Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150406151006/@comment-25177957-20150407214959

Neithan02 wrote: Actually your fan idea holds little merit. The Tyranids take whatever they deem positive for their genetic make up. Judging by what they have absorbed, what do the orks have to offer? they are already very resilirnt and crave sustenance and live for fighting. they have psykers and the ork gestalt waagh field would not work with the hive/ the control of synapse creatures is alike to that of a warboss. and was there not some tyranid in squigs? what can orks really offer for tyranids but an endless supply of biomatter. The current lore also states the possibility of something such as this, check out the Inqusitor Kryptmann article on here for example. The main reason the idea of Tyranids gaining access to Ork genetics is due to the fact that this would officially give the Tyranids not only one, but two methods of reproduction. One method would be the creation of bioforms, and the other would be Tyranid spores becoming Tyranid creatures, giving them a completely endless, and I mean completely endless supply of bioforms, you'd have Hive ships that could throw spores onto a planet somewhere and within a few days billions of Tyranids are already on the planet. The number of organisms in hive fleets might be in quintillions.