![]() Unfortunately, the Night Lords decided to try and take the Pharos for their own nefarious ends, and in order to save his best friend, Captain Alexis Polux of the Imperial Fists, Dantioch overloaded the Pharos Beacon. To stop their ships from bumping into things, clever Roboute made a mini-Astronomicon to light the way through the storm. You see, those pesky Word Bearers had whipped up a Ruinstorm, making travel across the void a bit tricky. During the Horus Heresy, Roboute Guilliman and the Ultramarines were using a “stellar lighthouse” called the Pharos on the planet Sotha to navigate across Ultramar. Specifically, we can thank Loyalist Warsmith Dantioch of the Iron Warriors. The Tyranids are a threat from outside our galaxy and while they may have arrived here regardless, there is one specific event (and person!) we can point to as the catalyst for their invasion. Why? Well, if the Tyranids win, they’ll digest all the biological material on the planet, including the corpses of their fallen fighters (talk about loyalty!) – effectively sterilising the planet before moving onto the next world in their way. When Tyranids come into contact with other species, they have a tendency towards throwing endless swarms of monstrous horrors into the meat grinder without ca ring much about losses. While it’s tempting to think of each horrifying creature as a distinct entity, that’s not strictly accurate it might be better to conceive of each invading Tyranid hive fleet as a kind of mega-organism consisting of trillions of individual specialised parts controlled by a sort-of gestalt consciousness. We’ll dive into Tyranid physiology more in a future Lore Explainer but for now you need to know that Tyranids are xenos bioforms originating from outside the Milky Way galaxy, driven by an unending desire to devour and digest all the organic matter they come across. Credit: Rockfish What is a Tyranid, Anyway? ![]() With that out of the way, let’s have an extremely brief Xenology lesson to fill you in on the finer details of the creepy crawlies coming out of the darkness. So as we once again dive into the existential threat posed by the skittering, chittering Tyranid menace, we wanted to take a moment to look at how we got here, and talk about the history between the noble Ultramarines and the ravenous Tyranids.īefore we begin, we should note that this was written with a preview copy of Leviathan supplied by Games Workshop for review purposes. With 10th edition on our doorstep, Games Workshop have shifted the narrative focus away from Abaddon’s attempts to push the Imperial Doomsday clock one minute closer to midnight and instead are looking at a new threat posed by the Tyranid menace, but from an older hive fleet.
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