Elsewhere, inside a Tyranids Bio-Battleship, Titus led a squad carrying oversized Melta Bombs as they boarded the vessel.
The melta nozzle at the Boarding Torpedo's fish-like head drilled through more than ten meters of chitinous armor, then excavated through flesh like a digger, entering the Bio-Battleship's innards.
The passages here were made of flesh. Large numbers of Tyranid forces raced through the meaty corridors, trying to stop the invading enemy.
The Boarding Torpedo's hatch opened. Titus led over a dozen Astartes, dragging the large-caliber Melta Bombs straight toward the Bio-Ship's chemical stomach.
Titus had once served hard labor in Space Ningguta and frequently fought Tyranids. He knew which internal detonation point would pose the greatest threat to a Tyranid Bio-Ship.
People had previously tried planting Melta Bombs to blow up a Bio-Ship's heart and brain.
It was a good idea, but it could only make a Tyranid Bio-Ship lose control temporarily.
After its brain was destroyed, a Tyranid Bio-Ship could grow another brain elsewhere in its massive body.
Destroying its heart could indeed disable the Bio-Ship for a long time, because a Tyranid Bio-Ship's heart was enormous—a mass of powerful muscle tissue roughly five to six hundred meters in diameter.
If the heart was blown apart, the Hive Mind would control a small Bio-Ship and have it drill directly into the Bio-Battleship.
The small Bio-Ship's shell would soften, while its muscle tissue gradually transformed into cardiac muscle.
Just like that, a small warship would grow into the heart of a large warship, and the large warship would resume operation.
The Tyranids' recycling mechanisms were extremely advanced. It was difficult to destroy a warship merely by destroying one organ, so the internal detonation could only target the chemical stomach!
A Bio-Ship's stomach contained many chemicals in liquid or gaseous forms. When