nah, no way were the nids created by the old ones. they come from an entirely differant galaxy!!
but as for that galaxy: is it full of bare rocks? and what exactly IS the hive mind? is there some single entity that is IT or is the hive mind the thing reffered to as the link between the norn queens, and the norn queens are the highest up the chain you can go? that would make sense actually for the nids development. like an ant colony, the warrior ants became more specialized, became....welll....warriors. the 'queen ant' became the norn queen, and so on.
but like humans, nids developed a psyker tendency but they controlled it and honed it onto their own thing. |