Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6589306-20130228113457/@comment-6078851-20150109181423

i'm not sure the emperor, then or now, would be able to do anything to the hive mind: as we know tyranid psychicness, unlike all psykery native to the milky way, is not based on the warp, and though they can 'tap' the warp for extra juice they don't actaully need it for their psychic abilities. plus we have to take into account 'the shadow in the warp', the hive mind's presence in the warp which acts sort of like a muffler for warp-based psykery. as ideas go though, this one is very hypothetical as the hive mind exists in a plane of existence unknown to anyone in the milky way (with the exception of tigurius), including emps. although if he could do something against the hive mind i'd say he would've had a stronger position before his corpsification - he had less reliance on the warp for his power back then so there would be less of an affect from 'the shadow in the warp, and 10,000 years ago the hive mind would've been almost totally asleep :P

i don't think the hive mind/tyranids have any connection to the chaos gods: tyranids have to travel between galaxies at sub-light speed, and as they have consumed at least one (probably dozens) galaxy, the time frame for galactic consumption followed by sub-light inter-galactic travel makes them probably the oldest race in 40k by a very long way. the chaos gods only started to coalesce after the old ones broke warp-space, so any warp entity can only be 64 million years old, at the oldest. and while this is only conjecture on my part i get the distinct impression that tyranids are millions, possibly billions, of years older than even the old ones - in a galaxy teeming with alien life tyranids are the most alien of all as they come from a galaxy far, far away :P