Carnifex
From Lexicanum
Carnifexes (Screamer-Killers2) are Tyranid creatures which are huge, hulking living battering rams. Their role often involves battering a way through fortified positions and tank formations or boarding actions against spacecraft. The Carnifex genus comprises many species displaying a wide variety of symbiotic weaponry.1
| Ordo Xenos Departmento Analyticus Record | |||
| Designation | Carnifex | ||
| Common Title | Screamer-Killer | ||
| Species Name | Carnifex voracio, Carnifex vorantii, Carnifex ululare, Carnifex arbylis, Carnifex bilius | ||
| Average Height | 5.5m at highest point | ||
| Average Weight | 8-9 tonnes | ||
| First encountered | Tyran | ||
| Role | Heavy assault | ||
| Threat evaluation | Very high | ||
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Old One Eye
| De | Einauge |
Old One Eye3 is an individual Tyranid of the Carnifex genus recovered from the ice-packs of Calth in the empire of Ultramar. Its release from the ice heralded a series of Tyranid raids on that world and legends persist that the creature had somehow summoned the Hive Mind back to plague Ultramar once again. The eventual fate of Old One Eye is unknown, but there have been several other reports of lone, injured Carnifexes on other worlds which proved to be just as deadly. On several occasions Old One Eye manifested the disturbing ability to heal damage inflicted on it during combat. This has given rise to theories of it being an unstable mutation abandoned by the Hive Mind, (an experiment in rapid cell regrowth) but with the arrival of the Hive Fleet Leviathan this mutation has become nearly a standard on every Carnifex.
Old One Eye is armed with a pair of huge, crab-like claws capable of ripping even the hardest foe to pieces.
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Sources
- 1:Codex: Tyranids (4th Edition)
- 2:Codex: Tyranids (2nd Edition)
- 3:Codex: Tyranids (3rd Edition)
- Imperial Armour Volume IV
