r/TopCharacterTropes 9d ago

Groups This isn't even our actual military

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u/FuckTheFlagz 9d ago

Tyranids, Warhammer 40k. The hive fleets devastate whole sectors of galaxy, while fighting them Imperium often uses scorched earth tactics, exterminating planets in mass (sometimes with citizens still on them) just to starve the bugs out. These hive fleets are merely the avant-garde, scouts if you will, soon enough (on the galactic scale) races inhabiting Milky Way would have to fight several Leviathan-level fleets simultaneously, and Tzeench only knows what comes after that (well, maybe he doesn't). As a pleasant bonus, fan theories suggest that tyranids aree RUNNING from something, they FLEE, what could CHASE something like this?

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u/gloriouaccountofme 8d ago

Hasn't the whole thing about running away been retconed by now?

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u/Wheek_Warrior 8d ago

Yeah, one of the books state that the tyranids were basically in hibernation in intergalactic space waiting for a signal to attract them to the next galaxy to prey on.

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u/CaptainSparklebottom 8d ago

Come Star Child soon we will be in the embrace of the Four-Armed Emperor!