"The energy connection is routed here."
As a vanguard planet resisting the Tyranids.
This place naturally became a testing ground for Gamma World's energy experiments.
Sigismund looked at the transport convoy before them. "I hope the C'tan energy the rear has been talking about is powerful enough!"
The chitinous carapaces covering the Tyranids' bodies could withstand their most powerful energy weapons.
Laser weapons and plasma weapons were terribly ineffective against the Tyranids. They had to use automatic rifles with larger-caliber rounds, fully automatic rifles, to deal with those Tyranid forces.
Although Gamma World's Gauss Rifles were useful and could directly disintegrate matter, they had little effect on node organisms such as Hive Tyrants. Those creatures could directly consume the biomass within their bodies and endlessly recover from their injuries, unless Gauss Weapons were deployed on a massive scale.
"The Governor has ordered us to hold this place."
"At least thirty-six Tyranid ships have entered this star system so far."
"Thirty-six."
Even more forces were still on their way.
Once they discovered that there was edible "food" here, Tyranid fleets stretching across several light-years would pour in through this breach.
At present, Tyranid fleets spanning hundreds of thousands of light-years had already wrapped around half of the Milky Way.
The Tyranid fleets stretching hundreds of thousands of light-years might outnumber even the entire Milky Way.
Perhaps every extragalactic galaxy beyond the Milky Way had already been devoured by the Tyranids.
But before that arrived, what stood before them was merely a small tendril branching off from one of the Tyranids' tentacles. The Hive Fleet they faced was not especially large.
The number of Tyranids in a single fleet could reach hundreds of millions, even a billion soldiers.
Thirty-six fleets amounted to only a little over thirty billion bugs.
They were nowhere