WH40k - Tyranid Project

I try to memorize as much information as possible from the different screens, but most of the cameras are either broken or pointing to no useful place.

There are some useful areas of information though, mainly about the next biomes. Sea, ice, jungle… how did they put all of this into a lab? Should have cost a few billion or so.

There are traces of webway stone, so forget about money. Every kilogram of that stone can be sold for a whole human city.

"Okey, that's a lot. We could get our hands in a few space stones of that and buy a city's worth of food, what do you say Norn?"

Yesyeyyeysysyyeysyeysysss!

"Darwin? How can we grab that stone?"

It doesn't work like that, we need a very advanced space-time control of reality and energy manipulation to gather the stones and build things like this lab. It probably is an old aeldari outpost that got ransacked millennia ago and some military organization discovered. We are in a pocket dimension of sorts.

"Wow, I want it. So bad. F.u.c.k the food, I want my own pocket world."

HEY!! Don't insult the food! But yes, we could store more food in the dimension.

Uhh… we need to find some Aeldari craftworld and convince them to separate the webway stones from this spacepoint, repair them and then give it to us.

"You make it sound kind of harsh. So this, Aeldari, are they like, willing to help others?"

Hahahhaha, oh my maker! Tell another one! Hahaha… ahhh,, no , no. They are a bunch of prideful racists, despite being a dying race. Bunch of pointy ears…

"Oh shit, space elves? We're f.u.c.k.e.d. Those are a prideful bunch of f.u.c.kers filled with malice and prejudices against other races."

Like you? I don't see you being quite open minded!

"Well, almost every being I have met is trying to either kill me, hurt me or eat me, sometimes all three of them in any order. So yeah, I'm quite concerned about my security.

And what about you?! You treat every single living being as food, isn't that like…. Racist?"

"Kai, I see prey as food because that's what they are or will be. I don't see myself above them or hate them, I just want to kill them, eat them and keep busy in my own things. Like, kill and eat."

"Uhhuhhh… yeah, sure. Not a bit psycho at all…"

As we keep speaking the floor has trembled a couple of times.

I don't like it. Whatever the battle is outside this place, could blast all of us into nothingness quite easily from the images I saw. I want a spaceship so bad… WE CAN HAVE ONE? MANY?

Ohhh god, I am so pumped up now. Now we just need… to play some mind games.

I go into the dark room full of decayed matter and try to salvage as much useful biomass as I can, then I began to summon units…

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The corridor is in silence, the spiders have long set the web in place to avoid any intruders to pass and disturb the mother-queen.

One of the younger spiders has picked up something, it seems some long-bug, the ones that attacked a few days ago, hurting their brothers and sisters.

The spider soon detects more of them, bloated and slow, the dangerous ones!

She quickly begins to move some key threads alerting the whole nest into life.

More and more arachnids began to appear and took positions, waiting for their prey to get closer to the trap.

It is weird, the long-bugs are walking straight to the web…

The first of them just arrived to the web's side and begins to pour some foul liquid that burns the webs and emits toxic fumes. All spiders are in high alert! What is that liquid! It's dangerous.

The mother-queen is monitoring everything from the nests' chambers. The orders are set, capture them, and eat their flesh to grow. Soon, our kind will dominate the great rift against the fly-things! Death to the fly-things.

Our brothers and sisters jump and through the web to the bugs, capturing them in a quick and decisive action. The smaller spiders attacked while the bigger ones throw the webs in an agile and elaborate collaboration.

We soon capture all of them; their destiny is sealed in webs.

The bugs, now immobilized are soon pushed over to the tunnel that goes right into the nest.

A few minutes later, they are presented before the mother-queen.

But then, more enemies are arriving to our doors! Bigger bugs with huge pincers that use to cut thread after thread until they are either stuck or surrounded by drone brothers that kill them.

Again, we use silk to wrap them and sent them to the queen's sacred chambers.

It keeps happening every few hours. We grow used to their strategies and optimize our hunting strategy. Not a single one of them can pass our superior senses and infinite view. We stand.

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Aaaand, that was the last one.

I wait for a few more minutes and keep checking the spider nest. The situation is exactly how I hoped for. They are a weird kind of eusocial nest of spiders. Despite the lack of sense it makes to me, the smaller spiders act like guardians to the designed post.

And they are not too lucid. "They kept capturing each and every unit I sent; not knowing they are getting closer to their doom! Hahahahah."

Weirdo laugh… huhuhuhu. Stupid.

"Always a joy to hear you Norn huhhh.. Okey."

I sent some telepathic orders and there is a chemical reaction happening inside the nest, most of the cocoons are emitting a black smoke that keeps spreading and poisoning the air.

The spiders are entering into chaos mode, not knowing what to do, most of them going back into the nest, blocking the other spiders trying to escape from the poison.

It was really useful to unlock the Spore biomorph to level 3. I can now implant a small bio-organ into each unit I create. I put venom in most of them and pincers in others, all that effort to try to destroy the web obstruction in the corridor.

It partially worked. And now it's our turn.

A new set of units spreads from the corridor, with me into the ranks to fight our way to the door and escape.

I put a bomb unit on top of my head so it can function as an improvised cannon, spreading venom and acid everywhere there are webs and silk.

I keep pumping venom into it and spores, so the unit does not run out of juice for the time being. When we are almost arriving to the door's frame I hear a loud crack, then another.

This distraction leads to a couple of spiders jumping at me and biting my side. It hurts quite a bit, but my reinforced chitin helps to keep the damages to a minimum. With a slash from my tail I chop them both and pick one to keep eating and gaining a few more points.

Desperate times indeed.

I turn and, horrified, I see the poisoned and fully angered giant spider smashing its body against the glass. Fuuuck, quick, fighters, to the hinges! Break them asap! The prior damage to the door and acid mixture made the work slightly more easy, but its a f.u.c.k.i.n.g huge metal reinforced door!

Who the hell installs this kind of door into a lab? What would happen if they run out of electrici…. CRACHHSHHH

"Oh f.u.c.k!!" I turn again and I see half of the spiders body out of the room. There is a huge black smoke cloud getting out of there and most of the spiders that were in the nest either died or are rendered too poisoned to fight.

But some spiders keep falling from the ceiling and the ventilation grid. Half of the fighters have to stop the breaking process and fight to keep the spiders far from us.

As I keep losing more and more units I have to burn more and more biomass to gain energy and compensate the unit's loss.

The situation keeps stable for a minute or so until the spider manages to break part of the glass that was keeping here inside the room and falls unto the ground.

She seems feeble and weak, but the poison is just an annoyance to her and the crystal did not manage to cause major wounds I could use as weak spots. And she is huge, freaking huge for me to try to fight it head on.

I then decide to summon a couple more bomb units, spending more energy and biomass from my already low reserve. With that I grab one with my tail and with a swing, send it flying next to the queen. Then I grab the second and repeat the process, but fail due to another spider attacking me and throwing more web onto my body. Goddammit.

The little unit on top of me starts to pour acid to melt the threads and then, I see how the queen is already starting to walk to get us.

"We're running low on time!!! How is the door?! WHAT! C'mon, we need to work faster, now!!"

The bombs start to walk slowly and attach themselves to the spider, one on a rear leg and the other in the abdomen, the spider isn't even paying them attention. It will be your loss then.

I swing my tail against the door and manage to finally break one of the three main hinges that are holding the door. One less! Two to go.

She is now at 15 meters, and getting near step by step… f.u.c.k.

I sent a couple of fighters to try to gain some time.

They attack her and even manage to hurt one of its legs, but that only enrages her even more, she then proceeds to turn her back at us and start shooting huge amounts of webs, trapping both the mites and even catching me on the net.

The mite in my head begins to pour some poison, but it is way less effective. I then use the spores and burn the last reserves of biomass to gain a few seconds worth of energy.

"Why is she not being affected by the poison?! Those fumes were filled with venom designed to break apart cells and I don't see that happening! Norn?!!! Any advice?

A catalyst?! Seriously!!! I asked you before to make a big boom with fire and now you ask me to somehow cause her critical damage?! Okeey! I'm on it."

The spores begin to corrode a huge section of the webs and keep damaging the door at the same time. With quite a big amount of frustration I pick the unit on top of my head, the little bomber and prepare…

The spider turns again and keeps walking to us… 8 meters, 7, 6...5… 4. I can see every little detail of the huge and bloated body, there seems to be tissue damage here and there, but it's far from enough. 3 meters, she is over us!!!! "NOW!!!"

* BOOM BOOMM!!!

Two explosions happen at the same time and pick by surprise the spider, one at her back legs and another on her torax, hurting her badly with venom, toxins, acid and pieces of chitin shrapnel. She then screams of pain, badly hurt.

Then, I through the last bomb into her mouth and I see her doubt for a second; I smile and blink at her, then…. BOOMMM!!!

Half of her face explodes and melts at the same time. Her whole body breaks apart and falls to the ground. The amount of damage she could sustain is incredible. Way beyond I expected.

I go on top of her head and chomp at her, breaking apart her head and digging to try to find a little piece of crystal, that right now holds a lot of value to me. Aaaaand, there it is. Nice.

A core the size of a small egg. It's huge, compared to the pea sized of the first bird and the pebble size of the second. This one is twice as huge in comparison. And now it's mine.

I fall to the ground and rest for a few seconds, too exhausted to think of anything.

Hey! Hey, wake up! BE Careful!!!

"What?! Oh shit!!!"

Another bunch of spiders start to pour out of the nest! Where did this one get from!

I sent the last 3 fighters to protect me while I eat the flesh of the queen, it tastes horrible, but is also so full of energy and rich biomass. I keep eating and eating until I cannot gather anything more. Then I go to the door and start to slash at the broken area to make a pass to myself, i use the spores, a bomber and even my tail to pry and try to open an overture.

After a few seconds and several cracked areas near my tail, I accomplish it and make a small opening, I then use my mouth to try to make it big enough to pass.

I keep a little attention to the battle next to me as I am fully focused on scaping.

But then I feel some huge vibrations again,,, what the hell…

I turn and see another huge spider, despite being half the size of the queen, it seems to be at 70 to 100 kilograms, more than twice my weight, and I am quite tired already, without much reserves nor units. I have to run.

The spider sees me and roars angrily, then starts a mad sprint. The fighters keep attacking it, but it's size alone is enough to keep advancing.

I try to pass through the whole but nearly get stuck, I ate too much, damnit!

I manage to pass 2 legs and start to push.

"Norn c'monnn!! Make the chitin weaker or something for a few seconds! YOU ASKED ME TO EAT, now help me!!! We're gonna get eaten!!!"

It has been a horrible decision to eat so much without thinking.

I keep the spores activated and manage to push 2 more legs, I'm halfway, but some chitin plaques are stuck and it getting quite hard to do anything.

The fighter keep dying and I feel the huge spider getting near me. I start to swing my tail blindly to scare it while I keep pushing and making my best effort to get through. Then the worst happened, the spider has catches my tail with threads and is starting to push it to the other side. Fuuuckkk.

"No no no no! Aghhhhhg, Darwin! Can you detach it from our body???"

Yes but it will be difficult to reconstruct it with…

"JUST DO IT!" I feel pain in my lower back and then the biomorph gets separated from my body. With that, I manage to pass my last pair of legs and jump far from the door.

F.u.c.k… That was way too close…