The brunt of this new attack was borne by the Space Marine Chapters known as the Scythes of the Emperor and the Lamenters the former Chapter was almost completely destroyed. Two centuries later, the Tyranids returned to the galaxy with Hive Fleet Kraken which, instead of throwing one mass of troops against the Imperium, split into countless smaller fleets, each small fleet enveloping whole star systems before reinforcements could arrive. And yet, after the battle it was discovered that the Hive Fleet had split and they had only fought one half however, a major Imperial fleet was able to destroy the other half.

This first prong, the Hive Fleet Behemoth, was barely stopped at the Battle of Macragge in 745.M41 by the might of the entire Ultramarines Chapter supported by PDF troops and planetary defense structures, still suffering terrible casualties – including their entire 1st Company to the last man – in the process. It is speculated their Hive Mind was drawn by the Astronomican's psychic beacon.įirst contact with the Tyranids for the Imperium of Man was an attack on a moon called Tyran, which gave the species its Imperial name. They first appeared in the eastern fringes of the galaxy in late M41, emerging from the intergalactic space of the Local Group and heading toward the center of the galaxy. The origin of the Tyranids is utterly unknown.

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