"They're taking our water. They're taking our air." Wow, those nids are nasty. "What nids? I was talking about the AdMech setting up new manufactoria."

“There may be more hive fleets than worlds” That bolt pistol looking real tempting RN

Honestly I think the only chance to stop Leviathan at this point would be an alliance between Bobby G and the Silent King.

I can't wait for DK to be surprised that tyranids are in fact not just mindless bugs.. for the 8th time.

Some fun tyranid tidbits The Swarmlord got challenged to a 1v1 by the avatar of Khaine (jobbers 1v1, lets go!). The Swarmlord accepted, and then proceeded to throw 12 carnifexes at the avatar, which then died. When the tyranids fought Nurgle forces, Nurgle summoned a rain of pus and filth to drown/immobilize the nids. The nids just kept running and drowning themselves in rivers of pus, and the nurgle forces were celebrating their victory, when suddenly carnifexes charged the nurgle forces, using the drowned nids as a bridge. Tyranid psyker organisms are extremely powerful. Three maleceptors overwhelmed Mephiston (granted that maleceptors are stupid powerful, even by nid standards), who just barely escaped with his life. The trade-off is that the way they handle the warp is not controlled, so they can just randomly explode. This happens with the zoanthropes, but not with the maleceptor or neurotyrant iirc. Spoilers for the new leviathan novel A single neurotyrant was able to co-ordinate a hive fleet across the entire planet they were on, suppress all the psykers on the planet, including a space marine psyker, who had to help other psykers not die, selectively cause an individual to have a dream that would cause him to lead an army into an ambush all at the same time. Dante also was able to look into the hive mind, because of course he was. He felt pity for the nids, as the hunger they felt was far worse than the black rage he felt.

Everyoine: "One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask... what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?" Tyranid Hive Mind: "...And I'm hungry like the wolf."

37:23 Correction: Tyranids CAN eat metals and they actually do that a lot with each devoured world, they use said metals to harden their carapaces. That said, the problem with fighting Necrons isn't the fact that they're Metal, it's the fact that they're both ONLY metal and capable of disintegrating biomass. It would be like a human trying to survive only on salt and actively losing weight for every pound of salt eaten. Nids fighting Chaos technically isn't a loss of biomass, it's a Net 0, because they can repurpose their dead bodies, but Nids fighting Necrons is a Net loss in every case.

One day, every human in the galaxy gets a psychic message at the same time. "Hello, Tyranid hivemind here. There seems to have been a mistake. We were following a very similar race to yours in order to destroy them for their crimes against us, and thought they had come to this galaxy. After a quick warp chat with your Emperor, we were finally able to recognize this error. Please accept our most sincere apologies for this drastic mistake on our part, we shall be leaving this galaxy immediately. Have a nice day."

This is my Tau bias but the biggest tragedy of the Tyranids is that the Galaxy CAN defeat the Tyranids… If everyone worked together. Which is never happening…..

The Tyranid hive mind is like a Lovecraftian deity, perhaps even more so than the Chaos gods themselves

In the new Leviathan novel, the atmosphere was literally terraformed to digest organic matter. If you went outside without a full coverage bio-suit, you flesh would start to slough off within a few minutes

We stopped the Reapers from Mass-Relaying into the Citadel and taking it in ME1. That's why they had to do the slow crawl from dark space jnto the system.

New Bricky face looks like he's locked in Eternal torment but unable to show it due to some faustian bargain 😅

Daemons are what humans have nightmares about. The Tyranid Hive Mind is what *Daemons* have nightmares about. An entity with no joy or pride to appreciate Khorne's gifts; a being of such pure, absolute hunger that it goes beyond even Slaanesh's excesses; constantly evolving and moving forward, yet never defined by more than this singular, unchanging purpose, making it so neither Tzeentch's changing ways or Nurgle's stagnation can find any purchase within it. It is the Devourer of Worlds, and even the Silent King himself, the Breaker of Gods, vanquisher of the Old Ones, shuddered upon witnessing its infinite multitudes. What hope does the Galaxy have against such horror? None.

There is a very old piece of art that shows the galaxy and where Necron empires used to be. It also shows where each C'tan was located. And on the far right/east side of the galaxy, there is an icon of a C'tan outside the galaxy. The first Tyranids came from the right/east of the galaxy and the C'tan marked in the same region.

During the Devastation of Baal novel, there are a couple of chapters told from the POV of a Lictor and they're very awesome.

I’m fairly certain that there’s something in the lore that states the silent king saw either the hive mind or the full extent of the tyranids and that’s why he returned. Also in one of the space wolf books one of the wolf lords talks about hunting bio ships like one would talk about hunting whales

Oh man, first Papa Nurgle gives the Necrons a disease, and now he makes a planet so rotten that even the Tyranids can’t eat it! Holy shit, Nurgle! Literally!

Nurgle looking at the Nids "Oooh, my shopping list is going to need some updates." "Looks closer" "Wait a minute, it's all gluten-free!"

If the hive fleet is going towards the galactic core. I would love for this to make the Votann show their hand, and have to intervene.

Vox in the Void does a really good reading of that last excerpt, its truly horrific

My favorite Nid related quote was something along the line of "the Tyraids, the fact that mankind dares to try to give The Great Devourer a name betrays their hubris" and then went on to describe the horrors of the swarm and all that.

Regarding the Mass Effect point earlier: in Mass Effect 1 when you meet Vigil it’s explained that a handful of Prothean scientists were successfully cryogenic preserved long enough to avoid the Reapers. When they realized that they didn’t have enough survivors to continue the Prothean species they managed to discover the signal that causes the Keepers to activate the Citadel Relay and warp in the Reaper and somehow altered the signal, so when Sovereign activated the Signal to get the Keepers to turn on the relay they ignored it, so Sovereign had to go to Plan B and turn on the Relay himself, and once Sovereign was destroyed the Reaper had to switch to Plan C since they’ve lost the element of surprise.

Officially, the Space Marine chapters we are missing are: 6: Space Wolves 15: Thousand Sons 19: Raven Guard My bet is that they’ll do Raven Guard > Space Wolves > Thousand Sons. Thousand Sons being the last is more “saving the best for last” since DK is a big fan of the space wizards (though I can see an argument to make Space Wolves to anger the space furries).

God I love the unique path of cosmic horror that they took with the Tyranids. Usually cosmic horror is all about something that you don't understand unstoppably marching through you and steamrolling you in a way you can't fight. With the tyranids, you know exactly what they're doing, you know exactly what they want, and you know exactly how they're doing it. You just never had a chance because there's so many of them.

On the Mass Effect thing at the beginning, the Prothean remnants locked out the Citadel's relay controller to force the Reapers to fly through dark space when starting their next cycle Whole point of ME1 was Sovereign trying to gain physical access to the Citadel to override the lock and allow the whole Reaper fleet to fast-travel in.

Well this was a spooky Adeptus Ridiculous video. Tyranids are really good at making you suffer a existential crisis.

33:26 i wonder if emperor TTS has a point. Maybe talking to the hive mind is just like talking to a hungry goat

This sounds like an interesting topic! Also, can you guys do an episode on the Imperial Palace? I think there would be a ton of ridiculous lore there.

Prepare the flamers for this will be a war won by flames

Regarding the eating Necrons thing - the Kroot tried to do it once, and those who did were torn apart from the inside by scarab constructs.

27:00 "and the nids that did drink it died" No, no, it didn't die from drinking it. It tasted *so bad* that the *other* nids turned around and shot the one that drank it.

For anybody who would like a story told from the Tyranid POV; Baldermort has an excellent piece of narration told from the perspective of a Tervigon in his lore vid on the beasty.

It saddens me that for the last 2 big tyrannic wars its just been Hive Fleet Leviathan. It's obviously still a great name but I really enjoyed the differently named Hive Fleets for each war.

There are books, short stories, with nid pov but they are rather rare. Also, it doesnt hate us, it hates Tigurius specifically because he connected to it and lived.

The funny thing for me regarding the Norns is the name comes from Norse mythology, the three Norns, urd, skuld and verdandy. Who are probably better known to pop culture as the goddesses from Oh My Goddess

You forgot to mention how when Baal was attacked that I think either Dante or Mephiston looked into the hoarde and saw a nid that stood out because it just stood there staring at him with hate. Also that book gives a 1st person pov of tyranids

You guys forgot the planet size Tyranid bioform the Raven Guards found. They have a Brother Moon!

When the hive mind send emisseries to « gather ressources » in lore it’s always something capital to the ennemies and also helps take out a lot of troops from the front to try and stop it and most of the time deny it by destroying his prize or dies trying

Something I think about whenever hearing about Tyranids. In the natural world, and I mean truly natural world, animals kill each other in such gorey and awful ways we typically don't see that. Coyotes will grab a rabbit by the leg and have another pull it apart while it still cries out. Praying mantis will rip limbs off wasps until they stop squirming, and won't eat the head first typically, usually the middle to make each part easier. Spiders disolve the insides of other bugs and leave behind husked corpses in webs. Other creatures leave parasitic eggs inside still living ones. Animals do not care about other animals when they are driven by the instinct to survive. Applying that to tyranids make them feel genuinely real and it is a feeling of dread that a human being eaten by a mantis is possible.

Funny thing is they already told us the story of the station in a previous Tyranid episode. But they went into full detail and having Bricky narrate it was wonderfully horrifying the 1st time they exposed us to the station swallowed whole.

Bauldermort had a great line for the hive mind. Something along the lines of if it could communicate with us what would it say? You are food. For us to live you must die. And that is all.

"MA, MA THEY FOLLOWING ME MA" "WHO?! WHOS FOLLOWING YOU?!" "THE BUGS." "THE BUGS!?"

You know what's crazy to me is that inquisitors are told things that would make the average person lose there minds and even some of them after knowing these things cant take it and consider ending it now quick while they still have the chance to is scary as hell to me.

Nurgle was able to convert a group of Genestealers that got stranded in his garden. The Genestealer cult turned their backs on the Hivemind and praised Nurgle as their new true deity.

I fully agree that the Tyranids are a larger threat than Chaos now

I’m pretty sure Eldrad has peered psychicly into the hive mind too

Wondering if the emperor returning would even be enough to stop the nids

It’s horrifying to realize that “family meal” takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the tyranids 😖😖😖

"I don't think you can turn necrons into anything." Well until they can...

Mephiston and Tigururururius are the only two Space Marines to have seen it, there was also an Eldar who got a brief look at it, and it's actually my favorite description of The Hive Mind. "Beyond the shield, she saw the Great Dragon's true form. Not the hideous intrusions into the mortal realm that swam the black star sea, nor as a Farseer might see it, as a great and braided cable of malicious fate dominating all the skein. The first was merely a part of the whole, the second psychic abstraction. What Iyanna instead saw was the reality of its soul. It was a great shadow when seen from afar, a wave of dread and psychic blindness that preceded the hive feet's arrival. But the greatest shadows are cast by the brightest lights, and seen closely, the soul of the hive mind shone brighter than any sun. She was so close now that she perceived the ridged topography of its mind, larger than star systems, an entity bigger than a god. It contemplated thoughts as large as continents, and spun plans more complex than worlds. It dreamed dreams that could not be fathomed. She felt small and afraid before it, but she did not let her fear cow her defiance. Against this vista flickered the souls of the Eldar, their jewel-brightness dimmed by the incomparable glare of the Great Dragon. And this was but a tendril of the creature. The bulk of it stretched away, coils wrapped tight about the higher dimensions, joining in the distance to others, and then others again, until at a great confuence of the parts sat the terrible truth of the whole. She stared at its brilliance. Unlike her passionless dead warriors, who felt naught but the echoes of wrath at the sight, she was fascinated by the beauty on display. She thought, if only such a thing could be tamed, it would drive out She Who Thirsts forever. If only its hunger was for things other than the meat and blood of worlds"

Admit it, when you hear Hive Mind you think of the eyeball from StarCraft when you click on a hatchery

In older lore there were some Tyranids that got sucked into a warp rift, and then got corrupted by chaos, primarily by Khorne and Nurgle I think, and then unleashed onto a world another hive fleet was in the process of being devoured.

I think at this point it’s about time the Imperium stopped killing xenos and began allying with them to defeat a common foe.

The fact that I didn’t even realize the psychic might of the Tyranids is so great never made me think that they COULD communicate, but why would they we are all food in their eyes is insane, EVEN with advanced technology of Xenos or the unpredictable Demons is not enough to to stop this horror of its meal

That "Corn Emissary" joke made me spit water on my monitor, thanks Brickster

I like the idea of big E just fighting the 4 chaos gods, gork and mork and the hive mind in one big punch up

9:29 The Reapers' plan for each cycle is a quick and decisive decapitation strike to take out the galactic leaders on the Citadel, because they have codes to control the Keepers who run the station. One of these codes would turn the Citadel into a mass relay from which the Reapers would enter the galaxy, immediately kill its leaders and gain access to all of the most important data the galaxy had to offer. The Protheans were able to render the Keepers incapable of receiving this signal, which means the direct decapitation isn't possible anymore. They also do not have the vast troves of knowledge and data that the Citadel archives would have provided. You may ask, then, why the Reapers didn't immediately beeline for the Citadel and take it by force. Well, Sovereign tried and failed, but more to the point, the Reapers' strategy relies heavily on a disorganized and unprepared enemy. By attacking the homeworlds of the various Council races they drew resources away from a singular unified front, splitting the enemy. They also had to make their way out of dark space and to the relay network. (Also the Citadel is a veritable fortress in its own right, which is one reason why they needed the Keeper signal and why they were so sure the galactic races would use it as their capital in every cycle)

Somebody PLEASE make a supercut video of DK being disgusted by Nids, saying "Eww, gross!" repeatedly across all the Tyranid episodes. 😁

This is more of a personal opinion but I actually like the idea of each individual norn queen being like a subset or shard of the full hivemind, resulting in each queen being still connected but slightly independent. Besides the idea of norn queens viciously debating each other psychically on who's space bugs are better I feel like it gives a good explanation on why different hivefleets use different tactics or fight each other when they meet despite still being run by the exact same thing basically.

Regarding Hive Mind's hatred and treating humans like a cattle seems a bit like the alien intelligence encountered in Peter Watts's Blindsight book.

The tyranids are as close to a lovecraftian creature that exists in 40k. You could interpret the hivemind's hatred as directed at that person, at humans, or maybe galactic life itself. If the hivemind is a creature beyond complete understanding, perhaps that anger is what a small thing sees when looking at the annoyance of a much greater being. That all this resistance against the tyranids amounts to nothing more, to the hivemind, than an upset stomach, a passing annoyance but nothing more.

Prepare the boltgun brother

10:07 Covering Masseffect lore is a whole other monster of a task. I think you guys are better off making another channel for that.

My theory on why the Nids can sometimes go through the warp is that they have no souls/weak souls like the Votann

I know not which will haunt my dreams tonight: The sheer terror of that auger station's fate, or the delightful tonal dissonance of Farmer Hat Norn Emissary. I pray for the latter, but my mind isn't always that kind.

The updated Adeptus Ridiculous theme has no business hitting this hard 👌 good shit, gents

26:14 Ive been saying the Daemons and Warp would be the best way to fight the nids. Robots and Demons

I always imagined the Tyranids are the final failsafe of the Old Ones. One to scourge the galaxy clean so the Old Ones could rebuild it again.

Fun fact, the tyranids did end up fighting the daemons and (technically winning) in one the older nid codexes. What i found absolutely hilarious was the one sided conversation between one of the greater daemons and the hive mind as the daemon basically said. "How dare you come here and eat OUR playthings. if you think we are going let you run rampant you have another thing coming." (Im paraphrasing obviously) before the daemon was summarily executed by nid acid artillery. This implies that daemons can contact the hivemind and do just to yell at it. this also implies the chaos gods can also do that. do with this information what you will

There's an interesting bit in the Kasrkin book where a kroot shaper eats the finger of a necron. it almost kills him because the necrodermis eats him from inside. I think he's only saved by a crazy necron overlord. It would be very interesting to see what would happen to tyrannids who eat necrons.

Read the devastation of Baal. It has so much Tyranid lore. For example you get the pov of a Lichtor for a decent chunk of the book, you learn what the hive mind is, you learn the hive mind doesn’t just feel hunger, you learn that the Tyranid forms you see are multiple different Tyranids living together symbiotically also the Lichtor is substantially more terrifying then you think it is.

If the hivemind is empowered through a distributed network of individuals, chances are that the focussing of the psychic presence of the hivemind or even the collective psychic presence of a hivefleet would be impossible

It's fucked up irony that DK compares the Hive Mind communicating with us to us communicating with chickens when researchers used AI to begin ciphering chicken communication 😂

What a wonderful episode to find while reading the Devastation of Baal

I’m kinda surprised the station’s commander didn’t just initiate self-destruct at that point, since a point-blank starship plasma generator detonation from the inside would probably rip the bioship in half, or at least seriously wound it

10 episodes officially without talking about raven Guard or Thousand sons, i can excuse this episode though since they're on a tyranid streak and i'm willing to be patient.

We need corn emissary merch.

I am baffled, how all three of them are being cringe in three different ways, yet staying extremely hilarious at the same time

I really want Bricky to tell DK about Rophanon.

50:15 to the end of the episode can be abridged to the "the hero reads a most unsettling passage" meme.

That part were you are talking about the hive mind having the ability to talk so reminds of “The Beast” from the homeworld series….when the Taidan betray it looks at them and says “Then you are what you’ve had always been…..FOOD” then the main ship starts flying up to each Taidan ship a littersly starts eating them Unicron style

My best guess at why Tyranids sometimes go through warp uneffected by demons is because they simply have no reason to bother each other. Tyranids don't have their own minds so they don't really fuel demons even if they die suffer or anything,and demons do not have biomass to absorb. So they just might look at each other and politely pass by since the other side is of no interest. Alternatively shadow in the warp might act as a suitable substitute for gellar fields

That moment when you talk about "the hive mind could communicate with us, it just does not want to" reminds me of Lovecraft discussing the Elder Gods in relation to man in the scale similar to a man to an ant. It knows that we are insignificant and does not care.

Bricky, DK, so here's the Mass Effect lore you forgot: The Protheans changed the Keepers on the Citadel so they no longer react to the Reaper signal sent by Sovereign, hence they needed to use the Batarian Relays since they couldn't turn on the Citadel's relay from dark space. Also, they took the Citadel off-screen and then transported it to Earth so they can start making the human-based Reaper easier by using the sky-hook teleporter in London to transport living and dead humans to the Citadel for processing. Then the united forces of the Galaxy attacked, yaddy-yadda you know the rest... You're welcome!

So fun thing, there was a tyranid conversation once, and so depending on how you view it you could see this as with the hive mind itself. Now this is waaay back, way back when the first boardings of hive ships took place so if you want want to accept this as still canon then feel free. Personally I think it's great so I still consider it legit. Some space marine scouts came across a zoat, yes this is way back when it wasn't the norn who bore the title emmissary, and in a bit of the Hive Fleet being actually cunning in how it managed it's available biomass/energy, it assesssed and talked to them, basically stalling them for more actual combat forms to wake from the long void slumber. Best bit though is it threw shade against the Lamenters calling them the Lambs. Yes, even the Hive Mind finds some amusement in how unfortunate the poor buggers that make up that chapter are.

Lore from the nids perspective would just be "Nom nom nom nom nom nom!!!"

After hearing this, maybe kryptman wasn’t so crazy after all

I pretend that Chaos hates Nids. Khorn: No honor or martial skill. They feel no glory or shame. Nurgle: They refuse all of Nurgles gifts. They do not have cycles of rebirth: they just eat a planet and leave. They are stagnant in the worst way. They are not of this galaxy and are thus "unnatural" Tzeentch: They are pure instinct so they can't really 'think' or trick other, or be tricked. They do not pursue knowledge, they just let evolution do everything for them. Slanesh: As non sentients they can't "feel" or seek pleasure, pain, or hold secrets. And they can't f*ck.

I’d love to see an episode on hive fleet tiamet. It takes the horror and mystery of the hive mind even further, for instance they do not eat cultists. Instead they somehow turn them into psykers and arm them with pirated ships. Not to mention it would be nice to hear about classic zoat lore, where they were supposedly diplomats for the hive mind (and gave up on diplomacy because of human aggression).

9:00 Bricky, they already explained all the way back in ME1 why the Reapers didn't use the Citadel to shut down the relays. They couldn't, because the last group of surviving Protheans managed to sneak onto the Citadel and sabotage both the systems that allowed the Citadel to shut down the relays, as well as the Keepers who were responsible for maintaining the Citadel's systems, in order to give the next cycle a fighting chance. Hell, ME1's last level is basically Sovereign trying to get to the Citadel and reboot the system manually, but he fails and gets blown up for the trouble. After that, the rest of the Reapers just said "Fuck it." and decided to conquer the galaxy the hard way.

9:00 Just want to say, the Reapers in Mass Effect didn't use the Citadel to teleport in and turn all Relays off is because the Protheans figured it out and turned it of to hinder the Reapers in our cycle. It's why Sovereign invades the Citadel in ME1 to turn it back on so the rest of the Reapers could show up in ME1 instead of ME3. *Having said that:* why they didn't turn the Relays off once they got the Citadel in ME3 to hinder the giant Earth Liberation Fleet and Crucible... is still a valid question and criticism.

I realized that them stealing the air is them pulling a SpaceBalls.

Who on earth looks at a hive ship that can eat entire worlds and thinks “Yes I want to be inside of that”

The thumbnail art for this episode is amazing. One of the best youve put out so far

I can believe that the Tyranids were maybe the "Old ones" last ditch effort. Like they knew that they were losing the war in heaven and so they used the webway to move to another few galaxies, creating the Hive Mind, the perfect entity, immune to the Warp and able to cast the shadow, just to come and wipe out the milky way. Idk, but GW may never give exact details.

So way back in i think 4th ed, the necron codex mentioned a Ctan along side the Void dragon, deceiver and the nightbringer. Iash'uddra, the Endless Swarm: The most reviled of the C'tan. It fled the galaxy. What if... it run off to another galaxy... done similar to the necrontyr and thats the tyranids.

Shy, if you ever read this, can I have your folder of reaction images because they are GOLD

Dk’s analogy with us and chicken, eerily spot on.

Well... Congrats! That story of a spacestation/listening-post getting devoured by Tyranid hiveship got me flashbacks of "James Bond - You only live twice", and now the music what played everytime a spacepod got snatched by unidentified pod is playing nonstop in my head. Thanks!