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 Tyran wrote:

 mjl7atlas wrote:

 Tyran wrote:
Even the Dark Eldar Haemonculi have no idea how the Tyranids actually work, and this are the guys that figured how to turn someone in a literal living room.

Where is this fluff from?

From the Harlequin Codex about the DE Haemonculi failure to breed Tyranids.

In the Warzone Valedor, the Dark Eldar capture a load of tyranid specimens, and are planning to use them to create spectacles for the arena. In the Harlequin codex, it turns out that they all died off - 'normal' tyranids don't survive cut off from the Hive mind.

In the Haemonculus codex, a Haemonculus coven comes up with a plan to 'scale up' their experiment in the hopes that a larger captive tyranid ecology would remain self-sustaining - they let the nid's invade a world then once self-sustaining subdual swarms reach the surface, drop the entire world into a pocket dimension in the webway....

There is a plot in the excellent Deathwatch novels about an Inquisitor (well several) looking to control Genestealers through their bond to their biological (human) mother - its not a pleasent tale..........and it was ongoing when I read the last book..........