Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-86.7.138.66-20130615215334/@comment-203.79.103.130-20130814134909

But but but but... The tyranids wont like the taste of necrodermis. One day everyone will thank the necrons you know.. Yes tyranids have access to psychic abilities without use of the warp, It is derived from their link to the hive mind. This is why tyranids are immune to mind control or mind affecting powers.

"We're not the humans you are looking for" NOM

Tyranids do traverse galaxies VERY slowly. Sublight speeds is correct. While they predate the old ones, they do not predate them within the milky way galaxy. The old ones being a splinter fleet is unlikely as they were

A. Reptilian.

B. All possessed free will

There was no hive mind within the old ones. Perhaps a collective conscience within the immaterial, but no hive mind. Also the old ones like to nurture and develop life. The tyranids like to eat it. It provides nutrition. The tyranids have the same purpose as the necrons. Except the C'Tan are not driving them and they don't go to tomb worlds.

The necrons being blown apart thing is... possible. Necrodermis is living metal, it self repairs and if the wound is too great, dissolves. A lasgun fires super heated light. Heat cauterizes. NOW. Just a theory. But lets compare skin to necrodermis for a second. The only real difference is that necrodermis is metal. Skin self repairs, and if the wound is too big it usually scars. or just disappears instead. When dead humans die too. Super heated light, or just heat in general, cauterizes a wound, which prevents bleeding. and usually healing too.

Lasguns super heated light, and the energy dispersed on hit, Fries the necrons teleporter mechanism and the little brains inside of the necrodermis (I imagine it to be like nano bots) It melts the metal in a way that it physically cannot reform, the necron cannot teleport and the metal is essentially shut down, meaning it cannot dissolve either. Just an idea.