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Genestealer Hybrid Genesis

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OK... So I've been on this Warhammer 40k kick lately, painting minis and what not.
Back in the day, Games Workshop had a more in depth canon about the 'Stealers and the 4 generations of hybrids that would succeed the infiltration of a human society, as well as a bunch of cool minis to represent this.
Unfortunately, they no longer support these models, and the new Genestealers look significantly different than the old ones.
I drew this pic to conceptualize what the new Hybrids may look like.

The first is a Purestrain Genestealer.
Below that, a first gen hybrid.
Upper right corner... 2nd gen.
The "family" in the bottom right corner is a mix of 3rd and 4th generation hybrids. The adult male is 3rd gen, as well as the young female. The adult female and young male are 4th gen, having even body hair.

All anatomical reference is meant to show the stages of the evolution, and is in no way meant to be "erotic".

Thanks for looking.
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Personally, I hold that the canon sequence of hybrid generations is BS. It makes a lot more sense to me, if the first-gen hybrids are virtually identical to humans, but with a drive to seek out other first-gens and procreate with them (as well as hardwired parental instincts toward their children). Second-gen hybrids would be obvious (to a close inspection), if low-tier mutants, with baldness, head ridges, claws and sharp teeth, and other minor traits. Third-gens would be obvious mutants with an extra arm or the like, fourth gen are basically proto-tyranids, and fifth gen produces purestrain Genestealers.

This sequence would be a lot more effective at infiltration, and result in 'sleeper cells' of Broods/Cults in all sorts of places, wherever two or more first-gen hybrids meet one another.

Which, if there are no other first-gens around, probably means incestuous cults, which makes them extra-creepy, and reinforces the ideas of "incest=mutants" and "mutants=monsters".