We can not assume the Nurglites are dead. We must hunt down those plague bearers, as just one of those plagues could truly screw over the biomass harvesting!

Start the existing rippernest producing a 50/50 split of hormagaunts and termagaunts for three hours, then a deathspitter-equipped warrior, then repeat until instructed otherwise. Half of the existing rippers defend the nest, the rest go in search of biomass to implant.

Doomlictor should go looking for a location to establish a second hive.

>>7249915

Do you want all of the Breeder Rippers guarding the hive to do any reproduction of their own?

>>7249931

If any appropriate biomass gets close enough, yes.

>>7249940

They can just hop down to the water, scavenge whatever's floating dead, and come back, so yes, biomass is readily available.

>>7249944

Biomass that doesn't fight back is the best kind.

>>7249944
Confirming the plan of >>7249915

>>7249967
>>7249952

Confirmed: 100 Rippers will be out scavenging to return Biomass to the nest, 100 will stand guard, and 200 will be out and about causing general mayhem.

Do you wish the Rippernest to grow a second Rippernest, or begin gaunt/warrior generation?

>>7250014
Grow a second nest, as was agreed upon in the last thread.

>>7250018

If this is the case, then one nest produces the 50/50 split of gaunts, the other produces the deathspitter-equipped warriors.

>>7250018

Confirmed: Second Broodnest gestation commencing.

And what do you, Doomlictor, wish to do? Explore this flooded realm?

Investigate the Khornate cult.

>>7250027
Open communications with the Patriarch, and inquire as to his plans now that the Shadow of the Warp has fallen. Inform him that we disposed of the Grey Knights, but that there is still a battle-barge in orbit which we should attempt to deal with somehow.

>>7250040

Initiating contact...

Contact established.

Submitting Query...

Response: <We will locate this Inquisitorial ship, board it, kill its crew, and set our course towards the next system closer to the galactic core. Enjoy what time you have left before the digestion-pits take you.>

Are we still going along with this bloody retarded plot?

At first it was ok, it got better..

And now it's completely fucking stupid.

Read that it simon's voice.

>>7250045

You are welcome to leave at any time, sir.

>>7250044
So the brood lord is taking care of the ship? then let's focus on confirming the death of that Nurgle cult. The Khorne. Nothing worse than diseased biomass, funny taste.

>>7250044
We shall enjoy it, thanks. If you need any help with that, feel free to mention it. We'd appreciate any information you have on the planned response to the disasters we've been crafting down here, if any.

>>7250069

A pause.

<... Underhive is being sealed off, due to extensive power outages, Daemonic activity, rebellion, and Xenos activity - You and your brood, presumably.>

>>7250072
Any chance you might know the location of the khornate cult? Even one member will suffice.

>>7250078

<Wind-based power plant, at the hive's highest level.>

>>7250085
Sabotage and the death of a cult, marvelous. Begin production of mines via Doomlictor.

>>7250091

<Be warned: Underhive will be sealed off within the next hour.>

>>7250072
Thank you for the information. Anything else which might be relevant for us to know as we attempt to strip this world of its defenses and ready it for consumption?

>>7250095
Well, we have set up the underhive for hell, move up my fellow hive nodes to continue havoc?

I wonder, if they seal off the underhive would we still be able to get through easily using our bioplasma, or is it some method strong enough to resist that?

Either way, it's probably better not to be down here. Let's get the rippers to move the nest and make for the mid-hive.

>>7250111

Requesting Confirmation: Mass migration to mid-hive?

>>7250142
I say keep a small amount of breeder rippers to ensure the chaos continues, otherwise, yes.

>>7250160

Agreeing with this.

Back in a bit, need to eat.

Consider your plan of attack, Nodes.

Proposal: Set up about 15 or so breeder rippers to stay behind, the nest remains active. Prepare everyone else for movement, and we will prepare a new brood nest.

>>7250142

Leave a small force of breeding rippers with the imperitive to consume and multiply. Let the underhive be devoured beneath a tide of Chewey ripper swarms. The rest of us with the hive nest should migrate to where we can do some damage

Guess we have our plan

Yum, canadian bacon.

>>7250205
>>7250199

Confirmed: Leave small force behind to multiply.

How do you propose to move the Broodnest and ~385 Rippers to the upper hive in under an hour?

>>7250270
Ummm....shit...switch the numbers of going with us and those left behind?

Does the factory have any transportation cargo loaders? Drive the broodnest out in a truck.

>>7250270
Impeccible German-Tyranid Effeciency.

>>7250270

Chew through critical support structures. COLLAPSE THE HIVE.

>>7250282
What civilian methods are for transportation? (boats cars, etc..)

>>7250289
To upper/mid hive anyways.

Suggestion: Telekinesis Broodnest with Rippers clutching onto it, levitate self, fly off to new nesting grounds.

We will move with the nest, using standard method, and taking about 10 breeders with us. The rest, will consume the underhive. Then, start breeding Holocaust-rippers to melt any kind of sealing the puny humans have tried.

>>7250309
Oh our TK is that strong? Yeah sure lets do that.

>>7250309
we put the hive in the basket on a bike, make a glowing ripper and fly over the moon like in E.T! BRILLIANT!
Either way I go with OP

>>7250313
>>7250315
>>7250320

Confirmed: Relocation.

You and your brood (Exactly how many are you leaving behind?) float up out of the building, and across the waters that have drowned the humans living in this part of the hive. There's no light, but you're able to detect a large mass moving in the water far to the north. It seems to be generating whirlpools around itself, sucking down any possible nutrients.

>>7250344
Leave 10% behind.

>>7250344
i say leave about 50 of the wee shits. Also if there's whirlpools happening, then it is definitely time to leave.

>>7250351
>>7250364

40-50... Let's call it 45.

Do you wish to investigate whatever stadium-sized submerged entity is generating the whirlpools, or no?

>>7250386
stadium sized, bigger than us, Nurgle cult might still be around, no. time to leave now.

>>7250386
Send a couple rippers to check it out and relay information to us through the hivemind, while we manage the nest relocation personally. We'll use their information to assess if it's worth bothering ourselves personally with the whirlpool thing.

>>7250392
>>7250396

Confirmed: 5 Rippers sent to investigate while you locate a new nest.

To the north is the whirlpool-creature, to the east is the refuse-pit you were blown away from, to the south is the underhive tube-train depot, and to the west is the reservoir you blew up.

>>7250411
creature, not chaos, let's leave.

>>7250411
The new nest needs to be as far upward as we can feasibly make it. Move up the Z-axis as quickly as possible, taking whatever route is most expedient and avoids the notice of humans that our swarm of rippers can't easily eliminate/implant/devour.

>>7250434

Then you can either try to blast your way into the next level, or take the tube-station.

>>7250451
all aboard the choochootube! WOO WOO!!!

>>7250451

Tube station. Rip and tear through anything in our way.

>>7250460
>>7250469

Confirmed: Tube station.

You, your broodnest, and 350 rippers arrive after roughly an hour near the entrance to the tube station. The station is still in operation, and is under heavy guard by Arbites forces, keeping the underhive's populace out.

>>7250488
Swarm with a massive amount of rippers or blast through the ceiling?

Mass telepathy/mind blast the guards, and charge in cloaked right behind it to tear them apart.

>>7250502

Endorsing an OH YEAH! through the floor/wall/ceiling.

>>7250522
i concur, we must now burst through the wall and send out a psychic yell of "OH YEAH!" and beat the nearest guy into mush.

>>7250529

If at all possible, I'd like to use our warp abilities to project an image of Doomlictor's head being on fire to anyone who sees him.

>>7250522
>>7250529

Confirmed: Kool-Aid tactics.

You blast the wall of the tube station with a concentrated does of warp-power, blowing in a hole in the wall roughly twice your own size. Before the dust can settle, your rippers swarm in, attacking anything within reach, with you following close behind, the Broodnest in tow.

>>7250546
This went from serious to lulzy, now fill the air with psychic voices yelling "OHYEAH" as well.

They'll close it off as soon as they realize what's going on. Make for the tubes, with haste!

>>7250546
Hive nodes got shit done. You are now my friend.

Don;t forget to flood this shit with DRUGS! I vote for Obscura

>>7250566

This. Leave one breeder-ripper for every kill, but keep moving.

>>7250576
Frenzon, let's make this a shitstorm.

>>7250581

Obscura cloud seems like a wiser move. Anything that isn't filtering its air will be that much easier to incapacitate.

>>7250566

Confirmed.

As your rippers decimate the Arbites, you rush towards the tunnel granting access to the tube that the trains run in. It's closing.

>>7250614

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU-

Can we make it before the doors close, and if not, do the doors look like they can be busted through with sufficient application of bio-plasma or other firepower?

>>7250614
You seem to be waiting for us to say something, so i will, psychicly hold the doors open.

>>7250614
Telekinesis to slow them, bioplasma to blast them apart... we must have access!

>>7250628

>Bioplasma

Suggestion: It's an iris door. Melt the edges so that the iris sticks, and can't close itself further.

>>7250641

Do it. If anything tries to shoot at us, hurl a fistful of rippers at it.

>>7250651

You spit gobs of Bioplasma at the edges of the closing iris, melting the metal and causing the doors to stall. The Arbites are too busy with the omnipresent rippers to do anything to stop you, as you pass through the doorway, your Broodnest in tow.

Rending Claws are built for exactly these occasions.

>>7250656
Ahaha! None shall stop us now! Onward and upward!

Leave like thirty or so rippers to mess up/stall the Arbites, have the rest attempt to catch up with the nest. It must stay protected.

>>7250656
doors won't close, how we go away now?

>>7250673

Do this. Majority of the rippers follow us, leaving enough to stall/consume the resistance we're leaving behind.

>>7250673

320 of your Rippers scurry after you, pouring through the stalling iris-door like a tide of teeth and mandibles, and proceed to latch back onto the Broodnest.

>>7250675

Just... Make your way through the tubes?

>>7250688

I do believe we have a Khornate cult to kick the shit out of, sir. Perhaps we can find somewhere suitably secluded to deposit the nest before continuing?

ummm...sure?

Lets see where this train takes us. We can stash the brood nest with our good friend the Patriarch.

>>7250705
>>7250695

As the last of your rippers pour through, the iris finally slams shut, cutting a couple in half as it does so. You hear a "WHOOMPH" noise, as the tube-train, on autopilot, begins to make its way up the hive.

>>7250705
Tip: The Patriarch has shown evidence that he doesn't want to be reabsorbed by the hive mind, and was in fact quite rude about it. The only reason that he was still willing to help us was that we were polite and helpful-sounding even when he told us, quote,
>Enjoy what time you have left before the digestion-pits take you.
Although I suppose that could be some sort of traditional Tyranid greeting, I doubt it.

All that said, he might still be willing to let us stash our stuff wherever he is, if only because he won't need the place anymore.

>>7250716
start pumping smokescreen into this thing with whatever, there might be guards upon exit.

>>7250723

Glad to see someone picked up on that.

As you ascend, you can begin to make out sunlight coming from the sky - Truly, you are in the upper hive now.

Do you wish to contact the Patriarch and attempt to arrange a visit to his lair?

>>7250749
we should sabotage the ship to fall and crash into the planet before he gets on it, hope you like the digestion pits, i know i will.

>>7250724

Seconding this. Build up the densest Obscura cloud possible while in transit, and be prepared to drag the nearest target to the door in with a shot of flesh hooks.

>>7250749
No, I don't think that's necessary. No need to place stress on our friendship. I'm inclined to take everything for the wind plant and swarm the cult there. Once it's shut down, there will be no power and we'll be able to hole up anywhere we please while building our forces.

>>7250757

I'd like to propose a variant of this. He has to get off-planet somehow, yes? After we've dealt with the Khornate cult and killed the power, we should eliminate every route off-planet.

>>7250759

Confirmed: Generate Obscura cloud to fill train.

As you do so, a mechanical voice echoes through the vox of the compartment you and your brood are in.

"Approaching DeHouvre Tube-Station, prepare for docking."

>>7250551
>Kool-Aid tactics.

We seem to be doing a lot of that in quest threads this past month.

>>7250785
Actually, I was personally thinking that we might want to get off-planet ourselves... leaving a suitable force here to keep things destabilized until the arrival of the splinter fleet, of course.

>>7250786
honestly at times like these i wish we had a ranged weapon biomorph, no techie hootsits

>>7250798

Why would we do that? We exist to prepare worlds for the hive fleet's arrival, and are consumed like everything else before the fleet leaves.

>>7250798
thats what the DM wants, he wants us to be against the hivemind, he tried this with chewy, and we decided this evoked no emotion from DoomLictor. We are loyal, he is traitor, kill brood lord.

>>7250749
>>7250723
Let him bee, we don't need anything new on our plate. He is going to go on an other planet and infiltrate an other society thus helping to prepare it for another invasion. He won't be able to do anything else, being an unholy genetic monstrosity it's the only way he can survive. As long as he agrees to live five of his number behind for standard genetic pattern reabsorption all is cool.

regardless, every last nid will be consumed once more, for the hive mind.

>>7250820

Chewy, despite having the option to cut himself off from the Hivemind, decided to continue to further its goals up until and including his death. I have no idea where this Chewy = traitor idea is coming from.

>>7250818
Because we've developed a rogue sense of individuality, and would prefer to hop from world to world for centuries on end, leaving genestealer cults everywhere in our wake.

>>7250818
Mabye we could take over a few more worlds for the hive fleet to take? I mean why waste our skills on just one world!

>>7250826
He wishes to move to the galactic core, very far away from the Hive mind, he intends to become a splinter hive, he must be eliminated. He so far is a great threat to us.

>>7250832
I said what i said and said what i meant. he is still a traitor to this node.

>>7250844
He is no threat whatsoever to us. Wherever he goes, he will spread his genetic data, and always will he send up the call for the hive fleets by doing so. Unless he actively works against them, which he's not doing, there is no reason to act against him.

What is wrong with a splinter hive? The hive mind is one.

>>7250847

Think what you want, but look at it from Chewy's perspective - What he did saved Doomlictor, allowing him to continue his mission, and effectively destroyed Chewy, who would have been unable to be reabsorbed by the Hive Fleets.

>>7250855
this

Regardless of what we eventually do regarding the patriarch, we have a chunk of cultists to eat first.

The tube-train rapidly decelerates, as it comes to a stop at the DeHouvre station. A quick glance outside at the station proper reveals something interesting - No one is about. Not a single, solitary soul.

>>7250867
Yes, let us move on. How about those Khornates?

>>7250876
Use our telepathy to widen our ability to detect lifeforms. Anything?

I suspect that they're planning to destroy the station somehow, and us with it. Regardless, I don't like this. We need to get out of here.

>>7250876

Signs of combat?

>>7250889

Widening your psychic detection, you're able to detect a group of four people directly across the street from the station.

>>7250904

Are they aware of our presence?

>>7250904
We reeeaaaly need to get into the habit of always having recon rippers.

>>7250934

Probing their minds slightly, it seems that they're waiting for a signal of some kind before they do something.

>>7250939

Are they baseline human?

>>7250939
Telepathically hold them to thinking that they have not received any signal, even if they do in fact get it. Make them not realize that they see us getting off the train.

Cloak everyone that we can and get us all past them and out of the station.

>>7250956

Yes. Arbites, in fact.

>>7250965

You do your best to soothe their minds, as you direct your brood to escape the station, followed shortly thereafter by yourself.

>>7250981

I believe I just had an attack of "balls", as it were. If possible, I'd like to kill them dead. How well-armed are they?

>>7251006

They've got a pair of missile-launchers aimed at the station, ready to blow it as soon as they get the signal that you've arrived.

I guess they kind of dropped the ball on that one.

>>7251019

Well, in that case, I'd like to introduce our claws to the skulls of the missile-wielders first. Any objections?

>>7251019
as soon as everyone is clear, make them think they got the signal, why? the lulz.

>>7251019
We're out okay, then?

If possible, let's convince them telepathically that they got the signal, then fired (they might actually do this, of course) and killed all the intruding xenos. Give us a bit of cover.

>>7251033

>>7251032
>>7251033
>>7251037

Requesting Confirmation: Have Arbites blow up now-vacant station, or just kill them before they can?

>>7251079
BLOW IT UP! BLOW IT UP!

>>7251079

What the hell, let them blow it up.

>>7251079
At least for a while it would be good if they tought we were dead.

Confirmed: Explosives.

You relinquish your hold on the Arbites' minds, and they belatedly launch their missiles at the station - The boom echoes throughout the upper levels of the hive, as chunks of masonry go flying. You and your brood are already weaving your way through the business district at that point, though.

>>7251115
where to hide, where to hide...

>>7251148

There are ample parking garages in the district, some containing basement levels.

>>7251164
That works. Let's pick one and move in. They're unlikely to see a lot of use, given the state of emergency, which is rather convenient for us.

Just in case, let's have some of our psy-rippers set up a "nothing to see here" telepathic field, if possible.

>>7251148

Let's find a warm, damp place.

Now that I remember, we never examined the data the scout-rippers sent us about the huge creature in the water since we were preoccupied with finding a way up.
Do so now.

>>7251194
>>7251201

Parking garage across the street from an office building with a large pond: Selected.

You move down to the lowest level, which is approximately three stories belowground, and drop your Broodnest at last, the rippers scurrying out of the way as it lands.

>>7251224

Accessing...

Report: Scout Rippers verified that the creature is a native Xenos predator, likely one that lived in the Reservoir that the dam was holding back. The change in water patterns must have awakened it, and finding that its cage had been destroyed, it made its way out into the now-submerged underhive to explore its new territory.

>>7251272

Interesting. Aquatic or amphibious?

NAMNAMNAMNAMNAMNAMNAMNAM DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM LICTOOOOOOOOR!!!

>>7251280

The rippers were engulfed by a whirlpool and devoured before they had a chance to ascertain that.

>>7251272
Damn it!
We lost the opportunity to catch a fish THAT BIG.

>>7251289

Disturbing, but not important at the moment. It will be consumed when the fleet arrives.

Time untill arrival of the fleet?

>>7251327

2.75 days.

Your second Broodnest is 6 hours from completion.

>>7251338
could we biomorph any ranged weapons in that time?

>>7251347

Pretty much ANY ranged biomorph, up to and including a Harpoon Cannon.

>>7251364
>Harpoon Cannon
>Giant aquatic creature

SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER!

>>7251364
one second grabbing my nid codex (know you're enemy i like to say)

>>7251383

It's not in the current codex, it's in the upcoming one. My knowledge on it is a little hazy, but I think you can guess how it functions given its name.

>>7251394
I vote for the barbed strangler, unless someone wants something else?

>>7251394
pic related?

If we want a good workhorse Ranged weapon we cannot go wrong with a Devourer

/tg/ is getting weird tonight lads, so I've archived the thread for continuation when 4chan stabilizes.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7249875/

>>7251434
then i'm not the only one encountering problems, hmmm...

should we send out a few cloaked psyrippers while the nest sets up? also seconded for the deathspitter. we want something that leaves as little evidence as possible, so hungry hungry beetles are a plus

>>7251460
>moot
>~1 HOUR OF DOWNTIME COMING NOW-ISH.