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''Hydrastealer''... or is it ''Genedralisk''?

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I was playing around with the idea of what would happen i a group of genestealers absorbed zerg- in this case, hydralisk-DNA over time to make use of the hydralisks abilities and enhance their predator elements. Seeing how big the conversion community is within the 40K players and painters this could actually be a mini somewhere, sometime in the future (if it doesn't exist already, I didn't check).

So I pictured this: Somewhere, sometime a tyranid hive ship or two would have made it into the warp, fighting chaos forces and whatnot, right? And under various, mysterious circumstances it may have dropped out of the warp. Given that the warp is independent of space and time, but only chaos it could be dropped anywhere in any time... the Koprulu sector, perhaps? From there the genestealers of course teamed up with a an outsider zerg hive, co-operating with the zerg forces there to hunt and feed, gaining their trust and reproducing in secrecy (I imagine the zerg hive wouldn't look to kindly on the genestealers reproduction rituals). As this would go on for the next 4-5 generation of Contagii, Maelignaci, Hybrids, True Hybrids and finally Primacii, the zerg offspring would not only develop into this form of reproduction instead of larvae-spawning but adapt and mutate along with the 4-5 stages of infiltration generations. Finally being strong enough to cull the weak from the strong the (in this case) genstealer/hydralisk hybrids would destroy all of the weaker zerg, feeding off of them while keeping the zerg strong enough along with the genestealer hybrids, hunting for survival,trying to grow in numbers and expand.

The Hydrastealer, Genedralisk, whatever, was fun to draw, lots of teeth and claws, just up my alley. As you can see the paper was too small for the drawing but I decided not to redo it because everything fitted except for the tail, a trait from the hydralisk. Hope you like it! :D
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like what you did by the way