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[[File:T5EVenomthrope.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A '''Venomthrope''' in combat.<sup>1</sup>]]
A '''Venomthrope''' is a species of [[Tyranid]] dripping with poisons that floats across the battlefield via gas-filled bladders while emitting a lethal gas that will ultimately kill a world's indigenous life and ruin its soil and atmosphere beyond habitable levels until the world is only fit for consumption by the [[Hive Fleet]].<sup>1</sup> The Hive Mind uses this aspect of the Venomthrope by gathering them together in large numbers and unleashing them on a region to gradually poison it, making it harder for non-Tyranid life forms to continue the fight.<sup>2</sup>
Venomthropes have scrawny bodies and many whip-like tentacles that are coated in poisons capable of causing death from a single touch. Its gas bladders are its primary form of attack, producing spore clouds of yellowish vapour containing phage organisms lethal to non-Tyranid life while providing cover to Tyranid creatures. Brief exposure causes nausea and spasms, while more than a minute results in infection that allows no escape for the victim from their organic tissue slowly breaking down.<sup>1</sup>
==Sources==
*<sup>1</sup>: [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]], p.pg 45*<sup>2</sup>: [[Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos]], pg 51
[[Category:Troops (Tyranids)]]
