The Men of Iron Titan Ship fleets, the Necrons' World Engines, and the Tyranid Swarm's seemingly endless sea of Bio-ships and terrifying Tyranid Void Whales fought a brutal war of attrition across this vast expanse of void.
Steel shattered, flesh turned to ash, and psychic power collided with entropy energy, turning the stars into a chaotic graveyard.
The Men of Iron's losses were staggering. More than a third of their Titan Ships had become cold wreckage or spectacular explosions of self-destruction. Most of the survivors were damaged, and their nano-swarms could no longer repair them as quickly as the damage accumulated.
The Titan Ships had absorbed the most damage in the fighting and were the first forces to withdraw from the battlefield.
The surfaces of the Necrons' World Engines were covered in scars from corrosive biological acids and appalling impact craters. Several pyramid structures had been utterly destroyed by swarms erupting from within, and even the legions awakening in their stasis tombs were beginning to run short.
Soon after the Titan Ships disengaged, these colossal war fortresses also withdrew from the front lines to begin repairs.
Yet the price paid by the Tyranid Swarm was even more astronomical.
The biomass seized by the Men of Iron and converted into minerals was enough to build the planets of dozens of star systems.
The swarm organisms annihilated by the Necrons were beyond counting. Even the mighty Tyranid Void Whales had lost dozens of their number. Their carcasses drifted through the void, only to be coldly devoured and recycled by the swarms behind them, then transformed into new Bio-ships.
The swarm's numbers seemed truly endless.
The vast main body beyond the Milky Way continued pouring in without pause. They adapted, learned, and evolved, using sheer numbers to wear down the defenses little by