A cult rises

[cptdode]

The idea behind this thread is to create a backstory to support my coming Genestealer cult, with the story intended to gore as my collection grows.


In this universe there are many predators which gnaw on the bones of it's prey and claw at their sanity. There is however one, one whom even these incomprehensible horrors fear, and this is the Genestealer.
A Genestealer is a truly hideous beast, adorned with four ferocious limbs, the first pair being solely devoted to the sheer destruction of it's prey and the second set a twisted mockery of humanities own hands. These limbs are supplemented with a stocky body fueling impossible feats of strength only surpassed by a totally alien cunning allowing these beasts an unrivalled ability to learn every nook and cranky of its environment. As if these beasts already frightening arsenal weren't capable of bringing nightmares to the most battle hardened veterans they are able to move with wraith like speed and purpose giving few the opportunity of escape.
However it is not these traits which strike the most primal of fears into the very souls of all creatures, for the greatest of this legendary beasts weapons comes from an unlikely source, it's tongue. For the tongue has been adapted into an ovipositor in which this species may forcibly infect new hosts with its own genetic seed.

And this is where our story begins, with a solitary Genestealer at the forefront of the Hive Fleet Fenris stowing aboard an inconspicuous civilian cargo freight heading deep into imperial space.

I hope you enjoyed reading this narrative and will gratefully receive criticisms to help forge the narrative and inform my modelling decisions

CptDode

[cptdode]

Deep within the belly of the great leviathan built of steel and iron, the Genestealer slumbered, it had suppressed its bestial urges to hunt and consume the plentiful supply of prey which scuttled all around it. The Norn queen of the Hive Fleet Fenris had managed to refine it's Genestealers more than any other Fleet before it, replacing the normally fanged maw with a series of feeder tendrils, evolved from the Lictor species to allow this specimen to access it's preys mind, learning their secrets. Having consumed the brain of a dock worker this Genestealer was able to ascertain the destination of this freighter, understanding that it was heading for a poorly protected planet, holding only a small defence force.
Instinctively the beasts many feeder tendrils began to twitch, it's muscles began to contract and it's eyes opened and began scanning the surroundings, it had sensed a change within the leviathan, coming to understand that it had reached it's destination and it was time for him to hunt and feed. The first victim of our would be patriarch would never feel the sweet release of death, instead would become the victim of the most heinous form of rape. A work man conducting routine maintenance within the belly of the ship had stumbled upon a terrible discovery, and before his mind could process the sight which crouched before him, the beast had already leapt onto him, pinned him to the floor, unfurled its tentacles and penetrated his abdomen with it's horrifying ovipositor both impregnating this man and inducting him into a horrible bastardization of a family. This new brood brother was instantaneously connected to our new patriarch via a shared brood telepathy, knowing what must be done the new son of the brood radioed to his comrades for assistance with some menial maintenance task, luring three new victims who would be granted the much more merciful judgment of consuming, replenishing the brood patriarchs strength for the coming work.

[kezdet]

I like it =) correct me if i'm wrong, but genestealers do their oviposition through oral contact jamming their tongues down their throats don't they?

[Threeshades]

I don't think it is ever specified where a genestealer injects a victim. But as far as I know the mind control isn't instantaneous, but only slowly manifests as the injected embryo matures.

Anyway Ilike it so far. I was thinking about writing a similar story, but more directly from the patriarch's perspective. I like to write stories from a really strange perspective trying to bring their alien perception forward. I did it once with a carnifex, but I also had ideas for a hormagaunt, lictor and the aforementioned genestealer.