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Moar Warhammer! MOAR WARHAMMER!

And a bit of homebrew at that! I may not have the money for books or plastic crack, but I can still look at things from others and make my own things! Tyranids are a pain in the ass to draw, but I'll at least try to draw what a normal Kokabiel Tyranid looks like + custom Genestealer unit(s). If I don't get too distracted, at least.

Some 'Nid content. Hive Fleet Kokabiel, the name derived from a (fallen) angel with the name translating to "Star of God," making Kokabiel the "Angel of the Stars" or "Star Angel." This hive fleet is primarily albino due to a fleet-wide primary defect that is only averted with focus from the Norn Queen during unit production, with an oily, iridescent sheen as a workaround to mitigate radiation damage that would normally be the job of melanin. Because of this defect, Kokabiel tends to be the target of other hive fleets for weakness. Because of the specialized nature of Genestealer Patriarchs, they tend to be made with darker colors, primarily on the carapace, and even then they're prone to paler eye colors, lighter-colored speckles and piebaldism/leucism, which is inherited by the resulting Genestealer brood, even the Contagii. The dark carapaces of Patriarchs, Broodlords, and other shelled Genestealers also tend to retain iridescence.

The primary tactic of Kokabiel is the usage of Genestealers and their associated cults and abilities, such as familiars. A particularly bizarre behavior of this fleet is its treatment of non-purebreed/metamorph genestealers. Though many will still be eaten along with rest of the non-tainted humans, this is not the fate of all hybrids. Hybrids such as the Magii, Primus, Locii, Clamavus, Sanctus, and specialized Gyrophage pilots are often let aboard the fleet's bio-vessels without hostility or resistance. They may also bring on those that had apparently done something of great renown for the cult, from ambitious Biophagus to Brood Brothers that showed particular zeal and combat prowess in combat as the Hive Fleet descended. In some cases, those of particularly great presence and power may be brought to "ascend," a strange process that seemingly converts the individual into a wholly Tyranid organism, with "genetic memory" close to that of a Hive Tyrant.

One of such "ascendant" figures is a beast known infamously as "The Stone," known in hybrid life as Ualoc Buer, Knight pilot of the now-barren planet of Kasyayd. For laying waste to the non-tainted members of the now-extinct House Leyme, both the pilot and their knight were awarded a new, immortalized form. Through the metamorphosis, they emerged from the galls of the fleet as one, a Gyrophage with no need of a pilot and a massive stature, shell as bright as shimmering as fire, its rolling assault akin to that of an all-obliterating shockwave.

I'm not sure what to call the weapon it's holding, but I know that it'd be Genestealer force weapon.

I hope you like it!