Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-86.7.138.66-20130615215334/@comment-5860288-20181204125135

So from the lore released over the past few years I'd like to summarise an update any my theory.

1. Necrons have no access to the warp. The warp is basically a sub-dimension of emotion and turmoil which Ncrons do not feel, although the energies produced by the warp and harnessed by psykers are very real enough to do serious damage to Necrons.

2. Necrontyr shattered their gods and imprisoned them within necrodermis shells (which answers the quesion some have asked about why these gods are humanoid, they were made to resemble the Necrontyr, which were humanoid) At the end of the War in Heaven, the Necrons were devastated by the war, so rather than waste the meager resources they had left at their disposal, opted to simply 'wait out their mortality' and sleep for 60 million years until the younger races had inevitably died out. This didn't exactly work, as the galaxy is still teaming with life when the Necrons began waking up.

3. The Shadow in the warp cast by the Tyranids is either A. the collective presense of the Tyranid psyche. B. the Hive Mind Itself, or my interpretation, C. A latent Chaos God. Chaos gods are created from thought and emotions of mortal races, the Tyranids, being creatures of pure instict surely have at least some semblence of emotions (hunger, fear, maybe more) are beginning to coaless in much the same way as Slanesh was... Just a theory.

4. I believe I read somewhere the Tyranids can 'skim the surface' of the warp to achieve at least near light speeds, otherwise as people have said before, it would take hundreds if not thousands of years to travel between the stars, and seeing as entire sectors have been just 'lost' within a few years if not months, it is unlikely they don't have access to something that allows them interstellar travel.

5. I am almost certain the Necrons would A. be unable, and B. be unwilling to form an alliance with the Tyranids, as they represent everything the Necrons seek to destroy: Life. Tyranids are the embodiment of life, while yes they kill everything in their path like there's no tomorrow, they absorb whatever they consume and add it to their genetic superiority. (Much like the Borg, "We will add your biological and technilogical distinctivness to our own") Which leads me to believe:

6. The Tyranids were in fact created by the Old Ones, either during, or after the War in Heaven. Lets look at the facts. I. The old ones revere life above all else, this is why they refused to aid the Necrontyr, this is why the Necrontyr started the war in heaven, this is why the Necrontyr saught aid from the C'tan, this is why the C'tan turned the Necrontyr into the Necrons and goomba stomped the Old Ones (although conflicting reports indicate the Old Ones were winning until the Enslavers returned but let's save that for point 7) II. The Old Ones are believed to not all be destroyed. While it's never confirmed whether any survived the Enslaver Plague and the War in Heaven, I strongly believe that at least some of them survived. III. The Old Ones created the Aeldari and the Orks, (among several other races which I'm not entirely aware of) which shows they are definitely capable of creating other advanced races.

From this information I believe that once the Enslavers arrived, and following the War in Heaven, several Old Ones escaped the galaxy, leaving behind their creations, (possibly some early prototypes of Tyranids). They found a new galaxy, where they began their counter attack. Designing a race just as resiliant as the Necrons, not to destroy them, but to harvest the genetic material of all creatures left in the galaxy, once the Tyranids had done their job and left the galaxy once more, the Old Ones would return and destroy EVERYTHING. Ensuring the Necrons and the C'tan would never bother them again, returning the genetic material back to their new galaxy to begin the rebirth of the previous races.

I'll admit, this is a bit of a stretch, it is also likely the C'tan were responsible seeing as how they enjoy feeding off of the pain and suffering of mortals, although neither option truely explains why the Tyranids avoid Necron Tomb worlds. Both the Old Ones and the C'tan would seek revenge on the Necrons, and yet the Hive Mind avoids them.

All of this leads into point 7. The Tyranids may be decended or related to the Enslavers. The Enslavers are beings native to the immaterium, AKA the Warp. Which would explain the warp shadow. They control the minds of any unproptected psychic, of which Necrons are not, and thus pose no interest. Which would explain why they avoid Necron Tomb worlds (no juicy minds to enslave) The Enslavers are described as looking like a combination between a jellyfish and an arachnid, which based on a google image search, look rather like the Tyranid Psychic units. The arrival of the Enslavers signalled the end of the War in Heaven as the Old Ones, who had basically beaten back the Necrons into hybernation, got annihilated by the Enslavers, but once they ran out of juicy brains in this galaxy, they moved on to another galaxy, eating more minds, growing stronger, evolving, until the race we now know as the Tyranids were born. They then decided to return to our galaxy which when they left wasn't quite so full of tasty psychic brains, and have just arrived back with their massive mind-controlled bugs. The enslaver race (or indeed possibly a single enslaver) is the head honcho of the Hive Mind. Either that. or they evolved into the Norn Queens at the heart (or more accurately the mind) of the Tyranid Bioships.

This is my view on the topic. Thoughts?