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Older models are highlighted with Tentacle Pink, but these days I favour a more natural Skull White blend. Hive Fleet Kukulan uses the traditional 2E Behemoth colour scheme of Blood Red carapace and Bleached Bone armour, with the fleshy bits picked out with Hormagaunt Purple. One day, they may find their way back to Ultramar, though if so this will be not out of desire for revenge or retribution - concepts as alien to the Tyranids as they are to the Adepts of Terra - but rather simply out of an insatiable hunger. Now, the planet's ecosystem still produces fodder and prey for the Tyranids, whose orbiting bio-ships exist in a constant cycle of calving and setting off in search of new prey-worlds to devour, leaving their offspring to grow from the seemingly inexhaustible biomass of Kukulan. With the loss of this, the beleaguered defenders were soon crushed by the onslaught of increasingly powerful creatures the Hive Fleet created from the reptilian animals that populated the world. The Eldar defenders bravely fought to defend their sacred home, however their efforts came to naught when a lone burrowing larval Tyranid, its mind little more developed than a worm's, completely bypassed the defences of the World Spirit and grew in size and power as quickly as it drained the energy of the Eldar's sacred shrine.
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The remnants of the aliens, knowing nothing of humiliation in defeat and feeling only the same hunger which had driven them to Ultramar, descended upon the planet and began feeding.
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After the Tyrannic War, a splinter fleet of Hive Fleet Behemoth chanced upon the Eldar Exodite inhabitants and rich fauna of an obscure deathworld known to the Imperium as Kukulan.