Pyrovore
A Pyrovore is a species of Tyranid which pre-digests biomass to provide minerals and fuel for the Tyranid Hive Fleet.
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Overview
A Pyrovore's body is a complex array of bladders and stomachs, driven by the instinctive need to feed, with a deadly maw dripping with corrosive acids strong enough to break down flesh, bone and armour into a smouldering mucous. They are often found on battlefields feasting on the dead and wounded, and can even devour metals and rocks.[1]
When facing an enemy, a Pyrovore can launch a searing fireball from the dorsal flamespurt bio-weapon growing out of its own flesh. If injured, the acidic contents of a Pyrovore's various stomachs spray out of its wounds over its enemies; if killed, the volatile ichors of a Pyrovore's insides have a good chance of igniting in a tremendous explosion, engulfing everything around it.[1]
A Pyrovore has limited intelligence, driven only by the need to feed. Its flamespurt weapon-symbiote has a separate brain that functions independently from the Pyrovore, unlike many other Tyranid organisms, which mind-bond with their bio-weaponry. The flamespurt weapon actually possesses a larger mental capacity than its host, instinctively attacking any nearby non-Tyranid lifeforms whilst the Pyrovore gorges itself.[1]
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- 1: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), pg. 49
| Tyranid Planetary Forces | |
|---|---|
| Command | Hive Tyrant • Broodlord • Tervigon • Norn-Queen |
| Elite | Hive Guard • Tyrant Guard • Lictor (Lictor Alpha) • Venomthrope • Zoanthrope (Neurothrope) • Pyrovore • Maleceptor • Toxicrene • Malanthrope • Dimachaeron |
| Basic | Tyranid Warrior (Tyranid Prime • Shrike) • Ravener (Ravener Alpha) • Genestealer (Ymgarl Genestealer) • Gaunt (Termagant • Hormagaunt • Spinegaunt) • Ripper (Sky-Slasher) |
| Heavy | Carnifex • Biovore • Haruspex • Cerebore • Trygon (Trygon Prime) • Mawloc • Tyrannofex • Exocrine • Dactylis • Malefactor • Hierodule • Sporocyst |
| Bio-Titans | Dominatrix • Hierophant • Viciator • Nautiloid • Vermis |
| Flyers | Gargoyle • Harpy • Harridan • Hive Crone • Tyrannocyte |
| Spores | Mieotic Spore • Mycetic Spore • Spore Mine • Mucolid Spore |
| Unique Tyranids | Swarmlord • Death Leaper • Doom of Malan'tai • Old One Eye • Parasite of Mortrex • Red Terror |
