Feared
throughout the galaxy, the Tyranids are a race with a single purpose, capable
of only one thought — evolution. Imperial records have traced the evolution
of the Great Devourer since it first came to the galaxy. The sum total of
their findings can be found here, in the Tyranid Archives.
"There is a cancer eating at the Imperium. With each decade it advances deeper, leaving drained, dead worlds in its wake. This horror, this abomination, has thought and purpose which functions on an unimaginable, galactic scale and all we can do is try to stop the swarms of bio-engineered monsters it unleashes upon us almost by instinct. We have given the horror a name to salve our fears; we call it the Tyranid race, but if it is aware of us at all it must know us only as Prey."
- Inquisitor Czevak at the Conclave of Har,
from the Har Transcriptorium.
With the release of the splendid Tyranid range, we thought it
would be rude not to give Andy Chambers some serious column inches to talk
us through his brainchild, Codex: Tyranids.
Graham McNeill reviews the history and beginnings of this most feared and fearsome race in the galaxy.
