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Some creatures, most famously Genestealers and Lictors, were specifically designed to act outside of the Tyranid fleet as a means to disrupt enemy defenses ahead of an invasion. Synapse creatures such as the monstrous Hive Tyrant have permanent bonds to the Hive Mind and can act as a transmitter to nearby Tyranids. Should they ever be separated from the Hive Mind, they tend to revert to their more animalistic nature and lose any coherent organization and tactics. With some minor exception individual Tyranid creatures do not have meaningful personalities or thoughts, their minds are linked across the warp by a gestalt intelligence known as the Hive Mind that utilizes their bodies with brutal efficiency. The name Tyranid is derived from the first planet which they were officially encountered, Tyran, which they promptly devoured. Their invasions up to this point have been incredibly devastating and many researchers posit (albeit out of earshot of leadership) that what they have experienced thus far are small scouting tendrils of an overwhelming large existential threat. In a galaxy of inhuman dangers, the Tyranids are truly an alien race encroaching from outside of the known galaxy.

They are coming for us – flesh, body and soul!” “They are coming! I feel them scratching inside my mind, scratching, screaming, running, so many – so, so many voices.
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