Across Lakno's surface, lasers and plasma filled the sky, relentlessly reaping the bugs' lives. The green streams of fire erupting from the swarms likewise reaped the lives of the PDF.
Ever since the swarm invaded, the entire planet had been fighting.
Civilians helped transport ammunition.
Meanwhile, the Planetary Defense Force used every weapon on the planet to strike the Tyranid Bio-ships invading the system.
But there were too many enemies.
The Hive Ships released dense waves of drop pods, while smaller Bio-ships plunged straight into the planet's atmosphere.
Once the brutal ground war began, control of the enormous defensive turrets was soon lost.
Burrow Serpents tunneled into bunkers and punched through walls, opening enormous breaches through which Termagants and Hormagaunts poured into military strongholds.
A symphony of death rang out across the planet.
The large defensive arrays were usually positioned separately. This had originally been intended to spread out enemy orbital strikes, but now it had become a crippling weakness.
Without enough troops to defend them, these massive gun emplacements were soon overrun from the ground.
The loss of those large defensive arrays allowed the Tyranid bio-fleet to draw closer.
No one could forget that day, when Tyranid drop pods blotted out the entire sky. Genestealers that had infiltrated at some unknown point sabotaged the Void Shields protecting the fortresses and Hive Cities.
Gargoyles wheeled overhead in dark, seething clouds.
Every weapons array on the ground fired back frantically.
Tyranid Beasts filled the skies above fortresses and Hive Cities alike.
Sky Demons swooped down and destroyed most of the Valkyrie fighters and transports attempting to take off. The biological bombs they dropped continually destroyed the smaller weapons arrays.
Under the guidance of these special synapse creatures, Gargoyles swarmed alongside them, relentlessly attacking every living thing around them.
Blood and screams