Bio-ships

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Bio-ships are the living spacecraft making up the Tyranid Hive Fleets. Although bio-ships take on a seemingly endless variety of forms, they are broadly divided by the Imperium into three major classes, depending on its general role in the Hive Fleet. The ships are also factories producing the different Tyranid species used in ground invasions. The ships themselves are essentially the largest species of Tyranid and are controlled by the Hive Mind.

Tyranid fleet ship classes

Hiveship

Main article: Hive Ship

Kraken, Cruisers and Droneships

Kraken

Fulfills the role of escort ships. Several species of Kraken have been recorded:

Hellblaster Kraken

Hellblasters are analogous to escort ships. They are largely made up of a huge shielded carapace, and is virtually unstoppable when attacking an enemy vessel. The purpose of a Hellblaster is to contact with the hull or shields of an enemy ship and discharge a massive buildup of acid at short range. The parts of the Hellblaster which are not made up of the carapace are almost entirely comprised of immense acid sacs and titanic firing chambers.

Doomripper Kraken

Doomrippers are parasite ships, closing with their prey before attaching itself and viciously attacking with grinding jaws and rending teeth. It gains its name from the fact that once it has successfully attached itself to its prey, it will die rather than let go. The Doomripper wraps itself around its prey, preventing the target's guns from firing at it.

Dark Prowler

The Dark Prowler is 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.

Void Fiend

The Void Fiend fulfills the role of a naval cruiser. Its body resembles a sort of long organic spike, with digestive tubes and firing chambers running along its sleek body.

Wardrones

Wardrones are designed solely to fight and protect the Norn-Queen and the Hiveship. They are dependent entirely on the influence of the Hive Mind in order to operate. Wardrones vary heavily in size and shape, and usually fight in swarms, using weight of numbers to perform their tasks.

Drones

Drones are defence ships which dart around the Hiveship, reacting immediately and frenziedly to anything that threatens it.

Vanguard Droneships

Main article: Vanguard Drone Ship

See also

• Hive Fleet

Sources

• Space Fleet game (1991)
• Battlefleet Gothic Armada, pp.80-94