Effort to stop hivelfeet Leviathan

• Shield of Baal [Devourer]:

"The solar beam from the Magnovitrium shot out across the system like a spear of fire, incinerating everything in its path. Bio-ships caught in its searing flames shrivelled and scattered like ash upon the wind, while smaller beasts simply ceased to be. Channelled by the planetary relays, the beam thrust into Aeros, lightning up its clouds in a conflagration of light, and triggering a chain reaction of titanic proportion. When the gas giant exploded it sent out a shockwave hammering across the system...

However, for every man and woman the shockwave killed, thousands of Tyranids were destroyed. Bio-ships were torn apart and scattered like toys in the void while entire swarms perished under punishing meteor showers and geologic upheavels triggered by the destruction of the gas giant...

For days the torn and broken limbs of the Tyranid tendril craweld back together... In the void Bio-ships latched onto their dead counterparts or thrust probing tentacles deep into the guttered hulls of Imperial cruisers, seeking out the frozen remains of their crew...

With a psychic signal from the Hive Mind, the remains of the Cryptoid Tendril set off into the darkness, their chitinous prows pointed toward a flickering red star..."

• DANTE:

"The fleet was enormous, divided into several armadas attacking each of Cryptus' worlds. Hundreds of thousands had been destroyed. Too many remain, and this was but one splinter of hivefleet Leviathan. Itself a smaller part of the greater whole. They had done no more than lop off a finger tip."

• Devastation of Baal:

"Without the Satryx elixir, most are uninhabitable. Where this is yet to happen, I have taken action. Those worlds that the tyranids have not stripped already are dead by my hand. They will find the Red Scar empty of all but ashes.’ Dante’s voice quietened. He regarded himself as the defender of humanity. Ordering exterminatus on forty inhabited worlds sat ill with him."

• Devastation of Baal:

"All of them remained focused on the hololith. Dante had set his pieces on the board. Twenty-one battle-barges, ninety-four strike cruisers and several hundred smaller craft would intercept the hive fleet under the command of Bellerophon aboard the Blade of Vengeance. They would strike, cripple as many large vessels as they could, then fall back to Baal. Six thousand Space Marines were aboard those fleets. Twelve thousand were on Baal, six thousand on Baal Secundus and five thousand on Baal Primus. They were the largest gathering of the Blood since the Horus Heresy. Time would tell if it would be enough."

• Devastation of Baal:

"Large tendrils of the hive had twisted away towards Set and Amair and were greedily devouring the resources of the worlds. If there was one comfort to be taken from this difficult battle, it was this: the tyranids had been so starved in the Red Scar that they were consuming worlds with little to no complex organics, worlds they bypassed when the hunting was good."

• Devastation of Baal:

"‘I am going to. I have to try. Can you feel it? The shadow in the warp has lifted for a while. This is our chance to call for help.’‘I heard the enemy scream,’ said Gennot with a shudder. ‘I never want to hear anything like that again.’ ‘Well,’ said Leeter. He sighed, and was aghast at the tremble of fear that shook him. ‘The hive mind is wounded, but I feel it coalescing in the immaterium. If we are going to call for aid, it must be done now.’ ‘The risks of a sending during a warp storm are astronomical,’ said Gennot wearily. ‘There has not been a storm of this magnitude ever, as far as I know. You will die. You may kill us all in the process.’ ‘I am aware of the risks.’ Leeter laughed a little hysterically. ‘What was merely impossible before has become incredibly dangerous instead.’ He punched up the psy-amplifiers"

• Devastation of Baal:

"In the six days since the Cicatrix Maledictum opened, the Angelic Host had slaughtered the tyranids. For a time, the hive mind appeared to be absent, and the disorganised aliens were easy prey for the Space Marines’ wrath. A series of carefully staged sorties drove the aliens back from the gates of the redoubt, buying the scions of Sanguinius valuable time to regroup within. The Blood Angels held the redoubt still. The rest of the Arx was in the hands of the enemy. Now their respite was over. The hive mind stirred once again."