About: Ripper (Warhammer 40,000)   Sponge Permalink

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During the final stages of a Tyranid invasion, they scour the entirety of a planet, ingesting all biological material on the planet and leaving only an empty and desolate wasteland. Eventually, the Rippers will become bloated full of biomass, unfit for combat. At this point, they simply crawl into Tyranid Digestion Pools at the bases of Capillary Towers, where they and the bio-mass they have fed upon are broken down and absorbed by the Hive Fleet for the creation of new Tyranid organisms and structures. However, in some cases they may be evolved by a Norn-Queen to perform more advanced functions for the swarm depending on the genetic material they have absorbed.

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  • Ripper (Warhammer 40,000)
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  • During the final stages of a Tyranid invasion, they scour the entirety of a planet, ingesting all biological material on the planet and leaving only an empty and desolate wasteland. Eventually, the Rippers will become bloated full of biomass, unfit for combat. At this point, they simply crawl into Tyranid Digestion Pools at the bases of Capillary Towers, where they and the bio-mass they have fed upon are broken down and absorbed by the Hive Fleet for the creation of new Tyranid organisms and structures. However, in some cases they may be evolved by a Norn-Queen to perform more advanced functions for the swarm depending on the genetic material they have absorbed.
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  • During the final stages of a Tyranid invasion, they scour the entirety of a planet, ingesting all biological material on the planet and leaving only an empty and desolate wasteland. Eventually, the Rippers will become bloated full of biomass, unfit for combat. At this point, they simply crawl into Tyranid Digestion Pools at the bases of Capillary Towers, where they and the bio-mass they have fed upon are broken down and absorbed by the Hive Fleet for the creation of new Tyranid organisms and structures. However, in some cases they may be evolved by a Norn-Queen to perform more advanced functions for the swarm depending on the genetic material they have absorbed. In some instances, Hive Ships have been driven away from a world by its defenders, leaving Tyranid ground forces left behind on the planetary surface isolated from the Hive Mind. In such circumstances, Rippers have been known to burrow below ground and then spend the time using their absorbed biomass to metamorphose into more advanced Tyranids. This has led many of the Adeptus Mechanicus' Magi Biologis to believe that Rippers are an immature form of the Tyranid. This would mean that Rippers are theoretically capable of evolving into any other type of Tyranid bioform when given the right signals from the Hive Mind, potentially allowing Rippers to transform into any known Tyranid, from a Hormagaunt to a Carnifex.
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