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The Galaxy is Flood, Not Food

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I wonder if the inquisition will start thinking that the Flood is an archeotech bioweapon, and that it is the panacea. I look forward to seeing how the MC interacts with the admech, thanks for posting!
 
I mean. The Inquisitor will be properly skeptical. The tech priest may well let religious zealotry blind him to what is coming.

All that's needed to kick off anew schism in the local Mechanicus is Tide boosting one of the Altered up to superhuman levels of physical power and ability in response to a desperate need and have things start spiraling. Like, say, that one young girl getting caught in a mechanical failure that her whispered rites don't help with, and Tide hitting her with the mother of all bio boosts to give her super human everything to escape and survive the accident.

And then shenanigans ensue as the workers start thinking she's either a witch or a saint, and tide ends up directly speaking with her because having an actual conversation with someone is a novelty for him unless i am mistaken.

Cue the adventures of Super Loli and the Abominable Biological Intelligence as they run through the Underhive, hunting beasts, searching for near stuff, and in general avoiding the hunters sent after her.


Possibility that there actually is some archeotech vault hidden in the bottommost layers of the Hive for Tide to claim as his Hive to complete ascension into full Gravemind status could be neat yo.
 
yeah, gravemind getting archeotech will be cool. Maybe some admech radicals will start worshipping him? If you look past the biological infection, he probably has one of the largest information repositories in the galaxy. I imagine he could rebuild a lot of STCs, and other holy stuff.
 
No no, while i would love to see him camping out in an archeotech bunker, having the whole thing be aruined wreck sounds better than it actually having anything in it. Lets him confuse the hell out of people and make them think it was He who was hiding in it.
 
Argentave said:
yeah, gravemind getting archeotech will be cool. Maybe some admech radicals will start worshipping him? If you look past the biological infection, he probably has one of the largest information repositories in the galaxy. I imagine he could rebuild a lot of STCs, and other holy stuff.
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know what's even better, the flood never forgets. It only has problems recalling. So as the infection grows so does his knowage including halo tech like slipspace drives. That will be a powerful barging point. A way to keep the imprealm together without worry of warp storms. There's also other tech that he could get to like halo medica or even forrunner tech if there into that.
 
ironwar32 said:
know what's even better, the flood never forgets. It only has problems recalling. So as the infection grows so does his knowage including halo tech like slipspace drives. That will be a powerful barging point. A way to keep the imprealm together without worry of warp storms. There's also other tech that he could get to like halo medica or even forrunner tech if there into that.
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He does not have any of that. Per the writer he has Flood stuff, and thats it.

Granted, high end Neural Physics literally lets the flood create there own version of the Webway, and can eventually allow the movement of planets through said Star Road, but it has no relation to slipspace or forerunner tech
 
I agree with armentho. He is the flood, and should have knowledge stored within him. I think the reason he hasn't got it yet is because, in comparison to the halo flood, is because he is like an amoeba in terms of biomass.
 
That. Or, the spore that started this shard of the flood is from the first fee spores ever made, from a flood that had yet to omnom anyone, therefore not having anything but the precersor tech saves away. Alternatively. A ROB is involved, and could have wiped it clean of all tech or just created the spore with just the baseline tech.

And if you dont like that he doesnt have human, covie, or forerunner tech? Go write something yourself.
 
… holy shit. Jackson, somehow you have not only played the more benevolent route with the flood but have also made them somehow made them more terrifying. I cannot wait for the moment he unleashes pure forms on monstrum and the pdf and guard are fighting back when all of the sudden the guy you're fighting with turns into a space zombie. You have truly outdone yourself sir. A few things to be noted though.
1. Good news! The inquisitor seems to be one of the more level headed ones. So no immediate exterminaughtis… for now. At least until the warp storm subsides. But they better catch on quickly or they are boned.
2. Oooooooh who's the new bbeg we have coming up for tide to fight. I wonder?
3. … tide has a stench in the warp. Not a presence. Not a Shadow. A fucking stench. Jesus H Tap dancing Christ. That is a actually terrifying.
4. Tide is definitely going off the deep end now if he wasn't before. He is definitely getting more … intense. Dosent help that we didn't see his thought process behind this little interaction.
5. To anyone who reads this story I recommend listening to the flood suite and the awakening the nightmare ost. My personal three favorites in no particular order are: tread softly, no surrender, and corroded.
Anyway those are my thoughts for now. You did amazing as you do with any of your work Jackson. Hope you have an amazing afternoon.
 
armentho said:
Nah,im sure tide has access to it
But he needs to achieve a certain degree of biomass to be able to channel the flood memories

Basicly he doesnt have enough EXP to unlock the skill YET
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Boss. The author has outright stated MC has no Halo tech beyond what the Flood gets. The Flood never had access to any other tech that wasn't infested, and he doesn't have infested Forerunner's to pull memories out of. He Only has what the Flood can do, and what the Flood can do is terrifying.
 
CaramelTheMoo said:
And if you dont like that he doesnt have human, covie, or forerunner tech? Go write something yourself.
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Agree with the general message but nonetheles dislike people giving me orders like we are their dogs

Salt is way of life for you,keep moaning

Darik29 said:
Boss. The author has outright stated MC has no Halo tech beyond what the Flood gets. The Flood never had access to any other tech that wasn't infested, and he doesn't have infested Forerunner's to pull memories out of. He Only has what the Flood can do, and what the Flood can do is terrifying.
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Thanks for the correction
 
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No prob. And besides, he doesn't actually Need Forerunner tech to be an existential threat to the Imperium.

The Flood by themselves are a horror unimaginable to the average man. The tyranids alone are the only entities on planet that recognize what Tide is, in the vaguest sense, and the Patriarch may well be hitting the panic button Hard the moment they have enough infected to call the nearest splinter fleet.
 
armentho said:
Nah,im sure tide has access to it
But he needs to achieve a certain degree of biomass to be able to channel the flood memories

Basicly he doesnt have enough EXP to unlock the skill YET
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No, he doesn't the Precursors didn't use Slipspace as their FTL means of travel they had Neural Transit for that theirs a reason the Forerunners called them "Transcendent" as Tide already noted he as a grave mind can only access Slispace after getting the knowledge from a species that uses it which no one does in 40k so he has to rely on the long way to Precursor FTL since he doesn't trust the Warp.
 
Darik29 said:
He does not have any of that. Per the writer he has Flood stuff, and thats it.

Granted, high end Neural Physics literally lets the flood create there own version of the Webway, and can eventually allow the movement of planets through said Star Road, but it has no relation to slipspace or forerunner tech
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But shouldn't slipspace tech be included in that kind of math level as something kind of basic. kind of like that slipspace is fractions while were doing quantum physics kind of thing. I can see why he wouldn't have true halo teach but he should still have the ability to reverse engineer his own knowledge to figure out what he should already know.

You ever watched anything from stargate? The Asgoens go to earth for help cause a threat counters there advanced weapons and they're too smart to dume them down enough to fight back. It could be something similar to that, we have the knowledge just not the idea on how to use it.
 
The Flood are the last revenge of the species originally meant to bear the Mantle of Responsibility for the galaxy. They are a final fuck you to the entire galaxy and all life in it, Especially the Forerunners.

They don't Need slipspace. It's worthless to them, beyond something the Forerunner's themselves used. Neural Physics allow Flood to quite literally build Star Roads between solar systems and just outright make distance not exist.

Hell, it's already started. The MC has basic teleportation up and running, even if its limited to planetary range for the moment. Tide could, if he wanted to, Teleport flood pods into the underhives of every other hive on world and begin the infection process at a Much faster rate than it's currently undergoing.

I hinestly can't think as to why that hasn't happened beyond him possibly not having the coordinates to actually locate the other hives yet. Which could genuinely be the issue.

That or not having the range to control his mass at that distance yet. Though given how the Altered being studied by the Magos are all getting peak human without twisting into monstrosity's , i hope his control range has extended to the northern hemisphere now.
 
I'm hoping that the inquisitor comes to believe that Tide is a corrupted piece of Archotech.

Edit: I don't mean corrupted as in Chaos corruption, I mean corrupted as in how files can become corrupted or how rust "corrupts" iron.
 
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Darik29 said:
And then shenanigans ensue as the workers start thinking she's either a witch or a saint, and tide ends up directly speaking with her because having an actual conversation with someone is a novelty for him unless i am mistaken.

Cue the adventures of Super Loli and the Abominable Biological Intelligence as they run through the Underhive, hunting beasts, searching for near stuff, and in general avoiding the hunters sent after her.
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I dislike the scenario you just presented with every fibre of my being. The "suddenly adopting a daughter" chliche is far to widespread in fanfiction in my opinion, especially if it clashes thematically with the story. At that point it feels like a metaphorical checklist one needs to check in a story. The author used it in his previous fic too with mixed results.
 
Out of curiosity, Nurgle would absolutely love our SI right? Like, would he do everything in his power to make sure this thing festers as far as possible? And I know he is more good natured and cheerful than most of the other chaos gods, would he be okay with the protagonist not spreading as far as they can as fast as they can, since I assume our SI still has morals and stuff? I don't know enough about Warhammer to say. But he is right up Nurgle's alley, I would hope that Grandpappy Nurgle would be okay with it, he is all about taking time to do stuff right? Maybe he will be like a supportive parent gently pushing their kid towards certain activities like sports, except instead of sports it is spreading a plague across the universe.
 
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I mean, it does make sense to believe the flood to be the panacea, considering no one knows what the panacea actually does.
Bonus points if there's a later reveal that it's actually the panacea from further flood memories getting accessible.

Everything known about it is that it's able to cure every illness possibly afflicting mankind.
That already implies a high degree of autonomous adaption.
Then there's the question on how it effectively works.
And just spreading as spores would be an effective deployment vector.
With everything else unknown, it's a possibility to play on for a bit of a twist.
 
Darik29 said:
The tyranids alone are the only entities on planet that recognize what Tide is, in the vaguest sense, and the Patriarch may well be hitting the panic button Hard the moment they have enough infected to call the nearest splinter fleet.
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Ah, but he can't call the nearest fleet due to warp storm. Tyranid fleet may be able to plow through it but even they have trouble communicating with planets covered by a warp storm.

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Fire_Fox said:
Out of curiosity, Nurgle would absolutely love our SI right? Like, would he do everything in his power to make sure this thing festers as far as possible? And I know he is more good natured and cheerful than most of the other chaos gods, would he be okay with the protagonist not spreading as far as they can as fast as they can, since I assume our SI still has morals and stuff?
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Nurgle is ultimate entropy, despair and acceptance of inevitability of death. His followers are not cheery because they are happy. They have a sense of humor and some semblance of ability to self analyze because they are ultimate nihilists. Nothing matters, everything dies, and there is nothing you can do to change that but it is kinda fun looking at people who delude themself into thinking that they can achieve something.

Obviously Nurgle and Tzeentch hate each other.

Tide is not going to lie down and accept his fate. So he is going to get the "tough love" treatment until he understands how everything works.
 
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