Re: [Epic] Tyranids vs Tyranids

From: Tyler Provick <bprovick_at_...>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 18:10:40 -0400

>Also, some recent fluff mentioned that hormogaunts do breed separately from
>other Tyranid creatures. From some other fluff, it was hinted that
>Dominatrices are the brood mother of the Tyranids creatures - termagaunts,
>lictors and so on. However hormogaunts seem to be able to breed by
>themselves (ala Aliens ?). In some cases when a Tyranid force was beaten
>off, surviving Hormogaunts are able to breed by themselves, laying eggs (?)
>underground, and later emerging. The funny thing is that it has been
>documented (in the fluff at least) that these Hormogaunts basically killed
>all other life forms on the planet and later turned upon one another. Pretty
>much like an Alien spin-off story done by the Dark Horse comics.

I remember something about that, how they hatch when triggered by the
movement of a humanoid or similarly sized (or larger) creature nearby,
otherwise they lie dormant. When they hatch they burst out of the ground,
and from that point no-one cares that they lost control of their bowels

Tyler
Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 22:10:40 UTC