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'''Ambulls''' are subterranean [[xenos]] creatures native to the [[Desert World|desert]] [[Death World|death world]] of [[Luther McIntyre IX]].{{Fn|1}}
  
'''Ambulls''' are subterranean alien creatures native to the desert [[Death World|death world]] of [[Luther Macintyre IX]].<sup>1</sup>
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== Biology and Behavior ==
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Ambulls can easily survive extremely hot temperatures, which has led to attempts at domestication on several hot desert planets. As a consequence, Ambulls can be found on desert planets throughout the Imperium.{{Fn|1}}
  
They can easily survive extremely hot temperatures, which has led to attempts at domestication on several hot desert planets. As a consequence, Ambulls can be found throughout the Imperium.<sup>1</sup>
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Ambulls have huge barrel chested bodies and an ape-like stance, their arms reaching almost to the ground, while their legs are crooked and short. The Ambull's most characteristic feature are their huge expandable jaws. Their eyes are able to sense heat.{{Fn|1}}
  
Ambulls have huge barrel chested bodies and an ape-like stance, their arms reaching almost to the ground, while their legs are crooked and short. The Ambull's most characteristic feature are their huge expandable jaws. Their eyes are able to sense heat.<sup>1</sup>
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The Ambull's limbs end in iron-hard claws used for digging through the soft stone of their homeworld. Ambulls will excavate tunnels in which to live, spending most of their time underground. These burrows can often form extensive underground complexes.{{Fn|1}} Their tunnelling abilities have also defied attempts on many Imperial worlds to domesticate or corral them.{{Fn|2a}}
  
The Ambull's limbs end in iron hard claws used for digging through the soft stone of their homeworld. Ambulls will excavate tunnels in which to live, spending most of their time underground. These burrows can often form extensive underground complexes.<sup>1</sup>
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Due to the intense heat of Luther McIntyre's sun, the Ambull's subterranean lifestyle is shared with many of the death world's inhabitants, including the Ambull's favorite food, the [[Crawler]]. Ambulls will pursue prey through soft rock by tunneling at considerable speed.{{Fn|1}}
  
Due to the intense heat of Luther McIntyre's sun, the Ambull's subterranean lifestyle is shared with many of the death world's inhabitants, including the Ambull's favorite food, the Crawler. Ambulls will pursue prey through soft rock by tunneling at considerable speed.<sup>1</sup>
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Ambulls were sighted on the [[Ice World]] [[Simia Orichalcae]] while the [[Valhallan 597th]] were protecting a valuable [[promethium]] refinery.  It was later speculated that they had arrived through a warp portal opened from some unknown desert world by a [[Necron]] scouting force that deployed to Simia Orichalcae.  These rogue ambulls killed several promethium miners in the lower tunnels, while [[Commissar]] [[Ciaphas Cain]] and a Valhallan scouting party slew a great number of the beasts in the tunnels. It was noted that they could tunnel through ice as easily as sand or rock, and were remarkably survivable away from their normal desert environment.{{Fn|2b}}
  
However it is worth noting that Ambulls were sighted on the ice world [[Simia Oricalcae]] while the [[Valhallan 597th]] were protecting a valuable [[promethium]] refinery. [[Commissar]] [[Ciaphas Cain]] sighted and slew a great number of the beasts while uncovering a system of tunnels under said refinery. Evidence shows that the creatures do as well on ice worlds, as they do on desert planets.<sup>4</sup>
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After the Simia Orichalcae campaign, Cain dined with [[Inquisitor]] [[Amberley Vail]] at an upscale hotel, which offered ambull steak on its room-service menu{{Fn|2c}}.  [[Logash]], a [[Tech Priest]], had earlier told Cain's aide [[Ferik Jurgen]] that ambull meat tasted much like [[grox]].{{Fn|2a}}
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==Miniature==
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[[Image:Ambull Mini.jpg‎|thumb|center|Ambull miniature]]
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==See also==
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*[[List of Fauna]]
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==
*<sup>1</sup>[[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]] p.207
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]] p. 207
*[[WD99|''White Dwarf'' #99]]
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*2: [[Caves of Ice (Novel)]] by [[Sandy Mitchell]]
*[[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]] p.116
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**{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter 6
*[[Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition Rulebook]] p.139
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**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapters 5, 6
*<sup>4</sup>''[[Caves of Ice]]'' - The Second ''Ciaphas Cain'' novel.
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**{{Endn|2c}}: Chapter 16
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===Uncited===
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{{Uncited}}
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*[[White Dwarf 99 (UK)]]
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*[[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]] p. 116
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*[[Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition Rulebook]] p. 139
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*"Down Amongst the Dead Men", [[The Citadel Journal 38]], pp. 12–16
  
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[[Category:Ciaphas Cain (Novel Series)]]
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Ambull

Ambulls are subterranean xenos creatures native to the desert death world of Luther McIntyre IX.[1]

Biology and Behavior

Ambulls can easily survive extremely hot temperatures, which has led to attempts at domestication on several hot desert planets. As a consequence, Ambulls can be found on desert planets throughout the Imperium.[1]

Ambulls have huge barrel chested bodies and an ape-like stance, their arms reaching almost to the ground, while their legs are crooked and short. The Ambull's most characteristic feature are their huge expandable jaws. Their eyes are able to sense heat.[1]

The Ambull's limbs end in iron-hard claws used for digging through the soft stone of their homeworld. Ambulls will excavate tunnels in which to live, spending most of their time underground. These burrows can often form extensive underground complexes.[1] Their tunnelling abilities have also defied attempts on many Imperial worlds to domesticate or corral them.[2a]

Due to the intense heat of Luther McIntyre's sun, the Ambull's subterranean lifestyle is shared with many of the death world's inhabitants, including the Ambull's favorite food, the Crawler. Ambulls will pursue prey through soft rock by tunneling at considerable speed.[1]

Ambulls were sighted on the Ice World Simia Orichalcae while the Valhallan 597th were protecting a valuable promethium refinery. It was later speculated that they had arrived through a warp portal opened from some unknown desert world by a Necron scouting force that deployed to Simia Orichalcae. These rogue ambulls killed several promethium miners in the lower tunnels, while Commissar Ciaphas Cain and a Valhallan scouting party slew a great number of the beasts in the tunnels. It was noted that they could tunnel through ice as easily as sand or rock, and were remarkably survivable away from their normal desert environment.[2b]

After the Simia Orichalcae campaign, Cain dined with Inquisitor Amberley Vail at an upscale hotel, which offered ambull steak on its room-service menu[2c]. Logash, a Tech Priest, had earlier told Cain's aide Ferik Jurgen that ambull meat tasted much like grox.[2a]

Miniature

Ambull miniature

See also

Sources

Uncited