The Lost Beast

By: Huntermjiolnir

Prelude

Tyranids. Bloody-thirsty ravenous beasts that live only to feed, like locusts they move from world to world devouring all in their path. Wrapped in titanium-hard chitin, armed with razor-sharp scythe claws and acid spewing bio-guns. Mouths filled to the brim with pointed, serrated teeth they can take down any that stand in their path. They move fight and breed through a psychic hive-mind that can span entire galaxies.

Many scholars have wondered what would happen if one were to cut off a single tyranid from the hive-link. Would the creature perish, the shock from the disconnect killing it? Or would it's biological processes force it to evolve to live without the hive-link. Scholars would never know that the universe has a sense of humor, for this very scenario happened.