Horde of Alien Locusts: Difference between revisions

* The Tyranid Hive Fleets of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' have been encroaching on the 40k galaxy for centuries. If they take a world, they kill and devour every living thing (taking useful traits from the creatures to improve their hordes of bio-engineered monsters), eat the soil, drink the oceans and suck up the atmosphere. They also use [[The Virus]] in the form of the [[Alien|Xenomorph]]-esque Genestealers to destabilize potential opposition. It is implied that they have already stripped at least one galaxy of all available biomass, and their current campaign of destruction is merely the next course. Largely inspired by the Xenomorphs from Alien.

** And it's implied that the Tyranids are running from something--but what could scare a Horde of Alien Locusts? If it is something that can scare the Tyranids, a race literally built around the concept of [[Determinator]] and [[Implacable Man|The Implacable Man]], with some of the bigger beasts reaching all the way up to [[The Juggernaut|Juggernaut]] status, I shudder to think of what kind of potentially [[Eldritch Abomination|unholy creatures]] they are, and if/when they will arrive.

** Forget implied. The 5th edition rulebook (page 166) directly says that they have consumed ''a dozen galaxies'' prior to coming to the one we know and love.

** It might have something to do with the [[Our Zombies Are Different|Necrons]], as it's implied that Tyranids make a point of staying far away from Necron tomb-worlds. It would make sense when you consider that Tyranids and Necrons are polar opposites. Think about it: the Tyranids exist to continually grow and expand until they're the only living things left, while the Necrons exist only to exterminate every single living thing for their [[Eldritch Abomination|C'tan]] masters.

** The Witchlight Marauders. A sequential bioweapon made by the Orcs during the Unhuman Wars with the intention of [[Kill'Em All|completely devastaing entire Elven worlds]] via consumption and ultraviolence. After they kill every living thing on the planet they then turn on themselves. <ref>For those interested, the cycles unfolds as such: The space marauders (1000' crocodilian heads with sails and tentacles) would launch primary marauders (200' ravenous slugs) at enemy worlds. The primaries would proceed to devour ''everything'' in their path and periodically eject 2-20 secondary marauders (20' tall vaguely humanoid monsters with metal teeth and claws) which were [[Berserk Button|obsessed with killing anything elven]]. The secondaries, once full of hot fey meat, would then (you guessed it) birth 1-4 tertiary marauders (5' tall humanoid berserkers with swords for hands) just as hungry as their progenitors. Once the primaries got their fill of sylvan carnage they'd burrow deep into the ground and split into two new primaries to start the grisly cycle all over again.</ref>

** The [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Clockwork Horrors]] which are like the Witchlight Marauders except that they're tiny metal spiders with death rays and buzz saws.