Side note, imagine how crazy the planetary-scale battles between all the various Warp Demons and the Tyranids.
Its gotta look like the most insane battlefields: an endless wave of billions of insect-like sentient organisms that have an insatiable hunger to kill and consume ALL life in the entire fucking UNIVERSE swarming whole solar systems, blotting out the sun from their enormous fleets of hive/colony ships, against another seemingly endless wave of billions of trans-dimentional motherfucking demons from the actual chaotic reality of Hell itself, all fighting the most horrifically savage, gory, bloody, violent battle a person could ever imagine.
The implications of Tyranids vs Chaos are kind of wild to think about too,
With their whole hive mind/shadow in the warp thing, 'nids are more-or-less immune to chaos corruption. And even if the forces of chaos somehow managed to enter into some sort of dialogue with the hive mind as a whole, what do they have to offer each other? All the tyranids want is to consume biomass, and they’re doing that just fine on their own, constantly adopting and growing more powerful. Sure, maybe chaos can offer them tools to do it more efficiently, but then what? The 'nids consume all of the sentient races in the universe and chaos has nothing left to corrupt and feed off of for itself?
And the tyranids have no particular interest in the demons and other entities of the warp since they’re not really “real” they’re immaterial, made of the fabric of the warp. There’s no biomass there for them to consume.
Although, since encountering the aeldari and adapting to create zoanthropes and the ability to use psychic abilities beyond just being a hive mind, perhaps they will even further adapt to be able to consume warp entities.
Tyranids are as big of an existential threat to chaos as they are to the rest of the factions in 40k. It will likely never be explored in the lore, but I think it’s likely that some time in the future well beyond the 41st millennium, that if tyranids continue their advance, that things could work out that chaos may need to step into a sort of protective role fighting back the tyranids, because if they succeed in consuming all life in the galaxy, that’s pretty much it for the chaos gods as well.
Side note, imagine how crazy the planetary-scale battles between all the various Warp Demons and the Tyranids.
Its gotta look like the most insane battlefields: an endless wave of billions of insect-like sentient organisms that have an insatiable hunger to kill and consume ALL life in the entire fucking UNIVERSE swarming whole solar systems, blotting out the sun from their enormous fleets of hive/colony ships, against another seemingly endless wave of billions of trans-dimentional motherfucking demons from the actual chaotic reality of Hell itself, all fighting the most horrifically savage, gory, bloody, violent battle a person could ever imagine.
The implications of Tyranids vs Chaos are kind of wild to think about too,
With their whole hive mind/shadow in the warp thing, 'nids are more-or-less immune to chaos corruption. And even if the forces of chaos somehow managed to enter into some sort of dialogue with the hive mind as a whole, what do they have to offer each other? All the tyranids want is to consume biomass, and they’re doing that just fine on their own, constantly adopting and growing more powerful. Sure, maybe chaos can offer them tools to do it more efficiently, but then what? The 'nids consume all of the sentient races in the universe and chaos has nothing left to corrupt and feed off of for itself?
And the tyranids have no particular interest in the demons and other entities of the warp since they’re not really “real” they’re immaterial, made of the fabric of the warp. There’s no biomass there for them to consume.
Although, since encountering the aeldari and adapting to create zoanthropes and the ability to use psychic abilities beyond just being a hive mind, perhaps they will even further adapt to be able to consume warp entities.
Tyranids are as big of an existential threat to chaos as they are to the rest of the factions in 40k. It will likely never be explored in the lore, but I think it’s likely that some time in the future well beyond the 41st millennium, that if tyranids continue their advance, that things could work out that chaos may need to step into a sort of protective role fighting back the tyranids, because if they succeed in consuming all life in the galaxy, that’s pretty much it for the chaos gods as well.