness created by the fusion of all its organisms and because of that its existence as well as its strenght its dependant on the existence of the sworm as well as theyre numbers, all for acieving one real objective: amass enought life source and have the blueprint of creating a body that can sustain its psyhic power in its entirety allowing to also achieve a material body not just a spiritual one with equivalent ''stats'' thus even if all the sworm is to perish it will still be alive; not being a being with unimaginable power and size but trying to become one, and it can only achieve the resources necesary to achieve that by plundering all life that it finds, burning greater amount of life energy in exchange for faster progress resulting in greater expansion at the same time resulting in a never ending circle of constant search simply because it evolves faster the bigger the sworms becomes so it burns even more the bigger it becomes so it needs to amass even more and faster life energy

The most plausible explanation seems to be that it's an emergent consciousness born from a large enough mentally connected race of beings.

Could the Emperor cause a psychic hemorrhage to the Tyranid hive mind?

is that extract about an aeldari seeing the hive mind s true form in the warp canon or something the internet made up?

Are there "records" of Tyranid forces fighting Chaos forces?

Galzu you the hive mind?

ok damn ... i think i ve lost a vital part but maybe our community can help me out ... why do the nids hate the blood angels?

Here is another just conjured up question. We know that the Warp is in need of sapient and sentient life. That entities in it including the present 4 concentrated inteligences in it, the 4 Gods of immaterium depend on the existance of sentient life. Now let us, just for a second forget that just like Necrons, or more acurettly the most OCD historian of them all, Trazyne the Infinite laughed at humanities idea that the first 3 Gods were just their own reflection of negative emotions, when in fact, much more likely the Ctan's and Necrons and The Old ones, Eldar and the Krork war in heaven, which lasted for 5 million years, some 60 million years ago, was what actually created the first three God. That it was just the Eldars 60 milion years of hedonism and persuit of pkeasure and sensation, is what it took to form the fourth God, Slanesh.. Now, let us forget that entire setting only deals with the Milky way galaxy, since even the imagining of the vastness of just this galaxy in the ocean of uncounted billions can easily break the human mind.. All of this to ask just this.. Why is Chaosx the Warp, completly uninterested in dealing with Tyranids..? Since ultimate goal of Nids is to feed, and if they have their way, they will just wipe the Milky way clean and move on.. How come we never ever hear Chaos discussing the Nids? In a way, if it is a mirror dimension of Milky way, Nids final victory would mean ultimate loss of Chaos. Yeah, well aware the whole setting is very human centric, but jyst found it bizzare that even after 4 years of bEing a huge fan of the Grym Dark fictionx not once did I hear this question asked..?

This is actually Norse Mythology

tyr?

So the hivemind isn't like in halo

send receive comprehend

Disagree on the excerpt from Devestation of Baal. That is the ONLY time emotions have ever been ascribed to the hive mind. Which is more likely? 20+ years of writers forgot to do it? Or 1 writer who really doesn’t understand the hive mind tried to humanize an alien sentence and did a bad job?

Mephiston cluld take on the hive mind and Kabanda killed a lot of nids on a moon of Baal

Why tyranids never cross to any necron?

More than any other faction save perhaps Chaos itself, the Tyranids feel like the most existential threat to the entire Warhammer 40K setting. Even the Necrons feel like a manageable enemy in comparison.

probably zod

Here's something that may be worth considering. In The Greater Good by Sandy Mitchell reference Tyranids from diffferent hive fleets attacking and devouring each other, even in the presence of the hive mind. This, to me, says that there are multiple Hive Minds similar to the Overminds of the Zerg.

I wana see a specific named nid. Something like they capture Guilliman and convert him into a nid after the Leviathan invasion. Making him like a “Queen of Blades” type character from Star Craft.

Pretty sure if necro or chaos can stop Tyranid if they steps in.

Psychic power spreading over an entire solar system would necessitate an enormous amount of energy to maintain and it's hard to understand how they can achieve this without some sort of advance source of energy producing the needed back up for this field to be deployed. This does bring interesting question

I equip my troops with [Matter Disintegration Weapon] and activate my [Blackstone Pylon Array], massively distorting your [Synapse]. Check.

shame on you tyrannidsh a

They weren't created by the old ones. They consumed a Catan and the Catan was given a body in the same way the necrons gave the bodies of necrodermus which made tje gods of the physical realm. The tyranids Gaave a Catan a body of flesh which basically resulted Ina different type of God level being

Yet, the Tyranids are probably the moral good faction here. Their natural instinct is just to consume and eat. Is the lion evil for hunting and eating the Zebra? Is the spider evil for catching and eating other insects? It's not like the orks who feel joy and satisfaction in battles and wars without any goal and take slaves It's not like the Dark Elders who outright gets off on most horrid pain of others. It's not like Humans who treat each other horrible to reach a sick satisfaction of being in control and power over their own kind.