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

• Main article: Kraken

Kraken

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

Dark Prowler

Dark Prowler¹

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

Void Fiend¹

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.

Razorfiend

File:Razorfiend.png

Razorfiend³

Razorfiends are large cruisers that are aggressive in their attacks, storming out from the hive fleet in response to any threat to the massive hive ships, often using claws and tentacles to make direct attacks on ships in an effort to physically smash them to pieces. Cruiser sized Tyranid bioships are seldom found far from the hive ship, however, and it has been theorised that they receive their nourishment from them in some manner.³

Wardrones

War Drones¹

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.

Other Bio-ships

• Main article: Vanguard Drone Ship
• Main article: Narvhal
• Main article: Spore Mine

See also

• Hive Fleet

Sources

• Space Fleet game (1991)
• ¹: White Dwarf 146, Jan. 1992
• ²: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition) p. 14
• Battlefleet Gothic Armada, pp.80-94
  • ³: p. 88