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[[Codex: Tyranids (4th Edition)]] states that Hive Fleet Ouroboros may have been thrown into the Galaxy and deposited into the Eye of Terror ahead of the main Tyranid Hive Fleets due to treacherous [[Warp]] currents.<sup>1</sup> However [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]] has since overruled that the Tyranids do not use using warp travel like they did in earlier sources.<sup>2</sup>
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[[Codex: Tyranids (4th Edition)]] states that Hive Fleet Ouroboros may have been thrown into the Galaxy and deposited into the Eye of Terror ahead of the main Tyranid Hive Fleets due to treacherous [[Warp]] currents.<sup>1</sup> However [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]] has since overruled that the Tyranids are not capable of using warp travel, like they were in earlier sources.<sup>2</sup>
  
 
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==See Also==

Revision as of 07:32, 28 June 2011

Hive Fleet Ouroboros is a Tyranid Hive Fleet believed to have been encountered by the Imperium near the Eye of Terror sometime before M36.1

History

In M36 the then-Cardinal of Tracian Primaris Miriamulus the Elder recorded the history of the Legion of Ouroboris that attacked the Helican Sector in an earlier age. The legion was described as being of winged monsters, vomited from the bellies of great beasts, that descended from the heavens and stripped the countryside of life. The Emperor himself is attributed with leading a crusade that resulted in the monsters turning on their own forces, culminating in a twelve day long battle over a Warp Rift close to the Eye of Terror.1

A later analysis of the Warlord Titan Mechanica Cranus, a cited veteran of the Ouroboris Wars, revealed distinctive bio-plasma scarring and pyro-acid burns that match Tyranid weaponry. It is also believed the Space Wolves have trophies, very similar to Tyranids lifeforms, dating from this epoch, such as the so-called Kraken's Egg. Augur-dating techniques date the Titan's damage as being caused post-Heresy, making the Emperor's supposed presence in the Ouroboris Wars extremely unlikely.1

Older Background

Codex: Tyranids (4th Edition) states that Hive Fleet Ouroboros may have been thrown into the Galaxy and deposited into the Eye of Terror ahead of the main Tyranid Hive Fleets due to treacherous Warp currents.1 However Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition) has since overruled that the Tyranids are not capable of using warp travel, like they were in earlier sources.2

See Also

Sources