Hive Ships

A Hive Ship is the impossibly massive organic bio-ship that forms the heart of all Tyranid hive fleets. They are critical to the success of any hive fleet’s advance, acting as telepathic synapse nodes for the bio-ships around them and serving as massive bio-factories that churn out the endless swarms of bio-forms that characterize the forces of the Tyranids. Despite their seemingly impossible size, Hive Ships are living creatures incorporating millions of bioengineered organisms. Each is a biological factory capable of creating millions of Tyranid organisms, of replicating genomes and splicing together new creatures perfectly adapted for each new world and environment encountered. Tens of thousands of Tyranid Warriors are carried aboard Hive Ships, the cocooned officers of nightmare hordes yet to be born.