The inconstant Warp-stuff from which Daemons are made offers the Tyranids no sustenance, while the unknowable, alien entity of the Hive Mind is immune to terror and daemonic corruption. When the Tyranid hive fleets clash with the Daemons of Chaos, neither race is granted succour. The mentality of the Tyranid approach to warfare can be described with the phrase "quantity has a quality all its own." From the "lowly" Ripper, to the deadly Hive Tyrant and beyond, the signature of the Tyranid species is that they overwhelm their foes with sheer numbers, reproducing massive numbers of highly virulent organisms in record time from the biochemical soup that they derive from the biospheres of the worlds they consume. Their threat is such that an unprotected planet can be infested and stripped clean of all its organic material in a matter of solar weeks without even slowing down the advance of the hive fleet.Īll Tyranid organisms are "synaptic" ( psychically-reactive), and each Tyranid creature within a hive fleet shares and contributes to a communal Hive Mind, which allows the trillions of beings comprising the Tyranid hive fleets to communicate and organise instantaneously on a staggering scale. The Tyranids are likened to a galactic swarm consuming everything in its path, feeding on entire worlds and leaving only dead husks in their wake. Variant Imperial icon used for identifying Tyranid hive fleet activity. The Tyranids collectively form a monstrous superorganism that travels across the universe in their great hive fleets of biomechanical Hive Ships, systematically consuming all other biomatter to enable their own rapid evolution and reproduction. The Tyranid species is ultimately dedicated solely to its own survival, propagation and evolutionary advancement. Only now are the inhabitants of the galaxy realising the scale of the threat unless the Tyranids can be stopped, it will mean nothing less than the extinction of all life. They are the ultimate predators to them, all living things, from the lowliest insect to the most advanced starfaring civilisation, are mere prey. The Tyranids are unlike any other intelligent species encountered by Humanity. They actually comprise an entire space-faring ecosystem comprised of innumerable different bioforms which are all variations on the same genetic theme. The Tyranids are an extragalactic composite species of hideous, insectoid xenos. Symbol used by the Imperium of Man to designate Tyranid hive fleets.
Inquisitor Bronislaw Czevak at the Conclave of Har We have given the horror a name to salve our fears we call it the Tyranid race, but if it is aware of us at all it must know us only as Prey." This horror, this abomination, has thought and purpose which functions on an unimaginable, galactic scale and all we can do is try to stop the swarms of bio-engineered monsters it unleashes upon us by instinct. With each decade it advances deeper, leaving drained, dead worlds in its wake. " There is a cancer eating at the Imperium.
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