Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-79.134.161.49-20130225232452/@comment-76.24.162.67-20130303152735

Now the tau really ought to be able to finish off the tyranids without even trying, The imperium is hobbled by it's prohibitions on machine intelligence and self replication. The tau use autonomous combat drones, All they need to do is convert a few capital ships into manufacturing and mining platforms, modify the drones so they can also build more drones, and then let them convert the entire mass of whatever planets they're not using into trillions upon trillions of tyranid hunting self-replicating von neumann machines.

Of course if this went wrong it would result in all the matter in the universe being converted into vaguely cute, round, yellow weapons platforms.