Quote: (Jeridian @ Jan. 22 2010, 00:32 )
ragnorak- I find that highly unlikely, if Hive Tyrants are intelligent it is in the way a Wolf is, stalking a prey and analysing when it is weakest to strike.
This idea that it has 'grown' honour and declares challenges to other Special Characters is a little too cringeworthy for me.
It hasn't grown honour. It has merely grown to understand it.
For example, we have grown to understand the pecking order in packs of primates, or wolves. We know that if we make a big show of being bad ass, there is a good chance that the Alpha male will try to attack us. To prove to the others of its kind that it is the alpha male and can take on anything.
Just like the alpha male of a group of dirty apes. Calgar had to prove his worth and accept the challenge.
On the Necrons. I like how they are different from the other races of the galaxy. Now what I am about to say will go, someway, against my earlier argument that folding space is wrong for nids.
The universe has several more dimensions that the 3 spatial and one time based on that we notice. Next to or even on top of this universe is the warp. A parallel universe of energy and emotion.
The old ones learnt how to harness his alternate universe, for all sorts of things. Magik abilities, communication and travel. They passed this on to the other races that they spawned/created.
The Necron (or whatever they were called before they became toasters) never noticed this other universe. Instead they unlocked the secrets of ours, these extra dimensions that allow them faster than light travel TARDIS like structures and all the other tech they developed.
Now then the nids, who are not a creation of the old ones, could have developed either form of technology. Since they are a massively psychic race, it seems reasonable that they should notice the warp and learn how to harness it. Yet they seem to have found the technological version, using hidden dimensions, to travel FTL, yet they are the slowest FTL travellers (except maybe Tau). Despite using the fastest technology.
Heck even the Q’Orl have figured out a way to use the warp.