Lyric Suite
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According to old 90s fluff the Tyranids come from another galaxy that they have already consumed. They are on an never-ending quest for genetic material to use, and have arrived to 40k galaxy to carry on their feast. Their hivemind is akin an overpowered psyker force (a "shadow" over the warp) that protects the Tyranids from Chaos influence and - as a side effect - hides the Astronomicon and disables human psyker communication.Where do Tyranids come from?
Who created the Tyranids?
Are they affected by the Chaos Gods at all?
IIRC (4th edition?), there have been some hints that the Tyranids are actually running away from something, although this has since been pretty much ignored/forgotten.
The only thing they'd be running from is starvation.