Atlantis Gaming Group

The hive fleet had moved into Tar-Etranel’s gravity well, inexorably drawn to the planet’s biomass as a moth is to flame. Unlike the countless planets before this one, though, this planet’s inhabitants would be no easy meal. Tar-Etranel was no stranger to war, its paradise-like setting making it a prime target for Imperial colonization attempts. The remains of those settlements across the planet bore testament to the fact that, peaceful or not, the Exodites would fight to the bitter end. Long before the Tyranid fleet had entered the system a plan of action had been decided upon by the Seer Councils, a plan that was implemented before the first organisms were able to make landfall. Sacrifices made by other Eldar had taught them much of the Tyranids, both strengths and weakness. One of the greatest discoveries was a way to manipulate the lesser bioforms using the pheremones the used to communicate. With the glands from a captured Lictor, the Exodites baited a trap for the Tyranids on the outskirts of one of the many failed Imperial villages. The plan was to use the settlements location and the human ordanance left behing to augment the weaponry that had been gathered. With the ambush laid the Exodites had nothing left but to wait…