The Battle for Vogon!

I hope the Tyranids win. That planet is responsible for the second or third worst poets in the history of the Galaxy.

Also, that looks awesome!

Hahha though I think yours might be a little more effective in an actual battle!

The name Vogon was a deliberate reference, since its a planet of scribes and clerks, processing information the sector.
It's all very miserable and very Brazil (the film not hte country! DEFFINITELY not the country.)
The only hope of escaping their thankless, soul crushing jobs is for young men to win in fierce gladiatorial games that select recruits for the War Angels.

The opening stages of the battle, tyranid scout escorts and light cruisers, along with a constant strema of transports that would continue throughout the battle.

The Emperors Teeth viewed the invaders with contempt, rushing forward to engage them, With the War Angels followingtheir lead.
The initial small groups of Tyranids were blasted apart almost as quickly as they arrived!
Just then, the marines recieved a strange signal.
A Chaos Murder class vessel was fleeing from the hive fleet!
It was the ship of Pirate Princess Carman, a slanesh worshipping pirate who had been the bane of the sector for many years.
She offered a deesperate plea to the effect of "come on, we're all humans here! Lets put our differences asside because hte tyrnaids will slaughter us all!"
The Marines didn't target her as she blasted the tyranids are around her....then blasted her ship to pieces!
Even in the face of annilation, Space Marines will not suffer the heretic to live.

The Tyranids attempted to group forces further from the defenders, forcing the marines to spread out to meet them.

Meanwhile Lady Darnus and nobles from the planet were fleeing the planet. The first vessels to go were Darnus' private yacht, which was far faster then the other Transports.

The Lady Inquisitor Esmeralda Payne had been conducting research at a space station over the planet. She departed in her own private custom cruiser, sending orders to the marines to not let the tyranids take the planet, whatever the cost.

The Emperors Teeth sent their battle barge forward to keep pushing back the arriving alien forces, while their fortress monastry stayed close to the planet as a second line of defence.
The War Angels battle barge stayed over the planet...its exterminatus weapons ready to take the ultimate measure to keep the planet from the aliens.

Initially the Tyranids struggled to make headway, but then began to deploy in larger numbers, including heavier, cruiser sized constructs.
These new attackers took a tole on the space marines, destroying several strike cruisers, but the marines continued to hold the line. The Tyranids continued to be obliterated, with construct after construct being torn apart.

The Tyranids lacked fighter cover, so squadrens of bombers and thunderhawks from the Imperial's launchbays took a particularly heavy tole on attackers.
Imperial reinforcements from the war angels, Emperors Teeth and other marines chapters (the sons of medusa, celestial lions and star phantoms) rushed to reinforce the front line.

At this point, strange transmissions came from the orbital defences around the planet, as crazed cultists, infected with alien genetics, started trying to sieze control of the weapons.
Two laser platforms fell to the mind controlled traitors, but fortunately the fortress monastry targetted and destoyed them before they could open fire on the defenders.
The torpedo platforms remained under imperial control and continued to launch hails of torpedoes into the Tyranids.
Cultists on the planet also launch terrorist attacks on the planets space port, stopping any more transports escaping.
War Angels forces on the planet exterminated the cultists without mercy.

The planetry governor reached the warp jump and escaped, as did the Inquisitor.
As Tyranids moved to try to block off the escaping transports, the heroic Rogue Trader Yalafrash arrived in her personal Lunar Class Cruiser, helping to keep the tyrnids from breaking through and harming the vulenerable transports.

The Panther Claws arrived...but it was not a sign of hope but off despair.
Only one strike cruiser and a single squad of 4 escorts arrived, a tiny fraction of the chapters mighty space fleet.
The cruisers captain explain that their chapter master had been ordered to another system, where the planetry governors had fallen behind in paying their tithes. The arrival of the panther claws fleet had ensured they had been reminded of their duties. Chapter Master Gilgamesh had sent a small forces as a show of solidarity.

More and more Tyranids began to pour into the battle.
A strong Tyranid force was obliterated trying to block the transports, so the Tyranids gave up on this tactic and focsed on sending all arriving forces directly at the planet.

For all their courage, the space marines were gradually being worn down, with no more hope of reinforcements. Meanwhile, the Tyranid losses were being replaced by an ever increasing number of ever more powerful constructs.
As Tyranids scouts began to slip through the Imperial lines, the War Angels decided the planet could not be held.
On the surface, marines took over power reactors, killing the staff and setting the reators to over load.
They began targetting the planets nuclear arsenal at population centres.
As the battle barge launched cyclotronic warheads, beginning a cataclysmic chain raction that obliterated all life on Vogon.
The final transmission from the marine monastry on the surface was "The Emperor Protects."

With this done, the battle barges from each chapter and the fortress monastry began to move together to launch the final line of defence.
The Tyranids biggest organisms arrived, the mighty hive ships.
These not only started launching waves of fighters and bombers, they also increased the influence of the hive mind, making the tyranid ships far more coordinated and the effective.
The space marine ships went down all guns but were swept asside by the onslaught.
One of the Hive Ships was destroyed by the might of the Space marines weapons, but then the emperors teeth battle barge was overwhelmed by the immense amount of incoming fire and attack craft.

At this point, the War Angels battle barge pulled away from the fighting, disappearing into a mysterious warp rift, but not before firing on the panther claws strike cruiser.

The Emperors Teeth Fortress monastry stood alone, as the tyranid armada swarmed around it. All weapons kept firing until the fortress was completely over run and destroyed.

3 strike cruisers (1 from the celestial lions, 1 from the war angels, 1 from the Emeperor's Teeth) and 3 escorts from the war angels managed to escape, along with Yalafrash and her cruiser.

The marines had fought bravely...but questions abotu the events of the battle were left unanswered and sinister conspiracy would lead the remains of the both the War Angels and the Emeprors Teeth to damnation.