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The Tyranid genus itself is comprised of many different species of creature that function together as one – all perfectly coordinated by the Hive Mind.

In battle, the Tyranids form a ferocious, unstoppable horde; chittering broods of scythe-limbed beasts racing beneath lumbering bio-titans and fearsome Hive Tyrants in an avalanche of bioengineered killing machines. Unrelenting and utterly merciless, the Tyranid genus is an unimaginable threat not only to Mankind, but the galaxy as a whole.

Believed to have migrated from beyond the known galaxy in search of new systems to consume, ravening swarms of Tyranids descend upon planets, stripping them of all life. Every living thing is consumed, brought back into the hive ships and dissolved into a rich biological gruel from which new organisms are grown. When the Tyranids move on in search of fresh prey, they leave nothing in their wake, save for a once living, breathing world transformed into nothing more than a scoured, barren rock.

THE EVER-CHANGING THREAT
Tyranids do not make their weapons and starships from metal and plastic, but use bioengineering and rapid evolutionary jumps to grow them from the living organic material harvested from the worlds they have devoured. The Tyranid hive fleets consist of millions of sentient craft, each home to untold billions of monstrosities. All these creatures are born to serve the single entity that is the ship, and the ship itself exists only as part of the horrific super-organism that is the hive fleet.

THE HIVE FLEET INVASION
Hive Fleet Behemoth was the first documented encounter between Mankind and the Tyranid race. An Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator station at Tyran identified a collection of worlds in the Eastern Fringe that had been stripped bare of their biomass and atmosphere. The station was subsequently attacked and consumed, but its observations allowed an Imperial Inquisitor named Kryptman to identify the pattern of attacks and predict the course of the hive fleet.

These extra-galactic entities were called "Tyranids" and were to prove unstoppable as they cut a swathe into the Ultramar system, the realm of the Ultramarines Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. Even the Chapter's immense martial power was not enough to stay the thousands of hive ships that descended upon Prandium, the beautiful garden world which was once known as the Jewel of Ultramar. Finally, Chapter Master Marneus Calgar mustered everything he could for a last ditch defense of the Ultramarines' homeworld of Macragge.

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