Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130130174042/@comment-3258762-20130926123525

Neithan02 wrote: Legionaire22 wrote: Neithan02 wrote: Sanguionius is dead, not more not less

@ nids.. tyrind hive fleets came from different directions into the galaxy, aka: much greater /more of them out there No, them coming from different directions doesn't mean there are more of them, it could just as well mean they were once one huge fleet that got scattered, with several fractions moving around the Milky Way before swinging back in.

However, as this is 40k, it's probably more likely that there are a lot more of them we are taling about galactic proportions, one fleet several million lightyears apaprt from different directions, sorry that is not really an impressive argument.

I would say it's far more convincing than the fact that it is such a huge swarm that they can envolpe the entire Galaxy.

Say they were a million lightyears away from the galaxy and were scattered. Perhaps a supernova knocked them away from each other, perhaps a black hole threatened, I don't know. However, now they have split, and they can't find themselves again. Suddenly they start going off in random directions with little-to-no real destination, just going forward.

Over such a huge distance, this means they could very well scatter far longer than the width of a galaxy. Suddenly, they realise "Oh wait, here's something fun, lets go here" and start swarming back towards the Galaxy.

The only other argument is "The Nids are so many they come from all directions because they are that many" That is a silly argument, I doubt even the Nids could come up with those numbers. And I REALLY doubt that they come from different galaxies all together and just so happen to be strikingly similar in appearance, purpose and basic functions.