The Inquisitor continued recording the Nidhogg Tyranid tendril in his little notebook, noting that he had "named it himself" and that "no one objected," along with a detailed account of its characteristics.
Numerous bio-ships, proficient in close combat, including corrosion and crushing attacks. Tough defenses, but their biological ranged weapons inflicted less damage than those of ordinary Tyranid fleets.
Slow to produce large organisms for ground combat; production of ordinary organisms also fell below average.
Long-range synapse control. The core biological mothership could maintain effective control and micromanage battles even far from the main fleet.
He wrote it all by hand. The scratching of his pen was utterly out of place in the noisy command room.
The little notebook was made from special materials. With enough luck, it would survive after the Tyranids devoured everything on this planet, remaining as the only artificial object on a ball of dirt, quietly waiting for the Imperium's follow-up forces to find it and learn about this Tyranid swarm.
On the planet, the biological mothership absorbed vast quantities of mangled remains. At last, a whole Infective Devourer-a heavy cruiser with some sections still undamaged-reached its side.
The mothership extended dozens of immensely thick tubes, tore the Infective Devourer open, and plunged them inside. The large warship's internal structure quietly changed. One Terran hour later, it had become an auxiliary biological incubation chamber.
The number of Tyranids raining from the sky instantly doubled.
A "meat shield" warship appeared beneath the biological mothership, shielding it from incoming fire. The battle was taking a troubling turn.
The Hive Tyrant's body was rebuilt first. It could retain the memories of its previous life-or rather, those memories had already been preserved through the hive network.
The biological mothership fashioned a new body for it, making it stronger