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A '''Hive Tyrant''' is the closest thing to a leader unit that can be commonly found in a [[Tyranid]] force. They are extremely powerful, large and strong and may make use of massive [[close combat]] strength or specially augmented ranged bio-weaponry, although they excel in both.
They appear to be either a more complex and highly evolved form of [[Tyranid Warrior]] or evolved from a completely different and higher genus<sup>2</sup>. They are highly mutable, including the development of unfeasibly large scythes or extra thick body carapace. They are also highly psychic and their relationship to the [[Hive Mind]] is even closer than that of the Tyranid Warriors<sup>2</sup>, allowing them to act as control nodes for those the lesser beings all around them. Some forms are born with wings giving them a major advantage over other Tyrants, however they are more vulnerable to heavy weapons and anti-tank weapons, in fact they lack the stronger Tyranids' carapace armour.<sup>1</sup>
Some [[Imperial]] techno-magi believe that Hive Tyrants are the consort-minds of the Hive Queen that forms the repository of the [[Hive Fleet]]'s own collective consciousness, which would mean they completely embody the Hive Mind, but their destruction would not diminish it in any way.<sup>2</sup>
