The Fault in Our Star Children: Genestealer Cults and the interdependence of lore, hobby, and gameplay in Warhammer 40,000
The Genestealer Cults faction of Warhammer 40,000 are a playable faction of human-alien hybrids that serve as a vanguard force for the invasion of the locust-like Tyranid hive fleets. That the Tyranids will devour human and hybrid denizens of the planet alike when they arrive ostensibly undermines the cults’ liberatory promises to those oppressed by …