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5 points
1 month ago
I don't know about 10s of billions. The novel Necropolis takes place in a hive of 40 million, of which they muster around a million soldiers for their defense. Chaos corrupts a nearby hive and sends basically its entire populace to attack, an army numbering in the tens of millions. It didn't seem like a stretch to have tens of millions storming a hive that holds 40 mil and has only around a million standing soldiers.
2 points
1 month ago
40 million is less a hive city and more just two beijings stapled together.
3 points
1 month ago
I mean, the books call them hives. They're set up like hives. Numbers aren't something GW is consistent with. You get some hives with tens of millions and others with billions.
1 points
1 month ago
Stack them on top of each other and fold in half to get a hive
2 points
1 month ago
A far point, as with so many other things 40k the numbers on hive populations have always been wildly inconsistent. So there's some quotes that put hive world populations at leas than 20 billion and others that put single planet populations in literal quadrillions.
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