Grey Knights and chaos strike at Tyranid menance

With Hive Fleet Poseidon gaining momentum in the Rifts of Hecate, Inquisitorial agents sounded an urgent alarm regarding the escalating Tyranid threat. Despite these warnings, General Maximus declined to launch an offensive against the xenos, citing insurmountable logistical challenges. In response, the Inquisition acted independently, securing the cooperation of the Grey Knights—an unusual intervention for the elite daemon-hunters but justified given the grave risk posed by Poseidon’s hive mind.

The Grey Knights, accompanied by a Knight Preceptor deployed to Mendesum, a world recently fallen to Tyranid infestation. Their mission: locate and eliminate a critical hive node to disrupt the Tyranids’ planetary absorption process and gain valuable time to fortify Imperial defences at the Hecate Gap. The strike force swiftly identified a primary node and launched a relentless assault, but they encountered fierce resistance as Tyranid warriors, compelled by the hive mind, defended the node with lethal ferocity.

In the midst of this struggle, the Knight Preceptor was struck down by a Neurolictor—an insidious Tyranid biomorph capable of targeted psychic assault. The creature’s potent psychic influence breached the Knight’s mental defences, inducing a fatal brain aneurysm in the pilot and reducing the towering war machine to wreckage. Yet, despite this setback, the Grey Knights rallied, cutting through the xenos defenders to strike down the hive node. Its destruction temporarily destabilised the hive mind’s control over the Tyranid forces, interrupting the biomass consumption process and buying precious time for Imperial forces in the sector.

In a separate but parallel event, a World Eaters warband descended on Mendesum, drawn to the Tyranid threat by their lust for worthy combat. These Chaos Marines independently discovered another hive node, which they attacked in a brutal assault, managing to hold their position long enough to severely damage the structure. Though most of the World Eaters perished, their efforts inflicted a further blow to the Tyranid network, exacerbating the disarray within the hive fleet’s ranks.

Despite these setbacks, Hive Fleet Poseidon’s advance was far from halted. The temporary disruption on Mendesum bought the Imperium a reprieve, but the Tyranid threat remains vast, relentless, and resolute, poised to renew its assault on the Rifts of Hecate with undiminished hunger.