Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
- Location
- Canada
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- He/Him
Big Darktide vibes for that last section. Those gangers are basically toast already, either now or later.
The Galaxy is Flood, Not Food
- Thread starter Jackson Fox
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- Crossover Sci-Fi Horror
I half wonder if the dreams are a consequence of this humanity's psychic nature?
To one degree or another, all humans are psykers, for most it is negligible.
But the Affected are all linked in a manner of speaking through Tide, potentially creating a sort of psychic Web connecting everyone.
This might have interesting implications whenever he manages to infect a more significantly powerful psyker.
To one degree or another, all humans are psykers, for most it is negligible.
But the Affected are all linked in a manner of speaking through Tide, potentially creating a sort of psychic Web connecting everyone.
This might have interesting implications whenever he manages to infect a more significantly powerful psyker.
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Interesting. I wonder what she saw? The Infection Form burrowing in? Or something else? The Gangs of the Underhive are going to get organized. But it's already too late for that Hive City. Question is, will the other Hive Cities take note?
- Location
- North America
God damn ratmen. always causing trouble
That description seems to be very close to how Necron old FTL drive works that they no longer use - Pharos Device. The old lore version could be used as a Warp beacon but its main function was to work as a quantum gate, a la Supreme Commander, allowing for immediate transfer to desired location.
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Drunk Hierophant
Aspirant Archailect
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Given how it's mentioned he choosed to walk hunched probably a consequence of him acting out of character (apologizing) and seeing him walk straight
Gonna get an ogryn infected, if you fix em up with flood bio science you'd have a hell of a shocktrooper. Plus they're the only decent beings in 40k
Imperium has catgirls.
So Tide has a lot of options in the future. Gonna catch them all!
TheAkashicRecord
The Library Of All Knowledge
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- Somewhere~
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- He/Him
*Sighs*
- Location
- Puerto Rico
Awesome chapter
Also @Jackson Fox after reading this…
Hell, has it occurred to him what would happen if an Altered female become pregnant and would later give birth, how would the child come out?
Also, Happy Black Friday.
Also @Jackson Fox after reading this…
Has Tide checked in on pregnant women who he has turned Altered?
Hell, has it occurred to him what would happen if an Altered female become pregnant and would later give birth, how would the child come out?
Also, Happy Black Friday.
lazyrobot87
Couch potatoing since 2005
So quick question: it's already stated that tide has a fragment of precursor knowledge and if he gets to gravemind level he might be able to access it. Shouldn't it have the inner workings of slip space in there or at least the basics of slip space so that he can reverse engineer it.
Also crick was definitely a slaneesh cultist wasn't he in which case: shit.
also Also when is tide gonna get some normal human combat forms. I get that he has a moral code to keep up but you can't actually expect every person he infects is a good samaritin
Final also: I would expect him to be much smarter at this point or at least think much faster. Didn't he eat like 94 people in his first outing and turn them in proto gravemind mass. I would imagine it's like upgrading from windows 1.0 to windows 10?
Also crick was definitely a slaneesh cultist wasn't he in which case: shit.
also Also when is tide gonna get some normal human combat forms. I get that he has a moral code to keep up but you can't actually expect every person he infects is a good samaritin
Final also: I would expect him to be much smarter at this point or at least think much faster. Didn't he eat like 94 people in his first outing and turn them in proto gravemind mass. I would imagine it's like upgrading from windows 1.0 to windows 10?
TheAkashicRecord
The Library Of All Knowledge
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- Somewhere~
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- He/Him
The FLOOOOoood can infect all living and dead beings with a body and if a mind abandoned its previous body that is nothing because the FLOOOOoood can infect them in a more relative form (maybe the soul? or the abstract composition of the structure of your consciousness? as if they infected your very essence) That is the reason why the precursors did not win the war, when they become infected they do so with absolutely no escape, it does not matter if they have the most advanced technology in the universe and that is not counting the different graveminds I think they were? Or maybe they were called key minds? the FLOOOOoood of the size of the planets and more. I really like this because the FLOOOoood is the most incredible of galactic pests.
Translation in google translate...
Cloverfield
The Paradox
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- Everywhere
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- All
The translator fck me because i wrote it in English but it changed to Spanish.
TheAkashicRecord
The Library Of All Knowledge
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- Somewhere~
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- He/Him
I'm just waiting for the time when Tide is throwing around the classic bungie style writing in the warhammer verse, straight out of Marathon and Halo.
There were some really killer lines and the dialogue over all just flowed so well and so expertly crafted.
There were some really killer lines and the dialogue over all just flowed so well and so expertly crafted.
lazyrobot87
Couch potatoing since 2005
I just realized that the guardsmen are probably the biggest threat to tide more than even space marines for one simple thing. The humble lazgun. While in the game it might be super weak if you look at the lore of the thing you come to realize that the lazgun is kinda the perfect gun. It has multiple firing modes can be used as a grenade is one of the few things in warhammer 40k that can be produced en mass and Is easy to understand on how to make. The floods main weakness is fire and lasers and last I checked guardsmen employ a lot of lasers. Sisters of battle and salamanders would probably be next considering how much fire they deploy. Normal bolters while effective will just spread infected bile around in a big Gorey mess. Actually I can't think of one faction in 40k that doesn't utilize something that exploits the flood. Tide gotta be careful.
Umbra99
Good Civilization
- Location
- The Moon
On a micro scale, sure, fire based weapons are pretty bad. When it gets to the point that the air is more spore than gas, though, there's only so much flamers and lasguns can do to the Flood. They'll probably slow down the infection a bit, assuming Tide isn't subtle when attacking a planet, but it's still a losing game.
Yeah, at this point virus bombs that turn all organics on the planet into reaction mass is the only way.
- Location
- colombia
Yeah,pretty much the war is already lost for the gene stealers and imperials
36 million altered means tide has a killswitch ready to go off at any moment
And he is going to war with the underhive as well
The R means roughly the infection expectatives
1.2 means that a infected would infect 1.2 people,or in actual practical numbers,for every 10 already carrying the disease they wpuld infect 12 person total
And daily rate of pandemic diseases is around 1 to 4 percent daily
At 36 millions it would take around 6 to 7 months to infect the whole hive (passively)
Active targetting could probably halve the time
Amusingly lasguns will be just as explosive for combat forms as bolters, lasguns dump so much energy that they tend to make flesh explode rather than burn.
Lasguns are very, very powerful, it's just that the Imperium of Man has been so effective that everyone the lasgun could curbstomp is already dead and now you have foes with very good armour.
If I recall correctly bolters can be outfitted with incendiary rounds also.
He has not : )
Happy Black Friday to you and everyone else!
So, the level of knowledge Tide has access to isn't much further beyond a general sense of his capabilities and what he knows the Flood and Precursors were capable of. Anything more specific than that will require him to gain some experience in using the abilities he has and learning more about his powers. He does not just have access to all Precursor knowledge right off the bat, its a combination of learning new things over time through trial, error, and occasional bursts of new knowledge as his mind becomes more powerful.
Also, for those of you wondering, Tide is not the Proto-Gravemind, he is the Flood. While the Proto is a powerful and very useful form, its a mistake to think of the Flood as being so centralized. Every combat form and infection pod, every spore within an Altered and in the air, is Tide.
As for his morality... Well, Tide's trying to maintain some distance outside of the affairs of humanity. Partly out of self-preservation and partly because he doesn't trust himself enough to not fuck things up and even just because he recognizes he really can't be judge, jury, and executioner for such a massive population. He's in a weird spot right now where he is simultaneously attempting to not interfere and also gain absolute control over his surroundings, both in an effort to survive without committing atrocities.
As for his intelligence, I think its important to separate intelligence from wisdom. Basically, at this moment, Tide is able to solve lots of math problems at the same time or think about many things or a lot about a few things, etc. However, in terms of wisdom, or what passes for it in 40k, he still has a lot to learn. Now, if he ate the memories of a wise person, he'd probably do a lot better.
Honestly, 50% of the reason I started this story was just because of this.
Honestly, the biggest threat would prolly be Necrons as they're the closest thing 40k has for a hard counter to the Flood. Metal bodies and molecular disintegration weapons which would reduce biomass. That said, Logic Plague is one route.
There is also this. Not much to do to deal with that beyond lighting the atmosphere on fire.
There are a number of factors I included in how I determined the numbers, though you're not far off. I might one day release the numbers, once I've polished them up a bit.
Darik29
Verified Delicious
And now i want to see Tide have a conversation with the Inquisitor, because no lie Graveminds can be some of the most terrifyingly competent speakersout there. Like, Graveminds have the Best voices to scare the hell out of someone, or even worse, let them realize exactly how horrifying it is something so alien is still able to communicate with humans.
Is he at the size of the Gravemind from Halo 1 or 2 yet? Giant mouth, massive base stalk anchored to something, giant tentacles of teleportation and worse?
Is he at the size of the Gravemind from Halo 1 or 2 yet? Giant mouth, massive base stalk anchored to something, giant tentacles of teleportation and worse?
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- Puerto Rico
Oh oh.
Right now, I am trying to imagine a best and worse case scenario for this and I got hit with a case that is both.
Best- all male born-altered kids compatibility with an SM gene-seed is 100% with no rejection.
Worst- When I say 100%, I don't mean just with one seed. I mean with ALL Gene-Seeds!!!
Both Loyal and Traitor chapters will want to get this kids for their chapters to increase their numbers.