Attach zero importance to lives of their soldiers, as patterns can be copied and downloaded into new war machines.Ī little reading material for the poor souls who didn't grow up with TA: Fan elaboration on TA's background and the Great War, Total Annihilation intro video. Against a faction with almost identical technology and determination, have totalled an entire galaxy in four thousand years. Mass/energy transmutation, instantaneous travel via Galactic Gate network, ridiculously fast construction of everything, can harvest the metal and energy resources of an entire world in a matter of days and turn it into machines. Largest known ground combat unit: ' Krogoth' experimental Kbot.

Technology based on the 'nanolathe', capable of making just about anything weapons tech includes lasers, ballistic plasma cannon, antimatter-sliver artillery, short-ranged D-gun capable of wasting anything. Human sentience 'patterned' into machines, merged and resulting in a vast collective intelligence known as 'Central Consciousness'. Against the most badass elements of some of the most badass civilisations in all of speculative fiction, have devoured hundreds of worlds and taken large bites out of the galaxy in a few centuries.ĬORE: Flesh-hating Von Neumann swarm-esque mechanical civilisation, near-omniscient AI and resource technology - think the Culture gone bad. Largest known ground combat unit: ' Hierophant' bio-titan.Īttach no importance to lives of individual critters, they can always grow new ones.Ĭan consume the biomass and geothermal energy of an entire world in a matter of weeks. Weapons technology specialises in inflicting body horror on the unprotected with a variety of horrible and phallic weapons, but can likely be adapted against mechanicals, and also involves 'psychic blasts' effective against anything. Ability to breed specialised creatures for just about anything, particularly good with monsters consisting almost entirely of teeth. Controlled by a collective hive mind, mindless smaller individual creatures controlled psychically.

Tyranids: Textbook HordeOfAlienLocusts, stupidly advanced biological technology.

Anyone who knows TA will get it, and anyone who doesn't has missed out on one of the best RTS games of all time. Ran into this idea (WARNING! This is a link to 4chan, even if it is one of the nice boards - if you don't know what that is, DON'T CLICK) on /tg/ and it made me cry tears of joy.

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