Bio-ships

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Tyranid Bio-ships descend on unclaimed territories^[6]

Bio-ships are the living spacecraft making up the Tyranid Hive Fleets.^[1] The term encompasses all voidcraft bioforms of the Tyranids.^{[Needs Citation]}

Overview

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

The Squats of the Leagues of Votann have discovered that the organic material of certain parts of Bio-Ships can be rendered into rare and exotic chemical compounds. This has led to many Hernkyn cells into hunting the ships in order to harvest them.^[4]

Bio-ships are corruptible by the Obliterator Virus, infesting their neural pathway and severing them from the Hive Mind. A corrupted bio-ship is then further modified by specially created machinery produced in the Eye of Terror that mixes organic components with ancient, physics-defying technology. These modifications allow for control of the bio-ship, so that it can be pressed into Chaos service as an enslaved Titan transporter.^[5]

Types of Bio-ships

• Hive Ships
  • Ancient One
• Devourers
• Void Prowlers
• Razorfiends
• Krakens
• Escort Drones
• Vanguard Drone Ships
• Narvhals
• Rebirth Vessels
• Mindslayers
• Tyrannocyte
• Boarding Worm^[2]

Images

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  Bio-ships of the Hive Fleet in Orbit^[6]

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  A fleet of Tyranid Bio-Ships^[3]

See also

• Tyranid Fleet
• Tyranid Bestiary
• Hive Fleet

Sources

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• 1: Tyranid Hive Ship
• 2: The Devastation of Baal (Novel), Chapter 16
• 3: Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II
• 4: Kill Team: Termination, pgs. 9-11
• 5: Storm of Iron (Novel) — Iron Warriors: The Omnibus (Omnibus), The First Parallel, Chapter Three
• 6:
Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond Warhammer 40,000
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Uncited

• Space Fleet (game) (1991)
• White Dwarf 146 (January 1992)
• Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), pg. 14
• Battlefleet Gothic Armada, pgs. 80–94