Fall of Shadowbrink

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The fall of the planet Shadowbrink demonstrates the first time that Games Workshop actually allowed the Tyranids (Tyranids) to win a fight, rather than being defeated at the last moment by the surprise appearance of a named character with plot armour or a miracle maguffin device. It focuses on an Imperial owned world named Shadowbrink which was put on the special order menu by the Tyranid Hive Mind, but there was a secret which only the Governor and the Inquisition knew about that went as well as expected.

In late M41, a fleet of Hive Fleet Leviathan set it's all devouring sights upon the planed of Shadowbrink. The usual response after seeing this coming, with the exception of having more guns than Cadia, is to shit yourself, before evacuating the planet and leaving it to the swarm to pick apart like a roast chicken. This time however, the planetary Governor refused to evacuate the planet and instead told everyone to dig in, buckle up and get ready for a party.

The real unknown reason for this was because there was some ancient technology from the Dark Age of Technology deep underground that was constantly guarded by a permanent detachment of Grey Knights and Librarians. It was essentially a Star Gate type device, but all they knew was that it held some Alpha Level warp fuckery inside, and so the Imperium were trying to work it out and shut it down before something bad happened.

Eventually the fleet arrived and wiped out all planetary defences within about 3 hours, a Sci Fi version of what happened when France got invaded in the late 1930s. With nothing stopping them and dinner bells ringing, the Tyranids made planetfall and started eating everything in sight.

With the population outnumbered 20 to 1, all major cities began to fall as they got closer to the beacon broadcasting from the device. The Grey Knights themselves were forced to commit to the fight, but only ended up delaying the tide like a fly hitting a windshield. While all this was happening, the device began to change. All the bloodshed and terror caused by the all-you-can-eat buffet above was charging the gate, resulting it a warp gate flying open unleashing a whole host of daemons ready to get a fight started of their own.

The host was led by the infamous Quadrifold Abominatum, a four man boyband of badassery that have been kicking ass and taking names for millennia. All of them were Greater Daemons. Out came The Great Unclean One Shub'Luth'Gug, the Bloodthirster Hak'Vasha, the Lord of Change K'rix'xi'kra, and the Keeper of Secrets Lesh'Jae'Thi'Hah, ready to fuck shit up.

Since daemons don't really do much for the Tyranids since they can't eat them, Tyranids have always ignored them. This time however, they were forced to confront them as they were so mad that someone had beat them to the dinner table and were raging to fight the first thing in sight. This led to a huge bust up between the Hive Fleet forces and the Daemons.

With the daemons being notorious for kicking ass, and the Tyranids famous for adapting to things and changing their fighting techniques and even their biology to defeat threats, the fight went on and on until reaching a stalemate. One of the Greater Daemons grew some balls and decided to finish this by leading a charge at the biggest Nid he could see. Unfortunately he was ambushed by Zoanthropes who used the shadow in the warp to one-shot him back into the warp.

Pissed off by this, his colleagues decided to avenge his banishment... except for the Lord of Change K'rix'xi'kra. He claimed "fuck this shit" and ran back to the portal.