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|style="background:#60c; color: white" colspan=3 4 align=center|'''Bio-Ships'''
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|style=background:#bab align=center width=180px|'''Name'''
|style=background:#bab align=center|'''Description'''
|style=background:#bab align=center|'''Images'''
|style=background:#bab align=center|'''Sources'''
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|[[Bio-ships#Dark Prowler|Dark Prowler]]<sup>20</sup>
|A manta-shaped creature with leathery thick wings attached to a central cavity. The ship's central cavity contains two powerful acid-firing chambers, and hullgrinders line its wings.
|[[File:Dark_Prowler.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>20</sup>
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|[[Hive Ship]]<sup>7, 20</sup>
|Massive [[Bio-ship]]s that form the heart of the [[Hive fleet]]s, acting as nodes for the [[Hive Mind]] to direct the swarm around them and serving as starborne factories that churn out the endless Tyranid swarms.
|[[File:Hiveship.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>7, 20</sup>
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|[[Kraken (Bio-Ship)|Kraken]]<sup>7</sup>|colspan=2|Space-faring creatures which vary wildly in design and appearance.
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|<sup>7</sup>
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|* ''[[Kraken (Bio-Ship)#Deathburner|Deathburner Kraken]]''<sup>20</sup>
|Armed with a huge acidic projectile launcher
|[[File:Deathburner_Kraken.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>20</sup>
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|* ''[[Kraken (Bio-Ship)#Doomripper|Doomripper Kraken]]''<sup>20</sup>
|Binds to a prey vessel with its giant maw and dozens of writhing tentacles.
|[[File:Doomsripper_Kraken.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>20</sup>
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|* ''[[Kraken (Bio-Ship)#Hellblaster|Hellblaster Kraken]]''<sup>20</sup>
|Designed to make contact with the hull or shields on an enemy vessel and then discharge a massive amount of electronic energy, overloading the ships systems and weakening it beyond repair.
|[[File:Hellblaster_Kraken.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>20</sup>
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|* ''[[Kraken (Bio-Ship)#Ramsmiter|Ramsmiter Kraken]]''<sup>20</sup>
|Pierces the armoured hulls of enemy ships and then suck out all the digestible material inside while simultaneously vomiting broods of Genestealers and Hormagaunts into the vessel.
|[[File:Ramsmiter_Kraken.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>20</sup>
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|* ''[[Kraken (Bio-Ship)#Smeltfeaster Kraken|Smeltfeaster Kraken]]''<sup>7</sup>
|Mentioned only by name.
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|<sup>7</sup>
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|[[Narvhal]]<sup>16 p.19</sup>
|Fulfills the essential role of allowing all the vessels of a Tyranid Hive Fleet to travel faster than light.
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|<sup>16 p.19</sup>
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|[[Vanguard Drone Ship|Prowler Drone]]<sup>7</sup>
|Long-range scouts
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|<sup>7</sup>
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|[[Escort Drone|Stalker Drone]]<sup>7</sup>
|Small defence ships which defend the Hive Ship.
|[[File:Tyranid_Drone.png|center|150px]]
|<sup>7</sup>
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|[[Tyranid Cruiser|Razorfiend Cruiser]]<sup>7</sup>
|A large [[cruiser]] that is aggressive in their attacks, storming out from the hive fleet in response to any threat to the massive Hive Ships.
|[[File:Razorfiend.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>7</sup>
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|[[Rebirth Vessel]]<sup>19</sup>
|Launches smaller than usual [[Mycetic Spores]], which seem to carry previously slain tyranid commanders
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|<sup>19</sup>
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|[[Bio-ships#Void Fiend|Void Fiend]]<sup>20</sup>
|Resembling a sort of long organic spike, with digestive tubes and firing chambers running along its sleek body.
|[[File:Void_Fiend.jpg|center|150px]]
|<sup>20</sup>
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|[[Escort Drone|Wardrone]]<sup>20</sup>
|Small defence ships which defend the Hive Ship.
|[[File:War Drones.jpg |center|150px]]
|<sup>20</sup>
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:'''N.B.''' - '''''Italics''''' indicate subspecies of a greater species.
