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Zoanthropes were the Tyranids' dedicated Psychic Power units—and massive signal relays.
A Zoanthrope could efficiently issue orders to nearby swarms and Tyranid Warriors.
Tyranid Warriors served as smaller relays. Once they received orders from a Zoanthrope, they passed them down to lower-level Tyranid units.
The Tyranids had created Zoanthropes using Eldar DNA, turning them into formidable Psychic Power units.
Their psychic attacks were devastating. They wielded so many powerful abilities that they were practically magic cannons!
In the game Space Marine 2, even Titus's squad of Astartes veterans had been put through hell by a single Zoanthrope.
In one mission, a Zoanthrope held a vital bridge like a psychic cannon. No matter how many tanks or Astra Militarum infantry came at it, its Psychic Blasts blew them away!
Titus's squad had a crucial mission of its own in the game, so the task of killing the Zoanthrope blocking the bridge fell to another elite Astartes squad.
When that elite squad accepted the mission, they acted as though they were getting their final affairs in order. They were tense as hell.
If even Astartes reacted to a Zoanthrope like that, its power was easy to imagine.
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As soon as the Zoanthrope appeared above them, thousands of Astra Militarum infantry raised their Lasguns and fired beams into the sky.
The Zoanthrope had no arms or legs, and its brain was exposed. It looked fragile enough to break in a stiff breeze.
But a Psychic Shield surrounded it, with durability comparable to an Emperor's Poison Blade Tank!
More than a thousand Lasguns poured fire into the Zoanthrope. It floated silently in the air without budging.
As it hovered there, gathering Psychic Power, a