Tyrannofex

The Tyrannofex is a massive Tyranid Bio-Titan that exists purely to spread destruction to the Hive Fleet's foes. Created for service on the most grueling battlegrounds, the Tyrannofex is clad in a dozen layers of ablative chitinous armour and supported by three pairs of massive legs, and it is as unyielding as any war engine constructed of steel or born of more conventional technology. The Tyrannofex has the armour and fortitude of a living battle fortress and its bio-weaponry eclipses that of its foes' most powerful main battle tanks in both quantity and destructive potential. Worse, its body houses several breeding chambers, nurturing all manner of ferocious Tyranid organisms that it can unleash onto any enemy foolish enough to come too close. Its main weapon is a massive Bio-Cannon fused with its torso, the largest and most destructive of any of the Tyranid bio-weapons carried by a Bio-Titan. The precise nature of this weapon is different from creature to creature. Each represents a particular pinnacle of Tyranid bio-weaponry and is as efficient as it is unearthly in its design. It is speculated by the Magos Biologis of the Adeptus Mechanicus that the Tyrannofex, like the Hierophant, was derived from the combined genetic strains of the Tyranid Carnifex and the Dominatrix.

Given its massive size, the Tyrannofex is an ungainly beast and is prone to being overwhelmed when engaged in a protracted melee. However, the Hive Mind has adapted this bioform to compensate for this apparent weakness. Should the Tyrannofex find itself under duress, it can emit a stress pheromone that attracts other Tyranid bioforms more suited to close-quarters fighting. Once the primary threat is eradicated, the Tyrannofex can then return to its primary goal of blasting the enemy with its fearsome bio-weaponry.

Primary Weapons

 * Acid Spray - This weapon stores huge reservoirs of caustic digestive fluids used to break down organic matter at a horrifying rate. This acid corrosion is sprayed over the Tyrannofex's victims, melting through body-armour with shocking ease and reducing its victim to shapeless gobbets of liquefied flesh.


 * Fleshborer Hive - The fleshborer hive is a seething colony for the very same borer beetles found in a Termagant's fleshborer. The fanged creature stored in the bloated sacs of the hive lay thousands of eggs that hatch and mature at an astonishing rate within the cavernous chambers of the brood nest.  Indeed, the fleshborer hive must eject the beetles at regular intervals to prevent the Tyrannofex from bursting apart from the creatures birthed within it.


 * Rupture Cannon - When fired, two different cannonball-sized projectiles are launched in quick succession. The first, is a bloated tick that bursts upon impact, showering the target in a thick oily substance.  The second, is a seedpod with a virtually indestructible shell.  As the seed smashes the target, it is coated in the viscous remains of the tick.  When combined, these inert fluids dissolve the toughened shell in a fraction of a second resulting in a massive implosion powerful enough to wrench armoured vehicles inside out.