UPDATE ON THE REDFEAST

Thanks Cjarl, but no, that is not the infamous Red Feast. I'm afraid only those consumed aboard the ill-fated Nemesis had the... honor of viewing the Overmind-made-flesh. Now they serve the Overmind and the eternal will of the swarm. On a lighter note, hordes of xeno-morphs that apparently gestate from within a human host by means of some sort of egg laying parasite and have concentrated acid for blood have been steadily being slaughtered across the sector, though the alien's queen has only been downed by massed Eldar weapon fire once, it can only be assumed that the Eldar Farseer was attempting to trick the Imperium into a false sense of security when infact the chance of destroying what is described as, "A Massive Chitinous Engine of Hissing Destruction", is very slim. From a reliable source of a surviving Death Watch Kill Team in service of the Adeptus Sororitas the Alien "Queen" is still quite alive and was the only survivor of a recent Imperial assault on planet LV-426 which ended in a retreat by both forces, though, only because the Imperium wished to nuke the sight from orbit. It is still unknown whether the nuclear assault resulted in the death of the xeno-morph menace on LV-426.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE REDFEAST

++Distress Signal: Priority Omega Sigma Two++ +++Subject: Gameus Empirious Sector in Flames+++

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::The likeness of a bloodied space wolf grey hunter fills the view screen. Breathing hard the veteran warrior of the Emperor of man steels his resolve and calms himself before speaking.::

"I am wolf brother Urik of the Alpha Pups Legion. The strike force sent to engage and destroy the enemy of the universe, Red Feast, has utterly failed."

::Brother Urik turns suddenly and grimaces, raising his right hand and firing off a single bolter round. Something out of view of the vid screen screaches horribly and drops to the ground. Urik fires another two shells and the screaching stops abruptly. Urik turns to the vid screen solemnly.::

"The forces of the Red Feast descended upon us with great speed, as expected." ::Urik scowls::

"But that damn clever Bug! It drew us into a trap. Moments before we could engage the swarm surged back and gathered around the horrid Feast, protecting him from the frenzied assault of our brother blood claws. They gave chase around the farthest structure, slaughtering the smallest of the Gaunts, and I never saw them again."

"The next thing I knew we were overrun by dozens of the screaching, scuttling things, each the size of a Fenrisian wolf, and in their alien claws they clutched some sort of living weapon. I myself slew half a dozen before our Razorback exploded taking out some of the smaller bugs to my right. I heard the cry of two of our allied legion's number as I turned to see what had happened."

"There, clutching the most phallic and nauseating weapon imaginable was a horrific beast with massive scythe like claws, each twice the height of a man in length. I recalled the vid recordings of Macragge and immediately tagged it as a Carnifex."

::The wolf looks away from the camera briefly, as if pasuing to collect the reminants of his sanity::

"It was then that Venerable brother George incinerated a whole swath of the smaller bugs and charged into bloody melee, ripping a swath of bug guts and shattered chitin in an effort to close with the abomination. But George was showered with a hailstorm of biological death from the Carnifex. A massive explosion ripped along the pivot joint, and for a second the Dreadnaught swayed as if he would live... but a large secondary explosion blasted the torso clean from the leg mount and sent the great wolf brother through a nearby structure some distance away."

"The rest is a blur really, I remember hearing shouts to the right and left, then from behind as the entirity of both my legion and our allies were encircled. The allied wolf priest struck a mighty blow upon the Carnifex, bringing strength to the morale of our host, but in an instant that strength was lost as the Priest was rended in two and devoured by the unstoppable horror."

"To my left I saw movement, and a bright flare of green plasma. Quickly slashing down a gaunt I turned to stare straight into the eyes of Red Feast himself! At his feet burned the remains of a brother wolf, consumed utterly by alien bio-plasma. In a flurry of movement two more brother wolves fell to his claws and teeth, including one amongst our number with a powerfist."

"What I imagine was only mere seconds seems a shaken eternity. Cries over the comm links, the raining of blood, both human and alien alike filled the air thick with the acrid pungent smell. My battle fury only heightened as I awaited my ancestors in the halls of the Emperor."

"And then I ran."

::Urik cemented his features and stared hard into the camera for a few seconds.::

"I am the only survivor, and our mission failed. This I know. I also know that the Red Feast's number was lessened significantly in the combat and that a secondary strike within a matter of days could destroy the Feast once and for all. I pray that this message is recieved and that a detatchment of space marines is dispatched immediately to the Gameus Empirious Sector to destroy this foe of Humanity. I leave the decision in the capable hands of the Inquisition. I am going out to hunt bugs, Urik out."

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::As the message ends Urik visably relaxes. The sound of rapid and excited chittering fills the air as the horde of gaunts settle around the feet of the meat puppet space wolf. Urik is lifted high into the air by a massive claw and violently turned to face a grinning alien face. A voice enters the dying Urik's mind::

"You have served the swarm well, meat-thing, well indeed."

::Urik jerked suddenly and was dropped below the towering Red Feast. The massive form of Fido, the Carnifex, strode up to the body and impaled Urik's torso with a mighty claw before stepping on the man's hips and ripping his torso free. A horde of slavering gaunts danced around at the Carnifex's feet, their beady eyes, dwarfed by massive sickle-shaped teeth, stared intently at the space wolf's remains.::

::With a movement Urik's torso was ripped into a myriad of fleshy chuncks that rained down upon the fiendish horde who eagerly leapt upon the flesh and devoured it. The lower body was quickly snatched up by Fido and placed into the 'Fex's cavernous jaws and swallowed whole.::

::Red Feast looked over the brood as it chittered and screached over Urik's remains and hissed to it's spawn, his feral yellow gaze rising to the heavens::

"Our foe arrives..."