Codex Tyranids 2nd Edition Scribd Reviews
OM NOM NOM!!! 'This isn't a war,' said the artilleryman.
'It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out Of Something Zip. ' Wells, The War of the Worlds 'We cannot live through this. Mankind cannot live through this. In a single day they have covered this planet with a flood of living blades and needle-fanged mouths. Kill one, and ten take its place. If they are truly without number, then our race is doomed to a violent death before every shred of our civilisation is scoured away by a force more voracious than the fires of hell themselves. By the Machine God, Death is here!'

- The last words of Magos Varnak The Tyranids (early 2000's horror movie aliens in SPEEHS, often shortened to simply nids) are a race of extragalactic 'alien locust' in, that seemingly exist only to devour, evolve into a more perfect species and grow in numbers. They are extremely adaptable, and frequently engineer and modify traits and characteristics in their genome, by devouring other unfortunate species into their own, in order to As a result, they are constantly evolving and becoming more dangerous. The Tyranids are most commonly seen in the galaxy in the form of, large collections of space faring organisms that are capable of transporting and birthing the smaller strains of the species, as they travel from world to world, attack and consume all biomass on/in that planet, leaving it a lifeless rock. Even bacteria and archaea are consumed from the atmosphere. They are probably one of the oldest races when you think about it, and are, together with Orks and Necrons (if they dont wipe the orks and maybe destroy the necrons), probably going to win this galactic war. For this reason pretty much every faction in the galaxy sees Tyranids as the ultimate threat and to fight them.