Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-79.134.161.49-20130225232452/@comment-50.73.53.134-20161103092933

So, there is this fan fic I found (By the way, sorry to necro!) that basically solved the tyranid problem (Albeit in a very "fight fire with fire-OHST A BIGGER FIRE" type way). Its called "The shape of the nightmare to come". Basically, the war in Octavius where the orks and tyranids are duking it out ends catastrophically for the entire galaxy. The ork spores, in their attempt to infest and reproduce more orks, being merging with tyranid spores, which are attempting to take over the local native life (including the orks). Needless to say, this results in the eventual merging of the two species into one super-species. A new hive mind comprised of Tyranid hunger and Orkish need to kill develops, using the reality bending power of the da WAAGGH and orkish natural tendency to use machinery (Which shouldn't very well work, but reality bending powers augmented by powerful Tyranid pyshic domination!) to create highly regenerative tyranid-ork-cyborgs that are literally unkillable and incredibly powerful. This "New Devourer" breaks from the control of the OG hive mind (Because of the Orkish tendency to rebel) and actually manages to absorb literally everything, even other tyranids, that is comes across. It is 100% unstoppable. They regenerate (Both flesh and metal) so quickly that a single sword swipe would appear to go right through (If it even managed to pierce the target at all) to no effect. Its shadow in the warp was many times more powerful than the tyranids, and this New Devourer swept across the galaxy with unprecedented speed (The orkish side giving it the intelligence neccessary to attack planets straight up with no subterfuge or infiltration conducted beforehand, unlike the nids) eating everything in its wake. The physic power of its waggh is so strong, it practically forces the entirety of the ork race into submission, and any that are somehow able to resist its call instead gather to fight against "Da Cheetahs" and end up wiping out the species anyways, with only a very small contingent delving into the webway because fucking orks.

The tyranids, unable to combat this threat (Because literally everything they send its way is instantaneously absorbed into its hivemind the moment it enters the shadow) pull out of the galaxy entirely and look elsewhere.

But for fanfiction reasons the "New Devourer" is somehow physically "called" by a force outside the galaxy, and thus itself pulls out (Long after the tyranids left, mind you).

So the galaxy is left in shambles, the tau (who were spared from the destruction) expand into thousands of uninhabitable worlds, forced to terraform them from scratch and eventually developing into the same authoritarian, self-serving and entitled ethereal oligarchal theocracy of the greater good (For the tau, and only the tau. They developed xenophobia too!) just like the imperium, which is now completely shattered into hundreds of smaller, petty imperiums.

A whole lot more happens, but basically shit goes down. Heres a link! https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Story:The_Shape_Of_The_Nightmare_To_Come_50k