Charax wrote:If they bring back possessed Patriarchs and mutated Genestealers I will squee like a little girl for a solid week
Making Patriarchs and Magi able to take Malific daemonology powers and AoC with Chaos would be a compromise
They are already out. I see it as a great possibility for a cult to infiltrate, using the chaos allies as cover.
A couple of things, seeing as I saw a few of the uninitiated.
If you can, read the story- Deathwing by Bryan Ansell and William King.
Basically, the Genestealer is a forward infiltration unit/ parasite. They find an inhabited world, hitching rides on ships, infect some hosts, and evolve into a Patriarch. The latent connection to the tyranid fleet is on par with Aliens, from which they got the idea and ran with it. As the numbers continue to grow, the hosts spawn off more evolved genestealer hybrids, as they continue to bring more hosts into the fold. The Tyranid organisms are on par with spores, or diseases, and there are more then just Genestealers on Space Hulks. The Sword could be a trophy weapon, taken by a chaos cultist/ genestealer cultist...
As for a Planetary Infiltration, The idea was that the genestealers were ingrained to infiltrate the highest levels of the world, and devolve the population by infiltration, and bringing them into the fold. They were a destabilization force, for guerrilla warfare, infiltration, and prepping for the oncoming tyranid invasion, which would come when the planet was sufficiently converted, and destabilized. That was also the reason for the Inquisitors from the Ordo Xenos, and the Deathwatch.
If you can, check this out-
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Kryptman
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Genestealer_Magus
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Genestealer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genestealer
As the Tyranid invasion comes, the Genestealer Cult is there to continue to infect and destabilize the infrastructure. Chaos allies with them to the point of using them to sow chaos, and as weapons as they hatch their plans, and will them end up killing them off, turning on them the first chance they get.
I could honestly see a chaos genesteler cult, IE Nurgle Genestealers, with nid fly clouds, infecting local water supplies, and breeding maggoty love for the hosts to wallow in, or Genestealer Tzeench cultists, who would make love into war.
They also had Ork Stealer Hybrids. I could also see a variation of the Tau, Eldar, or Humans, masquerading as rebels, and then popping the news to everyone that things aren't as they appear...
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cuda1179 wrote:Perhaps Genstealer Cult members' reproductive organs are like a Clownfish. In clownfish colonies there is only ever ONE female. When that female dies (old age, disease, predation, etc.) the highest ranking male transforms into a female, and the next highest male becomes the Alpha male.
The same could be true of genestealer cults. They continue to become more and more human, and then an external influence changes their "gender" (or whatever the correct term might be), and they start popping out genestealer babies.
They reproduce by the... thing...in the mouth. The genestealer infects the host, the offspring comes out with genestealer DNA,and the offspring continue to devolve. Everyone infected is collectively ingrained with a miniature "HIvemind" mentality, and they continuie to pull crap on the population, bring in other hosts, infect more people by procration the old fasion way, and they stay out of the public eye and use misdirection and insurgency tactics to continue to destabilize worlds. The first Genestealer is the Primarch. Then one of the later ones is a Magus.
It happens over the course of generations,
BTW. If there are more then one Genestealer, they branch off to other parts of the world, spreading more cults.
