So what is the end-game of the Tyrannids?

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Eat, survive, adapt, repeat.

But if we're talking super long term..
I guess some kind of biological singularity, where they become so amazingly perfect that they'll be able to do stuff and have such desires and intentions that are so far beyond what current tyranid neural networks can comprehend that they cannot even begin to predict what would occur.
Sort of like what the Emperor wanted of humanity. But more eating, chitin and hiveminds.

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What is the purpose of Life itself?

draw dinosaur porn

On a related subject, do Tyranids absorb the negative traits of species they consume?

Write dinosaur, military vehicle, and peanut butter snuff porn.

Good thing the nids didn't develop written language

I.. guess so? They probably absorb the capability to use those traits. They just don't bother with actually using them.
Makes you wonder if they bother to remember all the genetic tricks they picked up, or if they forgot some for being too situational or just useless.

Yet

>vulkan lives
>fights the tyranids and wipes out whole swarms on his own
>dies a few times but respawns anyways
>tyranids consume his DNA and find a way to incorporate his powers into their race
how fucked is everyone if this happens?

>Eat the galaxy
>Move on to new galaxy
>Eat that galaxy
>Repeat

As I understand his powers they're basically extreme resistance to fire/heat and reviving, so pretty fucked unless they go full retard and just start endlessly eating themselves since they just respawn or forget about devouring everything and focus on building shit or something

Something like this. But with galaxies instead of kibble.

They're a force of nature so to speak, so to exist.

What is the end-game of Fire Ants?

Profit.

If an organism is bred with negative traits the hive mind just stops making it. It doesn't just spit out nids at random, it breeds each one for whatever it needs at the time. Once a nid has served its role it gets reabsorbed into the biomass.

They keep everything. I'm sure there was some fluff about a trait the Hive Mind though was useless then it turned out they needed it in a specfic instance for winning a battle.

I might be imagining that though.

I'd assume they just don't use those traits, but iirc there was a hive fleet that got some sort of infection from picking up a defective genestealer, so who knows.

there's none, they won't stop growing and adapting to grow more

To survive

>Eat a galaxy
>Move onto the next
>Repeat

By time they make it full circle back to galaxy number 1 life will probably have flourished and regrown again.

To bite your dick.

cultivation of mass

they have severe muscle dysphoria

gotta eat big to get big bro

So T.Rex on Abrams Tank with peanut butter lube?

>Each piece of kibble is an entire galaxy.
By the Emperor!

This reminds me of a sketch from duckman where the protagonist is questioning a capitalist on what his plans for the future are.

"So you did it to make more money. What are you gonna do with that money?"
"Make more money."
"And when you've made THAT money?"
"Make more money."
"And when you've made THAT MONEY?"
"Make more money."

Never getting a good 'dex again.